Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Article	Citations
What we don't know about what babies know: Reconsidering psychophysics, exploration, and infant behavior	281
The adaptiveness of fear (and other emotions) considered more broadly: Missed literature on the nature of emotions and its functions	89
Belonging to a community of moral values as a key criterion of society	86
Trait attribution explains human–robot interactions	68
Citizen science can help to alleviate the generalizability crisis	61
The Trojan horse of historical myths: Emotion-driven narratives as a strategy for coalitional recruitment	47
Conformity versus transmission in animal cultures	40
Explananda and explanantia in deep neural network models of neurological network functions	35
Disentangling paradigm and method can help bring qualitative research to post-positivist psychology and address the generalizability crisis	34
Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework	31
The cost of crisis in clinical psychological science	31
Tradition and invention: The bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution	31
Taking social psychology out of context	30
Integrating cultural evolution and behavioral genetics	29
Cultural evolutionary theory is not enough: Ambiguous culture, neglect of structure, and the absence of theory in behavior genetics	26
The many geographical layers of culture	21
The disintegrated theory of consciousness: Sleep, waking, and meta-awareness	20
Frames, trade-offs, and perspectives	17
Making the unconscious conscious: Developing maladaptive scripts into conviction narratives	17
Do conviction narratives drive individual decisions?	15
“Who's there?”: Depicting identity in interaction	13
Unpacking the nudge muddle	12
Capacities for peace, and war, are old and related to Homo construction of worlds and communities	12
Déjà vu: A botched memory operation, illegitimate to start with	12
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics without racial/ethnic diversity will result in weak causal knowledge	12

The central problem is still evolutionary stability	11
Social and economic interdependence as a basis for peaceful between-group relationships in nonhuman primates and humans	11
The study of rational framing effects needs developmental psychology	10
The creativity of architects	9
The evolution of (intergroup) peace hinges on how we define groups and peace	9
Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens: Ultimate functions, proximate mechanisms, cultural distribution	8
Ownership psychology as a cognitive adaptation: A minimalist model	7
Rational framing effects: A multidisciplinary case	7
Functional ideographies are composite semiotic systems	7
Primordial feeling of possession in development	7
The unboxing has already begun: One motivation construct at a time	7
Myth as model: Group-level interpretive frameworks	7
Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences	7
Correction, uncertainty, and anchoring effects	7
Natural logic and baby LoTH	7
Why frightening imaginary worlds? Morbid curiosity and the learning potential of horror	6
Negative priors and inferences from absence of evidence in cognitive and linguistic archaeology: Epistemically sound and scientifically strategic	6
Group myths can create shared understanding even if they don't act as superstimuli	6
Resource-rational contractualism: A triple theory of moral cognition	6
Consciousness, complexity, and evolution	6
Creativity and tradition: Music and bifocal stance theory	6
The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis: Consequences for the development of the logic of thought	6
Building causal knowledge in behavior genetics	6
Dimensional versus conceptual incommensurability in the social and behavioral sciences	5
The centrality of practice in ideographic communication, and the perennial puzzle of positivistic thinking	5
Developmental research assessing bias would benefit from naturalistic observation data	5
Psychological and actual group formation: Conflict is neither necessary nor sufficient	5
Women take risks to help others to stay alive	5
On abstract goals’ perverse effects on proxies: The dynamics of unattainability	5
Escaping from the IIT Munchausen method: Re-establishing the scientific method in the study of consciousness	5
Peace in other primates	4
The ritual stance does not apply to magic in general	4
On the potentials of interaction breakdowns for HRI	4
Purity is linked to cooperation but not necessarily through self-control	4
When instrumental inference hides behind seemingly arbitrary conventions	4
Autonomous social robots are real in the mind's eye of many	4
Substances as a core domain	4
Bifocal stance theory: An effort to broaden, extend, and clarify	4
“WEIRD” societies still value (even needless) self-control and self-sacrifice	4
A source- and channel-coding approach to the analysis and design of languages and ideographies	4
Rational framing effects and morally valid reasons	4
Beyond the limitations of any imaginable mechanism: Large language models and psycholinguistics	4
Quo vadis, planning?	4
A possible shared underlying mechanism among involuntary autobiographical memory and déjà vu	4
Narratives need not end well; nor say it all	4
Intracranial electrical brain stimulation as an approach to studying the (dis)continuum of memory experiential phenomena	4
For human-like models, train on human-like tasks	4
Revisiting an extant framework: Concerns about culture and task generalization	3
Generalizability, transferability, and the practice-to-practice gap	3
Myths of trauma and myths of cooperation: Diverse consequences of history for societal cohesion	3

Development, history, and a minimalist model of ownership psychology	3
Question-asking as a mechanism of information seeking	3
Subjective and objective corruption of intuition and rational choice	3
Publishing fast and slow: A path toward generalizability in psychology and AI	3
Ownership as a component of the extended self	3
