Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Behavioral and Brain Sciences is 0. 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
What we don't know about what babies know: Reconsidering psychophysics, exploration, and infant behavior304
The adaptiveness of fear (and other emotions) considered more broadly: Missed literature on the nature of emotions and its functions90
Belonging to a community of moral values as a key criterion of society86
Trait attribution explains human–robot interactions73
The Trojan horse of historical myths: Emotion-driven narratives as a strategy for coalitional recruitment48
Conformity versus transmission in animal cultures43
Explananda and explanantia in deep neural network models of neurological network functions37
Disentangling paradigm and method can help bring qualitative research to post-positivist psychology and address the generalizability crisis34
Correction, uncertainty, and anchoring effects32
Rational framing effects: A multidisciplinary case32
Tradition and invention: The bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution31
Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences30
The unboxing has already begun: One motivation construct at a time29
Primordial feeling of possession in development29
Natural logic and baby LoTH22
Citizen science can help to alleviate the generalizability crisis21
Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework20
Making the unconscious conscious: Developing maladaptive scripts into conviction narratives17
Frames, trade-offs, and perspectives15
“Who's there?”: Depicting identity in interaction12
Capacities for peace, and war, are old and related to Homo construction of worlds and communities12
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics without racial/ethnic diversity will result in weak causal knowledge12
Déjà vu: A botched memory operation, illegitimate to start with12
Do conviction narratives drive individual decisions?12
Unpacking the nudge muddle12
The central problem is still evolutionary stability11
The cost of crisis in clinical psychological science11
Social and economic interdependence as a basis for peaceful between-group relationships in nonhuman primates and humans11
The study of rational framing effects needs developmental psychology11
Integrating cultural evolution and behavioral genetics9
Taking social psychology out of context9
The many geographical layers of culture8
The creativity of architects8
The disintegrated theory of consciousness: Sleep, waking, and meta-awareness8
Cultural evolutionary theory is not enough: Ambiguous culture, neglect of structure, and the absence of theory in behavior genetics8
The evolution of (intergroup) peace hinges on how we define groups and peace8
Peace in other primates7
Ownership psychology as a cognitive adaptation: A minimalist model7
Quo vadis, planning?7
Creativity and tradition: Music and bifocal stance theory7
Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens: Ultimate functions, proximate mechanisms, cultural distribution7
Substances as a core domain7
Functional ideographies are composite semiotic systems7
Narratives need not end well; nor say it all6
On the potentials of interaction breakdowns for HRI6
“WEIRD” societies still value (even needless) self-control and self-sacrifice6
Bifocal stance theory: An effort to broaden, extend, and clarify6
A source- and channel-coding approach to the analysis and design of languages and ideographies6
The ritual stance does not apply to magic in general6
A possible shared underlying mechanism among involuntary autobiographical memory and déjà vu6
Purity is linked to cooperation but not necessarily through self-control6
Negative priors and inferences from absence of evidence in cognitive and linguistic archaeology: Epistemically sound and scientifically strategic5
Psychological and actual group formation: Conflict is neither necessary nor sufficient5
Women take risks to help others to stay alive5
Dimensional versus conceptual incommensurability in the social and behavioral sciences5
Escaping from the IIT Munchausen method: Re-establishing the scientific method in the study of consciousness5
On abstract goals’ perverse effects on proxies: The dynamics of unattainability5
The centrality of practice in ideographic communication, and the perennial puzzle of positivistic thinking5
Developmental research assessing bias would benefit from naturalistic observation data5
For human-like models, train on human-like tasks4
Group myths can create shared understanding even if they don't act as superstimuli4
Autonomous social robots are real in the mind's eye of many4
Female advantage in threat avoidance manifests in threat reaction but not threat detection4
Publishing fast and slow: A path toward generalizability in psychology and AI4
Subjective and objective corruption of intuition and rational choice4
Why frightening imaginary worlds? Morbid curiosity and the learning potential of horror4
The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis: Consequences for the development of the logic of thought4
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics4
Beyond the limitations of any imaginable mechanism: Large language models and psycholinguistics4
Meta-learned models beyond and beneath the cognitive4
The future of experimental design: Integrative, but is the sample diverse enough?4
Myth as model: Group-level interpretive frameworks4
Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition4
Consciousness, complexity, and evolution4
Centering the relationship between structural racism and individual bias4
Ownership as a component of the extended self4
An accelerating crisis: Metascience is out-reproducing psychological science3
Conspiracy theory3
For deep networks, the whole equals the sum of the parts3
Representational exchange in social learning: Blurring the lines between the ritual and instrumental3
Distinct neurocognitive pathways underlying creativity: An integrative approach3
Motivational whack-a-mole: Foundational boxes cannot be unpacked3
