Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Article	Citations
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain	52
Oxytocin enhances basolateral amygdala activation and functional connectivity while processing emotional faces: preliminary findings in autistic vs non-autistic women	45
Unsupervised classification reveals consistency and degeneracy in neural network patterns of emotion	45
Experiencing happiness together facilitates dyadic coordination through the enhanced interpersonal neural synchronization	44
Targeting the DLPFC to Enhance Memory Control: Divergent Effects on Social and Nonsocial Memories	35
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates	32
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction	30
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls	29
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years	27
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions	26
Intertemporal Meditation Regulates Time Perception and Emotions: An Exploratory fNIRS Study	25
Mine or ours? Neural basis of the exploitation of common-pool resources	24
Mapping neural signatures of face processing in young children: an OPM-MEG study	22
Connectome-based prediction of marital quality in husbands’ processing of spousal interactions	22
Neural Responses to Social Touch with Different Emotional Valences: An fNIRS Study	21
Are older adults more deceived by false advertising? Evidence from intra- and inter-brain connectivity in the prefrontal cortex during face-to-face deceptive sales	20
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults	20
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing	20
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs	19
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence	19
Learning faces as concepts improves face recognition by engaging the social brain network	18
Identifying cortical structure markers of resilience to adversity in young people using surface-based morphometry	18
Meta-analytic activation maps can help identify affective processes captured by contrast-based task fMRI: the case of threat-related facial expressions	17
Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood	16
Potential for the Medial Prefrontal Cortex to link Mentalizing and Attachment Schemas	16

The speed of race	16
Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors	16
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity	15
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum	15
Infectious touching: Has COVID-19 changed our perceptions of social touch? A neural and behavioral study	15
Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion	15
Having more friends is associated with greater sensitization to social exclusion: Neural and behavioral evidence	15
Sinful pleasures and pious woes? Using fMRI to examine evaluative and hedonic emotion knowledge	14
Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness	14
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study	14
If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being	14
The OXTR rs53576 impacts moral permissibility of attempted but failed harms in populations of students and prisoners	13
‘I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul’: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall	13
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth	13
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear	12
Neural changes in reward processing following approach-avoidance training for depression	12
Emotional characteristics and intrinsic brain network functional connectivity among adults aged 75+	12
Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying affective face processing	12
Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life	12
The role of the somatosensory system in the feeling of emotions: a neurostimulation study	11
The analgesic effect and neural mechanism of spicy food intake	11
A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better	11
Structural brain changes in emotion recognition across the adult lifespan	11
Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations	11
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study	11
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders	11
An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood	11
Localized task-invariant emotional valence encoding revealed by intracranial recordings	11
Correction to: No evidence for an association of testosterone and cortisol hair concentrations with social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults	10
Reconciling psychological and neuroscientific accounts of reduced motivation in aging	10
Differential role of fusiform gyrus coupling in depressive and anxiety symptoms during emotion perception	10
Socioeconomic and cognitive roots of trait anxiety in young adults	10
Spouse Support and Stress: Gender Differences in Neural Measures of Performance Monitoring Under Observation of a Spouse	10
Touched by loneliness—how loneliness impacts the response to observed human touch: a tDCS study	10
Motherhood and theory of mind: increased activation in the posterior cingulate cortex and insulae	10
Altered resting-state networks in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury—a graph theory analysis	10
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective	10
Gentle stroking elicits somatosensory ERP that differentiates between hairy and glabrous skin	10
Altered functional connectivity density and couplings in postpartum depression with and without anxiety	10
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem	10
Neural correlates of attachment in adolescents with trauma: a preliminary study on frustrative non-reward	10
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years	9
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness	9
Diverse social media experiences and adolescents’ depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers	9
Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model	9
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study	9
Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing	8
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name	8
Perspective-taking is associated with increased discriminability of affective states in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex	8
Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training	8

Developmental trajectories of sensitivity to threat in children and adolescents predict larger medial frontal theta differentiation during response inhibition	8
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions	8
Pathophysiological changes in incentive processing in episodic migraine: a preliminary event-related potential study	8
