Thalia Wheatley

12.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
67 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Thalia Wheatley is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thalia Wheatley has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 34 papers in Social Psychology and 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Thalia Wheatley's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (16 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (13 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (13 papers). Thalia Wheatley is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (16 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (13 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (13 papers). Thalia Wheatley collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Thalia Wheatley's co-authors include Daniel M. Wegner, Daniel T. Gilbert, Timothy D. Wilson, Elizabeth C. Pinel, Stephen J. Blumberg, Carolyn Parkinson, Jonathan Haidt, Jonathan M. Meyers, Danny Axsom and Christine E. Looser and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Thalia Wheatley

63 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting.

1998 796 citations Daniel T. Gilbert, Elizabeth C. Pinel et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting.

1998 772 citations Daniel T. Gilbert, Elizabeth C. Pinel et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
Apparent mental causation: Sources of the experience of will.

1999 561 citations Daniel M. Wegner, Thalia Wheatley American Psychologist profile →
Apparent mental causation: Sources of the experience of will.

1999 555 citations Daniel M. Wegner, Thalia Wheatley American Psychologist profile →
Hypnotic Disgust Makes Moral Judgments More Severe

2005 551 citations Thalia Wheatley et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thalia Wheatley United States	36	3.7k	2.7k	1.4k	1.4k	1.0k	67	6.9k
Tali Sharot United Kingdom	41	2.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	86	6.7k
Karl Christoph Klauer Germany	43	3.3k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	2.0k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	706 0.7×	195	6.4k
Jeff T. Larsen United States	29	2.7k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	980 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	541 0.5×	54	5.8k
Gregory R. Samanez‐Larkin United States	39	2.8k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	946 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	88	8.7k
Klaus Rothermund Germany	49	3.8k 1.0×	3.4k 1.2×	2.0k 1.4×	2.2k 1.6×	1.4k 1.4×	212	8.9k
Jacob B. Hirsh Canada	33	2.0k 0.5×	2.0k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	1.9k 1.4×	943 0.9×	44	6.7k
Jason P. Mitchell United States	47	5.9k 1.6×	3.5k 1.3×	1.8k 1.3×	2.0k 1.5×	581 0.6×	75	9.0k
Rick B. van Baaren Netherlands	34	1.6k 0.4×	2.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	593 0.6×	68	4.7k
Tiffany A. Ito United States	30	3.9k 1.1×	2.5k 0.9×	2.3k 1.6×	2.5k 1.8×	586 0.6×	52	8.0k
Molly J. Crockett United States	41	3.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	418 0.4×	113	6.5k

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Dziobek, Isabel, et al.. (2025). Social Interaction Style in Autism: A critical review of social behaviours and outcomes in autistic and neurotypical interactions.

Wheatley, Thalia, et al.. (2024). Interpersonal eye-tracking reveals the dynamics of interacting minds. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 18. 1356680–1356680. 4 indexed citations

Wheatley, Thalia, et al.. (2024). Self-views converge during enjoyable conversations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(43). e2321652121–e2321652121. 2 indexed citations

Sievers, Beau, et al.. (2024). Consensus-building conversation leads to neural alignment. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3936–3936. 12 indexed citations

Tóth, Brigitta, et al.. (2023). Synchrony to a beat predicts synchrony with other minds. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 3591–3591. 8 indexed citations

Chavez, Robert S., et al.. (2022). White matter connectivity in brain networks supporting social and affective processing predicts real-world social network characteristics. Communications Biology. 5(1). 1048–1048. 8 indexed citations

Wood, Adrienne, Adam M. Kleinbaum, & Thalia Wheatley. (2022). Cultural diversity broadens social networks.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 124(1). 109–122. 11 indexed citations

Kang, Olivia & Thalia Wheatley. (2017). Pupil dilation patterns spontaneously synchronize across individuals during shared attention.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 146(4). 569–576. 44 indexed citations

Parkinson, Carolyn & Thalia Wheatley. (2016). Reason for optimism: How a shifting focus on neural population codes is moving cognitive neuroscience beyond phrenology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 39. e126–e126.

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Zinszer, Benjamin D., Andrew Anderson, Olivia Kang, Thalia Wheatley, & Rajeev D. S. Raizada. (2015). You say potato, I say tŭdòu: How speakers of different languages share the same concept.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations

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Alexander, Prescott, Alexander Schlegel, Walter Sinnott‐Armstrong, et al.. (2015). Readiness potentials driven by non-motoric processes. Consciousness and Cognition. 39. 38–47. 44 indexed citations

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Parkinson, Carolyn & Thalia Wheatley. (2015). The repurposed social brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 19(3). 133–141. 28 indexed citations

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Kang, Olivia & Thalia Wheatley. (2015). Pupil dilation patterns reflect the contents of consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition. 35. 128–135. 44 indexed citations

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Parkinson, Carolyn, Shari Liu, & Thalia Wheatley. (2014). A Common Cortical Metric for Spatial, Temporal, and Social Distance. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(5). 1979–1987. 123 indexed citations

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Kang, Olivia, Kate Huffer, & Thalia Wheatley. (2014). Pupil Dilation Dynamics Track Attention to High-Level Information. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e102463–e102463. 97 indexed citations

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Schlegel, Alexander, Prescott Alexander, Walter Sinnott‐Armstrong, et al.. (2013). Barking up the wrong free: readiness potentials reflect processes independent of conscious will. Experimental Brain Research. 229(3). 329–335. 45 indexed citations

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Parkinson, Carolyn & Thalia Wheatley. (2012). Relating Anatomical and Social Connectivity: White Matter Microstructure Predicts Emotional Empathy. Cerebral Cortex. 24(3). 614–625. 68 indexed citations

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Wilson, Timothy D., Thalia Wheatley, Jonathan M. Meyers, Daniel T. Gilbert, & Danny Axsom. (2000). Focalism: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 78(5). 821–836. 416 indexed citations

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Wegner, Daniel M. & Thalia Wheatley. (1999). Apparent mental causation: Sources of the experience of will.. American Psychologist. 54(7). 480–492. 561 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gilbert, Daniel T., Elizabeth C. Pinel, Timothy D. Wilson, Stephen J. Blumberg, & Thalia Wheatley. (1998). Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 75(3). 617–638. 796 indexed citations breakdown →

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