Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Article	Citations
What we don't know about what babies know: Reconsidering psychophysics, exploration, and infant behavior	227
The adaptiveness of fear (and other emotions) considered more broadly: Missed literature on the nature of emotions and its functions	71
Belonging to a community of moral values as a key criterion of society	69
The Trojan horse of historical myths: Emotion-driven narratives as a strategy for coalitional recruitment	58
The unboxing has already begun: One motivation construct at a time	57
Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework	38
The cost of crisis in clinical psychological science	35
Taking social psychology out of context	32
Citizen science can help to alleviate the generalizability crisis	31
Integrating cultural evolution and behavioral genetics	30
Rational framing effects: A multidisciplinary case	28
Cultural evolutionary theory is not enough: Ambiguous culture, neglect of structure, and the absence of theory in behavior genetics	28
The many geographical layers of culture	27
The disintegrated theory of consciousness: Sleep, waking, and meta-awareness	26
Making the unconscious conscious: Developing maladaptive scripts into conviction narratives	24
Frames, trade-offs, and perspectives	21
Ownership psychology as a cognitive adaptation: A minimalist model	19
Correction, uncertainty, and anchoring effects	18
Do conviction narratives drive individual decisions?	15
“Who's there?”: Depicting identity in interaction	12
Déjà vu: A botched memory operation, illegitimate to start with	11
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics without racial/ethnic diversity will result in weak causal knowledge	11
Trait attribution explains human–robot interactions	11
Primordial feeling of possession in development	10
Unpacking the nudge muddle	10

Capacities for peace, and war, are old and related to Homo construction of worlds and communities	9
Natural logic and baby LoTH	9
Explananda and explanantia in deep neural network models of neurological network functions	8
Social and economic interdependence as a basis for peaceful between-group relationships in nonhuman primates and humans	8
The central problem is still evolutionary stability	7
Conformity versus transmission in animal cultures	7
The evolution of (intergroup) peace hinges on how we define groups and peace	6
Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences	6
The study of rational framing effects needs developmental psychology	6
The creativity of architects	6
Myth as model: Group-level interpretive frameworks	5
Functional ideographies are composite semiotic systems	5
Creativity and tradition: Music and bifocal stance theory	5
Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition	5
Tradition and invention: The bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution	5
Group myths can create shared understanding even if they don't act as superstimuli	5
Negative priors and inferences from absence of evidence in cognitive and linguistic archaeology: Epistemically sound and scientifically strategic	5
Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens: Ultimate functions, proximate mechanisms, cultural distribution	5
Disentangling paradigm and method can help bring qualitative research to post-positivist psychology and address the generalizability crisis	5
Beyond the limitations of any imaginable mechanism: Large language models and psycholinguistics	5
Developmental research assessing bias would benefit from naturalistic observation data	4
Psychological and actual group formation: Conflict is neither necessary nor sufficient	4
For human-like models, train on human-like tasks	4
Quo vadis, planning?	4
The centrality of practice in ideographic communication, and the perennial puzzle of positivistic thinking	4
Escaping from the IIT Munchausen method: Re-establishing the scientific method in the study of consciousness	4
Dimensional versus conceptual incommensurability in the social and behavioral sciences	4
The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis: Consequences for the development of the logic of thought	4
The ritual stance does not apply to magic in general	4
Women take risks to help others to stay alive	4
Why frightening imaginary worlds? Morbid curiosity and the learning potential of horror	4
Substances as a core domain	4
Peace in other primates	4
On abstract goals’ perverse effects on proxies: The dynamics of unattainability	4
Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide	3
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics	3
“WEIRD” societies still value (even needless) self-control and self-sacrifice	3
Bifocal stance theory: An effort to broaden, extend, and clarify	3
On the big list of causes	3
Moving from i-frame to s-frame focus in equity, diversity, and inclusion research, practice, and policy	3
Question-asking as a mechanism of information seeking	3
A multi-trait embodied framework for the evolution of brains and cognition across animal phyla	3
Ownership psychology as a “cognitive cell” adaptation: A minimalist model of microbial goods theory	3
Rational framing effects and morally valid reasons	3
Purity is linked to cooperation but not necessarily through self-control	3
Narratives need not end well; nor say it all	3
Intracranial electrical brain stimulation as an approach to studying the (dis)continuum of memory experiential phenomena	3
Autonomous social robots are real in the mind's eye of many	3
The future of experimental design: Integrative, but is the sample diverse enough?	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
When instrumental inference hides behind seemingly arbitrary conventions	3
Consciousness, complexity, and evolution	3
On the potentials of interaction breakdowns for HRI	3
A possible shared underlying mechanism among involuntary autobiographical memory and déjà vu	3
