Dr Jo Cutler BSc, MSc, PhD

Dr Jo Cutler

School of Psychology
Research Fellow

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Email
j.l.cutler@bham.ac.uk
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Jo Cutler is a Wellcome Trust Early Career Research Fellow in the Centre for Human Brain Health. Her research uses computational modelling, neuroimaging, and big data to understand how we make choices that involve other people.

Qualifications

  • PhD Psychology
  • MSc Cognitive Neuroscience
  • BSc Psychology (International)

Biography

Dr Jo Cutler is currently a Research Fellow funded by a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award. Before this, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Social Decision Neuroscience Lab with Professor Patricia Lockwood at the University of Oxford then the University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡. 

Jo obtained her Psychology PhD in the Social Decision Lab at the University of Sussex with Dr Daniel Campbell-Meiklejohn. She also holds an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Sussex and studied undergraduate Psychology at the University of Leeds and the University of Sydney.

Research

Jo’s research aims to answer questions such as: why are people altruistic? Which situations make people more prosocial? How do these decisions change across the lifespan? To answer these questions, Jo uses tools from psychology and neuroscience including fMRI, physiological measures, behavioural experiments, neuropsychological studies and computational modelling.

Other activities

Consultancy for and collaboration with fundraising organisations.

Talks at fundraising conferences and charities.

Advisor for the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development Kindness Matters campaign.

Publications

Highlight publications

Lockwood, PL, Cutler, J, Drew, D, Abdurahman, A, Jeyaretna, DS, Apps, MAJ, Husain, M & Manohar, SG 2024, '', Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 1403-1416.

Cutler, J, Nitschke, JP, Lamm, C & Lockwood, PL 2021, '', Nature Aging, vol. 1, pp. 880–888.

Cutler, J, Wittmann, MK, Abdurahman, A, Hargitai, LD, Drew, D, Husain, M & Lockwood, PL 2021, '', Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 4440.

Recent publications

Article

Talbot, J, Cutler, J, Tamm, M, Little, SJ, Harmer, CJ, Husain, M, Lockwood, PL & Apps, MAJ 2025, '', The Journal of Neuroscience.

Su, Z, Garvert, MM, Zhang, L, Vogel, TA, Cutler, J, Husain, M, Manohar, SG & Lockwood, PL 2025, '', PLoS Biology, vol. 23, no. 4, e3003079.

Vanags, P, Cutler, J, Kosse, F & Lockwood, PL 2025, '', PNAS nexus, vol. 4, no. 2, pgae582.

Gueguen, M, Cutler, J, Drew, D, Apps, MAJ, Jeyaretna, DS, Husain, M, Manohar, SG & Lockwood, PL 2025, '', Brain.

Gaule, A, Martin, P, Lockwood, PL, Cutler, J, Apps, M, Roberts, R, Phillips, H, Brown, K, McCrory, EJ & Viding, E 2024, '', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

The International Climate Psychology Collaboration, Contreras-Huerta, LS & Elsherif, M 2024, '', Scientific Data, vol. 11, 1066.

Jansen, M, Lockwood, PL, Cutler, J & Bruijn, ERAD 2023, '', NeuroImage, vol. 270, 119983. ,

International Collaboration on the Social & Moral Psychology of COVID-19 2023, '', Scientific Data, vol. 10, no. 1, 272.

Lockwood, P, Wittmann, MK, Nili, H, Matsumoto-Ryan, M, Abdurahman, A, Cutler, J, Husain, M & Apps, M 2022, '', Current Biology, vol. 32, no. 19, pp. 4172-4185.e7. ,

