Publications
2024 & In Press
Ahn, J., Falk, E. B., & Kang, Y. (2024). Relationships between physical activity and loneliness: A systematic review of intervention studies. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 6, 100141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crbeha.2023.100141.
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Chan, H.-Y., Boksem, M. A. S., Venkatraman, V., Dietvorst, R. C., Scholz, C., Vo, K., Falk, E. B., & Smidts, A. (2024). Neural signals of video advertisement liking: Insights into psychological processes and their temporal dynamics. Journal of Marketing Research, 61(5), 891–913. https://doi.org/10.1177/00222437231194319
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Jacoby, N., Landau-Wells, M., Pearl, J., Paul, A., Falk, E. B., Bruneau, E. G., & Ochsner, K. N. (2024). Partisans process policy-based and identity-based messages using dissociable neural systems. Cerebral Cortex, 34(9), bhae368. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae368
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Hameiri, B., Moore-Berg, S. L., Guillard, C., Falk, E. B., & Bruneau, E. (2024). Perceived victimhood shapes support for interpartisan political violence in the United States. Psychology of Violence, 14(3), 207-217. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000503
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Pei, R., Cosme, D., Andrews, M. E., Mattan, B. D., Carreras-Tartak, J., & Falk, E. B. (2023). Cultural influence on COVID-19 cognitions and growth speed: The role of collectivism. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(12), e12908. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12908
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Speer, S., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Tsoi, L., Burns, S., Falk, E.B., & Tamir, D.I. (In press). Hyperscanning shows friends explore and strangers converge in conversation. Nature Communications. Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/jfvpx.
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Wang, X.*, McGowan, A. L.*, Fosco, G., Falk, E. B., Bassett, D., & Lydon-Staley, D. M. (2024). A socioemotional network perspective on momentary experiences of family conflict in young adults. Family Process. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12995 *Joint contributions
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2023
Andrews, M., Cooper, N., Mattan, B. D., Carreras-Tartak, J., Paul, A. M., Strasser, A. A., Henriksen, L., & Falk, E. B. (2023). Causal effects of point-of-sale cigarette promotions and subjective social status on cigarette craving: a randomised within-person experiment. Tobacco Control. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/tc-2023-058069.
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Andrews, M. E., Pei, R., Lauharatanahirun, N., Paul, A. M., & Falk, E. B. (2023). Social media and the social brain. In R. L. Nabi & J. G. Myrick (Eds.), Emotions in the digital world: Exploring affective experience and expression in online interactions (pp. 94–C5P118). Oxford Academic. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197520536.003.0006
Chan, H.-Y., Scholz, C., Cosme, D., Martin, R. E., Benitez, C., Resnick, A., Carreras-Tartak, J., Cooper, N., Paul, A. M., & Falk, E. B. (2023). Neural signals predict information sharing across cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(44), e2313175120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2313175120
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Cosme, D., Scholz, C., Chan, H.-Y., Doré, B. P., Pandey, P., Carreras-Tartak, J., Cooper, N., Paul, A., Burns, S. M., & Falk, E. B. (2023). Message self and social relevance increases intentions to share content: Correlational and causal evidence from six studies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(1), 253–267. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001270
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Jovanova, M., Cosme, D., Doré, B., Kang, Y., Stanoi, O., Cooper, N., Helion, C., Lomax, S., McGowan, A. L., Boyd, Z. M., Bassett, D. S., Mucha, P. J., Ochsner, K. N., Lydon-Staley, D. M., & Falk, E. B. (2023). Psychological distance intervention reminders reduce alcohol consumption frequency in daily life. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 12045. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38478-y
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Kang, Y., Ahn, J., Cosme, D., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., McGowan, A., Zhou, D., Boyd, Z. M., Jovanova, M., Stanoi, O., Mucha, P. J., Ochsner, K. N., Bassett, D. S., Lydon-Staley, D., & Falk, E. B. (2023). Frontoparietal functional connectivity moderates the link between time spent on social media and subsequent negative affect in daily life. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 20501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46040-z
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Kang, Y., Cakar, M. E., Shumaker, K., O’Donnell, M. B., & Falk, E. B. (2023). Experience similarity, mindful awareness, and accurate interpersonal understanding. Mindfulness, 14(10), 2443–2453. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01859-x. Supplementary Materials
McGowan, A. L., Sayed, F., Boyd, Z. M., Jovanova, M., Kang, Y., Speer, M. E., Cosme, D., Mucha, P. J., Ochsner, K. N., Bassett, D. S., Falk, E. B., & Lydon-Staley, D. M. (2023). Dense sampling approaches for psychiatry research: Combining scanners and smartphones. Biological Psychiatry, 93(8), 681–689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.12.012.
