Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Behavioral and Brain Sciences is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The generalizability crisis250
The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray129
The Emperor's New Markov Blankets47
Deep problems with neural network models of human vision44
The number sense represents (rational) numbers41
The best game in town: The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis across the cognitive sciences37
Advancing theorizing about fast-and-slow thinking36
Cultural evolution of genetic heritability28
The integrated information theory of consciousness: A case of mistaken identity25
Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model23
What can experimental studies of bias tell us about real-world group disparities?22
Expression unleashed: The evolutionary and cognitive foundations of human communication22
Why imaginary worlds? The psychological foundations and cultural evolution of fictions with imaginary worlds22
Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature: Integrative Experiment Design in the Social and Behavioral Sciences22
Social robots as depictions of social agents22
Tradition and invention: The bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution21
Conviction Narrative Theory: A theory of choice under radical uncertainty20
Self-protection as an adaptive female strategy18
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics16
Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science: Environmental confounding, downward causation, and unknown biology16
Replies to commentaries on the generalizability crisis16
Moral disciplining: The cognitive and evolutionary foundations of puritanical morality16
Toward inclusive theories of the evolution of musicality16
Toward a computational theory of social groups: A finite set of cognitive primitives for representing any and all social groups in the context of conflict14
It's not a bug, it's boredom: Effortful willpower balances exploitation and exploration13
Précis of Vigor: Neuroeconomics of Movement Control12
Willpower is overrated11
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
Where they sing solo: Accounting for cross-cultural variation in collective music-making in theories of music evolution8
Consciousness, complexity, and evolution8
Disentangling paradigm and method can help bring qualitative research to post-positivist psychology and address the generalizability crisis8
A shared novelty-seeking basis for creativity and curiosity7
The evolution of peace7
Mind the gap: The mediating role of emotion mechanisms in social bonding through musical activities6
Rational framing effects: A multidisciplinary case6
Numbers in action6
Ownership psychology as a cognitive adaptation: A minimalist model6
Meta-learned models of cognition6
The unbearable limitations of solo science: Team science as a path for more rigorous and relevant research6
There is no generalizability crisis6
Beyond willpower6
The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care5
Toward a productive evolutionary understanding of music5
Addressing a crisis of generalizability with large-scale construct validation5
IIT, half masked and half disfigured5
No way around cross-cultural and cross-linguistic epistemology5
Isochrony, vocal learning, and the acquisition of rhythm and melody5
Ownership is (likely to be) a moral foundation5
Pathological complexity and the evolution of sex differences5
Music, attachment, and uncertainty: Music as communicative interaction5
On depicting social agents4
From description to generalization, or there and back again4
Against unitary theories of music evolution4
What is exactly the problem with panpsychism?4
The approximate number system represents magnitude and precision4
Scientific realism about Friston blankets without literalism4
Ancestral human mother–infant interaction was an adaptation that gave rise to music and dance4
Oxytocin as an allostatic agent in the social bonding effects of music4
Impact on the legal system of the generalizability crisis in psychology4
The integrated information theory of consciousness: Unmasked and identified4
Individual-level solutions may support system-level change â if they are internalized as part of one's social identity4
Reducing behavioral dimensions to study brain–environment interactions4
Challenging infant-directed singing as a credible signal of maternal attention4
Why a group-level analysis is essential for effective public policy: The case for a g-frame4
Children's interactions with virtual assistants: Moving beyond depictions of social agents3
Body ownership as a proxy for individual and social separation and connection3
Mechanistic modeling for the masses3
Costs and benefits of communicating vigor3
Without more theory, psychology will be a headless rider3
Structural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Group Cohesion in Primates3
If music be the food of love, play on: Four ways that music may lead to social connection3
Generalizability, transferability, and the practice-to-practice gap3
Progress without exclusion in the search for an evolutionary basis of music3
People treat social robots as real social agents3
Citizen science can help to alleviate the generalizability crisis3
Of children and social robots3
To be or to know? Information in the pristine present3
Music, bonding, and human evolution: A critique3
This time I mean it: The nature–nurture debate is over3
Numbers, numerosities, and new directions3
Chinese offers a test for universal cognitive processes3
Evolving resolve3
Does the present moment depend on the moments not lived?3
Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens: Ultimate functions, proximate mechanisms, cultural distribution3
Compositionality in visual perception3
Sound sleep: Lullabies as a test case for the neurobiological effects of music3
