Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Article	Citations
What we don't know about what babies know: Reconsidering psychophysics, exploration, and infant behavior	262
The adaptiveness of fear (and other emotions) considered more broadly: Missed literature on the nature of emotions and its functions	83
Belonging to a community of moral values as a key criterion of society	83
Trait attribution explains human–robot interactions	61
Correction, uncertainty, and anchoring effects	61
Ownership psychology as a cognitive adaptation: A minimalist model	44
The Trojan horse of historical myths: Emotion-driven narratives as a strategy for coalitional recruitment	39
Tradition and invention: The bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution	35
Disentangling paradigm and method can help bring qualitative research to post-positivist psychology and address the generalizability crisis	32
Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework	31
The cost of crisis in clinical psychological science	31
Taking social psychology out of context	30
Integrating cultural evolution and behavioral genetics	29
Cultural evolutionary theory is not enough: Ambiguous culture, neglect of structure, and the absence of theory in behavior genetics	29
The many geographical layers of culture	23
The disintegrated theory of consciousness: Sleep, waking, and meta-awareness	21
Making the unconscious conscious: Developing maladaptive scripts into conviction narratives	20
Do conviction narratives drive individual decisions?	17
Frames, trade-offs, and perspectives	17
“Who's there?”: Depicting identity in interaction	14
Déjà vu: A botched memory operation, illegitimate to start with	12
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics without racial/ethnic diversity will result in weak causal knowledge	12
Unpacking the nudge muddle	12
Primordial feeling of possession in development	11
Natural logic and baby LoTH	10

Social and economic interdependence as a basis for peaceful between-group relationships in nonhuman primates and humans	10
Capacities for peace, and war, are old and related to Homo construction of worlds and communities	10
Explananda and explanantia in deep neural network models of neurological network functions	9
The central problem is still evolutionary stability	8
Conformity versus transmission in animal cultures	8
The study of rational framing effects needs developmental psychology	8
Rational framing effects: A multidisciplinary case	7
Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens: Ultimate functions, proximate mechanisms, cultural distribution	7
Citizen science can help to alleviate the generalizability crisis	7
The creativity of architects	7
Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences	7
The evolution of (intergroup) peace hinges on how we define groups and peace	7
The unboxing has already begun: One motivation construct at a time	6
Creativity and tradition: Music and bifocal stance theory	6
Myth as model: Group-level interpretive frameworks	6
Group myths can create shared understanding even if they don't act as superstimuli	6
Why frightening imaginary worlds? Morbid curiosity and the learning potential of horror	6
Functional ideographies are composite semiotic systems	6
Beyond the limitations of any imaginable mechanism: Large language models and psycholinguistics	6
Negative priors and inferences from absence of evidence in cognitive and linguistic archaeology: Epistemically sound and scientifically strategic	5
Developmental research assessing bias would benefit from naturalistic observation data	5
Dimensional versus conceptual incommensurability in the social and behavioral sciences	5
Psychological and actual group formation: Conflict is neither necessary nor sufficient	5
Consciousness, complexity, and evolution	5
Escaping from the IIT Munchausen method: Re-establishing the scientific method in the study of consciousness	5
On abstract goals’ perverse effects on proxies: The dynamics of unattainability	5
Women take risks to help others to stay alive	5
The centrality of practice in ideographic communication, and the perennial puzzle of positivistic thinking	5
Peace in other primates	5
On the potentials of interaction breakdowns for HRI	4
The ritual stance does not apply to magic in general	4
Narratives need not end well; nor say it all	4
Purity is linked to cooperation but not necessarily through self-control	4
The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis: Consequences for the development of the logic of thought	4
Substances as a core domain	4
Bifocal stance theory: An effort to broaden, extend, and clarify	4
“WEIRD” societies still value (even needless) self-control and self-sacrifice	4
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics	4
Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition	4
Quo vadis, planning?	4
A possible shared underlying mechanism among involuntary autobiographical memory and déjà vu	4
A source- and channel-coding approach to the analysis and design of languages and ideographies	4
For human-like models, train on human-like tasks	4
Autonomous social robots are real in the mind's eye of many	4
Subjective and objective corruption of intuition and rational choice	3
Is language-of-thought the best game in the town we live?	3
Moving from i-frame to s-frame focus in equity, diversity, and inclusion research, practice, and policy	3
Intracranial electrical brain stimulation as an approach to studying the (dis)continuum of memory experiential phenomena	3
Publishing fast and slow: A path toward generalizability in psychology and AI	3
Centering the relationship between structural racism and individual bias	3

Myths of trauma and myths of cooperation: Diverse consequences of history for societal cohesion	3
A multi-trait embodied framework for the evolution of brains and cognition across animal phyla	3
Developmental noise is an overlooked contributor to innate variation in psychological traits	3