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Minich, M., Falk, E. B., Cooper, N., Cosme, D., Chan, H.-Y., Pei, R., O’Donnell, M. B., & Cascio, C. N. (2023). Neural correlates associated with conformity in adolescent and young adult men. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 60, 101215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101215
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Moore-Berg, S. L., Hameiri, B., Falk, E., & Bruneau, E. (2023). Reducing Islamophobia: An assessment of psychological mechanisms that underlie anti-Islamophobia media interventions. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 26(3), 555–578. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221085832
(data and code on OSF)
Scholz, C., Baek, E., & Falk, E. B. (2023). Invoking self-related and social thoughts impacts online information sharing. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 18(1), nsad013. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsad013
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Zhou, D., Kang, Y., Cosme, D., Jovanova, M., He, X., Mahadevan, A., Ahn, J., Stanoi, O., Brynildsen, J. K., Cooper, N., Cornblath, E. J., Parkes, L., Mucha, P. J., Ochsner, K. N., Lydon-Staley, D. M., Falk, E. B., & Bassett, D. S. (2023). Mindful attention promotes control of brain network dynamics for self-regulation and discontinues the past from the present. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(2), e2201074119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2201074119
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2022
Andrews, M. E., Mattan, B. D., Richards, K., Moore-Berg, S. L., & Falk, E. B. (2022). Using first-person narratives about healthcare workers and people who are incarcerated to motivate helping behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Science & Medicine, 299, 114870. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114870
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Cascio, C. N., Lauharatanahirun, N., Lawson, G. M., Farah, M. J., & Falk, E. B. (2022). Parental education is associated with differential engagement of neural pathways during inhibitory control. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 260. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04152-4
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Coronel, J. C., O’Donnell, M. B., Beard, E. C., Hamilton, R. H., & Falk, E. B.(2022). Evaluating didactic and exemplar information: Noninvasive brain stimulation reveals message-processing mechanisms. Communication Research, 49(2), 268–295. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650219876844
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Drake, A., Doré, B. P., Falk, E. B., Zurn, P., Bassett, D. S., & Lydon-Staley, D. M. (2022). Daily stressor-related negative mood and its associations with flourishing and daily curiosity. Journal of Happiness Studies, 23, 423–438. PDF (data and R code on OSF)
Jovanova, M., Falk, E. B., Pearl, J. M., Pandey, P., Brook O’Donnell, M., Kang, Y., Bassett, D. S., & Lydon-Staley, D. M. (2022). Brain system integration and message consistent health behavior change. Health Psychology, 41(9), 611–620. PDF
Kang, Y., Cosme, D., Lydon-Staley, D., Ahn, J., Jovanova, M., Corbani, F., Lomax, S., Stanoi, O., Strecher, V., Mucha, P. J., Ochsner, K., Bassett, D. S., & Falk, E. B. (2022). Purpose in life, neural alcohol cue reactivity and daily alcohol use in social drinkers. Addiction, 117(12), 3049–3057.
McGowan, A. L., Boyd, Z. M., Kang, Y., Mucha, P. J., Ochsner, K. N., Bassett, D. S., Falk, E. B., & Lydon-Staley, D. M. (2022). Within-person associations among physical activity, sleep, and well-being in situ: Opportunities for whole-person well-being. Iproceedings, 8(1), e39268. PDF
McGowan, A. L., Falk, E. B., Zurn, P., Bassett, D. S., & Lydon-Staley, D. M. (2022). Daily sensation-seeking and urgency in young adults: Examining associations with alcohol use and self-defined risky behaviors. Addictive Behaviors, 127, 107219. PDF
McGowan, A. L., Parkes, L., He, X., Stanoi, O., Kang, Y., Lomax, S., Jovanova, M., Mucha, P. J., Ochsner, K. N., Falk, E. B., Bassett, D. S., & Lydon-Staley, D. M. (2022). Controllability of structural brain networks and the waxing and waning of negative affect in daily life. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 2(4), 432–439. PDF
Parelman, J. M., Doré, B. P., Cooper, N., O’Donnell, M. B., Chan, H.-Y., & Falk, E. B. (2022). Overlapping functional representations of self- and other-related thought are separable through multivoxel pattern classification. Cerebral Cortex, 32(6), 1131–1141. PDF Supplementary Materials
Tsoi, L., Burns, S. M., Falk, E. B., & Tamir, D. I. (2022). The promises and pitfalls of functional magnetic resonance imaging hyperscanning for social interaction research. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16(10), e12707. PDF
