Sebastian Gluth

Thought-provoking talk at our research colloquium yesterday! 🧠
@lilweb.bsky.social presented ambitious work on testing and improving methods in computational psychiatry.
We thank Lilian for her visit and the valuable discussions throughout the day in our lab!

🚨Friends, we’re happy to share that our book is available for pre-order! 🎉
We aimed to cover all the foundations of the topic in an accessible manner for a large audience.
It could help set up a bachelor-level curriculum on the topic.
Pre-orders are very key for the fate of books: shorturl.at/Dxbif

Check out our new preprint, led by Romy Froemer and in collaboration with Chih-Chung Ting and Sebastian Gluth:
“Goals shape dynamics of attention and selection for value-based decision-making”.
🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Read our paper if you're curious or reach out if you have any questions. Kudos to my great coauthor team Tobia Spampatti
@tspampatti.bsky.social, Sebastian Gluth @sgluth.bsky.social , Kim-Pong Tam & Ulf Hahnel. Happy Halloween everyone 🎃🧛 /end

Our new paper is out as a reviewed preprint in @elife.bsky.social!

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Congrats to @hashimsat.bsky.social and our amazing collaborators on this great team effort.

Special shout-out to @haukeren.bsky.social, who made this possible through his generous support 🙌

In contrast, we found only response deliberation to increase for behaviorally less effective numeric translations (carbon emissions in kg).

Our modeling results suggest that a translation in form of an evaluative rating caused participants to make more ecological choices as a result of a shift in attribute weights in favor of the translated attribute, a decreased attentional bias on the attended option, and increased deliberation.

Attribute translations promote behavior change by translating decision-relevant information into more meaningful units and have been widely adopted by policy makers (e.g., EU energy label). However, little is known about the computational mechanisms that underlie their effects on behavior.

Excited to share joint work with Ulf Hahnel and @sgluth.bsky.social on investigating how attribute translations - a widely implemented behavior intervention - lead to more ecological consumer choices. Main results are below, but check out our preprint 👇
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Proud to see this one out as Version of Record in #eLife
doi.org/10.7554/eLif... 🥰

Excited to present our research at this epic location #EGPRO2025 with @sgluth.bsky.social, @maryamtohidi.bsky.social and @jennamarch.bsky.social 🚀

Amazing sunny team event with our lab today! ☀️ We tackled an escape room aboard the historic ship Rickmer Rickmers - nothing like solving puzzles surrounded by maritime history ⚓🧩 So lovely bonding outside the lab and putting our problem-solving skills to work in completely new settings! 🤓

Absolutely recommend! Nice environment and excellent research project

📢 New Publication 📢

Effort differentially shapes behavior before, during & after an action. w/ @bcheval.bsky.social, Silvio & Florent, we explore stage-specific effects of physical effort & how these dynamically modulate each other.

Now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 🤩🤩

Curious? ⬇️

🧠 Job Alert: Postdoc Position Available!
We're hiring a postdoc as part of the exciting DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating 🔬
🔍 What we're looking for:
Strong quantitative skills & passion for belief updating research
📍 Location: University of Hamburg
⏰ Duration: 2 years, full-time
🔗 Link below

Exciting opportunity in our research unit: come join us in Hamburg! 🧠📍

Work with a great team on dynamic belief updating, combining modeling, behavior, and neuroscience.

No teaching, full-time, fully funded, and starting Jan 2026.

Great opportunity to work with @sgluth.bsky.social - much recommended!

"alert" of course 🙈

DFG Research Unit 5389

Job altert: Postdoc position (100%, 2 yrs) in our lab (@cmdn-lab.bsky.social) in context with the DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating (www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/resea...).

We are looking for people with strong quantitative skills.

Info and application via: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

After years of hard work, @hashimsat.bsky.social's big one is out!

Huge thanks to co-authors Katharina Wille, Matt Nassar, Radek Cichy, @nicoschuck.bsky.social & Peter Dayan - and to @haukeren.bsky.social for his invaluable support!

🎉 Thrilled to share the press releases of our study 🎉
English from @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/for-the-pres...
German from @uni-hamburg.de: www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/pre...

Excited to see our study on the Tagesschau 🎉
Note: We conducted a laboratory experiment, meaning that the application to real life grocery shopping is limited. Our findings shed light on the cognitive mechanisms that underly food choice under hunger. Also, we do not appeal to politics or industry.

Very proud of our first eye-tracking study where we show how attention shape value encoding and normalisation in human reinforcement learning. Strikingly we show that injecting eye tracking data to the model improve choice fitting.

Work by @romanececchi.bsky.social w/ @sgluth.bsky.social

Thrilled to share my first post here with something I’m truly proud of; My PhD paper is finally out in @commspsychol.bsky.social. Thanks to amazing @ktsetsos.bsky.social for his wise insights and our reviewers for their constructive comments.
You can read the full paper here: rdcu.be/eguDX
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