A source- and channel-coding approach to the analysis and design of languages and ideographies	3
Meeting counterfactual causality criteria is not the problem	3
Subjective and objective corruption of intuition and rational choice	3
Female advantage in threat avoidance manifests in threat reaction but not threat detection	3
The different paths to cultural convergence	3
Is language-of-thought the best game in the town we live?	3
Meta-learning in active inference	2
Staying alive includes adaptations for catalyzing cooperation	2
Generalizability, transferability, and the practice-to-practice gap	2
Visual Attention in Crisis	2
What about language?	2
Look to the field	2
Representational exchange in social learning: Blurring the lines between the ritual and instrumental	2
IIT, half masked and half disfigured	2
Hominin cognition: The null hypothesis	2
The polyphony principle	2
Ownership psychology and group size	2
Myths of trauma and myths of cooperation: Diverse consequences of history for societal cohesion	2
Cooperative care as origins of the “happy ape”?	2
Categorizing judgments as likely to be selected by intuition or deliberation	2
Bayesian realism and structural representation	2
Neural networks need real-world behavior	2
Staying alive enhances both women's and men's fitness	2
How puzzling is the social artifact puzzle?	2
Further advancing theories of retrieval of the personal past	2
Mood regulation as a shared basis for creativity and curiosity	2
Myths and fitness interdependence: Beyond coalitional longevity	2
Is core knowledge in the format of LOT?	2
Material culture both reflects and causes human cognitive evolution	2
The seductive allure of cargo cult computationalism	2
The meta-learning toolkit needs stronger constraints	2
Meta-learned models beyond and beneath the cognitive	2
Interacting with characters redux	2
Return of the math: Markov blankets, dynamical systems theory, and the bounds of mind	2
Centering the relationship between structural racism and individual bias	2
Metarepresentation, trust, and “unleashed expression”	2
Markov blankets as boundary conditions: Sweeping dirt under the rug still cleans the house	2
Confidence in research findings depends on theory	2
The Emperor's New Markov Blankets	2
Meta-cognition about social robots could be difficult, making self-reports about some cognitive processes less useful	2
Revisiting an extant framework: Concerns about culture and task generalization	2
Distinguishing involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences: Different types of cues and memory representations?	2
No tinkering allowed: When the end goal requires a highly specific or risky, and complex action sequence, expect ritualistic scaffolding	2
Two thousand years after Archimedes, psychologist finds three topics that will simply not yield to the experimental method	2
Cognitive traits are more appropriate for genetic analysis than social outcomes	2
What is intuiting and deliberating? A functional–cognitive perspective	2
Social groups and the computational conundrums of delays, proximity, and loyalty	2
Ownership psychology, its antecedents and consequences	2
For deep networks, the whole equals the sum of the parts	2
Conspiracy theory	2
Probabilistic programming versus meta-learning as models of cognition	2
Motivational whack-a-mole: Foundational boxes cannot be unpacked	2
When unpacking the black box of motivation invites three forms of reductionism	2
Almost, but not quite there: Research into the emergence of higher-order motivated behavior should fully embrace the dynamic systems approach	2
Vocalizations are ideal identity signals	2
An accelerating crisis: Metascience is out-reproducing psychological science	2
Biological sex, by-products, and other continuous variables	2
Publishing fast and slow: A path toward generalizability in psychology and AI	2
Inferences from absences	2
Experimental studies of bias: Imperfect but neither useless nor unique	2
The evolutionary psychology of ownership is rooted in the Lockean liberal principle of self-ownership	2
Developmental noise is an overlooked contributor to innate variation in psychological traits	2
The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care	2
Loosening the leash: The unique emotional canvas of human screams	2
GWASs and polygenic scores inherit all the old problems of heritability estimates	2
Beyond individual sex differences: “Staying alive theory” as an adaptive complex	2
Distinct neurocognitive pathways underlying creativity: An integrative approach	2
Imagining our moral values in the present and future	2
Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science: Environmental confounding, downward causation, and unknown biology	2
Social robots as depictions of social agents	2
Is undisciplined behavior antithetical to cooperation, or is it part and parcel of it?	2
Beyond reductionism: Understanding motivational energization requires higher-order constructs	2
Structuring unleashed expression: Developmental foundations of human communication	2
Impediments to peace	2

Representational structures only make their mark over time: A case from memory	2
Phenomena complexity, disciplinary consensus, and experimental versus correlational research in psychological science	2
Activation of stance by cues, or attunement to the invariants in a populated environment?	2
Creativity is motivated by novelty. Curiosity is triggered by uncertainty	2
Models of gene–culture evolution are incomplete without incorporating epigenetic effects	2
Enough blanket metaphysics, time for data-driven heuristics	2
Beyond novelty: Learnability in the interplay between creativity, curiosity and artistic endeavours	2
Markov blankets: Realism and our ontological commitments	1
Children as agents of cultural adaptation	1
The Emperor Is Naked: Replies to commentaries on the target article	1
How important is it to learn language rather than create it?	1
Meta-criteria to formulate criteria of consciousness	1
