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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years45
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls42
Oxytocin enhances basolateral amygdala activation and functional connectivity while processing emotional faces: preliminary findings in autistic vs non-autistic women37
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates35
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction33
Experiencing happiness together facilitates dyadic coordination through the enhanced interpersonal neural synchronization32
Unsupervised classification reveals consistency and degeneracy in neural network patterns of emotion30
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions28
Targeting the DLPFC to Enhance Memory Control: Divergent Effects on Social and Nonsocial Memories24
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain24
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing23
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs23
Mine or ours? Neural basis of the exploitation of common-pool resources23
Connectome-based prediction of marital quality in husbands’ processing of spousal interactions22
Identifying cortical structure markers of resilience to adversity in young people using surface-based morphometry21
Are older adults more deceived by false advertising? Evidence from intra- and inter-brain connectivity in the prefrontal cortex during face-to-face deceptive sales21
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence19
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults19
The speed of race18
Learning faces as concepts improves face recognition by engaging the social brain network18
Erratum to: effects of compassion training on brain responses to suffering others18
Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors17
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity17
Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood17
Meta-analytic activation maps can help identify affective processes captured by contrast-based task fMRI: the case of threat-related facial expressions16
‘I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul’: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall15
Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion15
If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being15
Sinful pleasures and pious woes? Using fMRI to examine evaluative and hedonic emotion knowledge15
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum15
Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness15
Enhanced sensitivity to optimistic cues is manifested in brain structure: a voxel-based morphometry study15
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study15
Self-oriented neural circuitry predicts other-oriented adaptive risks in adolescence: a longitudinal study14
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study14
Neural changes in reward processing following approach-avoidance training for depression14
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth14
An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood13
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders13
Structural brain changes in emotion recognition across the adult lifespan13
The role of the somatosensory system in the feeling of emotions: a neurostimulation study13
The OXTR rs53576 impacts moral permissibility of attempted but failed harms in populations of students and prisoners13
Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying affective face processing12
Reconciling psychological and neuroscientific accounts of reduced motivation in aging12
Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life12
A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better12
Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations12
Localized task-invariant emotional valence encoding revealed by intracranial recordings12
Emotional characteristics and intrinsic brain network functional connectivity among adults aged 75+12
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear12
Altered resting-state networks in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury—a graph theory analysis12
The analgesic effect and neural mechanism of spicy food intake12
Neural substrates of shared visual experiences: a hyperscanning fMRI study11
Motherhood and theory of mind: increased activation in the posterior cingulate cortex and insulae11
Altered functional connectivity density and couplings in postpartum depression with and without anxiety11
Touched by loneliness—how loneliness impacts the response to observed human touch: a tDCS study11
Spouse Support and Stress: Gender Differences in Neural Measures of Performance Monitoring Under Observation of a Spouse11
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem11
Differential role of fusiform gyrus coupling in depressive and anxiety symptoms during emotion perception10
Neural correlates of attachment in adolescents with trauma: a preliminary study on frustrative non-reward10
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study10
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy10
Correction to: No evidence for an association of testosterone and cortisol hair concentrations with social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults10
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness10
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective10
Diverse social media experiences and adolescents’ depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers10
Socioeconomic and cognitive roots of trait anxiety in young adults10
Gentle stroking elicits somatosensory ERP that differentiates between hairy and glabrous skin10
Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model10
Perspective-taking is associated with increased discriminability of affective states in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex9
Adolescents’ neural reactivity to parental criticism is associated with diminished happiness during daily interpersonal situations9
Differences in functional brain organization during gesture recognition between autistic and neurotypical individuals9
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions9
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years9
Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training9
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name9
Noninvasive ventromedial prefrontal cortex stimulation can enhance and impair affective learning from rewarding and threatening stimuli9
Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies8
Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future8
Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing8
Pathophysiological changes in incentive processing in episodic migraine: a preliminary event-related potential study8
Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system8
Portable EEG in groups shows increased brain coupling to strong health messages8
Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults8
Developmental trajectories of sensitivity to threat in children and adolescents predict larger medial frontal theta differentiation during response inhibition8
Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning8
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders8
Birthing parents’ neural response to infant cry: moderating effects of oxytocin and perceived childhood care8
Lesion evidence for a causal role of the insula in aversion to social inequity8
Early and late neural correlates of mentalizing: ALE meta-analyses in adults, children and adolescents8
Alpha-band EEG suppression as a neural marker of sustained attentional engagement to conditioned threat stimuli8
Pilot study of food-specific go/no-go training for overweight individuals: brain imaging data suggest inhibition shapes food evaluation7
Androstadienone modulates human aggression in a sex-dependent manner7
Developmental changes in brain function linked with addiction-like social media use two years later7
Relationship Match: the neural underpinnings of social feedback in romantic couples7
Early adolescent perceived friendship quality aids affective and neural responses to social inclusion and exclusion in young adults with and without adverse childhood experiences7
Altruistic acting caused by a touching hand: neural underpinnings of the Midas touch effect7
Neural bases of social facilitation and inhibition: how peer presence affects elementary eye movements7
TMS disruption of the lateral prefrontal cortex increases neural activity in the default mode network when naming facial expressions7
Functional connectome fingerprint of holistic–analytic cultural style7
Increased default mode network activation in depression and social anxiety during upward social comparison6
The impact of stimulus format and presentation order on social working memory updating6
Two different mirror neuron pathways for social and non-social actions? A meta-analysis of fMRI studies6
Invoking self-related and social thoughts impacts online information sharing6
Envisioning translational hyperscanning: how applied neuroscience might improve family-centered care6
Empathy enhances decoding accuracy of human neurophysiological responses to emotional facial expressions of humans and dogs6
Activating the attachment system modulates neural responses to threat in refugees with PTSD6
Mother–child neural synchronization is time linked to mother–child positive affective state matching6
The default mode network and rumination in individuals at risk for depression6
The longitudinal role of family conflict and neural reward sensitivity in youth’s internalizing symptoms6
Pupil dilation reflects the social and motion content of faces6
Brain connectivity during social exclusion differs depending on the closeness within a triad among older adults living in a village6
Bidirectional understanding and cooperation: interbrain neural synchronization during social navigation6
The social neuroscience of eating: an introduction to the special issue6
Molecular profiles in amygdala relevant to the relief of chronic unpredicted mild stress-induced depression by periodic meeting confidantes6
Group empathy for pain is stronger than individual empathy for pain in the auditory modality6
Graph analysis of guilt processing network highlights links with subclinical anxiety and self-blame5
Transforming social perspectives with cognitive maps5
Resting-state functional brain connectivity for human mentalizing: biobehavioral mechanisms of theory of mind in multiple sclerosis5
Can the neural representation of physical pain predict empathy for pain in others?5
More than labels: neural representations of emotion words are widely distributed across the brain5
Priority of spontaneous gender categorization of same-sex faces in young adults5
Gain/loss framing moderates the VMPFC’s response to persuasive messages when behaviors have personal outcomes5
Neural encoding of novel social networks: evidence that perceivers prioritize others’ centrality5
Longitudinal change in neural response to vocal emotion in adolescence5
Modulatory role of the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in crowd emotional perception following social exclusion5
Lacking social support is associated with structural divergences in hippocampus–default network co-variation patterns5
Curiosity and mesolimbic functional connectivity drive information seeking in real life5
Pain modulates brain potentials and behavioral responses to unfairness5
Neural processes of inhibitory control in American Indian peoples are associated with reduced mental health problems5
Maternal dopamine encodes affective signals of human infants5
Frontostriatal functional connectivity underlies self-enhancement during social evaluation5
Decision flexibilities in autism spectrum disorder: an fMRI study of moral dilemmas4
Tracking politically motivated reasoning in the brain: the role of mentalizing, value-encoding, and error detection networks4
Oxytocin differentially modulates the early neural responses to faces and non-social stimuli4
Corticostriatal responses to social reward are linked to trait reward sensitivity and subclinical substance use in young adults4
Striatal–hippocampal functional connectivity contributes to real-life positive anticipatory experiences and subjective well-being4
Cultural variation in neural responses to social but not monetary reward outcomes4
Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: a media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience4
Multidimensional neural representations of social features during movie viewing4
Mothers’ and fathers’ neural responses toward gender-stereotype violations by their own children4
The influence of gender stereotypical primes on the neural processing of words and faces4
No changes in triple network engagement following (combined) noradrenergic and glucocorticoid stimulation in healthy men4
The SocialVidStim: a video database of positive and negative social evaluation stimuli for use in social cognitive neuroscience paradigms4
Scarcity mindset facilitates empathy for social pain and prosocial intention: behavioral and neural evidences4
Learning from in-group and out-group models induces separative effects on human mate copying4
Generalized expectancy of threat in threatening compared to safe contexts4
