Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Article	Citations
The generalizability crisis	215
Music as a coevolved system for social bonding	154
The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray	80
Origins of music in credible signaling	66
The Emperor's New Markov Blankets	41
The number sense represents (rational) numbers	33
Knowledge before belief	32
Deep problems with neural network models of human vision	31
Willpower with and without effort	24
Cultural evolution of genetic heritability	22
Advancing theorizing about fast-and-slow thinking	21
The integrated information theory of consciousness: A case of mistaken identity	19
Why imaginary worlds? The psychological foundations and cultural evolution of fictions with imaginary worlds	19
Social robots as depictions of social agents	18
What can experimental studies of bias tell us about real-world group disparities?	18
Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model	17
Tradition and invention: The bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution	16
Expression unleashed: The evolutionary and cognitive foundations of human communication	16
The best game in town: The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis across the cognitive sciences	16
Conviction Narrative Theory: A theory of choice under radical uncertainty	15
Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature: Integrative Experiment Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences	15
It's not a bug, it's boredom: Effortful willpower balances exploitation and exploration	13
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	13
Self-protection as an adaptive female strategy	13
Grounded procedures: A proximate mechanism for the psychology of cleansing and other physical actions	12

Toward inclusive theories of the evolution of musicality	12
Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science: Environmental confounding, downward causation, and unknown biology	12
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics	12
Replies to commentaries on the generalizability crisis	11
Précis of Vigor: Neuroeconomics of Movement Control	11
Willpower is overrated	10
What's not music, but feels like music to you?	10
Knowledge prior to belief: Is extended better than enacted?	9
Moral disciplining: The cognitive and evolutionary foundations of puritanical morality	9
Consciousness, complexity, and evolution	8
Where they sing solo: Accounting for cross-cultural variation in collective music-making in theories of music evolution	7
Ownership psychology as a cognitive adaptation: A minimalist model	6
Are involuntary autobiographical memory and déjà vu natural products of memory retrieval?	6
The unbearable limitations of solo science: Team science as a path for more rigorous and relevant research	6
Pathological complexity and the evolution of sex differences	5
Disentangling paradigm and method can help bring qualitative research to post-positivist psychology and address the generalizability crisis	5
Isochrony, vocal learning, and the acquisition of rhythm and melody	5
Mind the gap: The mediating role of emotion mechanisms in social bonding through musical activities	5
No way around cross-cultural and cross-linguistic epistemology	4
There is no generalizability crisis	4
Scientific realism about Friston blankets without literalism	4
Impact on the legal system of the generalizability crisis in psychology	4
Rational framing effects: A multidisciplinary case	4
Reducing behavioral dimensions to study brain–environment interactions	4
Challenging infant-directed singing as a credible signal of maternal attention	4
Music, attachment, and uncertainty: Music as communicative interaction	4
Costs and benefits of communicating vigor	3
IIT, half masked and half disfigured	3
From description to generalization, or there and back again	3
The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care	3
Against unitary theories of music evolution	3
Toward a productive evolutionary understanding of music	3
Oxytocin as an allostatic agent in the social bonding effects of music	3
Addressing a crisis of generalizability with large-scale construct validation	3
The integrated information theory of consciousness: Unmasked and identified	3
Social bonding and credible signaling hypotheses largely disregard the gap between animal vocalizations and human music	3
Beyond willpower	3
Sound sleep: Lullabies as a test case for the neurobiological effects of music	3
Chinese offers a test for universal cognitive processes	3
Unpredictable robots elicit responsibility attributions	3
The evolution of music: One trait, many ultimate-level explanations	3
What is exactly the problem with panpsychism?	3
Citizen science can help to alleviate the generalizability crisis	3
A shared novelty-seeking basis for creativity and curiosity	3
Mechanistic modeling for the masses	3
Individual-level solutions may support system-level change â if they are internalized as part of one's social identity	3
Ancestral human mother–infant interaction was an adaptation that gave rise to music and dance	3
The evolution of peace	3
Progress without exclusion in the search for an evolutionary basis of music	3
Evolving resolve	3

Body ownership as a proxy for individual and social separation and connection	3
The approximate number system represents magnitude and precision	3
The Emperor Is Naked: Replies to commentaries on the target article	2
Signaling games and music as a credible signal	2
Making reification concrete: A response to Bruineberg et al.	2
If music be the food of love, play on: Four ways that music may lead to social connection	2
Numbers in action	2
The music and social bonding hypothesis does require multilevel selection	2
Middle-earth wasn't built in a day: How do we explain the costs of creating a world?	2
A neurodevelopmental disorders perspective into music, social attention, and social bonding	2
What can the implicit social cognition literature teach us about implicit social cognition?	2
Meta-Learned Models of Cognition	2
