Social Science Observatory

01/03/2026

Help us kick start our 2026 project! we are starting off this year looking into whether one person learn to "hear" the brain states of another. Help us kickstart this lab and explore the future of inter-subject neural decoding 🧑‍🔬🧠

By Social Science Observatory

07/31/2024

Great write up of a recent PNAS paper "Collaborative imagination synchronizes representations of the future and fosters social connection in the present" in this blog by Erman Misirlisoy:

"The researchers were testing the specific effects of combining collaboration and imagination [..] After completing the collaborative imagination task, people felt 18% more socially connected to each other than they did after completing the individual imagination task. They were also 10% more socially connected compared to the collaborative gaming condition."

How social connection grows from collaborative imagination

03/23/2024

Thank you to everyone who joined for our event on Metascience, there is a whatsapp chat that has formed to stay in touch, let me know if you'd like to be added!