Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Article	Citations
Affect and emotions as drivers of climate change perception and action: a review	221
Balancing exploration and exploitation with information and randomization	127
Influences of social norms on climate change-related behaviors	123
A guide to the measurement and interpretation of fMRI test-retest reliability	116
Extensive sampling for complete models of individual brains	99
The dimensionality of neural representations for control	97
Positive emotions and climate change	92
Global Warming’s Six Americas: a review and recommendations for climate change communication	80
Meta-learning in natural and artificial intelligence	75
Resource-rational decision making	69
Consumer behavior and climate change: consumers need considerable assistance	68
The early origins and the growing popularity of the individual-subject analytic approach in human neuroscience	67
Problematic Internet use (PIU) in youth: a brief literature review of selected topics	63
What do reinforcement learning models measure? Interpreting model parameters in cognition and neuroscience	61
The neuroscience of socioeconomic inequality	60
Habit and climate change	59
We need climate change mitigation and climate change mitigation needs the ‘We’: a state-of-the-art review of social identity effects motivating climate change action	57
Sensitive periods in human development: charting a course for the future	53
Brain activity is not only for thinking	53
Motivated reasoning and climate change	53
Environmental values and identities at the personal and group level	48
Sensitive periods in executive function development	47
Context-dependent outcome encoding in human reinforcement learning	42
Positive affect and behavior change	42
Computation noise in human learning and decision-making: origin, impact, function	41

Affective regulation through touch: homeostatic and allostatic mechanisms	39
The role of worldviews in shaping how people appraise climate change	39
Timescales of cognition in the brain	38
Extreme weather experience and climate change opinion	37
Prevalence of problematic Internet use during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	35
Reward and emotion: an affective neuroscience approach	35
The social functions of positive emotions	35
Computational theory-driven studies of reinforcement learning and decision-making in addiction: what have we learned?	35
Characteristics and consequences of co-experienced positive affect: understanding the origins of social skills, social bonds, and caring, healthy communities	34
Mindful positive emotion regulation as a treatment for addiction: from hedonic pleasure to self-transcendent meaning	34
Understanding the effects of partisan identity on climate change	34
Positive affect: nature and brain bases of liking and wanting	33
Climate change, behavior, and the possibility of spillover effects: recent advances and future directions	32
Meaning makes touch affective	32
Representations of uncertainty: where art thou?	32
Precision estimates of parallel distributed association networks: evidence for domain specialization and implications for evolution and development	32
High-resolution fMRI at 7 Tesla: challenges, promises and recent developments for individual-focused fMRI studies	31
The role of executive function in shaping reinforcement learning	31
Editorial overview: Deep imaging of the individual brain: past, practice, and promise	30
Applying dense-sampling methods to reveal dynamic endocrine modulation of the nervous system	30
Light through the fog: using precision fMRI data to disentangle the neural substrates of cognitive control	29
Climate change mitigation within the Campbell paradigm: doing the right thing for a reason and against all odds	29
Development of face processing: are there critical or sensitive periods?	28
Learning from other minds: an optimistic critique of reinforcement learning models of social learning	28
Multi-step planning in the brain	28
Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy	28
Three types of individual variation in brain networks revealed by single-subject functional connectivity analyses	28
Attentional and perceptual biases of climate change	27
Is there evidence for sensitive periods in emotional development?	27
Assessing problematic use of social media: where do we stand and what can be improved?	26
Intrinsic reward: potential cognitive and neural mechanisms	26
Improving precision functional mapping routines with multi-echo fMRI	26
Sweet anticipation and positive emotions in music, groove, and dance	26
How positive affect buffers stress responses	25
The current status of Cyberbullying research: a short review of the literature	25
Value-free reinforcement learning: policy optimization as a minimal model of operant behavior	25
