Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Article	Citations
What we don't know about what babies know: Reconsidering psychophysics, exploration, and infant behavior	249
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	80
Correction, uncertainty, and anchoring effects	59
Citizen science can help to alleviate the generalizability crisis	59
Trait attribution explains human–robot interactions	41
Ownership psychology as a cognitive adaptation: A minimalist model	37
The Trojan horse of historical myths: Emotion-driven narratives as a strategy for coalitional recruitment	34
The unboxing has already begun: One motivation construct at a time	32
Tradition and invention: The bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution	31
Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework	31
The cost of crisis in clinical psychological science	29
Taking social psychology out of context	29
Integrating cultural evolution and behavioral genetics	27
Cultural evolutionary theory is not enough: Ambiguous culture, neglect of structure, and the absence of theory in behavior genetics	22
Rational framing effects: A multidisciplinary case	21
The many geographical layers of culture	20
The disintegrated theory of consciousness: Sleep, waking, and meta-awareness	17
Making the unconscious conscious: Developing maladaptive scripts into conviction narratives	14
Frames, trade-offs, and perspectives	14
Do conviction narratives drive individual decisions?	12
Déjà vu: A botched memory operation, illegitimate to start with	11
“Who's there?”: Depicting identity in interaction	11
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics without racial/ethnic diversity will result in weak causal knowledge	11
Unpacking the nudge muddle	10

Natural logic and baby LoTH	9
Primordial feeling of possession in development	9
Social and economic interdependence as a basis for peaceful between-group relationships in nonhuman primates and humans	8
Capacities for peace, and war, are old and related to Homo construction of worlds and communities	8
The central problem is still evolutionary stability	7
The creativity of architects	7
The study of rational framing effects needs developmental psychology	7
Conformity versus transmission in animal cultures	7
Explananda and explanantia in deep neural network models of neurological network functions	7
The evolution of (intergroup) peace hinges on how we define groups and peace	7
Functional ideographies are composite semiotic systems	6
Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens: Ultimate functions, proximate mechanisms, cultural distribution	6
Disentangling paradigm and method can help bring qualitative research to post-positivist psychology and address the generalizability crisis	6
Myth as model: Group-level interpretive frameworks	6
Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences	6
Beyond the limitations of any imaginable mechanism: Large language models and psycholinguistics	5
Why frightening imaginary worlds? Morbid curiosity and the learning potential of horror	5
Women take risks to help others to stay alive	5
Negative priors and inferences from absence of evidence in cognitive and linguistic archaeology: Epistemically sound and scientifically strategic	5
Creativity and tradition: Music and bifocal stance theory	5
Developmental research assessing bias would benefit from naturalistic observation data	5
Escaping from the IIT Munchausen method: Re-establishing the scientific method in the study of consciousness	5
Group myths can create shared understanding even if they don't act as superstimuli	5
Consciousness, complexity, and evolution	5
Psychological and actual group formation: Conflict is neither necessary nor sufficient	5
Autonomous social robots are real in the mind's eye of many	4
“WEIRD” societies still value (even needless) self-control and self-sacrifice	4
A possible shared underlying mechanism among involuntary autobiographical memory and déjà vu	4
The centrality of practice in ideographic communication, and the perennial puzzle of positivistic thinking	4
Peace in other primates	4
Bifocal stance theory: An effort to broaden, extend, and clarify	4
Narratives need not end well; nor say it all	4
Purity is linked to cooperation but not necessarily through self-control	4
Dimensional versus conceptual incommensurability in the social and behavioral sciences	4
Substances as a core domain	4
A source- and channel-coding approach to the analysis and design of languages and ideographies	4
On the potentials of interaction breakdowns for HRI	4
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics	4
The ritual stance does not apply to magic in general	4
On abstract goals’ perverse effects on proxies: The dynamics of unattainability	4
Quo vadis, planning?	4
The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis: Consequences for the development of the logic of thought	3
Is language-of-thought the best game in the town we live?	3
Intracranial electrical brain stimulation as an approach to studying the (dis)continuum of memory experiential phenomena	3
Ownership psychology as a “cognitive cell” adaptation: A minimalist model of microbial goods theory	3
Hominin cognition: The null hypothesis	3
On the big list of causes	3
Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide	3
Rational framing effects and morally valid reasons	3
Generalizability, transferability, and the practice-to-practice gap	3

Markov blankets as boundary conditions: Sweeping dirt under the rug still cleans the house	3
Publishing fast and slow: A path toward generalizability in psychology and AI	3
Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition	3
Ownership as a component of the extended self	3
Moving from i-frame to s-frame focus in equity, diversity, and inclusion research, practice, and policy	3
Development, history, and a minimalist model of ownership psychology	3
Meta-learned models beyond and beneath the cognitive	3