Music and dance are two parallel routes for creating social cohesion	2
Polygenic scores for social science: Clarification, consensus, and controversy	2
Conformity versus transmission in animal cultures	2
Imagining our moral values in the present and future	2
Sex and drugs and rock and roll	2
Spatiotemporal constraints of causality: Blanket closure emerges from localized interactions between temporally separable subsystems	2
Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide	2
The evolution of knowledge during the Cambrian explosion	2
The evolution of imagination and the adaptive value of imaginary worlds	2
The complex nature of willpower and conceptual mapping of its normative significance in research on stress, addiction, and dementia	2
From the pragmatics of charades to the creation of language	2
Musical bonds are orthogonal to symbolic language and norms	2
Infants actively seek and transmit knowledge via communication	2
Maps and territories, smoke, and mirrors	2
Moving fast and seeing slow? The visual consequences of vigorous movement	2
Do “knowledge attributions” involve metarepresentation just like belief attributions do?	2
The social stratification of population as a mechanism of downward causation	2
Cultural evolutionary theory is not enough: Ambiguous culture, neglect of structure, and the absence of theory in behavior genetics	2
Unravelling the origins of musicality: Beyond music as an epiphenomenon of language	2
Numerosities are not ersatz numbers	2
This time I mean it: The nature–nurture debate is over	2
Generalizability, transferability, and the practice-to-practice gap	2
Willpower needs tactical skill	2
People treat social robots as real social agents	2
Quantum decision corrections for the neuroeconomics of irrational movement control and goal attainment	2
Music, bonding, and human evolution: A critique	2
The empire strikes back: Some responses to Bruineberg and colleagues	2
On depicting social agents	2
Teleology first: Goals before knowledge and belief	2
Considering individual differences and variability is important in the development of the bifocal stance theory	2
Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens: Ultimate functions, proximate mechanisms, cultural distribution	2
Music as a trait in evolutionary theory: A musicological perspective	2
How puzzling is the social artifact puzzle?	1
Life, mind, agency: Why Markov blankets fail the test of evolution	1
Implications of instrumental and ritual stances for traditionalism–threat responsivity relationships	1
Unwarranted philosophical assumptions in research on ANS	1
Axioms and postulates: Finding the right match through logical inference	1
Mismatch between scientific theories and statistical models	1
Singing is not associated with social complexity across species	1
Social scientists would do well to steer clear of polygenic scores	1
A crisis of generalizability or a crisis of constructs?	1
Why imaginary worlds? The role of self-exploration within online gaming worlds	1
Cognitive exploration drives engagement and re-engagement with imaginary worlds, but not spatial exploration as predicted by evolutionary theory	1
Is core knowledge in the format of LOT?	1
We know what stops you from thinking forever: A metacognitive perspective	1
Weighted numbers	1
(Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too	1
It's always both: Changing individuals requires changing systems and changing systems requires changing individuals	1
We need to think more about how we conduct research	1
When radical uncertainty is too much: Clinical aspects of Conviction Narrative Theory	1
Vertical pleiotropy explains the heritability of social science traits	1
A boldly comparative approach will strengthen co-evolutionary accounts of musicality's origins	1
When instrumental inference hides behind seemingly arbitrary conventions	1
Specifying separation: avoidance, abstraction, openness to new experiences	1
Is the MSB hypothesis (music as a coevolved system for social bonding) testable in the Popperian sense?	1
Let's move forward: Image-computable models and a common model evaluation scheme are prerequisites for a scientific understanding of human vision	1
Framing, equivalence, and rational inference	1
Imaginary worlds are awesome: Awe provides a key to understanding the individual and social functions of imaginary worlds	1
Revisiting an extant framework: Concerns about culture and task generalization	1
Is formalism the key to resolving the generalizability crisis? An experimental economics perspective	1
Missing perspective: Marginalized groups in the social psychological study of social disparities	1
Generalizability challenges in applied psychological and organizational research and practice	1
Cues trigger depiction schemas for robots, as they do for human identities	1
There is no “inference within a model”	1
An evolutionary theory of music needs to care about developmental timing	1
Understanding the origins of musicality requires reconstructing the interactive dance between music-specific adaptations, exaptations, and cultural creations	1
Children's interactions with virtual assistants: Moving beyond depictions of social agents	1
Controlled lab experiments are one of many useful scientific methods to investigate bias	1

Why frightening imaginary worlds? Morbid curiosity and the learning potential of horror	1
Culturally fluent real-world disparities can blind us to bias: Experiments using a cultural lens can help	1
Musicality as a predictive process	1
Drowning in shallow causality	1
Nudging is being framed	1
From the trajectory of heritability to the heritability of trajectories	1
Cultural mindsets shape what grounded procedures mean: Cleansing can separate or connect and separating can feel good or not so good	1
Musicality was not selected for, rather humans have a good reason to learn music	1
A cognitive account of the puzzle of ideography	1
Generalizability in mixed models: Lessons from corpus linguistics	1
Of children and social robots	1
The failure of gene-centrism	1
