Mark Allen Thornton: Blog Postings on science, wine, and the mind, among other things. https://markallenthornton.com/blog/ 2023-09-22T12:00:00Z Mark Allen Thornton The Dynamic Origins of Emotion Concepts https://markallenthornton.com/blog/transition-similarity/ 2023-09-22T12:00:00Z Pop summaries of three papers SCRAP Hack Summer '23 https://markallenthornton.com/blog/scraphack-summer23/ 2023-08-14T12:00:00Z Conversation data visualization & sonification Understanding Action https://markallenthornton.com/blog/action-taxonomy-prediction/ 2022-09-06T12:00:00Z How do people conceptualize and predict others' actions? SCRAP Hack Summer '22 https://markallenthornton.com/blog/scrapathon-summer22/ 2022-07-30T12:00:00Z Annotating naturalistic social interactions using deep learning Deep Social Neuroscience https://markallenthornton.com/blog/deep-social-neuro/ 2022-01-27T12:00:00Z Conversation with Beau Sievers about the promise and peril of deep learning FDR Promotes Confounds https://markallenthornton.com/blog/fdr-promotes-confounds/ 2020-12-10T12:00:00Z Exploring a problematic aspect of false discovery rate correction in fMRI Deep Learning the Big Five https://markallenthornton.com/blog/deep-learning-big5/ 2019-11-05T12:00:00Z Compressing personality via scoring, PCA, and autoencoder Management Book Round Up https://markallenthornton.com/blog/management-book-review/ 2019-09-09T12:00:00Z Reviews of 'Creativity, Inc.', 'Peopleware', 'The Manager's Path', 'Making the Right Moves', and 'At the Helm' People as Summed States https://markallenthornton.com/blog/summed-states/ 2019-05-28T12:00:00Z Pop summary of Thornton, Weaverdyck & Tamir (2019) Nature Communications Through the Self, Clearly https://markallenthornton.com/blog/self-other/ 2019-05-13T12:00:00Z Pop summary of Thornton, Weaverdyck, Mildner & Tamir (2019) Nature Communications Seeing the Social Future https://markallenthornton.com/blog/automatic-social-prediction/ 2018-11-05T12:00:00Z Pop summary of Thornton, Weaverdyck & Tamir (2019) Journal of Neuroscience Constructing a 3-dimensional affect dictionary with word vector embeddings https://markallenthornton.com/blog/3daffect/ 2018-08-13T12:00:00Z Constructing a 3-dimensional affect dictionary with word vector embeddings Insights About the Job Market from the PsychJobSearch Wiki https://markallenthornton.com/blog/psychjobwiki/ 2018-06-04T12:00:00Z Scraping and analyzing 8 years of job postings Do Numbers Always Win? https://markallenthornton.com/blog/numerical-advantage/ 2018-04-23T12:00:00Z Analyzing Wikipedia data on troop strengths and losses in 486 historical battles The Structure of Emoji Space https://markallenthornton.com/blog/emoji-space/ 2018-03-26T12:00:00Z Can psychological dimensions explain the semantic similarity between emoticons? Relaunching MySocialBrain.org https://markallenthornton.com/blog/mysocialbrain/ 2018-01-25T12:00:00Z A platform for innovative, interactive online psychology research Writing style by genre https://markallenthornton.com/blog/style-by-genre/ 2017-09-05T12:00:00Z Analyzing 16k user-submitted writing samples to learn how content affects style Using the brain to map our understanding of 'person-space' https://markallenthornton.com/blog/person-space/ 2017-08-23T12:00:00Z Pop summary of Thornton & Mitchell, 2017a&b Family-wise power https://markallenthornton.com/blog/familywise-power/ 2017-08-07T12:00:00Z Multiple comparisons are even worse than you thought! Intuition for other people's emotional dynamics https://markallenthornton.com/blog/mental-markov/ 2017-07-04T12:00:00Z Pop summary of Thornton & Tamir, 2017, PNAS Using spectroscopy to identify bugs that make (or spoil) wine https://markallenthornton.com/blog/wine-raman-classification/ 2017-05-01T12:00:00Z Rodriguez, Thornton, & Thornton (2013, 2017) Reddit retrospective: Conservatives in the