Moral disciplining provides a satisfying explanation for Chinese lay concepts of immorality	3
The Emperor's New Markov Blankets	3
Subjective and objective corruption of intuition and rational choice	3
Representational exchange in social learning: Blurring the lines between the ritual and instrumental	3
Myths of trauma and myths of cooperation: Diverse consequences of history for societal cohesion	3
Experimental studies of bias: Imperfect but neither useless nor unique	3
Enough blanket metaphysics, time for data-driven heuristics	3
For human-like models, train on human-like tasks	3
Female advantage in threat avoidance manifests in threat reaction but not threat detection	3
The future of experimental design: Integrative, but is the sample diverse enough?	3
The different paths to cultural convergence	3
Meta-learning in active inference	3
Meeting counterfactual causality criteria is not the problem	3
A multi-trait embodied framework for the evolution of brains and cognition across animal phyla	3
When instrumental inference hides behind seemingly arbitrary conventions	3
Developmental noise is an overlooked contributor to innate variation in psychological traits	3
Question-asking as a mechanism of information seeking	3
Centering the relationship between structural racism and individual bias	3
For deep networks, the whole equals the sum of the parts	2
Reciprocal contracts – not competitive acquisition – explain the moral psychology of ownership	2
Beyond novelty: Learnability in the interplay between creativity, curiosity and artistic endeavours	2
Distinct neurocognitive pathways underlying creativity: An integrative approach	2
Reframing rationality: Exogenous constraints on controlled information search	2
Almost, but not quite there: Research into the emergence of higher-order motivated behavior should fully embrace the dynamic systems approach	2
“Staying alive” in the context of intimate partner abuse	2
Loosening the leash: The unique emotional canvas of human screams	2
Ownership psychology, its antecedents and consequences	2
Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science: Environmental confounding, downward causation, and unknown biology	2
Proxy failure as a feature of adaptive control systems	2
Categorizing judgments as likely to be selected by intuition or deliberation	2
Decisions under uncertainty are more messy than they seem	2
Structuring unleashed expression: Developmental foundations of human communication	2
Is core knowledge in the format of LOT?	2
Activation of stance by cues, or attunement to the invariants in a populated environment?	2
Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus	2
Bayesian realism and structural representation	2
Neural networks need real-world behavior	2
Confidence in research findings depends on theory	2
The polyphony principle	2
The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care	2
Virtual and real: Symbolic and natural experiences with social robots	2
Staying alive includes adaptations for catalyzing cooperation	2
Cooperative care as origins of the “happy ape”?	2
Visual Attention in Crisis	2
Behavioral mechanism design	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
Conspiracy theory	2
Models of vision need some action	2
Is undisciplined behavior antithetical to cooperation, or is it part and parcel of it?	2
Paranoia reveals the complexity in assigning individuals to groups on the basis of inferred intentions	2
The seductive allure of cargo cult computationalism	2
Why societies are important and grow so large: Tribes, nations, and teams	2
Motivational whack-a-mole: Foundational boxes cannot be unpacked	2
A neurocognitive view on the depiction of social robots	2
Further advancing theories of retrieval of the personal past	2
Misdiagnosing the problem of why behavioural change interventions fail	2
Staying alive enhances both women's and men's fitness	2
Puritanical morality and the scaffolded evolution of self-control	2
What is intuiting and deliberating? A functional–cognitive perspective	2
Models of gene–culture evolution are incomplete without incorporating epigenetic effects	2
How puzzling is the social artifact puzzle?	2
Social robots as depictions of social agents	2
Representational structures only make their mark over time: A case from memory	2
Myths and fitness interdependence: Beyond coalitional longevity	2
Probabilistic programming versus meta-learning as models of cognition	2
An accelerating crisis: Metascience is out-reproducing psychological science	2
Cognitive traits are more appropriate for genetic analysis than social outcomes	2
Inferences from absences	2
Distinguishing involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences: Different types of cues and memory representations?	2
Creativity is motivated by novelty. Curiosity is triggered by uncertainty	2
The challenges of sociogenomics make it more, not less, worthy of careful and innovative investigation	2
Biological sex, by-products, and other continuous variables	2
Phenomena complexity, disciplinary consensus, and experimental versus correlational research in psychological science	2

Meta-cognition about social robots could be difficult, making self-reports about some cognitive processes less useful	2
Advanced testing of the LoT hypothesis by social reasoning	2
Beyond individual sex differences: “Staying alive theory” as an adaptive complex	2
Women need to stay alive and protect reproductive choice	2
Vocalizations are ideal identity signals	2
Revisiting an extant framework: Concerns about culture and task generalization	2
Mindfulness, curiosity, and creativity	2
What about language?	2
What is a society in the case of multilevel societies?	2
Beyond reductionism: Understanding motivational energization requires higher-order constructs	2
Societies also prioritize female survival	2
Imagining our moral values in the present and future	2
