APS

2026 APS Annual Convention

Computational Insights into How Motivational and Socio-Emotional Factors Shape Decision-Making

Thursday, May 28, 2026 · Barcelona, Spain

Oral · Choices & Consequences: Judgment and Decision-Making

This symposium leverages computational tools to elucidate the mechanisms by which motivational, emotional, and social contexts shape decision-making. Speakers employ multimodal methods to showcase developmental and individual differences that determine when decision strategies adapt to context and when they become biased or inflexible.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Catherine InselChair
    Northwestern University
  • Camille Phaneuf-HaddCoChair
    Harvard University

Presentations

  1. Individual Differences In Seeking and Avoiding Threatening Information Under UncertaintyHayley Dorfman
  2. Features and Dynamics of Social Inference In Real-World InteractionsNina Rouhani
  3. Changing Contributions of Emotion and Reward Information to Learning through AdolescenceCamille Phaneuf-Hadd
  4. How Teens Change How They Learn: Modeling Shifts In Motivated Decision-Making across Repeated Learning SessionsCatherine Insel