Are you attending hashtag #SPSP2026 in Chicago? Come check out our talks and posters (info in flyer attached)! I am also recruiting grad students and postdocs the next cycle, so please feel free to get in touch early on!!

It’s time yall! I’m excited to co-organize a symposium with @freemanjb.bsky.social at @spspnews.bsky.social this week!! Come by Friday morning (8am, room 450B) to see some amazing talks by phenomenal researchers! @xallysie.bsky.social @chujunlin.bsky.social @whatsinertia.bsky.social #SPSP2026

The computational psych preconference is back @spspnews.bsky.social for a full day! This year's lineup:

👉theory-driven modeling: Hyowon Gweon
👉data-driven discovery: @clemensstachl.bsky.social
👉application: me
👉 panel: @steveread.bsky.social Sandra Matz, @markthornton.bsky.social Wil Cunningham

🚨New preprint with my stellar student Junsong

A Small-World Mind Theory of social cognition doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Big network, close connection🤯

It explains why low-dimensional findings dominate & high-dimensional evidence emerges

Naturalistic designs matter to understanding the complex mind

Thanks Lindsey! 🥺♥️

🚨New Theory of Emotion!! 🚨

Draft of first book chapters out for a new book by Ralph Adolphs👇

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Let Ralph know if you have any comments - thank you!! 🧠🤯 Email: radolphs@caltech.edu

thank you Stephen!

Thanks DongWon!!!

First paper from my lab out @commspsychol.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00275-w

Latent factor models are popular for mental representation of people, e.g. warmth & competence

But we show in naturalistic contexts, more complex representations are needed: high-dimensional networks

Check out our new work with @xallysie.bsky.social, @erichehman.bsky.social, and my student Ruoying on a tutorial for Representational Similarity Analysis! Thanks for the fun collaboration!!

Check out our new TiCS paper! Thanks @freemanjb.bsky.social for the fun collaboration!!

Investigating social impressions in a high-dimensional space could provide valuable insights beyond the compressed dimensions!

Hahaha no problem though was a cute nickname :)

Thanks George!!

Thanks Linsey!! Recognized this is your account by your artworks 😍

Thanks Christian!

Thanks Gavin!!

Aww thanks Nadia!! That sets a very high standard for my postdoc recruitment🤭

Thanks Lindsey! Will miss you too! It will be great to get together if you are around in the next couple weeks! I am very grateful for your support in the past two years - you always answered my questions with incredibly helpful details ❤️🧡I will also be coming back to visit often!!

Thanks DongWon!!!

Thanks Jeni!!

Thank you!!

Thanks Max!!

🥳Excited to share that I am joining Columbia July 2025
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social

Looking for🚨lab managers🚨postdocs🚨grad students! Pls REPOST🙏

We study⭐️person perception⭐️social cognition using experimental, cross-cultural, & computational methods!

App👉shorturl.at/5UVPl
More👉shorturl.at/q18GM

We have a new paper on interpreting regional attitudes out in JPSP, led by Jennifer Suliteanu @jensulite.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
This is her first paper 🫶

Few comments

thanks for your interest! available here: www.its.caltech.edu/~clin7/Publi...

How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences - Nature Human Behaviour In this Stage 2 Registered Report, Lin et al. show that trait impressions of faces are correlated with and causally influence mental state inferences from the same faces.

🚨A four-year making @naturehumbehav.bsky.social with @UmitKeles @markthornton.bsky.social @Ralph Adolphs

Across large sets of mental states, traits, situations, faces, & participants in five continents🌎

face impressions shape mental state attributions in various situations

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Assistant Professor - Computational Mechanisms of Behavior (Department of Psychology) University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

My department, Psychology at UC San Diego, just posted an assistant professor position focused on computational approaches to understanding behavior. Open area search, and more information can be found here: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04049

Excited to announce that the Computational Psychology Preconference is happening again (Feb 20, Denver)!
#SPSP2025

Data blitz submission opens on Sep 5th!

We will have exciting keynote speakers & panel guests! Hang tight for announcement soon!

More details at SPSP website
spsp.org/events/annua...

🚨New preprint with @markthornton.bsky.social on whether & how people update trait impressions of others dynamically based on naturalistic videos!

Using various computational methods, we identified the importance of voice, visual, and semantic info, and the influence of perceivers' characteristics!

🚨Come join us at the Inside the Grant Panel #SPSP2024!

One of my lab's very first projects on🌟understanding the rich representation of stereotypes using naturalistic storytelling🌟has made it to the finalists!

This is an exciting project with my visiting student Yilin Wang!