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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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Joined January 2012
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🧵
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RT @ScienceAdvances: In a new Editorial, Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein describe how neuroscientific and psychological phenomena, such as….
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RT @UCLBrainScience: We're delighted to announce that Prof. Tali Sharot (@UCLPALS, @affectivebrain) has been awarded £3.5m as part of @well….
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Postdocs can be based at either UCL (London) or MIT (Cambridge, MA) or both. Start date is flexible.
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Postdoc 2: Experience in app and plug-in development + experience in computational aspects of and/or neuroscience of info-seek/decision making. Experience with NLP - advantage. Will use web browsing data to study info-seek and well-being.
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We are looking to hire 2 postdocs (see description of 2nd post in thread). To apply email CV and links to 2 representative publications. Postdoc 1: Experience in computational neuroscience of reward processing or decision-making or info-seek or language.
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RT @emilyjacobs: THRILLED to see this SI now out addressing the power and potential of focusing our lens on women. H/t to Tali for making s….
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RT @business_today: #BTAtDavos2025 | Tali Sharot (@affectivebrain), Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, @ucl, sheds light on the growing c….
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RT @business_today: #BTAtDavos2025 | @ucl Professor Tali Sharot delves into whether the current trends in trust towards democratic institut….
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RT @NatureHumBehav: .@Moshe_Glickman and @affectivebrain reveal a human-AI feedback loop, where AI amplifies subtle human biases, which are….
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RT @Moshe_Glickman: 📢 New publication with @affectivebrain in @NatureHumBehav .Key finding: Human-AI interactions create feedback loops, wh….
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RT @TIME: "Just as we now glance at nutrition labels without a second thought, we could one day check content labels before diving into a n….
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RT @chris_a_kelly: Excited to share our new article w/@affectivebrain in @NatureHumBehav. Key finding: consuming more negative content on….
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RT @laura_k_globig: 🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 .“Considering information-sharing motives to reduce misinformation” out now in Current Opinion in….
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RT @HiddenBrain: What makes people happiest on vacation? Neuroscientist Tali Sharot once posed that question to people at a beach resort. F….
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RT @davideagleman: Why do we habituate to things in our life. and what does "dishabituation" look like? Join this week's episode of Inner….
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RT @nytimes: In @nytopinion. “If people intentionally expose themselves to different cultures, different practices and different forms of g….
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So so so proud of @chris_a_kelly whose PhD thesis includes incredible work (& & some of the greatest work is yet to come - stay tuned! And now he is off to @StanfordHAI . Congratulations!.
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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@AnnieDuke @katy_milkman @lauriesantos Huge thanks to Heather Schroder @CompassTalentNY @AgentSophieL @jcheiffetz @OneSignalPub @simonschuster @LittleBrownUK.
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