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Elisa C. Baek, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Southern California. Her research integrates social psychology, neuroscience, and computational methods to investigate how social connections and neural processes drive information sharing, moral decision-making, and emotion dynamics in digital and real-world networks.
Her primary research domains include:
- Social Psychology (focusing on moral alignment and community dynamics)
- Neuroscience (using fMRI/EEG to study neural synchrony)
- Social Network Analysis (developing computational tools for propagation modeling)
- Information Sharing (examining misinformation spread and neural valuation mechanisms)
Analysis of her 2022-2025 publications reveals a cohesive trajectory examining how mentalizing networks and emotion dynamics predict information propagation. Key methodological innovations include multi-modal approaches combining neuroimaging with real-world network data, particularly in moral psychology contexts where value alignment critically shapes sharing behaviors.
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She directs SocoLab, which develops open-source network analysis tools (evident in GitHub repositories like social_network_analysis_tutorial) for studying neural correlates of social connection. Current projects focus on moral alignment in misinformation spread and neural mechanisms of loneliness using multi-layer network frameworks.
