Eshin Jolly

Dartmouth College
Dept of Psychological and Brain Sciences
6207 Moore Hall, Hanover, NH, 03755
(917) 376 3340
eshin.jolly@gmail.com

Currently

2020-Present Postdoctoral Fellow
Consortium for Interacting Minds
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
Mentors: Luke Chang, Thalia Wheatley, Emily Finn, Jeremy Manning

Education & Training

2012-2019 PhD, Cognitive Neuroscience
NSF Graduate Fellow
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
Thesis: Social Cognitive Maps: A Relational Account of Person Representation and Memory
Committee: Luke Chang, Thalia Wheatley, Jeremy Manning, Janice Chen

2006-2010 BA, Brain and Cognitive Science; Psychology
Minor: Music & Jazz Performance
University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
Thesis: Testing Domain Specificity: Conceptual Knowledge of Living and Non-living Things
Committee: Jessica Cantlon, Brad Mahon, Elissa Newport

2016 Microsoft Research PhD Intern
MSR Computational Social Science Group (NYC, NY)
PIs: Duncan Watts & Sid Suri

2010-2012 Lab Manager
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
PI: Jason Mitchell

2008-2010 Research Assistant
Baruch College (NYC, NY)
PI: Jennifer Mangels

Research Assistant
Mt Hope Family Center, University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
PIs: Sheree Toth & Jack Peltz

Industry Consulting

2023-Present Senior UX/UI Engineer & Designer
MoreMore AI
Film & media arts startup

2020-Present Co-Founder & CTO; Scientific Advisor
Parsnip.ai
Food and ed-tech startup

2020 Scientific Advisor
The Sukhi Project
Employee well-being and mental health startup

2019-Present Project Manager; Technical Support Lead
Code for America (Upper Valley Brigade)
Rural Internet Project

Funding

2019-Present Postdoctoral Fellow
National Science Foundation, Career Award 1848370 ($886,457, PI: Luke Chang)
Neural and computational basis of guilt in decision-making (co-written)

2013-2016 Graduate Fellow
National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship ($90,000)
Uncovering the represention of self: A multivariate approach

Manuscripts

In Prep

Jolly, E., Chang, L.J. (in prep). Neural encoding and reinstatement of social motifs.

Jolly, E., Ranger, M.S. & Chang, L.J. (in prep). The neural basis of guilt diffusion in interpersonal harm-minimization.

Jolly, E., Smith A., Gangadharan, A.A., Hoidal, A.S. & Chang, L.J. (in prep). Guilt-aversion motivates harm-minimization in surrogate decision-making.

Under review/revision

Jolly, E., Sadhukha, S., Iqbal, M., Molani, Z., Walsh, T.M., Manning, J.R., & Chang, L.J. (under review). People are represented and remembered through their relationships with others. [psyarxiv preprint]

Published

2024

Gao, X., Jolly, E., Yu, H., Liu, H., Zhou, X., & Chang, L.J. (2024). The psychological, computational, and neural foundations of indebtedness. Nature Communications. [Link]

2023

Jolly, E.*, Cheong, J.H.*, Xie, T.*, Byrne, S. Kenny, M., & Chang, L.J. (2023). Py-Feat: Python Facial Expression Analysis Toolbox. Affective Science. [Link] [toolbox]
*Equal contribution

2022

Jolly, E., Farrens, M., Greenstein, N., Eisenbarth, H., Reddan, M.C., Andrew, E., Wager, T.D., & Chang, L.J. (2022). Recovering individual emotional states from sparse ratings using collaborative filtering. Affective Science. [Link] [toolbox] [data & materials]

2021

Jolly, E. & Chang, L.J. (2021). Multivariate spatial feature selection in fMRI. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(8), 795-806. [Link]

Jolly, E. & Chang, L.J. (2021). Gossip drives vicarious learning and facilitates social connections. Current Biology, 31, 1-11. [Link] [data & materials]
Coverage: New York Times, VPR News, PNAS Journal Club