2021
Baek, E. C., O’Donnell, M. B., Scholz, C. Pei, R., Garcia, J. O., Vettel, J. M., & Falk, E. B. (2021). Activity in the brain’s valuation and mentalizing networks is associated with propagation of online recommendation. Scientific Reports, 11, 11196. PDF Supplementary Material
Bayer, J. B., Triệu, P., Ellison, N., Schoenebeck, S. Y., & Falk, E. B. (2021).Rejection sensitivity and interaction quality in everyday life. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(12), 3646–3668. PDF Supplementary Materials
Chan, H. Y., Scholz, C., Baek, E., O’Donnell, M. B., & Falk, E. B. (2021). Being the gatekeeper: How thinking about sharing affects neural encoding of information. Cerebral Cortex, 31(8), 3939–3949. PDF
Coronel, J. C., O’Donnell, M. B., Pandey, P., Delli Carpini, M. X., & Falk, E. B. (2021). Political humor, sharing, and remembering: Insights from neuroimaging. Journal of Communication, 71(1), 129-161. PDF Supplementary Material
Dieffenbach, M. C., Gillespie, G. S. R., Burns, S. M., McCulloh, I. A., Ames, D. L., Dagher, M. M., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2021). Neural reference groups: A synchrony-based classification approach for predicting attitudes using fNIRS. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(1-2), 117–128. PDF
Johnson, D. G., Mattan, B. D., Flores, N., Lauharatanahirun, N., & Falk, E. B. (2021). Social-cognitive and affective antecedents of code switching and the consequences of linguistic racism for Black people and people of color. Affective Science. PDF
Kang, Y., Cosme, D., Pei, R., Pandey, P., Carreras-Tartak, J., & Falk, E. B. (2021). Purpose in life, loneliness, and protective health behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Gerontologist, 61(6), 878–887. PDF Supplementary Material
Liu, J., O’Donnell, M. B., & Falk, E. B. (2021). Deliberation and valence as dissociable components of counterarguing among smokers: Evidence from neuroimaging and quantitative linguistic analysis. Health Communication, 36(6), 752-763. PDFfor Deliberation and valence as dissociable components of counterarguing among smokers: Evidence from neuroimaging and quantitative linguistic analysis Supplementary Materialfor Deliberation and valence as dissociable components of counterarguing among smokers: Evidence from neuroimaging and quantitative linguistic analysis
Lydon-Staley, D. M., MacLean, R. R., Falk, E. B., Bassett, D. S., & Wilson, S. J. (2021). The feasibility of an in-scanner smoking lapse paradigm to examine the neural correlates of lapses. Addiction Biology, 26(4), e13001. PDF Supplementary Material
Pandey, P., Kang, Y., Cooper, N., O’Donnell, M. B., & Falk, E. B. (2021). Social networks and neural receptivity to persuasive health messages. Health Psychology, 40(4), 285–294. PDF Supplementary Material.
Parelman, J., Doré, B., & Falk, E. B. (2021). The role of mentalizing in communication behaviors. In M. Gilead & K. Ochsner (Eds.), The neural basis of mentalizing (pp. 579-595). Springer. PDF
Wang, X. Y., Dworkin, J., Zhou, D., Stiso, J., Falk, E. B., Bassett, D. S., Zurn, P., & Lydon-Staley, D. M. (in press). Gendered Citation Practices in the Field of Communication. Annals of the International Communication Association. PDF
Wang, X., Scholz, C., Falk, E. B., & Lydon-Staley, D. M. (in press). Neuroimaging. In E. Ho, C. Bylund, J. van Weert, I. Basnyat, N. Bol, & M. Dean (Eds.), International encyclopedia of health communication. Wiley-Blackwell. PDF
2020
Baek, E., Scholz, C., & Falk, E. B. (2020). The neuroscience of persuasion and information propagation: The key role of the mentalizing system. In K. Floyd & R. Weber (Eds.), Handbook of Communication Science and Biology (pp. 122-133). Routledge. PDF
Doré, B. P., Scholz, C., Baek, E. C., & Falk, E. B. (2020). Health news sharing is reflected in distributed reward-related brain activity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(10), 1111–1119. PDF Supplementary Material
Kang, Y., & Falk, E. B. (2020). Neural mechanisms of attitude change toward stigmatized individuals: Temporoparietal junction activity predicts bias reduction. Mindfulness, 11(6), 1378–1389. PDF Supplementary Material
Lydon-Staley, D. M., Falk, E. B., Bassett, D. S. (2020). Within-person variability in sensation-seeking during daily life: Positive associations with alcohol use and self-defined risky behaviors. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 34(2), 257–268. PDF Supplementary Material
Moore-Berg, S. L., Parelman, J. M., Lelkes, Y., & Falk, E. B. (2020). Neural polarization and routes to depolarization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(46), 28552–28554. PDF
