NeuroscienceSeptember 25, 2025
Good Conversations Don’t Require Everybody to Agree, Neuroscience Shows
Brain imaging is illuminating the patterns linked to productive, positive dialogue, and those insights could help people connect with others
Stories by Emily Falk
Emily Falk is a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs both the Communication Neuroscience Lab and the climate communication division of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. She is author of What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change. Her research on conversation is part of a collaboration featuring Diana Tamir and Sebastian Speer of Princeton University, Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, of the University of Pennsylvania, Shannon Burns of Pomona College and Lily Tsoi of Caldwell University.
OpinionJuly 9, 2018
What Your Facebook Network Reveals about How You Use Your Brain
If your friends mostly know each other only indirectly, through you, you're likely to be a better problem solver and to be more successful overall