Mark Thornton

2.0k total citations
34 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Mark Thornton is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Thornton has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 16 papers in Social Psychology and 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Mark Thornton's work include Face Recognition and Perception (12 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (11 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (6 papers). Mark Thornton is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (12 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (11 papers) and Cultural Differences and Values (6 papers). Mark Thornton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Mark Thornton's co-authors include Diana Tamir, Shirley S. Travis, Jason P. Mitchell, Juan Manuel Contreras, Andrew R. A. Conway, R. J. Thornton, Susan B. Rodriguez, Marie Bernard, William J. McAuley and I. Pilowsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mark Thornton

33 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mark Thornton United States 17 487 371 243 181 172 34 1.2k
John O’Gorman Australia 22 469 1.0× 430 1.2× 346 1.4× 204 1.1× 590 3.4× 91 1.5k
Lixia Yang Canada 18 377 0.8× 146 0.4× 230 0.9× 92 0.5× 173 1.0× 91 954
Thomas W. Pierce United States 22 508 1.0× 197 0.5× 189 0.8× 118 0.7× 316 1.8× 44 1.5k
Olivier Desrichard Switzerland 16 191 0.4× 145 0.4× 226 0.9× 154 0.9× 112 0.7× 56 852
Laura A. Rabin United States 19 401 0.8× 198 0.5× 387 1.6× 116 0.6× 434 2.5× 54 1.5k
Roslyn Markham Australia 15 469 1.0× 292 0.8× 251 1.0× 58 0.3× 125 0.7× 29 900
Lisa Webster United Kingdom 12 161 0.3× 269 0.7× 207 0.9× 114 0.6× 410 2.4× 21 1.1k
Bernard Pachoud France 11 236 0.5× 174 0.5× 160 0.7× 113 0.6× 168 1.0× 42 1.0k
Daniel David Romania 17 416 0.9× 165 0.4× 175 0.7× 99 0.5× 245 1.4× 45 985
Sarah Graham United States 15 133 0.3× 222 0.6× 238 1.0× 116 0.6× 145 0.8× 50 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Mark Thornton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark Thornton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Thornton

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All Works

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Popal, Haroon, Renfen Hu, Yinyin Zang, et al.. (2025). The conceptual structure of human relationships across modern and historical cultures. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(6). 1162–1175. 2 indexed citations
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Sievers, Beau & Mark Thornton. (2024). Deep social neuroscience: the promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 19(1). 3 indexed citations
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Sened, Haran, et al.. (2024). Disentangling the effects of similarity, familiarity, and liking on social inference strategies. British Journal of Social Psychology. 64(1). e12793–e12793. 3 indexed citations
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Lin, Chujun, et al.. (2024). How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(1). 208–226. 1 indexed citations
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Thornton, Mark, et al.. (2024). Individual differences in emotion prediction and implications for social success.. Emotion. 24(7). 1697–1708.
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Thornton, Mark & Diana Tamir. (2024). Neural representations of situations and mental states are composed of sums of representations of the actions they afford. Nature Communications. 15(1). 620–620. 8 indexed citations
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Nook, Erik C, et al.. (2024). The Emergence of Organized Emotion Dynamics in Childhood. Affective Science. 5(3). 246–258. 4 indexed citations
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Lin, Chujun & Mark Thornton. (2023). Evidence for bidirectional causation between trait and mental state inferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 108. 104495–104495. 8 indexed citations
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Thornton, Mark, et al.. (2023). Transition dynamics shape mental state concepts.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(10). 2804–2829. 8 indexed citations
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Thornton, Mark, et al.. (2022). The 3d Mind Model Characterizes How People Understand Mental States Across Modern and Historical Cultures. Affective Science. 3(1). 93–104. 11 indexed citations
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Thornton, Mark, et al.. (2021). Mask exposure during COVID-19 changes emotional face processing. PLoS ONE. 16(10). e0258470–e0258470. 27 indexed citations
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Thornton, Mark, et al.. (2021). The representational structure of mental states generalizes across target people and stimulus modalities. NeuroImage. 238. 118258–118258. 4 indexed citations
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Thornton, Mark & Diana Tamir. (2021). Six dimensions describe action understanding: The ACT-FASTaxonomy.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 122(4). 577–605. 15 indexed citations
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Thornton, Mark, et al.. (2020). Accurate emotion prediction in dyads and groups and its potential social benefits.. Emotion. 22(5). 1030–1043. 9 indexed citations
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Thornton, Mark & Diana Tamir. (2020). People represent mental states in terms of rationality, social impact, and valence: Validating the 3d Mind Model. Cortex. 125. 44–59. 24 indexed citations
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Thornton, Mark, et al.. (2019). The brain represents people as the mental states they habitually experience. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2291–2291. 21 indexed citations
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Thornton, Mark, et al.. (2018). The Social Brain Automatically Predicts Others' Future Mental States. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(1). 140–148. 48 indexed citations
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Tamir, Diana & Mark Thornton. (2018). Modeling the Predictive Social Mind. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 22(3). 201–212. 138 indexed citations
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Thornton, Mark & Shirley S. Travis. (2003). Analysis of the Reliability of the Modified Caregiver Strain Index. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 58(2). S127–S132. 296 indexed citations
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Travis, Shirley S., et al.. (2003). Development of the Family Caregiver Medication Administration Hassles Scale. The Gerontologist. 43(3). 360–368. 56 indexed citations

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