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Benjamin Kuper-Smith

Scientific Staff (Section Social Neuroscience)


Medical/Professional background

PhD student in Section Social Neuroscience and Emmy Noether research group, Department of General Adult Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany (before Institute for Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany)

Dual Masters in Brain and Mind Sciences, 1 year at University College London, UK, 1 year at École Normale Supérieure and Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne Université), Paris, France

Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

Research Focus

  • Decision-making in social interactions 
  • Neural correlates of complex social decisions 
  • Heuristics and biases  
  • Game-theoretic paradigms, computational modelling, fMRI