Latent learning, cognitive maps, and curiosity	25
Sensitive phases in the development of rodent social behavior	25
Is the core function of orbitofrontal cortex to signal values or make predictions?	24
Precision functional mapping of human memory systems	24
Differentiating self-touch from social touch	23
Context-sensitive valuation and learning	23
Predicting attention across time and contexts with functional brain connectivity	23
Sensitive periods in cognitive development: a mutualistic perspective	22
Cognitive maps and novel inferences: a flexibility hierarchy	22
Wild cognition – linking form and function of cognitive abilities within a natural context	22
The promise of awake behaving infant fMRI as a deep measure of cognition	22
Understanding how early life effects evolve: progress, gaps, and future directions	21
The self-regulatory affective touch: a speculative framework for the development of executive functioning	21
Serotonergic modulation of cognitive computations	20

C-tactile (CT) afferents: evidence of their function from microneurography studies in humans	20
The evolution of sensitive periods in development: insights from insects	20
Resilience to stress and social touch	20
Human skill learning: expansion, exploration, selection, and refinement	20
Expectable environments in early life	20
Finding a balance: modulatory effects of positive affect on attentional and cognitive control	20
Improving autobiographical memory in Alzheimer’s disease by transcranial alternating current stimulation	19
A taxonomy of positive emotions	19
Correspondence between functional connectivity and task-related activity patterns within the individual	19
What are ‘positive’ affect and emotion?	19
The hierarchical construction of value	19
Caregiving influences on emotional learning and regulation: applying a sensitive period model	19
Psychopathology and positive emotions in daily life	19
Gut microbiome-brain axis and inflammation in temperament, personality and psychopathology	19
The role of C-tactile nerve fibers in human social development	19
Concept formation as a computational cognitive process	19
Social touch in virtual reality	19
Approach motivation and positive affect	18
The psychological structure, social consequences, function, and expression of pride experiences	18
Physiological effects induced by stimulation of cutaneous sensory nerves, with a focus on oxytocin	18
Understanding subprocesses of working memory through the lens of model-based cognitive neuroscience	18
Excessive shopping on the internet: recent trends in compulsive buying-shopping disorder	18
Multisensory contributions to affective touch	17
How go/no-go training changes behavior: A value-based decision-making perspective	17
Epigenetic protection: maternal touch and DNA-methylation in early life	17
Challenges and opportunities of mesoscopic brain mapping with fMRI	17
Emergence of relational reasoning	17
Neuro-cognitive processes as mediators of psychological treatment effects	17
Local warming is real: A meta-analysis of the effect of recent temperature on climate change beliefs	16
The dorsomedial striatum: an optimal cellular environment for encoding and updating goal-directed learning	16
Environmental neuroeconomics: how neuroscience can inform our understanding of human responses to climate change	16
Social touch — a tool rather than a signal	16
Beyond the dichotomy between field and lab — the importance of studying cognition in context	16
Categorizing the function of positive emotions	16
The paradox of pursuing happiness	16
Editorial overview: Can behavioral science solve the climate crisis?	15
Precision functional mapping of the subcortex and cerebellum	15
Individual differences in mathematical cognition: a Bert's eye view	15
Affective touch: a communication channel for social exchange	15
Comparison of the determinants for positive and negative affect proposed by appraisal theories, goal-directed theories, and predictive processing theories	15
Diving into the deep end: a personal reflection on the MyConnectome study	15
A gene-maturation-environment model for understanding sensitive period effects in musical training	15
Same-different conceptualization: a machine vision perspective	14
Pregnancy as an intergenerational conduit of adversity: how nutritional and psychosocial stressors reflect different historical timescales of maternal experience	14
The visual prefrontal cortex of anthropoids: interaction with temporal cortex in decision making and its role in the making of ‘visual animals’	14
The role of the amygdala in processing social and affective touch	14
Explaining discrepancies in the study of maternal effects: the role of context and embryo	14
Nested sensitive periods: how plasticity across the microbiota-gut-brain axis interacts to affect the development of learning and memory	14
