Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Cognitive and Affective 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Intertemporal meditation regulates time perception and emotions: an exploratory fNIRS study79
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates57
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years47
Unsupervised classification reveals consistency and degeneracy in neural network patterns of emotion45
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction37
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions35
Oxytocin enhances basolateral amygdala activation and functional connectivity while processing emotional faces: preliminary findings in autistic vs non-autistic women31
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain29
Targeting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to enhance memory control: divergent effects on social and non-social memories28
Authenticity is more than self-enhancement: behavioural and neurophysiological evidence28
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls27
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults26
Mapping neural signatures of face processing in young children: an OPM-MEG study23
Are older adults more deceived by false advertising? Evidence from intra- and inter-brain connectivity in the prefrontal cortex during face-to-face deceptive sales23
Mine or ours? Neural basis of the exploitation of common-pool resources23
Neural responses to social touch with different emotional valences: an fNIRS study23
Connectome-based prediction of marital quality in husbands’ processing of spousal interactions23
Identifying cortical structure markers of resilience to adversity in young people using surface-based morphometry22
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs22
Human cerebellum and social navigation: cerebello-cerebral connectivity using dynamic causal modelling18
Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors17
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing17
Genes, culture, and neural sensitivity to norm violations: a DRD4 × culture interaction study17
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence17
Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood16
Potential for the medial prefrontal cortex to link mentalizing and attachment schemas16
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity16
Meta-analytic activation maps can help identify affective processes captured by contrast-based task fMRI: the case of threat-related facial expressions16
The shared neural substrates of emotional mimicry and emotional contagion: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis and meta-analytic connectivity modeling analysis16
Having more friends is associated with greater sensitization to social exclusion: neural and behavioral evidence16
Infectious touching: Has COVID-19 changed our perceptions of social touch? A neural and behavioral study15
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study15
The impact of teachers’ autonomy support on students’ academic performance from the perspective of hyperscanning: the mediating role of autonomy need satisfaction15
The speed of race15
Value-based cognitive control moderates the relation of inflammation with depression in adolescents15
Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion14
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum14
Time-varying brain state dynamics in trait impulsivity and anxiety: An HSMM analysis of resting-state fMRI13
Sinful pleasures and pious woes? Using fMRI to examine evaluative and hedonic emotion knowledge13
Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness13
‘I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul’: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall13
Neural correlates of embodied and vibratory mechanisms associated with emotional prosody production13
Structural brain changes in emotion recognition across the adult lifespan12
The impact of affective congruence on charitable giving12
If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being12
Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations12
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth12
Aperiodic activity masks sensorimotor mu suppression during human action observation11
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders11
Emotional characteristics and intrinsic brain network functional connectivity among adults aged 75+11
The analgesic effect and neural mechanism of spicy food intake11
A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better10
An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood10
Spouse Support and Stress: Gender Differences in Neural Measures of Performance Monitoring Under Observation of a Spouse10
The OXTR rs53576 impacts moral permissibility of attempted but failed harms in populations of students and prisoners10
Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life10
Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying affective face processing10
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem10
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study10
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear10
Correction to: No evidence for an association of testosterone and cortisol hair concentrations with social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults10
The role of the somatosensory system in the feeling of emotions: a neurostimulation study10
Altered resting-state networks in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury—a graph theory analysis9
Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model9
Differential role of fusiform gyrus coupling in depressive and anxiety symptoms during emotion perception9
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy9
Gentle stroking elicits somatosensory ERP that differentiates between hairy and glabrous skin9
Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training9
Diverse social media experiences and adolescents’ depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers8
Pathophysiological changes in incentive processing in episodic migraine: a preliminary event-related potential study8
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years8
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness8
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective8
Developmental trajectories of sensitivity to threat in children and adolescents predict larger medial frontal theta differentiation during response inhibition8
Perspective-taking is associated with increased discriminability of affective states in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex8
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions8
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study8
