Recruiting PhD students for Fall 2027! This fall, I will be starting as an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M, where I will launch the Coupled Minds Lab. We will study how conversation shapes the way people connect, coordinate, and change their minds. Learn more: coupled-minds.github.io

How do people reach agreement on public health issues? Using fMRI hyperscanning + NLP, we found that when conversation partners aimed to compromise rather than persuade, they explored a wider range of mental states and topics — and ended up agreeing more. psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Recruiting PhD students for Fall 2026! The Coupled Minds Lab at @tamu.bsky.social will use a multimodal approach combining fMRI hyperscanning, computational modeling, and natural language processing to study how conversations transform minds. Learn more: coupled-minds.github.io Due Date Dec 1

Come be my colleague! The Department of Psychology at Princeton and @princetonneuro.bsky.social‬ are jointly searching for an Assistant Prof in Cog Neuro. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Strangers chatted once a week for 6 weeks and as they became closer, their self-reported emotions were *less* aligned after conversations. Fits with recent work (by @sebospeer.bsky.social @dianatamir.bsky.social et al) suggesting friends are free to explore and diverge

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How Emotion Contagion Changes as Strangers Become Acquainted: A Longitudinal Conversation Study. From Shelly Tsang, Stephanie Kaiser, Xin Tong, and @adriennewood.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...

📢 The Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab is hiring! 📢 We're seeking a full-time Research Specialist/Lab Manager to study naturalistic conversation, social cognition, and spontaneous thought. More info here: psnlab.princeton.edu/join-us Please apply and share!

Not in my name. If you are a Jewish university affiliate and want to express that cuts to university research do not protect Jews and do not address anti-semitism, consider signing here: forms.gle/prnRbq69a6YN...

Open letter in response to federal funding cuts at Columbia

On March 7th, the Trump administration announced the immediate cancellation of approximately $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University. This includes funding from the Departm...

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If, like me, you (a) oppose research funding cuts to US institutions and (b) are Jewish, please consider signing this open letter: forms.gle/prnRbq69a6YN...

Open letter in response to federal funding cuts at Columbia

On March 7th, the Trump administration announced the immediate cancellation of approximately $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University. This includes funding from the Departm...

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Jeremy Manning@jeremyrmanning.bsky.social · last yr.

The $400M cuts to @columbiauniversity.bsky.social fit squarely into Trump's ongoing attacks on science and the academy. I don't believe that he is protecting Jews or has *anyone's* (except his own) best interests at heart. Everything about him screams Nazi and fascist. www.npr.org/2025/03/07/n...

🚨 SUMMER SCHOOL! Announcing the 2nd Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition, Sep 2-5, 2025. Fantastic line-up of keynote: Matthew Rushworth, Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social, and David Amodio @davidamodio.bsky.social . 👇 Apply by 18 April (compsoccog.com) and RT!

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

New paper (kind of) just out in the British Journal of Social Psychology! In our social lives, we’re constantly trying to infer the opinions and beliefs of others. What should I discuss with a new acquaintance? What kind of food will my guests like? bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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People constantly make inferences about others' beliefs and preferences. People can draw on various sources of information to make these inferences, including stereotypes, self-knowledge, and target-...

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How do we reach agreement? @dianatamir.bsky.social @shannon47burns.bsky.social @falklab.bsky.social @haransened.bsky.social , Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, Lily Tsoi and I just published a preprint on the conversational dynamics supporting agreement. [1/8] 🧵

🧵1/ Ever wondered what makes for a good conversation? @shannon47burns @DianaTamir @falklab @L_MwilambweT, Lily Tsoi and I used fMRI hyperscanning to answer this question by tracking the dynamics of naturalistic conversations Now out in @NatureComms! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Hyperscanning shows friends explore and strangers converge in conversation - Nature Communications

People employ different conversational strategies to establish social connection. Here, the authors use fMRI hyperscanning to track neural and linguistic trajectories during naturalistic conversation ...

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Across two EMA studies conducted during COVID, we find that face-to-face interaction predicts higher short- and long-term wellbeing; face-to-face interaction outperforms virtual interactions in supporting well-being; and voice calling and texting are the best alternatives to face-to-face interaction

Thrilled to share that my first lead-author publication with Sam Grayson, Mia Kussman, @mildner.bsky.social, and @dianatamir.bsky.social is out in Computers in Human Behavior Reports! In-person and virtual social interactions improve well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

Why do we think? @mildner.bsky.social 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/file...

New paper out in Emotion with Elyssa Barrick, @markthornton.bsky.social and Zidong Zhao! doi.org/10.1037/emo0... What makes someone good at predicting others' emotions? 🤔 (1/5)

Come do a microsabbatical with us at the Princeton Psychology Department! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

New paper at Nature Communications from me & @dianatamir.bsky.social! "Neural representations of situations and mental states are composed of sums of representations of the actions they afford" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m pleased to announce our preprint 😃 – Toward a More Biologically Plausible Neural Network Model of Latent Cause Inference. URL: arxiv.org/abs/2312.08519 (1/N)

At NeurIPS this week, led by Caroline Lee in collab w/ Haxby lab: we present the Hyper-HMM, to simultaneously align participants' spatial brain patterns (like hyperalignment) and temporal dynamics (with event segmentation), and align brain events to stimulus features! www.dpmlab.org/papers/8510_...

Very excited to share that this paper with Alex Sanchez, Buju Dasgupta, and Mahzarin Banaji is now out in JPSP: doi.org/10.1037/pspa... and still available as a preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps.... In the paper we ask if (when) positive Black and negative White exemplars shift implicit race bias.

Benedek Kurdi@benedek.bsky.social · 3y ago

Time to share my first preprint here! In this updated preprint with Alex Sanchez, Buju Dasgupta, and Mahzarin Banaji we explore whether (and under what conditions) exposure to positive Black exemplars and negative White exemplars shifts implicit race bias: psyarxiv.com/yxegc.

Is better writing rewarded in peer review? Our newly published suggests the answer is “Yes”! doi.org/10.1016/j.je... #EconSky 🧵 (1/7)

Belated “new paper” thread about a fun project led by @atabk.bsky.social Cortico-hippocampal networks carry information about characters and their relationships in an extended narrative www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cortico-hippocampal networks carry information about characters and their relationships in an extend...

Social information is a centerpiece of human experience. Despite a wealth of research into the way we understand social relationships and how aspects …

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Just created my first syllabus that includes a policy on AI assistance. This resource was super helpful: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Syllabi Policies for AI Generative Tools

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Excited to share our recent work on naturalistic social perception during movie viewing with Lucy Chang and @lisik.bsky.social. Representational similarity analysis revealed that STG and MTG serve as central hubs for naturalistic social processing. biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📍 I'm migrating to Bluesky from the evil empire, so reposting about some recent work📍 psyarxiv.com/agprs Tons of clinical theories & therapies assume mental activities — ruminating, worrying, SIdeating, self-judging, etc. — serve a *function* — ie. are acquired & maintained by consequences 1/2

Now in press at AESP, from @dianatamir.bsky.social & me: "Predicting other people shapes the social mind" doi.org/10.1016/bs.a...

why do we love stories about bad guys? in a piece for Aeon/Psyche, @jowylie.bsky.social and i argue we are filling in our social maps with rich information about the circumstances and history that shape the minds and motives of these characters psyche.co/ideas/what-i...