Publications

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* denotes co-first authorship

† denotes trainee I mentored

[2026] Mahaphanit, W.*, Welker, C.*, Schmidt, H., Houlihan, S. D., Chang, L. J., & Hawkins, R. D. Generalized shared reality arises in brief interactions from structured social inferences about commonality. PsyArXiv. [preprint] Expanded from the peer-reviewed conference version: Mahaphanit, W.*, Welker, C.*, Schmidt, H., Chang, L. J., & Hawkins, R. D. (2024). When and why does shared reality generalize? Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46. [paper]

[2025] Mahaphanit, W., Keller, B.†, Hawkins, R. D., Phillips, J. S., & Chang, L. J. Learning to communicate a shared wavelength. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47. [abstract]
[2023] Mahaphanit, W. & Chang, L. J. Shared experiences strengthen social connectedness through shared impression formation and communication behavior. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45. [abstract]