Sarah recently received a grant from the Netherlands Academy for Empirical Legal Studies for experimental research that can impact law and policy. Under the supervision of Alan and Prof. Pietro Ortolani (Faculty of Law), Sarah will be conducting a series of behavioural and neuroimaging studies focused on better understanding social media users, with the goal of generating evidence-based recommendations for EU law-makers who focus on creating safer online environments. As part of the grant award, she recently visited the Law School of Erasmus University Rotterdam to connect with EU lawyers interested in empirical research.Â
At the recent Multidisciplinary Decision-Making Meeting, Sarah gave a presentation on computational modeling to an audience of multidisciplinary decision-making researchers from Donders. She provided an overview on social utility models and highlighted recent research from our lab in which we use this approach to study questions related to wealth inequality.
Alan gave a talk entitled "Multiple motivations in moral choice: a decision neuroscience approach" as part of the most recent installment in the Bonn-Melbourne Seminar Series in Decision-Making and Computational Psychiatry. Many thanks to the organizers for the invitation to share our lab's research!