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Diana Tamir

@dianatamir.bsky.social
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Psych Professor at Princeton studying how brains think about people. psnlab.princeton.edu

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Sebastian Speer @sebospeer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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
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Sebastian Speer @sebospeer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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-...
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Sebastian Speer @sebospeer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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
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Coupled Minds Lab
Coupled Minds Lab — social neuroscience of conversation, negotiation, and human–AI interaction.
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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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...
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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
📢 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!
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Thanks for your interest in joining our lab! At the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab, we believe that our science is better with a diverse team. We embrace and encourage our lab members’ differences ...
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Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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...
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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 · 11/03/2025
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...
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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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Lei Zhang | 张磊 @lei-zhang.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🚨 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!
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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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...
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Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology
Microsabbaticals at Princeton Psychology provide a several-week-long visit to our department for early-career faculty from groups that are historically under-represented in academia. The program focus...
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Haran Sened @haransened.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
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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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
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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Sebastian Speer @sebospeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
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] 🧵
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Sebastian Speer @sebospeer.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
🧵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...
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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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Nathan Liang @nathanliang.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
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
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Nathan Liang @nathanliang.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
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...
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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
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...
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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
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)
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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
Come do a microsabbatical with us at the Princeton Psychology Department! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...
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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
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...
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Qihong (Q) Lu @qlu.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
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)
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Chris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
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_...
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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
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.
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Jan Feld @econfeld.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Is better writing rewarded in peer review? Our newly published suggests the answer is “Yes”! doi.org/10.1016/j.je... #EconSky 🧵 (1/7)
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Zach Reagh @zreagh.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
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...
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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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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 26/11/2023
Just created my first syllabus that includes a policy on AI assistance. This resource was super helpful: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Syllabi Policies for AI Generative Tools
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Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
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...
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Pete Hitchcock @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social · 25/11/2023
📍 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
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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Now in press at AESP, from @dianatamir.bsky.social & me: "Predicting other people shapes the social mind" doi.org/10.1016/bs.a...
Schematic illustration of the organization of social knowledge, featuring representational spaces for actions, mental states, personality traits, and situations, with predictive links within and between these layers of knowledge.Schematic illustration of how mental state dynamics could give rise to the representational geometry people apply to understand these states.
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ana gantman @anagantman.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
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...
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What is it about film and TV antiheroes that’s so captivating? | Psyche Ideas
They’re entertaining, of course – but research highlights a deeper psychological reason viewers are drawn to the bad guys
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
In a new paper, we examined 11 interventions to address #climatechange beliefs and behavior (M = 59,440 in 63 countries). These findings suggest that the impact of behavioral climate interventions varies across audiences and target behaviors. Read the full paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Do you study thinking? Consider submitting an abstract for a special issue on "Understanding Involuntary Thought and Affect through Big Data and AI" at Technology, Mind, and Behavior tmb.apaopen.org/pub/scmf23rc...
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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Join the Princeton Psych dept this summer as part of our inaugural Visiting Internship for PhD Students (VIPS) program! If you have no summer funding, the approval of your advisor, and matching research interests, consider applying. Deets: psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
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Nathaniel Daw @nathanieldaw.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
One more week to apply for our joint faculty position in Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Computer Science Dept, in neuroAI and intelligent systems, broadly construed. Do you fit? Yes. But feel free to contact me with q's. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Nature Mental Health Recent advances in the neuroscience of spontaneous and off-task thought: implications for mental health #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Recent advances in the neuroscience of spontaneous and off-task thought: implications for mental hea...
In this Perspective, Kucyi and co-authors explore some of the recent developments in neuroscience, including investigations of network dynamics and neural mechanisms that support off-task thoughts, an...
