OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years	97
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates	73
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions	50
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls	42
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction	36
Intertemporal meditation regulates time perception and emotions: an exploratory fNIRS study	34
Authenticity is more than self-enhancement: behavioural and neurophysiological evidence	32
Targeting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to enhance memory control: divergent effects on social and non-social memories	27
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults	26
Connectome-based prediction of marital quality in husbands’ processing of spousal interactions	25
Identifying cortical structure markers of resilience to adversity in young people using surface-based morphometry	24
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs	23
Neural responses to social touch with different emotional valences: an fNIRS study	19
Human cerebellum and social navigation: cerebello-cerebral connectivity using dynamic causal modelling	19
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing	19
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence	18
Genes, culture, and neural sensitivity to norm violations: a DRD4 × culture interaction study	18
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	18
Mapping neural signatures of face processing in young children: an OPM-MEG study	18
Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors	17
Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood	17
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum	16
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity	16
Value-based cognitive control moderates the relation of inflammation with depression in adolescents	16
The speed of race	16

The shared neural substrates of emotional mimicry and emotional contagion: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis and meta-analytic connectivity modeling analysis	16
Infectious touching: Has COVID-19 changed our perceptions of social touch? A neural and behavioral study	15
Having more friends is associated with greater sensitization to social exclusion: neural and behavioral evidence	14
Potential for the medial prefrontal cortex to link mentalizing and attachment schemas	14
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study	14
Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion	14
Ayahuasca enhances functional connectivity in the third visual pathway and mirror neuron networks: a crossover, multiple-dose functional MRI study	14
The impact of teachers’ autonomy support on students’ academic performance from the perspective of hyperscanning: the mediating role of autonomy need satisfaction	14
Time-varying brain state dynamics in trait impulsivity and anxiety: An HSMM analysis of resting-state fMRI	13
Social “envirotyping” the ABCD study contextualizes dissociable brain organization and diverging outcomes	13
Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness	13
Neural correlates of embodied and vibratory mechanisms associated with emotional prosody production	13
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth	13
A comparison of a multivariate neural pattern versus amygdala response for regulation of negative emotion	13
If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being	13
Structural brain changes in emotion recognition across the adult lifespan	12
Emotional characteristics and intrinsic brain network functional connectivity among adults aged 75+	12
Role of the striatum in counterfactual information seeking	12
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders	12
The impact of affective congruence on charitable giving	12
‘I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul’: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall	12
Aperiodic activity masks sensorimotor mu suppression during human action observation	12
Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying affective face processing	11
A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better	11
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study	11
The analgesic effect and neural mechanism of spicy food intake	11
The role of the somatosensory system in the feeling of emotions: a neurostimulation study	11
Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations	11
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear	11
Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life	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
Spouse Support and Stress: Gender Differences in Neural Measures of Performance Monitoring Under Observation of a Spouse	10
An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood	10
Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model	9
Restricted Neural Parametric modulation of emotional arousal in autism reveals a core role for the cerebellum	9
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem	9
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy	9
Differential role of fusiform gyrus coupling in depressive and anxiety symptoms during emotion perception	9
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study	9
Intrinsic Network Static and Dynamic Functional Connectivity Associated with Induced Affect	9
Diverse social media experiences and adolescents’ depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers	8
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness	8
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years	8
The effect of induced humility on anger and P3b responses to frustrating events	8
Neural correlates of attachment in adolescents with trauma: a preliminary study on frustrative non-reward	8
Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training	7
Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults	7
Early threat experiences relate to reduced neural face discrimination in youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms: a frequency-tagging electroencephalography study	7
Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing	7
Pathophysiological changes in incentive processing in episodic migraine: a preliminary event-related potential study	7

Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective	7
Emotion process deficits in children with ODD and their associations with different dimensions of ODD symptoms: a fNIRS study	7
Developmental trajectories of sensitivity to threat in children and adolescents predict larger medial frontal theta differentiation during response inhibition	7
Noninvasive ventromedial prefrontal cortex stimulation can enhance and impair affective learning from rewarding and threatening stimuli	7
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name	7
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions	7
Perspective-taking is associated with increased discriminability of affective states in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex	7
Adolescents’ neural reactivity to parental criticism is associated with diminished happiness during daily interpersonal situations	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	6
Neural bases of social facilitation and inhibition: how peer presence affects elementary eye movements	6
Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies	6
Androstadienone modulates human aggression in a sex-dependent manner	6
Nonconscious processing of fearful and neutral faces modulates the N170	6
Increased default mode network activation in depression and social anxiety during upward social comparison	6
Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future	6
Is individual attentional bias positive or negative? It depends on trait anxiety	6
Love in the time of Zoom: how intimacy modulates brain and behaviour synchrony in face-to-face versus video communication	6
Distinct fNIRS Inter-Brain Coupling Patterns for Cooperation versus Competition in a Tennis Game	6
Prediction Strength Shapes Representations of Social Judgments and Bodily Responses to Prediction Violations	6
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders	6
Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system	6
Gratitude enhances widespread dynamic cooperation and inter-brain synchronization in females	6