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This position is still open! Come join us!

being involved in cutting edge research on mental health conditions (see also lci-conte.pni.princeton.edu). The job includes significant clinical (mental health) training, and you will be working with an amazing team! Apply here: research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/21275/r...

Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Visit the post for more.

The Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive NeuroPsychiatry (ccnp.princeton.edu) is looking for a new clinical research coordinator! This is a long-term (at least 2 years, more is preferred) position for someone with a BA or MA who is interested in... /1

A new preprint "Anxiety Modulates Event Segmentation" with @yaelniv.bsky.social and colleagues!
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Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

No, the ad is still open, so feel free to apply!

Oh, I forgot to say: we cannot obtain a visa for this position, unfortunately.

Salary range: $41,000 to $60,000

for more information and to apply: research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/21275/r...

This is a one-year term position with the possibility of renewal based on satisfactory performance and continued funding. Given the extensive clinical training involved, we are especially looking for candidates who are interested in this position for two years (or more).
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Note that while the position involves working with researchers and running research studies, this is not primarily a research position. The work is in person, and having a car is helpful as recruitment of participants involves driving to different clinical treatment centers.
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Additional responsibilities include working with researchers at Princeton and Rutgers to identify and design new studies that could be run at the Center, writing and updating study protocols for these studies for review by the Institutional Review Board, and coordinating the Center seminar series.>>

The position involves recruiting participants with mental health conditions, as well as healthy controls, for behavioral studies; administering clinical assessments, cognitive batteries and self report instruments to the study participants and running the behavioral tasks. >>

Job Alert! 🚨

We are seeking a clinical coordinator for the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. >>

really, this was Sam Zorowitz's repo! all the kudos go to him.

🚨Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social 🚨

We explore the use of cognitive theories/models with real-world data for understanding mental health.

We review emerging studies and discuss challenges and opportunities of this approach.

With @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social

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The adaptive value of stubborn goals Humans exhibit a striking tendency to persist with chosen goals. This strong attachment to goals can often appear irrational – a perspective captured by terms such as perseverance or sunk-cost biases. In this review, we explore how goal commitment could stem from several adaptive mechanisms, including those that optimise cognitive resources, shield decisions from interference, and scaffold motivation in the absence of accessible reward signals. We propose that these computational considerations have important implications for algorithmic architectures supporting decision making, including separate algorithms for goal selection and implementation, and for monitoring ongoing goals versus alternative sources of reward. Finally, we discuss how a variety of mechanisms supporting goal commitment and abandonment could relate to dimensions affected in mental health.

Online Now: The adaptive value of stubborn goals

Super happy to see this review out! We ask why people are so reluctant to abandon goals and how this commitment could be understood computationally. Work with Jill O'Reilly & @yaelniv.bsky.social

Having fun facilitating this amazing group of young Profs at the #Neuro4Pros workshop with @kordinglab.bsky.social and @meganakpeters.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and Hannah Bayer.

Watch out world: this is the next generation of leaders!

compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...

Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

a message; a word.

cool & fun to live in an era that constantly promises magical scientific solutions to every problem, and then when there actually ARE magical scientific solutions (mRNA vaccines, renewables) they're like lol no fuck you

Trump’s Deals With Top Colleges May Give Rich Applicants a Bigger Edge

"Any selective admissions process that ignores income, privilege and structural access while targeting race‑based efforts to increase diversity isn’t leveling the playing field. It’s cementing it." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u... (gift link)

Friends who vote in New Jersey, can you please fill out this short 1-minute survey for GGCNJ? tinyurl.com/NJvoters2025 (feel free to share this link too)

So looking forward to the rest!

We're through the tutorials yesterday, workshops this morning (so much FOMO because they all sounded so interesting, but were in parallel sessions), the first speaker session (OMG, @catehartley.bsky.social and Michael Littman with a joint presentation for the Pantheon!) and 1 of 3 poster sessions

Another great #RLDM conference! Thank you @coolscontrol.bsky.social (general chair), Anne Collins and Stefano Albrecht (program chairs -- a TON of work!), @clairegillan.bsky.social and @redmondoconnell.bsky.social (local chairs -- a gazillion amount of work) and all others who made this happen!

Congratulations to Dr. Jungsun Yoo (@jungsuy.bsky.social) on her successful PhD defense! We're sad that her time with us is past, but excited to see how her future research trajectory unfolds working with @yaelniv.bsky.social and @nathanieldaw.bsky.social

Thrilled to have received the 2025 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award for my work on understanding mental health through digital behavior!

Thank you to the institute, and so grateful to my amazing advisors @yaelniv.bsky.social and @eriknook.bsky.social for their unwavering support!

At #RLDM2025? Come to our workshop on real-world RL tomorrow! Including:
- amazing line-up: @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social, Aaron Heller, Sugandha Sharma, @arossotto.bsky.social + flash talks
- panel debate (chair: @yaelniv.bsky.social)
- group brainstorming session!

Mailing list: tinyurl.com/rlinwild