A multi-trait embodied framework for the evolution of brains and cognition across animal phyla3
Moral disciplining provides a satisfying explanation for Chinese lay concepts of immorality3
Meta-learning in active inference3
Ownership psychology as a “cognitive cell” adaptation: A minimalist model of microbial goods theory3
Rational framing effects and morally valid reasons3
Myths of trauma and myths of cooperation: Diverse consequences of history for societal cohesion3
On the big list of causes3
Creativity is motivated by novelty. Curiosity is triggered by uncertainty3
Further advancing theories of retrieval of the personal past3
Representational structures only make their mark over time: A case from memory3
Loosening the leash: The unique emotional canvas of human screams3
The seductive allure of cargo cult computationalism3
Generalizability, transferability, and the practice-to-practice gap3
Is language-of-thought the best game in the town we live?3
Enough blanket metaphysics, time for data-driven heuristics3
Development, history, and a minimalist model of ownership psychology3
Meeting counterfactual causality criteria is not the problem3
Markov blankets as boundary conditions: Sweeping dirt under the rug still cleans the house3
The different paths to cultural convergence3
Developmental noise is an overlooked contributor to innate variation in psychological traits3
Phenomena complexity, disciplinary consensus, and experimental versus correlational research in psychological science3
Is core knowledge in the format of LOT?3
What about language?3
Hominin cognition: The null hypothesis3
Ownership psychology and group size3
Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide3
Moving from i-frame to s-frame focus in equity, diversity, and inclusion research, practice, and policy3
Intracranial electrical brain stimulation as an approach to studying the (dis)continuum of memory experiential phenomena3
When instrumental inference hides behind seemingly arbitrary conventions3
Experimental studies of bias: Imperfect but neither useless nor unique3
Question-asking as a mechanism of information seeking3
Proxy failure as a feature of adaptive control systems2
Neural networks need real-world behavior2
Imagining our moral values in the present and future2
What is a society in the case of multilevel societies?2
We need to think more about how we conduct research2
Interacting with characters redux2
How research on persuasion can inform dual-process models of judgment2
Are we virtuously caring or just anxious?2
Is undisciplined behavior antithetical to cooperation, or is it part and parcel of it?2
Random effects won't solve the problem of generalizability2
“Staying alive” in the context of intimate partner abuse2
Metarepresentation, trust, and “unleashed expression”2
Postcard from inside the black box2
Inferences from absences2
Understanding causal mechanisms in the study of group bias2
Social robots as depictions of social agents2
A game of raids: Expanding on a game theoretical approach utilising the prisoner's dilemma and ethnography in situ2
Paranoia reveals the complexity in assigning individuals to groups on the basis of inferred intentions2
Visual Attention in Crisis2
Déjà vu and involuntary autobiographical memories as two distinct cases of familiarity in patients with Alzheimer's disease2
GWASs and polygenic scores inherit all the old problems of heritability estimates2
Confidence in research findings depends on theory2
Polygenic scores, and the genome-wide association studies they derive from, will have difficulty identifying genes that predispose one to develop a social behavioral trait2
Two thousand years after Archimedes, psychologist finds three topics that will simply not yield to the experimental method2
Beyond novelty: Learnability in the interplay between creativity, curiosity and artistic endeavours2
Beyond folk-sociology: Extending Pietraszewski's model to large-group dynamics2
Return of the math: Markov blankets, dynamical systems theory, and the bounds of mind2
Proxy failures in practice: Examples from the sociology of science2
The challenges of sociogenomics make it more, not less, worthy of careful and innovative investigation2
Staying alive enhances both women's and men's fitness2
Advanced testing of the LoT hypothesis by social reasoning2
Impediments to peace2
What is intuiting and deliberating? A functional–cognitive perspective2
Why societies are important and grow so large: Tribes, nations, and teams2
The many faces of moralized self-control: Puritanical morality is not reducible to cooperation concerns2
Distinguishing involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences: Different types of cues and memory representations?2
How puzzling is the social artifact puzzle?2
Addressing a crisis of generalizability with large-scale construct validation2
Material culture both reflects and causes human cognitive evolution2
Social groups and the computational conundrums of delays, proximity, and loyalty2
Do nonlinguistic creatures deploy mental symbols for logical connectives in reasoning?2
Societies also prioritize female survival2
Probabilistic programming versus meta-learning as models of cognition2
Measurement practices exacerbate the generalizability crisis: Novel digital measures can help2
Activation of stance by cues, or attunement to the invariants in a populated environment?2
Replies to commentaries on the generalizability crisis2
Drowning in shallow causality2
Vocalizations are ideal identity signals2
Almost, but not quite there: Research into the emergence of higher-order motivated behavior should fully embrace the dynamic systems approach2
Cultural evolution and behavior genetic modeling: The long view of time2
Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science: Environmental confounding, downward causation, and unknown biology2
The meta-learning toolkit needs stronger constraints2
Models of vision need some action2
Cognitive traits are more appropriate for genetic analysis than social outcomes2
