T. Sharot

Most-cited papers

How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of reality
T. Sharot, Christoph W. Korn, R. Dolan
2011Nature Neuroscience625 citations Open access
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How people decide what they want to know
T. Sharot, C. Sunstein
2020Nature Human Behaviour322 citations Open access
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Depression is related to an absence of optimistically biased belief updating about future life events
C. W. Korn, T. Sharot, Henrik Walter, H. Heekeren +1 more
2013Psychological Medicine305 citations Open access
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How human–AI feedback loops alter human perceptual, emotional and social judgements
Moshe Glickman, T. Sharot
2024Nature Human Behaviour298 citations Open access
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Forming Beliefs: Why Valence Matters.
T. Sharot, Neil Garrett
2016Trends in Cognitive Sciences297 citations
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The optimism bias.
T. Sharot
2011Current Biology261 citations Open access
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How choice reveals, and shapes, expected hedonic outcome
T. Sharot, B. de Martino, R. Dolan
2009Journal of Neuroscience253 citations Open access
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Following the crowd: Brain Substrates of Long-Term Memory Conformity
Micah G. Edelson, T. Sharot, R. Dolan, Y. Dudai
2011Science208 citations Open access
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Valuation of knowledge and ignorance in mesolimbic reward circuitry
C. Charpentier, Ethan S. Bromberg-Martin, T. Sharot
2018Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America207 citations Open access
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How Dopamine Enhances an Optimism Bias in Humans
T. Sharot, M. Guitart-Masip, Christoph W. Korn, Rumana Chowdhury +1 more
2012Current Biology200 citations Open access
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Do decisions shape preference? Evidence from blind choice
T. Sharot, Cristina M. Velasquez, R. Dolan
2010Psychology Science191 citations Open access
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Selectively altering belief formation in the human brain
T. Sharot, R. Kanai, David Marston, Christoph W. Korn +2 more
2012Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America168 citations Open access
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The Brain Adapts to Dishonesty
Neil Garrett, Stephanie C. Lazzaro, D. Ariely, T. Sharot
2016Nature Neuroscience157 citations Open access
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Losing the rose tinted glasses: neural substrates of unbiased belief updating in depression
Neil Garrett, T. Sharot, P. Faulkner, Christoph W. Korn +2 more
2014Frontiers in Human Neuroscience150 citations Open access
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Confirmation bias in the utilization of others’ opinion strength
Andreas Kappes, A. Harvey, T. Lohrenz, P. R. Montague +1 more
2019Nature Neuroscience142 citations
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Action controls dopaminergic enhancement of reward representations
M. Guitart-Masip, Rumana Chowdhury, T. Sharot, P. Dayan +2 more
2012Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America125 citations Open access
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Report Dopamine Enhances Expectation of Pleasure in Humans
T. Sharot, T. Shiner, Annemarie C. Brown, Judy Fan +1 more
2009114 citations
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Optimistic update bias holds firm: Three tests of robustness following Shah et al.
Neil Garrett, T. Sharot
2017Consciousness and Cognition111 citations Open access
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Individual differences in information-seeking
Christopher A. Kelly, T. Sharot
2021Nature Communications106 citations Open access
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How People Update Beliefs about Climate Change: Good News and Bad News
C. Sunstein, Sebastian Bobadilla-Suarez, Stephanie C. Lazzaro, T. Sharot
201699 citations Open access
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Updating Beliefs under Perceived Threat
Neil Garrett, Ana M. González-Garzón, Lucy Foulkes, L. Levita +1 more
2018Journal of Neuroscience97 citations Open access
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Social Information Is Integrated into Value and Confidence Judgments According to Its Reliability
B. de Martino, Sebastian Bobadilla-Suarez, Takao Nouguchi, T. Sharot +1 more
2017Journal of Neuroscience97 citations Open access
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Human development of the ability to learn from bad news
C. Moutsiana, Neil Garrett, Richard C. Clarke, R. Lotto +2 more
2013Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America95 citations Open access
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Is Choice-Induced Preference Change Long Lasting?
T. Sharot, S. Fleming, Xiaoyu Yu, R. Koster +1 more
2012Psychology Science88 citations Open access
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Optimistic update bias increases in older age
Rumana Chowdhury, T. Sharot, T. Wolfe, E. Düzel +1 more
2013Psychological Medicine86 citations Open access
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Why and When Beliefs Change
T. Sharot, M. Rollwage, C. Sunstein, S. Fleming
2021Perspectives on Psychological Science77 citations Open access
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The Value of Beliefs.