Individual subject approaches to mapping sensory-biased and multiple-demand regions in human frontal cortex	14
A role for adaptive developmental plasticity in learning and decision making	14
Curiosity in childhood and adolescence — what can we learn from the brain	13
When does empathy feel good?	13
The basolateral amygdala and lateral hypothalamus bias learning towards motivationally significant events	13
Social pleasures of music	13
Gaming disorder: current research directions	13
Learning same and different relations: cross-species comparisons	13
Defining immediate effects of sensitive periods on infant neurobehavioral function	13
Change is on the horizon: call to action for the study of positive emotion and reward in psychopathology	13
Revisiting positive affect and reward influences on cognitive control	13
The same-different task as a tool to study unconscious processing	13
Combined lesion-deficit and fMRI approaches in single-case studies: unique contributions to cognitive neuroscience	13
What is dopamine doing in model-based reinforcement learning?	13
Imaging the temporal dynamics of brain states with highly sampled fMRI	13
Virtual touch and the human social world	13
Exploiting the plasticity of compassion to improve psychotherapy	13
Inference as a fundamental process in behavior	12
Neural circuits for inference-based decision-making	12
Liberty and the pursuit of science denial	12
Dynamic network organization of the self: implications for affective experience	12
The contextual regulation of goal-directed actions	12
Tracking plasticity of individual human brains	12
Fish ecology and cognition: insights from studies on wild and wild-caught teleost fishes	12
Do transdiagnostic factors influence affective touch perception in psychiatric populations?	12
Understanding others through observed touch: neural correlates, developmental aspects, and psychopathology	12
On defining positive affect (PA): considering attitudes toward emotions, measures of PA, and approach motivation	11
Learning of sameness/difference relationships by honey bees: performance, strategies and ecological context	11
Climate change cognition and education: given no silver bullet for denial, diverse information-hunks increase global warming acceptance	11
The impact of mathematics teachers’ professional competence on instructional quality and students’ mathematics learning outcomes	11
Do C-tactile afferents go to sleep? A potential role for somatosensory stimulation in sleep regulation	11
How perception of control shapes decision making	11

Wired for social touch: the sense that binds us to others	11
The cost burden of problematic internet usage	11
Not seeing eye to eye: challenges to building ethnically and economically diverse environmental coalitions	11
Affective and discriminative touch: a reappraisal	11
A push for examining subjective experience in value-based decision-making	11
How do animals navigate the urban jungle? A review of cognition in urban-adapted animals	11
Positive affect as a computational mechanism	10
A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use	10
Individual differences in learning positive affective value	10
Precision estimates of macroscale network organization in the human and their relation to anatomical connectivity in the marmoset monkey	10
Issues in the comparative cognition of same/different abstract-concept learning	10
How technology can advance the study of animal cognition in the wild	10
How do crows and parrots come to spontaneously perceive relations-between-relations?	10
Is early good or bad? Early puberty onset and its consequences for learning	10
Role of C-tactile fibers in pain modulation: animal and human perspectives	9
Population differences in performance on Relational Match to Sample (RMTS) sometimes reflect differences in inductive biases alone	9
Asymmetry in the complexity of same and different representations	9
Have behavioral sciences delivered on their promise to influence environmental policy and conservation practice?	9
Psychophysiology and motivated emotion: testing the affective touch hypothesis of C-tactile afferent function	9
Integration of plasticity research across disciplines	9
New challenges in facing cyberchondria during the coronavirus disease pandemic	9
A comparative framework of inter-individual coordination and pair-bonding	9
Cognition in the wild: understanding animal thought in its natural context	8
Selection levels on vocal individuality: strategic use or byproduct	8
Utilizing electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate positive affect	8
A “thinking animal” in conflict: studying wild elephant cognition in the shadow of anthropogenic change	8
What is it about positive affect that alters attentional scope?	8
The unique potential of field research to understand primate social learning and cognition	8