Heritability is a poor, if not unhelpful, measure of complex human behavioral processes	1
Accommodating the continuum hypothesis with the déjà vu/déjà vécu distinction	1
Meta-learning: Bayesian or quantum?	1
Historical myths are believed because audiences are socially motivated	1
Understanding cultural clusters: An ethnographic perspective	1
Self-control modulates information salience	1
Increasing the use of functional and multimodal genetic data in social science research	1
Uncertainty reduction as an alternative explanation of historical myths	1
On the murky dissociation between expression and communication	1
Societies have functions for individuals and collectives	1
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth	1
Consensus meetings will outperform integrative experiments	1
Investigating infant knowledge with representational similarity analysis	1
All that glisters is not gold: Genetics and social science	1
Sex differences in longevity are relative, not independent	1
Learning agents that acquire representations of social groups	1
Without more theory, psychology will be a headless rider	1
Boyer's minimal model should also represent multiple ownership without collective agency	1
Response to commentaries on What Babies Know	1
Fixing the problems of deep neural networks will require better training data and learning algorithms	1
The roots of peace	1
A tale of two histories: Dual-system architectures in modular perspective	1
Causal surgery under a Markov blanket	1
Simulation does not just inform choice, it changes choice	1
Genomics might not be the solution, but epistemic validity remains a challenge in the social sciences	1
Proposing the DN(C)-model of material evidence for well-calibrated claims about past cultures	1
The language-of-thought hypothesis as a working hypothesis in cognitive science	1
Distinguishing self-involving from self-serving choices in framing effects	1
Sex differences are insufficient evidence of ecological adaptations in human females	1
Integrative learning in the lens of meta-learned models of cognition: Impacts on animal and human learning outcomes	1
Developmental and evolutionary models of social fear can address “the human fear paradox”	1
Experiments make a good breakfast, but a poor supper	1
Burt uses a fallacious motte-and-bailey argument to dispute the value of genetics for social science	1
The language-of-thought as a working hypothesis for developmental cognitive science	1
The puzzle of ideography	1
Integrative experiments require a shared theoretical and methodological basis	1
The social stratification of population as a mechanism of downward causation	1
Social learning and the adaptiveness of expressing and perceiving fearfulness	1
The dark side of fear expression: Infant crying as a trigger for maladaptive parental responses	1
Identity groups, perceived group continuity, and schism	1
A continuity of Markov blanket interpretations under the free-energy principle	1
Navigating proxy failures in education: Learning from human and animal play	1
Computation, perception, and mind	1
Puritanical morality: Cooperation or coercion?	1
Controlled lab experiments are one of many useful scientific methods to investigate bias	1
The cost of success or failure for proxy signals in ecological problems	1
Don't throw motivation out with the black box: The value of a good theory revisited	1
Let's move forward: Image-computable models and a common model evaluation scheme are prerequisites for a scientific understanding of human vision	1
Explore your experimental designs and theories before you exploit them!	1
Notational systems are distinct cognitive systems with different material prehistories	1
Consciousness is already solved: The continued debate is not about science	1
Cultural evolution needed to complete the Grossmann theory	1
Developmental antecedents of representing “group” behavior: A commentary on Pietraszewski's theory of groups	1
A reputational perspective on rational framing effects	1
What makes narratives feel right? The role of metacognitive experiences	1
On the dual nature of creativity: Same same but different?	1
Latent structure learning as an alternative computation for group inference	1
The empire strikes back: Some responses to Bruineberg and colleagues	1
Myths and prestige in Hindu nationalist politics	1
Challenges of meta-learning and rational analysis in large worlds	1
Fidelity, stances, and explaining cultural stability	1
A call for comparing theories of consciousness and data sharing	1
Computational theories should be made with natural language instead of meaningless code	1
Incomplete language-of-thought in infancy	1
Historical myths promote cooperation through affective states	1
Is Conviction Narrative Theory a theory of everything or nothing?	1
A nation by any other name: A failure to focus on function	1
Young children are not driven to explore imaginary worlds	1
Toward a causal model of curiosity and creativity	1
A bigger problem for ideography: The pervasiveness of linguistic structure	1
Puritanical moralism may signal patience rather than cause self-control	1
Individual differences and multi-step thinking	1
Cesario's framework for understanding group disparities is radically incomplete	1
A neuroscientific perspective on the computational theory of social groups	1
The scientific value of explanation and prediction	1
Even simple framing effects are rational	1
Nudges, regulations, and behavioral public choice	1
The intertwined nature of peace and war	1
The “hearts-and-minds frame”: Not all i-frame interventions are ineffective, but education-based interventions can be particularly bad	1
Communication consistency, completeness, and complexity of digital ideography in trustworthy mobile extended reality	1
Societies and other kinds of social groups	1
A spontaneous neural replay account for involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences	1
Mind the gap: Why is there no general purpose ideographic system?	1