Pei, R., Lauharatanahirun, N., Cascio, C., O’Donnell, M. B., Shope, J., Simons-Morton, B. G., Vettel, J., Falk, E. B. (2020). Neural processes during adolescent risky decision making are associated with conformity to peer influence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 44, 100794. PDF Supplementary Material
Schmälzle, R., Cooper, N., O’Donnell, M. B., Tompson, S., Lee, S., Cantrell, J., Vettel, J. M., & Falk, E. B. (2020). The effectiveness of online messages for promoting smoking cessation resources: Predicting nationwide campaign effects from neural responses in the EX Campaign. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 14, 381. PDF Supplementary Material
Scholz, C., Baek, E. C., O’Donnell, M. B., & Falk, E. B. (2020). Decision making about broad and narrowcasting a neuroscientific perspective. Media Psychology, 23(1), 131–155. PDF
Scholz, C. & Falk, E. B. (2020) The neuroscience of information sharing. In S. González-Bailón, Foucault Welles (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication (pp. 285-307). Oxford University Press. PDF
Scholz, C., Jovanova, M., Baek, E. C., & Falk, E. B. (2020). Media content sharing as a value-based decision. Current Opinion in Psychology, 31, 83–88. PDF
Tompson, S. H., Falk, E. B., O’Donnell, M. B., Cascio, C. N., Bayer, J. B., Vettel, J. M., & Bassett, D. S. (2020). Response inhibition in adolescents is moderated by brain connectivity and social network structure. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(8), 827–837. PDF
Tompson, S. H., Kahn, A. E., Falk, E. B., Vettel, J. M., Bassett, D. S. (2020). Functional brain network architecture supporting the learning of social networks in humans. NeuroImage, 210, 116498. PDF Supplementary Material
2019
Bayer, J. B., Hauser, D. J., Shah, K., O’Donnell, M. B., Falk, E. B. (2019). Social exclusion shifts personal network scope. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1619. PDF Data on OSF
Burns, S. M., Barnes, L. N., McCulloh, I. A., Dagher, M. M., Falk, E. B., Storey, J. S., & Lieberman, M. D. (2019). Making social neuroscience less WEIRD: Using fNIRS to measure neural signatures of persuasive influence in a Middle East participant sample. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116(3), e1-e11. PDF Supplementary Material
Cooper, N., Garcia, J. O., Tompson, S. H., O’Donnell, M. B., Falk, E. B., & Vettel, J. M. (2019). Time-evolving dynamics in brain networks forecast responses to health messaging. Network Neuroscience, 3(1), 138–156. PDF
Coronel, J. C., O’Donnell, M. B., Beard, E. C., Hamilton, R. H., & Falk, E. B. (2019). Evaluating didactic and exemplar information: Noninvasive brain stimulation reveals message-processing mechanisms. Communication Research, 0093650219876844. PDF Supplementary Material
Doré, B. P., Cooper, N., Scholz, C., O’Donnell, M. B., & Falk, E. B. (2019). Cognitive regulation of ventromedial prefrontal activity evokes lasting change in the perceived self-relevance of persuasive messaging. Human Brain Mapping, 40(9), 2571-2580. PDF Supplementary Material
Doré, B. P., Scholz, C., Baek, E. C., Garcia, J. O., O’Donnell, M. B., Bassett, D. S., Vettel, J. M., & Falk, E. B. (2019). Brain activity tracks population information sharing by capturing consensus judgments of value. Cerebral Cortex, 29(7), 3102–3110. PDF
Doré, B. P., Tompson, S. H., O’Donnell, M. B., An, L., Strecher, V., & Falk, E. B. (2019). Neural mechanisms of emotion regulation moderate the predictive value of affective and value-related brain responses to persuasive messages. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(7), 1293-1300. PDF
Kang, Y., Strecher, V. J., Kim, E., & Falk, E. B. (2019). Purpose in life and conflict-related neural responses during health decision-making. Health Psychology, 38(6), 545-552. PDF Supplementary Material
Kranzler, E. C., Schmälzle, R., O’Donnell, M. B., Pei, R., & Falk, E. B. (2019). Adolescent neural responses to antismoking messages, perceived effectiveness, and sharing intention. Media Psychology, 22(2), 323-349. PDF
Kranzler, E. C., Schmälzle, R., Pei, R., Hornik, R. C., & Falk, E. B. (2019). Message-elicited brain response moderates the relationship between opportunities for exposure to anti-smoking messages and self-reported message recall. Journal of Communication, 69(6), 589–611. PDF Supplementary Material
Pei, R., Kranzler, E. C., Suileman, A. B., & Falk, E. B. (2019). Promoting adolescent health: Insights from developmental and communication neuroscience. Behavioural Public Policy, 3(1), 47–71. PDF
Pei, R., Schmälzle, R., O’Donnell, M. B., Kranzler, E., & Falk, E. B. (2019). Adolescents’ neural responses to tobacco prevention messages and sharing engagement. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 56(2S1), S40–S48. PDF
Scholz, C., Doré, B. P., Cooper, N., & Falk, E. B. (2019). Neural valuation of anti-drinking campaigns and risky peer influence in daily life. Health Psychology, 38(7), 658-667. PDF Supplementary Material