Adolescents’ neural reactivity to parental criticism is associated with diminished happiness during daily interpersonal situations	8
Noninvasive ventromedial prefrontal cortex stimulation can enhance and impair affective learning from rewarding and threatening stimuli	8
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy	8
Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults	8
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders	7
Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies	7
Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning	7
Alpha-band EEG suppression as a neural marker of sustained attentional engagement to conditioned threat stimuli	7
Portable EEG in groups shows increased brain coupling to strong health messages	7
Birthing parents’ neural response to infant cry: moderating effects of oxytocin and perceived childhood care	7
Early and late neural correlates of mentalizing: ALE meta-analyses in adults, children and adolescents	7
Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future	7
Love in the Time of Zoom: How Intimacy Modulates Brain and Behavior Synchrony in Face-to-Face vs. Video Communication	7
Differences in functional brain organization during gesture recognition between autistic and neurotypical individuals	7
Relationship Match: the neural underpinnings of social feedback in romantic couples	6
Developmental changes in brain function linked with addiction-like social media use two years later	6
Neural bases of social facilitation and inhibition: how peer presence affects elementary eye movements	6
Lesion evidence for a causal role of the insula in aversion to social inequity	6
Altruistic acting caused by a touching hand: neural underpinnings of the Midas touch effect	6
Pilot study of food-specific go/no-go training for overweight individuals: brain imaging data suggest inhibition shapes food evaluation	6
Distinct fNIRS Inter-Brain Coupling Patterns for Cooperation vs. Competition in a Tennis Game	6
Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system	6
Increased default mode network activation in depression and social anxiety during upward social comparison	6
TMS disruption of the lateral prefrontal cortex increases neural activity in the default mode network when naming facial expressions	6
Early adolescent perceived friendship quality aids affective and neural responses to social inclusion and exclusion in young adults with and without adverse childhood experiences	6
Androstadienone modulates human aggression in a sex-dependent manner	6
The impact of stimulus format and presentation order on social working memory updating	5
Mother–child neural synchronization is time linked to mother–child positive affective state matching	5
Molecular profiles in amygdala relevant to the relief of chronic unpredicted mild stress-induced depression by periodic meeting confidantes	5
Invoking self-related and social thoughts impacts online information sharing	5
Phase-Synchronized Brain Connectivity During Emotion Regulation: Attachment as a Moderator	5
Curiosity and mesolimbic functional connectivity drive information seeking in real life	5
Two different mirror neuron pathways for social and non-social actions? A meta-analysis of fMRI studies	5
Bidirectional understanding and cooperation: interbrain neural synchronization during social navigation	5
Envisioning translational hyperscanning: how applied neuroscience might improve family-centered care	5
Transforming social perspectives with cognitive maps	5
Group empathy for pain is stronger than individual empathy for pain in the auditory modality	5
The social neuroscience of eating: an introduction to the special issue	5
The default mode network and rumination in individuals at risk for depression	5
Brain connectivity during social exclusion differs depending on the closeness within a triad among older adults living in a village	5
Empathy enhances decoding accuracy of human neurophysiological responses to emotional facial expressions of humans and dogs	5
The longitudinal role of family conflict and neural reward sensitivity in youth’s internalizing symptoms	5
Lacking social support is associated with structural divergences in hippocampus–default network co-variation patterns	5
Neural encoding of novel social networks: evidence that perceivers prioritize others’ centrality	5
Frontostriatal functional connectivity underlies self-enhancement during social evaluation	4
Resting-state functional brain connectivity for human mentalizing: biobehavioral mechanisms of theory of mind in multiple sclerosis	4
Multidimensional neural representations of social features during movie viewing	4
More than labels: neural representations of emotion words are widely distributed across the brain	4
Priority of spontaneous gender categorization of same-sex faces in young adults	4
Gain/loss framing moderates the VMPFC’s response to persuasive messages when behaviors have personal outcomes	4
Longitudinal change in neural response to vocal emotion in adolescence	4
Modulatory role of the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in crowd emotional perception following social exclusion	4
Oxytocin’s Role in Dual Pathways of Dishonesty: Distinguishing Conformity-Driven and Self-Interest-Driven Behaviors	4
Scarcity mindset facilitates empathy for social pain and prosocial intention: behavioral and neural evidences	4
Maternal dopamine encodes affective signals of human infants	4
Graph analysis of guilt processing network highlights links with subclinical anxiety and self-blame	4
Decision flexibilities in autism spectrum disorder: an fMRI study of moral dilemmas	4
Neural processes of inhibitory control in American Indian peoples are associated with reduced mental health problems	4
Can the neural representation of physical pain predict empathy for pain in others?	4
Pupil dilation reflects the social and motion content of faces	4
The SocialVidStim: a video database of positive and negative social evaluation stimuli for use in social cognitive neuroscience paradigms	3
Cultural variation in neural responses to social but not monetary reward outcomes	3
Tracking politically motivated reasoning in the brain: the role of mentalizing, value-encoding, and error detection networks	3
Baseline physical activity moderates brain–behaviour relationships in response to framed health messages	3
Taking an embodied avatar’s perspective modulates the temporal dynamics of vicarious pain and pleasure: a virtual reality and EEG study	3
Proximity within adolescent peer networks predicts neural similarity during affective experience	3
