Amitai Shenhav
@ashenhav.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Dept of Psychology, UC Berkeley.
PI of @shenhavlab.bsky.social
https://www.shenhavlab.org/
PI of @shenhavlab.bsky.social
https://www.shenhavlab.org/
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Amitai Shenhav
@ashenhav.bsky.social
· Sep 8
How to make a choice when the options suck | Amitai Shenhav | TEDxNewEngland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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I'm happy to now be able to share a talk I gave at TEDx New England last Fall!
The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so.
I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...
The talk is about our lab's work on what makes decisions costly, and how to make them less so.
I discuss lessons for all kinds of decisions, including getting people to vote.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeHg...
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This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
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Attending @abctnow.bsky.social and interested in learning about how age at onset of menstruation in adolescents is associated with self-injurious thoughts and behaviors? I will be presenting a poster on this topic with data from the Nock Lab—you can find me at PS8-23 on 11/22 at 4:30 pm!
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Attending @abctnow.bsky.social and interested in learning about how age at onset of menstruation in adolescents is associated with self-injurious thoughts and behaviors? I will be presenting a poster on this topic with data from the Nock Lab—you can find me at PS8-23 on 11/22 at 4:30 pm!
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PSA to academics posting threads about your paper here: you can (and should) post the link to the paper in the first post. Your X/Twitter brain rot have have you thinking otherwise, but please free yourself of that. (Also you can call them 'blue-prints' if you want).
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
PSA to academics posting threads about your paper here: you can (and should) post the link to the paper in the first post. Your X/Twitter brain rot have have you thinking otherwise, but please free yourself of that. (Also you can call them 'blue-prints' if you want).
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We just launched Fast Fingers 👌🏼—a quick 3 min tapping game that uses your phone/laptop camera to measure hand dexterity.
I got 54 taps in 10s. Can you beat me? 😏
Game link: actioncensus.org
#Sensorimotor #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Psychology
I got 54 taps in 10s. Can you beat me? 😏
Game link: actioncensus.org
#Sensorimotor #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Psychology
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We just launched Fast Fingers 👌🏼—a quick 3 min tapping game that uses your phone/laptop camera to measure hand dexterity.
I got 54 taps in 10s. Can you beat me? 😏
Game link: actioncensus.org
#Sensorimotor #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Psychology
I got 54 taps in 10s. Can you beat me? 😏
Game link: actioncensus.org
#Sensorimotor #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Psychology
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My paper is out!
Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
rdcu.be/eQjLN
Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
rdcu.be/eQjLN
A habit and working memory model as an alternative account of human reward-based learning
Nature Human Behaviour - In this study, Collins proposes an alternative dual-process (working memory and habit) model of reinforcement learning in humans.
rdcu.be
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My paper is out!
Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
rdcu.be/eQjLN
Computational modeling of error patterns during reward-based learning show evidence that habit learning (value free!) supplements working memory in 7 human data sets.
rdcu.be/eQjLN
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Good morning SFN! CoCoA lab posters today and tomorrow afternoon. Come by LL20 to chat with @jacobsellers.bsky.social about using fMRI and our forced response task to examine the dynamics of control
November 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Good morning SFN! CoCoA lab posters today and tomorrow afternoon. Come by LL20 to chat with @jacobsellers.bsky.social about using fMRI and our forced response task to examine the dynamics of control
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#SfN2025 Poster 2 of 6
Today! Sunday 11/16 8a-12p
@khoudary.bsky.social
TKP05.05SU / WW13 Philosophical tools for evaluating computational models of cognition, with
@aaronbornstein.bsky.social
www.abstractsonline....
Today! Sunday 11/16 8a-12p
@khoudary.bsky.social
TKP05.05SU / WW13 Philosophical tools for evaluating computational models of cognition, with
@aaronbornstein.bsky.social
www.abstractsonline....
