Chris Welker
@chriswelker.bsky.social
Postdoc working with Adrienne Wood at UVA • PhD from Dartmouth with Thalia Wheatley • Interested in the dynamics of social interaction and connection
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Excited to ✨share✨ that our paper on ✨sharing✨ is published! Across 3 studies that build on one another, we show that perceived alignment with one's peers increases the likelihood of information sharing.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Perceived community alignment increases information sharing - Nature Communications
Information sharing is a ubiquitous and consequential behavior. Here, the authors use neuroimaging and behavioral studies to show that people are driven to share information that they believe will be ...
www.nature.com
July 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Excited to ✨share✨ that our paper on ✨sharing✨ is published! Across 3 studies that build on one another, we show that perceived alignment with one's peers increases the likelihood of information sharing.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We are excited to announce this year's Shared Reality Virtual Conference happening Wednesday March 12 & Thursday March 13, 2025, between 9:50 AM - 1:10 PM ET!
You can register below to receive the Zoom link! Submit a data blitz anytime until Feb 7.
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
You can register below to receive the Zoom link! Submit a data blitz anytime until Feb 7.
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
January 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
We are excited to announce this year's Shared Reality Virtual Conference happening Wednesday March 12 & Thursday March 13, 2025, between 9:50 AM - 1:10 PM ET!
You can register below to receive the Zoom link! Submit a data blitz anytime until Feb 7.
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
You can register below to receive the Zoom link! Submit a data blitz anytime until Feb 7.
northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Reposted by Chris Welker
Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7
Hidden state inference requires abstract contextual representations in the ventral hippocampus
The ability to use subjective, latent contextual representations to influence decision-making is crucial for everyday life. The hippocampus is hypothesized to bind together otherwise abstract combinat...
www.science.org
November 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Huge congrats to @karyna-mi.bsky.social for her paper published today in Science! She found that the hippocampus is really important for a key strategy we use to make decisions called hidden state inference! 🧪 🧠https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5874 1/7
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I've started working on a (very incomplete!) starter pack for social interaction researchers! If you're working in this space, please asked to be added (or suggest others)! Meant to be inclusive of many disciplines, methods, interaction types, and types of interacting agents: go.bsky.app/44VAEhU
November 14, 2024 at 4:37 AM
I've started working on a (very incomplete!) starter pack for social interaction researchers! If you're working in this space, please asked to be added (or suggest others)! Meant to be inclusive of many disciplines, methods, interaction types, and types of interacting agents: go.bsky.app/44VAEhU
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Now in press at AESP, from @dianatamir.bsky.social & me: "Predicting other people shapes the social mind" doi.org/10.1016/bs.a...
November 24, 2023 at 4:31 PM
Now in press at AESP, from @dianatamir.bsky.social & me: "Predicting other people shapes the social mind" doi.org/10.1016/bs.a...