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Papers

(The median citation count of Social Neuroscience is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An Empirical Evaluation of Methodologies Used for Emotion Recognition via EEG Signals	25
Readiness potentials changed by decision-making in the chicken game	19
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	18
The degree of mu rhythm suppression in women is associated with presence of children as well as empathy and anxiety level	17
Comparing level 1 and level 2 visuo-spatial perspective-taking in the brain: evidence from fMRI	14
Social status in zebrafish modulates the behavioral response to 5-HT2C receptor agonists and antagonists	11
Event-related correlates of evolving trust evaluations	10
Distinct neural correlates of accuracy and bias in the perception of facial emotion expressions	10
Emotional engagement with close friends in adolescence predicts neural correlates of empathy in adulthood	9
Interpersonal negotiation skills in ADHD	9
Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents – an ERP study	8
Uncertainty cues amplify late positive potential responses to aversive emotional stimuli	8
Neural correlates of enhancing question asking and initiations in children with autism spectrum disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial	7
Recognizing communicative intentions from single- and dyadic point light displays in autistic adults	7
An fMRI-study of leading and following using rhythmic tapping	7
Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement?	7
To bridge or not to bridge: Moral Judgement in Cocaine Use Disorders, a case-control study on human morality	7
Social reward anticipation in infants as revealed by event-related potentials	6
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	6
A common neural response to perceiving but not implicitly regulating infant and adult affect in postpartum mothers	6
A functional neuroimaging investigation of Moral Foundations Theory	6
From physical to digital: A theoretical-methodological primer on designing hyperscanning investigations to explore remote exchanges	5
Oxytocin and vasopressin 1a receptor alterations in the superior temporal sulcus and hypothalamus in schizophrenia	5
Directed causal networks for leading and following in hyperscanning EEG	5
Investigating the relationship of theory of mind and empathy with neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and neuropsychiatric data in persons with multiple sclerosis	5

Social appropriateness perception of dynamic interactions	5
The neurobiological map of theory of mind and pragmatic communication in autism	5
Loneliness - not for the faint of heart? Effects of transient loneliness induction on neural and parasympathetic responses to affective stimuli	5
Competition during verbal creative processes influences on ERS/ERD	5
Facial attractiveness is more associated with individual warmth than with competence: Behavioral and neural evidence	5
The enhancement effect of social interaction on emotional contagion: an EEG-Based hyperscanning study	4
An examination of mindfulness on Mu suppression and pain empathy and its relation to trait empathy	4
Communicative intentions automatically hold attention – evidence from event-related potentials	4
Null effect of anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on own- and other-race face recognition	4
Medial prefrontal activity during self-other judgments is modulated by relationship need fulfillment	4
Community-level explicit racial prejudice potentiates whites’ neural responses to black faces: A spatial meta-analysis	4
Stronger mentalizing network connectivity in expectant fathers predicts postpartum father-infant bonding and parenting behavior	4
The relation between belief in a just world and early processing of deserved and undeserved outcomes: An ERP study	4
Maternal socioeconomic disadvantage, neural function during volitional emotion regulation, and parenting	3
Dyad averaged BMI-dependent interbrain synchrony during continuous mutual prediction in social coordination	3
An ERP-study on the extent to which partisanship conditions the early processing of politicians’ faces	3
Brain dynamics of recommendation-based social influence on preference change: A magnetoencephalography study	3
The role of contextual information in a virtual trolly problem: A psychophysiological investigation	3
Influence of first-person and third-person perspectives on neural mechanisms of professional pride	3
Better together: A systematic review of studies combining magnetic resonance imaging with ecological momentary assessment	3
Explicit and implicit abilities in humor processing in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis	3
Population variation in social brain morphology: Links to socioeconomic status and health disparity	3
Neural correlates of sex differences in communicative gestures and speech comprehension: A preliminary study	3
Obedience to authority reduces cognitive conflict before an action	3
Does the TPJ fit it all? Representational similarity analysis of different forms of mentalizing	3
Mother-child inter-brain synchrony during a mutual visual search task: A study of feedback valence and role	3
Hippocampus links perceived social support with self-esteem	2
Alcohol attention bias modulates neural engagement during moral processing	2
Impact of social knowledge about the speaker on irony understanding: Evidence from neural oscillations	2
A matter of perspective: Distinct brain mechanisms for evaluating positive and negative social feedback about oneself and another person	2
How does teaching experience impact brain processes underlying the theory of mind? Study on primary school educators	2
Hypothalamus volume in men: Investigating associations with paternal status, self-reported caregiving beliefs, and adult attachment style	2
Predicting narcissistic personality traits from brain and psychological features: A supervised machine learning approach	2
The influence of empathic concern on evaluative processing in self and charity outcomes	2
Implicit induction of expressive suppression in regulation of happy crowd emotions	2
Event-related correlates of compassion for social pain	2
Loss of free will in the Iranian criminal justice system: Interdisciplinary analysis of law and neuroscience	2
Neural correlates of attentional orienting with neutral and fearful gaze cues in 12-month-olds	2
When humor is a matter of heart: Effects on emotional state and interbeat interval	1
Association between social comparison orientation and hippocampal properties in older adults: A multimodal MRI study	1
Measuring the neural correlates of the violation of social expectations: A comparison of two experimental tasks	1
Dissociable effects of acute versus cumulative violent video game exposure on the action simulation circuit in university students	1
Distinct social behavior and inter-brain connectivity in Dyads with autistic individuals	1
Predictive models for social functioning in healthy young adults: A machine learning study integrating neuroanatomical, cognitive, and behavioral data	1
Pair bond quality influences social conditioned place preference expression, passive coping behavior, and central oxytocin receptor expression following partner loss in male prairie voles	1
Examining implicit neural bias against vaccine hesitancy	1
Theory of mind in dysphoric and non-dysphoric adults: An ERP study of true- and false-belief reasoning	1
Dissociating neural sensitivity to target identity and mental state content type during inferences about other minds	1
How unexpected events are processed in theory of mind regions: A conceptual replication	1
The impact of social isolation on depression-like behavior in carioca high- and low-conditioned freezing rats	1

Executive functions in adolescence: A longitudinal study comparing evaluations before and after the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Neural mechanisms of intergroup exclusion and retaliatory aggression	1
Does emotion regulation network mediate the effect of social network on psychological distress among older adults?	1
How clinical decision tasks modulate emotional related EEG responses in nursing students	1
Social-touch and self-touch differ in hemodynamic response in the prefrontal cortex – a fNIRS study conducted during the coronavirus pandemic	1
The neurofunctional basis of human aggression varies by levels of femininity	1
Emojis vs. facial expressions: An electrical neuroimaging study on perceptual recognition	1
Financial incentives facilitate stronger neural computation of prosocial decisions in lower empathic adult females	1
Correction	1
An EEG hyperscanning study during persuasion toward groupness. The frontal brain area activation as a function of role	1
Shame proneness is associated with individual differences in temporal pole white matter structure	1
Neuroscience of social touch: Emerging directions and challenges	1
“We will be in touch”. A neuroscientific assessment of remote vs. face-to-face job interviews via EEG hyperscanning	1