Simons-Morton, B. G., Bingham, C. R., Li, K., Zhu, C., Buckley, L., Falk, E. B., & Shope, J. T. (2019). The effect of teenage passengers on simulated risky driving among teenagers: A randomized trial. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 923. PDF Supplementary Material
Tompson, S. H., Falk, E. B., Bassett, D. S., & Vettel, J. M. (2019). Using neuroimaging to predict behavior: An overview with a focus on the moderating role of sociocultural context. In P. K. Davis, A. O’Mahony, & J. Pfautz (Eds.), Social-Behavioral Modeling for Complex Systems (pp. 205–230). John Wiley and Sons, Inc. PDF
Trieu, P., Bayer, J. B., Ellison, N. B., Schoenebeck, S., & Falk, E. (2019). Who likes to be reachable? Availability preferences, weak ties, and bridging social capital. Information, Communication and Society, 22(8), 1096–1111. PDF
Vettel, J. M., Lauharatanahirun, N., Wasylyshyn, N., Roy, H., Fernandez, R., Cooper, N., Paul, A., O’Donnell, M. B., Johnson, T., Metcalfe, J., Falk, E. B., & Garcia, J. O. (2019). Translating driving research from simulation to interstate driving with realistic traffic and passenger interactions. In D. N. Cassenti (Ed.), Advances in Human Factors in Simulation and Modeling. AHFE 2018. AISC(Vol. 780, pp. 126–138). Springer, Cham. PDF
2018
Baek, E. C. & Falk, E. B. (2018). Persuasion and Influence: What makes a successful persuader? Current Opinion in Psychology, 24, 53-57. PDF
Bayer, J. B., Ellison, N. B., Schoenebeck, S. Y., Brady, E., & Falk, E. B. (2018). Facebook in context(s): Measuring emotional responses across time and space. New Media & Society, 20(3), 1047–1067 PDF
Bayer, J. B., O’Donnell, M. B., Cascio, C. N., & Falk, E. B. (2018). Brain sensitivity to exclusion is associated with core network closure. Scientific Reports, 8, 16037. PDF
Bruneau, E., Kteily, N., & Falk, E. (2018). Interventions highlighting hypocrisy reduce collective blame of Muslims for individual acts of violence and assuage anti-Muslim hostility. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(3), 430–448. PDF
Burns, S. M., Barnes, L., Katzman, P. L., Ames, D. L., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2018). A functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) replication of the sunscreen persuasion paradigm. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 13(6), 628–636. PDF
Cooper, N., Tompson, S., O’Donnell, M. B., Vettel, J. M., Bassett, D. S., & Falk, E. B. (2018). Associations between coherent neural activity in the brain’s value system during antismoking messages and reductions in smoking. Health Psychology: Official Journal of the Division of Health Psychology, 37(4), 375-384. PDF Supplementary Material
Falk, E. & Scholz, C. (2018). Persuasion, influence, and value: Perspectives from communication and social neuroscience. Annual Review of Psychology, 69(18), 329–356. PDF
Kang, Y., Cooper, N., Pandey, P., Scholz, C., O’Donnell, M. B., Lieberman, M. D., Taylor, S. E., Strecher, V. J., Dal Cine, S., Konrath, S., Polk, T. A., Resnicow, K., Anh, L., & Falk, E. B. (2018). Effects of self-transcendence on neural responses to persuasive messages and health behavior change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(40), 9974-9979. PDF
Tompson, S. H., Falk, E. B., Vettel, J. M., & Bassett, D. S. (2018). Network approaches to understand individual differences in brain connectivity: Opportunities for personality neuroscience. Personality Neuroscience, 1(e5), 1–12. PDF
Tompson, S. H., Kahn, A. E., Falk, E. B., Vettel, J. M., & Bassett, D. S. (2018). Individual differences in learning social and non-social network structures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(2), 253–271. PDF
Wasylyshyn, N., Hemenway Falk, B., Garcia, J. O., Cascio, C. N., O’Donnell, M. B., Bingham, C. R., Simons-Morton, B., Vettel, J. M., & Falk, E. B. (2018). Global brain dynamics during social exclusion predict subsequent behavioral conformity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 13(2), 182–191. PDF Supplementary Material
2017
Baek, E. C., Scholz, C., O’Donnell M. B., & Falk, E. B. (2017). The value of sharing information: A neural account of information transmission. Psychological Science, 28(7), 851-861. PDF Supplementary Material
Cascio, C. N., O’Donnell, M. B., Simons-Morton, B. G., Bingham, C. R., & Falk., E. B. (2017) Cultural context moderates neural pathways to social influence. Culture and Brain, 5(1), 50–70. PDF Supplementary Material
Cooper N., Bassett D. S., & Falk E. B. (2017). Coherent activity between brain regions that code for value is linked to the malleability of human behavior. Scientific Reports, 7, 43250. PDF
