Mark Thornton
@mark_a_thornton
Assistant Professor @Dartmouth & Director of @SCRAP_Lab & @OurSocialBrain. Social neuroscientist studying how people understand and predict other people.
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Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences undergraduate researchers present posters on their work at the Wetterhahn Symposium!
Some very exciting news... after many, many, winter beards, I'm overjoyed to be joining sunny UCSD Psychology as an Asst Prof in Jan 2025! Looking to recruit folks interested in doing some fun science, while building some cool (and useful) toys! Details: eshinjolly.com/lab/
Our PrePrint unveiling the *new* short form social discounting task is out: "Development and Validation of the Social Discounting Task – Short Form" osf.io/preprints/psya… via Center for Open Science. Huge thanks to mentors/co-authors Annie Wilson at The Wharton School & Abigail Marsh at Psychology @ Georgetown!
Congratulations to our new Directors-at-Large, Dr. Caroline Charpentier, Oriel FeldmanHall, Eshin Jolly, & Yuan Chang Leong! We're excited to have you join the SANS Board (socialaffectiveneuro.org/about/)! And thank you so much to all who ran and voted in our latest election!
Why do we think? Judith Mildner and I answer this question by analyzing the dynamics of thousands of spontaneous thought streams. We test two functions of spontaneous thought: optimizing memory and keeping the mind focused on ongoing goal pursuits. (1/5) psnlab.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/…
I'm officially a psychologist!! Excited for my very first paper that's purely behavior (no neuroimaging), led by Moriah Stendel and with John Clithero on computational modeling of self-enhancement in social comparisons linked to mental health. osf.io/ke2h4
Excited to share a new paper, with Maggie Harrington, Cinoo Lee & Jennifer Eberhardt! Out now in Scientific Reports: Observers of social media discussions about racial discrimination condemn denial but also adopt it. A thread nature.com/articles/s4159…
🚨Excited to announce that our Computational Psychology Preconference will be live again! #SPSP2025 🚨Data blitz submissions open on Sep 5th! We will be announcing exciting keynote speakers and panel guests soon! Mark Thornton Dr. Tessa Charlesworth William J. Brady Brent Hughes
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
Our colleagues in the Dartmouth 🌲 Cognitive Science Program are searching for a tenure-track assistant professor who does research at the intersection of natural and artificial intelligence. Details here: apply.interfolio.com/152809
I am recruiting 🚨grad students🚨postdocs🚨visiting scholars🚨for 2025! My lab UC San Diego study⭐️person perception⭐️social cognition⭐️using experimental, cross-cultural, computational methods & more! 👉Lab: shorturl.at/kq4qu 👉Grad (DDL Dec 4): shorturl.at/NSkoU
#SPSP2025 Preconf⭐️Computational Psychology⭐️ Submission is now open (DDL Oct 17)! We are accepting data blitz talks! Looking forwards to your submissions! 👉shorturl.at/zXNlT Mark Thornton Dr. Tessa Charlesworth William J. Brady Brent Hughes
🧵1/ Ever wondered what makes for a good conversation? Shannon Burns, PhD Diana Tamir Communication Neuroscience Lab Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, Lily Tsoi and I used fMRI hyperscanning to answer this question by tracking the dynamics of naturalistic conversations. Now out in Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s41467…