It's bigger on the inside: mapping the black box of motivation2
The evolutionary psychology of ownership is rooted in the Lockean liberal principle of self-ownership2
Models of gene–culture evolution are incomplete without incorporating epigenetic effects2
Puritanical morality and the scaffolded evolution of self-control2
Structuring unleashed expression: Developmental foundations of human communication2
Mindfulness, curiosity, and creativity2
Reciprocal contracts – not competitive acquisition – explain the moral psychology of ownership2
Bayesian realism and structural representation2
Some problems with zooming out as scientific reform2
Why the use of ideographic codes does not improve communicative skills in patients with severe aphasia?2
No tinkering allowed: When the end goal requires a highly specific or risky, and complex action sequence, expect ritualistic scaffolding2
Eliminativist induction cannot be a solution to psychology's crisis2
Ownership psychology, its antecedents and consequences2
Mood regulation as a shared basis for creativity and curiosity2
The small world's problem is everyone's problem, not a reason to favor CNT over probabilistic decision theory2
Reframing rationality: Exogenous constraints on controlled information search2
Cooperative care as origins of the “happy ape”?2
Revisiting an extant framework: Concerns about culture and task generalization2
Toward dual-process theory 3.02
A developmental account of curiosity and creativity2
The polyphony principle2
Questioning the nature and origins of the “social agent” concept2
Generalizability challenges in applied psychological and organizational research and practice2
Myths and fitness interdependence: Beyond coalitional longevity2
Accuracy in social judgment does not exclude the potential for bias2
When unpacking the black box of motivation invites three forms of reductionism2
Subjective selection, super-attractors, and the origins of the cultural manifold2
A neurocognitive view on the depiction of social robots2
Beyond reductionism: Understanding motivational energization requires higher-order constructs2
Middle-earth wasn't built in a day: How do we explain the costs of creating a world?2
Women need to stay alive and protect reproductive choice2
The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care2
Perception is iconic, perceptual working memory is discursive2
Misdiagnosing the problem of why behavioural change interventions fail2
IIT, half masked and half disfigured2
Making reification concrete: A response to Bruineberg et al.2
Meta-cognition about social robots could be difficult, making self-reports about some cognitive processes less useful2
Look to the field2
Decisions under uncertainty are more messy than they seem2
Staying alive includes adaptations for catalyzing cooperation2
Biological sex, by-products, and other continuous variables2
Virtual and real: Symbolic and natural experiences with social robots2
Beyond individual sex differences: “Staying alive theory” as an adaptive complex2
Behavioral mechanism design2
Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus2
Categorizing judgments as likely to be selected by intuition or deliberation2
Reductionism and proxy failure: From neuroscience to target-based drug discovery2
Ownership and willingness to compete for resources1
Cultural evolution is not independent of linguistic evolution and social aspects of language use1
Vertical pleiotropy explains the heritability of social science traits1
Genes, genomes, and developmental process1
Embracing sensorimotor history: Time-synchronous and time-unrolled Markov blankets in the free-energy principle1
Purity is not a distinct moral domain1
Depiction as possible phase in the dynamics of sociomorphing1
Learning agents that acquire representations of social groups1
Boyer's minimal model should also represent multiple ownership without collective agency1
Modelling human vision needs to account for subjective experience1
Accommodating the continuum hypothesis with the déjà vu/déjà vécu distinction1
Simulation does not just inform choice, it changes choice1
Distinguishing self-involving from self-serving choices in framing effects1
A continuity of Markov blanket interpretations under the free-energy principle1
Mind the gap: Why is there no general purpose ideographic system?1
The best game in town: The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis across the cognitive sciences1
Higher-order motivational constructs as personal-level fictions: A solution in search of a problem1
The Emperor Is Naked: Replies to commentaries on the target article1
Computation, perception, and mind1
The cost of success or failure for proxy signals in ecological problems1
Understanding cultural clusters: An ethnographic perspective1
Let's move forward: Image-computable models and a common model evaluation scheme are prerequisites for a scientific understanding of human vision1
Regulator and agent sophistication as an explanation-generating engine for proxy failure dynamics1
A tale of two histories: Dual-system architectures in modular perspective1
A reputational perspective on rational framing effects1
Using the sender–receiver framework to understand the evolution of languages-of-thought1
Cultural evolution needed to complete the Grossmann theory1
Heightened fearfulness as a developmental adaptation1
Let's move forward: Image-computable models and a common model evaluation scheme are prerequisites for a scientific understanding of human vision – CORRIGENDUM1
When nudges have societal-level impact1
Myths and prestige in Hindu nationalist politics1
Cesario's framework for understanding group disparities is radically incomplete1
The scientific value of explanation and prediction1
The key to understanding core knowledge resides in the fetus1
Nudges, regulations, and behavioral public choice1
A spontaneous neural replay account for involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences1
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