OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
ANNOUNCEMENT	37
Readiness potentials changed by decision-making in the chicken game	27
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	24
Social status in zebrafish modulates the behavioral response to 5-HT2C receptor agonists and antagonists	24
Distinct neural correlates of accuracy and bias in the perception of facial emotion expressions	18
Comparing level 1 and level 2 visuo-spatial perspective-taking in the brain: evidence from fMRI	16
Emotional engagement with close friends in adolescence predicts neural correlates of empathy in adulthood	16
Uncertainty cues amplify late positive potential responses to aversive emotional stimuli	15
Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents – an ERP study	14
A functional neuroimaging investigation of Moral Foundations Theory	12
Recognizing communicative intentions from single- and dyadic point light displays in autistic adults	10
To bridge or not to bridge: Moral Judgement in Cocaine Use Disorders, a case-control study on human morality	10
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	9
An fMRI-study of leading and following using rhythmic tapping	9
A common neural response to perceiving but not implicitly regulating infant and adult affect in postpartum mothers	8
Attachment Modulates Neural Responses to Social Exclusion vs. Inclusion: An fMRI Cyberball Study in Children	8
Social reward anticipation in infants as revealed by event-related potentials	7
From physical to digital: A theoretical-methodological primer on designing hyperscanning investigations to explore remote exchanges	7
Investigating the relationship of theory of mind and empathy with neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and neuropsychiatric data in persons with multiple sclerosis	7
Competition during verbal creative processes influences on ERS/ERD	6
Oxytocin and vasopressin 1a receptor alterations in the superior temporal sulcus and hypothalamus in schizophrenia	6
Directed causal networks for leading and following in hyperscanning EEG	6
The role of executive functions and cognitive estimation in decision-making: a study with patients with prefrontal cortex damage	6
Loneliness - not for the faint of heart? Effects of transient loneliness induction on neural and parasympathetic responses to affective stimuli	6
The neurobiological map of theory of mind and pragmatic communication in autism	5

Context-dependent hierarchical categorization of human faces: behavioral and EEG/MEG evidence	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
Community-level explicit racial prejudice potentiates whites’ neural responses to black faces: A spatial meta-analysis	4
Identifying the neural mechanisms associated with older adults’ dynamic theory of mind judgments during a movie-watching task	4
An examination of mindfulness on Mu suppression and pain empathy and its relation to trait empathy	4
Influence of first-person and third-person perspectives on neural mechanisms of professional pride	4
Inequity aversion under procedural justice in deaf college students: an ERP study	4
Dyad averaged BMI-dependent interbrain synchrony during continuous mutual prediction in social coordination	4
The enhancement effect of social interaction on emotional contagion: an EEG-Based hyperscanning study	4
Variability in medial prefrontal cortex responses to smiles in human infants is linked to genetic variation in the oxytocin system	4
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
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
Obedience to authority reduces cognitive conflict before an action	3
Better together: A systematic review of studies combining magnetic resonance imaging with ecological momentary assessment	3
Loss of free will in the Iranian criminal justice system: Interdisciplinary analysis of law and neuroscience	3
Does the TPJ fit it all? Representational similarity analysis of different forms of mentalizing	3
The relationship between social reward behavior and mesolimbic dopamine release	3
Explicit and implicit abilities in humor processing in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis	3
Mother-child inter-brain synchrony during a mutual visual search task: A study of feedback valence and role	3
Event-related correlates of compassion for social pain	3
Touch and the development of trust: tactile stimulation affects decision-making and face perception	2
Implicit induction of expressive suppression in regulation of happy crowd emotions	2
Predicting narcissistic personality traits from brain and psychological features: A supervised machine learning approach	2
Deciphering the mechanisms of impaired decision-making	2
Lovers’ creativity sparks under stress: fNIRS hyperscanning evidence of dating couples’ creative problem-solving under stress	2
The influence of empathic concern on evaluative processing in self and charity outcomes	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
Interpersonal coordination with a virtual outgroup increases motor preparation demands but it is not modulated by mPFC inhibition	2
Neuroscientific protocols for the assessment and management of physiological responses to digital technostress	1
Association between social comparison orientation and hippocampal properties in older adults: A multimodal MRI study	1
Correction	1
Neural correlates of attentional orienting with neutral and fearful gaze cues in 12-month-olds	1
An EEG hyperscanning study during persuasion toward groupness. The frontal brain area activation as a function of role	1
The neurofunctional basis of human aggression varies by levels of femininity	1
Examining implicit neural bias against vaccine hesitancy	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
Destination memory disorders: At the junction between memory and socioaffective processing	1
Distinct social behavior and inter-brain connectivity in Dyads with autistic individuals	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
Influence of daily experiences on ERP correlates of face perception of ones’ romantic partner	1
The neuronal dynamics of different types of incentives on risk-taking: comparing financial and social rewards using fMRI	1
Empathy boosts the comprehension of nonverbal behavior	1
How clinical decision tasks modulate emotional related EEG responses in nursing students	1
Neuroscience of social touch: Emerging directions and challenges	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
Predictive models for social functioning in healthy young adults: A machine learning study integrating neuroanatomical, cognitive, and behavioral data	1
Executive functions in adolescence: A longitudinal study comparing evaluations before and after the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Does emotion regulation network mediate the effect of social network on psychological distress among older adults?	1
Dissociating neural sensitivity to target identity and mental state content type during inferences about other minds	1
Social-touch and self-touch differ in hemodynamic response in the prefrontal cortex – a fNIRS study conducted during the coronavirus pandemic	1