Markov blankets as boundary conditions: Sweeping dirt under the rug still cleans the house	3
Ownership as a component of the extended self	3
Development, history, and a minimalist model of ownership psychology	3
Moral disciplining provides a satisfying explanation for Chinese lay concepts of immorality	3
Meta-learned models beyond and beneath the cognitive	3
When instrumental inference hides behind seemingly arbitrary conventions	3
On the big list of causes	3
Revisiting an extant framework: Concerns about culture and task generalization	3
The Emperor's New Markov Blankets	3
Generalizability, transferability, and the practice-to-practice gap	3
Enough blanket metaphysics, time for data-driven heuristics	3
Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide	3
The future of experimental design: Integrative, but is the sample diverse enough?	3
Female advantage in threat avoidance manifests in threat reaction but not threat detection	3
The different paths to cultural convergence	3
Meeting counterfactual causality criteria is not the problem	3
Ownership psychology as a “cognitive cell” adaptation: A minimalist model of microbial goods theory	3
Rational framing effects and morally valid reasons	3
Experimental studies of bias: Imperfect but neither useless nor unique	3
Hominin cognition: The null hypothesis	3
Meta-learning in active inference	3
Representational exchange in social learning: Blurring the lines between the ritual and instrumental	3
Question-asking as a mechanism of information seeking	3
Reciprocal contracts – not competitive acquisition – explain the moral psychology of ownership	2
The evolutionary psychology of ownership is rooted in the Lockean liberal principle of self-ownership	2
Behavioral mechanism design	2
Look to the field	2
What about language?	2
“Staying alive” in the context of intimate partner abuse	2
Probabilistic programming versus meta-learning as models of cognition	2
Beyond reductionism: Understanding motivational energization requires higher-order constructs	2
Are we virtuously caring or just anxious?	2
Meta-cognition about social robots could be difficult, making self-reports about some cognitive processes less useful	2
Conspiracy theory	2
Models of gene–culture evolution are incomplete without incorporating epigenetic effects	2
Creativity is motivated by novelty. Curiosity is triggered by uncertainty	2
Staying alive enhances both women's and men's fitness	2
Paranoia reveals the complexity in assigning individuals to groups on the basis of inferred intentions	2
What is intuiting and deliberating? A functional–cognitive perspective	2
How puzzling is the social artifact puzzle?	2
For deep networks, the whole equals the sum of the parts	2
Metarepresentation, trust, and “unleashed expression”	2
Confidence in research findings depends on theory	2
When unpacking the black box of motivation invites three forms of reductionism	2
Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus	2
Is undisciplined behavior antithetical to cooperation, or is it part and parcel of it?	2
Eliminativist induction cannot be a solution to psychology's crisis	2
Staying alive includes adaptations for catalyzing cooperation	2
Impediments to peace	2
Women need to stay alive and protect reproductive choice	2
Decisions under uncertainty are more messy than they seem	2
Is core knowledge in the format of LOT?	2
Vocalizations are ideal identity signals	2
Beyond novelty: Learnability in the interplay between creativity, curiosity and artistic endeavours	2
IIT, half masked and half disfigured	2
Distinct neurocognitive pathways underlying creativity: An integrative approach	2
Accuracy in social judgment does not exclude the potential for bias	2
Two thousand years after Archimedes, psychologist finds three topics that will simply not yield to the experimental method	2
Almost, but not quite there: Research into the emergence of higher-order motivated behavior should fully embrace the dynamic systems approach	2
A neurocognitive view on the depiction of social robots	2
An accelerating crisis: Metascience is out-reproducing psychological science	2
Loosening the leash: The unique emotional canvas of human screams	2
How research on persuasion can inform dual-process models of judgment	2
Distinguishing involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences: Different types of cues and memory representations?	2
Mood regulation as a shared basis for creativity and curiosity	2
Why societies are important and grow so large: Tribes, nations, and teams	2
Interacting with characters redux	2
No tinkering allowed: When the end goal requires a highly specific or risky, and complex action sequence, expect ritualistic scaffolding	2
Virtual and real: Symbolic and natural experiences with social robots	2
Ownership psychology and group size	2
The challenges of sociogenomics make it more, not less, worthy of careful and innovative investigation	2
The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care	2
Activation of stance by cues, or attunement to the invariants in a populated environment?	2
Material culture both reflects and causes human cognitive evolution	2
Social groups and the computational conundrums of delays, proximity, and loyalty	2
The meta-learning toolkit needs stronger constraints	2
Neural networks need real-world behavior	2

Proxy failure as a feature of adaptive control systems	2
Polygenic scores, and the genome-wide association studies they derive from, will have difficulty identifying genes that predispose one to develop a social behavioral trait	2
GWASs and polygenic scores inherit all the old problems of heritability estimates	2
Misdiagnosing the problem of why behavioural change interventions fail	2
The many faces of moralized self-control: Puritanical morality is not reducible to cooperation concerns	2
Further advancing theories of retrieval of the personal past	2
Reframing rationality: Exogenous constraints on controlled information search	2
