Tor Tarantola University positionPhD student DepartmentsInstitutesBehavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute Research ThemesInterestsI study reinforcement learning, value-based decision-making, and social cognition. I am especially interested in how these processes contribute to moral judgments, in particular how people decide to punish others for violating social norms. I use methods from experimental psychology, behavioral economics, computational modeling, and cognitive neuroscience to explore how intentional and causal information are integrated in moral contexts. I am also interested in how these processes differ in populations with certain clinical conditions such as psychopathy, as well as their implications for legal policies concerning criminal culpability and sentencing. Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Computational modelling Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Collaborators
Associated News ItemsKey publicationsTarantola T, Kumaran D, Dayan P, De Martino B (2017), “Prior preferences beneficially influence social and non-social learning” Nature Communications 8(817) Kahan DM, Jenkins-Smith HC, Tarantola T, Silva CL, Braman D (2015), “Geoengineering and climate change polarization: Testing a two-channel model of science communication.” Ann Am Acad Polit Soc Sci 658, 192-222 |