Pre-Prints
Chan, H. Y., Scholz, C., Baek, E., & Falk, E. (2022). The gap between sharing and reading news on social media: A multi-method investigation. https://psyarxiv.com/65qwb/
2023
Chang, L. A., Warns, L., Armaos, K., de Sousa, A. Q. M., Paauwe, F., Scholz, C., & Engelmann, J. B. (in press). Mentalizing in economic games is associated with enhanced activation and connectivity in left temporoparietal junction. Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience, Pre-Print: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2022/02/13/2022.02.12.480201.full.pdf
Mubashir S., Scholz, C., van den Bos, W. (2023). Using social media digital trace data to study adolescent well-being. Computers in Human Behavior Reports 10. 100281. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2023.100281
Scholz, C., Baek, E.C., Falk, E.B. (2023). Invoking Self-Related and Social Thoughts Impacts Online Information Sharing. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 18(1). nsad013. DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsad013
Wang, X., Scholz, C., Falk, E. B., & Lydon-Staley, D. M. (2023). Neuroimaging. In E. Ho, C. Bylund, J. van Weert, I. Basnyat, N. Bol, & M. Dean (Eds.), International encyclopedia of health communication. Wiley-Blackwell. PDF
2022
Scholz, C., Chan, H.Y., Poldrack, R.A., de Ridder, D.T.D., Smidts, A., van der Laan, L.N. (online publication ahead of print), Can we have a second helping? A preregistered direct replication study on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying self-control. Human Brain Mapping 12(4), 272-282, https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26065, Dataset: 10.18112/openneuro.ds002643.v1.1.0
Meijers, M. H., Scholz, C., Torfadóttir, R., Wonneberger, A., & Markov, M. (2022). Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic to combat climate change: comparing drivers of individual action in global crises. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 12(2), 272-282.
Cosme, D., Scholz, C., Chan, H. Y., Doré, B. P., Pandey, P., Carreras-Tartak, J., … & Falk, E. B. (2022). Message self and social relevance increases intentions to share content: Correlational and causal evidence from six studies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. PDF
2021
Baek, E.C., O’Donnel, M.B., Scholz, C., Pei, R., Garcia, J.O., Vettel, J.M., Falk, E.B. (2021). Activity in the brain’s valuation and metnalizing networks is associated with propagation of online recommendations. Scientific Reports 11(1), 1-11. PDF
Chan, H.-Y., Scholz, C., Baek, E., O’Donnell, M. B., & Falk, E. (2021). Being the gatekeeper: How thinking about sharing affects neural encoding of information. Cerebral Cortex. PDF
2020
Doré, B., Scholz, C., Baek, E.C., Falk, E.B. (2020). Health news sharing is reflected in distributed reward-related brain activity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(10), 1111-1119. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa129, PDF, Supplementary materials
Huskey, R., Bue, A.C., Eden, A., Grall, C., Meshi, D., Prena, K., Schmälzle, R., Scholz, C., Turner, B.O., Wilcox, S. (Authors in alphabetical order after first author; 2020). Marr’s Tri-Level Framework Integrates Communication Science Across Disciplinary Subfield. Journal of Communication, 70(3), 35-378. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaa007
Hendriks, H., Scholz, C., Larsen, H., de Bruijn, G., van den Putte, S.B. (2020). Intervening through conversations: How instructions influence conversational valence and binge drinking determinants. Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1712524
Scholz, C., Baek, E.C., Jovanova, M., Falk, E.B. (2020). Media Content Sharing as a Value-Based Decision. Current Opinion in Psychology, 31, 83-88. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.08.004, PDF
Scholz, C., Baek, E. C., O’Donnell, M. B., & Falk, E. B. (2020). Decision-making about broad- and narrowcasting: A Neuroscientific Perspective, Media Psychology, 23(1), 131-155. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1572522,
Data and code available online: https://github.com/cnlab/narrowbroad, PDF
Baek, E.C., Scholz, C. Falk, E.B. (2020). The neuroscience of information propagation: Key role of the mentalizing system. In: Floyd, K. & Weber, R. (Eds.) Handbook of Communication Science and Biology. New York, NY: Routledge. PDF
Scholz, C., Falk, E. B. (2020). The neuroscience of information sharing. In S. Gonzalez-Bailon, B. Foucault Welles. (Eds.) Handbook of Communication in the Networked Age. Oxford University Press. PDF
2019
Scholz, C., Doré, B. P., Cooper, N., Falk, E. B. (2019). Neural Valuation of Anti-Drinking Campaigns and Risky Peer Influence in Daily Life. Health Psychology 38(7), 658-667. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/hea0000732, PDF, Supplementary Materials
Doré, B. P., Cooper, N., Scholz, C., O’Donnell, M. B., Falk, E. B. (2019). Cognitive regulation of ventromedial prefrontal activity evokes lasting change in the perceived self-relevance of persuasive messaging. Human Brain Mapping, 40(9), 2571-2580. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24545, PDF, Supplementary Materials
Doré, B., Scholz, C., Baek, E. C., O’Donnell, M. B., & Falk, E. B. (2019). Brain Activity Tracks Population Information Sharing by Capturing Consensus Judgments of Value. Cerebral Cortex. 29(7), 3102-2110, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy176, PDF
2018
Kang, Y., Cooper N., Pandey, P., Scholz, C., O’Donnell M. B., Lieberman M. D., Taylor, S. E., Strecher V. J., Dal Cin S., Konrath, S., Polk, T. A., Resnicow, K., An L., Falk, E.B. (2018). Effects of Self-Transcendence on Neural Responses to Persuasive Messages and Health Behavior Change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(40), 9974-9979. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805573115, PDF
Falk, E. B., Scholz, C. (2018). Persuasion, Influence, and Value: Perspectives from Communication and Social Neuroscience. Annual Review of Psychology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-122216-011821, PDF
2017
Scholz, C.*, Baek, E. C.*, O’Donnell, M. B., Kim, H. S., Cappella, J. N., & Falk, E. B. (2017). A neural model of valuation and information virality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, DOI: 1073/pnas.1615259114, PDF, Supplementary Materials
Data and code available online: https://github.com/cnlab/viralityPNAS
Baek, E. C.*, Scholz, C.*, O’Donnell, M. B., & Falk, E. B. (2017). The value of sharing information: A neural account of information transmission. Psychological Science, PDF, Supplementary Materials
Data and code available online: https://github.com/cnlab/valuesharing
*shared first authors
2015
Cascio, C. N., Scholz, C., & Falk, E. B. (2015). Social influence and the brain: persuasion, susceptibility to influence and retransmission. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 3, 51-57. DOI: 1016/j.cobeha.2015.01.007, PDF
2013
Bol, N., Scholz, C., Smets, E. M., Loos, E. F., de Haes, H. C., & van Weert, J. C. (2013). Senior Patients Online: Which Functions Should a Good Patient Website Offer?. In C. Stephanidis, M. Antona (Eds.) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. User and Context Diversity. UAHCI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8010. Berlin: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39191-0_4