Takeaway: the costs of conflict extend far beyond the battlefield and across the lifespan. Read the paper ⤵️ 📄🔗
and leave comments
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Many real-world decisions happen under stress. If stress inflates perceived payoffs, we need better guardrails for high-stakes choices.
Read the preprint + tell us what you think: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#Neuroeconomics #Stress #Risk #fMRI #Bayesian

For more, check out our preprint at osf.io/preprints/ps...
And special shout out to my co-authors who made this possible📣📷<🙏👏

@niklasbuergi.bsky.social @arkadykonovalov.bsky.social and Christian C. Ruff
#neuroeconomics
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Finally, using machine learning, we've decoded adaptive mentalization with remarkable accuracy (r ~ .8), and thus are able to predict out-of-sample one's belief update with high precision. 🔎🧠 (4/5)

We term this behavior adaptive #mentalization , which is predominantly encoded within the social brain network. This underscores the pivotal role of areas such as the TPJ in updating beliefs about others' strategies. #neuroeconomics (3/5)

In repeated ✊🖐️✌️-like games, players don't rigidly stick to a single level of thinking (e.g., 'I think that you think' etc.), but dynamically adjust to their opponent's level.
Our new Bayesian model CHASE captures and characterizes this adaptive behavior! #gametheory
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