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Lin, L. L., Dale, R. & Stroessner, S. J. (in press). Coding and validation for breadth and desirability of 1,214 English adjectives. Nature Scientific Data.
Goldstein, B. M. , Burns, S. M. , Peck, F. C. , Dale, R. & Lieberman, M. D. (2026). Cross-recurrence quantification analysis captures inter-brain coupling during naturalistic negotiation: a new dynamic approach for hyperscanning. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 19, 1713357.
Galati, A., Dale, R., Alviar, C. & Coco, M. I. (2026). Task goals constrain the alignment in eye-movements and speech during interpersonal coordination. Journal of Memory and Language, 146, 104691.
Rosen, Z. P. & Dale, R. (2025). Antisemitic and Islamophobic hate speech precedes a decrease in lexico-semantic diversity in comment threads online. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12, 1-14.
Miao, G. Q., Trujilla, J., Bulls, L. S., Thornton, M. A., Dale, R. & Pouw, W. (2025). DIMS dashboard for exploring dynamic interactions and multimodal signals. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society (full paper talk).
Jiang, Y. & Dale, R. (2025). Mapping the learning curves of deep learning networks. PLoS Computational Biology, 21, e1012286.
Dale, R. & Rosen, Z. P. (2025). Mapping communication disruption in traumatic brain injury with transformer embeddings. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society (full paper poster).
Chaiyakul, R., Rosen, Z. P. & Dale, R. (2025). Large language model discourse dynamics. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society (full paper poster).
Bainbridge, C., Rosen, Z. P. & Dale, R. (2025). Thinking through the past, present, and future: Language convergence-entropy is influenced by when you think of and how you feel. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society (full paper poster).
Rosen, Z. P. & Dale, R. (2024). LLMs don't "do things with words" but their lack of illocution can inform the study of human discourse. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2870-2876). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society (full paper poster).
Miao, G. Q., Jiang, Y., Binnquist, A., Steen, F., Dale, R. & Lieberman, M. (2024). Integrative multimodal dynamics of neural and behavioral signals: an fNIRS hyperscanning and deep neural network (DNN) investigation. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 5630-5638). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society (full paper poster).
Lupyan, G., Contreras Kallens, P. A. & Dale, R. (2024). Information density as a predictor of communication dynamics. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Dale, R. (2024). Complex dynamical systems. In M. C. Frank & A. Majid (Eds.), Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS). MIT Press.
Rosen, Z. & Dale, R. (2023). BERTs of a feather: studying inter- and intra-group communication via information theory and language models. Behavior Research Methods.
Miao, G. Q., Dale, R. & Galati, A. (2023). (Mis)align: a simple dynamic framework for modeling interpersonal coordination. Scientific Reports, 13, 18325.
Bainbridge, C. M. & Dale, R. (2023). Thinking about life in COVID-19: An exploratory study on the influence of temporal framing on streams-of-consciousness. PLOS ONE, 18, e0285200.
Miao, G. Q., Dale, R. & Galati, A. (2022). A simple linear model for exploring synchrony and complementarity in interpersonal coordination (Preprint no. 8465). In Preprints of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse.
Contreras Kallens, P. A., Dale, R. & Christiansen, M. H. (2022). Quantifying interdisciplinarity in Cognitive Science and beyond. Topics in Cognitive Science, 14, 634-645.
Kodama, K., Shimizu, D., Dale, R. & Sekine, K. (2021). An approach to aligning categorical and continuous time series for studying the dynamics of complex human behavior. Frontiers in Quantitative Psychology and Measurement, 12, 614431.
Coco, M. I., Mønster, D., Leonardi, G., Dale, R. & Wallot, S. (2021). Unidimensional and multidimensional methods for recurrence quantification analysis with crqa. R Journal, 13, 145-163.
Abney, D. H., Paxton, A., Dale, R. & Kello, C. T. (2021). Cooperation in sound and motion: Complexity matching in collaborative interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Schoemann, M., O'Hora, D., Dale, R. & Scherbaum, S. (2020). Using mouse cursor tracking to investigate online cognition: Preserving methodological ingenuity while moving towards reproducible science. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
Dale, R., Bryant, G. A., Manson, J. H. & Gervais, M. M. (2020). Body synchrony in triadic interaction. Royal Society Open Science, 7, 200095.
Alviar, C., Dale, R., Dewitt, A. & Kello, C. T. (2020). Multimodal coordination of sound and movement in music and speech. Discourse Processes, 57, 682-702.
Vinson, D. W., Dale, R. & Jones, M. N. (2019). Decision contamination in the wild: Sequential dependencies in Yelp review ratings. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 1477-1484.
Ransom, T. G., Dale, R., Kreuz, R. J. & Tollefsen, D. P. (2019). How do different types of alignment affect perceived entity status?. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 48, 961-985.
Galati, A., Dale, R. & Duran, N. D. (2019). Social and configural effects on the cognitive dynamics of perspective-taking. Journal of Memory and Language, 104, 1-24.
