Developmental Computational Psychiatry Lab (PI: Tobias Hauser)

January 24, 2023

Professorship in Tübingen

I am thrilled to announce that I am joining the University of Tübingen to take up a full professorship...

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January 20, 2023

In the News

Our study, led by Johanna Habicht on optimism bias in childhood has been covered in the widely read German...

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November 12, 2021

Tobias awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize

It’s our pleasure to announce that Tobias has been awarded a prestigious 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Psychology in...

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July 19, 2021

Flux workshop on computational modelling (17/09/2021)

In collaboaration with the Harley Lab we are giving a workshop on computational modelling in development. The workshop provides...

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Papers

How exploration develops and is linked to impulsivity

Chocolate, hibiscus or spinach ice-cream? Many decisions we make require arbitrating between novelty (e.g., hibiscus) and the benefits of familiar options (e.g., chocolate). This is called the exploration-exploitation trade-off...

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Reliability of web-based affective sounds

Conducting research experiments on web-based platforms have become common in recent years but some designs, especially tasks that involve sounds, have been slow in their online adaptation because of...

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Emerging metacognition allows adolescents to ignore false advice

Adolescents aspire for independence and are often accused of not following the advice of others. Here, we investigated metacognitive development and advice taking across childhood and adolescence. To do...

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Children gather more information when it is not costly

In our recent paper, we are investigating how information gathering changes over childhood and adolescence. We found that children gathered substantially more information before making a decision, but only...

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Propranolol modulates value-free random exploration

In our recent paper, we are investigating the catecholaminergic bases of different exploration strategies. Previously it was thought that exploration-exploitation trade-off is solved by using computationally demanding exploration algorithms,...