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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#SANS2025 will feature two debates! First Damien Fair will debate Thalia Wheatley about the usefulness of large consortia vs. small bespoke studies, then Mohammad Atari will debate Mark Thornton about caution vs. acceleration in applying AI to social neuroscience!
Finally out Nature Human Behaviour🚨 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/s4156…
For this year's Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences 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!🌶️🔥🥵
We made it through the full line-up from hot ones, including hot sauces >1,000,000 scoville! h/t to Landry Bulls (pictured in the last two photos below) for suggesting the format and doing a lot of the organizing.
Congratulations to my advisor, Luke Chang for receiving the Presidential Early-Career Award!! We’re so incredibly proud of you ✨👏🏻🥹 faculty.dartmouth.edu/artsandscience…
Congratulations to the 2025 APS Spence Award Recipients! 🎉Juan Del Toro, Ph.D. Chaz Firestone Ashley Watts Justin Minue Kim (M. Justin Kim) julia_a_leonard Mark Thornton Professor Gemma Sharp psychologicalscience.org/news/2025-feb-…
Congratulations to @Dartmouth PBS faculty member Mark Thornton and graduate alum Justin Minue Kim (M. Justin Kim) for winning the APS's 2025 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions!
Congratulations to SANS members Mark Thornton and Justin Minue Kim (M. Justin Kim) for winning the APS's 2025 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions!
Honored to be recognized by Association for Psychological Science alongside such a great group of scholars!
Please join us in congratulating #SANS2025 award winners! Mid-career award: Cate Hartley (Hartley Lab) Early-career award: Mark Thornton (Mark Thornton) Both awards will be presented at the Annual Meeting in Chicago (registration open)! socialaffectiveneuro.org/registration/
Congratulations to Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences faculty member Mark Thornton for winning the 2025 SANS Early Career Award!
Our human relationship project (see the past thread below) has now been officially published in Nature Human Behavior nature.com/articles/s4156…. The article PDF can be freely download here rdcu.be/edpa2. We also wrote a behind-the-paper blog communities.springernature.com/posts/mapping-….
Listen to Dartmouth 🌲 senior Taz Mullins speak with Consortium for Interacting Minds 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/3Cycxu…
Listen to Dartmouth 🌲 senior Taz Mullins speak with Consortium for Interacting Minds professor Mark 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/2W1bZu…