How self-disclosure of negative experiences shapes prosociality?4
Morphometry of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex is associated with eating dispositions in early adolescence: findings from a large population-based study4
Openness to Experience is associated with neural and performance measures of memory in older adults3
Increased amygdala and decreased frontolimbic r esting- s tate functional connectivity in children with aggressive behavio3
Adolescents’ neural responses to their parents’ emotions: associations with emotion regulation, internalizing symptoms, and substance use3
Neural processing of children’s theory of mind in a naturalistic story-listening paradigm3
Proximity within adolescent peer networks predicts neural similarity during affective experience3
Effects of Oxytocin on Agency in Anxiously Attached Individuals, a Replication and Extension3
Baseline physical activity moderates brain–behaviour relationships in response to framed health messages3
Fear in the mind’s eye: the neural correlates of differential fear acquisition to imagined conditioned stimuli3
Segregation of Three Resting-State Brain Networks Predicts Reappraisal Success Across The Lifespan3
Changes in interpersonal distance modulate social attention engagement: evidence from EEG alpha band suppression3
Loneliness and brain rhythmic activity in resting state: an exploratory report3
Attention to the other’s body sensations modulates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex3
Contributions of fundamental frequency and timbre to vocal emotion perception and their electrophysiological correlates3
Correction to: A 7-Tesla MRI study of the periaqueductal gray: resting state and task activation under threat3
A normative model of brain responses to social scenarios reflects the maturity of children and adolescents’ social–emotional abilities3
Taking an embodied avatar’s perspective modulates the temporal dynamics of vicarious pain and pleasure: a virtual reality and EEG study3
Maladaptive self-focused attention and default mode network connectivity: a transdiagnostic investigation across social anxiety and body dysmorphic disorders3
Unpacking reappraisal: a systematic review of fMRI studies of distancing and reinterpretation3
Erratum to: Morphology of the prefrontal cortex predicts body composition in early adolescence: cognitive mediators and environmental moderators in the ABCD Study3
Cerebellar contribution to emotion regulation and its association with medial frontal GABA level3
Differentiating neural sensitivity and bias during face-emotion processing in youth: a computational approach3
Atypical attentional network dynamics in adolescent depression during emotional movie viewing3
Partner similarity and social cognitive traits predict social interaction success among strangers3
Reduced GM–WM concentration inside the Default Mode Network in individuals with high emotional intelligence and low anxiety: a data fusion mCCA+jICA approach3
Negative overgeneralization is associated with anxiety and mechanisms of pattern completion in peripubertal youth3
Developmental differences in affective representation between prefrontal and subcortical structures3
Sex differences in the behavioral inhibition system and ventromedial prefrontal cortex connectivity2
The effect of speech–gesture asynchrony on the neural coupling of interlocutors in interpreter-mediated communication2
A feature-based network analysis and fMRI meta-analysis reveal three distinct types of prosocial decisions2
Deep social neuroscience: the promise and peril of using artificial neural networks to study the social brain2
Neural correlates of power-related postures and their behavioural consequences: a preliminary electrophysiological investigation2
Social-specific impairment of negative emotion perception in alexithymia2
Negative emotion reduces the discriminability of reward outcomes in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex2
The dopaminergic system supports flexible and rewarding dyadic motor interactive behaviour in Parkinson’s Disease2
Altered functional connectivity during face processing in children born with very low birth weight2
Confirmation of interpersonal expectations is intrinsically rewarding2
Impressions about harm are formed rapidly and then refined, modulated by serotonin2
EEG assessment of the impacts of race and implicit bias on facial expression processing2
Anxiety symptoms are differentially associated with facial expression processing in boys and girls2
Association of neuroimaging measures with facial emotional processing in healthy adults: a task fMRI study2
Social thinking is for doing: the posterior cerebellum supports predictions of social actions based on personality traits2
Grandmaternal caregiving is associated with a distinct multi-voxel neural representation of grandchildren in the parental motivation circuit2
Emotion depends on context, culture and their interaction: evidence from effective connectivity2
Neural correlates of affective stimulus evaluation: a case-by-case analysis2
The heart of social pain: examining resting blood pressure and neural sensitivity to exclusion2
Unveiling the neural dynamics of the theory of mind: a fMRI study on belief processing phases2
Fathers’ involvement in early childcare is associated with amygdala resting-state connectivity2
Relation of resting brain signal variability to cognitive and socioemotional measures in an adult lifespan sample2
Social support and fear-inhibition: an examination of underlying neural mechanisms2
Oxytocin enhances creativity specifically in approach-motivated individuals2
Create your own path: social cerebellum in sequence-based self-guided navigation2
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
Maternal sensitivity and infant neural response to touch: an fNIRS study2
Social pain is associated with altered developmental trajectories of connectivity among the triple network model of psychopathology2
Mothers exhibit higher neural activity in gaining rewards for their children than for themselves2
The role of objecthood and animacy in apparent movement processing2
Computational methods in social neuroscience: recent advances, new tools and future directions2
The impact of acute violent videogame exposure on neurocognitive markers of empathic concern2
Erratum to: The posterior cerebellum and inconsistent trait implications when learning the sequence of actions2
Brain activation during cognitive reappraisal depending on regulation goals and stimulus valence2
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
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