Motivational whack-a-mole: Foundational boxes cannot be unpacked	3
The different paths to cultural convergence	3
The seductive allure of cargo cult computationalism	3
Moving from i-frame to s-frame focus in equity, diversity, and inclusion research, practice, and policy	3
Developmental noise is an overlooked contributor to innate variation in psychological traits	3
Female advantage in threat avoidance manifests in threat reaction but not threat detection	3
Learning how to reason and deciding when to decide	3
Enough blanket metaphysics, time for data-driven heuristics	3
Representational exchange in social learning: Blurring the lines between the ritual and instrumental	3
Experimental studies of bias: Imperfect but neither useless nor unique	3
Meta-learned models beyond and beneath the cognitive	3
Ownership psychology as a “cognitive cell” adaptation: A minimalist model of microbial goods theory	3
Beyond individual sex differences: “Staying alive theory” as an adaptive complex	3
Almost, but not quite there: Research into the emergence of higher-order motivated behavior should fully embrace the dynamic systems approach	3
Moral disciplining provides a satisfying explanation for Chinese lay concepts of immorality	3
Distinct neurocognitive pathways underlying creativity: An integrative approach	3
On the big list of causes	3
A multi-trait embodied framework for the evolution of brains and cognition across animal phyla	3
Meta-learning in active inference	3
The Emperor's New Markov Blankets	3
Hominin cognition: The null hypothesis	3
Markov blankets as boundary conditions: Sweeping dirt under the rug still cleans the house	3
Centering the relationship between structural racism and individual bias	3
The future of experimental design: Integrative, but is the sample diverse enough?	3
Is language-of-thought the best game in the town we live?	3
Loosening the leash: The unique emotional canvas of human screams	3
What about language?	3
Meeting counterfactual causality criteria is not the problem	3
Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus	2
Myths and fitness interdependence: Beyond coalitional longevity	2
The many faces of moralized self-control: Puritanical morality is not reducible to cooperation concerns	2
Metarepresentation, trust, and “unleashed expression”	2
“Staying alive” in the context of intimate partner abuse	2
The challenges of sociogenomics make it more, not less, worthy of careful and innovative investigation	2
Social groups and the computational conundrums of delays, proximity, and loyalty	2
Are we virtuously caring or just anxious?	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
When unpacking the black box of motivation invites three forms of reductionism	2
Measurement practices exacerbate the generalizability crisis: Novel digital measures can help	2
Advanced testing of the LoT hypothesis by social reasoning	2
What is a society in the case of multilevel societies?	2
Paranoia reveals the complexity in assigning individuals to groups on the basis of inferred intentions	2
Ownership psychology and group size	2
Proxy failure as a feature of adaptive control systems	2
For deep networks, the whole equals the sum of the parts	2
Questioning the nature and origins of the “social agent” concept	2
Distinguishing involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences: Different types of cues and memory representations?	2
Phenomena complexity, disciplinary consensus, and experimental versus correlational research in psychological science	2
Reductionism and proxy failure: From neuroscience to target-based drug discovery	2
Meta-cognition about social robots could be difficult, making self-reports about some cognitive processes less useful	2
Two thousand years after Archimedes, psychologist finds three topics that will simply not yield to the experimental method	2
Random effects won't solve the problem of generalizability	2
GWASs and polygenic scores inherit all the old problems of heritability estimates	2
Challenging the utility of polygenic scores for social science: Environmental confounding, downward causation, and unknown biology	2
The small world's problem is everyone's problem, not a reason to favor CNT over probabilistic decision theory	2
Impediments to peace	2
Social robots as depictions of social agents	2
The meta-learning toolkit needs stronger constraints	2
Structuring unleashed expression: Developmental foundations of human communication	2
An accelerating crisis: Metascience is out-reproducing psychological science	2
Puritanical morality and the scaffolded evolution of self-control	2
The evolutionary psychology of ownership is rooted in the Lockean liberal principle of self-ownership	2
Beyond novelty: Learnability in the interplay between creativity, curiosity and artistic endeavours	2
Reciprocal contracts – not competitive acquisition – explain the moral psychology of ownership	2
Cognitive traits are more appropriate for genetic analysis than social outcomes	2
A neurocognitive view on the depiction of social robots	2
Why the use of ideographic codes does not improve communicative skills in patients with severe aphasia?	2
Bayesian realism and structural representation	2
A developmental account of curiosity and creativity	2
Eliminativist induction cannot be a solution to psychology's crisis	2
Staying alive enhances both women's and men's fitness	2
We need to think more about how we conduct research	2
Mindfulness, curiosity, and creativity	2
Vocalizations are ideal identity signals	2
Is core knowledge in the format of LOT?	2

Beyond folk-sociology: Extending Pietraszewski's model to large-group dynamics	2
Women need to stay alive and protect reproductive choice	2
Cooperative care as origins of the “happy ape”?	2
Further advancing theories of retrieval of the personal past	2
Proxy failures in practice: Examples from the sociology of science	2
The polyphony principle	2
Beyond reductionism: Understanding motivational energization requires higher-order constructs	2
Drowning in shallow causality	2
