Shenhav Lab
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Neuroscience of motivation, decision making, and cognitive control
Berkeley, CA
Joined June 2016
We are excited to share the final version of this work, published at Psychological Review: To learn more about it, check out Berkeley’s recent coverage here:
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A cornerstone of human intelligence is the ability to flexibly adjust our cognition and behavior as our goals change. For instance, achieving some goals requires efficiency, while others require...
After scrolling Twitter, it will take you a while to get back into work mode. Why? In our new work (now out in Psych Rev) with @JasonLeng5, @smusslick, @amitaishenhav, we explore the costs of adjusting cognitive control to meet different goals: A thread:.
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Come and see our work at #cogsci2025! .@ziweicheng_zc will be presenting a talk “Incentive Effects Capture Variability in Task-General Control Allocation” on Fri 8/1 (4-5:30 pm, Cognition 7).🔗Paper link:
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Our newest preprint “A novel approach-avoidance task to study decision making under outcome uncertainty” investigates the dynamics of approach-avoid decisions!. Check out led by @ziweicheng_zc and @NadjaGingJehli from @Franklab_LNCC.
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To behave adaptively, people need to integrate information about probabilistic outcomes and balance drives to approach positive outcomes and avoid negative outcomes. However, questions remain about...
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Our newest paper, led by @froemero1 and @callfredaway, is now out in Open Mind: “Considering What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Expectations and Confidence Guide Value Integration in Value-Based Decision-Making”. 🔗
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Abstract. When making decisions, we often have more information about some options than others. Previous work has shown that people are more likely to choose options that they look at more and those...
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👉“Leveraging Continuous Psychophysics to Study Cognitive Control Allocation in Dynamic Environments” by Yihuan Dong (A117). 👉“The Effect of Acute Stress on Mental Effort Allocation Across Motivational Contexts” by Tony El Nemer (A115). [2/2].
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Attending #CNS2025? Check out the following posters! (A98, A115, A117). 👉“Decoding Cognitive Control Dynamics: Neural Evidence of Inertia in Cognitive Control Adjustments Following Goal Changes” by @GrahekIvan (A98). [1/2].
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Also at #AffectScience2025, . 📣@GrahekIvan will give the talk “Towards Emotion Regulation Dynamics: A View from Cognitive Control Optimization” for the New Perspectives on Effort in Emotion Regulation Symposium. See you there!. 📅: Friday March 21st at 6pm.
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Currently at #AffectScience2025? 😁. 👉Come visit @ziweicheng_zc's poster “Dissociable Influences Of Positive And Negative Incentives On.Challenge And Threat States During Mental Effort Allocation“ in Poster Session P1（P1.T.141).
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Our newest chapter, “Breaking the tug-of-war,” reviews the lab’s latest @NIH- and @NSF-funded research that has changed the way we think about decision-making (and we hope how you do also): Led by @JasonLeng5, along with @YiHsinSu1 and @froemero1.
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📢@JasonLeng5’s paper in @NatureHumBehav was picked up by UC Berkeley News!.
🎉 Just in time for the holidays, @JasonLeng5's new paper in @NatureHumBehav tells you how to ease your last-minute shopping (and any other decisions that are weighing on you): 🛍️🛒. To learn more about what we found, see this 🧵:
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🎉 Just in time for the holidays, @JasonLeng5's new paper in @NatureHumBehav tells you how to ease your last-minute shopping (and any other decisions that are weighing on you): 🛍️🛒. To learn more about what we found, see this 🧵:
Excited to share my latest preprint with @froemero1, Thomas Summe, & @amitaishenhav: .“Mutual inclusivity improves decision-making by smoothing out choice’s competitive edge” A short 🧵.1/
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If you're at SJDM 2024, don't miss @YiHsinSu1's poster (#116) at Poster Session 1 on Sunday (8:30am), "Rejection-based choices discourage voters from opting out." @SJDM_Tweets 🌟. See this preprint to learn more about this work:
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Our recent work, led by @YiHsinSu1, has been featured in Berkeley news:.@UCBLettersSci . See here for a 🧵 about our findings:.
Important new work from our lab, led by @YiHsinSu1 , shows that people are less likely to opt out of voting (and less likely to poll 'undecided') if you ask them to choose which candidate is worse, rather than which candidate is better. 🗳️🧵 below:
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Come and see our work at #SNE2024 (Part 2):. ✨@froemero1will present her poster “Testing predictions of a model for flexible goal-directed decision making” on Oct 13th 3:30-5:00pm (P3-I-202).
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Come and see our work at #SNE2024! .✨@mpraterfahey will present her poster “Characterizing the dynamics and experience of value-based decision-making in childhood and adolescence” on Oct 12th from 2:30-4:00pm (P2-G-115).
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Our paper on the Affective Gradient Hypothesis is now out on @TrendsCognSci! 🧠.➡️. For a short summary of how this theory originated and what it proposes, see this 🧵:
I'm very excited to share a preprint from a passion project I've been working on this past year!. This came out of trying to work through two puzzles that have been bothering me for a while, and which are at the core of almost everything most of us study.
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Attending #SfN24?. Postdoc @GrahekIvan will be presenting his talk “Control adjustment costs limit goal flexibility: Empirical evidence and a computational account”. Details below👇:. ➡️ Room N228, Saturday October 5th at 1pm.➡️SFN '24 NANO07 - VBDM Across Model Systems Symposium.
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👉📖We have a new chapter out on “Integrative Psychological, Computational, and Mechanistic Approaches to Frontal Lobe Function”: This is part of a collaborative forum that put together a book on Frontal Cortex 🧠 :
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👉Check out @froemero1 ‘s brilliant new paper, published today on @NatureHumBehav ! 👏🎉. You can also learn more about the findings in this previous 🧵:
Need a thrilling weekend reading recommendation? I might have just the thing for you! .👉Read the final paper @NatureHumBehav and don't skip the *peer review*!😱😱😱 .Thanks to my brilliant collaborators @BenediktEhinger @NassarLab and @ShenhavLab !🧡🧡🧡.
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Check out this exciting new postdoc opportunity w/ @froemero1's amazing lab at the Univ of Birmingham (@ACCB_Lab), to work on a collaborative @NSF CRCNS grant along with our lab at Berkeley and @SebastianGluth's lab at the Univ of Hamburg (@GenPsychLab)!✨.
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Dr. Romy Froemer’s research group is looking for a motivated individual, interested in decision-neuroscience with a background in computational modelling, EEG and/or eye-tracking. The successful...
Join us!!! The ACC B Lab is looking for a postdoc to work with us on the neural and computational mechanisms of flexible decision-making, collaborating with @ShenhavLab and @GenPsychLab . Learn more and apply here:
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