Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Article	Citations
The generalizability crisis	250
The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray	129
The Emperor's New Markov Blankets	47
Deep problems with neural network models of human vision	44
The number sense represents (rational) numbers	41
The best game in town: The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis across the cognitive sciences	37
Advancing theorizing about fast-and-slow thinking	36
Cultural evolution of genetic heritability	28
The integrated information theory of consciousness: A case of mistaken identity	25
Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model	23
Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature: Integrative Experiment Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences	22
Social robots as depictions of social agents	22
What can experimental studies of bias tell us about real-world group disparities?	22
Expression unleashed: The evolutionary and cognitive foundations of human communication	22
Why imaginary worlds? The psychological foundations and cultural evolution of fictions with imaginary worlds	22
Tradition and invention: The bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution	21
Conviction Narrative Theory: A theory of choice under radical uncertainty	20
Self-protection as an adaptive female strategy	18
Moral disciplining: The cognitive and evolutionary foundations of puritanical morality	16
Toward inclusive theories of the evolution of musicality	16
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics	16
Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science: Environmental confounding, downward causation, and unknown biology	16
Replies to commentaries on the generalizability crisis	16
Toward a computational theory of social groups: A finite set of cognitive primitives for representing any and all social groups in the context of conflict	14
It's not a bug, it's boredom: Effortful willpower balances exploitation and exploration	13

Précis of Vigor: Neuroeconomics of Movement Control	12
Willpower is overrated	11
What's not music, but feels like music to you?	10
Are involuntary autobiographical memory and déjà vu natural products of memory retrieval?	9
Knowledge prior to belief: Is extended better than enacted?	9
Disentangling paradigm and method can help bring qualitative research to post-positivist psychology and address the generalizability crisis	8
Where they sing solo: Accounting for cross-cultural variation in collective music-making in theories of music evolution	8
Consciousness, complexity, and evolution	8
The evolution of peace	7
A shared novelty-seeking basis for creativity and curiosity	7
Meta-learned models of cognition	6
The unbearable limitations of solo science: Team science as a path for more rigorous and relevant research	6
There is no generalizability crisis	6
Beyond willpower	6
Mind the gap: The mediating role of emotion mechanisms in social bonding through musical activities	6
Rational framing effects: A multidisciplinary case	6
Numbers in action	6
Ownership psychology as a cognitive adaptation: A minimalist model	6
Ownership is (likely to be) a moral foundation	5
Pathological complexity and the evolution of sex differences	5
Music, attachment, and uncertainty: Music as communicative interaction	5
The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care	5
Toward a productive evolutionary understanding of music	5
Addressing a crisis of generalizability with large-scale construct validation	5
IIT, half masked and half disfigured	5
No way around cross-cultural and cross-linguistic epistemology	5
Isochrony, vocal learning, and the acquisition of rhythm and melody	5
The integrated information theory of consciousness: Unmasked and identified	4
Individual-level solutions may support system-level change â if they are internalized as part of one's social identity	4
Reducing behavioral dimensions to study brain–environment interactions	4
Challenging infant-directed singing as a credible signal of maternal attention	4
Why a group-level analysis is essential for effective public policy: The case for a g-frame	4
On depicting social agents	4
From description to generalization, or there and back again	4
Against unitary theories of music evolution	4
What is exactly the problem with panpsychism?	4
The approximate number system represents magnitude and precision	4
Scientific realism about Friston blankets without literalism	4
Ancestral human mother–infant interaction was an adaptation that gave rise to music and dance	4
Oxytocin as an allostatic agent in the social bonding effects of music	4
Impact on the legal system of the generalizability crisis in psychology	4
Evolving resolve	3
Compositionality in visual perception	3
Does the present moment depend on the moments not lived?	3
Social bonding and credible signaling hypotheses largely disregard the gap between animal vocalizations and human music	3
Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens: Ultimate functions, proximate mechanisms, cultural distribution	3
Sound sleep: Lullabies as a test case for the neurobiological effects of music	3
It's always both: Changing individuals requires changing systems and changing systems requires changing individuals	3
Further advancing fast-and-slow theorizing	3
Unpredictable robots elicit responsibility attributions	3

The evolution of music: One trait, many ultimate-level explanations	3
Costs and benefits of communicating vigor	3
Children's interactions with virtual assistants: Moving beyond depictions of social agents	3
Structural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Group Cohesion in Primates	3
Body ownership as a proxy for individual and social separation and connection	3
Mechanistic modeling for the masses	3
Without more theory, psychology will be a headless rider	3
If music be the food of love, play on: Four ways that music may lead to social connection	3
Generalizability, transferability, and the practice-to-practice gap	3
