affective.brain

People desensitize to horrible things & so fail to act and change them, but also get used to great things & so don't enjoy them any longer. Can we dis-habituate? Announcing my new book out 2/27 co-authored with @CassSunstein. Thread🧵

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 “Considering information-sharing motives to reduce misinformation” out now in Current Opinion in Psychology with @affectivebrain. doi.org/10.1016/j.cops… (1/n)

What makes people happiest on vacation? Neuroscientist Tali Sharot once posed that question to people at a beach resort. Firsts were exciting and new: the first ocean view, first cocktail sip, first sandcastle. But then, happiness faded. In this week’s episode, how and why we get…

In @nytopinion “If people intentionally expose themselves to different cultures, different practices and different forms of government, the injustices around them may no longer seem natural and inevitable,” Tali Sharot and Cass Sunstein write. nyti.ms/48tCRMO

In a new Editorial, Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein describe how neuroscientific and psychological phenomena, such as habituation and relative judgement, can lead people to become numb to the decline of democracy. scim.ag/3GpjzzZ

We're delighted to announce that Prof. Tali Sharot (@UCLPALS, @affectivebrain) has been awarded £3.5m as part of @wellcometrust Discovery Award scheme to investigate the 'joy of thinking’. buff.ly/V3oCDFR

THRILLED to see this SI now out addressing the power and potential of focusing our lens on women. H/t to Tali for making space for these ideas to flourish and for a dream team of investigators to contribute!!

#BTAtDavos2025 | Tali Sharot (@affectivebrain), Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, @ucl, sheds light on the growing challenges of misinformation & disinformation in today’s social media-driven world. @rahulkanwal @AP_EDB @InvTelangana Watch #BTTV Live: tinyurl.com/5ye44sjh

#BTAtDavos2025 | @ucl Professor Tali Sharot delves into whether the current trends in trust towards democratic institutions are temporary and poised for change or if they signal a deeper, worsening shift. @rahulkanwal @AP_EDB @InvTelangana Watch: tinyurl.com/5ye44sjh

.@Moshe_Glickman and @affectivebrain reveal a human-AI feedback loop, where AI amplifies subtle human biases, which are then further internalized by humans. This cycle increases human bias over time across domains. nature.com/articles/s4156…

📢 New publication with @affectivebrain in @NatureHumBehav Key finding: Human-AI interactions create feedback loops, where AI amplifies human biases, which are then further internalized by humans across perceptual, emotional & social domains. nature.com/articles/s4156… 🧵1/6

"Just as we now glance at nutrition labels without a second thought, we could one day check content labels before diving into a news article or blog post." Column: Why the internet needs content labels 📝 Tali Sharot and Christopher A. Kelly time.com/7177598/intern…

Excited to share our new article w/@affectivebrain in @NatureHumBehav. Key finding: consuming more negative content online is tied to poorer mental health—and vice versa. 💻🧠 Article link: doi.org/10.1038/s41562… 🧵 Read on for more insights from the study

Why do we habituate to things in our life... and what does "dishabituation" look like? Join this week's episode of Inner Cosmos to learn why familiar things lose their shine (& what we can do about it) with cognitive neuroscientist Tali Sharot. eagleman.com/podcast/64 #brain…

Column: Your life is better than you think 📝 Tali Sharot and @CassSunstein time.com/6722038/life-d…

So so so proud of @chris_a_kelly whose PhD thesis includes incredible work (nature.com/articles/s4146… & osf.io/preprints/psya…) & some of the greatest work is yet to come - stay tuned! And now he is off to @StanfordHAI . Congratulations!