Publications
Preprints
Baek, E.C., Hyon, R., López, K., Porter, M.A., & Parkinson, C. (preprint; R&R). Perceived community alignment increases information sharing. Link
Chan, H., Scholz, C., Baek, E.C., & Falk, E.B. (preprint). The gap between sharing and reading news on social media: A multi-method investigation. Link
Baek, E.C., Tamir, D.I., & Falk, E.B. (preprint). Considering others’ mental states causally increases feelings of social bonding and information sharing. Link
2024 & In Press
* denotes student/trainee supervised in the lab
*Babur, B. & Baek, E.C. (in press). Neuroscience of social connection and subjective well-being. In J. Maddux (Ed.), Subjective Well-Being: A Social Psychological Perspective (Frontiers of Social Psychology), New York: Routledge.
Baek, E. C. & Parkinson, C. (in press). Computational social neuroscience. In J. Chiao (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Social and Affective Neuroscience, New York: Oxford University Press.
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. Link | Data | Code | Stimuli
Scholz, C., Baek, E.C., & Falk, E.B. (2023). Invoking self-related and social thoughts impacts online information sharing. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 18(1), nsad013. Link
Kim, H., Kwak, S., Baek, E.C., Baldina, E., Youm, Y., & Chey, J. (2023). Brain connectivity during social exclusion differs depending on intimacy with rejecters among older adults living in a village, 18(1), nsad015. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Link
2022
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, e12710. Link
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. Link | Data | Code | Stimuli
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. Link
Baek, E.C., Hyon, R., Porter, M.A., & Parkinson, C. (2022). How do our brains support our real-life friendships. Link
Note: This article is written for young audiences (pre-teens and teens).
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 recommendations. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 11196. Link
Chang, H.Y., Scholz, C., Baek, E.C., 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. Link
2020
Baek, E.C., Porter, M.A., & Parkinson, C. (2020). Social network analysis for social neuroscientists. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16, 883-901. Link | Tutorials
Baek, E.C., Scholz, C., & Falk, E.B. (2020). The neuroscience of persuasion and information propagation: Key role of the mentalizing system. In K. Floyd & R. Weber (Eds.), Handbook of Communication Science and Biology. Routledge.
Doré, B.P., Scholz, C., Baek, E.C., & Falk, E.B. (2020). Population sharing of health news information is reflected in a distributed neural index of value. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(10), 1111-1119. Link
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. Link
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. Link
2019
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 predicts population information sharing by capturing consensus judgments of value. Cerebral Cortex, 29(7). Link
2018
Baek, E.C. & Falk, E.B. (2018). Persuasion and Influence: What makes a successful persuader? Current Opinion in Psychology, 24, 53-57. Link
2017
+Baek, E.C., +Scholz, C., O’Donnell M.B., & Falk, E.B. (2017). Neural correlates of selecting and sharing information. Psychological Science, 28(7), 851-861. Link | Data & Code +equal author contributions
+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, 114(11), 2881-2886. Link | Data & Code +equal author contributions