Feldman, L. B., Dale, R. & van Rij, J. (2019). Lexical and frequency effects on keystroke timing: Challenges to a lexical search account from a type-to-copy task. Frontiers in Communication, 4, 1-18.
Alviar, C., Dale, R. & Galati, A. (2019). Complex communication dynamics: Exploring the structure of an academic talk. Cognitive Science, 43, e12718.
Dale, R. & Kello, C. T. (2018). "How do humans make sense?" Multiscale dynamics and emergent meaning. New Ideas in Psychology, 50, 61-72.
Dale, R., Galati, A., Alviar, C., Kallens, P. A. C., Ramirez-Aristizabal, A., Tabatabaeian, M. & Vinson, D. W. (2018). Interacting timescales in perspective-taking. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1278.
Dale, R. & Bhat, H. S. (2018). Equations of mind: Data science for inferring nonlinear dynamics of socio-cognitive systems. Cognitive Systems Research, 52, 275-290.
Contreras Kallens, P. A. & Dale, R. (2018). Exploratory mapping of theoretical landscapes through word use in abstracts. Scientometrics, 116, 1641-1674.
Vinson, D. W., Engelan, J., Zwaan, R., Matlock, T. & Dale, R. (2017). Implied motion language can influence visual spatial memory. Memory & Cognition, 45, 852-862.
Vinson, D. W. & Dale, R. (2017). Social structure relates to linguistic information density. In M. Jones (Ed.), Big Data in Cognitive Science: From Methods to Insights (pp. 91-116). Psychology Press: Taylor & Francis.
Paxton, A. & Dale, R. (2017). Interpersonal movement synchrony responds to high- and low-level conversational constraints. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1135.
Duran, N. D., Nicholson, S. P. & Dale, R. (2017). The hidden appeal and aversion to political conspiracies as revealed in the response dynamics of partisans. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 268-278.
Cornish, H., Dale, R., Kirby, S. & Christiansen, M. H. (2017). Sequence memory constraints give rise to language-like structure through iterated learning. PLOS ONE, 12, e0168532.
Bergmann, T., Dale, R., Sattari, N., Heit, E. & Bhat, H. S. (2017). The interdisciplinarity of collaborations in Cognitive Science. Cognitive Science, 1412-1418.
Vinson, D. W., Davis, J. K., Sindi, S. & Dale, R. (2016). Efficient n-gram analysis with cmscu. Behavior Research Methods, 48, 909-921.
Vinson, D. W., Dale, R. & Jones, M. N. (2016). Decision contamination in the wild: Sequential dependencies in Yelp review ratings. In J. Trueswell, A. Papafragou, D. Grodner & D. Mirman (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Sindi, S. & Dale, R. (2016). Culturomics as a data playground for tests of selection: mathematical approaches to detecting selection in word use. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 405, 140-149.
Main, A., Paxton, A. & Dale, R. (2016). An exploratory analysis of emotion dynamics between mothers and adolescents during conflict discussions. Emotion, 16, 913-928.
Duran, N. D., Dale, R. & Galati, A. (2016). Towards integrative dynamic models for adaptive perspective-taking. Topics in Cognitive Science, 8, 761-779.
Bergmann, T. & Dale, R. (2016). A scientometric analysis of EvoLang: intersections and authorships. In S. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher & T. Verhoef (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANGX11).
Paxton, A., Rodriguez, K. & Dale, R. (2015). PsyGlass: capitalizing on Google Glass for naturalistic data collection. Behavior Research Methods, 47, 608-619.
Fusaroli, R., Perlman, M., Mislove, A., Paxton, A., Matlock, T. & Dale, R. (2015). Timescales of massive human entrainment. PLOS ONE, 10, e0122742.
Paxton, A. & Dale, R. (2013). Frame-differencing methods for measuring bodily synchrony in conversation. Behavior Research Methods, 45, 329-343.
Dale, R. & Vinson, D. W. (2013). The observer's observer's paradox. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 25, 303-322.
Dale, R., Duran, N. D. & Morehead, J. R. (2012). Prediction during statistical learning, and implications for the implicit/explicit divide. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 8, 196-209.
Duran, N. D., Dale, R. & Kreuz, R. J. (2011). Listeners invest in an assumed other's perspective despite cognitive cost. Cognition, 121, 22-40.
Dale, R., Richardson, D. C. & Kirkham, N. K. (2011). How two people become a tangram recognition system. In Proceedings of DUET (Dual Eye-Tracking Workshop).
McKinstry, C., Dale, R. & Spivey, M. J. (2008). Action dynamics reveal parallel competition in decision making. Psychological Science, 19, 22-24.
Dale, R., Hindy, N. & Spivey, M. J. (2006). Feature-semantic gradients in lexical categorization revealed by graded manual responses. In R. Sun (Ed.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1162-1167). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.