*2 year postdoc* available in the Motivation & Social Neuroscience (MSN) lab in the Bos Hart, UoB Centre for Developmental Science & The Institute for Mental Health (IMH). We are looking for someone, ideally with neuroimaging experience, who is interested in understanding the mechanisms underlying motivation. 1/ Job advert:
jobs.ac.uk/job/CUH975/res…

New paper in Nature Aging with brilliant team Dr. Jonas Nitschke, Claus Lamm & Patricia Lockwood! We tested whether older adults are more willing to help others, but also more biased in who they help, with a huge (n=46,576) global (67 countries) sample -

nature.com/articles/s4358…

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🎉 Happy to share new work from me, Prof Nichola Raihani and Peter Dayan -

📜 'The self as a prior for the other: Social learning under paranoia'

Preprint 👉 psyarxiv.com/an5kp

Open data/code/models/workbook 👉 github.com/josephmbarnby/…

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Foraging. What is it and why should you care? I’ll use a new paper with Peter Dayan and @Schuck to explain. Mega 🧵

cell.com/iscience/fullt…

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