Elliot Ludvig

Professor (Psych) at Warwick. Decision Making, Behavioral Science, and Gambling.

[Elliot Ludvig @ealudvig]

New paper out today in @BPPjournal: "Evaluation of the ‘take time to think’ safer gambling message: a randomised, online experimental study". We show that this ubiquitous warning message does not credibly alter gambling in an online roulette task: https://t.co/TF32ACOcoV

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

We are primates, with a third of our brain devoted to vision. Graphics are the best way to communicate quantitative, spatial, and causal information, but they are as hard to master as stylish prose. Here's an excellent guide to data visualization by Saloni Dattani @salonium https://t.co/tnXYMKKRYA

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Games stocked with luxe toys and more are taking over arcades, and operators actually want customers to grab the goods—at least once or twice. 🔗: https://t.co/kvEzujeZZj

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10K to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving.

My cover story on the online betting boom warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: https://t.co/h8O1ow6Uwi

[Prof Paul Dolan @profpauldolan]

🚨 new post (free): why gambling research needs adversarial collaboration. Read here - https://t.co/Xfqd1qNC81

[Birmingham City Council @BhamCityCouncil]

Tonight the Library of Birmingham is intended to be lit to mark the beginning of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights.

We also stand in solidarity with the Jewish community, and honour the memory of those who tragically lost their lives in the Bondi Beach attack.

[The Rational Altruism Lab @RtnlAltruismLab]

📢We are hiring a postdoc for a project on developing computational models of moral decision-making in social dilemmas. The intended start date is Fall 2026. Deadline: November 10, 2025. Later applications may be reviewed until the position is filled. See https://t.co/pY2rosOeRq

[The Jewish Chronicle @JewishChron]

Read Elliot's full op-ed here: https://t.co/IkNfkkMaYF

[The Jewish Chronicle @JewishChron]

"Since October 7, our life in Birmingham has never felt more precarious"

@ealudvig

[Nathaniel Daw @nathanieldaw]

Come work with us! The Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: https://t.co/J51o21uDfQ

[Zhu Jian-Qiao @JQ_Zhu]

I'll be joining the University of Hong Kong (at Asia's World City) as an Assistant Professor of Psychology this October, where I’ll be starting my own lab on machine-augmented cognition.

The lab aims to bridge AI and Cognitive Science to develop new theories and tools that can predict, explain, and ultimately shape the behavior of both humans and AI systems.

I'll be recruiting at all levels (PhDs, postdocs, interns, visiting students). Please feel free to DM if you're interested in joining.

[Ori Plonsky @OriPlonsky]

Proud & excited to share, 8 years(!) after starting this work.

🚨New in @NatureHumBehav🚨
BEAST-GB: a hybrid model predicting human choice at near-ceiling levels.

It uses small data, beats behavioral & AI models, generalizes across contexts, and even explains human choice!

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[M Stephenson-Jones @StephensonJones]

🎉Thrilled that the lab’s first paper is out today in @Nature! Credit to the amazing @cesca_gst, @HernyMV and @YviJohansson. Thank you to everyone involved in this massive effort! https://t.co/KS5hICXjBJ

[Arkady Konovalov @arkadykonovalov]

🚨 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!

[Ori Plonsky @OriPlonsky]

🧠 Choice architecture + 📊 Computational models = 🛠️ **Choice Engineering**

Proud to share our new paper published in Nature Communications
@NatureComms
📄 "Behavior engineering using quantitative reinforcement learning models".

https://t.co/8scBHbykQx
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[Sebastian Olschewski @Seb_Olschewski]

@Mikhail_Spektor , @gael_lemens, and me engaged in an interesting debate about why people could prefer right-skewed outcome distributions in experience-based decision-making published in @PNASNews :
https://t.co/0kjbxxfQQS

[SCAN Lab @SCAN_Lab]

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
👇 https://t.co/h1Gh37XS7w
please share

[Yun-Xiao Li / 李云箫 @YunXiao_Li814]

🚨 A new preprint is out!

How does utility influence mental simulations of risky events?

We tested this across 4 experiments & found that most people simulate probabilities accurately, but biases emerge in key conditions!

Keep reading to learn more!

https://t.co/xXLiuwIeUS

[Pablo Samuel Castro @pcastr]

Can LLMs be used to discover interpretable models of human and animal behavior?🤔

Turns out: yes!

Thrilled to share our latest preprint where we used FunSearch to automatically discover symbolic cognitive models of behavior.
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[Nathaniel Daw @nathanieldaw]

hello world. we have an opening for a strong theory postdoc to work in my lab on a exciting collaboration with Josh Berke and Loren Frank labs modeling and analyzing data on rat hipp-pfc-bg-da involvement in spatial maze foraging, replay, value etc. here: https://t.co/ZbA2AUi6Ra

[Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc_mpib]

🚨Applications for the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open!

🌐Join us in Berlin @mpib_berlin from June 17–25, 2025 to explore "Decision Making in a Digital World".

✏️Application deadline is March 9 - more info at👇!!

https://t.co/7XJLm1ps6S