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Thalia Wheatley publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thalia Wheatley sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 84 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Thalia Wheatley D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thalia Wheatley sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thalia Wheatley is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and primarily works within the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their research focuses on cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology, with additional contributions to developmental and educational psychology as well as sociology and political science.

Their work explores a range of topics that include:

  • Action observation and synchronization
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and music perception
  • Child and animal learning development
  • Cultural differences and values
  • Olfactory and sensory function studies
  • Language, discourse, and communication strategies

Thalia Wheatley has published articles in several prominent venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Cognitive Science
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wheatley cover topics mainly related to social interaction and cognitive processes. Notable examples are:

  • "The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds," 2023, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Fast response times signal social connection in conversation," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention in conversation," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences," 2023, Cognitive Science
  • "Long gaps between turns are awkward for strangers but not for friends," 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Wheatley frequently collaborates with a group of researchers in related fields. Regular co-authors include Adam M. Kleinbaum, Emma Templeton, Sophie Wohltjen, Christopher Welker, and Meghan L. Meyer.

Best Publications

  • Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting.

    Daniel T. Gilbert;Elizabeth C. Pinel;Timothy D. Wilson;Stephen J. Blumberg

  • Apparent mental causation. Sources of the experience of will.

    Daniel M. Wegner;Thalia Wheatley

  • Hypnotic Disgust Makes Moral Judgments More Severe

    Thalia Wheatley;Jonathan Haidt

  • Focalism: a source of durability bias in affective forecasting.

    Timothy D. Wilson;Thalia Wheatley;Jonathan M. Meyers;Daniel T. Gilbert

  • Similar neural responses predict friendship.

    Carolyn Parkinson;Adam M. Kleinbaum;Thalia Wheatley

  • Music and movement share a dynamic structure that supports universal expressions of emotion

    Beau Sievers;Larry Polansky;Michael A. Casey;Thalia Wheatley

  • Understanding Animate Agents Distinct Roles for the Social Network and Mirror System

    Thalia Wheatley;Shawn C. Milleville;Alex Martin

  • The neural basis of implicit moral attitude--an IAT study using event-related fMRI.

    Qian Luo;Marina Nakic;Thalia Wheatley;Rebecca Richell

  • The Tipping Point of Animacy How, When, and Where We Perceive Life in a Face

    Christine E. Looser;Thalia Wheatley

  • A common cortical metric for spatial, temporal, and social distance.

    Carolyn Parkinson;Shari Liu;Thalia Wheatley

  • Rapid dissonant grunting, or, but why does music sound the way it does?

    Beau R. Sievers;Thalia Wheatley

  • Spontaneous neural encoding of social network position

    Carolyn Parkinson;Adam M. Kleinbaum;Thalia Wheatley

  • Is morality unified? evidence that distinct neural systems underlie moral judgments of harm, dishonesty, and disgust

    Carolyn Parkinson;Walter Sinnott-Armstrong;Philipp E. Koralus;Angela Mendelovici

  • Automatic Priming of Semantically Related Words Reduces Activity in the Fusiform Gyrus

    Thalia Wheatley;Jill Weisberg;Michael S. Beauchamp;Alex Martin

  • From Mind Perception to Mental Connection: Synchrony as a Mechanism for Social Understanding

    Thalia Wheatley;Olivia Kang;Carolyn Parkinson;Christine E. Looser

  • Pupil dilation dynamics track attention to high-level information.

    Olivia E. Kang;Katherine E. Huffer;Thalia P. Wheatley

  • Prevalence-induced concept change in human judgment.

    David E. Levari;Daniel T. Gilbert;Timothy D. Wilson;Beau Sievers

  • When to Fire: Anticipatory Versus Postevent Reconstrual of Uncontrollable Events

    Timothy D. Wilson;Thalia P. Wheatley;Jaime L. Kurtz;Elizabeth W. Dunn

  • Old cortex, new contexts: re-purposing spatial perception for social cognition.

    Carolyn Parkinson;Thalia Wheatley

  • Apparent mental causation

    Daniel M. Wegner;Thalia Wheatley

  • Data-Driven Methods to Diversify Knowledge of Human Psychology

    Rachael E. Jack;Carlos Crivelli;Thalia Wheatley

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter U. Tse
Peter U. Tse Dartmouth College
Timothy D. Wilson
Timothy D. Wilson University of Virginia
Daniel T. Gilbert
Daniel T. Gilbert Harvard University
Daniel M. Wegner
Daniel M. Wegner Harvard University
Alex Martin
Alex Martin National Institutes of Health
Paul E. Holtzheimer
Paul E. Holtzheimer Dartmouth College
Todd F. Heatherton
Todd F. Heatherton Dartmouth College
Ying-yi Hong
Ying-yi Hong Chinese University of Hong Kong
Kurt Gray
Kurt Gray University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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