Social bonding and credible signaling hypotheses largely disregard the gap between animal vocalizations and human music3
It's always both: Changing individuals requires changing systems and changing systems requires changing individuals3
Further advancing fast-and-slow theorizing3
Unpredictable robots elicit responsibility attributions3
The evolution of music: One trait, many ultimate-level explanations3
Moving fast and seeing slow? The visual consequences of vigorous movement2
Consciousness generates agent action2
Imagining our moral values in the present and future2
Interacting with others while reacting to the environment2
Knowledge songs as an evolutionary adaptation to facilitate information transmission through music2
Conformity versus transmission in animal cultures2
Music as a trait in evolutionary theory: A musicological perspective2
Numerosities are not ersatz numbers2
Polygenic scores for social science: Clarification, consensus, and controversy2
Do “knowledge attributions” involve metarepresentation just like belief attributions do?2
Moral artificial intelligence and machine puritanism2
The music and social bonding hypothesis does require multilevel selection2
The social sciences are increasingly ill-equipped to design system-level reforms2
The evolution of knowledge during the Cambrian explosion2
Musical bonds are orthogonal to symbolic language and norms2
The ritual stance does not apply to magic in general2
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 approaches2
Experimental evidence suggests intergroup relations are, by default, neutral rather than aggressive2
Considering individual differences and variability is important in the development of the bifocal stance theory2
Maps and territories, smoke, and mirrors2
Framing, equivalence, and rational inference2
Computation, perception, and mind2
Unravelling the origins of musicality: Beyond music as an epiphenomenon of language2
Axioms and postulates: Finding the right match through logical inference2
Spatiotemporal constraints of causality: Blanket closure emerges from localized interactions between temporally separable subsystems2
Music and dance are two parallel routes for creating social cohesion2
Encapsulation and subjectivity from the standpoint of viewpoint theory2
Cultural evolutionary theory is not enough: Ambiguous culture, neglect of structure, and the absence of theory in behavior genetics2
The social stratification of population as a mechanism of downward causation2
Distinguishing the specific from the recognitional and the canonical, and the nature of ratios2
Expectations, opportunities, and awareness: A case for combining i- and s-frame interventions2
A language of episodic thought?2
Willpower needs tactical skill2
A critique of motivation constructs to explain higher-order behavior: We should unpack the black box2
The evolution of imagination and the adaptive value of imaginary worlds2
A neurodevelopmental disorders perspective into music, social attention, and social bonding2
Psychophysics may be the game-changer for deep neural networks (DNNs) to imitate the human vision2
The integrated information theory of agency2
The “staying alive” theory reinforces stereotypes and shows women's lower quality of life2
Autonomous social robots are real in the mind's eye of many2
Science with or without statistics: Discover-generalize-replicate? Discover-replicate-generalize?2
Teleology first: Goals before knowledge and belief2
Dual-process moral judgment beyond fast and slow2
The statistical mechanics of felt uncertainty under active inference2
Signaling games and music as a credible signal2
Community-engaged research is best positioned to catalyze systemic change2
Causal complexity in human research: On the shared challenges of behavior genetics, medical genetics, and environmentally oriented social science2
Making reification concrete: A response to Bruineberg et al.2
Generalizability in mixed models: Lessons from corpus linguistics2
Sex and drugs and rock and roll2
Markov blankets as boundary conditions: Sweeping dirt under the rug still cleans the house2
Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide2
Often wrong, sometimes useful: Including polygenic scores in social science research2
Question-asking as a mechanism of information seeking2
From the pragmatics of charades to the creation of language2
Middle-earth wasn't built in a day: How do we explain the costs of creating a world?2
What can the implicit social cognition literature teach us about implicit social cognition?2
The complex nature of willpower and conceptual mapping of its normative significance in research on stress, addiction, and dementia2
The empire strikes back: Some responses to Bruineberg and colleagues2
Infants actively seek and transmit knowledge via communication2
Quantum decision corrections for the neuroeconomics of irrational movement control and goal attainment2
Let's move forward: Image-computable models and a common model evaluation scheme are prerequisites for a scientific understanding of human vision1
Thoughts on vigor in the motor and cognitive domains1
Reply to commentaries to willpower with and without effort1
Why don't cockatoos have war songs?1
When will's wont wants wanting1
Social robots as social learning partners: Exploring children's early understanding and learning from social robots1
Generalizability challenges in applied psychological and organizational research and practice1
Willpower without risk?1
Unwarranted philosophical assumptions in research on ANS1
Musicality was not selected for, rather humans have a good reason to learn music1
Markov blankets and the preformationist assumption1
Life, mind, agency: Why Markov blankets fail the test of evolution1
No unleashed expression without language1
Genomics might not be the solution, but epistemic validity remains a challenge in the social sciences1
