Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Article	Citations
What we don't know about what babies know: Reconsidering psychophysics, exploration, and infant behavior	383
The adaptiveness of fear (and other emotions) considered more broadly: Missed literature on the nature of emotions and its functions	114
Belonging to a community of moral values as a key criterion of society	110
The Trojan horse of historical myths: Emotion-driven narratives as a strategy for coalitional recruitment	99
Explananda and explanantia in deep neural network models of neurological network functions	60
Correction, uncertainty, and anchoring effects	43
Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences	41
Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework	38
Primordial feeling of possession in development	31
Natural logic and baby LoTH	28
Making the unconscious conscious: Developing maladaptive scripts into conviction narratives	26
Déjà vu: A botched memory operation, illegitimate to start with	26
“Who's there?”: Depicting identity in interaction	25
Do conviction narratives drive individual decisions?	25
Social and economic interdependence as a basis for peaceful between-group relationships in nonhuman primates and humans	18
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics without racial/ethnic diversity will result in weak causal knowledge	18
Unpacking the nudge muddle	18
The two-tiered life history model: from interrogating assumptions to refining concepts and hypotheses	17
The creativity of architects	17
The central problem is still evolutionary stability	17
The interplay between selective attention and summary statistics	16
Two-tiers of life history: straw men, polar bears, and confusing causation	16
The unboxing has already begun: One motivation construct at a time	14
Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling	14
The evolution of (intergroup) peace hinges on how we define groups and peace	13

Trait attribution explains human–robot interactions	13
Capacities for peace, and war, are old and related to Homo construction of worlds and communities	12
Ownership psychology as a cognitive adaptation: A minimalist model	12
Functional ideographies are composite semiotic systems	11
Peace in other primates	11
Substances as a core domain	10
A source- and channel-coding approach to the analysis and design of languages and ideographies	9
Purity is linked to cooperation but not necessarily through self-control	9
Quo vadis, planning?	9
Narratives need not end well; nor say it all	9
Dimensional versus conceptual incommensurability in the social and behavioral sciences	8
The centrality of practice in ideographic communication, and the perennial puzzle of positivistic thinking	8
Myth as model: Group-level interpretive frameworks	7
On abstract goals’ perverse effects on proxies: The dynamics of unattainability	7
Negative priors and inferences from absence of evidence in cognitive and linguistic archaeology: Epistemically sound and scientifically strategic	7
For human-like models, train on human-like tasks	7
Banishing “Attention” from the study of temporal attention	6
Is allocentric neglect an attentional disorder?	6
A possible shared underlying mechanism among involuntary autobiographical memory and déjà vu	6
Group myths can create shared understanding even if they don't act as superstimuli	6
On the potentials of interaction breakdowns for HRI	6
Autonomous social robots are real in the mind's eye of many	6
Tracing life-mind continuity in pivotal traits – world models and isomorphism	6
Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition	6
“WEIRD” societies still value (even needless) self-control and self-sacrifice	6
The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis: Consequences for the development of the logic of thought	5
The future of experimental design: Integrative, but is the sample diverse enough?	5
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics	5
Meta-learned models beyond and beneath the cognitive	5
Beyond the limitations of any imaginable mechanism: Large language models and psycholinguistics	5
Ownership as a component of the extended self	5
Subjective and objective corruption of intuition and rational choice	5
Hominin cognition: The null hypothesis	4
Meeting counterfactual causality criteria is not the problem	4
Is language-of-thought the best game in the town we live?	4
Intracranial electrical brain stimulation as an approach to studying the (dis)continuum of memory experiential phenomena	4
Moving from i-frame to s-frame focus in equity, diversity, and inclusion research, practice, and policy	4
Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide	4
Predicting, advancing, and rescuing human life-history strategies and sustainability from extrinsic mortality in extreme-Earth and extra-Earth niches	4
Moral disciplining provides a satisfying explanation for Chinese lay concepts of immorality	4
The different paths to cultural convergence	4
Meta-learning in active inference	4
Ownership psychology as a “cognitive cell” adaptation: A minimalist model of microbial goods theory	4
A multi-trait embodied framework for the evolution of brains and cognition across animal phyla	4
Motivational whack-a-mole: Foundational boxes cannot be unpacked	4
On the big list of causes	4
Development, history, and a minimalist model of ownership psychology	4
Question-asking as a mechanism of information seeking	4
Applying Life-History Theory to Development: A Two-Tiered Model All Along?	4
Myths of trauma and myths of cooperation: Diverse consequences of history for societal cohesion	4

Phenomena complexity, disciplinary consensus, and experimental versus correlational research in psychological science	3
Is core knowledge in the format of LOT?	3
Conspiracy theory	3
Almost, but not quite there: Research into the emergence of higher-order motivated behavior should fully embrace the dynamic systems approach	3
Ownership psychology and group size	3
