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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Targeting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to enhance memory control: divergent effects on social and non-social memories70
Authenticity is More Than Self-Enhancement: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Evidence49
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates47
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction45
Intertemporal meditation regulates time perception and emotions: an exploratory fNIRS study33
Oxytocin enhances basolateral amygdala activation and functional connectivity while processing emotional faces: preliminary findings in autistic vs non-autistic women31
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years31
Unsupervised classification reveals consistency and degeneracy in neural network patterns of emotion28
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain27
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions27
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls26
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults26
Are older adults more deceived by false advertising? Evidence from intra- and inter-brain connectivity in the prefrontal cortex during face-to-face deceptive sales26
Connectome-based prediction of marital quality in husbands’ processing of spousal interactions22
Mapping neural signatures of face processing in young children: an OPM-MEG study21
Mine or ours? Neural basis of the exploitation of common-pool resources21
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs20
Neural responses to social touch with different emotional valences: an fNIRS study20
Identifying cortical structure markers of resilience to adversity in young people using surface-based morphometry20
Human Cerebellum and Social Navigation: Cerebello-Cerebral Connectivity using Dynamic Causal Modeling20
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence19
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing17
Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors16
Genes, culture, and neural sensitivity to norm violations: a DRD4 × culture interaction study16
Infectious touching: Has COVID-19 changed our perceptions of social touch? A neural and behavioral study16
Potential for the medial prefrontal cortex to link mentalizing and attachment schemas16
Having more friends is associated with greater sensitization to social exclusion: neural and behavioral evidence16
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity15
The shared neural substrates of emotional mimicry and emotional contagion: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis and meta-analytic connectivity modeling analysis15
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study15
The speed of race15
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum15
Meta-analytic activation maps can help identify affective processes captured by contrast-based task fMRI: the case of threat-related facial expressions15
The Impact of Teachers' Autonomy Support on Students' Academic Performance from the Perspective of Hyperscanning: the Mediating Role of Autonomy Need Satisfaction14
Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion14
Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood14
If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being14
Neural correlates of embodied and vibratory mechanisms associated with emotional prosody production13
Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness13
Sinful pleasures and pious woes? Using fMRI to examine evaluative and hedonic emotion knowledge13
Time-Varying Brain State Dynamics in Trait Impulsivity and Anxiety: An HSMM Analysis of Resting-State fMRI13
‘I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul’: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall13
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth13
The impact of affective congruence on charitable giving12
The analgesic effect and neural mechanism of spicy food intake12
Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations12
Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying affective face processing12
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear12
Emotional characteristics and intrinsic brain network functional connectivity among adults aged 75+12
Structural brain changes in emotion recognition across the adult lifespan11
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders11
A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better11
Aperiodic activity masks sensorimotor mu suppression during human action observation11
The OXTR rs53576 impacts moral permissibility of attempted but failed harms in populations of students and prisoners11
Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life10
Localized task-invariant emotional valence encoding revealed by intracranial recordings10
Touched by loneliness—how loneliness impacts the response to observed human touch: a tDCS study10
An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood10
Correction to: No evidence for an association of testosterone and cortisol hair concentrations with social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults10
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem10
Differential role of fusiform gyrus coupling in depressive and anxiety symptoms during emotion perception10
The role of the somatosensory system in the feeling of emotions: a neurostimulation study10
Gentle stroking elicits somatosensory ERP that differentiates between hairy and glabrous skin10
Altered functional connectivity density and couplings in postpartum depression with and without anxiety10
Spouse Support and Stress: Gender Differences in Neural Measures of Performance Monitoring Under Observation of a Spouse10
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study10
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years9
Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model9
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness9
Altered resting-state networks in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury—a graph theory analysis9
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 peers9
Socioeconomic and cognitive roots of trait anxiety in young adults9
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study9
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name8
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions8
Adolescents’ neural reactivity to parental criticism is associated with diminished happiness during daily interpersonal situations8
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy8