election https://markallenthornton.com/blog/conservative-reddit-retrospective/ 2017-02-20T12:00:00Z A data-dive into online Republican sentiment Fly Me to the Mun (and Minmus) https://markallenthornton.com/blog/automated-ksp-mission/ 2017-01-29T12:00:00Z Completely automating a mission in Kerbal Space Program using kOS Who do you write like? https://markallenthornton.com/blog/who-do-you-write-like/ 2016-10-11T12:00:00Z Discover which famous writers match your style using automated text analysis How Long to Wait for a Date? https://markallenthornton.com/blog/date-wait/ 2016-09-21T12:00:00Z Reverse-engineering beliefs about response times in online dating Wine Appellation Flavor Map https://markallenthornton.com/blog/wine-flavor-map/ 2016-08-10T12:00:00Z How close are wine regions in flavor, rather than physical space? Automatically generating wine tasting notes with Markov chains https://markallenthornton.com/blog/wine-markov/ 2016-06-06T12:00:00Z Automatically generating wine tasting notes with Markov chains Introducing MatlabTFCE https://markallenthornton.com/blog/matlab-tfce/ 2016-05-15T12:00:00Z A new package for fMRI multiple comparison correction Swarm simulation https://markallenthornton.com/blog/swarm-simulation/ 2016-03-02T12:00:00Z An interactive simulation of collective animal behavior in swarms/flocks The Open Science Twitterverse https://markallenthornton.com/blog/open-science-twitter/ 2016-02-03T12:00:00Z Analyzing Twitter activity and network structure in a meta-scientific revolution The Changing Words of Wine https://markallenthornton.com/blog/wine-over-time/ 2016-01-07T12:00:00Z Quantifying changes in back label descriptor frequency over time Pop summary of Tamir*, Thornton*, Contreras & Mitchell (2016) PNAS https://markallenthornton.com/blog/tamirthorntonetal-pnas/ 2015-12-01T12:00:00Z Pop summary of Tamir*, Thornton*, Contreras & Mitchell (2016) PNAS Analyzing stylistic similarity amongst authors https://markallenthornton.com/blog/stylistic-similarity/ 2015-08-11T12:00:00Z A quantitative comparison of writing styles fMRI and correlation attenuation https://markallenthornton.com/blog/fmri-reliability/ 2015-06-15T12:00:00Z Why choosing reliable voxels may seem biased, but really isn't Effect sizes from representational similarity analysis are too small https://markallenthornton.com/blog/rsa-effect-size/ 2015-06-05T12:00:00Z Effect sizes from representational similarity analysis are too small The Price of Flavor https://markallenthornton.com/blog/price-of-flavor/ 2015-04-20T12:00:00Z Data on the co-occurrence and cost of wine descriptors Themes in erotic literature https://markallenthornton.com/blog/themes-in-literotica/ 2015-04-17T12:00:00Z Network analysis of tags from 290K stories on Literotica Network centrality demo https://markallenthornton.com/blog/centrality-demo/ 2015-04-13T12:00:00Z Interactive d3 visual demonstration of network centrality Celebrities on the Brain https://markallenthornton.com/blog/celebrities-on-the-brain/ 2015-03-15T12:00:00Z Illustrating MVPA with neural degrees of Kevin Bacon Feeling Close and Giving More https://markallenthornton.com/blog/distance-and-giving/ 2015-02-21T12:00:00Z How psychological distance affects DonorsChoose.org Buying Wine from the Back Label https://markallenthornton.com/blog/wine-back-label/ 2015-02-10T12:00:00Z Using data to decipher winemakers' language Demographics of Sexual Fantasy https://markallenthornton.com/blog/sexual-demographics/ 2015-01-17T12:00:00Z Analyzing the authorship of 290K erotic stories What interests reddit? https://markallenthornton.com/blog/what-interests-reddit/ 2014-12-24T12:00:00Z A network analysis of 84M comments by 200K users Book recommender explained https://markallenthornton.com/blog/book-recommender-explained/ 2014-09-02T12:00:00Z Building a book recommender for Project Gutenberg