Progress without exclusion in the search for an evolutionary basis of music	3
People treat social robots as real social agents	3
Music, bonding, and human evolution: A critique	3
Citizen science can help to alleviate the generalizability crisis	3
Of children and social robots	3
To be or to know? Information in the pristine present	3
This time I mean it: The nature–nurture debate is over	3
Numbers, numerosities, and new directions	3
Chinese offers a test for universal cognitive processes	3
Markov blankets as boundary conditions: Sweeping dirt under the rug still cleans the house	2
Often wrong, sometimes useful: Including polygenic scores in social science research	2
Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide	2
From the pragmatics of charades to the creation of language	2
Question-asking as a mechanism of information seeking	2
What can the implicit social cognition literature teach us about implicit social cognition?	2
Middle-earth wasn't built in a day: How do we explain the costs of creating a world?	2
The complex nature of willpower and conceptual mapping of its normative significance in research on stress, addiction, and dementia	2
The empire strikes back: Some responses to Bruineberg and colleagues	2
Quantum decision corrections for the neuroeconomics of irrational movement control and goal attainment	2
Infants actively seek and transmit knowledge via communication	2
Consciousness generates agent action	2
Moving fast and seeing slow? The visual consequences of vigorous movement	2
Interacting with others while reacting to the environment	2
Imagining our moral values in the present and future	2
Knowledge songs as an evolutionary adaptation to facilitate information transmission through music	2
Conformity versus transmission in animal cultures	2
Music as a trait in evolutionary theory: A musicological perspective	2
Numerosities are not ersatz numbers	2
Polygenic scores for social science: Clarification, consensus, and controversy	2
Do “knowledge attributions” involve metarepresentation just like belief attributions do?	2
Moral artificial intelligence and machine puritanism	2
The social sciences are increasingly ill-equipped to design system-level reforms	2
The music and social bonding hypothesis does require multilevel selection	2
Musical bonds are orthogonal to symbolic language and norms	2
The evolution of knowledge during the Cambrian explosion	2
The ritual stance does not apply to magic in general	2
Activation of stance by cues, or attunement to the invariants in a populated environment?	2
Optimizing behavior change through integration of individual- and system-level intervention approaches	2
Experimental evidence suggests intergroup relations are, by default, neutral rather than aggressive	2
Maps and territories, smoke, and mirrors	2
Considering individual differences and variability is important in the development of the bifocal stance theory	2
Computation, perception, and mind	2
Framing, equivalence, and rational inference	2
Axioms and postulates: Finding the right match through logical inference	2
Unravelling the origins of musicality: Beyond music as an epiphenomenon of language	2
Spatiotemporal constraints of causality: Blanket closure emerges from localized interactions between temporally separable subsystems	2
Music and dance are two parallel routes for creating social cohesion	2
Encapsulation and subjectivity from the standpoint of viewpoint theory	2
Cultural evolutionary theory is not enough: Ambiguous culture, neglect of structure, and the absence of theory in behavior genetics	2
The social stratification of population as a mechanism of downward causation	2
Distinguishing the specific from the recognitional and the canonical, and the nature of ratios	2
A language of episodic thought?	2
Expectations, opportunities, and awareness: A case for combining i- and s-frame interventions	2
A critique of motivation constructs to explain higher-order behavior: We should unpack the black box	2
Willpower needs tactical skill	2
A neurodevelopmental disorders perspective into music, social attention, and social bonding	2
The evolution of imagination and the adaptive value of imaginary worlds	2
Psychophysics may be the game-changer for deep neural networks (DNNs) to imitate the human vision	2
The integrated information theory of agency	2
Autonomous social robots are real in the mind's eye of many	2
The “staying alive” theory reinforces stereotypes and shows women's lower quality of life	2
Teleology first: Goals before knowledge and belief	2
Science with or without statistics: Discover-generalize-replicate? Discover-replicate-generalize?	2
The statistical mechanics of felt uncertainty under active inference	2
Dual-process moral judgment beyond fast and slow	2
Signaling games and music as a credible signal	2
Community-engaged research is best positioned to catalyze systemic change	2
Causal complexity in human research: On the shared challenges of behavior genetics, medical genetics, and environmentally oriented social science	2
Making reification concrete: A response to Bruineberg et al.	2
Generalizability in mixed models: Lessons from corpus linguistics	2
Sex and drugs and rock and roll	2

External validity of social psychological experiments is a concern, but these models are useful	1
Knowledgeisbelief – and shaped by culture	1
Bifocalism is in the eye of the beholder: Social learning as a developmental response to the accuracy of others' mentalizing	1
Triadic conflict “primitives” can be reduced to welfare trade-off ratios	1
Vertical pleiotropy explains the heritability of social science traits	1
How do narratives relate to heuristics?	1
Specifying separation: avoidance, abstraction, openness to new experiences	1
Cultural evolution may influence heritability by shaping assortative mating	1
Natural logic and baby LoTH	1
The many geographical layers of culture	1
From the trajectory of heritability to the heritability of trajectories	1
Drowning in shallow causality	1
Integrating cultural evolution and behavioral genetics	1