Noninvasive ventromedial prefrontal cortex stimulation can enhance and impair affective learning from rewarding and threatening stimuli8
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective8
Neural correlates of attachment in adolescents with trauma: a preliminary study on frustrative non-reward8
Perspective-taking is associated with increased discriminability of affective states in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex7
Portable EEG in groups shows increased brain coupling to strong health messages7
Alpha-band EEG suppression as a neural marker of sustained attentional engagement to conditioned threat stimuli7
Differences in functional brain organization during gesture recognition between autistic and neurotypical individuals7
Love in the time of Zoom: how intimacy modulates brain and behaviour synchrony in face-to-face versus video communication7
Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing7
Pathophysiological changes in incentive processing in episodic migraine: a preliminary event-related potential study7
Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults7
Birthing parents’ neural response to infant cry: moderating effects of oxytocin and perceived childhood care7
Developmental trajectories of sensitivity to threat in children and adolescents predict larger medial frontal theta differentiation during response inhibition7
Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system6
Early threat experiences relate to reduced neural face discrimination in youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms: A frequency-tagging EEG study6
Neural bases of social facilitation and inhibition: how peer presence affects elementary eye movements6
Altruistic acting caused by a touching hand: neural underpinnings of the Midas touch effect6
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders6
Pilot study of food-specific go/no-go training for overweight individuals: brain imaging data suggest inhibition shapes food evaluation6
Distinct fNIRS Inter-Brain Coupling Patterns for Cooperation versus Competition in a Tennis Game6
TMS disruption of the lateral prefrontal cortex increases neural activity in the default mode network when naming facial expressions6
Relationship Match: the neural underpinnings of social feedback in romantic couples6
Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future6
Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies6
Androstadienone modulates human aggression in a sex-dependent manner6
Early adolescent perceived friendship quality aids affective and neural responses to social inclusion and exclusion in young adults with and without adverse childhood experiences6
Developmental changes in brain function linked with addiction-like social media use two years later5
Brain connectivity during social exclusion differs depending on the closeness within a triad among older adults living in a village5
The default mode network and rumination in individuals at risk for depression5
Molecular profiles in amygdala relevant to the relief of chronic unpredicted mild stress-induced depression by periodic meeting confidantes5
Mother–child neural synchronization is time linked to mother–child positive affective state matching5
Nonconscious processing of fearful and neutral faces modulates the N1705
The impact of stimulus format and presentation order on social working memory updating5
Two different mirror neuron pathways for social and non-social actions? A meta-analysis of fMRI studies5
Invoking self-related and social thoughts impacts online information sharing5
What’s the Harm? Examining Police Contact and Amygdala Reactivity Among Black Adolescents5
Increased default mode network activation in depression and social anxiety during upward social comparison5
Bidirectional understanding and cooperation: interbrain neural synchronization during social navigation5
Empathy enhances decoding accuracy of human neurophysiological responses to emotional facial expressions of humans and dogs5
Envisioning translational hyperscanning: how applied neuroscience might improve family-centered care5
Pupil dilation reflects the social and motion content of faces4
Transforming social perspectives with cognitive maps4
Lacking social support is associated with structural divergences in hippocampus–default network co-variation patterns4
Pain modulates brain potentials and behavioral responses to unfairness4
Neural processes of inhibitory control in American Indian peoples are associated with reduced mental health problems4
Longitudinal change in neural response to vocal emotion in adolescence4
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
Neural encoding of novel social networks: evidence that perceivers prioritize others’ centrality4
Gain/loss framing moderates the VMPFC’s response to persuasive messages when behaviors have personal outcomes4
More than labels: neural representations of emotion words are widely distributed across the brain4
Modulatory role of the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in crowd emotional perception following social exclusion4
Maternal dopamine encodes affective signals of human infants4
The social neuroscience of eating: an introduction to the special issue4
Graph analysis of guilt processing network highlights links with subclinical anxiety and self-blame4
Curiosity and mesolimbic functional connectivity drive information seeking in real life4
Phase-synchronized brain connectivity during emotion regulation: attachment as a moderator4
Group empathy for pain is stronger than individual empathy for pain in the auditory modality4
Can the neural representation of physical pain predict empathy for pain in others?4
Oxytocin’s role in dual pathways of dishonesty: distinguishing conformity-driven and self-interest-driven behaviours4
Frontocortical activity and emotional experience in the context of daily life events4
The SocialVidStim: a video database of positive and negative social evaluation stimuli for use in social cognitive neuroscience paradigms3
Learning from in-group and out-group models induces separative effects on human mate copying3
Scarcity mindset facilitates empathy for social pain and prosocial intention: behavioral and neural evidences3
Oxytocin differentially modulates the early neural responses to faces and non-social stimuli3
Decision flexibilities in autism spectrum disorder: an fMRI study of moral dilemmas3
Unpacking reappraisal: a systematic review of fMRI studies of distancing and reinterpretation3
Striatal–hippocampal functional connectivity contributes to real-life positive anticipatory experiences and subjective well-being3
Differential effects of social feedback valence and self-relevance on brain responses and behaviour3
