Jan Engelmann
@engelmann.bsky.social
Professor of Neuroeconomics at the Amsterdam School of Economics. Studies economic and social decision making. Interested in anxiety and stress, trust, affect, social cognition.
http://www.neuro-economics.net
http://www.neuro-economics.net
In a world where politicians with clearly #antisocial #personalities run our governments and economies, understanding how they trust—and punish—has become more important than ever. We studied exactly this in our paper
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....
On the psychology and economics of antisocial personality
www.pnas.org
April 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
In a world where politicians with clearly #antisocial #personalities run our governments and economies, understanding how they trust—and punish—has become more important than ever. We studied exactly this in our paper
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....
Reposted by Jan Engelmann
Delighted that “Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking” is forthcoming in the American Economic Review. Easily the most demanding paper of my career! Thankful to my co-authors for the collaboration and the fun.
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December 14, 2023 at 6:19 PM
Delighted that “Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking” is forthcoming in the American Economic Review. Easily the most demanding paper of my career! Thankful to my co-authors for the collaboration and the fun.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Reposted by Jan Engelmann
My lab is seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation and decision-making. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline is November 17th. Please repost!
Research Fellow at University of Birmingham
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October 31, 2023 at 10:07 AM
My lab is seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation and decision-making. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline is November 17th. Please repost!
New paper on the neural basis of the valence-induced confidence bias: Neural and computational underpinnings of biased confidence in human reinforcement learning. Thanks to an amazing team: Chih-Chung Ting, Mael Lebreton, Stefano Palminteri and Nahuel Salem-García.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
October 30, 2023 at 6:46 AM
New paper on the neural basis of the valence-induced confidence bias: Neural and computational underpinnings of biased confidence in human reinforcement learning. Thanks to an amazing team: Chih-Chung Ting, Mael Lebreton, Stefano Palminteri and Nahuel Salem-García.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...