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Patricia Lockwood and Jo Cutler discuss reward and punishment learning across adolescence and contributions of data science in light of new paper with Ruth Pauli (“Action initiation and punishment learning differ from childhood to adolescence while reward learning remains stable.”, Nature Communications).
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Read moreTodd Vogel has been cited in Washington Post article: ‘The brain loves a challenge. Here’s why’.
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Read moreJo Cutler shared her insights as a kindness expert at the Kind Kids Summit 2022.
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In this guest blog post, Lei Zhang, Ph.D., explains why we follow the crowd.
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”How do we decide what we want to know or not know? And why is some knowledge more important?”
In this post, Patricia Lockwood and Jo Cutler discuss three reasons why we seek or avoid information.
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Jo Cutler and Patricia Lockwood shed light on three ways in which wealth affects generosity.
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Read moreFollowing her 2022 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, Patricia Lockwood was invited to talk about her work on social learning and decision-making across the lifespan.
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What motivates you to donate to good causes? Patricia Lockwood and Jo Cutler share multiple possible reasons highlighted by recent survey results and research in psychology.
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How does learning change with age? In this new blogpost, Patricia Lockwood and Jo Cutler discuss evidence for learning changes from birth to old age.
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In this piece, Jo Cutler and Patricia Lockwood draw on the latest neuroscientific findings to discuss how our willingness to help other people may differ across the lifespan.
‘As the population ages, will the world become more helpful or more selfish?’
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Struggling with Christmas shopping? Jo Cutler and Patricia Lockwood share 3 tips based on science to help you find the perfect gift!
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In this new blog post, Jo Cutler and Patricia Lockwood discuss how people decide to help others, and how we might encourage it to occur more often.
'As scientists race to understand omicron there are things we can do to slow the spread of COVID-19, but how do we decide if we are willing to do them?’ @DrJoCutler, Twitter
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For World Kindness Day, Jo Cutler and Patricia Lockwood reflect on lessons from psychology and neuroscience.
'Saturday, November 13, 2021, is World Kindness Day, a global celebration of good deeds and a reminder to perform acts of kindness to make the world a better place. However, people are not kind all of the time. Selfishness resides in all of us. What can we do to be more kind?’
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“Older people are more likely than younger people to do things that benefit others, such as social distancing during the Covid pandemic and making charitable donations, new research suggests.”
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“Older people can pick up new skills faster if doing so benefits other people, rather than themselves — unlike young adults, who learn faster when helping themselves. This is the conclusion of a study by researchers from the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford […].”
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Older adults are more willing to make a physical effort to help others than younger adults, a new study reveals.
Read moreJo Cutler was interviewed by ABC Australia about her work on charitable giving for “Giving Tuesday”, the Tuesday that follows Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Read moreDo you regularly hold the door open for others? What about helping someone move? The first act doesn’t cost money or even much effort, just a few minutes of your time. The second is more demanding, the kind of helpfulness we usually reserve for good friends or relatives (though we often expect them to thank us with pizza and beer). Psychologist Patricia Lockwood, a research fellow at Oxford University, has spent the first decade of her career trying to pin down the circumstances under which we are willing to behave in a way that benefits others, or to be what scientists call prosocial.
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