Coronel, J. C., & Falk, E. B. (2017). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Communication Science. In J. Matthes, C. S. Davis, & R. F. Potter (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods (Vol. 15, pp. 1–9). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. PDF
Falk, E. B., & Bassett, D. S. (2017) Brain and social networks: Fundamental building blocks of human experience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(9), 674–690. PDF
Kang, Y. K., O’Donnell, M. B., Strecher, V. J., Taylor, S. E., Lieberman, M. D., & Falk, E. B. (2017) Self-transcendent values and neural responses to threatening health messages. Psychosomatic Medicine, 79(4), 379-387. PDF Supplementary Material
Liu, J., Zhao, S., Chen, X., Falk, E., & Albarracín, D. (2017). The influence of peer behavior as a function of social and cultural closeness: A meta-analysis of normative influence on adolescent smoking initiation and continuation. Psychological Bulletin, 143(10), 1082–1115. PDF
O’Donnell, M. B., Bayer, J., Cascio, C. N., & Falk, E. B. (2017) Neural bases of recommendations differ according to social network structure. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(1), 61-69. PDF
Pegors, T. K., Tompson, S., O’Donnell, M. B., & Falk, E. B. (2017). Predicting behavior change from persuasive messages using neural representational similarity and social network analyses. NeuroImage, 157, 118–128. PDF Supplementary Material
Schmälzle, R., O’Donnell, M. B, Garcia, J. O., Cascio, C. N., Bayer, J., Bassett, D. S., Vettel, J., & Falk, E. B. (2017). Brain connectivity dynamics during social interaction reflect social network structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(20), 5153–5158. PDF Supplementary Material
Scholz, C., Baek, E. C., O’Donnell, M. B., Kim, H. S., Cappella, J. N., & Falk, E. B. (2017). A neural model of valuation and information virality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(11), 2881–2886. PDF Supplementary Material
Vezich, I. S., Katzman, P. L., Ames, D. L., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2017). Modulating the neural bases of persuasion: Why/how, gain/loss, and users/non-users. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(2), 283–297. PDF Supplementary Material
2016
Bayer, J. B., Ellison, N. B., Schoenebeck, S. Y., & Falk, E. B. (2016). Sharing the small moments: ephemeral social interaction on Snapchat. Information, Communication & Society, 19(7), 956–977. PDF
Bingham, C. R., Simons-Morton, B. G., Pradhan, A. K., Li, K., Almani, F., Falk, E. B., Shope, J. T., Buckley, L., Ouimet, M. C., & Albert, P. S. (2016). Peer passenger norms and pressure: Experimental effects on simulated driving among teenage males. Transportation Research Part F, Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 41, 124–137. PDF
Cascio, C. N., & Falk, E. B. (2016). Neuroscience. In K. B. Jensen & R. T. Craig (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy (pp. 1351–1359). Wiley-Blackwell. PDF
Cascio, C., O’Donnell, M. B., Tinney, F., Lieberman, M., Taylor, S., Stretcher, V., & Falk, E. B. (2016). Self-affirmation activates brain systems associated with self-related processing and reward and is reinforced by future orientation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(4), 621-629. PDF Supplementary Material
Falk, E. B., O’Donnell, M. B., Tompson, S., Gonzalez, R., Dal Cin, S., Strecher, V., Cummings, K.M., & An, L. (2016). Functional brain imaging predicts public health campaign success. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(2), 204-214. PDF
Green, A. E., Mays, D., Falk, E. B., Vallone, D., Gallgher, N., Richardson, A., Tercyak, K. P., Abrams, D., & Niaura, R. S. (2016). Young adult smokers’ neural response to graphic cigarette warning labels. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 3, 28-32. PDF Supplementary Material
Kang, Y. K., O’Donnell, M. B., Strecher, V. J., & Falk, E. B. (2016). Dispositional Mindfulness Predicts Adaptive Affective Responses to Health Messages and Increased Exercise Motivation. Mindfulness, 8(2), 387–397. PDF Supplementary Material
Schoenebeck, S., Ellison, N. B., Blackwell, L., Bayer, J. B., & Falk, E. B. (2016) Playful backstalking and serious impression management: How young adults reflect on their past identities on Facebook. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 1475–1487). New York, NY, USA: ACM. PDF
Vezich, I. S., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2016). Persuasion Neuroscience: New Potential to Test Dual Process Theories. In E. Harmon-Jones & M. Inzlicht (Eds.), Social Neuroscience: Biological Approaches to Social Psychology (pp. 34-58). Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. PDF
2015
Cascio, C. N., Carp, J., O’Donnell, M. B., Tinney, Jr, F. J., Bingham, R., Shope, J. T., Ouimet, M. C., Pradhan, A. K., Simons-Morton, B. G., & Falk, E. B. (2015) Buffering social influence: Neural correlates of response inhibition predict driving safety in the presence of a peer. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(1), 83-95. PDF
