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Dr. Mark Thornton is an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Director of the SCRAP Lab. His research interests lie in social prediction, focusing on how individuals anticipate the thoughts, feelings, and actions of others. He employs a multidisciplinary approach, including fMRI, computational modeling, behavioral experiments, and web techniques, to uncover the principles behind our social knowledge and predictive abilities. Visit his online platform, mysocialbrain.org, to participate in research and explore his findings through accessible blog summaries of his research papers. Dr. Thornton holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree from Princeton University, with a background in social cognitive and affective neuroscience.
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