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Robb B. Rutledge

London, New Haven, New York
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Cognitive computational neuroscientist @Yale interested in decision making, happiness & mangosteens. Play games for science! happinessquest.app
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Surprising sounds influence risky decision making - Nature Communications

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By Gloria Feng, Robb B. Rutledge
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Abstract Adaptive behavior depends on appropriate responses to environmental uncertainty. Incidental sensory events might simply be distracting and increase errors, but alternatively can lead to stereotyped responses despite their irrelevance. To evaluate these possibilities, we test whether task-irrelevant sensory prediction errors influence risky decision making in humans across seven experiments (total n = 1600).
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Using games to understand the mind - Nature Human Behaviour

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By Kelsey Allen, Franziska Brändle, Matthew Botvinick, Judith E. Fan, Samuel J. Gershman, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths, Joshua K. Hartshorne, Tobias U. Hauser, Mark Ho, Wei Ji Ma, Kou Murayama, Jonathan Nelson, Iyad Rahwan, Robb B. Rutledge, Jacob Sherson, Hugo Spiers, Christopher Summerfield, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Özgür Şimşek
| Nature Verified
Abstract Board, card or video games have been played by virtually every individual in the world. Games are popular because they are intuitive and fun. These distinctive qualities of games also make them ideal for studying the mind. By being intuitive, games provide a unique vantage point for understanding the inductive biases that support behaviour in more complex, ecological settings than traditional laboratory experiments.
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A highly replicable decline in mood during rest and simple tasks - Nature Human Behaviour

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By David C. Jangraw, Robb B. Rutledge, Adam Thomas, Dylan M. Nielson, Charles Zheng
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Abstract Does our mood change as time passes? This question is central to behavioural and affective science, yet it remains largely unexamined. To investigate, we intermixed subjective momentary mood ratings into repetitive psychology paradigms. Here we demonstrate that task and rest periods lowered participants’ mood, an effect we call ‘Mood Drift Over Time’. This finding was replicated in 19 cohorts totalling 28,482 adult and adolescent participants.
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