Behavioral winter: Disillusionment with applied behavioral science and a path to spring forward1
We know what stops you from thinking forever: A metacognitive perspective1
Embracing sensorimotor history: Time-synchronous and time-unrolled Markov blankets in the free-energy principle1
The Emperor Is Naked: Replies to commentaries on the target article1
Hominin life history, pathological complexity, and the evolution of anxiety1
Why frightening imaginary worlds? Morbid curiosity and the learning potential of horror1
Beyond knowledge versus belief: The contents of mental-state representations and their underlying computations1
Assume a can opener1
Bifocalism is in the eye of the beholder: Social learning as a developmental response to the accuracy of others' mentalizing1
Knowledgeisbelief – and shaped by culture1
Triadic conflict “primitives” can be reduced to welfare trade-off ratios1
Vertical pleiotropy explains the heritability of social science traits1
How do narratives relate to heuristics?1
Specifying separation: avoidance, abstraction, openness to new experiences1
Taking social psychology out of context1
Cultural evolution may influence heritability by shaping assortative mating1
Natural logic and baby LoTH1
Imaginary worlds are awesome: Awe provides a key to understanding the individual and social functions of imaginary worlds1
From the trajectory of heritability to the heritability of trajectories1
The many geographical layers of culture1
A developmental account of curiosity and creativity1
The labelled container: Conceptual development of social group representations1
Drowning in shallow causality1
Proper understanding of grounded procedures of separation needs a dual inheritance approach1
Grounding together: Shared reality and cleansing practices1
Advancing theorizing about fast-and-slow thinking: The interplay between fast and slow processing1
Somatic maintenance/reproduction tradeoffs and human evolution1
Theory of mind in context: Mental-state representations for social evaluation1
Autonomy, the moral circle, and the limits of ownership1
Markov blankets do not demarcate the boundaries of the mind1
Is formalism the key to resolving the generalizability crisis? An experimental economics perspective1
Correction, uncertainty, and anchoring effects1
Escaping from the IIT Munchausen method: Re-establishing the scientific method in the study of consciousness1
Nudges, regulations, and behavioral public choice1
Mismatch between scientific theories and statistical models1
We need to think more about how we conduct research1
Cognitive exploration drives engagement and re-engagement with imaginary worlds, but not spatial exploration as predicted by evolutionary theory1
Centering the relationship between structural racism and individual bias1
Dual-process theory is Barbapapa1
i-Frame interventions enhance s-frame interventions1
Genes, genomes, and developmental process1
(Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too1
Narrative as cultural attractor1
Understanding causal mechanisms in the study of group bias1
Narratives, environments, and decision-making: A fascinating narrative, but one to be completed1
Brave new world: Imaginative fictions offer simulated safety and actual benefits1
Learning agents that acquire representations of social groups1
Signals and cues of social groups1
Neuroadaptive Bayesian optimisation can allow integrative design spaces at the individual level in the social and behavioural sciences… and beyond1
Are we there yet? Every computational theory needs a few black boxes, including theories about groups1
An evolutionary theory of music needs to care about developmental timing1
Measurement practices exacerbate the generalizability crisis: Novel digital measures can help1
Notational systems are distinct cognitive systems with different material prehistories1
Culturally fluent real-world disparities can blind us to bias: Experiments using a cultural lens can help1
The cost of crisis in clinical psychological science1
Developmental noise is an overlooked contributor to innate variation in psychological traits1
Societies also prioritize female survival1
Sizes, ratios, approximations: On what and how the ANS represents1
Sex differences are insufficient evidence of ecological adaptations in human females1
Cultural evolution is not independent of linguistic evolution and social aspects of language use1
Music, groove, and play1
How deep is AI's love? Understanding relational AI1
Pluralism provides the best chance for addressing big questions about music1
A crisis of generalizability or a crisis of constructs?1
Blankets, heat, and why free energy has not illuminated the workings of the brain1
What makes narratives feel right? The role of metacognitive experiences1
Weighted numbers1
Knowing, believing, and acting as if you know1
There is no “inference within a model”1
External validity of social psychological experiments is a concern, but these models are useful1
Singing is not associated with social complexity across species1
The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis: Consequences for the development of the logic of thought1
Puritanism needs purity, and moral psychology needs pluralism1
Music production deficits and social bonding: The case of poor-pitch singing1
How the minimalist model of ownership psychology can aid in explaining moral behaviors under resource constraints1
Vigor and aspiration levels in neuroeconomics1
Women take risks to help others to stay alive1
Do nonlinguistic creatures deploy mental symbols for logical connectives in reasoning?1
Integrating cultural evolution and behavioral genetics1
Extensions of the causal framework to Mendelian randomisation and gene–environment interaction1
Précis ofWhat Babies Know1
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