Triadic conflict “primitives” can be reduced to welfare trade-off ratios	1
Markov blankets do not demarcate the boundaries of the mind	1
Hominin life history, pathological complexity, and the evolution of anxiety	1
No unleashed expression without language	1
All that glisters is not gold: Genetics and social science	1
The many geographical layers of culture	1
Dead rats, dopamine, performance metrics, and peacock tails: proxy failure is an inherent risk in goal-oriented systems	1
Knowing, believing, and acting as if you know	1
Involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu: When and why attention makes a difference	1
Willpower without risk?	1
Developmental noise is an overlooked contributor to innate variation in psychological traits	1
Optimizing behavior change through integration of individual- and system-level intervention approaches	1
Numbers, numerosities, and new directions	1
Why don't cockatoos have war songs?	1
Understanding causal mechanisms in the study of group bias	1
Ecological and psychological factors in the cultural evolution of music	1
Précis of What Babies Know	1
Notational systems are distinct cognitive systems with different material prehistories	1
Culture, ecology, and grounded procedures	1
Proper understanding of grounded procedures of separation needs a dual inheritance approach	1
The evolutionary psychology of ownership is rooted in the Lockean liberal principle of self-ownership	1
Measurement practices exacerbate the generalizability crisis: Novel digital measures can help	1
Knowledge songs as an evolutionary adaptation to facilitate information transmission through music	1
Pluralism provides the best chance for addressing big questions about music	1
The evolutionary benefit of less-credible affective musical signals for emotion induction during storytelling	1
The cost of crisis in clinical psychological science	1
Culture is an optometrist: Cultural contexts adjust the prescription of social learning bifocals	1
Beyond knowledge versus belief: The contents of mental-state representations and their underlying computations	1
Thoughts on vigor in the motor and cognitive domains	1
Increasing generalizability via the principle of minimum description length	1
How deep is AI's love? Understanding relational AI	1
Two thousand years after Archimedes, psychologist finds three topics that will simply not yield to the experimental method	1
Advancing theorizing about fast-and-slow thinking: The interplay between fast and slow processing	1
Extensions of the causal framework to Mendelian randomisation and gene–environment interaction	1
Polygenic risk scores cannot make their mark on psychiatry without considering epigenetics	1
Somatic maintenance/reproduction tradeoffs and human evolution	1
Puritanical moral rules as moral heuristics coping with uncertainties	1
To be or to know? Information in the pristine present	1
Learning agents that acquire representations of social groups	1
Imaginary worlds are attractive because they simulate multiple adaptive problems and encode real-world information	1
Embracing sensorimotor history: Time-synchronous and time-unrolled Markov blankets in the free-energy principle	1
Theory of mind in context: Mental-state representations for social evaluation	1
Behavioral winter: Disillusionment with applied behavioral science and a path to spring forward	1
Autonomy, the moral circle, and the limits of ownership	1
Ownership is (likely to be) a moral foundation	1
What makes narratives feel right? The role of metacognitive experiences	1
Centering the relationship between structural racism and individual bias	1
Does the present moment depend on the moments not lived?	1
Imaginative processes in children are not particularly imaginative	1
When will's wont wants wanting	1
Fighting over who dictates the nature of prejudice	1
Bifocalism is in the eye of the beholder: Social learning as a developmental response to the accuracy of others' mentalizing	1
The puzzle of ideography	1
Cultural evolution is not independent of linguistic evolution and social aspects of language use	1
Markov blankets as boundary conditions: Sweeping dirt under the rug still cleans the house	1
Music, groove, and play	1
Causal complexity in human research: On the shared challenges of behavior genetics, medical genetics, and environmentally oriented social science	1
Why musical hierarchies?	1
Vigor and aspiration levels in neuroeconomics	1
Without more theory, psychology will be a headless rider	1
External validity of social psychological experiments is a concern, but these models are useful	1
Even simple framing effects are rational	1
Genomics might not be the solution, but epistemic validity remains a challenge in the social sciences	1
Resolve is always effortful	1
Markov blankets and the preformationist assumption	1
Imaginary worlds pervade forager oral tradition	1
Computation, perception, and mind	1
On the semiotic and material constraints of ideographies	1
The impact of grounded procedures can vary as a function of perceived thought validity, meaning, and timing	1
Autonomous social robots are real in the mind's eye of many	1
The “staying alive” theory reinforces stereotypes and shows women's lower quality of life	1
Societies also prioritize female survival	1
Music as a social bond in patients with amnesia	1
Women take risks to help others to stay alive	1
The labelled container: Conceptual development of social group representations	1
Societies and other kinds of social groups	1
Are we there yet? Every computational theory needs a few black boxes, including theories about groups	1
Autism and the preference for imaginary worlds	1
Brave new world: Imaginative fictions offer simulated safety and actual benefits	1
Cultural evolution may influence heritability by shaping assortative mating	1
Fearful apes or nervous goats? Another look at functions of dispositions or traits	1
Sex differences are insufficient evidence of ecological adaptations in human females	1
Further advancing fast-and-slow theorizing	1