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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience: the college years	100
Authenticity is more than self-enhancement: behavioural and neurophysiological evidence	75
Targeting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to enhance memory control: divergent effects on social and non-social memories	51
Excitatory cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation boosts the leverage of prior knowledge for predicting actions	45
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction	37
Thumbs up or thumbs down: neural processing of social feedback and links to social motivation in adolescent girls	33
Greed personality trait links to negative psychopathology and underlying neural substrates	28
Intertemporal meditation regulates time perception and emotions: an exploratory fNIRS study	26
Using connectome-based models of working memory to predict emotion regulation in older adults	26
Identifying cortical structure markers of resilience to adversity in young people using surface-based morphometry	25
Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs	22
Human cerebellum and social navigation: cerebello-cerebral connectivity using dynamic causal modelling	20
It’s who, not what that matters: personal relevance and early face processing	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
Neural responses to social touch with different emotional valences: an fNIRS study	18
Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood	18
Scarcity mindset reduces empathic responses to others’ pain: the behavioral and neural evidence	18
Genes, culture, and neural sensitivity to norm violations: a DRD4 × culture interaction study	18
The shared neural substrates of emotional mimicry and emotional contagion: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis and meta-analytic connectivity modeling analysis	17
Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity	17
Value-based cognitive control moderates the relation of inflammation with depression in adolescents	17
A missing link in affect regulation: the cerebellum	16
Ayahuasca enhances functional connectivity in the third visual pathway and mirror neuron networks: a crossover, multiple-dose functional MRI study	16
Infectious touching: Has COVID-19 changed our perceptions of social touch? A neural and behavioral study	16

The speed of race	16
The impact of teachers’ autonomy support on students’ academic performance from the perspective of hyperscanning: the mediating role of autonomy need satisfaction	15
Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors	15
Potential for the medial prefrontal cortex to link mentalizing and attachment schemas	15
Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion	15
Group membership modulates the hold-up problem: an event-related potentials and oscillations study	14
Corticolimbic structural connectivity encapsulates real-world emotional reactivity and happiness	14
Having more friends is associated with greater sensitization to social exclusion: neural and behavioral evidence	14
Functional gradient variations in different neuroticism levels and its correlation with cell type-specific transcriptional signatures	14
Differential processing of risk and reward in delinquent and non-delinquent youth	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
Neural correlates of embodied and vibratory mechanisms associated with emotional prosody production	13
If you’re happy and you know it: neural correlates of self-evaluated psychological health and well-being	13
Brain encoding during perceived control as a prospective predictor of improvement in quality of life	12
A comparison of a multivariate neural pattern versus amygdala response for regulation of negative emotion	12
The impact of affective congruence on charitable giving	12
Beyond physical sensations: investigating empathy and prosocial behavior in vicarious pain responders	12
Role of the striatum in counterfactual information seeking	12
The role of the somatosensory system in the feeling of emotions: a neurostimulation study	12
Aperiodic activity masks sensorimotor mu suppression during human action observation	12
Social ‘envirotyping’ the ABCD study contextualizes dissociable brain organization and diverging outcomes	12
Emotional characteristics and intrinsic brain network functional connectivity among adults aged 75+	12
The analgesic effect and neural mechanism of spicy food intake	12
Brain responses to the vicarious facilitation of pain by facial expressions of pain and fear	11
A beautiful face is good when we’re judged by others, a moral character is better	11
An ERP investigation of electrocortical responses in pain empathy from childhood through adolescence into adulthood	11
Structural brain changes in emotion recognition across the adult lifespan	11
Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying affective face processing	10
Correction to: No evidence for an association of testosterone and cortisol hair concentrations with social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults	10
Voluntary or reluctant? Social influence in charitable giving: an ERP study	10
Coordinated social interactions are supported by integrated neural representations	10
Shifting the sociometer: opioid receptor blockade lowers self-esteem	10
Interpersonal brain synchronization in social pain contexts: an fNIRS-based exploration of empathy	9
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions	9
Differential role of fusiform gyrus coupling in depressive and anxiety symptoms during emotion perception	9
Diverse social media experiences and adolescents’ depressive symptoms: the moderating role of neurobiological responsivity to rejected peers	9
Restricted neural parametric modulation of emotional arousal in autism reveals a core role for the cerebellum	9
Spouse Support and Stress: Gender Differences in Neural Measures of Performance Monitoring Under Observation of a Spouse	9
Connectome-wide brain signature during fast-food advertisement exposure predicts BMI at 2 years	9
Sensory encoding of emotion conveyed by the face and visual context	9
The effect of induced humility on anger and P3b responses to frustrating events	8
Connectome-based predictive modeling of trait forgiveness	8
Does pain hurt more in Spanish? The neurobiology of pain among Spanish–English bilingual adults	8
Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model	8
Intrinsic network static and dynamic functional connectivity associated with induced affect	8
Emotion process deficits in children with ODD and their associations with different dimensions of ODD symptoms: a fNIRS study	8
Neural divergence between individuals with and without minor depression during dynamic emotion processing: a movie-fMRI Study	8
Social priors and mentalizing connectivity across autistic and schizotypal traits	8
Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training	8

Developmental trajectories of sensitivity to threat in children and adolescents predict larger medial frontal theta differentiation during response inhibition	7
Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing	7
Specificity in the processing of a subject’s own name	7
Noninvasive ventromedial prefrontal cortex stimulation can enhance and impair affective learning from rewarding and threatening stimuli	7
Social and Affective Neuroscience: Ensuring our future	7
Pathophysiological changes in incentive processing in episodic migraine: a preliminary event-related potential study	7
Early threat experiences relate to reduced neural face discrimination in youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms: a frequency-tagging electroencephalography study	7
Adolescents’ neural reactivity to parental criticism is associated with diminished happiness during daily interpersonal situations	7
Developmental changes in brain function linked with addiction-like social media use two years later	6
Altered neural response to social awkwardness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders	6
Portable EEG in groups shows increased brain coupling to strong health messages	6
Androstadienone modulates human aggression in a sex-dependent manner	6
Distinct fNIRS Inter-Brain Coupling Patterns for Cooperation versus Competition in a Tennis Game	6
Increased default mode network activation in depression and social anxiety during upward social comparison	6
The impact of stimulus format and presentation order on social working memory updating	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
Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies	6
Is individual attentional bias positive or negative? It depends on trait anxiety	6
Do stress hormones influence choice? A systematic review of pharmacological interventions on the HPA axis and/or SAM system	6
Gratitude enhances widespread dynamic cooperation and inter-brain synchronization in females	6
Correction to: Distinct neural dynamics in joint versus side-by-side actions: insights from dual EEG	6
Two different mirror neuron pathways for social and non-social actions? A meta-analysis of fMRI studies	6
Nonconscious processing of fearful and neutral faces modulates the N170	6
Love in the time of Zoom: how intimacy modulates brain and behaviour synchrony in face-to-face versus video communication	6
Ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity during extinction recall suggests successful extinction learning via mental imagery	6
Birthing parents’ neural response to infant cry: moderating effects of oxytocin and perceived childhood care	6
Prediction Strength Shapes Representations of Social Judgments and Bodily Responses to Prediction Violations	6
TMS disruption of the lateral prefrontal cortex increases neural activity in the default mode network when naming facial expressions	6
Covert neural and autonomic signatures of shared perception	6
Neural bases of social facilitation and inhibition: how peer presence affects elementary eye movements	6