Baseline physical activity moderates brain–behaviour relationships in response to framed health messages3
A Simple Alternative to Nondeceptive Placebos for Reducing Emotional Distress: Encouragement3
Frontostriatal functional connectivity underlies self-enhancement during social evaluation3
Tracking politically motivated reasoning in the brain: the role of mentalizing, value-encoding, and error detection networks3
Resting-state functional brain connectivity for human mentalizing: biobehavioral mechanisms of theory of mind in multiple sclerosis3
Mothers’ and fathers’ neural responses toward gender-stereotype violations by their own children3
Taking an embodied avatar’s perspective modulates the temporal dynamics of vicarious pain and pleasure: a virtual reality and EEG study3
Fear in the mind’s eye: the neural correlates of differential fear acquisition to imagined conditioned stimuli3
How self-disclosure of negative experiences shapes prosociality?3
Corticostriatal responses to social reward are linked to trait reward sensitivity and subclinical substance use in young adults3
Trajectories of interbrain synchrony during teamwork: links with team composition and performance3
Multidimensional neural representations of social features during movie viewing3
Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: a media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience3
The influence of gender stereotypical primes on the neural processing of words and faces3
Generalized expectancy of threat in threatening compared to safe contexts3
No changes in triple network engagement following (combined) noradrenergic and glucocorticoid stimulation in healthy men3
Distinct neural dynamics in joint versus side-by-side actions: insights from dual EEG3
Cultural variation in neural responses to social but not monetary reward outcomes3
Increased amygdala and decreased frontolimbic r esting- s tate functional connectivity in children with aggressive behavio2
Differentiating neural sensitivity and bias during face-emotion processing in youth: a computational approach2
Changes in interpersonal distance modulate social attention engagement: evidence from EEG alpha band suppression2
Neural processing of children’s theory of mind in a naturalistic story-listening paradigm2
Openness to Experience is associated with neural and performance measures of memory in older adults2
A normative model of brain responses to social scenarios reflects the maturity of children and adolescents’ social–emotional abilities2
Maladaptive self-focused attention and default mode network connectivity: a transdiagnostic investigation across social anxiety and body dysmorphic disorders2
Cerebellar contribution to emotion regulation and its association with medial frontal GABA level2
Disrupted cognitive and affective empathy network interactions in autistic children viewing social animation2
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
The heart of social pain: examining resting blood pressure and neural sensitivity to exclusion2
A cross-cultural EEG study of how obedience and conformity influence reconciliation intentions2
Loneliness and brain rhythmic activity in resting state: an exploratory report2
Deep social neuroscience: the promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain2
Attention to the other’s body sensations modulates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex2
Mothers exhibit higher neural activity in gaining rewards for their children than for themselves2
Correction to: Unveiling the neural dynamics of the theory of mind: a fMRI study on belief processing phases2
Comparison of face attention bias in adults with ASD, ADHD or comorbid ADHD+ASD2
Erratum to: Morphology of the prefrontal cortex predicts body composition in early adolescence: cognitive mediators and environmental moderators in the ABCD Study2
Reduced GM–WM concentration inside the Default Mode Network in individuals with high emotional intelligence and low anxiety: a data fusion mCCA+jICA approach2
Segregation of Three Resting-State Brain Networks Predicts Reappraisal Success Across The Lifespan2
Proximity within adolescent peer networks predicts neural similarity during affective experience2
Adolescents’ neural responses to their parents’ emotions: associations with emotion regulation, internalizing symptoms, and substance use2
Anxiety symptoms are differentially associated with facial expression processing in boys and girls2
Grandmaternal caregiving is associated with a distinct multi-voxel neural representation of grandchildren in the parental motivation circuit2
How a speaker herds the audience: multibrain neural convergence over time during naturalistic storytelling2
Oxytocin enhances creativity specifically in approach-motivated individuals2
EEG assessment of the impacts of race and implicit bias on facial expression processing2
Contributions of fundamental frequency and timbre to vocal emotion perception and their electrophysiological correlates2
Association of neuroimaging measures with facial emotional processing in healthy adults: a task fMRI study2
Event-related brain activity in response to partners’ speech in natural conversation2
Differences in Risk Appraisal and Neural Activity in Adolescents with a History of Misconduct2
Social support and depressive symptoms: the role of childhood maltreatment and brain activity in a moderated mediation model2
Atypical attentional network dynamics in adolescent depression during emotional movie viewing2
Partner similarity and social cognitive traits predict social interaction success among strangers2
Effects of Oxytocin on Agency in Anxiously Attached Individuals, a Replication and Extension2
Social pain is associated with altered developmental trajectories of connectivity among the triple network model of psychopathology2
Create your own path: social cerebellum in sequence-based self-guided navigation2
Brain activation during cognitive reappraisal depending on regulation goals and stimulus valence2
Relation of resting brain signal variability to cognitive and socioemotional measures in an adult lifespan sample2
Neural correlates of power-related postures and their behavioural consequences: a preliminary electrophysiological investigation2
The effect of speech–gesture asynchrony on the neural coupling of interlocutors in interpreter-mediated communication2
How do negative symptoms and social cognitive impairments overlap? Clustering analyses on patients living with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder2
Correction to: A 7-Tesla MRI study of the periaqueductal gray: resting state and task activation under threat2
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