Thalia Wheatley
ProfessorLincoln Filene Professor in Human RelationsDirector, Dartmouth Social Systems LaboratoryExternal faculty, Santa Fe Institute
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Lincoln Filene Professor in Human Relations
Director, Dartmouth Social Systems Laboratory
External faculty, Santa Fe Institute
Department(s):
Center for Social Brain Sciences
Cognitive Science
Psychological and Brain Sciences
Education:
B.A. University of Texas at Austin
M.A. University of Virginia
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Health
Selected Publications
Parkinson, C., Kleinbaum, A., & Wheatley, T. (2018). Similar neural responses predict friendship. Nature Communications, 9:332.
Parkinson, C., Kleinbaum, A., & Wheatley, T. (2017). Spontaneous neural encoding of social network position. Nature Human Behavior, 1, 1-7
Kang, O.E. & Wheatley, T. (2017). Pupil dilation patterns spontaneously synchronize across individuals during shared attention. JEP: General, 146, 569-576
Parkinson, C., & Wheatley, T. (2015). The repurposed social brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, 133-141
Parkinson, C., Liu, S., & Wheatley, T. (2014). A common cortical metric for spatial, temporal and social distance. Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 1979-1987
Sievers, B., Polansky, L., Casey, M., & Wheatley, T. (2013). Music and movement share a dynamic structure that supports universal expressions of emotion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (direct submission), 110, 70-75
Parkinson, C. & Wheatley, T. (2012). Relating anatomical and social connectivity: White matter microstructure predicts emotional empathy. Cerebral Cortex, 24, 614–625.
Wheatley, T., Kang, O., Parkinson, C.M., & Looser, C.E. (2012). From mind perception to mental connection: Synchrony as a mechanism for social understanding. Social Psychology and Personality Compass, 6, 589-606
Parkinson, C., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Koralus, P., Mendelovici, A., McGeer, V., and Wheatley, T. (2011). Is morality unified? Evidence that distinct neural systems underlie judgments of harm, dishonesty, and disgust. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 3162-3180.
Looser, C.E., and Wheatley, T. (2010). The tipping point of animacy: How, when, and where we perceive life in a face. Psychological Science, 24, 1854-1862. [“News of the Week”, Science, 331,19].
Wheatley, T., Milleville, S., & Martin, A. (2007). Understanding animate agents: Distinct roles for the ‘social network’ and ‘mirror system’. Psychological Science, 18, 469-474
Wheatley, T., & Haidt, J. D. (2005). Hypnotic disgust makes moral judgments more severe. Psychological Science, 16, 780-784
Wegner, D. M., & Wheatley, T. (1999). Apparent mental causation: Sources of the experience of will. American Psychologist, 54, 480-492
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