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Prosocial Learning and Motivation across the Lifespan
2024 BACN Early-Career Prize Lecture Many of our decisions affect other people. Our choices can decelerate climate change, stop the spread of infectious diseases, and directly help or harm others. Prosocial behaviours – decisions that help others – could contribute to reducing the impact of these challenges, yet their computational and neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. I will present recent work that examines prosocial motivation, how willing we are to incur costs to help others, prosocial learning, how we learn from the outcomes of our choices when they affect other people, and prosocial preferences, our self-reports of helping others. Throughout the talk, I will outline the possible computational and neural bases of these behaviours, and how they may differ from young adulthood to old age.
Can we have jam today and jam tomorrow ?Improving outcomes for older people living with mental illness using applied and translational research
This talk will examine how approaches such as ‘big data’ and new ways of delivering clinical trials can improve current services for older people with mental illness (jam today) and identify and deliver new treatments in the future (jam tomorrow).
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