Social Decision Neuroscience Lab researches the psychological and neural mechanisms of social learning and decision-making.

Moral behavior requires learning how our actions help or harm others. Theoretical accounts of learning propose a key division between “model-free” ...

Abstract. Social neuroscience aims to describe the neural systems that underpin social cognition and behaviour. Over the past decade, researchers have begu

Nature Human Behaviour - By combining advanced mathematical modelling with data from a rare sample of patients with brain damage, the authors show that a specific part of the brain in the...

Social Decision Neuroscience Lab researches the psychological and neural mechanisms of social learning and decision-making.

PhD Project - PhD in Decision Neuroscience - neurocomputational mechanisms of social behaviour at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

Social neuroscience aims to describe the neural systems that underpin social cognition and behaviour. Over the past decade, researchers have begun to combine computational models with neuroimaging to...

Nature Communications - Evidence suggests older adults engage in more prosocial behaviours compared to younger people. Here the authors investigate prosocial reinforcement learning rates in young...

Actions that help others—prosocial behaviors—are vitally important for reducing the challenges to humanity. However, helping others requires effort, and people are effort averse. Using fMRI, Lockwood...

Social Decision Neuroscience Lab researches the psychological and neural mechanisms of social learning and decision-making.

Social cohesion relies on prosociality in increasingly aging populations. Helping other people requires effort, yet how willing people are to exert effort to be...

Social cohesion relies on prosociality in increasingly ageing populations. Helping others requires effort, yet how willing people are to exert effort to benefit ourselves and other people, and...

Prosocial behaviours – actions that benefit others – are central to individual and societal well-being. Most prosocial acts are effortful. Yet, how the brain encodes effort costs when actions benefit...

Does learning from rewards and punishments differ from childhood to adolescence? Does our tendency to act change, too? We examine new research on adolescent learning.

Nature Human Behaviour - Damage to a specific part of the brain in the frontal cortex reveals its necessity in effortful actions that help other people. These findings could have implications for...

Moral learning and decision-making are crucial throughout our lives from infancy to old age. Emerging evidence suggests that there are important differences in how we learn and decide in moral...

Social Decision Neuroscience Lab researches the psychological and neural mechanisms of social learning and decision-making.

Social Decision Neuroscience Lab researches the psychological and neural mechanisms of social learning and decision-making.

Feeling hot? The science behind how heatwaves change our mental health and how we can make a difference

PhD Project - Behavioural and brain mechanisms of social decision-making at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Behavioural and brain mechanisms of social learning and motivation at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

Nature Human Behaviour - Lockwood et al. use a real-effort task and computational modelling to examine how individuals choose to expend effort when rewards accrue to themselves versus others. They...

Prosocial preferences and behaviours – defined as those that benefit others – are essential for health, well-being, and a society that can effectively respond to global challenges. Research has...

Scientific Reports - Overlap in processing advantages for minimal ingroups and the self

Norms are the rules about what is allowed or forbidden by social groups. A key debate for norm psychology is whether these rules arise from mechanisms that are ...

Social Decision Neuroscience Lab researches the psychological and neural mechanisms of social learning and decision-making.

How does learning change with age? Here are some insights from science for how people learn across their lifespan.

Norms are the rules about what is allowed or forbidden by social groups. A key debate for norm psychology is whether these rules arise from mechanisms that are domain-specific and genetically...

Psychology can help to reduce climate change by understanding motivation, mental health, and the spread of misinformation.

Nature Aging - Cutler et al. found that age predicted individuals’ likelihood to engage in prosocial behaviors such as social distancing during COVID-19 and charitable donations. Older adults...

Shared neural representations during experienced and observed distress are hypothesized to reflect empathic neural simulation, which may support altruism. But t...

If you have less, do you give more? Here are 3 ways that wealth affects generosity.

Using psychology to understand how and why we act to help others, and how to encourage behavior change, is essential if we want to end the pandemic.

People differ considerably in how impulsive or patient they are. Yet, people’s preferences and behaviours are substantially influenced by others. Previous research has suggested that people may...

The Wellcome Early-Career Awards scheme provides research funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity.

Antisocial behaviours such as disobedience, lying, stealing, destruction of property, and aggression towards others are common to multiple disorders of childhood and adulthood, including conduct...