Noninvasive ventromedial prefrontal cortex stimulation can enhance and impair affective learning from rewarding and threatening stimuli8
Differences in functional brain organization during gesture recognition between autistic and neurotypical individuals8
Neural correlates of attachment in adolescents with trauma: a preliminary study on frustrative non-reward8
Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing7
Birthing parents’ neural response to infant cry: moderating effects of oxytocin and perceived childhood care7
Adolescents’ neural reactivity to parental criticism is associated with diminished happiness during daily interpersonal situations7
Alpha-band EEG suppression as a neural marker of sustained attentional engagement to conditioned threat stimuli7
Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies7
Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults7
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name7
Emotion process deficits in children with ODD and their associations with different dimensions of ODD symptoms: a fNIRS study7
Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system6
Neural bases of social facilitation and inhibition: how peer presence affects elementary eye movements6
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders6
Early threat experiences relate to reduced neural face discrimination in youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms: a frequency-tagging electroencephalography study6
Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future6
TMS disruption of the lateral prefrontal cortex increases neural activity in the default mode network when naming facial expressions6
Love in the time of Zoom: how intimacy modulates brain and behaviour synchrony in face-to-face versus video communication6
Portable EEG in groups shows increased brain coupling to strong health messages6
Nonconscious processing of fearful and neutral faces modulates the N1706
Increased default mode network activation in depression and social anxiety during upward social comparison5
Is individual attentional bias positive or negative? It depends on trait anxiety5
Bidirectional understanding and cooperation: interbrain neural synchronization during social navigation5
Mother–child neural synchronization is time linked to mother–child positive affective state matching5
Envisioning translational hyperscanning: how applied neuroscience might improve family-centered care5
Two different mirror neuron pathways for social and non-social actions? A meta-analysis of fMRI studies5
The impact of stimulus format and presentation order on social working memory updating5
Androstadienone modulates human aggression in a sex-dependent manner5
Developmental changes in brain function linked with addiction-like social media use two years later5
The default mode network and rumination in individuals at risk for depression5
Empathy enhances decoding accuracy of human neurophysiological responses to emotional facial expressions of humans and dogs5
The social neuroscience of eating: an introduction to the special issue5
Early adolescent perceived friendship quality aids affective and neural responses to social inclusion and exclusion in young adults with and without adverse childhood experiences5
Distinct fNIRS Inter-Brain Coupling Patterns for Cooperation versus Competition in a Tennis Game5
Brain connectivity during social exclusion differs depending on the closeness within a triad among older adults living in a village5
What’s the harm? Examining police contact and amygdala reactivity among black adolescents5
Molecular profiles in amygdala relevant to the relief of chronic unpredicted mild stress-induced depression by periodic meeting confidantes5
Invoking self-related and social thoughts impacts online information sharing5
Neural encoding of novel social networks: evidence that perceivers prioritize others’ centrality4
Curiosity and mesolimbic functional connectivity drive information seeking in real life4
Frontocortical activity and emotional experience in the context of daily life events4
Graph analysis of guilt processing network highlights links with subclinical anxiety and self-blame4
Lacking social support is associated with structural divergences in hippocampus–default network co-variation patterns4
Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: a media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience4
More than labels: neural representations of emotion words are widely distributed across the brain4
Neural processes of inhibitory control in American Indian peoples are associated with reduced mental health problems4
Transforming social perspectives with cognitive maps4
Gain/loss framing moderates the VMPFC’s response to persuasive messages when behaviors have personal outcomes4
Pupil dilation reflects the social and motion content of faces4
Phase-synchronized brain connectivity during emotion regulation: attachment as a moderator4
Modulatory role of the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in crowd emotional perception following social exclusion4
Scarcity mindset facilitates empathy for social pain and prosocial intention: behavioral and neural evidences4
Frontostriatal functional connectivity underlies self-enhancement during social evaluation4
Can the neural representation of physical pain predict empathy for pain in others?4
Group empathy for pain is stronger than individual empathy for pain in the auditory modality4
The longitudinal role of family conflict and neural reward sensitivity in youth’s internalizing symptoms4
Priority of spontaneous gender categorization of same-sex faces in young adults4
Longitudinal change in neural response to vocal emotion in adolescence4
Oxytocin’s role in dual pathways of dishonesty: distinguishing conformity-driven and self-interest-driven behaviours4
Decision flexibilities in autism spectrum disorder: an fMRI study of moral dilemmas4
Pain modulates brain potentials and behavioral responses to unfairness4
Tracking politically motivated reasoning in the brain: the role of mentalizing, value-encoding, and error detection networks4
Reward system atrophy relates to heightened feelings of physical closeness in Alzheimer’s disease3
Taking an embodied avatar’s perspective modulates the temporal dynamics of vicarious pain and pleasure: a virtual reality and EEG study3
Corticostriatal responses to social reward are linked to trait reward sensitivity and subclinical substance use in young adults3
The influence of gender stereotypical primes on the neural processing of words and faces3
A simple alternative to nondeceptive placebos for reducing emotional distress: encouragement3
Multidimensional neural representations of social features during movie viewing3