Multicomponential affective processes modulating food-seeking behaviors	8
Canonical cortical circuits and the duality of Bayesian inference and optimal control	8
Acoustic Developmental Programming: implications for adaptive plasticity and the evolution of sensitive periods	8
What is next for the neurobiology of temperament, personality and psychopathology?	8
Cross-cultural research on child development and maternal mental health in low- and middle-income countries	7
Identifying identity and attributing value to attributes: reconsidering mechanisms of preference decisions	7
Multiple senses influencing healthy food preference	7
Problematic video-streaming: a short review	7
Individual focused studies of functional brain development in early human infancy	7
Infants’ perception of repetition-based regularities in speech: a look from the perspective of the same/different distinction	7
Problematic usage of the internet and cognition	7
Rethinking dehumanization, empathy, and burnout in healthcare contexts	7
Core foundations of early mathematics: refining the number sense framework	7
Individual differences in temperament and the efficiency of brain networks	7
Dissociable mechanisms of information sampling in prefrontal cortex and the dopaminergic system	7
Robust capuchin tool use cognition in the wild	7
Negative affect related traits and the chasm between self-report and neuroscience	7
Dehumanization and mental health: clinical implications and future directions	6
Apples and oranges: three criteria for positive emotion typologies	6
Special challenges in mathematics education in Sub Sahara Africa	6
Neural autopilot and context-sensitivity of habits	6
Clueless about cues: the impact of reward-paired cues on decision making under uncertainty	6
On the age-specific neurochemical and endocrine biomarkers of temperament traits in adolescents	6
Cultural differences in mindset beliefs regarding mathematics learning	6
Dopaminergic specializations for flexible behavioral control: linking levels of analysis and functional architectures	6
How do a pink plastic flamingo and a pink plastic elephant differ? Evidence for abstract representations of the relations same-different in a Grey parrot	6
Probing the role of reward expectancy in Pavlovian-instrumental transfer	6
Reinforcement-guided learning in frontal neocortex: emerging computational concepts	6
Can you create? Visualising and modelling real-world mathematics with technologies in STEAM educational settings	6
Temperamental risk for anxiety: emerging work on the infant brain and later neurocognitive development	6
Transforming energy use	6
Problematic use of the Internet in low- and middle-income countries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review	6
From deep brain phenotyping to functional atlasing	6
A broader mind: concern with other humans, equality, and animals	6
The non-human perspective on the neurobiology of temperament, personality, and psychopathology: what’s next?	6
Cognitive ecology in the wild — advances and challenges in avian cognition research	6
Social touch and allostasis	6
Supporting mathematics learning: a review of spatial abilities from research to practice	6
The goal conflict model: a theory of the hedonic regulation of eating behavior	6
Editorial overview: Affective touch: neurobiology and function	6
The origins of same/different discrimination in human infants	6
Current prevention strategies and future directions for problem Internet use	6
Theoretical models of types of problematic usage of the Internet: when theorists meet therapists	5
The effect of effort on reward prediction error signals in midbrain dopamine neurons	5
Neuroimaging, hormonal and genetic biomarkers for pathological aggression — success or failure?	5
The developmental origins of stress reactivity: an intergenerational life-course perspective	5
The role of the infralimbic cortex in decision making processes	5
Knismesis: the aversive facet of tickle	5
Agency and goal-directed choice	5
Designing affective haptic experience for wellness and social communication: where designers need affective neuroscience and psychology	5
The socioeconomics of food hoarding in wild squirrels	5
Do graded representations support abstract thought?	5
The past and future of mapping the biomarkers of psychosis	5
Approaching dehumanizing interactions: Joint consideration of other-, meta-, and self-dehumanization	5
Learning sameness: object and relational similarity across species	5
The role of natural history in animal cognition	5
Dehumanization of outgroup members and cross-group interactions	5
Cue-approach training for food behavior	5
Processing and transmission of affective touch in the spinal cord	5
Sexual objectification: advancements and avenues for future research	5
Natural conditions and adaptive functions of problem-solving in the Carnivora	5