Van Bavel, JJ, Cichocka, A, Capraro, V, Sjastad, H, Nezlek, JB, Pavlovic, T, Alfano, M, Gelfand, MJ, Azevedo, F, Birtel, MD, Cislak, A, Lockwood, PL, Ross, RM, Abts, K, Agadullina, E, Aruta, JJB, Besharati, SN, Bor, A, Choma, BL, Crabtree, CD, Cunningham, WA, De, K, Ejaz, W, Elbaek, CT, Findor, A, Flichtentrei, D, Franc, R, Gjoneska, B, Gruber, J, Gualda, E, Horiuchi, Y, Huynh, TLD, Ibanez, A, Imran, MA, Israelashvili, J, Jasko, K, Kantorowicz, J, Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, E, Krouwel, A, Laakasuo, M, Lamm, C, Leygue, C, Lin, M-J, Mansoor, MS, Marie, A, Mayiwar, L, Mazepus, H, McHugh, C, Minda, JP, Mitkidis, P, Olsson, A, Otterbring, T, Packer, DJ, Perry, A, Petersen, MB, Puthillam, A, Riano-Moreno, JC, Rothmund, T, Santamaria-Garcia, H, Schmid, PC, Stoyanov, D, Tewari, S, Todosijevic, B, Tsakiris, M, Tung, HH, Umbres, RG, Vanags, E, Vlasceanu, M, Vonasch, A, Yucel, M, Zhang, Y, Abad, M, Adler, E, Akrawi, N, Mdarhri, HA, Amara, H, Amodio, DM, Antazo, BG, Apps, M, Ay, FC, Ba, MH, Barbosa, S, Bastian, B, Berg, A, Bernal-Zarate, MP, Bernstein, M, Bialek, M, Bilancini, E, Bogatyreva, N, Boncinelli, L, Booth, JE, Borau, S, Buchel, O, Cameron, CD, Carvalho, CF, Celadin, T, Cerami, C, Chalise, HN, Cheng, X, Cian, L, Cockcroft, K, Conway, J, Andres Cordoba-Delgado, M, Crespi, C, Crouzevialle, M, Cutler, J, Dabrowska, J, Cypryanska, M, Daniels, MA, Davis, VH, Dayley, PN, Delouvee, S, Denkovski, O, Dezecache, G, Dhaliwal, NA, Diato, AB, Di Paolo, R, Drosinou, M, Dulleck, U, Ekmanis, J, Ertan, AS, Etienne, TW, Farhana, HH, Farkhari, F, Farmer, H, Fenwick, A, Fidanovski, K, Flew, T, Fraser, S, Frempong, RB, Fugelsang, JA, Gale, J, Begona Garcia-Navarro, E, Garladinne, P, Ghajjou, O, Gkinopoulos, T, Gray, K, Griffin, SM, Gronfeldt, B, Gumren, M, Gurung, RL, Halperin, E, Herzon, V, Hruska, M, Huang, G, Hudecek, MFC, Isler, O, Jangard, S, Jorgensen, FJ, Kachanoff, F, Kahn, J, Dangol, AK, Keudel, O, Koppel, L, Koverola, M, Kubin, E, Kunnari, A, Kutiyski, Y, Laguna, O, Leota, J, Lermer, E, Levy, J, Levy, N, Li, C, Long, EU, Longoni, C, Maglic, M, McCashin, D, Metcalf, AL, Miklousic, I, El Mimouni, S, Miura, A, Molina-Paredes, J, Monroy-Fonseca, C, Morales-Marente, E, Moreau, D, Muda, R, Myer, A, Nash, K, Nesh-Nash, T, Nitschke, JP, Nurse, MS, Ohtsubo, Y, de Mello, VO, O'Madagain, C, Onderco, M, Soledad Palacios-Galvez, M, Palomaki, J, Pan, Y, Papp, Z, Parnamets, P, Paruzel-Czachura, M, Pavlovic, Z, Payan-Gomez, C, Perander, S, Pitman, MM, Prasad, R, Pyrkosz-Pacyna, J, Rathje, S, Raza, A, Rego, GG, Rhee, K, Robertson, CE, Rodriguez-Pascual, I, Saikkonen, T, Salvador-Ginez, O, Sampaio, WM, Santi, GC, Santiago-Tovar, N, Savage, D, Scheffer, JA, Schonegger, P, Schultner, DT, Schutte, EM, Scott, A, Sharma, M, Sharma, P, Skali, A, Stadelmann, D, Stanojevic, D, Stefaniak, A, Sternisko, A, Stoica, A, Stoyanova, KK, Strickland, B, Sundvall, J, Thomas, JP, Tinghog, G, Torgler, B, Traast, IJ, Tucciarelli, R, Tyrala, M, Ungson, ND, Uysal, MS, Van Lange, PAM, van Prooijen, J-W, Vastfjall, D, Verkoeijen, P, Vieira, JB, von Sikorski, C, Walker, AC, Watermeyer, J, Wetter, E, Whillans, A, Willardt, R, Wohl, MJA, Wojcik, AD, Wu, K, Yamada, Y, Yilmaz, O, Yogeeswaran, K, Ziemer, C-T, Zwaan, RA & Boggio, PS 2022, '', Nature Communications, vol. 13, 517. ,