Chang, L.J., Jolly, E., Cheong, J.H., Rapuano, K., Greenstein, N., Chen, P.A., & Manning, J.R. (2021). Endogenous variation in ventromedial prefrontal cortex state dynamics during naturalistic viewing reflects affective experience. Science Advances, 7(17), 1-17. [Link] [data & materials]

2020

Jolly, E.*, Sadhukha, S.*, & Chang, L.J. (2020). Response to Lynch et al: On measuring head motion and effects of head molds during fMRI. NeuroImage, 117484. [Link] [data & materials]

Jolly, E.*, Sadhukha, S.*, & Chang, L.J. (2020). Custom-molded headcases have limited efficacy in reducing head motion during naturalistic fMRI experiments. NeuroImage, 117207. [Link] [data & materials]
*Equal contribution

Chen, P.H.A., Jolly, E., Cheong, J.H., & Chang, L.J. (2020). Intersubject representational similarity analysis reveals individual variations in affective experience when watching erotic movies. NeuroImage, 116851. [PDF] [data & materials]

2019

Chen, P.H.A., Cheong, J.H., Jolly, E., Elhence, H., Wager, T.D., & Chang, L.J. (2019). Socially transmitted placebo effects. Nature Human Behavior, 3, 1295-1305. [PDF] [data & materials]

Jolly, E.*, Tamir, D.I.*, Burum, B.A., & Mitchell, J.P. (2019). Wanting without enjoying: The social value of sharing experiences. PLoS One, 14(4), e0215318. [PDF] [data & materials] *Equal contribution

Jolly, E., & Chang, L.J. (2019). The Flatland Fallacy: Moving Beyond Low Dimensional Thinking. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1-22. [PDF] [figure & simulation code]

2018

Jolly, E. (2018). Pymer4: Connecting R and Python for linear mixed modeling. Journal of Open Source Software, 3(31), 862. [PDF] [documentation site]

Chang, L. J. & Jolly E. (2018). Emotions as computational signals of goal error. In A. Fox, R. Lapate, A. Shackman & R. Davidson (Eds), The Nature of Emotion (343-351). Oxford University Press. [PDF]

2017

Cheong, J.C., Jolly, E., Sul, S., & Chang, L.J. (2017). Computational Models in Social and Affective Neuroscience in Moustafa, A. (Eds), Computational Models of Brain and Behavior (229-245). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. [Link]

Rane, S.*, Jolly, E.*, Park, A.*, Jang, H*., & Craddock, R.C. (2017). Developing predictive biomarkers using whole-brain classifiers: Application to the ABIDE I dataset. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 3:e12733. [PDF].
*Equal contribution

2011-2016

Moran, J.M., Jolly, E., & Mitchell, J.P. (2014). Spontaneous mentalizing predicts the fundamental attribution error. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(3), 569-576. [PDF]

Moran, J.M., Jolly, E., & Mitchell, J.P. (2012). Social-cognitive deficits in normal aging. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(16), 5553-5561. [PDF]

Jolly, E. (2011). Testing domain specificity: Conceptual knowledge of living and non-living things. The Yale Review of Undergraduate Research in Psychology, 2, 94-118. [PDF]

Open Scientific Software

2022-Present Py-feat
Analysis of facial expressions from images and videos, (Core Developer)
[Documentation] [Slides] [Github]

2020-Present Neighbors
Predicting affective responses from sparse measurement data, (Project Author)
[Documentation] [Github]

SvelteTurk
Graphical User Interface for managing experiments on Mturk, (Project Author)
[Documentation] [Github]

2017-Present Pymer4
Statistics library for estimating linear mixed-effects models, (Project Author)
[Documentation] [Github]

2016-Present Nltools
Toolbox for intuitively analyzing neuroimaging data, (Core Developer)
[Documentation] [Video Talk] [Github]

Invited Talks & Presentations

2023 Representing and remembering people through their relationships.
Invited talk at the MIND Summer School, Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

The structure of social memory: People as contexts.
Presentation at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society conference (Santa Barbara, CA)

Navigating the social world: A relational account of how we represent, remember, and talk about people.
Invited talk at Stanford University (Stanford, CA)

People as contexts: A relational account of person representation and memory.
Invited talk for Innovators in Cognitive Neuroscience (virtual). [Video]

