Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Article	Citations
What we don't know about what babies know: Reconsidering psychophysics, exploration, and infant behavior	217
Integrating cultural evolution and behavioral genetics	66
Capacities for peace, and war, are old and related to Homo construction of worlds and communities	66
The many geographical layers of culture	56
Social and economic interdependence as a basis for peaceful between-group relationships in nonhuman primates and humans	56
The adaptiveness of fear (and other emotions) considered more broadly: Missed literature on the nature of emotions and its functions	38
Do conviction narratives drive individual decisions?	36
Making the unconscious conscious: Developing maladaptive scripts into conviction narratives	34
Primordial feeling of possession in development	34
Cultural evolutionary theory is not enough: Ambiguous culture, neglect of structure, and the absence of theory in behavior genetics	31
The disintegrated theory of consciousness: Sleep, waking, and meta-awareness	31
Trait attribution explains human–robot interactions	30
Disentangling paradigm and method can help bring qualitative research to post-positivist psychology and address the generalizability crisis	27
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics without racial/ethnic diversity will result in weak causal knowledge	26
The central problem is still evolutionary stability	24
Unpacking the nudge muddle	24
“Who's there?”: Depicting identity in interaction	21
Taking social psychology out of context	20
Frames, trade-offs, and perspectives	18
The study of rational framing effects needs developmental psychology	16
Correction, uncertainty, and anchoring effects	14
Déjà vu: A botched memory operation, illegitimate to start with	10
Natural logic and baby LoTH	10
The evolution of (intergroup) peace hinges on how we define groups and peace	9
Belonging to a community of moral values as a key criterion of society	8

Explananda and explanantia in deep neural network models of neurological network functions	8
Rational framing effects: A multidisciplinary case	8
Citizen science can help to alleviate the generalizability crisis	7
The cost of crisis in clinical psychological science	7
Conformity versus transmission in animal cultures	7
The creativity of architects	6
The unboxing has already begun: One motivation construct at a time	6
Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens: Ultimate functions, proximate mechanisms, cultural distribution	6
The Trojan horse of historical myths: Emotion-driven narratives as a strategy for coalitional recruitment	6
A source- and channel-coding approach to the analysis and design of languages and ideographies	5
Tradition and invention: The bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution	5
The centrality of practice in ideographic communication, and the perennial puzzle of positivistic thinking	5
Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences	5
Peace in other primates	5
Functional ideographies are composite semiotic systems	5
Ownership psychology as a cognitive adaptation: A minimalist model	5
The ritual stance does not apply to magic in general	4
Developmental research assessing bias would benefit from naturalistic observation data	4
Escaping from the IIT Munchausen method: Re-establishing the scientific method in the study of consciousness	4
On the potentials of interaction breakdowns for HRI	4
Dimensional versus conceptual incommensurability in the social and behavioral sciences	4
Narratives need not end well; nor say it all	4
A possible shared underlying mechanism among involuntary autobiographical memory and déjà vu	4
For human-like models, train on human-like tasks	4
Bifocal stance theory: An effort to broaden, extend, and clarify	4
Women take risks to help others to stay alive	4
Purity is linked to cooperation but not necessarily through self-control	4
Rational framing effects and morally valid reasons	3
On abstract goals’ perverse effects on proxies: The dynamics of unattainability	3
Psychological and actual group formation: Conflict is neither necessary nor sufficient	3
Autonomous social robots are real in the mind's eye of many	3
Quo vadis, planning?	3
The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis: Consequences for the development of the logic of thought	3
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics	3
Experimental studies of bias: Imperfect but neither useless nor unique	3
“WEIRD” societies still value (even needless) self-control and self-sacrifice	3
Myth as model: Group-level interpretive frameworks	3
Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition	3
Female advantage in threat avoidance manifests in threat reaction but not threat detection	3
Beyond the limitations of any imaginable mechanism: Large language models and psycholinguistics	3
Developmental noise is an overlooked contributor to innate variation in psychological traits	3
Negative priors and inferences from absence of evidence in cognitive and linguistic archaeology: Epistemically sound and scientifically strategic	3
Consciousness, complexity, and evolution	3
Group myths can create shared understanding even if they don't act as superstimuli	3
Creativity and tradition: Music and bifocal stance theory	3
Substances as a core domain	3
Why frightening imaginary worlds? Morbid curiosity and the learning potential of horror	3
Subjective and objective corruption of intuition and rational choice	2
Hominin cognition: The null hypothesis	2
On the big list of causes	2

Revisiting an extant framework: Concerns about culture and task generalization	2
Is language-of-thought the best game in the town we live?	2
Return of the math: Markov blankets, dynamical systems theory, and the bounds of mind	2
Further advancing theories of retrieval of the personal past	2
The Emperor's New Markov Blankets	2
What is intuiting and deliberating? A functional–cognitive perspective	2
