OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Neuroscience is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
ANNOUNCEMENT	35
Readiness potentials changed by decision-making in the chicken game	25
The role of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in social decision-making against high- and low-rank opponents: a transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) study	23
Social status in zebrafish modulates the behavioral response to 5-HT2C receptor agonists and antagonists	21
Distinct neural correlates of accuracy and bias in the perception of facial emotion expressions	15
Comparing level 1 and level 2 visuo-spatial perspective-taking in the brain: evidence from fMRI	15
The degree of mu rhythm suppression in women is associated with presence of children as well as empathy and anxiety level	14
Uncertainty cues amplify late positive potential responses to aversive emotional stimuli	13
Emotional engagement with close friends in adolescence predicts neural correlates of empathy in adulthood	13
To bridge or not to bridge: Moral Judgement in Cocaine Use Disorders, a case-control study on human morality	10
Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents – an ERP study	10
Recognizing communicative intentions from single- and dyadic point light displays in autistic adults	9
A functional neuroimaging investigation of Moral Foundations Theory	9
An fMRI-study of leading and following using rhythmic tapping	9
Parent–child dyads with greater parenting stress exhibit less synchrony in posterior areas and more synchrony in frontal areas of the prefrontal cortex during shared play	8
From physical to digital: A theoretical-methodological primer on designing hyperscanning investigations to explore remote exchanges	7
Attachment Modulates Neural Responses to Social Exclusion vs. Inclusion: An fMRI Cyberball Study in Children	7
A common neural response to perceiving but not implicitly regulating infant and adult affect in postpartum mothers	7
Social reward anticipation in infants as revealed by event-related potentials	7
Loneliness - not for the faint of heart? Effects of transient loneliness induction on neural and parasympathetic responses to affective stimuli	6
Investigating the relationship of theory of mind and empathy with neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and neuropsychiatric data in persons with multiple sclerosis	6
Oxytocin and vasopressin 1a receptor alterations in the superior temporal sulcus and hypothalamus in schizophrenia	6
The role of executive functions and cognitive estimation in decision-making: a study with patients with prefrontal cortex damage	6
Competition during verbal creative processes influences on ERS/ERD	5
Context-dependent hierarchical categorization of human faces: behavioral and EEG/MEG evidence	5

Directed causal networks for leading and following in hyperscanning EEG	5
The neurobiological map of theory of mind and pragmatic communication in autism	5
Null effect of anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on own- and other-race face recognition	4
Communicative intentions automatically hold attention – evidence from event-related potentials	4
Dyad averaged BMI-dependent interbrain synchrony during continuous mutual prediction in social coordination	4
An examination of mindfulness on Mu suppression and pain empathy and its relation to trait empathy	4
Community-level explicit racial prejudice potentiates whites’ neural responses to black faces: A spatial meta-analysis	4
The enhancement effect of social interaction on emotional contagion: an EEG-Based hyperscanning study	4
Brain dynamics of recommendation-based social influence on preference change: A magnetoencephalography study	3
Hippocampus links perceived social support with self-esteem	3
How does teaching experience impact brain processes underlying the theory of mind? Study on primary school educators	3
Inequity aversion under procedural justice in deaf college students: an ERP study	3
Obedience to authority reduces cognitive conflict before an action	3
Explicit and implicit abilities in humor processing in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis	3
Loss of free will in the Iranian criminal justice system: Interdisciplinary analysis of law and neuroscience	3
Mother-child inter-brain synchrony during a mutual visual search task: A study of feedback valence and role	3
The relationship between social reward behavior and mesolimbic dopamine release	3
Better together: A systematic review of studies combining magnetic resonance imaging with ecological momentary assessment	3
Does the TPJ fit it all? Representational similarity analysis of different forms of mentalizing	3
Event-related correlates of compassion for social pain	3
Influence of first-person and third-person perspectives on neural mechanisms of professional pride	3
An ERP-study on the extent to which partisanship conditions the early processing of politicians’ faces	3
Lovers’ creativity sparks under stress: fNIRS hyperscanning evidence of dating couples’ creative problem-solving under stress	2
Deciphering the mechanisms of impaired decision-making	2
Predicting narcissistic personality traits from brain and psychological features: A supervised machine learning approach	2
Correction	2
Executive functions in adolescence: A longitudinal study comparing evaluations before and after the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Alcohol attention bias modulates neural engagement during moral processing	2
The influence of empathic concern on evaluative processing in self and charity outcomes	2
Dissociable effects of acute versus cumulative violent video game exposure on the action simulation circuit in university students	2
Predictive models for social functioning in healthy young adults: A machine learning study integrating neuroanatomical, cognitive, and behavioral data	2
Interpersonal coordination with a virtual outgroup increases motor preparation demands but it is not modulated by mPFC inhibition	2
Implicit induction of expressive suppression in regulation of happy crowd emotions	2
Impact of social knowledge about the speaker on irony understanding: Evidence from neural oscillations	2
Neural correlates of attentional orienting with neutral and fearful gaze cues in 12-month-olds	2
Financial incentives facilitate stronger neural computation of prosocial decisions in lower empathic adult females	2