SCRAP Lab

Social Computation Representation And Prediction Laboratory @Dartmouth. Participate in our experiments online: @OurSocialBrain. Director: @Mark_A_Thornton

[SCRAP Lab @SCRAP_Lab]

New lab preprint! "Advancing naturalistic affective science with deep learning" This review article is a team effort from the whole lab, including @LinChujun, @BullsLandry, @lindseytepfer, @amishavyas_, & @Mark_A_Thornton: https://t.co/lhRBKMoCzX

[Chujun Lin 林楚君 @LinChujun]

👏Check out our exciting speakers for the Computational Psychology Preconference #SPSP2025👏

🚨Remember to submit your data blitz talks by Oct 17!👉https://t.co/MDZkMFPUuq

🌟See you in Denver Feb 20th, 2025!

[Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences @DartmouthPBS]

We're hiring! @DartmouthPBS 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: https://t.co/quwItqAuqA

[Chujun Lin 林楚君 @LinChujun]

🚨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_A_Thornton @TesCharlesworth @william__brady @profbrencho

[SCRAP Lab @SCRAP_Lab]

SCRAP Lab WISP (Women in Science Program) interns Kathy Jia and Tiana Duong present posters at the Wetterhahn Symposium!

[Mark Thornton @Mark_A_Thornton]

As the 2023-24 academic job cycle winds down, I have once again (and for perhaps the last time) scraped the psych job wiki. This year 860 tenure-track jobs were posted, down slightly from last year (897), but still the second-highest number on record.

[SCRAP Lab @SCRAP_Lab]

Congratulations to our @Dartmouth WISP (Women In Science Project) intern Katherine (Kathy) Jia '27 for winning Runner Up at this year's M.A.D. (Made At Dartmouth) Research Video Contest with this submission on her work with @BullsLandry in @SCRAP_Lab: https://t.co/TxpOQRmAqR

[Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences @DartmouthPBS]

More @DartmouthPBS at #SANS2024!

[Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences @DartmouthPBS]

@DartmouthPBS at #SANS2024 with posters from @mahaphanit from @cosanlab and @BullsLandry from @SCRAP_Lab!

[Chujun Lin 林楚君 @LinChujun]

🚨New paper @Mark_A_Thornton & myself🌟how people infer others' traits dynamically from naturalistic videos🌟https://t.co/xCnCVdVpII

Using various #computational tools, we identify importance of vocal, visual, & semantic info & effects of perceivers' moods, attitudes, & traits🧵

[Mark Thornton @Mark_A_Thornton]

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🔓: https://t.co/KWQs2Z7dxE

[William J. Brady @william__brady]

I'll be live tweeting talks starting in ~30 min, tune into #spsp2024 #comppsych

[Mark Thornton @Mark_A_Thornton]

New paper @NatureComms from me & @DianaTamir! "Neural representations of situations and mental states are composed of sums of representations of the actions they afford" https://t.co/ZqWiMLk1uQ

[Mark Thornton @Mark_A_Thornton]

New paper from @ThaliaWheatley, me, @StolkArjen & @lukejchang at Perspectives on Psychological Science!

"The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds"

Read about why we think that this is a particularly auspicious moment for interaction science!

Link: https://t.co/f6EAQgpyLM

[Mark Thornton @Mark_A_Thornton]

This is the most comprehensive investigation ever conducted into how people think about social relationships - a true tour de force! Proud to have made a (very small) contribution to it. Check out Yin's thread for the details! 👇🧵

[Mark Thornton @Mark_A_Thornton]

Now in press at AESP, from @DianaTamir & me: "Predicting other people shapes the social mind" https://t.co/05aFAAN5BW

[Mark Thornton @Mark_A_Thornton]

Submissions for the #SPSP2024 Computational Psychology preconference are now open! Apply by October 18th to present in our data blitz! Submission portal here: https://t.co/HfQmrjSTPT

[Mark Thornton @Mark_A_Thornton]

A short piece from @lukejchang, @jeremyRmanning, @mattmizumi, & me about the motivation behind, our experiences with, and the future of Method In Neuroscience at Dartmouth (MIND; @comp_mind_ss): https://t.co/vpckFbx88v

[Dartmouth Psychological and Brain Sciences @DartmouthPBS]

We're so excited to be searching for TWO new colleagues!

[Mark Thornton @Mark_A_Thornton]

It's happening! There will be a Computational Preconference at #SPSP2024! Keep watching the convention website (and here) for details on schedule, speakers, and how you can apply to present in the data blitz! We're excited to see you in San Diego! https://t.co/67F73JkM7J

[Mark Thornton @Mark_A_Thornton]

That's it for MIND '23! Thanks to this awesome group of scholars for coming to @comp_mind_ss at @DartmouthPBS to learn & share methods for studying Interacting Minds! And for those who couldn't come, stay tuned: we will be releasing the tutorials from this year in a Jupyter book!