Cognitive and affective processes mediate the effects of environmental factors on life history outcomes	3
Beyond reductionism: Understanding motivational energization requires higher-order constructs	3
Mood regulation as a shared basis for creativity and curiosity	3
Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science: Environmental confounding, downward causation, and unknown biology	3
What is intuiting and deliberating? A functional–cognitive perspective	3
From shyness to attachment: social behaviors as adaptive responses to environmental stress	3
Further advancing theories of retrieval of the personal past	3
Confidence in research findings depends on theory	3
What about language?	3
Food environments shape the way mortality influences life-history trajectories	3
For deep networks, the whole equals the sum of the parts	3
Loosening the leash: The unique emotional canvas of human screams	3
Categorizing judgments as likely to be selected by intuition or deliberation	3
SARA-C: A core mechanism underlying g in evolution and development	3
Representational structures only make their mark over time: A case from memory	3
Cognitive traits are more appropriate for genetic analysis than social outcomes	3
Distinct neurocognitive pathways underlying creativity: An integrative approach	3
Structuring unleashed expression: Developmental foundations of human communication	3
Creativity is motivated by novelty. Curiosity is triggered by uncertainty	3
Cognition in motion: Functional internal models as an evolutionary scaffold in cognitive control	2
Proxy failure as a feature of adaptive control systems	2
Mechanistic disunity as attention in crisis	2
Why the use of ideographic codes does not improve communicative skills in patients with severe aphasia?	2
A developmental account of curiosity and creativity	2
Vocalizations are ideal identity signals	2
Beyond individual selection: adaptive networks and collective social niche construction	2
Myths and fitness interdependence: Beyond coalitional longevity	2
Implication of two-tiered life-history model for contemporary fertility trends in modern societies	2
It's the biology, stupid! Proxy failures in economic decision making	2
GWASs and polygenic scores inherit all the old problems of heritability estimates	2
The (mis)use of the gate metaphor for attention	2
Cooperative care as origins of the “happy ape”?	2
Behavioral mechanism design	2
Ownership psychology, its antecedents and consequences	2
The Institutional Stance	2
The evolutionary psychology of ownership is rooted in the Lockean liberal principle of self-ownership	2
Mindfulness, curiosity, and creativity	2
Misdiagnosing the problem of why behavioural change interventions fail	2
Neural networks need real-world behavior	2
Why societies are important and grow so large: Tribes, nations, and teams	2
Inferences from absences	2
The small world's problem is everyone's problem, not a reason to favor CNT over probabilistic decision theory	2
The meta-learning toolkit needs stronger constraints	2
Toward dual-process theory 3.0	2
Virtual and real: Symbolic and natural experiences with social robots	2
(Temporal) Visual Attention NOT in Crisis	2
Advanced testing of the LoT hypothesis by social reasoning	2
Proxy failures in practice: Examples from the sociology of science	2
Models of vision need some action	2
Visual Attention in Crisis	2
Postcard from inside the black box	2
How puzzling is the social artifact puzzle?	2
A neurocognitive view on the depiction of social robots	2
Distinguishing involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences: Different types of cues and memory representations?	2
What is a society in the case of multilevel societies?	2
When unpacking the black box of motivation invites three forms of reductionism	2
It’s not just about allies – The role of identity in stable ingroup memberships	2
Metacognition serves allostasis and co-evolves with the social brain	2
Are we virtuously caring or just anxious?	2
Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus	2
Some problems with zooming out as scientific reform	2
Attention, the homunculus, and the Greek theater effect	2
Perception is iconic, perceptual working memory is discursive	2
Decisions under uncertainty are more messy than they seem	2
Extrinsic mortality is not the same as diminishing marginal returns on mortality reduction	2
Questioning the nature and origins of the “social agent” concept	2
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	2
Do nonlinguistic creatures deploy mental symbols for logical connectives in reasoning?	2
The challenges of sociogenomics make it more, not less, worthy of careful and innovative investigation	2
The interaction between social factors and biological factors: supplementary reflections on the two-tiered life history model	2
Eliminativist induction cannot be a solution to psychology's crisis	2
What holds groups together? How interdependence shapes group-living	2
Reciprocal contracts – not competitive acquisition – explain the moral psychology of ownership	2
Metarepresentation, trust, and “unleashed expression”	2
There are no shortcuts to theory	2

Meta-cognition about social robots could be difficult, making self-reports about some cognitive processes less useful	2
How research on persuasion can inform dual-process models of judgment	2
Interacting with characters redux	2
It's bigger on the inside: mapping the black box of motivation	2
Is undisciplined behavior antithetical to cooperation, or is it part and parcel of it?	2
Material culture both reflects and causes human cognitive evolution	2
Probabilistic programming versus meta-learning as models of cognition	2
Déjà vu and involuntary autobiographical memories as two distinct cases of familiarity in patients with Alzheimer's disease	2
Puritanical morality and the scaffolded evolution of self-control	2
Impediments to peace	2
Reductionism and proxy failure: From neuroscience to target-based drug discovery	2
The many faces of moralized self-control: Puritanical morality is not reducible to cooperation concerns	2
