Jan Engelmann

Pre-Conference - ESCAN 2026 Pre-Conference 3 June 2026 Preliminary Programme EVENTS Click on the titles to see the preliminary programs. Organized by the ESCAN Special Interest Research Group (SIG) on Social Neur...

Join us in Rome for the ESCAN Pre-Conference Symposium on Social Neuroscience 🧠

How can we bridge basic research and societal impact?

📅 June 3 | 13:30–17:15
📍 Rome

Topics: AI & human interaction • Clinical & health • Climate • Societal & political applications

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In a world where politicians with clearly #antisocial #personalities run our governments and economies, understanding how they trust—and punish—has become more important than ever. We studied exactly this in our paper
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....

Delighted that “Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking” is forthcoming in the American Economic Review. Easily the most demanding paper of my career! Thankful to my co-authors for the collaboration and the fun.

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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!

New paper on the neural basis of the valence-induced confidence bias: Neural and computational underpinnings of biased confidence in human reinforcement learning. Thanks to an amazing team: Chih-Chung Ting, Mael Lebreton, Stefano Palminteri and Nahuel Salem-García.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...