Environmental Neuroscience Lab

Hi All. The book that I have been working on is now available for pre-order. Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical and Social Wellbeing: Berman, Marc: 9781668058770: Amazon.com: Books amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS…

New paper on Roman Britain develops a new understanding of economic growth; shows how it happens in pre-industrial societies. New methods allow separation of intensive from extensive growth, due to settlement scaling @sfiscience @miurban science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

We're hiring a new lab manager to start this summer at the Environmental Neuroscience Lab! This is an ideal opportunity for motivated applicants looking to gain cutting-edge research experience in preparation for graduate school. Please distribute! uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/C…

Conceptual story: Crime is explained by the management of commercial establishments AND context. And demographics still matter, too, as crime is higher in high-poverty communities, controlling for the effects of managers.

Thrilled to share an exciting new paper from our post-doc, Riley Tucker, published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology! The study found that restaurants in Boston with higher ratings on Yelp tended to have lower rates of commercial disturbance. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s…

@Mandy_Seccia Proud of our current (soon to be former) post-doc!

We tested 10 behavioral interventions to mitigate #climatechange in 63 countries (N = 59,440) The interventions’ effectiveness was small, largely limited to nonclimate skeptics, and differed across outcomes: -Beliefs were strengthened mostly by decreasing psychological distance (by 2.3%) -Policy support by writing a letter to a future-generation member (2.6%) -Information sharing by negative emotion induction (12.1%) -No intervention increased the more effortful behavior—several interventions even backfired by reducing tree planting! Our paper is in @ScienceAdvances : science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… It was led by @vlasceanu_mada and @kim_doell and included a massive team of over 250 collaborators from around the world!

Excited about our new paper out today in nature communications. It was a great collaborative effort led by ⁦@andrew_stier⁩ with ⁦@BettencourtLuis⁩ ⁦@Sajjadi_Sina⁩ and ⁦@fariba_k⁩ finding lower racial biases in larger cities. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Now out in @SfNJournals #JNeurosci: doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO… People infer intentions from other's behaviors. How do individual differences in hostile attribution bias affect how they process social scenarios? w/ @Zishan__Su, @Dawn_M_Neumann, @kim_meidenbauer, @YuanChangLeong.

Our new paper outlines how neuroscience can be used to: (1) study the impact of climate change on the brain (2) identify ways to adapt (3) study the neural substrates of environmental decisions & outcomes (4) create better communication & interventions nature.com/articles/s4155…

🚨🚨🚨We have a new perspective out today in @natureclimate called “Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research” shorturl.at/dyN35 where we call on brain researchers to help combat #climatechange🧵

An extremely cool new paper led by the singular @kate_schertz published in @JEnvPsych! 🎉Proud to have contributed (along with several past/present @EnvNeuroLab members) to this work on how environments influence our thoughts and connections to others and the world around us! 😊

Lonely or overly self-focused? Natural spaces can help. @kim_meidenbauer explains how. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/enviro…

🌴CAB Lab posters #VSS2023 Sat AM: Julia Pruin asks if memorability can rescue memory during an attn lapse @WilmaBainbridge @MdeBettencourt Sun PM: @AnnaCorriveau investigates aud+vis sustained attn &effects on memory Tues PM: Ziwei Zhang debuts a 🧠model of surprise @zzwziwei

We are still actively looking for applicants!

The Environmental Neuroscience Lab is actively hiring a new lab manager to start this summer! This is a great opportunity to gain research experience in preparation for grad school in a supportive and cutting-edge research lab. Please distribute widely! uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/C…

@monicarosenb We are really impressed by this work which is really cool and important environmental neuroscience research! Thanks for leading it Omid!

New CAB Lab preprint from Omid Kardan! Change in an existing fMRI network model of cognitive performance predicts improvement in cog perf from age 9-10 to 11-12. These changes were associated w/an important aspect of the physical environment: air pollution tinyurl.com/yv4kw9un

@TheAgenda @spaikin @ebombicino Thanks for having me on the show @spaikin @ebombicino @TheAgenda. I hope policy makers take our research seriously. Science is showing that public greenspaces are a necessity not an amenity.

It’s certainly more beautiful to be surrounded by mature trees than endless concrete and traffic — and research suggests it could be better for your mental and physical health as well. @spaikin speaks with Marc Berman (@EnvNeuroLab), tonight at 8/11pm | Producer: @ebombicino

It’s certainly more beautiful to be surrounded by mature trees than endless concrete and traffic — and research suggests it could be better for your mental and physical health as well. @spaikin speaks with Marc Berman (@EnvNeuroLab), tonight at 8/11pm | Producer: @ebombicino