Arkady Konovalov

📢 New (economics) preprint 📢

(with Jiaxin Yu)

Excited to share our study on the cooperation in the infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, where we use payoff manipulations and all kinds of methods to disentangle strategies, beliefs, and preferences: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

📢 New preprint 📢
(with Daniil Luzyanin)

We use a new task to distinguish between the instantaneous and instrumental (goal-oriented) value of the same choice option in the brain using fMRI: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

CSC 2025

Today's the day we welcome over 80 participants, instructors & keynote speakers from all over the world to @uob-sop.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Computational Social Cognition (CSC) Summer School with @leidenpsychology.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

#CSC2025
www.compsoccog.com

Excited to share our new lab website!

Konovalov Neuroeconomics Lab
konelab.org

Our research covers quite a few topics and methods across neuroeconomics, decision neuroscience, and behavioral economics:

🚨 PhD opportunity for Fall 2025 🚨

Send me your CV and cover letter by May 30th to apply to work on neural mechanisms of altruism and cooperation (fMRI, eye-tracking, computational).

ONLY open to UK (home) students.

Funded by @UoB_SoP

Please share and RT!

The application deadline for our summer school in Computational Social Cognition is today! 👇

PhD Studentship: Bridging Attitudes and Actions: Using Smart Data, Eye-Tracking, and Machine Learning to Understand Non-Sustainable Consumer Behaviour at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Par... jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Bridging Attitudes and Actions: Using Smart Data, Eye-Tracking, and Machine Learning to Understand Non-Sustainable Consumer Behaviour Visit jobs.ac.uk to ...

Funded PhD, UK applicants only this time 🚨 @mgsesrcdtp.bsky.social

Apply by May 19 for a PhD with James Goulding, Evgeniya Lukinova (Nottingham) and myself (Birmingham) to work on consumer behavior, big data, machine learning, behavioral experiments, and eye-tracking www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT549/p...

It turns out that these choices can be rationalized by the Charness-Rabin social preferences......unless you manipulate the stakes a bit. In two alternative treatments, cooperation rates decrease over time; we then introduce a generalized version of the Charness-Rabin function.

🚨 New preprint 🚨

"Unrewarded Cooperation" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Remember the poll that went viral in 2023?

We reproduced these results using real monetary rewards in an online lab experiment (sorry, no life and death).

🚨 New paper 🚨

Out in @commspsychol.bsky.social: "Manipulating attention facilitates cooperation" with Claire Lugrin and @ccruff.bsky.social

We use gaze data and display manipulations in one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma games and find that these manipulations can drive choices through attention 👇

Manipulating attention facilitates cooperation - Communications Psychology In a one-shot prisoner’s dilemma game, manipulating the location of payout information on computer screens changed participants’ gaze pattern sequences and resulted in greater cooperation when more fo...

In a one-shot prisoner’s dilemma game, manipulating the location of payout information on computer screens changed participants’ gaze pattern sequences and resulted in greater cooperation when more focus was given to others’ outcomes.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Final call to UK and international candidates (Closing date: 2nd March 2025)! Join us as Full Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience with the opportunity to step in as (Co-)Director at the @thechbh.bsky.social 👇 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Final call for a Full Professor position in our school! See details below

🌟 Join us for the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition! Amazing line-up of keynote speakers and instructors, new topics, and only £480 with 4 nights accommodation, social events and meals included! 🌟

www.compsoccog.com

PhD Studentship: Bridging Attitudes and Actions: Using Smart Data, Eye-Tracking, and Machine Learning to Understand Non-Sustainable Consumer Behaviour at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Par... Discover a PhD Studentship: Bridging Attitudes and Actions: Using Smart Data, Eye-Tracking, and Machine Learning to Understand Non-Sustainable Consumer Behaviour on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore o...

Funded PhD:

Apply by Feb 24th for a PhD with James Goulding, Evgeniya Lukinova (Nottingham) and myself (Birmingham) to work on consumer behavior, big data, machine learning, behavioral experiments, and eye-tracking: jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ917/p....

Please share with anyone who might be interested!

CSC 2025

We are excited to announce the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025.

Fantastic keynotes: Matthew Rushworth,
@dianatamir.bsky.social , @davidamodio.bsky.social

Apply by April 18 (compsoccog.com)

Please share with anyone who might be interested!

🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL!

Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025.

Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social .

👇
Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!

Please repost this open PhD studentship.

Hello #neuroeconomists and decision (neuro)scientists - did I miss you in this starterpack? Just reply to this post or DM if you'd like to be added!

go.bsky.app/1K9Suh

Thanks for the responses - found the starter packs now.

nevermind, found one from Uma!

thanks! how do I find the neuroecon starting pack?

Not really following the migration to Bsky - how did I suddenly get followed by many people? Is there some migration service or list?

Do Adolescents Learn Better From Reward or Punishment? New evidence shows reward and punishment learning differs across adolescence.

Do adolescents learn better from reward or punishment? New blog post in Psychology Today with @drjocutler.bsky.social and Ruth Pauli on our recent study nature.com/articles/s41... featuring work by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Cate Hartley, @arkadykonovalov.bsky.social, and inspired by many others!

For my first post on bsky I am thrilled to advertise an NIMH-funded open postdoc position in my lab in collaboration with Jen Wildes at UChicago. Please spread the word! For more info and instructions to apply, please see: bakkourlab.uchicago.edu/join-us/post...

The GLM-Spectrum: A multilevel framework for spectrum analysis with covariate and confound modelling bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

An updated version of GLM-Spectrum - now shorter and better thanks to three reviewers! very grateful for their input.

In addition to clean-ups & improvements, a notable new addition is spectra of effect sizes in multivariate models.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neuroscience #neuroimaging

⭐️New PhD position⭐️ on Understanding and disrupting Social Decision-Making in Health and Disorder, joint with the wonderful @arkadykonovalov and funded by BBSRC warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa.... Details of our lovely lab www.sdn-lab.org. Send your CV + cover letter to me by Dec 5th. Pls RT!

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!