A normative model of brain responses to social scenarios reflects the maturity of children and adolescents’ social–emotional abilities	3
Openness to Experience is associated with neural and performance measures of memory in older adults	3
Unpacking reappraisal: a systematic review of fMRI studies of distancing and reinterpretation	3
Developmental differences in affective representation between prefrontal and subcortical structures	3
Mothers’ and fathers’ neural responses toward gender-stereotype violations by their own children	3
Generalized expectancy of threat in threatening compared to safe contexts	3
Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: a media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience	3
No changes in triple network engagement following (combined) noradrenergic and glucocorticoid stimulation in healthy men	3
How self-disclosure of negative experiences shapes prosociality?	3
Loneliness and brain rhythmic activity in resting state: an exploratory report	3
Erratum to: Morphology of the prefrontal cortex predicts body composition in early adolescence: cognitive mediators and environmental moderators in the ABCD Study	3

Atypical attentional network dynamics in adolescent depression during emotional movie viewing	3
Segregation of Three Resting-State Brain Networks Predicts Reappraisal Success Across The Lifespan	3
Differential effects of social feedback valence and self-relevance on brain responses and behavior	3
Distinct Neural Dynamics in Joint versus Side-by-Side Actions: Insights from Dual EEG	3
Maladaptive self-focused attention and default mode network connectivity: a transdiagnostic investigation across social anxiety and body dysmorphic disorders	3
Learning from in-group and out-group models induces separative effects on human mate copying	3
The influence of gender stereotypical primes on the neural processing of words and faces	3
Pain modulates brain potentials and behavioral responses to unfairness	3
Oxytocin differentially modulates the early neural responses to faces and non-social stimuli	3
Striatal–hippocampal functional connectivity contributes to real-life positive anticipatory experiences and subjective well-being	3
Changes in interpersonal distance modulate social attention engagement: evidence from EEG alpha band suppression	3
Contributions of fundamental frequency and timbre to vocal emotion perception and their electrophysiological correlates	3
Effects of Oxytocin on Agency in Anxiously Attached Individuals, a Replication and Extension	3
Reduced GM–WM concentration inside the Default Mode Network in individuals with high emotional intelligence and low anxiety: a data fusion mCCA+jICA approach	3
Fear in the mind’s eye: the neural correlates of differential fear acquisition to imagined conditioned stimuli	3
Partner similarity and social cognitive traits predict social interaction success among strangers	3
Corticostriatal responses to social reward are linked to trait reward sensitivity and subclinical substance use in young adults	3
Sex differences in the behavioral inhibition system and ventromedial prefrontal cortex connectivity	2
Fathers’ involvement in early childcare is associated with amygdala resting-state connectivity	2
Anxiety symptoms are differentially associated with facial expression processing in boys and girls	2
Neural correlates of evaluative bias against AI-labeled versus human-labeled artworks	2
Neural correlates of power-related postures and their behavioural consequences: a preliminary electrophysiological investigation	2
Mothers exhibit higher neural activity in gaining rewards for their children than for themselves	2
Relation of resting brain signal variability to cognitive and socioemotional measures in an adult lifespan sample	2
Oxytocin enhances creativity specifically in approach-motivated individuals	2
Neural processing of children’s theory of mind in a naturalistic story-listening paradigm	2
The heart of social pain: examining resting blood pressure and neural sensitivity to exclusion	2
Correction to: A 7-Tesla MRI study of the periaqueductal gray: resting state and task activation under threat	2
Social Support and Depressive Symptoms: The Role of Childhood Maltreatment and Brain Activity in a Moderated Mediation Model	2
How do negative symptoms and social cognitive impairments overlap? Clustering analyses on patients living with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder	2
Social-specific impairment of negative emotion perception in alexithymia	2
Brain activation during cognitive reappraisal depending on regulation goals and stimulus valence	2
Social support and fear-inhibition: an examination of underlying neural mechanisms	2
Deep social neuroscience: the promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain	2
Association of neuroimaging measures with facial emotional processing in healthy adults: a task fMRI study	2
Attention to the other’s body sensations modulates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex	2
Grandmaternal caregiving is associated with a distinct multi-voxel neural representation of grandchildren in the parental motivation circuit	2
Social pain is associated with altered developmental trajectories of connectivity among the triple network model of psychopathology	2
Cerebellar contribution to emotion regulation and its association with medial frontal GABA level	2
EEG assessment of the impacts of race and implicit bias on facial expression processing	2
The effect of speech–gesture asynchrony on the neural coupling of interlocutors in interpreter-mediated communication	2
Neural correlates of affective stimulus evaluation: a case-by-case analysis	2
Disrupted cognitive and affective empathy network interactions in autistic children viewing social animation	2
Age-related differences in interference control in the context of a finger-lifting task: an fMRI study	2
Create your own path: social cerebellum in sequence-based self-guided navigation	2
Event-related brain activity in response to partners’ speech in natural conversation	2
How a speaker herds the audience: multibrain neural convergence over time during naturalistic storytelling	2
A cross-cultural EEG study of how obedience and conformity influence reconciliation intentions	2
Impressions about harm are formed rapidly and then refined, modulated by serotonin	2
Differentiating neural sensitivity and bias during face-emotion processing in youth: a computational approach	2
Increased amygdala and decreased frontolimbic r esting- s tate functional connectivity in children with aggressive behavio	2
Adolescents’ neural responses to their parents’ emotions: associations with emotion regulation, internalizing symptoms, and substance use	2