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Many congratulations to Charlotte Bell, Allen Nieva, and Anna Benzeevi for their fantastic achievements! Allen has secured a paid internship at Purdue University this summer, Charlotte has received funding from both the Psychology department and the Cognitive Science fellowship for her thesis project on support-seeking preferences in depression, and Anna was selected for a summer…

We’re proud to congratulate Dan-Mircea Mirea for his series of achievements! He is a Graduate Fellow at Data-Driven Social Science for the spring semester, has been awarded the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellowship, which “recognizes students in their later years of study for outstanding academic performance and professional promise,” and has won the Psychology of…

Congratulations to Luke Cho for receiving the OURSIP grant which will support his summer internship at the Niv Lab!

Kudos to Isabel Berwian and Dan-Mircea Mirea who participated in the Society for Affective Science Conference 2025! Isabel presented her work on ‘Using computational modeling to uncover the mechanism underlying spontaneous recovery after fear extinction’ and Dan presented a flash talk on ‘Semantic similarity between clients and therapists predicts alliance and treatment outcomes in large-scale…

Jialing Ding has been awarded a grant from the Centre for Health and Wellbeing for her exciting research proposal! Congratulations!!

In super exciting news, Jamie and Yael’s proposal to NJ ACTS was selected for funding!

Goodbye Seohyun! We wish you the very best!!

Hearty congratulations to Jamie Chiu for being awarded the Dr Shuqiao Yao memorial scholarship “to support outstanding students who share Dr. Shuqiao Yao’s passion for clinical psychology and psychiatry”!!

We are very excited to welcome Caroline Jahn as the Associate Research Manager at Niv Lab!

After a fierce competition, Dan-Mircea Mirea’s workshop, “Reinforcement Learning ‘in the Wild’: Modeling Real-World Data“, was accepted to RLDM. The website is now available!

Gili Karni was selected to be an AI LAB-NAM fellow for Spring 2025! Congrats Gili!!

Congratulations to Jamie Chiu and Branson Byers for passing their Generals exams!!!

Congratulations to Dan-Mircea Mirea for winning the 2024 Niv Lab Challenge!

Welcome to Ella Tuominen, who is visiting us this semester and is a graduate student from UCL!

Woohoo! Our new Conte Center on Understanding Latent Cause Inference in Health and Illness is officially awarded! This is a joint Center involving 10 faculty at Princeton and Rutgers Universities, to study the role of latent cause inference in mental health, with Yael as Director of the Center.

We will miss you Kepler, good luck!!

We are excited to welcome Deepta Chandrasekhar as our lab manager!

Congratulations to Dr. Oded Bein for starting his new position as Faculty of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical School! We will miss you…

Congratulations to Dan-Mircea Mirea for giving a data blitz talk titled “Individuals with depression show heightened sensitivity to social media rewards” at the SPSP Psychology of Media & Technology Preconference 2024 ! Dan also gave a poster with the same title at the main SPSP conference.