November 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
#SfN2025 Poster 2 of 6
Today! Sunday 11/16 8a-12p
@khoudary.bsky.social
TKP05.05SU / WW13 Philosophical tools for evaluating computational models of cognition, with
@aaronbornstein.bsky.social
www.abstractsonline....
Today! Sunday 11/16 8a-12p
@khoudary.bsky.social
TKP05.05SU / WW13 Philosophical tools for evaluating computational models of cognition, with
@aaronbornstein.bsky.social
www.abstractsonline....
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🚨 New and ongoing work from my lab will be at #SfN25! If you’re attending, come by our posters to talk social decision making, reward, and mood — details in the thread 👇
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 PM
🚨 New and ongoing work from my lab will be at #SfN25! If you’re attending, come by our posters to talk social decision making, reward, and mood — details in the thread 👇
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🧠 The LEAP Neuro Lab is headed to #SfN25! Check out our new work on intrinsic temporal tracking in the brain, emotion-temporal memory interactions, and the neural correlates of sympathetic activity during threat using a new MRI-compatible measure w/ high temporal resolution. Hope to see you there!
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
🧠 The LEAP Neuro Lab is headed to #SfN25! Check out our new work on intrinsic temporal tracking in the brain, emotion-temporal memory interactions, and the neural correlates of sympathetic activity during threat using a new MRI-compatible measure w/ high temporal resolution. Hope to see you there!
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Come check out my SFN nano talk @ 4:15 on Sunday, especially if you’re interested in:
- spicy debates in task switching
- using control theory to compare latent dynamical systems fit to RNNs and EEG
eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?...
Stay for the whole ‘Adaptive Choice’ symposium!
- spicy debates in task switching
- using control theory to compare latent dynamical systems fit to RNNs and EEG
eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?...
Stay for the whole ‘Adaptive Choice’ symposium!
Neuroscience 2025
eppro02.ativ.me
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Come check out my SFN nano talk @ 4:15 on Sunday, especially if you’re interested in:
- spicy debates in task switching
- using control theory to compare latent dynamical systems fit to RNNs and EEG
eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?...
Stay for the whole ‘Adaptive Choice’ symposium!
- spicy debates in task switching
- using control theory to compare latent dynamical systems fit to RNNs and EEG
eppro02.ativ.me/appinfo.php?...
Stay for the whole ‘Adaptive Choice’ symposium!
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Our group has SIX posters at SfN! 🧵👇 links below in thread:
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Our group has SIX posters at SfN! 🧵👇 links below in thread:
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2️⃣ PSTR293.21: “Distinct neurocomputational signatures of mental effort when motivated by success versus failure” by Ziwei Cheng (11/18, 8:00 AM)
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
2️⃣ PSTR293.21: “Distinct neurocomputational signatures of mental effort when motivated by success versus failure” by Ziwei Cheng (11/18, 8:00 AM)
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Come see our lab’s presentations at #SFN2025! 🧠
1️⃣ NANO018.12: “Neural dynamics underlying divergent influences of reward and punishment on control allocation” (11/16, 3:45 PM) by @jasonleng.bsky.social
1️⃣ NANO018.12: “Neural dynamics underlying divergent influences of reward and punishment on control allocation” (11/16, 3:45 PM) by @jasonleng.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Come see our lab’s presentations at #SFN2025! 🧠
1️⃣ NANO018.12: “Neural dynamics underlying divergent influences of reward and punishment on control allocation” (11/16, 3:45 PM) by @jasonleng.bsky.social
1️⃣ NANO018.12: “Neural dynamics underlying divergent influences of reward and punishment on control allocation” (11/16, 3:45 PM) by @jasonleng.bsky.social
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🚨📣 We’re recruiting a postdoc! 📣🚨
Are you curious about how the environments in which people spend time influence their health? Are you motivated by research that promotes climate action, resilience, and wellbeing?
Read more and apply here: www.asc.upenn.edu/node/5905
Are you curious about how the environments in which people spend time influence their health? Are you motivated by research that promotes climate action, resilience, and wellbeing?