2022 Spontaneous Neural Representations of Social Relationships in Naturalistic Contexts.
Symposium presentation at the International Society for Research on Emotion, USC (Los Angeles, CA)

Emotion and Social Perception in Naturalistic Contexts: Perspectives from Affective Computing and Affective Neuroscience.
Symposium organizer at the International Society for Research on Emotion, USC (Los Angeles, CA)

2021 Methodological considerations in social and affective neuroscience.
Invited talk at NYU Freeman Lab (NYC, NY)

2020 Social Cognitive Maps: A Relational Account of Person Representation and Memory.
Invited talk at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)

Why Design Abstractions Matters for Analytics Tools: Neuroimaging analysis with Neuro-Learn. [Video]
Symposium presentation at the Scientific Computing with Python conference (virtual)

Spontaneous Neural Representations of Social Relationships in Naturalistic Contexts.
Symposium presentation at the Society for Affective Science conference (San Francisco, CA; cancelled due to COVID-19).

Methodological challenges in contemporary fMRI studies.
Invited talk at the Neuroimaging Analysis Methods meeting, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

2018 Introduction to functional alignment methods for fMRI.
Invited lecture at the Sao Paulo School of Advanced Science on Social and Affective Neuroscience (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

2017 Naturalistic approaches towards an understanding of social reasoning and communication.
Invited talk at Stanford University (Stanford, CA)

The social benefits of gossip
Presentation at the New England Research on Decision-Making conference, Brown University (Providence, RI)

Introduction to Git and Github for psychologists.
Invited talk at the Reproducible Psychological Science workshop at the Annual Meeting for the Association for Psychological Science (Boston, MA)

Interpersonal dynamics and the inelasticity of social guilt.
Invited talk at the Boston Area Moral Cognition Group (Boston, MA)

Interpersonal dynamics and the inelasticity of social guilt.
Invited talk at Affectiva Inc (Boston, MA)

Spontaneous impression-formation about parasocial relationships.
Presentation at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society conference (Los Angeles, CA)

State of the Data: Annual Dartmouth Brain Imaging Center Quality Assurance Report.
Presentation at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

2016 Field experiments on human prosociality using Mechanical Turk.
Presentation at Microsoft Research (New York City, NY)

The Social Benefits of Gossip.
Presentation at the Social Brain Sciences Brown Bag (Dartmouth College, NH)

Posters & Conference Proceedings

2023 Jolly, E., Sadhukha, S., Iqbal, M., Molani, Z., Walsh, T.M., Manning, J.R., & Chang, L.J. (2023). The structure of social memory: People as contexts.
Poster at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society conference (Santa Barbara, CA)

Kwon, D., Jolly, E., Chang, L.J., & Shim, W.M. (2023). Neural representations of dynamic social interactions.
Poster at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Brain and Neural Sciences (Busan, Korea)

2022 Jolly, E., Farrens, M., Greenstein, N., Eisenbarth, H., Reddan, M.C., Andrew, E., Wager, T.D., & Chang, L.J. (2022). Recovering individual emotional states from sparse ratings using collaborative filtering.
Poster at the Society for Affective Science conference (virtual)

2021 Jolly, E. & Chang, L.J. (2021). Spontaneous Neural Representations of Social Relationships in Naturalistic Contexts.
Poster at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society conference (virtual)
Winner Poster Award

2020 Jolly, E. (2020). Pymer4: Bringing R’s Powerful Mixed-modeling to Python.
Poster at the Scientific Computing with Python conference (virtual)
Winner Scipy Scholarship

2019 Jolly, E. & Chang, L.J. (2019). Gossip drives vicarious learning and facilitates robust social connections.
Poster at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society conference (Miami, FL)

Cheong, J.C., Chen, P.A., Jolly, E., Elhence, H., Wager, T.D., & Chang, L.J. (2019). Socially transmitted placebo effects.
Poster at the Society for Affective Science conference (Boston, MA)

2018 Jolly, E., Reddan, M.C., Gianaros, P.J., Manuck, S.M. Chang, L.J., & Wager, T.D. (2018). NeuroLIME: A novel tool for explaining the predictions of complex brain models.
Poster at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society conference (New York, NY)

