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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Volition as a modulator of the intergroup empathy bias	24
An Empirical Evaluation of Methodologies Used for Emotion Recognition via EEG Signals	23
Father-child dyads exhibit unique inter-subject synchronization during co-viewing of animation video stimuli	13
Mental health stigma and emotional face processing: An ERP study	12
Shame proneness is associated with individual differences in temporal pole white matter structure	9
Effects of right or left face stimulation on self and other perception in enfacement illusion	9
Cardiac deceleration following positive and negative feedback is influenced by competence-based social status	9
Event-related correlates of compassion for social pain	9
Neural coding of human values is underpinned by brain areas representing the core self in the cortical midline region	6
The effects of the activation of hostile and non-hostile schemas on intent attribution processes in non-aggressive individuals: An ERP study	6
Loss of free will in the Iranian criminal justice system: Interdisciplinary analysis of law and neuroscience	6
Empathy, defending, and functional connectivity while witnessing social exclusion	6
Emojis vs. facial expressions: An electrical neuroimaging study on perceptual recognition	5
Measuring the neural correlates of the violation of social expectations: A comparison of two experimental tasks	5
Embodied hyperscanning for studying social interaction: A scoping review of simultaneous brain and body measurements	5
How does teaching experience impact brain processes underlying the theory of mind? Study on primary school educators	5
Aggression differentially modulates neural correlates of social intention attribution to benevolent, tickling and taunting laughter: An fMRI study in children and adolescents	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
Alcohol attention bias modulates neural engagement during moral processing	5
Neural mechanisms of intergroup exclusion and retaliatory aggression	5
Neuroscientific protocols for the assessment and management of physiological responses to digital technostress	5
The impact of social isolation on depression-like behavior in carioca high- and low-conditioned freezing rats	5
Implicit induction of expressive suppression in regulation of happy crowd emotions	5
Neural signatures to prosocial and antisocial interactions in young infants	4

Late frontal positivity effects in Self-referential Memory: Unique to the Self?	4
Association between social comparison orientation and hippocampal properties in older adults: A multimodal MRI study	4
Destination memory disorders: At the junction between memory and socioaffective processing	4
How unexpected events are processed in theory of mind regions: A conceptual replication	4
Event-related correlates of evolving trust evaluations	4
Medial prefrontal activity during self-other judgments is modulated by relationship need fulfillment	4
Perceiving utilitarian gradients: Heart rate variability and self-regulatory effort in the moral dilemma task	4
Neural responses to implicit forms of peer influence in young adults	4
Distinct neural correlates of accuracy and bias in the perception of facial emotion expressions	3
The neural representation of self, close, and famous others: An electrophysiological investigation on the social brain	3
Replication and extension of the link between the cardiovascular system and sensitivity to social pain in healthy adults	3
Cortical processing of speaker politeness: Tracking the dynamic effects of voice tone and politeness markers	3
The neurobiological map of theory of mind and pragmatic communication in autism	3
The extrastriate body area is involved in reciprocal imitation of hand gestures, vocalizations, and facial expressions: A univariate and multivariate fMRI study	3
Does Tactile Stimulation of the Face Affect the Processing of Other Faces? Neural and Behavioural Effects of Facial Touch	3
Middle occipital area differentially associates with malevolent versus benevolent creativity: An fNIRS investigation	3
Social cognition in hyperkinetic movement disorders: a systematic review	3
The relation between belief in a just world and early processing of deserved and undeserved outcomes: An ERP study	3
The degree of mu rhythm suppression in women is associated with presence of children as well as empathy and anxiety level	3
Social-emotional, sleep and feeding problems in young patients with agenesis of the corpus callosum and the life quality of their parents	3
Neurophysiological mechanisms of perspective-taking: An MEG investigation of agency	3
Readiness potentials changed by decision-making in the chicken game	3
Posterior medial frontal cortex regulates sympathy: A TMS study	2
Money gained through suffering is less valuable: Pain reduces the sensitivity to outcome magnitude in monetary decision making	2
Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents – an ERP study	2
Social cerebellum in goal-directed navigation	2
Communicative intentions automatically hold attention – evidence from event-related potentials	2
Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement?	2
Interpersonal negotiation skills in ADHD	2
Multiparity decreases the effect of distractor stimuli on a working memory task: An EEG study	2
Prospective associations between maternal mind-mindedness, child theory of mind, and brain morphology in school-aged children	2
Patrolling the boundaries of social domains: Neural activations to violations of expectations for romantic and work relationships	2
Distinct social behavior and inter-brain connectivity in Dyads with autistic individuals	2
Dispositional mindfulness and self-referential neural activity during the resting state	2
Need for cognitive closure is associated with different intra-network functional connectivity patterns: A resting state EEG study	2
Investigating the neural bases of social comparison in aging	2
An examination of mindfulness on Mu suppression and pain empathy and its relation to trait empathy	2
Microstate analysis reveals the temporal alignment of mirroring and mentalizing systems	2
Emotional engagement with close friends in adolescence predicts neural correlates of empathy in adulthood	2
Uncertainty cues amplify late positive potential responses to aversive emotional stimuli	2
Community-level explicit racial prejudice potentiates whites’ neural responses to black faces: A spatial meta-analysis	1
Enhanced N170 to outgroup faces: Perceptual novelty or prejudice?	1
The role of contextual information in a virtual trolly problem: A psychophysiological investigation	1
Population variation in social brain morphology: Links to socioeconomic status and health disparity	1
Acetaminophen does not affect cardiac and brain responses to social rejection but seems to attenuate behavioral adaptation in a social judgment task	1
Null effect of anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on own- and other-race face recognition	1
An EEG hyperscanning study during persuasion toward groupness. The frontal brain area activation as a function of role	1
Dopamine, religiosity, and utilitarian moral judgment	1
Impact of social knowledge about the speaker on irony understanding: Evidence from neural oscillations	1
Neural network involvement for religious experiences in worship measured by EEG microstate analysis	1

Maximin principle, emotional aversion, and integrative judgment in the NIMBY context, including social dilemma and moral dilemma: The roles of the amygdala, angular gyrus, and ventromedial prefrontal	1
To bridge or not to bridge: Moral Judgement in Cocaine Use Disorders, a case-control study on human morality	1
An fMRI-study of leading and following using rhythmic tapping	1
Neural correlates of enhancing question asking and initiations in children with autism spectrum disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial	1
Recent neural advances in studies on theory of mind and autism	1
Stronger mentalizing network connectivity in expectant fathers predicts postpartum father-infant bonding and parenting behavior	1
Does emotion regulation network mediate the effect of social network on psychological distress among older adults?	1
Association between internet addiction, brain structure, and social capital in adolescents	1
Predicting narcissistic personality traits from brain and psychological features: A supervised machine learning approach	1
When humor is a matter of heart: Effects on emotional state and interbeat interval	1
Neural correlates of sex differences in communicative gestures and speech comprehension: A preliminary study	1
A functional neuroimaging investigation of Moral Foundations Theory	1
How society modulates our behavior: Effects on error processing of masked emotional cues contextualized in social status	1
Maternal socioeconomic disadvantage, neural function during volitional emotion regulation, and parenting	1
Hypothalamus volume in men: Investigating associations with paternal status, self-reported caregiving beliefs, and adult attachment style	1
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	1