Oriel FeldmanHall

New lab paper out in @NatureHumBehav showing ppl build cognitive maps of social networks to track how information flows. How are these maps built? A replay-like mechanism reshapes them over night😴, making them more abstract, which helps with hardest social navigation problems

It's clear that many do not understand what @NIH-funded research does to improve health. It's time to revive a study published 10 years ago that provides incredible information about this. link in the comment Every single new drug approved by the FDA from 2010–2016 was built on NIH-funded research—that’s all 210 drugs. But what the public sees is just the tip of the iceberg. Pharma takes credit for the final product, but beneath each drug developed, there are ~20 years of basic research, and 90% of the cost is from basic research funded by the NIH, which discovers drug targets, understands disease mechanisms, and creates life-saving treatments. Figuring out how cancer evades the immune system, how addiction rewires the brain, and how heart disease develops is the role of the NIH, creating the foundation for the breakthrough drugs that come 20 years later, and the NIH does all that with only 0.8% of the US budget. Without NIH, there would be no cancer immunotherapy, no anti-overdose medication, no anti-heart attack or stroke medication, no cutting-edge treatments. If NIH funding is cut, the iceberg will melt. That means fewer cures, more suffering, and more lives lost. The science beneath the surface keeps us afloat. Invest in NIH. Invest in life

non-paywall version here: feldmanhalllab.com/publications/y…

...exhibit insensitivity to policy uncertainty and rigid choice policies. This leads to maladaptive behaviors with untrustworthy people. Amrita developed a novel👁️ tracking method that sidesteps issues with existing measures to capture highly granular estimates of uncertainty

New paper in @BiologicalPsyc1 CNN w/ Amrita & @Franklab_LNCC People can flexibly switch btw resolving policy & epistemic uncertainty (uncertainty about what to do vs about environment) to adaptively learn who can be trusted. But those with anxiety... authors.elsevier.com/a/1jrRu8jVtv5U…

@amitaishenhav @UCBerkeley @BerkeleyPsych STILL CRYING OVER HERE....on the first day of school...without you (but you're still the worst and i hope you love it over there in sunny cali where everyone is happy)

Some news: I'm thrilled to say that this summer I'm moving back to my alma mater @UCBerkeley to join the faculty of @BerkeleyPsych! 🎉 I have a LOT to say about how much I'm going to miss my colleagues at Brown 🤎 but that's a future thread. I'm excited to return to my roots!😃

Come join us! Our department @BrownCLPS at @BrownUniversity is hiring up to 2 candidates in an open area. Assistant or Associate Professor in Cognitive and Psychological Sciences. More info and apply here: apply.interfolio.com/151973

The take away: In the real world, it seems like the relationship between uncertainty and emotion may not actually be linear, and is instead more complex than originally thought. Read more here: static1.squarespace.com/static/5610082…

In the case of the 2021 US Capitol attack, moral outrage spikes and uncertainty language abruptly declines, which we track on an hour-by-hour basis. In other words, negative emotion doesn't always increase with greater uncertainty:

Can we use Twitter to track uncertainty in the real world? Latest lab pub led by @marclluis & @DaantjedeBruin measured uncertainty language in more than 20 million tweets during highly uncertain events: Covid-19 2021 US presidential election Jan 6 coup What did we find? 👇

@Emre_Yavuz_21 @BrownUniversity so happy to have you!

Loved presenting my hunting + brain imaging study to Prof Oriel FeldmanHall’s amazing research group at @BrownUniversity today! Such a fantastic team with very thought-provoking questions relating to navigation in social contexts 🧠🙌 Thank you @orielf for the invite 🙏

Come do science with us! We're hiring a lead research assistant: Duties include all things research + some administrative stuff. Start July 2024 Email your CV + short paragraph about why you want to join the lab to feldmanhall.lab@gmail.com More info: FeldmanHallLab.com

@mr_delgado1 yay congrats Mauricio!!! So well deserved!!

Honored and humbled by this award. Grateful for the amazing members of the lab -past and present- colleagues and mentors I have had the privilege of working with. Looking forward to #SANS2024!

Back for a moment to share our latest paper in @PNASNews! Jae details the mechanism ppl use to build cognitive maps of social networks. Computations abstract over known relationships to infer unknown relationships in network--can explain many behaviors! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

A letter to Social Psychologists, regarding the war, by (the vast majority of) Israeli social psychologists. We would appreciate it if you can read and share. docs.google.com/document/d/1cX… #FreePalestine #StandWithIsrael

I usually don’t write political posts on Twitter, but I wanted to clarify a few things about the situation in Israel.

Exactly this.

@AIexanderWaIker @BrownUniversity @SSHRC_CRSH @FeldmanHallLab So excited to have you!! Can’t wait to start working together!

Extremely excited to be starting @BrownUniversity today as a @SSHRC_CRSH Banting Postdoctoral Fellow working with @orielf and members of the @FeldmanHallLab!

As an academic writing coach, here are the 7 most common mistakes I see researchers make when writing the Introduction section of their paper. A thread. 🧵 #newPI #AcademicTwitter