Social robots as depictions of social agents	2
The seductive allure of cargo cult computationalism	2
What is a society in the case of multilevel societies?	2
Return of the math: Markov blankets, dynamical systems theory, and the bounds of mind	2
Motivational whack-a-mole: Foundational boxes cannot be unpacked	2
Societies also prioritize female survival	2
Bayesian realism and structural representation	2
Imagining our moral values in the present and future	2
A developmental account of curiosity and creativity	2
The polyphony principle	2
Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science: Environmental confounding, downward causation, and unknown biology	2
Why the use of ideographic codes does not improve communicative skills in patients with severe aphasia?	2
Categorizing judgments as likely to be selected by intuition or deliberation	2
Structuring unleashed expression: Developmental foundations of human communication	2
Cooperative care as origins of the “happy ape”?	2
Representational structures only make their mark over time: A case from memory	2
Visual Attention in Crisis	2
Beyond individual sex differences: “Staying alive theory” as an adaptive complex	2
Myths and fitness interdependence: Beyond coalitional longevity	2
Inferences from absences	2
Cognitive traits are more appropriate for genetic analysis than social outcomes	2
Advanced testing of the LoT hypothesis by social reasoning	2
Biological sex, by-products, and other continuous variables	2
Ownership psychology, its antecedents and consequences	2
Models of vision need some action	2
Puritanical morality and the scaffolded evolution of self-control	2
Phenomena complexity, disciplinary consensus, and experimental versus correlational research in psychological science	2
Mindfulness, curiosity, and creativity	2
Developmental antecedents of representing “group” behavior: A commentary on Pietraszewski's theory of groups	1
Regulator and agent sophistication as an explanation-generating engine for proxy failure dynamics	1
Latent structure learning as an alternative computation for group inference	1
Genes, genomes, and developmental process	1
Societies have functions for individuals and collectives	1
Is a wandering mind a novelty-seeking mind? The curious case of incubation	1
Identity groups, perceived group continuity, and schism	1
The missing consequences: A fourth flaw of experiments	1
Myths and prestige in Hindu nationalist politics	1
Higher-order motivational constructs as personal-level fictions: A solution in search of a problem	1
A continuity of Markov blanket interpretations under the free-energy principle	1
Uncertainty reduction as an alternative explanation of historical myths	1
Purity is still a problem	1
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth	1
The key to understanding core knowledge resides in the fetus	1
Integrative learning in the lens of meta-learned models of cognition: Impacts on animal and human learning outcomes	1
Embodied choices bypass narratives under radical uncertainty	1
Integrative experiments require a shared theoretical and methodological basis	1
A reputational perspective on rational framing effects	1
Societies and other kinds of social groups	1
The empire strikes back: Some responses to Bruineberg and colleagues	1
Markov blankets: Realism and our ontological commitments	1
The language-of-thought hypothesis as a working hypothesis in cognitive science	1
Causal complexity demands community coordination	1
Incomplete language-of-thought in infancy	1
Does the present moment depend on the moments not lived?	1
Experiments make a good breakfast, but a poor supper	1
Vertical pleiotropy explains the heritability of social science traits	1
A bigger problem for ideography: The pervasiveness of linguistic structure	1
Sex differences are insufficient evidence of ecological adaptations in human females	1
Children as agents of cultural adaptation	1
Social learning and the adaptiveness of expressing and perceiving fearfulness	1
Author's response: The challenge of peace	1
Even simple framing effects are rational	1
Historical myths are believed because audiences are socially motivated	1
Challenges of meta-learning and rational analysis in large worlds	1
A spontaneous neural replay account for involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences	1
The language-of-thought as a working hypothesis for developmental cognitive science	1
Distinguishing self-involving from self-serving choices in framing effects	1
Causal surgery under a Markov blanket	1
Heritability is a poor, if not unhelpful, measure of complex human behavioral processes	1
Meta-criteria to formulate criteria of consciousness	1
Heightened fearfulness as a developmental adaptation	1
The Emperor Is Naked: Replies to commentaries on the target article	1
Bayes beyond the predictive distribution	1
Understanding cultural clusters: An ethnographic perspective	1
The dubious precision and utility of heritability estimates	1
A call for comparing theories of consciousness and data sharing	1
Cultural evolution is not independent of linguistic evolution and social aspects of language use	1
Fixing the problems of deep neural networks will require better training data and learning algorithms	1
Historical myths promote cooperation through affective states	1
Using the sender–receiver framework to understand the evolution of languages-of-thought	1
Burt uses a fallacious motte-and-bailey argument to dispute the value of genetics for social science	1
Modelling human vision needs to account for subjective experience	1
Self-control modulates information salience	1
Computational theories should be made with natural language instead of meaningless code	1
Meta-learning: Bayesian or quantum?	1
Simulation does not just inform choice, it changes choice	1
Increasing the use of functional and multimodal genetic data in social science research	1
Young children are not driven to explore imaginary worlds	1