Read more and apply here: www.asc.upenn.edu/node/5905
Postdoctoral Researcher
www.asc.upenn.edu
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🚨📣 We’re recruiting a postdoc! 📣🚨
Are you curious about how the environments in which people spend time influence their health? Are you motivated by research that promotes climate action, resilience, and wellbeing?
Read more and apply here: www.asc.upenn.edu/node/5905
Are you curious about how the environments in which people spend time influence their health? Are you motivated by research that promotes climate action, resilience, and wellbeing?
Read more and apply here: www.asc.upenn.edu/node/5905
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Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness?
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness?
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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SAS will hold FIVE different preconferences this year🤩 Of note, each will be a half-day event, so you could even go to 2 if you want! Catch them on March 12th, 2025. For more info: society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-ann...
November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
SAS will hold FIVE different preconferences this year🤩 Of note, each will be a half-day event, so you could even go to 2 if you want! Catch them on March 12th, 2025. For more info: society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-ann...
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It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
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The Publications and Communications Board of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Science of Motivation has opened nominations for the editorship of Motivation Science, a multidisciplinary journal that publishes significant contributions to the study of motivation.
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The Publications and Communications Board of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Science of Motivation has opened nominations for the editorship of Motivation Science, a multidisciplinary journal that publishes significant contributions to the study of motivation.
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My lab at Boston University has open positions for a postdoc and PhD students. We study visual perception, attention, and decision making with a focus on temporal dynamics. Check out our recent work here sites.bu.edu/denisonlab/ and email me if you're interested in learning more
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
My lab at Boston University has open positions for a postdoc and PhD students. We study visual perception, attention, and decision making with a focus on temporal dynamics. Check out our recent work here sites.bu.edu/denisonlab/ and email me if you're interested in learning more
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I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.
Relational Cognition Lab
www.relcoglab.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I am accepting graduate students for the UCI Cognitive Sciences PhD program for Fall 2026. Check out my lab website - www.relcoglab.org for our recent themes. Our funded work focuses on combinatorial reasoning, moral decision-making, and conceptual cognition in humans and large language models.
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🚨Abstracts are due for the SAS annual conference today (November 3rd, 2025)! Get your submissions in soon!🚨
society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-ann...
society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-ann...
November 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🚨Abstracts are due for the SAS annual conference today (November 3rd, 2025)! Get your submissions in soon!🚨
society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-ann...
society-for-affective-science.org/2026-sas-ann...
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Job Alert! 🚨
We are seeking a clinical coordinator for the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. >>
We are seeking a clinical coordinator for the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. >>
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Job Alert! 🚨
We are seeking a clinical coordinator for the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. >>
We are seeking a clinical coordinator for the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. >>
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so far during trump's second term, when democrats have "increased the salience of immigration," this has had the effect of significantly decreasing trump's approval rating. effect is moderated through rising negative press coverage of trump's immigration policy
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 AM
so far during trump's second term, when democrats have "increased the salience of immigration," this has had the effect of significantly decreasing trump's approval rating. effect is moderated through rising negative press coverage of trump's immigration policy
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...
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Oy...should I? I suppose. Perhaps because I'm old enough to remember 1972 and because Goldwater was my Senator, my instincts are to err on the side of moderation, even with the evidence supporting it very slim. But this also gets into what I wrote about yesterday...
Here with yellow checkmarks we have five examples of real things that Gavin Newsom and leading California Democrats espouse. Not a straw man.
My take is Democrats should drop these ideas, ideas that do not sound at all like economic populism to me.
My take is Democrats should drop these ideas, ideas that do not sound at all like economic populism to me.
October 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Oy...should I? I suppose. Perhaps because I'm old enough to remember 1972 and because Goldwater was my Senator, my instincts are to err on the side of moderation, even with the evidence supporting it very slim. But this also gets into what I wrote about yesterday...