Cascio, C. N., Konrath, S., & Falk, E. B. (2015). Narcissists’ social pain seen only in the brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(3), 335-341. PDF Supplementary Material
Cascio, C., O’Donnell, M. B., Bayer, J., Tinney, F. J., & Falk, E. B. (2015). Neural correlates of susceptibility to group opinions in online word-of-mouth recommendations. Journal of Marketing Research, 52(4), 559-575. PDF Supplementary Material
Cascio, C. N., Scholz, C., & Falk, E. B. (2015). Social influence and the brain: persuasion, susceptibility to influence and retransmission. Current Opinions in Behavioral Sciences, 3, 51-57. PDF
Cooper, N., Tompson, S., O’Donnell, M. B., & Falk, E. B. (2015) Brain activity in self-and value-related regions in response to online antismoking messages predicts behavior change. Journal of Media Psychology, 27(3), 93-108. PDF ROI Masks
Hyde, L. W., Tompson, S., Creswell, J. D., & Falk, E. B. (2015). Cultural neuroscience: New directions as the field matures – What do cultural neuroscience findings mean? Culture and Brain, 3(2), 75–92. PDF
Falk, E. B., Cascio, C. N., & Coronel, J. (2015). Neural Prediction of Communication Relevant Outcomes. Communication Methods and Measures, 9(1-2), 30-54. PDF Supplementary Material
Falk, E. B., O’Donnell, M. B., Cascio, C. N., Tinney, F., Kang, Y., Lieberman, M. D., Taylor, S. E., An, L., Resnicow, K., & Strecher, V. J. (2015). Self-affirmation alters the brain’s response to health messages and subsequent behavior change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(7), 1977–1982. PDF Supplementary Material Study Stimuli
Konrath, S., Falk, E., Fuhrel-Forbis, A., Liu, M., Swain, J., Tolman, R., Cunningham, R., & Walton, M. (2015). Can text messages increase empathy and prosocial behavior?: The development and initial validation of Text to Connect. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0137585. PDF Supplementary Material
O’Donnell, M. B. & Falk, E. B. (2015). Big data under the microscope and brains in social context: Integrating methods from computational social science and neuroscience. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 659(1), 274-289. PDF
O’Donnell, M. B. & Falk, E. B. (2015) Linking neuroimaging with functional linguistic analysis to understand processes of successful communication. Communication Methods and Measures, 9(1-2), 55-77. PDF
O’Donnell, M. B., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2015). Social in, social out: How the brain responds to social language with more social language. Communication Monographs, 82(1), 31-63. PDF
Simons-Morton, B., Bingham, C. R., Li, K., Shope, J., Pradhan, A. K., Falk, E., & Albert, P. S. (2015). Experimental effects of pre-drive arousal on teenage simulated driving performance in the presence of a teenage passenger. Paper presented at Eighth International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design, Salt Lake City, Utah. PDF
Tompson, S., Lieberman, M. D., & Falk, E. B. (2015). Grounding the neuroscience of behavior change in the sociocultural context. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 5, 58-63. PDF
2014
Falk, E. B. (2014). Mindfulness and the Neuroscience of Influence. In The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness (pp. 387–403). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. PDF
Falk, E. B., Cascio, C. N., O’Donnell, M. B., Carp, J., Tinney, Jr, F. J., Bingham, C. R., Shope, J. T., Ouimet, M. C., Pradhan, A. K., & Simons-Morton, B. G. (2014). Neural responses to exclusion predict susceptibility to social influence. Journal of Adolescent Health, 54(5), S22-S31. PDF Supplementary Material
O’Donnell, M. B., Konrath, S. H., & Falk, E. B. (2014). Big data in the new media environment: Commentary on Mapping collective behavior in the big-data era. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(1), 94-95. PDF
Simons-Morton, B. G., Bingham, C. R., Falk, E. B., Kaigang, L., Pradhan, A. K., Ouimet, M. C., Almani, F., & Shope, J. T. (2014). Experimental effects of injunctive norms on simulated risky driving among teenage males. Health Psychology, 33(7), 616-627. PDF
2013
*Berkman, E. T., & *Falk, E. B. (2013). Beyond Brain Mapping: Using Neural Measures to Predict Real-world Outcomes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22(1), 45-50. PDF *equal author contributions
Cascio, C. N., Dal Cin, S., & Falk, E. B. (2013). Health communications: Predicting behavior change from the brain. In P. Hall (Ed.), Social Neuroscience and Public Health: Foundations of an Emerging Discipline (pp. 57-51). Springer New York. PDF
