Amitai Shenhav

Some news: I'm thrilled to say that this summer I'm moving back to my alma mater @UCBerkeley to join the faculty of @BerkeleyPsych! 🎉 I have a LOT to say about how much I'm going to miss my colleagues at Brown 🤎 but that's a future thread. I'm excited to return to my roots!😃

Harvard Derangement Syndrome | My new essay in the New York Times nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opi…

Our newest preprint “A novel approach-avoidance task to study decision making under outcome uncertainty” investigates the dynamics of approach-avoid decisions! Check out biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…, led by @ziweicheng_zc and @NadjaGingJehli from @Franklab_LNCC.

Dear researchers on AI-empathy, We (@AnatPerry, @minzlicht, and @_desmond_ong) are writing a short review of current research on AI and empathy. We know your published work but are also looking for preprints or submitted papers that we may have missed. Share in comments!

Our newest paper, led by @froemero1 and @callfredaway, is now out in Open Mind: “Considering What We Know and What We Don’t Know: Expectations and Confidence Guide Value Integration in Value-Based Decision-Making” 🔗direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…

President Trump’s FY26 budget for @NSF will slash funding for the agency by 56.9% and funding for Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences by 67.6% These cuts will end US STEM leadership, weaken national security, and set-back individual prosperity and well-being.

Thrilled to share the new paper from the lab out today in @NatureHumBehav, led by the great Juliana Trach! "Mental graphs structure the storage and retrieval of visuomotor associations" nature.com/articles/s4156…

Meet @julia_a_leonard, assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University and 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award recipient. Julia discusses her efforts to understand how children approach #learning. psychologicalscience.org/publications/o…

Preprint alert 🚨! Excited to share our new work on metacognition in value-based decision-making. We ask whether it is possible to derive a computational measure of metacognitive ability for economic preference choices. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

✨Deadline approaching, June 1st!✨ Apply if you want to investigate brain orchestration in visual (free!) exploration. You will learn a bunch of cool cog neuro techniques, and get to work with a great team of scientists within and beyond the lab. ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Excited to announce the publication of the 3rd edition of The Psychology of Emotion, co-authored with @profmaitalneta and Adrienne Wood. We did a huge revision of the previous edition! @affectScience @SPSPnews @UWMadison @UWPsych

I discuss the urgent crisis from the loss of federal support of science in the US and recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs with @WalterIsaacson & @amanpour on @AmanpourCoPBS, airing on @PBS tonight at 11 pm ET, and on @cnni earlier today. Pls share! youtube.com/watch?v=8YhJM6…

PREPRINT THREAD🧵! Ever wanted to know how to ABOLISH THE VALUE FUNCTION, and why IT'S ALL TAXIS NAVIGATION? @mjdramstead and I wrote up some notes for y'all. arxiv.org/abs/2505.17024

Congratulations to the 2025 APS Spence Award Recipients! @DrJuanDelToro, @chazfirestone, @ashleylwatts, @minuekim, @julia_a_leonard, @Mark_A_Thornton, and @gemmasharp11 #APS25DC

Congratulations to the 2025 APS William James Fellow Award recipients! 🎉@LFeldmanBarrett, @akruglanski, Randall Engle #APS25DC

We're offering free consultations for all @Harvard University researchers to discuss visa options. Please reach out @plymouthstreet or email me directly [email protected]

Trump ripped NIH funding away from scientists already working on cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s, and more. For me, this is personal.

Honored to win the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award! You can read more about my research and journey here psychologicalscience.org/publications/o…

APS and psychological scientists from seven states (AZ, GA, MA, PA, TN, TX, VA) are headed to the Capitol this morning to advocate for @NSF and @NIH funding! #PsychologicalScience #HillDay

Five years ago, @DanTGilbert and Susan Fiske contacted me and @EliJFinkel to join them as editors for the HSP 6th ed. Dan envisioned a completely free, open access edition and I doubted it was possible. Today, Dan proved me wrong, and I present the HSP 6th ed.

Among the grants cancelled at Harvard, -study with 116,000 women going back to 1989 looking for the causes of breast cancer -similar study of men going back to 1986 -7 year project on the evolution of cancer -study on reversing ASL symptoms -project to reverse aging in mice…