OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years	108
Authenticity is more than self-enhancement: behavioural and neurophysiological evidence	82
Targeting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to enhance memory control: divergent effects on social and non-social memories	52
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls	51
Intertemporal meditation regulates time perception and emotions: an exploratory fNIRS study	41
Differential responses to group and individual emotional voices: a behavioral and ERP study	30
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions	28
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction	27
Emotion Regulation Modulates Subsequent Control of Unwanted Memories	27
Identifying cortical structure markers of resilience to adversity in young people using surface-based morphometry	23
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults	23
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs	23
Human cerebellum and social navigation: cerebello-cerebral connectivity using dynamic causal modelling	20
Neural responses to social touch with different emotional valences: an fNIRS study	19
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing	19
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence	19
Are older adults more deceived by false advertising? Evidence from intra- and inter-brain connectivity in the prefrontal cortex during face-to-face deceptive sales	19
Mapping neural signatures of face processing in young children: an OPM-MEG study	19
Having more friends is associated with greater sensitization to social exclusion: neural and behavioral evidence	18
Genes, culture, and neural sensitivity to norm violations: a DRD4 × culture interaction study	18
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity	18
Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion	17
Value-based cognitive control moderates the relation of inflammation with depression in adolescents	17
Potential for the medial prefrontal cortex to link mentalizing and attachment schemas	17
Infectious touching: Has COVID-19 changed our perceptions of social touch? A neural and behavioral study	16

The shared neural substrates of emotional mimicry and emotional contagion: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis and meta-analytic connectivity modeling analysis	16
Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood	16
The impact of teachers’ autonomy support on students’ academic performance from the perspective of hyperscanning: the mediating role of autonomy need satisfaction	16
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study	15
Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors	15
Fear, anxiety, and the extended amygdala—absence of evidence for strict functional segregation	14
The speed of race	14
Ayahuasca enhances functional connectivity in the third visual pathway and mirror neuron networks: a crossover, multiple-dose functional MRI study	14
Functional gradient variations in different neuroticism levels and its correlation with cell type-specific transcriptional signatures	14
Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness	13
A comparison of a multivariate neural pattern versus amygdala response for regulation of negative emotion	13
‘I am afraid you will see the stain on my soul’: Direct gaze neural processing in individuals with PTSD after moral injury recall	13
Time-varying brain state dynamics in trait impulsivity and anxiety: An HSMM analysis of resting-state fMRI	13
If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being	13
Social ‘envirotyping’ the ABCD study contextualizes dissociable brain organization and diverging outcomes	13
Role of the striatum in counterfactual information seeking	13
Neural correlates of embodied and vibratory mechanisms associated with emotional prosody production	13
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth	13
Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life	12
Action-effect proximity, order and predictability differentially modulate electrophysiological responses and explicit judgements of agency	12
Humanness as social normativity: neural evidence that humanized faces align with gender schemas	12
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders	11
An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood	11
Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations	11
The impact of affective congruence on charitable giving	11
The analgesic effect and neural mechanism of spicy food intake	11
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear	11
Emotional characteristics and intrinsic brain network functional connectivity among adults aged 75+	11
The role of the somatosensory system in the feeling of emotions: a neurostimulation study	11
Structural brain changes in emotion recognition across the adult lifespan	11
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study	10
Aperiodic activity masks sensorimotor mu suppression during human action observation	10
Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying affective face processing	10
Making new connections: an fNIRS machine learning classification study of inter-brain synchrony in the default mode network	9
Differential role of fusiform gyrus coupling in depressive and anxiety symptoms during emotion perception	9
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions	9
Correction to: No evidence for an association of testosterone and cortisol hair concentrations with social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults	9
Sensory encoding of emotion conveyed by the face and visual context	9
Spouse Support and Stress: Gender Differences in Neural Measures of Performance Monitoring Under Observation of a Spouse	9
A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better	9
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem	9
Restricted neural parametric modulation of emotional arousal in autism reveals a core role for the cerebellum	9
Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model	8
The effect of induced humility on anger and P3b responses to frustrating events	8
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years	8
Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training	8
Social priors and mentalizing connectivity across autistic and schizotypal traits	8
Diverse social media experiences and adolescents’ depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers	8
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study	8
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy	7

Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing	7
Intrinsic network static and dynamic functional connectivity associated with induced affect	7
Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future	7
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name	7
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness	7
Developmental trajectories of sensitivity to threat in children and adolescents predict larger medial frontal theta differentiation during response inhibition	7
Emotion process deficits in children with ODD and their associations with different dimensions of ODD symptoms: a fNIRS study	7
Ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity during extinction recall suggests successful extinction learning via mental imagery	7
Noninvasive ventromedial prefrontal cortex stimulation can enhance and impair affective learning from rewarding and threatening stimuli	7
Pathophysiological changes in incentive processing in episodic migraine: a preliminary event-related potential study	7
Adolescents’ neural reactivity to parental criticism is associated with diminished happiness during daily interpersonal situations	7
Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults	7
Portable EEG in groups shows increased brain coupling to strong health messages	7
Nonconscious processing of fearful and neutral faces modulates the N170	6
Pupil dilation reflects prediction errors in learning about others’ personality traits	6
Love in the time of Zoom: how intimacy modulates brain and behaviour synchrony in face-to-face versus video communication	6
Correction to: Distinct neural dynamics in joint versus side-by-side actions: insights from dual EEG	6
Prediction strength shapes representations of social judgments and bodily responses to prediction violations	6
Distinct fNIRS Inter-Brain Coupling Patterns for Cooperation versus Competition in a Tennis Game	6
Covert neural and autonomic signatures of shared perception	6
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders	6
Androstadienone modulates human aggression in a sex-dependent manner	6
Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system	6
Birthing parents’ neural response to infant cry: moderating effects of oxytocin and perceived childhood care	6
Gratitude enhances widespread dynamic cooperation and inter-brain synchronization in females	6
Hierarchical systems in the default mode network when reasoning about self and other mental states	6
Early adolescent perceived friendship quality aids affective and neural responses to social inclusion and exclusion in young adults with and without adverse childhood experiences	6
Distinct Brain Systems Support Afferent and Efferent Autonomic Activity	6
Early threat experiences relate to reduced neural face discrimination in youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms: a frequency-tagging electroencephalography study	6
Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies	6
Increased default mode network activation in depression and social anxiety during upward social comparison	6
TMS disruption of the lateral prefrontal cortex increases neural activity in the default mode network when naming facial expressions	6
Neural bases of social facilitation and inhibition: how peer presence affects elementary eye movements	6
Developmental changes in brain function linked with addiction-like social media use two years later	6