Reddan, M.C., Jolly, E., & Wager, T.D. (2018). NeuroLIME: A novel tool for explaining the predictions of nonlinear neuroimaging classifiers.
Poster at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping conference (Singapore, Singapore)

Reddan, M.C., Jolly, E., & Wager, T.D. (2018). NeuroLIME: A novel tool for explaining the predictions of nonlinear neuroimaging classifiers.
Poster at the Computational and Systems Neuroscience conference (Denver, CO)

2017 Jolly, E. & Chang, L.J. (2017). Gossip drives vicarious learning and facilitates robust social connections.
Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (Boston, MA)

Cheong, J.H., Jolly, E., & Chang, L.J. (2017). A window into the mind: A computational approach to measuring emotions in response to naturalistic stimuli.
Poster the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society conference (Los Angeles, CA)

2016 Jolly, E. & Chang, L.J. (2016). Groups, gossip and social dilemmas.
Poster at the International Conference on Computational Social Science (Evanston, IL)

2015 Jolly, E., Tamir, D.I., & Mitchell, J.P. (2015). The social value of sharing experiences.
Poster at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society conference (Boston, MA)
Winner Poster Award

2012 Moran, J.M., Jolly, E., & Mitchell, J.P. (2012). Spontaneous mentalizing supports the fundamental attribution error.
Poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference (Chicago, IL)

2010 Peltz, J.S. Toth, S.L., Rogosch, F.A., Jolly, E., & Cicchetti, D. (2010). Paternal emotional availability’s effects on children’s socioemotional functioning in maternal depression contexts.
Poster at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (Boston, MA)

Teaching

2023 Methods in Neuroscience at Dartmouth Summer School
Invited Faculty
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) [Resources]

Introduction to facial expression analysis with py-feat
Tutorial at the Consortium for Interacting Minds
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) [Slides]

2019 Introduction to version control for neuroscientists
Lecturer and TA at MIND Summer School
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) [Resources] [Video]

2018 Introduction to version control for neuroscientists
Lecturer and TA at MIND Summer School
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) [Resources] [Video]

Computational tools for neuroscience: Jupyter notebooks
Lecturer and TA at MIND Summer School
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) [Resources] [Video]

Functional Alignment Techniques in fMRI
Lecture at Sao Paulo Summer School on Social and Affective Neuroscience (SPSAN)
Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

2017 Computational tools for neuroscience: Jupyter notebooks
Lecturer and TA at MIND Summer School
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) [Resources] [Video]

Introduction to containers for reproducible research
Lecturer and TA at MIND Summer School
Dartmouth College (Hanover NH) [Resources]

Introduction to Git and Gitub for social psychologists
Lecture at the Reproducible Psychological Science workshop
Annual Meeting for the Association for Psychological Science (Boston, MA)

Introduction to jupyter notebooks (and why you should love them!)
Tutorial at BrainHack Local
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

Online research methods for the experimental study of social behavior
Research Methods, Guest Lecturer
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

2016 Online research methods for the experimental study of social behavior
Research Methods, Guest Lecturer
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

The social benefits of gossip
Social Psychology, Guest Lecturer
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

Contemporary fMRI pre-processing: Introduction to Nipype and Docker
fMRI Methods, Guest Lecturer
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

2015 fMRI Methods: Brain Mapping with functional MRI
Course TA and Guest Lecturer
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

Research Methods: Laboratory in Psychological Science*
Course TA and Guest Lecturer
*Mentored award winning undergraduate group
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

2014 Introductory Statistics: Experimental Design and Methodology
Course TA and Guest Lecturer
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

2013 Research Methods: Laboratory in Psychological Science
Course TA and Guest Lecturer
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)

2011 Introduction to MATLAB for Behavioral Research
Workshop organizer
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)

Mind Perception
Workshop organizer
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)

Awards

2023 ICN Talk Award
Innovators in Cognitive Neuroscience

Trainee Data Blitz Award
Social and Affective Neuroscience Society

2022 Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS)
Santa Fe Institute

2021 Mistletoe Research Fellowship finalist
Dartmouth College

2020 SciPy Scholarship Award
Scientific Computing with Python Conference

Poster Award
Social and Affective Neuroscience Society

2019 Kavli Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience
UC Santa Barbara

Thayer Consulting Case Competition 1st Place
Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