Drowning in shallow causality	2
Beyond novelty: Learnability in the interplay between creativity, curiosity and artistic endeavours	2
Notational systems are distinct cognitive systems with different material prehistories	1
Embodied choices bypass narratives under radical uncertainty	1
Higher-order motivational constructs as personal-level fictions: A solution in search of a problem	1
Integrative experiments require a shared theoretical and methodological basis	1
When nudges have societal-level impact	1
Burt uses a fallacious motte-and-bailey argument to dispute the value of genetics for social science	1
Puritanical moral rules as moral heuristics coping with uncertainties	1
Identity groups, perceived group continuity, and schism	1
The role of language in transcending core knowledge	1
The language-of-thought hypothesis as a working hypothesis in cognitive science	1
Polygenic scores and social science	1
Author's response: The challenge of peace	1
Meta-learning: Bayesian or quantum?	1
Genies, lawyers, and smart-asses: Extending proxy failures to intentional misunderstandings	1
How to build a phylogenetic bridge to charismatic cognition	1
Social cognition: A crucial indicator of higher-order cognitive ability across the animal phyla	1
Bayes beyond the predictive distribution	1
Using the sender–receiver framework to understand the evolution of languages-of-thought	1
Where is the baby in core knowledge?	1
The psychology and policy of overcoming economic inequality	1
The cost of success or failure for proxy signals in ecological problems	1
What makes narratives feel right? The role of metacognitive experiences	1
Novelty seeking is neither necessary nor sufficient for curiosity or creativity, instead both curiosity and creativity may reflect an epistemic drive	1
Depiction as possible phase in the dynamics of sociomorphing	1
Genes, genomes, and developmental process	1
Modelling human vision needs to account for subjective experience	1
Seeing attention in inattentional blindness	1
Simulation does not just inform choice, it changes choice	1
The scientific value of explanation and prediction	1
Historical myths promote cooperation through affective states	1
A tale of two histories: Dual-system architectures in modular perspective	1
Social learning and the adaptiveness of expressing and perceiving fearfulness	1
Challenges of meta-learning and rational analysis in large worlds	1
Historical myths are believed because audiences are socially motivated	1
What would be pre-modern human cognition?	1
Boyer's minimal model should also represent multiple ownership without collective agency	1
Never not the best: LoT and the explanation of person-level psychology	1
Challenging the central brain dogma: new experimental insights from the moon jellyfish ( Aurelia spp.)	1
Identity is probably too complicated to serve as a useful criterion for defining society	1
The key to understanding core knowledge resides in the fetus	1
Cultural evolution needed to complete the Grossmann theory	1
The best game in town: The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis across the cognitive sciences	1
A bigger problem for ideography: The pervasiveness of linguistic structure	1
On modes of learning in apex cognition	1
Beyond biology: A sociological stance on what is society	1
Mortality cues in a high-resource context: Minority stress, suicide exposure, and pubertal development	1
Purity is still a problem	1
Ignoring the role of reiterative processing and worldview transformation leads to exaggeration of the role of curiosity in creativity	1
Ownership and willingness to compete for resources	1
Is a wandering mind a novelty-seeking mind? The curious case of incubation	1
Accommodating the continuum hypothesis with the déjà vu/déjà vécu distinction	1
Heightened fearfulness as a developmental adaptation	1
Fixing the problems of deep neural networks will require better training data and learning algorithms	1
Regulator and agent sophistication as an explanation-generating engine for proxy failure dynamics	1
Purity is not a distinct moral domain	1
Children as agents of cultural adaptation	1
Myths and prestige in Hindu nationalist politics	1
Uncertainty reduction as an alternative explanation of historical myths	1
Let's move forward: Image-computable models and a common model evaluation scheme are prerequisites for a scientific understanding of human vision – CORRIGENDUM	1
Incomplete language-of-thought in infancy	1
No crisis when attention is the outcome of selective action	1
A nation by any other name: A failure to focus on function	1
The role of metacognitive feelings in motivation	1
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth	1
Human motivation is organized hierarchically, from proximal (means) to ultimate (ends)	1
Societies have functions for individuals and collectives	1
Advancing paleoanthropology beyond default nulls	1
Mind the gap: Why is there no general purpose ideographic system?	1
Integrative learning in the lens of meta-learned models of cognition: Impacts on animal and human learning outcomes	1
Fairness expectations scaffolded the evolution of larger groups	1
Dynamic unpredictability in grouping	1
The “hearts-and-minds frame”: Not all i-frame interventions are ineffective, but education-based interventions can be particularly bad	1
Evidence for LoTH: Slim pickings	1
The providential randomisation of genotypes	1
Computational theories should be made with natural language instead of meaningless code	1
Genomics might not be the solution, but epistemic validity remains a challenge in the social sciences	1
Involuntary memory signals in the medial temporal lobe	1
Nudges, regulations, and behavioral public choice	1
Vertical pleiotropy explains the heritability of social science traits	1
Let's move forward: Image-computable models and a common model evaluation scheme are prerequisites for a scientific understanding of human vision	1
A spontaneous neural replay account for involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences	1