If you hurt someone else, when and why do you make amends? Using fMRI, we aim to find out which neural systems drive people toward restitution. Are other-harming events processed differently in the brain if you caused them? If so, this difference may give rise to behavioural differences between donation and reparation.

We aim to find out how much information is needed to decide to stay or leave a social or non-social collaboration using a drift-diffusion model. More particularly, we want to know how equivocal aspects of the decision, like the default, the order of the incoming information or having a prior, affect the sampling process.

People tend to cooperate more with members of their own social groups than with members of other groups, even if they know nothing about the other person except for their group membership. We aim to replicate this finding with people from different nationalities and investigate if adding a shared group membership can remove this difference in cooperation.

We know people care about fairness, but how much exactly? Using the ultimatum game with imperfect information, we will investigate whether people are willing to pay to obtain equity information. Furthermore, we will measure individual differences in cognitive control and social value orientation to investigate how these measures relate to the subjective value of equity information.

We look at the neural activity of a small focus group while they watch movie trailers. By this, we are able to say something about how much the individual likes the movie, and how much the general population likes it.

When pursuing their goals, people often need to perform a series of actions over time. How and why does motivation change over the course of pursuing such goals? In this study, we aim to explore the dynamics and neural drivers of motivation to obtain a reward as a function of goal progress.

We all know that the living in poverty provides serious challenges. In this project we try to uncover how 'not having enough' affects decision making. Does it affect purchasing behavior or the way we process products? And how do brain functions change when you do not have enough? 

Using a novel variant of the Trust Game, we quantify the balance between different social preferences employed by reciprocity decision-makers. We investigate the neural correlates of the different motivations to reciprocate (or not).

Product reviews impact the way potential consumers evaluate a specific good. By varying the type of information presented on relevant dimensions (in particular the valence and the source of information) we can measure the effect they have on the valuation of a product.

Polls are telling us that harmful or joyful social events can affect people's attitudes toward a policy or a political leader. Using neuroscience, we try to find out how political issues can elicit emotional reactions, and which individual traits could account for these reactions.

Based on observed abnormalities it is unclear whether psychopathic individuals are capable of understanding others' expectations and to what extent this affects their sensitivity to anticipated guilt. This study aimed to discover this by studying trustworthiness in adult psychopathic individuals.

Whether you experience something or you "only" read about it in the newspaper strongly impacts how you use this information when making decisions. In this project, we investigate whether and how social expectations differ based on their source: own experience versus descriptive information.

We all know that the living in poverty provides serious challenges. In this project we try to uncover how 'not having enough' affects the way in which people handle probabilistic learning and what changes might occur in this process in people facing scarcity. 

How do people make multiple selections from an array of available options? In decision tasks in which people have to allocate a scarce resource (e.g., money) over a fixed set of options, people tend to diversify. We seek to provide more insight into the underlying motivations to diversify, using fMRI.