Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Article	Citations
What we don't know about what babies know: Reconsidering psychophysics, exploration, and infant behavior	431
The adaptiveness of fear (and other emotions) considered more broadly: Missed literature on the nature of emotions and its functions	128
Belonging to a community of moral values as a key criterion of society	115
The Trojan horse of historical myths: Emotion-driven narratives as a strategy for coalitional recruitment	115
Natural logic and baby LoTH	45
Explananda and explanantia in deep neural network models of neurological network functions	44
Correction, uncertainty, and anchoring effects	43
Making the unconscious conscious: Developing maladaptive scripts into conviction narratives	41
Do conviction narratives drive individual decisions?	33
“Who's there?”: Depicting identity in interaction	30
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics without racial/ethnic diversity will result in weak causal knowledge	28
The central problem is still evolutionary stability	23
Unpacking the nudge muddle	23
The creativity of architects	21
The unboxing has already begun: One motivation construct at a time	21
Déjà vu: A botched memory operation, illegitimate to start with	21
The evolution of (intergroup) peace hinges on how we define groups and peace	20
Trait attribution explains human–robot interactions	20
Social and economic interdependence as a basis for peaceful between-group relationships in nonhuman primates and humans	18
Capacities for peace, and war, are old and related to Homo construction of worlds and communities	18
Primordial feeling of possession in development	17
The asymmetric structure of male-female bonding explains gender differences in relationship dependence	16
Multisensory horizon	14
Goal support as a central force in human connection	14
Understanding how peer culture is transmitted requires an understanding of peer teaching	14

The secure attachment system is a paleo fantasy	14
Ecological affordances across life stages: An affordance-management framework	13
Spandrels in the cathedral of the mind	13
The two-tiered life history model: from interrogating assumptions to refining concepts and hypotheses	11
Metabolic considerations for cognitive modeling	11
Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences	11
Two-tiers of life history: straw men, polar bears, and confusing causation	10
Ownership psychology as a cognitive adaptation: A minimalist model	10
The interplay between selective attention and summary statistics	10
Functional ideographies are composite semiotic systems	9
Substances as a core domain	8
A source- and channel-coding approach to the analysis and design of languages and ideographies	8
Peace in other primates	8
Narratives need not end well; nor say it all	8
Quo vadis, planning?	8
Dimensional versus conceptual incommensurability in the social and behavioral sciences	7
For human-like models, train on human-like tasks	7
The centrality of practice in ideographic communication, and the perennial puzzle of positivistic thinking	7
On abstract goals’ perverse effects on proxies: The dynamics of unattainability	7
Purity is linked to cooperation but not necessarily through self-control	7
Tracing life-mind continuity in pivotal traits – world models and isomorphism	6
“WEIRD” societies still value (even needless) self-control and self-sacrifice	6
A memory lens on gender differences in romantic relationships	6
Myth as model: Group-level interpretive frameworks	6
Negative priors and inferences from absence of evidence in cognitive and linguistic archaeology: Epistemically sound and scientifically strategic	6
Partner-serving moral cognition helps men to maintain romantic relationships from which they benefit more than women	6
Group myths can create shared understanding even if they don't act as superstimuli	6
The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis: Consequences for the development of the logic of thought	6
On the potentials of interaction breakdowns for HRI	6
Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition	5
From protest to gossip: the developmental roots of norm enforcement in peer culture	5
Autonomous social robots are real in the mind's eye of many	5
Ethnographic methods can help psychology overcome its WEIRD problems	5
Morality is more than agreement: Negotiating justice, rights, and social inequalities	5
Subjective selection needs socially transmitted goals and culturally evolving problems	5
Beyond the limitations of any imaginable mechanism: Large language models and psycholinguistics	5
Is allocentric neglect an attentional disorder?	5
The missing moral content in contractarian models	5
Peer cultures as untapped resources for climate action	5
Banishing “Attention” from the study of temporal attention	5
A possible shared underlying mechanism among involuntary autobiographical memory and déjà vu	5
The challenge to WEIRD science must go further and incorporate the evolved nest	4
The different paths to cultural convergence	4
Ownership as a component of the extended self	4
On the big list of causes	4
Ownership psychology as a “cognitive cell” adaptation: A minimalist model of microbial goods theory	4
Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide	4
Large language models have learned to use language	4
Subjective and objective corruption of intuition and rational choice	4
Meta-learned models beyond and beneath the cognitive	4

Meeting counterfactual causality criteria is not the problem	4
Meta-learning in active inference	4
Moral disciplining provides a satisfying explanation for Chinese lay concepts of immorality	4
A multi-trait embodied framework for the evolution of brains and cognition across animal phyla	4
The future of experimental design: Integrative, but is the sample diverse enough?	4
Intracranial electrical brain stimulation as an approach to studying the (dis)continuum of memory experiential phenomena	4
Development, history, and a minimalist model of ownership psychology	4
Moving from i-frame to s-frame focus in equity, diversity, and inclusion research, practice, and policy	4