Martins, D, Lockwood, P, Cutler, J, Moran, R & Paloyelis, Y 2022, '', Progress in neurobiology, vol. 213, 102253. ,

Pavlović, T, Azevedo, F, De, K, Riaño-Moreno, JC, Maglić, M, Gkinopoulos, T, Donnelly-Kehoe, PA, Payán-Gómez, C, Huang, G, Kantorowicz, J, Birtel, MD, Schönegger, P, Capraro, V, Santamaría-García, H, Yucel, M, Ibanez, A, Rathje, S, Wetter, E, Stanojević, D, van Prooijen, J-W, Hesse, E, Elbaek, CT, Franc, R, Pavlović, Z, Mitkidis, P, Cichocka, A, Gelfand, M, Alfano, M, Ross, RM, Sjåstad, H, Nezlek, JB, Cislak, A, Lockwood, P, Abts, K, Agadullina, E, Amodio, DM, Apps, MAJ, Aruta, JJB, Besharati, S, Bor, A, Choma, B, Cunningham, W, Ejaz, W, Farmer, H, Findor, A, Gjoneska, B, Gualda, E, Huynh, TLD, Imran, MA, Israelashvili, J, Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, E, Krouwel, A, Kutiyski, Y, Laakasuo, M, Lamm, C, Levy, J, Leygue, C, Lin, M-J, Mansoor, MS, Marie, A, Mayiwar, L, Mazepus, H, McHugh, C, Olsson, A, Otterbring, T, Packer, D, Palomäki, J, Perry, A, Petersen, MB, Puthillam, A, Rothmund, T, Schmid, PC, Stadelmann, D, Stoica, A, Stoyanov, D, Stoyanova, K, Tewari, S, Todosijević, B, Torgler, B, Tsakiris, M, Tung, HH, Umbreș, RG, Vanags, E, Vlasceanu, M, Vonasch, AJ, Zhang, Y, Abad, M, Adler, E, Mdarhri, HA, Antazo, B, Ay, FC, Ba, MEH, Barbosa, S, Bastian, B, Berg, A, Białek, M, Bilancini, E, Bogatyreva, N, Boncinelli, L, Booth, JE, Borau, S, Buchel, O, de Carvalho, CF, Celadin, T, Cerami, C, Chalise, HN, Cheng, X, Cian, L, Cockcroft, K, Conway, J, Córdoba-Delgado, MA, Crespi, C, Crouzevialle, M, Cutler, J, Cypryańska, M, Dabrowska, J, Davis, VH, Minda, JP, Dayley, PN, Delouvée, S, Denkovski, O, Dezecache, G, Dhaliwal, NA, Diato, A, Di Paolo, R, Dulleck, U, Ekmanis, J, Etienne, TW, Farhana, HH, Farkhari, F, Fidanovski, K, Flew, T, Fraser, S, Frempong, RB, Fugelsang, J, Gale, J, García-Navarro, EB, Garladinne, P, Gray, K, Griffin, SM, Gronfeldt, B, Gruber, J, Halperin, E, Herzon, V, Hruška, M, Hudecek, MFC, Isler, O, Jangard, S, Jørgensen, F, Keudel, O, Koppel, L, Koverola, M, Kunnari, A, Leota, J, Lermer, E, Li, C, Longoni, C, McCashin, D, Mikloušić, I, Molina-Paredes, J, Monroy-Fonseca, C, Morales-Marente, E, Moreau, D, Muda, R, Myer, A, Nash, K, Nitschke, JP, Nurse, MS, de Mello, VO, Palacios-Galvez, MS, Pan, Y, Papp, Z, Pärnamets, P, Paruzel-Czachura, M, Perander, S, Pitman, M, Raza, A, Rêgo, GG, Robertson, C, Rodríguez-Pascual, I, Saikkonen, T, Salvador-Ginez, O, Sampaio, WM, Santi, GC, Schultner, D, Schutte, E, Scott, A, Skali, A, Stefaniak, A, Sternisko, A, Strickland, B, Thomas, JP, Tinghög, G, Traast, IJ, Tucciarelli, R, Tyrala, M, Ungson, ND, Uysal, MS, Van Rooy, D, Västfjäll, D, Vieira, JB, von Sikorski, C, Walker, AC, Watermeyer, J, Willardt, R, Wohl, MJA, Wójcik, AD, Wu, K, Yamada, Y, Yilmaz, O, Yogeeswaran, K, Ziemer, C-T, Zwaan, RA, Boggio, PS, Whillans, A, Van Lange, PAM, Prasad, R, Onderco, M, O'Madagain, C, Nesh-Nash, T, Laguna, OM, Kubin, E, Gümren, M, Fenwick, A, Ertan, AS, Bernstein, MJ, Amara, H & Van Bavel, JJ 2022, '', PNAS nexus, vol. 1, no. 3, pgac093.

