Assistant Professor @Dartmouth & Director of @SCRAP_Lab & @OurSocialBrain. Social neuroscientist studying how people understand and predict other people.
Hanover, NH
Joined September 2012
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New paper from @beausievers & me, now out in SCAN! "Deep social neuroscience: The promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain" Open access link🔓: doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsae014
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Listen to @dartmouth senior Taz Mullins speak with @InteractingMind postdoc @emma__templeton about how people use "insider language" in conversation and forge social connections, as part of the podcast Taz is producing for her senior thesis: open.spotify.com/episode/3Cy…
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Listen to @dartmouth senior Taz Mullins speak with @InteractingMind professor @Mark_A_Thornton about the groundswell of interest in studying interacting minds in social neuroscience, as part of the podcast Taz is producing for her senior thesis: open.spotify.com/episode/2W1…
New preprint! My entry into the ongoing AI empathy discussion:
"Reframing the performance and ethics of 'empathic' AI: Wisdom of the crowd and placebos."
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/zf…
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Our human relationship project (see the past thread below) has now been officially published in Nature Human Behavior nature.com/articles/s41562-0…. The article PDF can be freely download here rdcu.be/edpa2. We also wrote a behind-the-paper blog communities.springernature.c….
I am beyond excited to share a new preprint from my lab ‘The Conceptual Structure of Human Relationships across Modern and Historical Cultures’. We discovered a universal representational space of social relationship concepts. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ut6q…
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We are organizing a Stand Up for Science rally at Dartmouth College!
When: This Friday, March 7th, at 12pm (noon)
Where: Center of the Dartmouth Green
I have always considered SANS to be my "home" conference/society, so I am delighted and deeply honored to receive this year's SANS Early Career Award!
Please join us in congratulating #SANS2025 award winners!
Mid-career award: Cate Hartley (@hartleylabnyu)
Early-career award: Mark Thornton (@Mark_A_Thornton)
Both awards will be presented at the Annual Meeting in Chicago (registration open)!
socialaffectiveneuro.org/reg…
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Please join us in congratulating #SANS2025 award winners!
Mid-career award: Cate Hartley (@hartleylabnyu)
Early-career award: Mark Thornton (@Mark_A_Thornton)
Both awards will be presented at the Annual Meeting in Chicago (registration open)!
socialaffectiveneuro.org/reg…
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Congratulations to @DartmouthPBS faculty member @Mark_A_Thornton for winning the 2025 SANS Early Career Award!
Please join us in congratulating #SANS2025 award winners!
Mid-career award: Cate Hartley (@hartleylabnyu)
Early-career award: Mark Thornton (@Mark_A_Thornton)
Both awards will be presented at the Annual Meeting in Chicago (registration open)!
socialaffectiveneuro.org/reg…
Honored to be recognized by @PsychScience alongside such a great group of scholars!
Congratulations to the 2025 APS Spence Award Recipients! 🎉@DrJuanDelToro @chazfirestone @ashleylwatts @minuekim @julia_a_leonard @Mark_A_Thornton @gemmasharp11
psychologicalscience.org/new…
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Congratulations to SANS members @Mark_A_Thornton and @minuekim for winning the APS's 2025 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions!
Congratulations to the 2025 APS Spence Award Recipients! 🎉@DrJuanDelToro @chazfirestone @ashleylwatts @minuekim @julia_a_leonard @Mark_A_Thornton @gemmasharp11
psychologicalscience.org/new…
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Congratulations to @Dartmouth PBS faculty member @Mark_A_Thornton and graduate alum @minuekim for winning the APS's 2025 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions!
Congratulations to the 2025 APS Spence Award Recipients! 🎉@DrJuanDelToro @chazfirestone @ashleylwatts @minuekim @julia_a_leonard @Mark_A_Thornton @gemmasharp11
psychologicalscience.org/new…
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Congratulations to the 2025 APS Spence Award Recipients! 🎉@DrJuanDelToro @chazfirestone @ashleylwatts @minuekim @julia_a_leonard @Mark_A_Thornton @gemmasharp11
psychologicalscience.org/new…
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Congratulations to my advisor, @lukejchang for receiving the Presidential Early-Career Award!! We’re so incredibly proud of you ✨👏🏻🥹 faculty.dartmouth.edu/artsan…
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Registration for #SANS2025 is now open! Join us in Chicago, April 23-26, for a fantastic program of social and affective neuroscience! Register by March 15 for our early bird rate, and don't forget to renew your membership first too! socialaffectiveneuro.org/reg…
We made it through the full line-up from hot ones, including hot sauces >1,000,000 scoville! h/t to @BullsLandry (pictured in the last two photos below) for suggesting the format and doing a lot of the organizing.
For this year's @DartmouthPBS grad student visiting day, we introduced a new format based on the "Hot Ones" talk show: faculty and current graduate students ate nuggets with a series of increasing spicy hot sauces as they answered questions from prospective grad students!🌶️🔥🥵
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For this year's @DartmouthPBS grad student visiting day, we introduced a new format based on the "Hot Ones" talk show: faculty and current graduate students ate nuggets with a series of increasing spicy hot sauces as they answered questions from prospective grad students!🌶️🔥🥵
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Finally out @NatureHumBehav🚨
Across a large set of mental states, traits, situations, and faces, and participants in five continents🌎
We showed that face impressions shape inferences of others' momentary thoughts and feelings in various situations
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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#SANS2025 will feature two debates! First @DrDamienFair will debate @ThaliaWheatley about the usefulness of large consortia vs. small bespoke studies, then @MohammadAtari90 will debate @Mark_A_Thornton about caution vs. acceleration in applying AI to social neuroscience!
The #SANS2025 Program-at-a-Glance and Preconference workshop information are now both available on the SANS website: socialaffectiveneuro.org/pro…
