affective.brain

@affectivebrain

We are the Affective Brain Lab – Tali Sharot’s lab at UCL. Updates on our work on the brain, emotion, belief, learning and other interests of lab members

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affective.brain @affectivebrain Dec 11, 2023

People desensitize to horrible things & so fail to act and change them, but also get used to great things & so don't enjoy them any longer.
Can we dis-habituate?
Announcing my new book out 2/27 co-authored with @CassSunstein. Thread🧵

affective.brain @affectivebrain Aug 5

New Mind & Machines PhD program @UCLBrainScience @UCLPALS to launch Oct 2027! Combine AI, neuroscience & psychology (+optional industry collaboration). Application is multi-step process. 1st step - short form to fill now: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
More:
ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences…

affective.brain @affectivebrain Dec 11, 2023

So so so proud of @chris_a_kelly whose PhD thesis includes incredible work (nature.com/articles/s4146… & osf.io/preprints/psya…) & some of the greatest work is yet to come - stay tuned! And now he is off to @StanfordHAI . Congratulations!

www.nature.com Individual differences in information-seeking Nature Communications - Information-seeking is important for learning, social behaviour and decision making. Here the authors investigate factors that associate with individual differences in...

Chris Kelly @chris_a_kelly Dec 11, 2023

I completed my PhD defense last week! ☘️ Massive thanks to my examiners, @docqhuys and Claire Gillan. Heartfelt gratitude to Tali Sharot (@affectivebrain) for an incredible 5-year journey – truly the best mentor one could ask for! Next stop, postdoc @StanfordHAI

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affective.brain @affectivebrain Nov 23, 2022

New Preprint: Biased AI systems produce biased humans osf.io/c4e7r/
Across domains (perceptual, emotional, social) we show human-AI interactions create a feedback loop where small biases emerging from either side increase subsequent human error. @Moshe_Glickman 1/n

affective.brain @affectivebrain Sep 26, 2022

New preprint: We cut in ½ spread of misinformation on (simulated) social media platform, with small change to platform’s incentive structure. We just added 2 new buttons: ‘trust’ & ‘distrust’ to traditional buttons (‘like’, ‘repost’..). 3 things happened:
psyarxiv.com/26j8w