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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years	45
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls	42
Oxytocin enhances basolateral amygdala activation and functional connectivity while processing emotional faces: preliminary findings in autistic vs non-autistic women	37
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates	35
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction	33
Experiencing happiness together facilitates dyadic coordination through the enhanced interpersonal neural synchronization	32
Unsupervised classification reveals consistency and degeneracy in neural network patterns of emotion	30
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions	28
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain	24
Targeting the DLPFC to Enhance Memory Control: Divergent Effects on Social and Nonsocial Memories	24
Mine or ours? Neural basis of the exploitation of common-pool resources	23
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing	23
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs	23
Connectome-based prediction of marital quality in husbands’ processing of spousal interactions	22
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	21
Identifying cortical structure markers of resilience to adversity in young people using surface-based morphometry	21
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence	19
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults	19
Erratum to: effects of compassion training on brain responses to suffering others	18
The speed of race	18
Learning faces as concepts improves face recognition by engaging the social brain network	18
Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood	17
Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors	17
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity	17
Meta-analytic activation maps can help identify affective processes captured by contrast-based task fMRI: the case of threat-related facial expressions	16

Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness	15
Enhanced sensitivity to optimistic cues is manifested in brain structure: a voxel-based morphometry study	15
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study	15
‘I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul’: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall	15
Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion	15
If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being	15
Sinful pleasures and pious woes? Using fMRI to examine evaluative and hedonic emotion knowledge	15
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum	15
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth	14
Self-oriented neural circuitry predicts other-oriented adaptive risks in adolescence: a longitudinal study	14
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study	14
Neural changes in reward processing following approach-avoidance training for depression	14
The role of the somatosensory system in the feeling of emotions: a neurostimulation study	13
The OXTR rs53576 impacts moral permissibility of attempted but failed harms in populations of students and prisoners	13
An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood	13
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders	13
Structural brain changes in emotion recognition across the adult lifespan	13
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear	12
Altered resting-state networks in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury—a graph theory analysis	12
The analgesic effect and neural mechanism of spicy food intake	12
Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying affective face processing	12
Reconciling psychological and neuroscientific accounts of reduced motivation in aging	12
Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life	12
A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better	12
Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations	12
Localized task-invariant emotional valence encoding revealed by intracranial recordings	12
Emotional characteristics and intrinsic brain network functional connectivity among adults aged 75+	12
Spouse Support and Stress: Gender Differences in Neural Measures of Performance Monitoring Under Observation of a Spouse	11
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem	11
Neural substrates of shared visual experiences: a hyperscanning fMRI study	11
Motherhood and theory of mind: increased activation in the posterior cingulate cortex and insulae	11
Altered functional connectivity density and couplings in postpartum depression with and without anxiety	11
Touched by loneliness—how loneliness impacts the response to observed human touch: a tDCS study	11
Socioeconomic and cognitive roots of trait anxiety in young adults	10
Gentle stroking elicits somatosensory ERP that differentiates between hairy and glabrous skin	10
Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model	10
Differential role of fusiform gyrus coupling in depressive and anxiety symptoms during emotion perception	10
Neural correlates of attachment in adolescents with trauma: a preliminary study on frustrative non-reward	10
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study	10
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy	10
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
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness	10
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective	10
Diverse social media experiences and adolescents’ depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers	10
Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training	9
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name	9
Noninvasive ventromedial prefrontal cortex stimulation can enhance and impair affective learning from rewarding and threatening stimuli	9
Perspective-taking is associated with increased discriminability of affective states in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex	9
Adolescents’ neural reactivity to parental criticism is associated with diminished happiness during daily interpersonal situations	9
Differences in functional brain organization during gesture recognition between autistic and neurotypical individuals	9

Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions	9
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years	9
Birthing parents’ neural response to infant cry: moderating effects of oxytocin and perceived childhood care	8
Lesion evidence for a causal role of the insula in aversion to social inequity	8
Early and late neural correlates of mentalizing: ALE meta-analyses in adults, children and adolescents	8
Alpha-band EEG suppression as a neural marker of sustained attentional engagement to conditioned threat stimuli	8
Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies	8
Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing	8
Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future	8
Pathophysiological changes in incentive processing in episodic migraine: a preliminary event-related potential study	8
Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system	8
Portable EEG in groups shows increased brain coupling to strong health messages	8
Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults	8
Developmental trajectories of sensitivity to threat in children and adolescents predict larger medial frontal theta differentiation during response inhibition	8
Teacher–student neural coupling during teaching and learning	8
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders	8
Pilot study of food-specific go/no-go training for overweight individuals: brain imaging data suggest inhibition shapes food evaluation	7
Androstadienone modulates human aggression in a sex-dependent manner	7
Developmental changes in brain function linked with addiction-like social media use two years later	7
Relationship Match: the neural underpinnings of social feedback in romantic couples	7
Early adolescent perceived friendship quality aids affective and neural responses to social inclusion and exclusion in young adults with and without adverse childhood experiences	7
Altruistic acting caused by a touching hand: neural underpinnings of the Midas touch effect	7
Neural bases of social facilitation and inhibition: how peer presence affects elementary eye movements	7
TMS disruption of the lateral prefrontal cortex increases neural activity in the default mode network when naming facial expressions	7
Functional connectome fingerprint of holistic–analytic cultural style	7