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Overview

Tali Sharot is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a focus on subfields such as sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, general decision sciences, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers several core topics, including misinformation and its impacts, decision-making and behavioral economics, behavioral health and interventions, mental health research topics, media influence and health, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and experimental behavioral economics studies.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Sharot include:

  • How people decide what they want to know (2020), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Individual differences in information-seeking (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • The Value of Beliefs (2020), published in Neuron
  • How human-AI feedback loops alter human perceptual, emotional and social judgements (2024), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Anxiety increases information-seeking in response to large changes (2022), published in Scientific Reports

Frequent coauthors of Sharot include:

  • Bastien Blain
  • Valentina Vellani
  • Laura K. Globig
  • Christopher Kelly
  • Irene Cogliati Dezza

The scientist has contributed regularly to several publication venues, with multiple works appearing in:

  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Scientific Reports
  • eLife
  • Communications Psychology
  • Science Advances

Best Publications

  • The Optimism Bias

    Tali Sharot

  • Neural mechanisms mediating optimism bias.

    Tali Sharot;Tali Sharot;Alison M. Riccardi;Candace M. Raio;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of reality

    Tali Sharot;Christoph W Korn;Christoph W Korn;Raymond J Dolan

  • How emotion enhances the feeling of remembering

    Tali Sharot;Mauricio R Delgado;Elizabeth A Phelps

  • How arousal modulates memory: disentangling the effects of attention and retention.

    Tali Sharot;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Depression is related to an absence of optimistically biased belief updating about future life events.

    C. Korn;T. Sharot;H. Walter;H. R. Heekeren

  • How Choice Reveals and Shapes Expected Hedonic Outcome

    Tali Sharot;Benedetto De Martino;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Forming Beliefs: Why Valence Matters

    Tali Sharot;Neil Garrett

  • How people decide what they want to know

    Tali Sharot;Cass R. Sunstein

  • How (and Why) Emotion Enhances the Subjective Sense of Recollection

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Tali Sharot

  • Following the Crowd: Brain Substrates of Long-Term Memory Conformity

    Micah Edelson;Tali Sharot;Raymond J. Dolan;Yadin Dudai

  • Differential Time-Dependent Effects of Emotion on Recollective Experience and Memory for Contextual Information.

    Tali Sharot;Andrew P. Yonelinas

  • Do Decisions Shape Preference? Evidence From Blind Choice

    Tali Sharot;Cristina M. Velasquez;Raymond J. Dolan

  • How Dopamine Enhances an Optimism Bias in Humans

    Tali Sharot;Marc Guitart-Masip;Marc Guitart-Masip;Christoph W. Korn;Christoph W. Korn;Rumana Chowdhury;Rumana Chowdhury

  • Valuation of Knowledge and Ignorance in Mesolimbic Reward Circuitry

    Caroline J. Charpentier;Ethan S. Bromberg-Martin;Tali Sharot

  • How personal experience modulates the neural circuitry of memories of September 11

    Tali Sharot;Elizabeth A. Martorella;Mauricio R. Delgado;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • The brain adapts to dishonesty

    Neil Garrett;Stephanie C Lazzaro;Dan Ariely;Tali Sharot

  • Selectively altering belief formation in the human brain.

    Tali Sharot;Ryota Kanai;David Marston;Christoph W. Korn;Christoph W. Korn

  • Confirmation bias in the utilization of others’ opinion strength

    Andreas Kappes;Ann H. Harvey;Terry Lohrenz;P. Read Montague;P. Read Montague

  • The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain

    Tali Sharot

  • Report How Dopamine Enhances an Optimism Bias in Humans

    Tali Sharot;Marc Guitart-Masip;Christoph W. Korn;Rumana Chowdhury

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps Harvard University
Jonathan P. Roiser
Jonathan P. Roiser University College London
Marc Guitart-Masip
Marc Guitart-Masip Karolinska Institute
Yadin Dudai
Yadin Dudai Weizmann Institute of Science
Emrah Düzel
Emrah Düzel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Bradley C. Love
Bradley C. Love University College London
Stephen M. Fleming
Stephen M. Fleming University College London
Andrew P. Yonelinas
Andrew P. Yonelinas University of California, Davis
Liat Levita
Liat Levita University of Sussex

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