An accelerating crisis: Metascience is out-reproducing psychological science	2
Is core knowledge in the format of LOT?	2
The different paths to cultural convergence	2
Distinct neurocognitive pathways underlying creativity: An integrative approach	2
Enough blanket metaphysics, time for data-driven heuristics	2
Meta-learning in active inference	2
Development, history, and a minimalist model of ownership psychology	2
Publishing fast and slow: A path toward generalizability in psychology and AI	2
Question-asking as a mechanism of information seeking	2
For deep networks, the whole equals the sum of the parts	2
Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide	2
Representational structures only make their mark over time: A case from memory	2
Markov blankets as boundary conditions: Sweeping dirt under the rug still cleans the house	2
Categorizing judgments as likely to be selected by intuition or deliberation	2
Beyond individual sex differences: “Staying alive theory” as an adaptive complex	2
Loosening the leash: The unique emotional canvas of human screams	2
Two thousand years after Archimedes, psychologist finds three topics that will simply not yield to the experimental method	2
Almost, but not quite there: Research into the emergence of higher-order motivated behavior should fully embrace the dynamic systems approach	2
Moral disciplining provides a satisfying explanation for Chinese lay concepts of immorality	2
What about language?	2
Intracranial electrical brain stimulation as an approach to studying the (dis)continuum of memory experiential phenomena	2
Meta-learned models beyond and beneath the cognitive	2
Centering the relationship between structural racism and individual bias	2
When instrumental inference hides behind seemingly arbitrary conventions	2
Representational exchange in social learning: Blurring the lines between the ritual and instrumental	2
Phenomena complexity, disciplinary consensus, and experimental versus correlational research in psychological science	2
Meeting counterfactual causality criteria is not the problem	2
Ownership psychology and group size	2
Moving from i-frame to s-frame focus in equity, diversity, and inclusion research, practice, and policy	2
No tinkering allowed: When the end goal requires a highly specific or risky, and complex action sequence, expect ritualistic scaffolding	2
Staying alive enhances both women's and men's fitness	2
Ownership as a component of the extended self	2
Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science: Environmental confounding, downward causation, and unknown biology	2
Mood regulation as a shared basis for creativity and curiosity	2
Conspiracy theory	2
The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care	2
The future of experimental design: Integrative, but is the sample diverse enough?	2
The seductive allure of cargo cult computationalism	2
A multi-trait embodied framework for the evolution of brains and cognition across animal phyla	2
Generalizability, transferability, and the practice-to-practice gap	2
Myths of trauma and myths of cooperation: Diverse consequences of history for societal cohesion	2
Ownership psychology as a “cognitive cell” adaptation: A minimalist model of microbial goods theory	2
Incomplete language-of-thought in infancy	1
Bayesian realism and structural representation	1
Don't throw motivation out with the black box: The value of a good theory revisited	1
The social stratification of population as a mechanism of downward causation	1
Expression unleashed in artificial intelligence	1
On Skinner's pendulum: A framework for assessing s-frame hope	1
Explore your experimental designs and theories before you exploit them!	1
Consciousness is already solved: The continued debate is not about science	1
The roots of peace	1
How puzzling is the social artifact puzzle?	1
Neither neural networks nor the language-of-thought alone make a complete game	1
Is Conviction Narrative Theory a theory of everything or nothing?	1
When radical uncertainty is too much: Clinical aspects of Conviction Narrative Theory	1
Proxy failure as a feature of adaptive control systems	1
Advancing theorizing about fast-and-slow thinking: The interplay between fast and slow processing	1
On the murky dissociation between expression and communication	1
Implications of instrumental and ritual stances for traditionalism–threat responsivity relationships	1
Misdiagnosing the problem of why behavioural change interventions fail	1
Exploratory exploitation and exploitative exploration: The phenomenology of play and the computational dynamics of search	1
On the dual nature of creativity: Same same but different?	1
Misguided model of human behavior: Comment on C. H. Burt: “Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science…”	1
Virtual and real: Symbolic and natural experiences with social robots	1
Replies to commentaries on the generalizability crisis	1
Core knowledge and its role in explaining uniquely human cognition: Some questions	1
Response to commentaries on What Babies Know	1
Metarepresentation, trust, and “unleashed expression”	1
Why is system 1/system 2 switching affectively loaded?	1
Sex differences in longevity are relative, not independent	1
Polygenic scores, and the genome-wide association studies they derive from, will have difficulty identifying genes that predispose one to develop a social behavioral trait	1
A broader theory of cooperation can better explain “purity”	1
Without more theory, psychology will be a headless rider	1
Distinguishing involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences: Different types of cues and memory representations?	1

We aren't especially fearful apes, and fearful apes aren't especially prosocial	1
Burt uses a fallacious motte-and-bailey argument to dispute the value of genetics for social science	1
IIT, half masked and half disfigured	1
The language-of-thought as a working hypothesis for developmental cognitive science	1
Visual Attention in Crisis	1