Preprint

Yanga, X, Schulza, J, Schmidt, K, Kenny, AR, Pfuhl, G, Gjoneska, B, Dalgar, I, Lewis, SC, Exner, A, Buchanan, EM, Lander, K, Becker, M, Du, H, Johri, A, Selcuk, E, Gallyamova, A, Calluso, C, Reggev, N, Vranka, MA, Acar, OA, Palma, TA, Kocur, M, Oliveros, JC, Montefinese, M, Wilton, LS, Zdybek, PM, Ferreira, PRS, Pfattheicher, S, Akkas, H, Autin, F, Sorokowska, A, Janssen, SMJ, March, DS, Young, DM, Valentova, JV, Taşbaş, EHO, Bükün, MF, Giammusso, I, Brandt, MJ, Couto, C, Simon, DA, Cutler, J, Prokosch, ML, Sjåstad, H, Manunta, E, Whyte, S, Marsh, AA, Papadatou-Pastou, M, Jaeger, B, Morvinski, C, Primbs, MA, Akil, AM, Kapoor, H, Barzykowski, K, Ghai, S, Moreau, D, Seehuus, M, Kowal, M, Evans, TR, Hill, KM, Calvillo, DP, Wiechert, S, Afhami, R, Hoyer, K, Korbmacher, M, Elbaek, CT, Alsuhaibani, Z, Pronizius, E, Cui, Q, Wang, Z, Cundiff, JM, Panahi, AT, Bjornsdottir, RT, Baskin, E, Ergiyen, T, Metin-Orta, I, Collins, WM, Bø, S, Marinucci, M, Baker, BJ, Özdoğru, AA, Anne, M, Standage, M, Tullett, AM, Milfont, TL, Flynn, FJ, Zidkova, R, Ruiz-Fernandez, S, Sachs, T, Bilancini, E, Verheyen, S, Massoni, S, Jiahui, W, Camargo, A, Wang, YA, Zhou, S, Peetz, HK, Grigoryev, D, Ghasemi, O, Cong, CW, Westgate, EC, Sutherland, CAM, Boucher, L, Grigoryan, L, Paltoglou, AE, Al-Hoorie, AH, Sacco, DF, Thomas, AG, Haeffel, GJ, Davis, WE, Mandalaywala, TM, Cruz, F, Ross, RM, Jiang, X, Studzinska, A, Dumbravă, A, University, IC, Misiak, M, Tran, US, Felisberti, FM, Nagy, T, Gunaydin, G, Buchanan, EM, Miranda, JF, Behnke, M, Akin, K, Berkessel, JB, Johnson, DC, Wu, Y, Godbersen, H, Edlund, JE, Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A, Martin, D, Norman, JB, Batres, C, Kütük, B, Szumowska, E, Storage, D, Bouguettaya, A, Lins, S, Voracek, M, Trémolière, B, Cyrus-Lai, W, Alzahawi, S, Tavel, P, Anderson, LD, Röer, JP, Malinakova, K, Varella, MAC, Karababa, A, Walczak, RB, Ribeiro, G, Sarı, E, Pypno-Blajda, K, Paruzel-Czachura, M, Travaglino, GA, Neta, M, Vaidis, DC, Lu, JG, Tatachari, S, Camgöz, SM, Lockwood, PL, Panagiotis, M, Lin, W, Rathje, S, van