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Papers

(The median citation count of Social Neuroscience is 2. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
An Empirical Evaluation of Methodologies Used for Emotion Recognition via EEG Signals	28
Readiness potentials changed by decision-making in the chicken game	22
The role of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in social decision-making against high- and low-rank opponents: a transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) study	19
Comparing level 1 and level 2 visuo-spatial perspective-taking in the brain: evidence from fMRI	17
Social status in zebrafish modulates the behavioral response to 5-HT2C receptor agonists and antagonists	13
Event-related correlates of evolving trust evaluations	11
Distinct neural correlates of accuracy and bias in the perception of facial emotion expressions	11
The degree of mu rhythm suppression in women is associated with presence of children as well as empathy and anxiety level	10
Emotional engagement with close friends in adolescence predicts neural correlates of empathy in adulthood	10
Uncertainty cues amplify late positive potential responses to aversive emotional stimuli	9
Interpersonal negotiation skills in ADHD	9
Neural correlates of enhancing question asking and initiations in children with autism spectrum disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial	8
Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents – an ERP study	8
To bridge or not to bridge: Moral Judgement in Cocaine Use Disorders, a case-control study on human morality	8
Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement?	8
An fMRI-study of leading and following using rhythmic tapping	7
Parent–child dyads with greater parenting stress exhibit less synchrony in posterior areas and more synchrony in frontal areas of the prefrontal cortex during shared play	7
From physical to digital: A theoretical-methodological primer on designing hyperscanning investigations to explore remote exchanges	6
A functional neuroimaging investigation of Moral Foundations Theory	6
Social appropriateness perception of dynamic interactions	6
Social reward anticipation in infants as revealed by event-related potentials	6
Recognizing communicative intentions from single- and dyadic point light displays in autistic adults	6
Investigating the relationship of theory of mind and empathy with neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and neuropsychiatric data in persons with multiple sclerosis	6
A common neural response to perceiving but not implicitly regulating infant and adult affect in postpartum mothers	6
Loneliness - not for the faint of heart? Effects of transient loneliness induction on neural and parasympathetic responses to affective stimuli	5

Directed causal networks for leading and following in hyperscanning EEG	5
The neurobiological map of theory of mind and pragmatic communication in autism	5
Oxytocin and vasopressin 1a receptor alterations in the superior temporal sulcus and hypothalamus in schizophrenia	5
Facial attractiveness is more associated with individual warmth than with competence: Behavioral and neural evidence	5
Competition during verbal creative processes influences on ERS/ERD	5
The relation between belief in a just world and early processing of deserved and undeserved outcomes: An ERP study	5
Medial prefrontal activity during self-other judgments is modulated by relationship need fulfillment	4
The enhancement effect of social interaction on emotional contagion: an EEG-Based hyperscanning study	4
Population variation in social brain morphology: Links to socioeconomic status and health disparity	4
An examination of mindfulness on Mu suppression and pain empathy and its relation to trait empathy	4
Communicative intentions automatically hold attention – evidence from event-related potentials	4
Maternal socioeconomic disadvantage, neural function during volitional emotion regulation, and parenting	4
Stronger mentalizing network connectivity in expectant fathers predicts postpartum father-infant bonding and parenting behavior	4
Community-level explicit racial prejudice potentiates whites’ neural responses to black faces: A spatial meta-analysis	4
Null effect of anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on own- and other-race face recognition	4
Explicit and implicit abilities in humor processing in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis	3
Obedience to authority reduces cognitive conflict before an action	3
Dyad averaged BMI-dependent interbrain synchrony during continuous mutual prediction in social coordination	3
Mother-child inter-brain synchrony during a mutual visual search task: A study of feedback valence and role	3
The role of contextual information in a virtual trolly problem: A psychophysiological investigation	3
An ERP-study on the extent to which partisanship conditions the early processing of politicians’ faces	3
Does the TPJ fit it all? Representational similarity analysis of different forms of mentalizing	3
Brain dynamics of recommendation-based social influence on preference change: A magnetoencephalography study	3
Influence of first-person and third-person perspectives on neural mechanisms of professional pride	3
Better together: A systematic review of studies combining magnetic resonance imaging with ecological momentary assessment	3
How does teaching experience impact brain processes underlying the theory of mind? Study on primary school educators	2
Alcohol attention bias modulates neural engagement during moral processing	2
Predictive models for social functioning in healthy young adults: A machine learning study integrating neuroanatomical, cognitive, and behavioral data	2
Neural correlates of attentional orienting with neutral and fearful gaze cues in 12-month-olds	2
Predicting narcissistic personality traits from brain and psychological features: A supervised machine learning approach	2
The influence of empathic concern on evaluative processing in self and charity outcomes	2
Event-related correlates of compassion for social pain	2
Implicit induction of expressive suppression in regulation of happy crowd emotions	2
A matter of perspective: Distinct brain mechanisms for evaluating positive and negative social feedback about oneself and another person	2
Financial incentives facilitate stronger neural computation of prosocial decisions in lower empathic adult females	2
Hippocampus links perceived social support with self-esteem	2
Loss of free will in the Iranian criminal justice system: Interdisciplinary analysis of law and neuroscience	2
Impact of social knowledge about the speaker on irony understanding: Evidence from neural oscillations	2
Correction	2
Executive functions in adolescence: A longitudinal study comparing evaluations before and after the COVID-19 pandemic	2