Self-control modulates information salience	1
Decisions under uncertainty are more messy than they seem	1
Understanding causal mechanisms in the study of group bias	1
How important is it to learn language rather than create it?	1
Social robots as depictions of social agents	1
Increasing the use of functional and multimodal genetic data in social science research	1
Toward biologically plausible artificial vision	1
Even deeper problems with neural network models of language	1
Beyond reductionism: Understanding motivational energization requires higher-order constructs	1
The puzzle of ideography	1
Consensus meetings will outperform integrative experiments	1
Moral artificial intelligence and machine puritanism	1
Impediments to peace	1
Individual differences and multi-step thinking	1
A neuroscientific perspective on the computational theory of social groups	1
Social norms, mentalising, and common knowledge, in making peace and war	1
Probabilistic programming versus meta-learning as models of cognition	1
Group identity without social interactions?	1
Navigating proxy failures in education: Learning from human and animal play	1
Definitional devils and detail: On identifying motivation as an animating dynamic	1
The meta-learning toolkit needs stronger constraints	1
It's the biology, stupid! Proxy failures in economic decision making	1
Controlled lab experiments are one of many useful scientific methods to investigate bias	1
Rationality as the end of thought	1
Behavioral mechanism design	1
Psychophysics may be the game-changer for deep neural networks (DNNs) to imitate the human vision	1
Communication consistency, completeness, and complexity of digital ideography in trustworthy mobile extended reality	1
Shallow versus deep genetic causes	1
Activation of stance by cues, or attunement to the invariants in a populated environment?	1
Oh it's me again: Déjà vu, the brain, and self-awareness	1
Societies, identities, and macrodemes	1
Advanced testing of the LoT hypothesis by social reasoning	1
Cultural evolution and behavior genetic modeling: The long view of time	1
Dancing robots: Social interactions are performed, not depicted	1
Paranoia reveals the complexity in assigning individuals to groups on the basis of inferred intentions	1
The human fear paradox turns out to be less paradoxical when global changes in human aggression and language evolution are considered	1
Neither hype nor gloom do DNNs justice	1
GWASs and polygenic scores inherit all the old problems of heritability estimates	1
Don't let perfect be the enemy of better: In defense of unparameterized megastudies	1
The language-of-thought hypothesis as a working hypothesis in cognitive science	1
Social groups and the computational conundrums of delays, proximity, and loyalty	1
Even simple framing effects are rational	1
Structuring unleashed expression: Developmental foundations of human communication	1
Latent structure learning as an alternative computation for group inference	1
A game of raids: Expanding on a game theoretical approach utilising the prisoner's dilemma and ethnography in situ	1
The intertwined nature of peace and war	1
Developmental and evolutionary models of social fear can address “the human fear paradox”	1
Look to the field	1
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth	1
All that glisters is not gold: Genetics and social science	1
Meta-learned models as tools to test theories of cognitive development	1
Motivational whack-a-mole: Foundational boxes cannot be unpacked	1
Markov blankets: Realism and our ontological commitments	1
Proposing the DN(C)-model of material evidence for well-calibrated claims about past cultures	1
How language and agriculture promote culture- and peace-promoting norms	1
Eliminativist induction cannot be a solution to psychology's crisis	1
Hold it! Where do we put the body?	1
The dark side of fear expression: Infant crying as a trigger for maladaptive parental responses	1
The feasibility of ideography as an empirical question for a science representational systems design	1
Staying alive includes adaptations for catalyzing cooperation	1
Postcard from inside the black box	1
Puritanical morality: Cooperation or coercion?	1
Properties of LoTs: The footprints or the bear itself?	1
Women need to stay alive and protect reproductive choice	1
Causal dispositionalism in behaviour genetics	1
Toward a causal model of curiosity and creativity	1
A good architecture for fast and slow thinking, but exclusivity is exclusively in the past	1
Reciprocal contracts – not competitive acquisition – explain the moral psychology of ownership	1
Middle-earth wasn't built in a day: How do we explain the costs of creating a world?	1
Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism	1
Genetics can inform causation, but the concepts and language we use matters	1
Confidence in research findings depends on theory	1
Using the study of reasoning to address the age of unreason	1
Limited evidence that fitness interdependence produces historical origin myths	1
Biological sex, by-products, and other continuous variables	1
Not by intuitions alone: Institutions shape our ownership behaviour	1
Puritanical moralism may signal patience rather than cause self-control	1
Interacting with characters redux	1
Extending and refining the fearful ape hypothesis	1
Causal surgery under a Markov blanket	1
The polyphony principle	1
The evolutionary psychology of ownership is rooted in the Lockean liberal principle of self-ownership	1
There are no shortcuts to theory	1
Fidelity, stances, and explaining cultural stability	1
Models of gene–culture evolution are incomplete without incorporating epigenetic effects	1
Developmental antecedents of representing “group” behavior: A commentary on Pietraszewski's theory of groups	1
Imagining our moral values in the present and future	1
Meta-criteria to formulate criteria of consciousness	1
Investigating infant knowledge with representational similarity analysis	1
Further advancing fast-and-slow theorizing	1