The many faces of moralized self-control: Puritanical morality is not reducible to cooperation concerns	2
No tinkering allowed: When the end goal requires a highly specific or risky, and complex action sequence, expect ritualistic scaffolding	2
The evolutionary psychology of ownership is rooted in the Lockean liberal principle of self-ownership	2
Ownership psychology and group size	2
Social groups and the computational conundrums of delays, proximity, and loyalty	2
Metarepresentation, trust, and “unleashed expression”	2
Look to the field	2
Mood regulation as a shared basis for creativity and curiosity	2
When unpacking the black box of motivation invites three forms of reductionism	2
GWASs and polygenic scores inherit all the old problems of heritability estimates	2
Two thousand years after Archimedes, psychologist finds three topics that will simply not yield to the experimental method	2
Impediments to peace	2
Material culture both reflects and causes human cognitive evolution	2
Interacting with characters redux	2
Return of the math: Markov blankets, dynamical systems theory, and the bounds of mind	2
Why the use of ideographic codes does not improve communicative skills in patients with severe aphasia?	2
The meta-learning toolkit needs stronger constraints	2
IIT, half masked and half disfigured	2
Eliminativist induction cannot be a solution to psychology's crisis	2
Computational theories should be made with natural language instead of meaningless code	1
Genomics might not be the solution, but epistemic validity remains a challenge in the social sciences	1
Simulation does not just inform choice, it changes choice	1
Computation, perception, and mind	1
Young children are not driven to explore imaginary worlds	1
Meta-learning: Bayesian or quantum?	1
Experiments make a good breakfast, but a poor supper	1
Increasing the use of functional and multimodal genetic data in social science research	1
Developmental antecedents of representing “group” behavior: A commentary on Pietraszewski's theory of groups	1
Integrative experiments require a shared theoretical and methodological basis	1
Integrative learning in the lens of meta-learned models of cognition: Impacts on animal and human learning outcomes	1
Modelling human vision needs to account for subjective experience	1
Societies have functions for individuals and collectives	1
Heritability is a poor, if not unhelpful, measure of complex human behavioral processes	1
Does the present moment depend on the moments not lived?	1
Fidelity, stances, and explaining cultural stability	1
From the trajectory of heritability to the heritability of trajectories	1
How important is it to learn language rather than create it?	1
Beyond biology: A sociological stance on what is society	1
Self-control modulates information salience	1
Even simple framing effects are rational	1
Higher-order motivational constructs as personal-level fictions: A solution in search of a problem	1
Embodied choices bypass narratives under radical uncertainty	1
The missing consequences: A fourth flaw of experiments	1
A reputational perspective on rational framing effects	1
Author's response: The challenge of peace	1
The empire strikes back: Some responses to Bruineberg and colleagues	1
The language-of-thought as a working hypothesis for developmental cognitive science	1
Societies and other kinds of social groups	1
A call for comparing theories of consciousness and data sharing	1
Markov blankets: Realism and our ontological commitments	1
Historical myths promote cooperation through affective states	1
Latent structure learning as an alternative computation for group inference	1
Social learning and the adaptiveness of expressing and perceiving fearfulness	1
Bayes beyond the predictive distribution	1
A nation by any other name: A failure to focus on function	1
Purity is not a distinct moral domain	1
Developmental and evolutionary models of social fear can address “the human fear paradox”	1
Culturally fluent real-world disparities can blind us to bias: Experiments using a cultural lens can help	1
Communication consistency, completeness, and complexity of digital ideography in trustworthy mobile extended reality	1
On the dual nature of creativity: Same same but different?	1
Embracing sensorimotor history: Time-synchronous and time-unrolled Markov blankets in the free-energy principle	1
Regulator and agent sophistication as an explanation-generating engine for proxy failure dynamics	1
When nudges have societal-level impact	1
A spontaneous neural replay account for involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences	1
Using the sender–receiver framework to understand the evolution of languages-of-thought	1
Distinguishing self-involving from self-serving choices in framing effects	1
Challenges of meta-learning and rational analysis in large worlds	1
The key to understanding core knowledge resides in the fetus	1
Incomplete language-of-thought in infancy	1
Causal surgery under a Markov blanket	1
Understanding cultural clusters: An ethnographic perspective	1
Meta-criteria to formulate criteria of consciousness	1
Uncertainty reduction as an alternative explanation of historical myths	1
Identity groups, perceived group continuity, and schism	1
Burt uses a fallacious motte-and-bailey argument to dispute the value of genetics for social science	1
Is a wandering mind a novelty-seeking mind? The curious case of incubation	1
Historical myths are believed because audiences are socially motivated	1
The dubious precision and utility of heritability estimates	1
Purity is still a problem	1
The labelled container: Conceptual development of social group representations	1
The language-of-thought hypothesis as a working hypothesis in cognitive science	1
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth	1
Let's move forward: Image-computable models and a common model evaluation scheme are prerequisites for a scientific understanding of human vision – CORRIGENDUM	1