The labelled container: Conceptual development of social group representations	1
Somatic maintenance/reproduction tradeoffs and human evolution	1
Let's move forward: Image-computable models and a common model evaluation scheme are prerequisites for a scientific understanding of human vision	1
Proper understanding of grounded procedures of separation needs a dual inheritance approach	1
Advancing theorizing about fast-and-slow thinking: The interplay between fast and slow processing	1
Markov blankets do not demarcate the boundaries of the mind	1
When will's wont wants wanting	1
Is formalism the key to resolving the generalizability crisis? An experimental economics perspective	1
Autonomy, the moral circle, and the limits of ownership	1
Willpower without risk?	1
Mismatch between scientific theories and statistical models	1
Escaping from the IIT Munchausen method: Re-establishing the scientific method in the study of consciousness	1
Nudges, regulations, and behavioral public choice	1
Life, mind, agency: Why Markov blankets fail the test of evolution	1
Centering the relationship between structural racism and individual bias	1
Cognitive exploration drives engagement and re-engagement with imaginary worlds, but not spatial exploration as predicted by evolutionary theory	1
We know what stops you from thinking forever: A metacognitive perspective	1
i-Frame interventions enhance s-frame interventions	1
Dual-process theory is Barbapapa	1
Assume a can opener	1
Genes, genomes, and developmental process	1
(Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too	1
Narrative as cultural attractor	1
Understanding causal mechanisms in the study of group bias	1
Narratives, environments, and decision-making: A fascinating narrative, but one to be completed	1
Brave new world: Imaginative fictions offer simulated safety and actual benefits	1
Signals and cues of social groups	1
Neuroadaptive Bayesian optimisation can allow integrative design spaces at the individual level in the social and behavioural sciences… and beyond	1
Measurement practices exacerbate the generalizability crisis: Novel digital measures can help	1
Taking social psychology out of context	1
An evolutionary theory of music needs to care about developmental timing	1
The cost of crisis in clinical psychological science	1
Imaginary worlds are awesome: Awe provides a key to understanding the individual and social functions of imaginary worlds	1
Culturally fluent real-world disparities can blind us to bias: Experiments using a cultural lens can help	1
Sex differences are insufficient evidence of ecological adaptations in human females	1
A developmental account of curiosity and creativity	1
Developmental noise is an overlooked contributor to innate variation in psychological traits	1
Sizes, ratios, approximations: On what and how the ANS represents	1
How deep is AI's love? Understanding relational AI	1
Grounding together: Shared reality and cleansing practices	1
Pluralism provides the best chance for addressing big questions about music	1
Music, groove, and play	1
Theory of mind in context: Mental-state representations for social evaluation	1
Weighted numbers	1
Blankets, heat, and why free energy has not illuminated the workings of the brain	1
What makes narratives feel right? The role of metacognitive experiences	1
Correction, uncertainty, and anchoring effects	1
There is no “inference within a model”	1
Knowing, believing, and acting as if you know	1
We need to think more about how we conduct research	1
The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis: Consequences for the development of the logic of thought	1
Singing is not associated with social complexity across species	1
Puritanism needs purity, and moral psychology needs pluralism	1
Music production deficits and social bonding: The case of poor-pitch singing	1
How the minimalist model of ownership psychology can aid in explaining moral behaviors under resource constraints	1
Vigor and aspiration levels in neuroeconomics	1
Women take risks to help others to stay alive	1
Do nonlinguistic creatures deploy mental symbols for logical connectives in reasoning?	1
Précis ofWhat Babies Know	1
Extensions of the causal framework to Mendelian randomisation and gene–environment interaction	1
Reply to commentaries to willpower with and without effort	1
Learning agents that acquire representations of social groups	1
Thoughts on vigor in the motor and cognitive domains	1
Generalizability challenges in applied psychological and organizational research and practice	1
Are we there yet? Every computational theory needs a few black boxes, including theories about groups	1
Why don't cockatoos have war songs?	1
Social robots as social learning partners: Exploring children's early understanding and learning from social robots	1
Musicality was not selected for, rather humans have a good reason to learn music	1
Notational systems are distinct cognitive systems with different material prehistories	1
Markov blankets and the preformationist assumption	1
Unwarranted philosophical assumptions in research on ANS	1
Genomics might not be the solution, but epistemic validity remains a challenge in the social sciences	1
Societies also prioritize female survival	1
Behavioral winter: Disillusionment with applied behavioral science and a path to spring forward	1
No unleashed expression without language	1
Cultural evolution is not independent of linguistic evolution and social aspects of language use	1
Hominin life history, pathological complexity, and the evolution of anxiety	1
Embracing sensorimotor history: Time-synchronous and time-unrolled Markov blankets in the free-energy principle	1
The Emperor Is Naked: Replies to commentaries on the target article	1
A crisis of generalizability or a crisis of constructs?	1
Beyond knowledge versus belief: The contents of mental-state representations and their underlying computations	1
Why frightening imaginary worlds? Morbid curiosity and the learning potential of horror	1