2024, manuscripts in press, & preprints
Guassi Moreira, J. & Parkinson, C. (In press). A behavioral signature for quantifying the social value of interpersonal relationships with specific others. Communications Psychology.
Thompson, J. & Parkinson, C. (2024). Interactions between neural representations of the social and spatial environment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1912), 20220522. [pdf]
Schwyck, M. E.*, Du, M.*, Li, Y., Chang, L. J., & Parkinson, C. (2024) Similarity among friends serves as a social prior: The assumption that "birds of a feather flock together" shapes social decisions and relationship beliefs. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50(6), 823-840. [*Co-first authors] [pdf]
Baek, E. C., Hyon, R., López, K., Porter, M. A., & Parkinson, C. Perceived community alignment increases information sharing. [preprint]
2023
Baek, E. C., Hyon, R., López, K., Du, M., Porter, M. A., & Parkinson, C. (2023) Lonely individuals process the world in idiosyncratic ways. Psychological Science, 34(6) 683-695. [pdf]
Schwyck, M. E., Du, M., Natarajan, P., Chwe, J. A., & Parkinson, C. (2023). Neural encoding of novel social networks: Evidence that perceivers prioritize others' centrality. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 18(1), 1–10. [pdf]
2022
Basyouni, R. & Parkinson, C. (2022). Mapping the social landscape: Tracking patterns of interpersonal relationships. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(2), 204–221. [pdf]
Baek, E. C., Hyon, R., López, K., Finn, E. S., Porter, M. A., & Parkinson, C. (2022). In-degree centrality in a social network is linked to coordinated neural activity. Nature Communications, 13, 1118. [pdf]
Hyon, R., Chavez, R. S., Chwe, J. A., Wheatley, T., Kleinbaum, A. M., & Parkinson, C. (2022). White matter connectivity in brain systems supporting social and affective processing predicts real-world social network characteristics. Communications Biology, 5, 1048. [pdf]
Baek, E. C. & Parkinson, C. (2022). Shared understanding and social connection: Integrating approaches from social psychology, social network analysis, and neuroscience. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16(11), e12710. [pdf]
Rosenfeld, D. L., Balcetis, E., Bastian, B., Berkman, E. T., Bosson, J. K., Brannon, T. N., Burrow, A. L., Cameron, C. D., Chen, S., Cook, J. E., Crandall, C., Davidai, S., Dhont, K., Eastwick, P. W., Gaither, S. E., Gangestad, S. W., Gilovich, T., Gray, K. J., Haines, E. L., Haselton, M. G., Haslam, N. O., Hodson, G., Hogg, M. A., Hornsey, M., Huo, Y. J., Joel, S., Kachanoff, F., Kraft-Todd, G., Leary, M. R., Ledgerwood, A., Lee, R. T., Loughnan, S., MacInnis, C., Mann, T., Murray, D., Parkinson, C., Perez, E., Pyszczynski, T., Ratner, K., Rothgerber, H., Rounds, J., Schaller, M., Silver, R. C., Spellman, B. A., Strohminger, N., Swim, J. K., Urganci, B., Vandello, J., Volz, S., Zayas, V., & Tomiyama, A. J. (2022). Psychological science in the wake of COVID-19: Social, methodological, and meta-scientific considerations. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17, 311–333. [pdf]
Alt, N. A., Parkinson, C., Kleinbaum, A. M., & Johnson, K. L. (2022). The face of social networks: Naïve observers’ accurate assessment of others’ social network positions from faces. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(1), 118-126. [pdf]
Guassi Moreira, J., Sahi, R., Ninova, E., Parkinson, C., & Silvers, J. (2022). Performance and belief-based emotion regulation capacity and tendency: Mapping links with cognitive flexibility and perceived stress. Emotion, 22, 653–668. [pdf]
Matz, S. C., Hyon, R., Baek, E. C., Parkinson, C.*, & Cerf, M.* (2022). Personality similarity predicts synchronous neural responses in fMRI and EEG data. Scientific Reports, 12, 14325. [*Co-senior authors] [pdf]
Baek E. C., Hyon R., Porter M. A. & Parkinson, C. (2022) How do our brains support our friendships? Frontiers for Young Minds, 10, 640262. [Note: This article was written to introduce new scientific ideas to young audiences] [pdf]
2021
Du, M. & Parkinson, C. (2021). Navigating social knowledge. Nature Neuroscience, 24, 1195–1197. [pdf]
Parkinson, C. (2021). Computational methods in social neuroscience: Recent advances, new tools, and future directions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(8), 739–744. [pdf]
Baek, E., Porter, M. A., & Parkinson, C. (2021). Social network analysis for social neuroscientists. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(8), 883–901. [pdf]
Sievers, B., Parkinson, C., Kohler, P. J., Hughes, J., Fogelson, S. V., & Wheatley, T. (2021). Visual and auditory brain areas share a representational structure that supports emotion perception. Current Biology, 31(23), 5192-5203. [pdf]
Sahi, R. S.*, Schwyck, M. E.*, Parkinson, C., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2021). Having more virtual interaction partners during COVID-19 physical distancing measures may benefit mental health. Scientific Reports, 11(1): 18273. [*Co-first authors] [pdf]
Du, M., Basyouni, R., & Parkinson C. (2021). How does the brain navigate knowledge of social relations? Testing for shared neural mechanisms for shifting attention in space and social knowledge. NeuroImage, 235, 118019. [pdf]
2020
Hyon, R., Youm, Y., Kim, J., Chey, J., Kwak, S., & Parkinson, C. (2020). Similarity in functional brain connectivity at rest predicts interpersonal closeness in the social network of an entire village. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(52), 33149–33160. [pdf]
Parkinson, C., Wheatley, T., & Kleinbaum, A. M. (2020). The Neuroscience of Social Networks. In R. Light & J. Moody (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Network Analysis, pp. 496–515. New York: Oxford University Press.
