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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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Maternal brain in the process of maternal-infant bonding: Review of the literature	19
Social cerebellum in goal-directed navigation	17
Father-child dyads exhibit unique inter-subject synchronization during co-viewing of animation video stimuli	16
Empathy, mentalizing, and cognitive functioning in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa	14
Restoration of prosocial behavior in rats after heroin self-administration via chemogenetic activation of the anterior insular cortex	13
Smile (but only deliberately) though your heart is aching: Loneliness is associated with impaired spontaneous smile mimicry	12
Exploring the relationship between social power and the ERP components of empathy for pain	11
Beyond physical entrainment: competitive and cooperative mental stances during identical joint-action tasks differently affect inter-subjective neural synchrony and judgments of agency	11
Theory of mind network in multiple Sclerosis: A double disconnection mechanism	10
Common neural responses to romantic rejection and acceptance in healthy adults	8
Why do you attract me but not others? Retrieval of person knowledge and its generalization bring diverse judgments of facial attractiveness	8
Relating self–other overlap to ingroup bias in emotional mimicry	7
5-HT₃ receptor within the amygdaloid complex modulates pain hypersensitivity induced by empathy model of cohabitation with a partner in chronic pain condition in mice	7
Middle occipital area differentially associates with malevolent versus benevolent creativity: An fNIRS investigation	7
Mirror-touch experiences in the infant brain	6
Neural correlates of beauty retouching to enhance attractiveness of self-depictions in women	6
Prior reproductive experience modulates neural responses to infant faces across the postpartum period	6
Enhanced N170 to outgroup faces: Perceptual novelty or prejudice?	5
Voice gender categorization in the connected and disconnected hemispheres	5
Children and adolescents’ neural response to emotional faces and voices: Age-related changes in common regions of activation	5
Neural processing of iterated prisoner’s dilemma outcomes indicates next-round choice and speed to reciprocate cooperation	5
An Empirical Evaluation of Methodologies Used for Emotion Recognition via EEG Signals	5
Neural coding of human values is underpinned by brain areas representing the core self in the cortical midline region	4
Subliminal affective priming changes the ‘feeling’ towards neutral objects in infancy	4
Mirror neurons and empathy-related regions in psychopathy: Systematic review, meta-analysis, and a working model	4

Neural network involvement for religious experiences in worship measured by EEG microstate analysis	4
Imagined veridicality of social feedback amplifies early and late brain responses	4
The social regulation of emotion: Inconsistencies suggest no mediation through ventromedial prefrontal cortex	4
Differential paraventricular nucleus activation and behavioral responses to social isolation in prairie voles following environmental enrichment with and without physical exercise	4
Ecology of cooperation: The influence of fasting and satiety on interpersonal trust	4
Maternal socioeconomic disadvantage, neural function during volitional emotion regulation, and parenting	4
Patrolling the boundaries of social domains: Neural activations to violations of expectations for romantic and work relationships	4
Role of the Orbitofrontal Cortex in the Computation of Relationship Value	4
Transcranial direct current stimulation for empathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis	4
The Underlying neural mechanisms of interpersonal situations on collaborative ability: A hyperscanning study using functional near-infrared spectroscopy	4
The impact of self-control training on neural responses following anger provocation	4
Posterior medial frontal cortex regulates sympathy: A TMS study	4
Infants understand collaboration: Neural evidence for 9-month-olds’ attribution of shared goals to coordinated joint actions	4
Brain dynamics of recommendation-based social influence on preference change: A magnetoencephalography study	3
A latent variable approach to measuring bridging social capital and examining its association to older adults’ cognitive health	3
Multilevel analysis: Integrating multiple levels of neurobehavioral systems	3
Acetaminophen does not affect cardiac and brain responses to social rejection but seems to attenuate behavioral adaptation in a social judgment task	3
Replication and extension of the link between the cardiovascular system and sensitivity to social pain in healthy adults	3
Facial attractiveness is more associated with individual warmth than with competence: Behavioral and neural evidence	3
Three stages of perceiving consecutively moral behaviors: Neurophysiological effect of agent and valence on the moral judgments	3
Effects of high and low power on the visual encoding of faces	3
Fragility of reward vs antifragility of defense brain systems in drug dependence	3
Neural processing of equitable and inequitable distributions in 5-year-old children	3
Association between social comparison orientation and hippocampal properties in older adults: A multimodal MRI study	3
Differential roles of amygdala and posterior superior temporal sulcus in social scene understanding	3
Financial incentives facilitate stronger neural computation of prosocial decisions in lower empathic adult females	3
Modeling temporal dynamics of face processing in youth and adults	3
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	3
Stronger mentalizing network connectivity in expectant fathers predicts postpartum father-infant bonding and parenting behavior	3
Social-emotional, sleep and feeding problems in young patients with agenesis of the corpus callosum and the life quality of their parents	3
Does the TPJ fit it all? Representational similarity analysis of different forms of mentalizing	2
Hippocampus links perceived social support with self-esteem	2
Predicting narcissistic personality traits from brain and psychological features: A supervised machine learning approach	2
Dopamine, religiosity, and utilitarian moral judgment	2
Late frontal positivity effects in Self-referential Memory: Unique to the Self?	2
The relation between belief in a just world and early processing of deserved and undeserved outcomes: An ERP study	2
The effects of the activation of hostile and non-hostile schemas on intent attribution processes in non-aggressive individuals: An ERP study	2
Social appropriateness perception of dynamic interactions	2
Facial emotion detection in Vestibular Schwannoma patients with and without facial paresis	2
Community-level explicit racial prejudice potentiates whites’ neural responses to black faces: A spatial meta-analysis	2
The temporal course of vicarious embarrassment: An electrophysiological study	2
Cortical processing of speaker politeness: Tracking the dynamic effects of voice tone and politeness markers	2
Neural mechanisms of intergroup exclusion and retaliatory aggression	2
Effects of right or left face stimulation on self and other perception in enfacement illusion	2
Examining implicit neural bias against vaccine hesitancy	2
Neural sensitivity to trustworthiness cues from realistic face images is associated with temperament: An electrophysiological study with 6-month-old infants	2
“We will be in touch”. A neuroscientific assessment of remote vs. face-to-face job interviews via EEG hyperscanning	2
How society modulates our behavior: Effects on error processing of masked emotional cues contextualized in social status	2
Social norms in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: Impairment of the moral/conventional distinction?	2
Neural responses to implicit forms of peer influence in young adults	2

The neural mechanisms of threat and reconciliation efforts between Muslims and non-Muslims