Ali Shiravand
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alishiravand.bsky.social
Ali Shiravand
@alishiravand.bsky.social
Doctoral student & Normalien in cognitive neuroscience at the École Normale Supérieure Paris - PSL University, Human Reinforcement Learning Team | Interested in decision modeling & photography
🎲 #2: People learned gains and losses equally well, but their risk preferences differed: more risk in gains, more caution in losses. In lotteries, this pattern is reversed, revealing a strong gap between experience and description, and in contrast with the Prospect Theory.
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
📊 #1: Complete feedback increased risk-taking more than it improved EV maximization. It helped only when the risky option was optimal, indicating that richer feedback shifts risk attitude rather than accuracy.
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🧩 We focused on two key factors:
Feedback richness: Do people see only the outcome of their choice, or also what would have happened if they chose differently?
Valence: Are they dealing with gains or with losses?

Here are the two main results:
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🧠Our new preprint is out on PsyArXiv!

We study how getting more feedback (seeing what you could have earned) and facing gains vs losses change the way people choose between risky and safe options.
🖇️Link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

It's a thread🧶:
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I'm feeling very glad & grateful these days to be part of neuroeconomics summer school in Fontainebleau! 👾
August 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I recently took part in an amazing experience at the “Solve for Healthcare & Life Sciences with Gemma” hackathon, organized by Google Paris!
Our team worked on triage in emergency rooms, improving communication, prioritization and decision-making in critical circumstances.
July 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I'll be presenting two posters at #RLDM2025 in Dublin🇮🇪 – June 11, Poster Session 1:

🌀 Poster #19: How selective attention benefits and hinders learning in complex environments.

🏞️ Poster #18: NorMARL - a framework for sustaining shared resources through norm internalization.
June 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Paris Magnolias
at the Jardin du Palais Royal ⛅
April 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🌍 Excited to share that our paper has been accepted for an oral presentation at the International Conference on Complex Systems (FRCCS) 2025 in Bordeaux!

We demonstrate how norm internalization and learning rate influence sustainability, via a cognitively grounded multi-agent RL framework.
April 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🎉 I'm excited to share that 2 of our papers got accepted to #RLDM2025!

📄 NORMARL: A multi-agent RL framework for adaptive social norms & sustainability.
📄 Selective Attention: When attention helps vs. hinders learning under uncertainty.

Grateful to my amazing co-authors! *-*
February 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
After a couple of years, why are we still very far from the dream world of blockchains and smart contracts?
November 25, 2024 at 5:16 PM
The interindividual exposure
November 22, 2024 at 10:32 AM