Falk, E. B., Hyde, L. W., Mitchell, C., Faul, J., Gonzalez, R., Heitzeg, M. M., Keating, D. P., Langa, K. M., Martz, M. E., Maslowsky, J., Morrison, F. J., Noll, D. C., Patrick, M. E., Pfeffer, F. T., Reuter-Lorenz, P. A., Thomason, M. E., Davis-Kean, P., Monk, C. S., & Schulenberg, J. (2013). What is a representative brain? Neuroscience meets population science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(44), 17615-17622. PDF
Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2013). The neural bases of attitudes, evaluation and behavior change. In F. Krueger & J. Grafman (Eds.), The Neural Basis of Human Belief Systems (Contemporary Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience) (1 edition, pp. 71–94). New York, NY: Psychology Press. PDF
Falk, E. B., Morelli, S. A., Welborn, B. L, Dambacher, K., & Lieberman, M. D. (2013). Creating buzz: The neural correlates of effective message propagation. Psychological Science, 24(7), 1234-1242. PDF
2012
Antonucci, T. C., Ashton-Miller, J. A., Brandt, J., Falk, E. B., Halter, J. B., Hamdemir, L., Konrath, S. H., Lee, J. M., McCullough, W. R., Persad, C. C., Seydel, R., Smith, J. & Webster, N. J. (2012). The right to move: A multidisciplinary lifespan conceptual framework. Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research, 2012, 873937. PDF
Berkman, E. T., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Interactive effects of three core goal pursuit processes on brain control systems: Goal maintenance, performance monitoring, and response inhibition. PLoS ONE, 7(6), e40334. PDF
Egol, M., McEuen, M. B., & Falk, E. B. (2012) The social life of brands. Strategy and Business, 68. PDF
Falk, E. B. (2012). Can neuroscience advance our understanding of core questions in communication studies? An overview of communication neuroscience. In. S. Jones (Ed.). Communication @ the Center. Hampton Press. ISBN:9781612890821. PDF
Falk, E. B., Berkman, E., & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). From neural responses to population behavior: Neural focus groups predicts population-level media effects. Psychological Science, 23(5), 439-445. PDF Supplementary Material
Falk, E. B., O’Donnell, M. B. & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Getting the word out: Neural correlates of enthusiastic message propagation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6(313). PDF
Falk, E. B., Spunt, R. P., & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). Ascribing beliefs to ingroup and outgroup political candidates: Neural correlates of perspective taking, issue importance, and days until the election. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367(1589), 731-743. PDF Supplementary Material
Falk, E. B., Way, B., & Jasinska, A. (2012). An imaging genetics approach to understanding social influence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6(168). PDF
Jasinska, A. J., Yasuda, M., Burant, C. F., Gregor, N., Khatri, S., Sweet, M. & Falk, E. B. (2012) Impulsivity and inhibitory control deficits are associated with unhealthy eating in young adults. Appetite, 59(3), 738-747. PDF
Muscatell, K. A., Morelli, S. A., Falk, E. B., Way, B. M., Pfeifer, J. H, Galinsky, A. D., Lieberman, M. D., Dapretto, M. & Eisenberger, N. I. (2012). Social status modulates neural activity in the mentalizing network. Neuroimage, 60(3), 1771-1777. PDF Supplementary Material
2011
Berkman, E. T., Dickenson, J., Falk, E. B. & Lieberman, M. D. (2011). Using SMS text messaging to assess moderators of smoking cessation: Validating a new tool for ecological measurement of health behaviors. Health Psychology, 30(2), 186-194. PDF
Berkman, E. T., Falk, E. B. & Lieberman, M. D. (2011). In the trenches of real-world self-control: Neural correlates of breaking the link between craving and smoking. Psychological Science, 22(4), 498-506. PDF Supplementary Material
Falk, E., Berkman, E., Whalen, D., & Lieberman, M. D. (2011). Neural activity during health messaging predicts reductions in smoking above and beyond self-report. Health Psychology, 30(2), 177-185. PDF Supplementary Material
2010
Falk, E. B. (2010). Communication neuroscience as a tool for health psychologists. Health Psychology, 29(4), 355-357. PDF
Falk, E. B., Berkman, E. T., Mann, T., Harrison, B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2010). Predicting persuasion-induced behavior change from the brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(25), 8421-8424. PDF Supplementary Material ROI Masks
Falk, E. B., Rameson, L., Berkman, E. T., Liao, B., Kang, Y., Inagaki, T., & Lieberman, M. D. (2010). The neural correlates of persuasion: A common network across cultures and media. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(11), 2447-2459. PDF
Spunt, R. P., Falk, E. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2010). Dissociable neural systems support retrieval of how and why action knowledge. Psychological Science, 21(11), 1593-1598. PDF Supplementary Material