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Jan Engelmann

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Professor of Neuroeconomics at the Amsterdam School of Economics. Studies economic and social decision making. Interested in anxiety and stress, trust, affect, social cognition. http://www.neuro-economics.net

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On the psychology and economics of antisocial personality

In a world where politicians with clearly #antisocial #personalities run our governments and economies, understanding how they trust—and punish—has become more important than ever. We studied exactly this in our paper
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....

02.04.2025 07:20 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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Delighted that “Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking” is forthcoming in the American Economic Review. Easily the most demanding paper of my career! Thankful to my co-authors for the collaboration and the fun.

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

14.12.2023 18:19 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Research Fellow at University of Birmingham An academic position as a Research Fellow is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

My lab is seeking a postdoc to work on Wellcome trust/ERC grants to examine the cognitive, computational & neural basis of human motivation and decision-making. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDS251/r.... This is a 2.5 year post initially with possibility of extension. Deadline is November 17th. Please repost!

31.10.2023 10:07 — 👍 41    🔁 81    💬 3    📌 2

New paper on the neural basis of the valence-induced confidence bias: Neural and computational underpinnings of biased confidence in human reinforcement learning. Thanks to an amazing team: Chih-Chung Ting, Mael Lebreton, Stefano Palminteri and Nahuel Salem-García.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

30.10.2023 06:46 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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