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Papers

(The median citation count of Social Neuroscience 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An Empirical Evaluation of Methodologies Used for Emotion Recognition via EEG Signals	27
Event-related correlates of evolving trust evaluations	25
Distinct neural correlates of accuracy and bias in the perception of facial emotion expressions	17
Perceiving utilitarian gradients: Heart rate variability and self-regulatory effort in the moral dilemma task	15
The degree of mu rhythm suppression in women is associated with presence of children as well as empathy and anxiety level	12
Readiness potentials changed by decision-making in the chicken game	12
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	11
Uncertainty cues amplify late positive potential responses to aversive emotional stimuli	9
Comparing level 1 and level 2 visuo-spatial perspective-taking in the brain: evidence from fMRI	9
Emotional engagement with close friends in adolescence predicts neural correlates of empathy in adulthood	8
Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents – an ERP study	8
Neurophysiological mechanisms of perspective-taking: An MEG investigation of agency	7
Interpersonal negotiation skills in ADHD	7
Neural correlates of enhancing question asking and initiations in children with autism spectrum disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial	6
To bridge or not to bridge: Moral Judgement in Cocaine Use Disorders, a case-control study on human morality	6
Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement?	6
A functional neuroimaging investigation of Moral Foundations Theory	6
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	5
A common neural response to perceiving but not implicitly regulating infant and adult affect in postpartum mothers	5
Competition during verbal creative processes influences on ERS/ERD	5
Recognizing communicative intentions from single- and dyadic point light displays in autistic adults	5
Social reward anticipation in infants as revealed by event-related potentials	5
Investigating the relationship of theory of mind and empathy with neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and neuropsychiatric data in persons with multiple sclerosis	5
Facial attractiveness is more associated with individual warmth than with competence: Behavioral and neural evidence	5
An fMRI-study of leading and following using rhythmic tapping	5

From physical to digital: A theoretical-methodological primer on designing hyperscanning investigations to explore remote exchanges	5
Social appropriateness perception of dynamic interactions	5
Impaired social perception from eyes and face visual cues: evidence from prefrontal cortex damage	5
The relation between belief in a just world and early processing of deserved and undeserved outcomes: An ERP study	4
Communicative intentions automatically hold attention – evidence from event-related potentials	4
Neural correlates of sex differences in communicative gestures and speech comprehension: A preliminary study	4
The neurobiological map of theory of mind and pragmatic communication in autism	4
An examination of mindfulness on Mu suppression and pain empathy and its relation to trait empathy	4
Medial prefrontal activity during self-other judgments is modulated by relationship need fulfillment	4
Stronger mentalizing network connectivity in expectant fathers predicts postpartum father-infant bonding and parenting behavior	4
Null effect of anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on own- and other-race face recognition	4
Influence of first-person and third-person perspectives on neural mechanisms of professional pride	3
Population variation in social brain morphology: Links to socioeconomic status and health disparity	3
Brain dynamics of recommendation-based social influence on preference change: A magnetoencephalography study	3
Hippocampus links perceived social support with self-esteem	3
Community-level explicit racial prejudice potentiates whites’ neural responses to black faces: A spatial meta-analysis	3
Obedience to authority reduces cognitive conflict before an action	3
Better together: A systematic review of studies combining magnetic resonance imaging with ecological momentary assessment	3
The Underlying neural mechanisms of interpersonal situations on collaborative ability: A hyperscanning study using functional near-infrared spectroscopy	3
The role of contextual information in a virtual trolly problem: A psychophysiological investigation	3
Maternal socioeconomic disadvantage, neural function during volitional emotion regulation, and parenting	3
Mother-child inter-brain synchrony during a mutual visual search task: A study of feedback valence and role	3
Explicit and implicit abilities in humor processing in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis	2
Loss of free will in the Iranian criminal justice system: Interdisciplinary analysis of law and neuroscience	2
Implicit induction of expressive suppression in regulation of happy crowd emotions	2
Hypothalamus volume in men: Investigating associations with paternal status, self-reported caregiving beliefs, and adult attachment style	2
Impact of social knowledge about the speaker on irony understanding: Evidence from neural oscillations	2
Correction	2
Alcohol attention bias modulates neural engagement during moral processing	2
Does the TPJ fit it all? Representational similarity analysis of different forms of mentalizing	2
Mental health stigma and emotional face processing: An ERP study	2
Posterior medial frontal cortex regulates sympathy: A TMS study	2
Predicting narcissistic personality traits from brain and psychological features: A supervised machine learning approach	2
Neural correlates of attentional orienting with neutral and fearful gaze cues in 12-month-olds	2
Social cerebellum in goal-directed navigation	2
Differential paraventricular nucleus activation and behavioral responses to social isolation in prairie voles following environmental enrichment with and without physical exercise	2
How does teaching experience impact brain processes underlying the theory of mind? Study on primary school educators	2
Event-related correlates of compassion for social pain	2
Dopamine, religiosity, and utilitarian moral judgment	2
The influence of empathic concern on evaluative processing in self and charity outcomes	2
A matter of perspective: Distinct brain mechanisms for evaluating positive and negative social feedback about oneself and another person	2
Association between social comparison orientation and hippocampal properties in older adults: A multimodal MRI study	1
Theory of mind in dysphoric and non-dysphoric adults: An ERP study of true- and false-belief reasoning	1
Modeling temporal dynamics of face processing in youth and adults	1
Does emotion regulation network mediate the effect of social network on psychological distress among older adults?	1
“We will be in touch”. A neuroscientific assessment of remote vs. face-to-face job interviews via EEG hyperscanning	1
Measuring the neural correlates of the violation of social expectations: A comparison of two experimental tasks	1
Predictive models for social functioning in healthy young adults: A machine learning study integrating neuroanatomical, cognitive, and behavioral data	1
How unexpected events are processed in theory of mind regions: A conceptual replication	1
Executive functions in adolescence: A longitudinal study comparing evaluations before and after the COVID-19 pandemic	1

The neurofunctional basis of human aggression varies by levels of femininity	1
Dissociating neural sensitivity to target identity and mental state content type during inferences about other minds	1
When humor is a matter of heart: Effects on emotional state and interbeat interval	1
Emojis vs. facial expressions: An electrical neuroimaging study on perceptual recognition	1
Dissociable effects of acute versus cumulative violent video game exposure on the action simulation circuit in university students	1
Financial incentives facilitate stronger neural computation of prosocial decisions in lower empathic adult females	1
Distinct social behavior and inter-brain connectivity in Dyads with autistic individuals	1
Cortical processing of speaker politeness: Tracking the dynamic effects of voice tone and politeness markers	1
An EEG hyperscanning study during persuasion toward groupness. The frontal brain area activation as a function of role	1
Social-touch and self-touch differ in hemodynamic response in the prefrontal cortex – a fNIRS study conducted during the coronavirus pandemic	1
Pair bond quality influences social conditioned place preference expression, passive coping behavior, and central oxytocin receptor expression following partner loss in male prairie voles	1
The impact of social isolation on depression-like behavior in carioca high- and low-conditioned freezing rats	1
Neural mechanisms of intergroup exclusion and retaliatory aggression	1
Neural sensitivity to trustworthiness cues from realistic face images is associated with temperament: An electrophysiological study with 6-month-old infants	1