Publications

Shan Gao, Ryleigh Nash, Shannon M. Burns, Yuan Chang Leong (2025). Predicting whole-brain neural dynamics from prefrontal cortex functional near-infrared spectroscopy signal during movie-watching. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 20(1).

Shannon M. Burns, Lily Tsoi, Emily B. Falk, Sebastian P. H. Speer, Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, Diana I. Tamir (2025). Interdependent minds - Quantifying the dynamics of successful social interactions. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

Sebastian P. H. Speer, Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, Lily Tsoi, Shannon M. Burns, Emily B. Falk, Diana I. Tamir (2024). Hyperscanning shows friends explore and strangers converge in conversation. Nature Communications, 15(7781).

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Danielle Cosme, Christin Scholz, Hang-Yee Chan, Bruce P. Doré, Prateekshit Pandey, José Carreras-Tartak, Nicole Cooper, Alexandra Paul, Shannon M. Burns, Emily B. Falk (2023). Message self and social relevance increases intentions to share content - Correlational and causal evidence from six studies.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(1).

Lily Tsoi, Shannon M. Burns, Emily B. Falk, Diana I. Tamir (2022). The promises and pitfalls of functional magnetic resonance imaging hyperscanning for social interaction research. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16(10).

Macrina C. Dieffenbach, Grace S. R. Gillespie, Shannon M. Burns, Ian A. McCulloh, Daniel L. Ames, Munqith M. Dagher, Emily B. Falk, Matthew D. Lieberman (2021). Neural reference groups - a synchrony-based classification approach for predicting attitudes using fNIRS. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(1).

Razia S. Sahi, Macrina C. Dieffenbach, Siyan Gan, Maya Lee, Laura I. Hazlett, Shannon M. Burns, Matthew D. Lieberman, Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory, Naomi I. Eisenberger (2021). The comfort in touch - Immediate and lasting effects of handholding on emotional pain. PLoS One, 16(2).

Shannon M. Burns, Lianne N. Barnes, Ian A. McCulloh, Munqith M. Dagher, Emily B. Falk, J. Douglas Storey, Matthew D. Lieberman (2019). Making social neuroscience less WEIRD - Using fNIRS to measure neural signatures of persuasive influence in a Middle East participant sample. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116(3).

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Shannon M. Burns, Lianne N. Barnes, Perri L. Katzman, Daniel L. Ames, Emily B. Falk, Matthew D. Lieberman (2018). A functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) replication of the sunscreen persuasion paradigm. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 13(6).