Publications

2025

zhang2025scalingtom

Overcoming multi-step complexity in multimodal Theory-of-Mind reasoning: a scalable Bayesian planner

ICML (2025)

Chunhui Zhang, Zhongyu Ouyang, Kwonjoon Lee, Nakul Agarwal, Sean Dae Houlihan, Soroush Vosoughi, & Shao-Yuan Lo

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kwon2025concepts

Cross-cultural emotion concept representation: A comparison of English, Korean, and large language model representations

CogSci (2025)

Mijin Kwon, Sean Dae Houlihan, & Jonathan Phillips

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lamba2025ase

Solving strategic social coordination via Bayesian learning

CogSci (2025)

Amrita Lamba, Sean Dae Houlihan, & Rebecca Saxe

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wu2025collective

Collective emotions: Appraisal-based similarity in emotion attributions to individuals and groups

CogSci (2025)

Songzhi Wu, Sean Dae Houlihan, Meghan L. Meyer, & Jonathan Phillips

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2024

houlihan2024knobereversal

Contextual dependence of the Knobe effect: reversals under counterfactual contrasts

CCN (2024)

Sean Dae Houlihan, Greyson Xiao, & Jonathan Phillips

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chen2024planningemotions

Intervening on emotions by planning over a Theory of Mind

CogSci (2024)

Tony Chen*, Sean Dae Houlihan*, Kartik Chandra, Joshua Tenenbaum, & Rebecca Saxe

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halchenko2024heudiconv

HeuDiConv — flexible DICOM conversion into structured directory layouts

Journal of Open Source Software (2024)

Yaroslav Halchenko, Mathias Goncalves, Satrajit Ghosh, Pablo Velasco, Matteo Visconti Oleggio di Castello, Taylor Salo, John Wodder, Michael Hanke, Patrick Sadil, Krzysztof Jacek Gorgolewski, Horea-Ioan Ioanas, Chris Rorden, Timothy Hendrickson, Michael Dayan, Sean Dae Houlihan, ..., & David Kennedy

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2023

houlihan2023computedappraisals

Emotion prediction as computation over a generative theory of mind

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (2023)

Sean Dae Houlihan, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Luke Hewitt, Joshua Tenenbaum, & Rebecca Saxe

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2022

houlihan2022emotionreasoning

Reasoning about the antecedents of emotions: Bayesian causal inference over an intuitive theory of mind

CogSci (2022)

Sean Dae Houlihan, Desmond Ong, Maddie Cusimano, & Rebecca Saxe

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2021

anzellotti2021emotion

Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions

Emotion (2021)

Stefano Anzellotti, Sean Dae Houlihan, Samuel Liburd Jr, & Rebecca Saxe

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houlihan2021mentalizing

Linking models of Theory of Mind and measures of human brain activity

In The Neural Basis of Mentalizing (pp. 209-235). Springer International Publishing. (2021)

Sean Dae Houlihan, Joshua Tenenbaum, & Rebecca Saxe

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2017

saxe2017cop

Formalizing emotion concepts within a Bayesian model of theory of mind

Current Opinion in Psychology (2017)

Rebecca Saxe & Sean Dae Houlihan

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vanlutterveld2017neuroimage

Source-space EEG neurofeedback links subjective experience with brain activity during effortless awareness meditation

NeuroImage (2017)

Remko van Lutterveld, Sean Dae Houlihan, Prasanta Pal, Matthew Sacchet, Cinque McFarlane-Blake, Payal Patel, John Sullivan, Alex Ossadtchi, Susan Druker, Clemens Bauer, & Judson Brewer

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2016

houlihan2016mindfulness

The emerging science of mindfulness as a treatment for addiction

In Mindfulness and Buddhist-Derived Approaches in Mental Health and Addiction (pp. 191-210). Springer International Publishing. (2016)

Sean Dae Houlihan & Judson Brewer

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