Is language-of-thought the best game in the town we live?	4
Beyond reductionism: Understanding motivational energization requires higher-order constructs	3
From shyness to attachment: social behaviors as adaptive responses to environmental stress	3
Is core knowledge in the format of LOT?	3
Conspiracy theory	3
Creativity is motivated by novelty. Curiosity is triggered by uncertainty	3
Motivational whack-a-mole: Foundational boxes cannot be unpacked	3
What about language?	3
For deep networks, the whole equals the sum of the parts	3
Representational structures only make their mark over time: A case from memory	3
Core knowledge shapes what actions are considered and how others will perceive them	3
Ecological affordances across life stages and evolutionary mismatch: hormonal contraceptives as an illustrative example	3
Phenomena complexity, disciplinary consensus, and experimental versus correlational research in psychological science	3
Further advancing theories of retrieval of the personal past	3
Almost, but not quite there: Research into the emergence of higher-order motivated behavior should fully embrace the dynamic systems approach	3
SARA-C: A core mechanism underlying g in evolution and development	3
Adapting developmental science for a world of diverse families	3
Understanding gender differences across relationship stages requires integrating evolutionary, ontological, and proximate mechanisms	3
Mood regulation as a shared basis for creativity and curiosity	3
Ownership psychology and group size	3
Applying Life-History Theory to Development: A Two-Tiered Model All Along?	3
Predicting, advancing, and rescuing human life-history strategies and sustainability from extrinsic mortality in extreme-Earth and extra-Earth niches	3
Culture, not nature: How traditional masculinity shapes male attitudes toward relationships	3
Question-asking as a mechanism of information seeking	3
Silent forces: How normative ecologies reshape super-attractors	3
How to get from here to a relational social psychology	3
Children’s peer culture and the « selection for proliferation » hypothesis	3
Subjective selection needs context: Culture shapes goal selection, evaluations of usefulness, and “actual” effectiveness	3
Loosening the leash: The unique emotional canvas of human screams	3
Animal infants as agents of cultural adaptation	3
Nothing to see here: The weak evidence base for unconscious control of human behavior	3
Distinct neurocognitive pathways underlying creativity: An integrative approach	3
Hominin cognition: The null hypothesis	3
Categorizing judgments as likely to be selected by intuition or deliberation	3
What is intuiting and deliberating? A functional–cognitive perspective	3
Consciousness science as a marketplace of rationalizations	3
Searching for love as a search for meaning	3
Myths of trauma and myths of cooperation: Diverse consequences of history for societal cohesion	3
Impediments to peace	2
The evolution and development of infant social relationship reasoning: a Tinbergenian analysis	2
Ecological affordances across the lifespan: Refinements and Extensions through interdisciplinary perspectives	2
An evolutionary model of human development based on reproduction goals is neither evolutionary nor developmental	2
The evolutionary psychology of ownership is rooted in the Lockean liberal principle of self-ownership	2
Advanced testing of the LoT hypothesis by social reasoning	2
Misdiagnosing the problem of why behavioural change interventions fail	2
Cognitive traits are more appropriate for genetic analysis than social outcomes	2
Are we virtuously caring or just anxious?	2
Becoming wilder: Rethinking universality and accountability in developmental science	2
Some problems with zooming out as scientific reform	2
The role of juveniles in animal culture	2
Cognition in motion: Functional internal models as an evolutionary scaffold in cognitive control	2
Children’s natural curiosity, playfulness, sociability, and future orientation as forces for cultural adaptation and innovation	2
A developmental account of curiosity and creativity	2
Cognitive and affective processes mediate the effects of environmental factors on life history outcomes	2
Drowning in shallow causality	2
Metarepresentation, trust, and “unleashed expression”	2
How research on persuasion can inform dual-process models of judgment	2
Material culture both reflects and causes human cognitive evolution	2
Let’s get WISER (worldview, interactions, social, expand, relations): Recognizing the centrality of action and relations across the diversity of human development	2
A neurocognitive view on the depiction of social robots	2
The meta-learning toolkit needs stronger constraints	2
Cooperative care as origins of the “happy ape”?	2
Attention, the homunculus, and the Greek theater effect	2
The many faces of moralized self-control: Puritanical morality is not reducible to cooperation concerns	2
Ownership psychology, its antecedents and consequences	2
Inferences from absences	2
Vocalizations are ideal identity signals	2
Moral somatic marker: new directions for the mechanisms underlying morality in preverbal infants	2
On the speed of conscious perception: how soon is now?	2
Probabilistic programming versus meta-learning as models of cognition	2
Inconsistent use of evolutionary frameworks in accounts of romantic relationships	2
Neuroplasticity in changing ecologies	2

Moral progress as a counter-attractor	2
Are language models models?	2
Confidence in research findings depends on theory	2
Déjà vu and involuntary autobiographical memories as two distinct cases of familiarity in patients with Alzheimer's disease	2
Will cultural evolution regain its sight?	2
Reductionism and proxy failure: From neuroscience to target-based drug discovery	2
The Institutional Stance	2
What is a society in the case of multilevel societies?	2
Toward an integrated study of peer cultures	2
Perception is iconic, perceptual working memory is discursive	2
GWASs and polygenic scores inherit all the old problems of heritability estimates	2
