#37 - Mark A Thornton: Mapping Our Social Worlds with Neuroscience

Curious Apes

Today I’m joined by Dartmouth social neuroscientist, Mark Thornton. I was drawn to Mark due to my interest in work he did with Princeton's Diana Tamir around what is known as the MAPP–the Multilayer Atlas of Person Prediction.

As the name suggests, this MAPP attempts to combine the many social theories that have been developed over scientific history and condense them into a set of related coordinate systems. These coordinate systems track social information such as actions, mental states, personality traits, situations, and relationships. And by combining the coordinate map we make for each of these domains, we can enhance our ability to predict the social world we occupy.

See the research on the MAPP at: http://markallenthornton.com/cv/TamirThornton_TiCS_2018.pdf

Or find more of Mark's work at his Scrap Lab

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