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🧵

How is AI changing us and our society? Join us in Beijing for The Human Mind and Society in the AI Era to explore one of the defining questions of our time. dlvr.it/TV3vWR #NatureConference #AIandSociety

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/1F… More: ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/mmi…

Just started reading this paper. What a fascinating approach, and with so many applications going forward! I’m going to be thinking about how to apply this to my work in cognitive load and pedagogy in the coming months.

📄 New preprint with @affectivebrain: AI-assisted discovery of unknown cognitive biases: Humans systematically undervalue information under complexity We introduce a framework for discovering biases in any task with a normative benchmark. Link: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/va… 1/6 🧵

In this episode of Thriving Minds, I sit down with Dr Tali Sharot, one of the world’s leading cognitive neuroscientists, to understand how optimism, emotion, and anticipation shape the decisions we make and the memories we keep. Now live: buff.ly/GgTO16P #MIT #UCL

For more information on the MMI: uclmmi.com/

Using virtual reality to simulate physical risk, we show that over time risk taking escalates while emotional responses to risk habituate. The greater the emotional habituation, the steeper the risk escalation. nature.com/articles/s44271-0…

In a new Editorial, Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein describe how neuroscientific and psychological phenomena, such as habituation and relative judgement, can lead people to become numb to the decline of democracy. scim.ag/3GpjzzZ

We're delighted to announce that Prof. Tali Sharot (@UCLPALS, @affectivebrain) has been awarded £3.5m as part of @wellcometrust Discovery Award scheme to investigate the 'joy of thinking’. buff.ly/V3oCDFR

THRILLED to see this SI now out addressing the power and potential of focusing our lens on women. H/t to Tali for making space for these ideas to flourish and for a dream team of investigators to contribute!!

#BTAtDavos2025 | Tali Sharot (@affectivebrain), Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, @ucl, sheds light on the growing challenges of misinformation & disinformation in today’s social media-driven world. @rahulkanwal @AP_EDB @InvTelangana Watch #BTTV Live: tinyurl.com/5ye44sjh

#BTAtDavos2025 | @ucl Professor Tali Sharot delves into whether the current trends in trust towards democratic institutions are temporary and poised for change or if they signal a deeper, worsening shift. @rahulkanwal @AP_EDB @InvTelangana Watch: tinyurl.com/5ye44sjh

.@Moshe_Glickman and @affectivebrain reveal a human-AI feedback loop, where AI amplifies subtle human biases, which are then further internalized by humans. This cycle increases human bias over time across domains. nature.com/articles/s41562-0…

📢 New publication with @affectivebrain in @NatureHumBehav Key finding: Human-AI interactions create feedback loops, where AI amplifies human biases, which are then further internalized by humans across perceptual, emotional & social domains. nature.com/articles/s41562-0… 🧵1/6

"Just as we now glance at nutrition labels without a second thought, we could one day check content labels before diving into a news article or blog post." Column: Why the internet needs content labels 📝 Tali Sharot and Christopher A. Kelly time.com/7177598/internet-co…

Excited to share our new article w/@affectivebrain in @NatureHumBehav. Key finding: consuming more negative content online is tied to poorer mental health—and vice versa. 💻🧠 Article link: doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-0… 🧵 Read on for more insights from the study

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 “Considering information-sharing motives to reduce misinformation” out now in Current Opinion in Psychology with @affectivebrain. doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.202… (1/n)

What makes people happiest on vacation? Neuroscientist Tali Sharot once posed that question to people at a beach resort. Firsts were exciting and new: the first ocean view, first cocktail sip, first sandcastle. But then, happiness faded. In this week’s episode, how and why we get used to things. And what we can do to see the world with fresh eyes. hiddenbrain.org/podcast/maki…