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Social and Cognitive Colloquium | המחלקה לפסיכולוגיה

Social and Cognitive Colloquium

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Social Sciences 7501, The Hebrew university of Jerusalem
The Interaction of Mood and Value Learning Despite the ubiquity and substantial impact of mood fluctuations in our lives, we often find it difficult to explain even with regards to our own mood why it fluctuates the way it does. Existing research suggests that mood changes are responses to real-world outcomes, reflecting for instance success or failure to obtain reward. In this talk, I will argue that the relationship between outcomes and mood is best understood as bidirectional: naturally, outcomes affect our mood, but our mood can also affect how we evaluate outcomes. Importantly, this bidirectional interaction can explain dynamics of mood, such as escalations and oscillations, that may otherwise seem chaotic. I will present behavioral and neuroimaging evidence for this two-way interaction, and develop a computational model that reveals its adaptive and maladaptive consequences. In addition, I will introduce a novel smartphone-based experimental approach that allows directly studying how such real-life cognitive dynamics unfold over time.