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Great write-up from @dartmouth of the launch of the new Consortium for Interacting Minds (@InteractingMind) that @ThaliaWheatley @lukejchang @StolkArjen @keeksanch & I + our awesome students, staff, and affiliated faculty, are building at @DartmouthPBS! home.dartmouth.edu/news/2023…

New preprint from me & @DianaTamir! "The brain represents situations and mental states as sums of their action affordances" We present fMRI evidence that neural representations of situations & states reflect predictions about associated actions. Link: psyarxiv.com/7eskf 🧵👇

I'm very excited to share the results of @SCRAP_Lab's summer '22 hackathon! This video demos some of the hardware and deep learning tools the lab has been working to integrate to allow us quantify different aspects of naturalistic social interactions: youtube.com/watch?v=cn8JHCIe…

Excited about using naturalistic fMRI to study social and affective processes? Join the first ever @SANS_news Naturalistic Data Analysis Challenge! Winners and prizes will be announced during the computational symposium at #SANS2022! Details here: compsan.org/sans_data_compet…

Excited - or worried - about what the rise of #deeplearning might mean for the future of social psychology and social neuroscience? Listen in as @beausievers and I cut through the hype to identify the promise and peril of artificial neural networks: radical.overtonelabs.com/con…

New paper out @affectScience from me, @DrSarahWolf, @Brian_J_Reilly, @slingerland20, & @DianaTamir! "The 3d Mind Model Characterizes How People Understand Mental States Across Modern and Historical Cultures" rdcu.be/cFtP3

New preprint @PsyArXiv from @LinChujun & me! "Fooled by beautiful #data: #Visualization aesthetics bias trust in science, news, and social media." Across 4 studies, we show that people (mis)place more trust in more beautiful graphs. Paper: psyarxiv.com/dnr9s/ Explainer 🧵👇

New paper at JPSP from me & @DianaTamir! "Six dimensions describe action understanding: The ACT-FASTaxonomy" We derive & validate a 6d taxonomy of action concepts across 7 studies w/ text analysis, behavior, & fMRI. Paper: psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-… Preprint: psyarxiv.com/gt6bw/

Today is @SCRAP_Lab's 1st lab-aversary! I am deeply grateful for all that these folks have done over the past year to make the lab a happy, dynamic place to do science. I couldn't be more proud of what we've achieved together so far, or more excited about what's next!

New paper @NeuroImage_EiC from Miriam Weaverdyck, me, & @DianaTamir! "The representational structure of mental states generalizes across target people and stimulus modalities" Paper (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage…

New paper @ScienceAdvances from me & @DianaTamir! "People accurately predict the transition probabilities between actions" Open access: advances.sciencemag.org/cont…

Interested in a PhD in psychology and brain science @dartmouth? Our department has taken steps to make applying easier than ever! These include eliminating the application fee, dropping the GRE requirement, and assembling an FAQ to demystify the process: pbs.dartmouth.edu/menufeatur…

New preprint from me, @milenamr7, & @DianaTamir! "People learn mental state concepts from mental state dynamics" We present evidence that the conceptual structure people apply to understand mental states is shaped by how those states transition over time. psyarxiv.com/kbcsj

Update: we have expanded our cross-cultural research on mental state representation in collaboration with our new co-author, @DrSarahWolf from @JTSVoice. Specifically, we added a fourth society to our historical analyses by analyzing large portions of the Jewish liturgy.

I am thrilled to start working with this fantastic team and with my new colleagues at @Dartmouth! Please give my lab folks a follow if you haven’t already – you’ll be hearing great things from them in the years to come!