Jo Cutler

Jo Cutler

Wellcome Trust Early Career Research Fellow

University of Birmingham

Biography

Dr Jo Cutler is a Wellcome Trust Early Career Research Fellow in the Centre for Human Brain Health at the University of Birmingham. Her research uses computational modelling, neuroimaging, and big data to understand how we make choices that involve other people. You can read more about these topics on Psychology Today.

Interests
  • Prosocial decision making
  • Social information seeking
  • fMRI
  • Computational modelling
  • Lifespan development
Education

  • PhD in Psychology, 2019

    The University of Sussex

  • MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2016

    The University of Sussex

  • BSc in Psychology, 2015

    The University of Leeds

Recent Publications

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Jamie Talbot, Jo Cutler, Marin Tamm, Simon J. Little, Catherine J. Harmer, Masud Husain, Patricia L. Lockwood, Matthew AJ Apps (2025). Dopamine Boosts Motivation for Prosocial Effort in Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of Neuroscience.

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Zhilin Su, Mona M. Garvert, Lei Zhang, Todd Vogel, Jo Cutler, Masud Husain, Sanjay G. Manohar, Patricia Lockwood (2025). Dorsomedial and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Lesions Differentially Impact Social Influence and Temporal Discounting. PLoS Biology.

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Paul Vanags, Jo Cutler, Fabian Kosse, Patricia Lockwood (2025). Greater Wealth Is Associated with Higher Prosocial Preferences and Behaviours across 76 Countries. PNAS Nexus.

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Margot Gueguen, Jo Cutler, Daniel Drew, Matthew AJ Apps, Deva Sanjeeva Jeyaretna, Masud Husain, Sanjay G. Manohar, Patricia L. Lockwood (2025). Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Lesions Disrupt Learning to Reward Others. Brain awaf056.

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Anne Gaule, Peter Martin, Patricia L. Lockwood, Jo Cutler, Matthew Apps, Ruth Roberts, Harriet Phillips, Katie Brown, Eamon J. McCrory, Essi Viding (2024). Reduced Prosocial Motivation and Effort in Adolescents with Conduct Problems and Callous‐unemotional Traits. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 65(8) 1061–1071 https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13945.

