OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is 7. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Genetic architecture of well-being: cumulative effect of serotonergic polymorphisms	36
Correction to: A 7-Tesla MRI study of the periaqueductal gray: resting state and task activation under threat	35
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective	35
Right amygdala–right precuneus connectivity is associated with childhood trauma in major depression patients and healthy controls	33
Correction to: Envisioning translational hyperscanning: how applied neuroscience might improve family-centered care	32
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years	31
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy	31
Neural processing of children’s theory of mind in a naturalistic story-listening paradigm	29
Is What I Think What You Think? Multilayer Network-Based Inter-Brain Synchrony Approach	28
How representative are neuroimaging samples? Large-scale evidence for trait anxiety differences between fMRI and behaviour-only research participants	24
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions	24
Mapping the ‘funny bone’: neuroanatomical correlates of humor creativity in professional comedians	23
Alexithymia and somatization in agenesis of the corpus callosum	22
Low competitive status elicits aggression in healthy young men: behavioural and neural evidence	22
Present and future self in memory: the role of vmPFC in the self-reference effect	21
Expertise influences congruency monitoring during action observation at the motor level	21
Social cognitive processes explain bias in juror decisions	20
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction	20
Neural encoding of novel social networks: evidence that perceivers prioritize others’ centrality	20
Social thinking is for doing: the posterior cerebellum supports predictions of social actions based on personality traits	19
Unsupervised classification reveals consistency and degeneracy in neural network patterns of emotion	19
Attention to the other’s body sensations modulates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex	18
Increasing self–other similarity modulates ethnic bias in sensorimotor resonance to others’ pain	17
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain	17
Emerging ecophenotype: reward anticipation is linked to high-risk behaviours after sexual abuse	16

‘The Last Shot’—the shared and distinct brain regions involved in processing unexpectedness of success and failure in the context of social cooperation	16
Sexual dimorphism in hemispheric processing of faces in humans: A meta-analysis of 817 cases	16
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years	16
Neural correlates of attachment in adolescents with trauma: a preliminary study on frustrative non-reward	16
Gain/loss framing moderates the VMPFC’s response to persuasive messages when behaviors have personal outcomes	15
Transforming social perspectives with cognitive maps	15
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates	15
Curiosity and mesolimbic functional connectivity drive information seeking in real life	14
Differentiating neural sensitivity and bias during face-emotion processing in youth: a computational approach	14
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls	14
Development of social feedback processing and responses in childhood: an fMRI test-replication design in two age cohorts	14
Adolescents’ neural responses to their parents’ emotions: associations with emotion regulation, internalizing symptoms, and substance use	13
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness	13
The psychometric properties and clinical utility of neural measures of reward processing	13
No evidence for an association of testosterone and cortisol hair concentrations with social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults	13
Threat of shock increases distractor susceptibility during the short-term maintenance of visual information	13
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study	13
Pupil dilation reflects the social and motion content of faces	13
Exposure to community violence as a mechanism linking neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and neural responses to reward	13
Functional brain connectivity during social attention predicts individual differences in social skill	12
Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training	12
Graph analysis of guilt processing network highlights links with subclinical anxiety and self-blame	12
Brain regulation training improves emotional competences in patients with alcohol use disorder	12
Increased amygdala and decreased frontolimbic r esting- s tate functional connectivity in children with aggressive behavio	11
Effects of peer victimization on cortical processing of social-evaluative stress in patients with major depressive disorder	11
Combined effects of neuroticism and negative emotional context on spontaneous EEG dynamics	11
Diverse social media experiences and adolescents’ depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers	11
D2 dopamine receptor expression, reactivity to rewards, and reinforcement learning in a complex value-based decision-making task	11
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions	11
Group empathy for pain is stronger than individual empathy for pain in the auditory modality	11
The orbitofrontal cortex, food reward, body weight and obesity	10
Oxytocin enhances basolateral amygdala activation and functional connectivity while processing emotional faces: preliminary findings in autistic vs non-autistic women	10
Experiencing happiness together facilitates dyadic coordination through the enhanced interpersonal neural synchronization	10
Inter-brain neural mechanism underlying turn-based interaction under acute stress in women: a hyperscanning study using functional near-infrared spectroscopy	10
Socioeconomic and cognitive roots of trait anxiety in young adults	10
Cerebellar contribution to emotion regulation and its association with medial frontal GABA level	10
Brain-wide representation of social knowledge	10
Lacking social support is associated with structural divergences in hippocampus–default network co-variation patterns	10
Differential engagement of the posterior cingulate cortex during cognitive restructuring of negative self- and social beliefs	10
Brain microstructural properties related to subjective well-being: diffusion tensor imaging analysis	10
A feature-based network analysis and fMRI meta-analysis reveal three distinct types of prosocial decisions	9
Longitudinal self-concept development in adolescence	9
Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning	9
The contribution of body perception to self-identity: an event-related potential study	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
Scarcity mindset facilitates empathy for social pain and prosocial intention: behavioral and neural evidences	9
Leveraging the power of media to drive cognition: a media-informed approach to naturalistic neuroscience	9
A multidimensional examination of psychopathy traits and gray matter volume in adults	9
Effective connectivity of the human mirror neuron system during social cognition	9
Effortless retaliation: the neural dynamics of interpersonal intentions in the Chicken Game using brain–computer interface	9

Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence	9
Mothers exhibit higher neural activity in gaining rewards for their children than for themselves	8
Maternal sensitivity and infant neural response to touch: an fNIRS study	8
Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on fairness-related decision-making	8
The impact of depression on mothers’ neural processing of their adolescents’ affective behavior	8
Neural correlates of successful costly punishment in the Ultimatum game on a trial-by-trial basis	8
Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing	8
Resting-state functional brain connectivity for human mentalizing: biobehavioral mechanisms of theory of mind in multiple sclerosis	8
Recruitment of dlPFC during dietary self-regulation predicts the transience of regulatory effects	8
Oxytocinergic modulation of speech production—a double-blind placebo-controlled fMRI study	8
Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults	8
The bigger your pupils, the better my comprehension: an ERP study of how pupil size and gaze of the speaker affect syntactic processing	8
Sex differences in the behavioral inhibition system and ventromedial prefrontal cortex connectivity	8
Causal role of the right temporoparietal junction in selfishness depends on the social partner	8
Effects of compassion training on brain responses to suffering others	8
Mine or ours? Neural basis of the exploitation of common-pool resources	7
Differences in functional brain organization during gesture recognition between autistic and neurotypical individuals	7
Neural tracking of social hierarchies in adolescents’ real-world social networks	7
Frontostriatal functional connectivity underlies self-enhancement during social evaluation	7
Relation of resting brain signal variability to cognitive and socioemotional measures in an adult lifespan sample	7
Effects of contextualized emotional conflict control on domain-general conflict control: fMRI evidence of neural network reconfiguration	7
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults	7
More than labels: neural representations of emotion words are widely distributed across the brain	7
Multidimensional neural representations of social features during movie viewing	7
Collectivism is associated with enhanced neural response to socially salient errors among adolescents	7
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs	7
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name	7
Neural processes of inhibitory control in American Indian peoples are associated with reduced mental health problems	7