Internship opportunity in the Coupled Minds Lab

How do minds wander in new directions in conversation? How do we negotiate meaning and compromise when our paths diverge? And what happens when one of those minds belongs to a machine?

We study how people explore ideas, align opinions, and resolve conflict through conversation. Our work integrates fMRI hyperscanning, natural language processing, and computational modeling to understand how human (or artificial) minds become coupled in naturalistic interactions.

We are also extending this work to examine how conversation dynamics change across different internal states, social contexts, and clinical populations. For example, we are interested in how substances such as alcohol may alter interpersonal alignment and exploration; how contexts such as dating shape the way people coordinate, disclose, and evaluate one another; and how these dynamics unfold in populations characterized by social difficulties, such as individuals with social anxiety.

I am especially excited to hear from prospective students interested in social neuroscience, naturalistic social interaction, neuroimaging, computational modeling, NLP, or related approaches to studying conversation and social connection.

Learn more here: https://coupled-minds.github.io/