Toward dual-process theory 3.0	2
When unpacking the black box of motivation invites three forms of reductionism	2
Proxy failures in practice: Examples from the sociology of science	2
Decisions under uncertainty are more messy than they seem	2
Meta-cognition about social robots could be difficult, making self-reports about some cognitive processes less useful	2
Implication of two-tiered life-history model for contemporary fertility trends in modern societies	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
Is undisciplined behavior antithetical to cooperation, or is it part and parcel of it?	2
The (mis)use of the gate metaphor for attention	2
The challenges of sociogenomics make it more, not less, worthy of careful and innovative investigation	2
Metacognition serves allostasis and co-evolves with the social brain	2
Reciprocal contracts – not competitive acquisition – explain the moral psychology of ownership	2
Visual Attention in Crisis	2
Behavioral mechanism design	2
Why the use of ideographic codes does not improve communicative skills in patients with severe aphasia?	2
Distinguishing involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences: Different types of cues and memory representations?	2
Mindfulness, curiosity, and creativity	2
Computing relational strength: an implausible component of early naïve sociology	2
Proxy failure as a feature of adaptive control systems	2
From weird-ness to wild-ness: Wordplay and worldviews in the social sciences	2
Structuring unleashed expression: Developmental foundations of human communication	2
Questioning the nature and origins of the “social agent” concept	2
Cultural evolution by revealed preferences – from status signals to alien porn	2
Why societies are important and grow so large: Tribes, nations, and teams	2
It’s not just about allies – The role of identity in stable ingroup memberships	2
Food environments shape the way mortality influences life-history trajectories	2
Extrinsic mortality is not the same as diminishing marginal returns on mortality reduction	2
Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus	2
It's bigger on the inside: mapping the black box of motivation	2
Myths and fitness interdependence: Beyond coalitional longevity	2
How puzzling is the social artifact puzzle?	2
Eliminativist induction cannot be a solution to psychology's crisis	2
Beyond novelty: Learnability in the interplay between creativity, curiosity and artistic endeavours	2
Interacting with characters redux	2
The small world's problem is everyone's problem, not a reason to favor CNT over probabilistic decision theory	2
Puritanical morality and the scaffolded evolution of self-control	2
Neural networks need real-world behavior	2
Models of vision need some action	2
Virtual and real: Symbolic and natural experiences with social robots	2
Increasing the use of functional and multimodal genetic data in social science research	1
Regulator and agent sophistication as an explanation-generating engine for proxy failure dynamics	1
What human trust networks reveal about cognitive mechanisms of group cohesion in primates	1
The key to understanding core knowledge resides in the fetus	1
Babies can be good at relationships and other things too: arguments for moral cognition in infancy	1
From “WILD” to “WILDER”: A proposed extension to the “WILD” framework	1
How important is it to learn language rather than create it?	1
Goals, power, and selection: Foundational issues in the naturalistic study of culture	1
The dark side of fear expression: Infant crying as a trigger for maladaptive parental responses	1
Puritanical morality: Cooperation or coercion?	1
Individual differences and multi-step thinking	1
A nation by any other name: A failure to focus on function	1
Crisis, contextualized: A much broader theoretical shift is needed	1
Societies have functions for individuals and collectives	1
Meta-learning: Bayesian or quantum?	1
Developmental and evolutionary models of social fear can address “the human fear paradox”	1
Author's response: The challenge of peace	1
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth	1
Identity groups, perceived group continuity, and schism	1
Navigating proxy failures in education: Learning from human and animal play	1
“Street kids and peer culture”	1
The social stratification of population as a mechanism of downward causation	1
On the dual nature of creativity: Same same but different?	1
Social Tinkering: The Social Foundations of Cultural Complexity	1
Toward a causal model of curiosity and creativity	1
Proposing the DN(C)-model of material evidence for well-calibrated claims about past cultures	1
Don't throw motivation out with the black box: The value of a good theory revisited	1
On the murky dissociation between expression and communication	1
Integrative learning in the lens of meta-learned models of cognition: Impacts on animal and human learning outcomes	1
The language-of-thought as a working hypothesis for developmental cognitive science	1
Modelling human vision needs to account for subjective experience	1
Facial expression is a group cohesion solution	1
Historical myths are believed because audiences are socially motivated	1
From screens to green: Digital and natural environments as ecological affordances across childhood, mating, and parenting stages	1
No consciousness without continents	1
‘Our Roots Run Deep’: Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment – CORRIGENDUM	1
Making peer culture audible: long-form recordings and the case for early child-to-child input	1
Is Conviction Narrative Theory a theory of everything or nothing?	1
The puzzle of ideography	1
Puritanical moralism may signal patience rather than cause self-control	1
Communication consistency, completeness, and complexity of digital ideography in trustworthy mobile extended reality	1
Consensus meetings will outperform integrative experiments	1
All that glisters is not gold: Genetics and social science	1
There is more diversity than unity within and between the three “cognitively complex lineages”	1
Challenges of meta-learning and rational analysis in large worlds	1