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Madalina Vlasceanu, Kimberly C. Doell, Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Boryana Todorova, Michael M. Berkebile-Weinberg, Samantha J. Grayson, Yash Patel, Danielle Goldwert, Yifei Pei, Alek Chakroff, Ekaterina Pronizius, Karlijn L. {Van Den Broek}, Denisa Vlasceanu, Sara Constantino, Michael J. Morais, Philipp Schumann, Steve Rathje, Ke Fang, Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Mark Alfano, Andy J. Alvarado-Yepez, Angelica Andersen, Frederik Anseel, Matthew A. J. Apps, Chillar Asadli, Fonda Jane Awuor, Flavio Azevedo, Piero Basaglia, Jocelyn J. Belanger, Sebastian Berger, Paul Bertin, Michal Bialek, Olga Bialobrzeska, Michelle Blaya-Burgo, Danielle N. M. Bleize, Simen Bo, Lea Boecker, Paulo S. Boggio, Sylvie Borau, Bjorn Bos, Ayoub Bouguettaya, Markus Brauer, Cameron Brick, Tymofii Brik, Roman Briker, Tobias Brosch, Ondrej Buchel, Daniel Buonauro, Radhika Butalia, Hector Carvacho, Sarah A. E. Chamberlain, Hang-Yee Chan, Dawn Chow, Dongil Chung, Luca Cian, Noa Cohen-Eick, Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta, Davide Contu, Vladimir Cristea, Jo Cutler, Silvana D'Ottone, Jonas {De Keersmaecker}, Sarah Delcourt, Sylvain Delouvee, Kathi Diel, Benjamin D. Douglas, Moritz A. Drupp, Shreya Dubey, Janis Ekmanis, Christian T. Elbaek, Mahmoud Elsherif, Iris M. Engelhard, Yannik A. Escher, Tom W. Etienne, Laura Farage, Ana Rita Farias, Stefan Feuerriegel, Andrej Findor, Lucia Freira, Malte Friese, Neil Philip Gains, Albina Gallyamova, Sandra J. Geiger, Oliver Genschow, Biljana Gjoneska, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Beth Goldberg, Amit Goldenberg, Sarah Gradidge, Simone Grassini, Kurt Gray, Sonja Grelle, Siobhan M. Griffin, Lusine Grigoryan, Ani Grigoryan, Dmitry Grigoryev, June Gruber, Johnrev Guilaran, Britt Hadar, Ulf J.J. Hahnel, Eran Halperin, Annelie J. Harvey, Christian A. P. Haugestad, Aleksandra M. Herman, Hal E. Hershfield, Toshiyuki Himichi, Donald W. Hine, Wilhelm Hofmann, Lauren Howe, Enma T. Huaman-Chulluncuy, Guanxiong Huang, Tatsunori Ishii, Ayahito Ito, Fanli Jia, John T. Jost, Veljko Jovanovic, Dominika Jurgiel, Ondrej Kacha, Reeta Kankaanpaa, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, Keren {Kaplan Mintz}, Ilker Kaya, Ozgur Kaya, Narine Khachatryan, Anna Klas, Colin Klein, Christian A. Klockner, Lina Koppel, Alexandra I. Kosachenko, Emily J. Kothe, Ruth Krebs, Amy R. Krosch, Andre P.M. Krouwel, Yara Kyrychenko, Maria Lagomarsino, Claus Lamm, Florian Lange, Julia {Lee Cunningham}, Jeffrey Lees, Tak Yan Leung, Neil Levy, Patricia L. Lockwood, Chiara Longoni, Alberto {Lopez Ortega}, David D. Loschelder, Jackson G. Lu, Yu Luo, Joseph Luomba, Annika E. Lutz, Johann M. Majer, Ezra Markowitz, Abigail A. Marsh, Karen Louise Mascarenhas, Bwambale Mbilingi, Winfred Mbungu, Cillian McHugh, Marijn H.C. Meijers, Hugo Mercier, Fenant Laurent Mhagama, Katerina Michalakis, Nace Mikus, Sarah Milliron, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Fredy S. Monge-Rodriguez, Youri L. Mora, David Moreau, Kosuke Motoki, Manuel Moyano, Mathilde Mus, Joaquin Navajas, Tam Luong Nguyen, Dung Minh Nguyen, Trieu Nguyen, Laura Niemi, Sari R. R. Nijssen, Gustav Nilsonne, Jonas P. Nitschke, Laila Nockur, Ritah Okura, Sezin Oner, Asil Ali Ozdogru, Helena Palumbo, Costas Panagopoulos, Maria Serena Panasiti, Philip Parnamets, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Yuri G. Pavlov, Cesar Payan-Gomez, Adam R. Pearson, Leonor {Pereira Da Costa}, Hannes M. Petrowsky, Stefan Pfattheicher, Nhat Tan Pham, Vladimir Ponizovskiy, Clara Pretus, Gabriel G. Rego, Ritsaart Reimann, Shawn A. Rhoads, Julian Riano-Moreno, Isabell Richter, Jan Philipp Roer, Jahred Rosa-Sullivan, Robert M. Ross, Anandita Sabherwal, Toshiki Saito, Oriane Sarrasin, Nicolas Say, Katharina Schmid, Michael T. Schmitt, Philipp Schoenegger, Christin Scholz, Mariah G. Schug, Stefan Schulreich, Ganga Shreedhar, Eric Shuman, Smadar Sivan, Hallgeir Sjastad, Meikel Soliman, Katia Soud, Tobia Spampatti, Gregg Sparkman, Ognen Spasovski, Samantha K. Stanley, Jessica A. Stern, Noel Strahm, Yasushi Suko, Sunhae Sul, Stylianos Syropoulos, Neil C. Taylor, Elisa Tedaldi, Gustav Tinghog, Luu Duc Toan Huynh, Giovanni Antonio Travaglino, Manos Tsakiris, Ilayda Tuter, Michael Tyrala, Ozden Melis Ulug, Arkadiusz Urbanek, Danila Valko, Sander {Van Der Linden}, Kevin {Van Schie}, Aart {Van Stekelenburg}, Edmunds Vanags, Daniel Vastfjall, Stepan Vesely, Jachym Vintr, Marek Vranka, Patrick Otuo Wanguche, Robb Willer, Adrian Dominik Wojcik, Rachel Xu, Anjali Yadav, Magdalena Zawisza, Xian Zhao, Jiaying Zhao, Dawid Zuk, Jay J. {Van Bavel} (2024). Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries. Science Advances, 10(6) eadj5778 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj5778.

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Jo Cutler, Patricia Lockwood (2024). How Brain Damage Affects Our Willingness to Help Others. Nature Human Behaviour.

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T. V. Vogel, Luke Priestly, Jo Cutler, Tabitha Hogg, Nima Khalighinejad, Neil Garrett, Matthew AJ Apps, Matthew Rushworth, Pat Lockwood (2024). Humans Decide to Help Others More Often in Poor Environments. PsyArXiv.

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Jo Cutler, Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta, Boryana Todorova, Jonas Paul Nitschke, Katerina Michalaki, Lina Koppel, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Todd A. Vogel, Claus Lamm, Daniel Vastfjall (2024). Psychological Interventions Increase Motivation to Exert Effort to Mitigate Climate Change. PsyArXiv.

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Kimberly C. Doell, Boryana Todorova, Madalina Vlasceanu, Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Ekaterina Pronizius, Philipp Schumann, Flavio Azevedo, Yash Patel, Michael M. Berkebile-Wineberg, Cameron Brick (2024). The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate Change-Related Data Collected from 63 Countries. Scientific data, 11(1) 1066.

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