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Investigating Linguistic Alignment in Collaborative Dialogue: A Study of Syntactic and Lexical Patterns in Middle School Students: osf.io/nbw8x
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
On prefrontal working memory and hippocampal episodic memory: Unifying memories stored in weights and activation slots www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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On prefrontal working memory and hippocampal episodic memory: Unifying memories stored in weights and activation slots https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.05.565662v1
Remembering events in the past is crucial to intelligent behaviour. Flexible memory retrieval, beyon
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Diana Crow (aka CatalyticRxn) @dianacrow.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Wow! People spend 30-50% of their time thinking about something other than what they are currently doing. Glad to know it's not just me & excited to dig into this review later. #Neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈 @eriknook.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
New preprint with @HayoungAhn, @jschleiderphd.bsky.social, and @leahsom! We find that language becomes both more psychologically distanced and more *abstract* when regulating emotions. Results nicely align with Construal Level Theory and extend understanding of lang-emotion relations! osf.io/a2zv3/
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Some news: I’m honored to be one of this year’s recipients of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communication! I’m really grateful to the National Academies and Schmidt Futures for this award and recognition. 1/7. www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/11...
National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt award for excellence in science communication -- Neil Lewis, Jr.
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Sense of Self in First-Time Pregnancy: osf.io/cq967
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Brenden Tervo-Clemmens @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Now available at Nature Communications! When do adolescents reach adult levels of executive function? We used FOUR independent datasets (N>10,000), behavioral data from 17 distinct EF tasks, and nonlinear modeling to address this and related questions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Princeton Language and Intelligence Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for people who have recently received or are about to receive a Ph.D. or doctorate degree and work on large AI models! pli.princeton.edu/about-pli/em...
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Impressive new VR & hpc + PFC recording study from Annabelle Singer's Lab: New information triggers prospective codes to adapt for flexible navigation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Mood fluctuations shift cost–benefit tradeoffs in economic decisions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rafael M Batista @rafmbatista.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Apparently ~40% of crowdsource workers use LLMs when completing surveys Relatively simple fix for text responses: Add Javascript to Qs to prevent pasting Credit to Jiabi Wang for idea + Kaushal Addanki for code below github.com/rafmbatista/...
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
The Case for Longtermism: Concern for the far future as a catalyst for pro-climate action: osf.io/9ngmc
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 26/10/2023
For years we have tended to discount activation signals in the white matter as artifact. It's becoming clear now that this was a mistake - white matter shows stimulus-driven activation similar (though much smaller) to gray matter. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37824529/
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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Despite concerns of YouTube's algorithm leading to right-wing rabbit holes, Ibrahim et al. conduct an algorithmic audit and find that the algorithm pulls users away from political extremes and even skews left-leaning doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
Experiment setup. An illustration of the different stages undertaken during our experiment. In the account creation stage, users are designated one of six political classes which denote the class of videos they will watch in Stage 1. In Stage 1, each user watches 30 videos of a given political class. After each video is watched, the videos recommended to them are collected. After Stage 1, each user is designated a new political class, which will denote the class of videos which they will watch in Stage 2. Similarly, in Stage 2, users watch 30 videos of a given political class, and the videos recommended to them are collected. Finally, in Stage 3, each user will watch the top recommended video to them and subsequently, the set of recommended videos after each video is watched is collected.Distribution of recommendations made after watching videos of a particular political class. (a) Proportion of recommended videos falling under each political class after each video is watched, with error bars representing 95% confidence intervals. The proportions of videos falling under each political class after each video watched sum up to 100%. (b) Category distribution of recommended videos after each video is watched, where the proportion of videos falling under each category sum up to 100%. The title of each plot indicates the political classification of the videos being watched.Escaping political personas. The average number of videos watched until the user reaches a point at which the proportion of recommended videos with the new class exceeds that of the original class. For instance, subplot (a) shows the results when Far Left is the original class that the user is trying to escape, as well as the results when Far Left is the new class that the user is trying to enter. A black line indicates that this point was not reached after 30 videos of the new class were watched.Recommendation pathways. Each subplot represents users who watched a particular political class in the first stage. Within each subplot, each vertex represents the political class watched in the second stage. Colored lines represent a switch from one class to another after 30 videos were watched in the third stage, where the color denotes the origin class from which the directed edge is emanating. The numeric value in each vertex represents the number of users which remained within the class (i.e. the number of self-loops). The size of each vertex corresponds to the difference in number of inbound edges and outbound edges. Larger vertices indicate that users are more likely to enter the vertex’s class, while smaller vertices indicate that users are more likely to escape the vertex class.
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