Striatal–hippocampal functional connectivity contributes to real-life positive anticipatory experiences and subjective well-being3
Fear in the mind’s eye: the neural correlates of differential fear acquisition to imagined conditioned stimuli3
Changes in interpersonal distance modulate social attention engagement: evidence from EEG alpha band suppression3
A normative model of brain responses to social scenarios reflects the maturity of children and adolescents’ social–emotional abilities3
Partner similarity and social cognitive traits predict social interaction success among strangers3
Unpacking reappraisal: a systematic review of fMRI studies of distancing and reinterpretation3
Distinct neural dynamics in joint versus side-by-side actions: insights from dual EEG3
How self-disclosure of negative experiences shapes prosociality?3
Trajectories of interbrain synchrony during teamwork: links with team composition and performance3
Generalized expectancy of threat in threatening compared to safe contexts3
Baseline physical activity moderates brain–behaviour relationships in response to framed health messages3
Oxytocin differentially modulates the early neural responses to faces and non-social stimuli3
Proximity within adolescent peer networks predicts neural similarity during affective experience3
Social support and depressive symptoms: the role of childhood maltreatment and brain activity in a moderated mediation model3
Effects of Oxytocin on Agency in Anxiously Attached Individuals, a Replication and Extension3
Segregation of Three Resting-State Brain Networks Predicts Reappraisal Success Across The Lifespan3
Openness to Experience is associated with neural and performance measures of memory in older adults3
Differential effects of social feedback valence and self-relevance on brain responses and behaviour3
The SocialVidStim: a video database of positive and negative social evaluation stimuli for use in social cognitive neuroscience paradigms3
Mothers’ and fathers’ neural responses toward gender-stereotype violations by their own children3
Learning from in-group and out-group models induces separative effects on human mate copying3
Cultural variation in neural responses to social but not monetary reward outcomes3
No changes in triple network engagement following (combined) noradrenergic and glucocorticoid stimulation in healthy men3
Atypical attentional network dynamics in adolescent depression during emotional movie viewing3
Reduced GM–WM concentration inside the Default Mode Network in individuals with high emotional intelligence and low anxiety: a data fusion mCCA+jICA approach3
Adolescents’ neural responses to their parents’ emotions: associations with emotion regulation, internalizing symptoms, and substance use2
Together we sync: a systematic qualitative and quantitative review of fMRI hyperscanning studies2
Mothers exhibit higher neural activity in gaining rewards for their children than for themselves2
Age-related differences in interference control in the context of a finger-lifting task: an fMRI study2
Impressions about harm are formed rapidly and then refined, modulated by serotonin2
Probabilistic adaptation of language comprehension for individual speakers: evidence from neural oscillations2
Social support and fear-inhibition: an examination of underlying neural mechanisms2
Cerebellar contribution to emotion regulation and its association with medial frontal GABA level2
EEG assessment of the impacts of race and implicit bias on facial expression processing2
Neural processing of children’s theory of mind in a naturalistic story-listening paradigm2
Attention to the other’s body sensations modulates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex2
Correction to: A 7-Tesla MRI study of the periaqueductal gray: resting state and task activation under threat2
Erratum to: Morphology of the prefrontal cortex predicts body composition in early adolescence: cognitive mediators and environmental moderators in the ABCD Study2
Ambivalence-dependent alterations in brain function during self-evaluation in adults with depressive symptoms2
The effect of speech–gesture asynchrony on the neural coupling of interlocutors in interpreter-mediated communication2
Relation of resting brain signal variability to cognitive and socioemotional measures in an adult lifespan sample2
Neural representations in mPFC and insula encode individual differences in estimating others’ preferences2
Disrupted cognitive and affective empathy network interactions in autistic children viewing social animation2
The heart of social pain: examining resting blood pressure and neural sensitivity to exclusion2
Neural correlates of power-related postures and their behavioural consequences: a preliminary electrophysiological investigation2
Social pain is associated with altered developmental trajectories of connectivity among the triple network model of psychopathology2
Association of neuroimaging measures with facial emotional processing in healthy adults: a task fMRI study2
An investigation of the interaction of trait repetitive negative thinking and neuroticism on brain activity during negative self-referential processing: a cross-sectional fMRI study2
Differences in risk appraisal and neural activity in adolescents with a history of misconduct2
Contributions of fundamental frequency and timbre to vocal emotion perception and their electrophysiological correlates2
A cross-cultural EEG study of how obedience and conformity influence reconciliation intentions2
How a speaker herds the audience: multibrain neural convergence over time during naturalistic storytelling2
Differentiating neural sensitivity and bias during face-emotion processing in youth: a computational approach2
Deep social neuroscience: the promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain2
Create your own path: social cerebellum in sequence-based self-guided navigation2
Grandmaternal caregiving is associated with a distinct multi-voxel neural representation of grandchildren in the parental motivation circuit2
Anxiety symptoms are differentially associated with facial expression processing in boys and girls2
Oxytocin enhances creativity specifically in approach-motivated individuals2
Comparison of face attention bias in adults with ASD, ADHD, or comorbid ADHD+ASD2
How do negative symptoms and social cognitive impairments overlap? Clustering analyses on patients living with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder2
Correction to: Unveiling the neural dynamics of the theory of mind: a fMRI study on belief processing phases2
Event-related brain activity in response to partners’ speech in natural conversation2
Loneliness and brain rhythmic activity in resting state: an exploratory report2
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