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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An Empirical Evaluation of Methodologies Used for Emotion Recognition via EEG Signals	31
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	19
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
Event-related correlates of evolving trust evaluations	10
Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents – an ERP study	9
Emotional engagement with close friends in adolescence predicts neural correlates of empathy in adulthood	9
Neurophysiological mechanisms of perspective-taking: An MEG investigation of agency	9
Interpersonal negotiation skills in ADHD	8
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	7
Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement?	7
Neural correlates of enhancing question asking and initiations in children with autism spectrum disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial	7
Uncertainty cues amplify late positive potential responses to aversive emotional stimuli	7
A functional neuroimaging investigation of Moral Foundations Theory	6
An fMRI-study of leading and following using rhythmic tapping	6
Recognizing communicative intentions from single- and dyadic point light displays in autistic adults	6
From physical to digital: A theoretical-methodological primer on designing hyperscanning investigations to explore remote exchanges	5
Social appropriateness perception of dynamic interactions	5
Social reward anticipation in infants as revealed by event-related potentials	5
Impaired social perception from eyes and face visual cues: evidence from prefrontal cortex damage	5
Oxytocin and vasopressin 1a receptor alterations in the superior temporal sulcus and hypothalamus in schizophrenia	5
To bridge or not to bridge: Moral Judgement in Cocaine Use Disorders, a case-control study on human morality	5
A common neural response to perceiving but not implicitly regulating infant and adult affect in postpartum mothers	5

Investigating the relationship of theory of mind and empathy with neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and neuropsychiatric data in persons with multiple sclerosis	5
Communicative intentions automatically hold attention – evidence from event-related potentials	4
Loneliness - not for the faint of heart? Effects of transient loneliness induction on neural and parasympathetic responses to affective stimuli	4
The relation between belief in a just world and early processing of deserved and undeserved outcomes: An ERP study	4
An examination of mindfulness on Mu suppression and pain empathy and its relation to trait empathy	4
Competition during verbal creative processes influences on ERS/ERD	4
The neurobiological map of theory of mind and pragmatic communication in autism	4
Stronger mentalizing network connectivity in expectant fathers predicts postpartum father-infant bonding and parenting behavior	4
Facial attractiveness is more associated with individual warmth than with competence: Behavioral and neural evidence	4
Medial prefrontal activity during self-other judgments is modulated by relationship need fulfillment	4
Population variation in social brain morphology: Links to socioeconomic status and health disparity	3
Dyad averaged BMI-dependent interbrain synchrony during continuous mutual prediction in social coordination	3
Obedience to authority reduces cognitive conflict before an action	3
Mother-child inter-brain synchrony during a mutual visual search task: A study of feedback valence and role	3
The role of contextual information in a virtual trolly problem: A psychophysiological investigation	3
Neural correlates of sex differences in communicative gestures and speech comprehension: A preliminary study	3
Influence of first-person and third-person perspectives on neural mechanisms of professional pride	3
The Underlying neural mechanisms of interpersonal situations on collaborative ability: A hyperscanning study using functional near-infrared spectroscopy	3
Explicit and implicit abilities in humor processing in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis	3
Null effect of anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on own- and other-race face recognition	3
Maternal socioeconomic disadvantage, neural function during volitional emotion regulation, and parenting	3
Community-level explicit racial prejudice potentiates whites’ neural responses to black faces: A spatial meta-analysis	3
Brain dynamics of recommendation-based social influence on preference change: A magnetoencephalography study	3
An ERP-study on the extent to which partisanship conditions the early processing of politicians’ faces	3
How does teaching experience impact brain processes underlying the theory of mind? Study on primary school educators	2
Does the TPJ fit it all? Representational similarity analysis of different forms of mentalizing	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
Better together: A systematic review of studies combining magnetic resonance imaging with ecological momentary assessment	2
Mental health stigma and emotional face processing: An ERP study	2
Implicit induction of expressive suppression in regulation of happy crowd emotions	2
Hippocampus links perceived social support with self-esteem	2
Alcohol attention bias modulates neural engagement during moral processing	2
Social cerebellum in goal-directed navigation	2
Dissociable effects of acute versus cumulative violent video game exposure on the action simulation circuit in university students	1
Neural correlates of attentional orienting with neutral and fearful gaze cues in 12-month-olds	1
Dopamine, religiosity, and utilitarian moral judgment	1
Neural sensitivity to trustworthiness cues from realistic face images is associated with temperament: An electrophysiological study with 6-month-old infants	1
A matter of perspective: Distinct brain mechanisms for evaluating positive and negative social feedback about oneself and another person	1
The neurofunctional basis of human aggression varies by levels of femininity	1
Distinct social behavior and inter-brain connectivity in Dyads with autistic individuals	1
Association between social comparison orientation and hippocampal properties in older adults: A multimodal MRI study	1
Neural mechanisms of intergroup exclusion and retaliatory aggression	1
Predictive models for social functioning in healthy young adults: A machine learning study integrating neuroanatomical, cognitive, and behavioral data	1
Predicting narcissistic personality traits from brain and psychological features: A supervised machine learning approach	1
The influence of empathic concern on evaluative processing in self and charity outcomes	1
Impact of social knowledge about the speaker on irony understanding: Evidence from neural oscillations	1
Measuring the neural correlates of the violation of social expectations: A comparison of two experimental tasks	1
When humor is a matter of heart: Effects on emotional state and interbeat interval	1
An EEG hyperscanning study during persuasion toward groupness. The frontal brain area activation as a function of role	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
Correction	1
Hypothalamus volume in men: Investigating associations with paternal status, self-reported caregiving beliefs, and adult attachment style	1
Posterior medial frontal cortex regulates sympathy: A TMS study	1
Financial incentives facilitate stronger neural computation of prosocial decisions in lower empathic adult females	1
Theory of mind in dysphoric and non-dysphoric adults: An ERP study of true- and false-belief reasoning	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
Does emotion regulation network mediate the effect of social network on psychological distress among older adults?	1
Emojis vs. facial expressions: An electrical neuroimaging study on perceptual recognition	1