Probabilistic programming versus meta-learning as models of cognition	2
Return of the math: Markov blankets, dynamical systems theory, and the bounds of mind	2
Staying alive includes adaptations for catalyzing cooperation	2
Neural networks need real-world behavior	2
Imagining our moral values in the present and future	2
Generalizability challenges in applied psychological and organizational research and practice	2
Confidence in research findings depends on theory	2
Mood regulation as a shared basis for creativity and curiosity	2
Biological sex, by-products, and other continuous variables	2
How puzzling is the social artifact puzzle?	2
Inferences from absences	2
Decisions under uncertainty are more messy than they seem	2
Visual Attention in Crisis	2
Why societies are important and grow so large: Tribes, nations, and teams	2
Virtual and real: Symbolic and natural experiences with social robots	2
Ownership psychology, its antecedents and consequences	2
Societies also prioritize female survival	2
Behavioral mechanism design	2
What is intuiting and deliberating? A functional–cognitive perspective	2
Addressing a crisis of generalizability with large-scale construct validation	2
Material culture both reflects and causes human cognitive evolution	2
Making reification concrete: A response to Bruineberg et al.	2
Misdiagnosing the problem of why behavioural change interventions fail	2
No tinkering allowed: When the end goal requires a highly specific or risky, and complex action sequence, expect ritualistic scaffolding	2
Models of vision need some action	2
Representational structures only make their mark over time: A case from memory	2
Perception is iconic, perceptual working memory is discursive	2
Interacting with characters redux	2
Conspiracy theory	2
Some problems with zooming out as scientific reform	2
IIT, half masked and half disfigured	2
Creativity is motivated by novelty. Curiosity is triggered by uncertainty	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
Look to the field	2
Déjà vu and involuntary autobiographical memories as two distinct cases of familiarity in patients with Alzheimer's disease	2
Activation of stance by cues, or attunement to the invariants in a populated environment?	2
The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care	2
Reframing rationality: Exogenous constraints on controlled information search	2
Models of gene–culture evolution are incomplete without incorporating epigenetic effects	2
Categorizing judgments as likely to be selected by intuition or deliberation	2
Accuracy in social judgment does not exclude the potential for bias	2
Learning agents that acquire representations of social groups	1
Author's response: The challenge of peace	1
Boyer's minimal model should also represent multiple ownership without collective agency	1
Computational theories should be made with natural language instead of meaningless code	1
Accommodating the continuum hypothesis with the déjà vu/déjà vécu distinction	1
Simulation does not just inform choice, it changes choice	1
Genomics might not be the solution, but epistemic validity remains a challenge in the social sciences	1
Young children are not driven to explore imaginary worlds	1
Sex differences are insufficient evidence of ecological adaptations in human females	1
Experiments make a good breakfast, but a poor supper	1
Nudges, regulations, and behavioral public choice	1
Historical myths promote cooperation through affective states	1
Incomplete language-of-thought in infancy	1
Social learning and the adaptiveness of expressing and perceiving fearfulness	1
What makes narratives feel right? The role of metacognitive experiences	1
Ignoring the role of reiterative processing and worldview transformation leads to exaggeration of the role of curiosity in creativity	1
The cost of success or failure for proxy signals in ecological problems	1
Modelling human vision needs to account for subjective experience	1
Let's move forward: Image-computable models and a common model evaluation scheme are prerequisites for a scientific understanding of human vision	1
Embodied choices bypass narratives under radical uncertainty	1
Cultural evolution needed to complete the Grossmann theory	1
Understanding cultural clusters: An ethnographic perspective	1
Cultural evolution is not independent of linguistic evolution and social aspects of language use	1
The empire strikes back: Some responses to Bruineberg and colleagues	1
A tale of two histories: Dual-system architectures in modular perspective	1
A call for comparing theories of consciousness and data sharing	1
Uncertainty reduction as an alternative explanation of historical myths	1
Distinguishing self-involving from self-serving choices in framing effects	1
A bigger problem for ideography: The pervasiveness of linguistic structure	1
Novelty seeking is neither necessary nor sufficient for curiosity or creativity, instead both curiosity and creativity may reflect an epistemic drive	1
Computation, perception, and mind	1
The scientific value of explanation and prediction	1
Regulator and agent sophistication as an explanation-generating engine for proxy failure dynamics	1
Cesario's framework for understanding group disparities is radically incomplete	1
A spontaneous neural replay account for involuntary autobiographical memories and déjà vu experiences	1
Mind the gap: Why is there no general purpose ideographic system?	1
A reputational perspective on rational framing effects	1
The Emperor Is Naked: Replies to commentaries on the target article	1
Heritability is a poor, if not unhelpful, measure of complex human behavioral processes	1
Myths and prestige in Hindu nationalist politics	1
Using the sender–receiver framework to understand the evolution of languages-of-thought	1
Purity is not a distinct moral domain	1
A continuity of Markov blanket interpretations under the free-energy principle	1
Fixing the problems of deep neural networks will require better training data and learning algorithms	1
Where is the baby in core knowledge?	1