Ethan S. Bromberg-Martin, T. Sharot
2020Neuron77 citations Open access
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Epistemic spillovers: Learning others’ political views reduces the ability to assess and use their expertise in nonpolitical domains
Joseph Marks, E. Copland, E. Loh, C. Sunstein +1 more
2019Cognition75 citations Open access
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The intrinsic value of choice: The propensity to under-delegate in the face of potential gains and losses
Sebastian Bobadilla-Suarez, C. Sunstein, T. Sharot
2017Journal of Risk and Uncertainty71 citations Open access
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The illusory truth effect leads to the spread of misinformation
Valentina Vellani, S. Zheng, Dilay Ercelik, T. Sharot
2023Cognition70 citations Open access
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Anxiety increases information-seeking in response to large changes
C. Charpentier, Irene Cogliati Dezza, Valentina Vellani, Laura K. Globig +2 more
2022Scientific Reports67 citations Open access
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Human Frontal–Subcortical Circuit and Asymmetric Belief Updating
C. Moutsiana, C. Charpentier, Neil Garrett, Michael X. Cohen +1 more
2015Journal of Neuroscience59 citations Open access
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Emotion-induced loss aversion and striatal-amygdala coupling in low-anxious individuals
C. Charpentier, B. de Martino, A. L. Sim, T. Sharot +1 more
2015Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience58 citations Open access
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Evaluation of Early Ketamine Effects on Belief-Updating Biases in Patients With Treatment-Resistant Depression
H. Bottemanne, O. Morlaàs, A. Claret, T. Sharot +2 more
2022JAMA psychiatry53 citations Open access
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Intrinsic reward: potential cognitive and neural mechanisms
Bastien Blain, T. Sharot
2021Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences48 citations Open access
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How Robust Is the Optimistic Update Bias for Estimating Self-Risk and Population Base Rates?
Neil Garrett, T. Sharot
2014PLoS ONE47 citations Open access
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Experience and Choice Shape Expected Aversive Outcomes
T. Sharot, T. Shiner, R. Dolan
2010Journal of Neuroscience47 citations Open access
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Web-browsing patterns reflect and shape mood and mental health
Christopher A. Kelly, T. Sharot
2024Nature Human Behaviour39 citations Open access
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The Brain's Temporal Dynamics from a Collective Decision to Individual Action
C. Charpentier, C. Moutsiana, Neil Garrett, T. Sharot
2014Journal of Neuroscience37 citations Open access
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The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
T. Sharot
201736 citations
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Brain Substrates of Recovery from Misleading Influence
Micah G. Edelson, Y. Dudai, R. Dolan, T. Sharot
2014Journal of Neuroscience34 citations Open access
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Changing the incentive structure of social media platforms to halt the spread of misinformation
Laura K. Globig, Nora Holtz, T. Sharot
2023eLife31 citations Open access
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Opposing Effects of Oxytocin on Overt Compliance and Lasting Changes to Memory
Micah G. Edelson, Maya Shemesh, Abraham Weizman, S. Yariv +2 more
2014Neuropsychopharmacology31 citations Open access
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Evidence accumulation is biased by motivation: A computational account
Filip Gesiarz, Donal Cahill, T. Sharot
2019PLoS Comput. Biol.28 citations Open access
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Belief updating in bipolar disorder predicts time of recurrence
P. Ossola, Neil Garrett, T. Sharot, C. Marchesi
2020eLife25 citations Open access
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Neuroscience of Preference and Choice : Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms
R. Dolan, T. Sharot
201123 citations
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A selective effect of dopamine on information-seeking
Valentina Vellani, L. D. de Vries, Anne Gaule, T. Sharot
2020eLife22 citations Open access
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Sensitivity to intrinsic rewards is domain general and related to mental health
Bastien Blain, India Pinhorn, T. Sharot
2023Nature Mental Health19 citations Open access
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Perceptions of personal and public risk: Dissociable effects on behavior and well-being
Laura K. Globig, Bastien Blain, T. Sharot
2022Journal of Risk and Uncertainty19 citations Open access
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A Guideline and Cautionary Note: How to Use the Belief Update Task Correctly
T. Sharot, Neil Garrett
2021Methods in Psychology19 citations Open access
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