Hack Dartmouth Finalist
Dartmouth College

2018 Hack Dartmouth Best Community Hack
Dartmouth College

Sao Paulo Summer School on Social and Affective Neuroscience (SPSAN)
Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Sao Paulo

Graduate Arts and Science Travel Award
Dartmouth College

PBS Graduate Travel Award
Dartmouth College

Neukom Institute Travel Award
Dartmouth College

2017 Graduate Alumni Research Award
Dartmouth College

PBS Graduate Travel Award
Dartmouth College

Methods in Neuroscience Computational Summer School
Dartmouth College

Summer School in Social Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics
Duke University

Trainee Data Blitz Award
Social and Affective Neuroscience Society

Human Neuroimaging Methods Travel Award
Organization for Human Brain Mapping

2016 Hack Dartmouth 2nd Place project award
Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering

Neurohackweek Summer School
University of Washington eScience Institute

2015 Social Affective Neuroscience Society Poster Award
Social and Affective Neuroscience Society

PBS Graduate Travel Award
Dartmouth College

2013-2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Dartmouth College

2010 BCS Dept: Highest Honors in research
University of Rochester

2006-2010 Wilder-Trustee Scholarship
University of Rochester

Mentorship

2022-Present Wasita Mahaphanit
Graduate Student
Dartmouth College

Sushmita Sadhukha
Graduate Student
Dartmouth College

2021-2022 Maxwell Ranger ‘22
Honors Thesis
Dartmouth College

2017-2021 Maryam Iqbal ’21
Presidential Scholar/Honors Thesis
Dartmouth College

2020-2021 Liza Begunova ’21
Honors Thesis
Dartmouth College

2019-2020 Max Farrens ‘20
Full-time Research Assistant
Dartmouth College

2017-2019 Nathan P. Greenstein ‘19
Presidential Scholar
Dartmouth College

Sushmita Sadhukha ’18
Full-time Research Assistant
Dartmouth College

2015-2018 Arati A. Gangadharan ’18
Honors Thesis
Dartmouth College

2015-2017 Hirsh Elhence ’17
Presidential Scholar
Dartmouth College

Technical Skills

Programming Languages
Python, Javascript, Matlab, R, Bash

Frontend Web Development
HTML, CSS, Svelte, Vue

Backend/Fullstack/App Development
Node, Express, Meteor, Mongodb, Firebase, Flask, Electron

Stimulus Presentation
Psychopy, Psychophysics toolbox, E-prime, Presentation

Data Analysis
Scientific-Python, Statsmodels, Scikit-learn, Lme4

Neuroimaging Analysis
FSL, AFNI, SPM, Nipype, Nilearn

Data Visualization
Seaborn/Matplotlib, D3, Dash/Plotly, ggplot

Dev Ops
Git/Github, TravisCI, Tox, Pytest, Moab-Torque

Professional Activities

Reviewer
Cerebral Cortex, Neuroimage, Human Brain Mapping, SCAN, Neuropsychologia, Cognition and Emotion, JESP, PLoS One, GigaScience, JOSS, Nature Communications, SIGCHI, Frontiers in Psych, JPSP, JEP:G, Journal of Neuroscience, Scientific Reports

Society Memberships
Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, Society for Affective Science, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Leadership & Community

2019-2022 Committee Member
Inclusivity, Diversity, and Culture Advisory Committee
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

2020-2021 Board Member
Dartmouth College Postdoctoral Association
Dartmouth College, Hanover NH

2018-2020 VP of Client Outreach
Dartmouth Graduate Consulting Group
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

2017-2020 Co-Founder
Line@ Project
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

2017 Organizing committee member
Dartmouth Brainhack, Hanover, NH

2014 Station Leader
GWISE Science day for local middle schools
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

2013-2015 Primary Organizer
Social Brain Sciences Symposium talk series
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Graduate Representative
Social Area Graduate Student Representative
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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Last updated: August 2023