Weaverdyck [Schwyck], M. E., Lieberman, M. D., & Parkinson, C. (2020). Multivoxel pattern analysis in fMRI: A practical introduction for social and affective neuroscientists. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15, 487–509. [pdf]
Parkinson, C. & Du, M. (2020). How does the brain infer hidden social structures? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, 497-498. [pdf]
Hyon, R., Kleinbaum, A. M., & Parkinson, C. (2020). Social network proximity predicts similar trajectories of psychological states: Evidence from multi-voxel spatiotemporal dynamics. NeuroImage, 216, 116492. [pdf]
2018
Weaverdyck [Schwyck], M. E. & Parkinson, C. (2018). Neural representation of social networks. Current Opinion in Psychology, 24, 58-66. [pdf]
Parkinson, C. (2018). Emotion in the Social World. In A. S. Fox, R. C. Lapate, A. J. Shackman, & R. J. Davidson (Eds.), The Nature of Emotion: Fundamental Questions (2nd Edition), pp. 222-225. New York: Oxford University Press.
Parkinson, C., Kleinbaum, A. M., & Wheatley, T. (2018). Similar neural responses predict friendship. Nature Communications, 9, 332. [pdf] [Supplementary Information] [TiCS Spotlight: 'Birds of a Feather Synchronize Together']
2017
Parkinson, C., Kleinbaum, A. M., & Wheatley, T. (2017). Spontaneous neural encoding of social network position. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 72. [pdf] [Supplementary Information] [NHB News & Views: 'Neuroscience: Social networks in the brain'] [TiCS Spotlight: 'How does social network position influence prosocial behavior?']
Parkinson, C., Walker, T., Memmi, S., & Wheatley, T. (2017). Emotions are understood from biological motion across remote cultures. Emotion, 17(3), 459-477. [pdf]
2016
Parkinson, C. & Wheatley, T. (2016). Reason for optimism: How a shifting focus on neural population codes is moving cognitive neuroscience beyond phrenology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, e126. [pdf]
2015
Parkinson, C. & Wheatley, T. (2015). The repurposed social brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, 133-141. [pdf]
Christian, B. M., Parkinson, C., Macrae, C. N., Miles, L. K., & Wheatley, T. (2015). When imagining yourself in pain, visual perspective matters: the neural and behavioral correlates of simulated sensory experiences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 866–875. [pdf]
2014
Parkinson, C., Liu, S., & Wheatley, T. (2014). A common cortical metric for spatial, temporal, and social distance. Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 1979–1987. [pdf]
Parkinson, C., & Wheatley, T. (2014). Relating anatomical and social connectivity: White matter microstructure predicts emotional empathy. Cerebral Cortex, 24, 614–625. [pdf]
2013
Parkinson, C., & Wheatley, T. (2013). Old cortex, new contexts: Re-purposing spatial perception for social cognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 645. [pdf]
Christian, B. M., Miles, L. K., Parkinson, C., & Macrae, C. N. (2013). Visual perspective and the characteristics of mind wandering. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 699. [pdf]
2012
Parkinson, C., Kohler, P., Sievers, B., & Wheatley, T. (2012). Associations between auditory pitch and visual elevation do not depend on language: Evidence from a remote population. Perception, 41, 854–861. [pdf]
Wheatley, T., Kang, O., Parkinson, C., & Looser, C. (2012). From mind perception to mental connection: Synchrony as a mechanism for social understanding. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6, 589–606. [pdf]
Parkinson, C. & Wheatley, T. (2012). Intention. In V. S. Ramachandran (Editor-in-Chief), Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (2nd Edition, pp. 452–457). San Diego, CA: Elsevier. [pdf]
2011
Parkinson, C., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Koralus, P., Mendelovici, A., McGeer, V., & 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. [pdf]