Honored and humbled by this award. Grateful for the amazing members of the lab -past and present- colleagues and mentors I have had the privilege of working with. Looking forward to #SANS2024!

Congratulations to Luke Chang (Luke Chang) of Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences for winning the first ever SANS Mid-Career Award! Join us at #SANS2024 for his talk "Towards a computational social and affective science" socialaffectiveneuro.org/awards/

Dartmouth's student government held an open "no confidence" vote on the president's handling of campus protests. It passed (no confidence) 13-2 (with 3 abstensions). Then they repeated with a secret ballot. It failed 8-9 (2 abstensions). thedartmouth.com/article/2024/0… 1/2

Dartmouth just replicated Asch’s famous conformity research:

So good to see this out in Nature Comms. Grateful for the excellent reviewers and editor. Also grateful for being able to post our preprint PsyArXiv while the peer review process did its thing.

I’ve been waiting for this paper to come out for ages. Outstanding work from an amazing team.

Super cool new work: 49 participants showed higher neural alignment after discussing movies they just watched. Consensus-building conversation strengthens neural alignment. nature.com/articles/s4146… via Beau Sievers Chris Welker Hasson Lab Adam M. Kleinbaum Thalia Wheatley | Nature Communications

Beau Sievers Chris Welker Hasson Lab Adam M. Kleinbaum Thalia Wheatley Nature Communications Another study just out finds, in 27 pairs of people, that watching movies together synchronizes brain activity, an effect that is further enhanced by conversation. via Sara De Felice Antonia Hamilton Paola Pinti Ilias Tachtsidis @uzhakim & N Gunasekara academic.oup.com/oons/article/d…

So excited that Penny Lane's beautiful movie "Confessions of a Good Samaritan," documenting her donation of a kidney to a stranger, will be screening in select theaters starting June 28th! variety.com/2024/film/news… Variety Sandbox Films

The first full data dump from the DRH DRH, the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of Religion (SCCSR.v1), is now available for download. We plan to update it biannually as our coverage grows. zenodo.org/records/125721…

Extremely chuffed about this new preprint. How does the human auditory system track "pitch motion"? It turns out, it's the same way the visual system tracks motion (🤯)! Come for a NEW auditory illusion, stay for the fMRI & natural speech analysis! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We're hiring! Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences is searching for a new full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor studying social interaction. We're open to a wide variety of methods and perspectives. Review of applications starts Oct 15. Details here: apply.interfolio.com/151749

New paper preprint by Chris Frith Sharing the world - a social aspect of consciousness doi.org/10.31219/osf.i… "Our subjective experience of the environment seems objective and becomes a form of common knowledge of the kind that is critical for successful social coordination"

So excited to introduce this new work from myself, Thalia Wheatley , and meghan meyer (@[email protected]) out now in PNASNews! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Outstanding new piece from Paul Bloom

Thalia Wheatley proposes that conversion is the most sophisticated technology we have. Thanks for an awesome talk! Post keynote questions continues way beyond the coffee break...Thalia Wheatley #icmi2024

What is the Database of Religious History? DRH Our new intro video is visually stunning and gives a broad overview of the project: youtu.be/bkTVIZAwZ4c

YAYYYYYY! A perfect fit for so many reasons! So glad @paulaniedenthal and I got to be part of the journey. Congratulations Sophie!!

The DRH DRH just published v2 of the Standard Cross Cultural Sample of Religion (SCCSR), which adds language tags (useful for controlling for cultural relatedness) and also features an expanded dataset. Check out the release on Zenodo here: zenodo.org/records/149672…

Agreed! My mind is still buzzing. Thanks to Sara Imari Walker & Paul Davies Beyond Center for bringing us all together.