Lent, T, Greijdanus, H, Faure, R, Lamm, C, Brick, C, Zhao, X, Aquino, SD, Ulloa, JL, Walker, B, Malecki, WP, Lou, NM, Pizziol, V, Kuzminska, AO, Michael, S, Adıgüzel, A, Karadeniz, G, Yücel, E, Isloi, C, Chwiłkowska, P, Yu, Z, Fay, N, Papaioannou, K, Peker, M, Huang, G, El-Haddad, RW, Verschuere, B, Meier, Z, Vaughn, LA, Albayrak-Aydemir, N, Stieger, S, Çoksan, S, Bijlstra, G, Alves, SG, Hartanto, A, Mallik, PR, Jami, WA, Chen, R, Fellnhofer, K, Marcu, GM, Batalha, L, Kocalar, HE, Vieira, L, Gleibs, IH, Sharifian, MH, Hadjisolomou, SP, Riva, P, Sirota, M, Novak, L, Sorokowski, P, Li, Y, Elsherif, M, Carvalho, CL, de Lima, TJS, Baker, A, Ishii, T, Mifune, N, Miura, A, Ohtsubo, Y, Takahashi, R, Szala, A, Wolfe, K, Özdemir, F, Komyaginskaya, E, Wu, Q, Boncinelli, L, Lin, J, Gupta, R, Vazirian, MH, Hajighasemi, M, Sepehri, A, Peters, K, Emery, C, Collis, H, Henningsen, L, Aglioti, SM, Mirisola, A, Manriquez-Robles, D, Baeza-Rivera, MJ, Salazar-Fernández, C, Paydarfard, S, Dorfman, A, Katzir, M, Ram, H, Butt, MM, Jia, L, Chua, KQ, Ismail, I, WIllinger, D, Siebenhandl, A, Kaminski, G, Bennett, T, Kohl, A, Stevens, L, Flowe, HD, Colloff, MF, Scott, K, Wagner, K, Ingham, MP, Krishnappa, SM, Fabbri, M, Limata, P, Smalarz, L, Eerdmans, RE, Garza, PB, Gaviria, A, Espín, AM, Kovářík, J, Benito-Ostolaza, JM, Galang, RMN, Denzon, EES, Taborda-Osorio, H, Otálora, Y, Aminnuddin, NA, Kaça, G, Boğa, M, Solescu, DM, Balım, S, Bürhan, P, Bilger, D, Liu, L, Kruse, E, Solak, Ç, Akpınar, B, Coşkun, B, Gül, D, Muftareviç, S, Deschrijver, E, Zigdon, I, Krosch, AR, Ilchovska, ZG, Dokovova, M, Daryani, Y, Tome, NL, Görzig, A, Rhoads, SA, Kountouriotis, G, Özçakan, S, Gökdağ, C, Freira, L, Spasovski, O & Dunham, Y 2024 '' PsyArXiv.

Vanags, P, Cutler, J, Kosse, F & Lockwood, P 2023 '' PsyArXiv.

Rhoads, SA, Gan, L, Berluti, K, O'Connell, K, Cutler, J, Lockwood, P & Marsh, A 2023 '' PsyArXiv.