Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The developmental origins of stress reactivity: an intergenerational life-course perspective381
Editorial Board232
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How dopamine enables learning from aversion125
A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use94
What will it take to mitigate climate change? Maximizing norm transmission and potency for change-accelerating outcomes93
How do alterations of the basal ganglia affect procedural memory in Tourette syndrome?88
Reducing dehumanisation through virtual reality: prospects and pitfalls86
Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making76
The cost burden of problematic internet usage64
Editorial overview: How do the executive and reward systems interact to determine eating behavior? Current theoretical frameworks and training approaches63
Clinical transforming of personality disorders: comorbidity, severity or dynamical changes in the structure of individuality?58
Impact of cerebellar-specific genetic and circuit manipulations on the behavioral phenotype and cerebellar physiology in murine autism models55
Neuroimaging, hormonal and genetic biomarkers for pathological aggression — success or failure?51
Cue-approach training for food behavior50
Occam’s razor misapplied: Pinpointing the role of the default mode network in creativity49
Quo vadis taxonomies of consistent behavioural patterns: time to change horses?47
My path from traditional to critical quantitative methods: integrating racial equity frameworks in quantitative research47
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Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees44
Experimental approaches to study sensory disconnection in humans during sleep and anesthesia44
One cannot simply 'be flexible’: regulating control parameters requires learning42
A seat at the (language) table: incorporating the cerebellum into frameworks for language processing36
Treasure islands: foraging ecology and the emergence of tool use in wild Goffin’s cockatoos35
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Multiple senses influencing healthy food preference34
Dehumanization and mental health: clinical implications and future directions34
Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies34
Focusing on the self to humanize others: the role of empathy and morality33
Understanding others through observed touch: neural correlates, developmental aspects, and psychopathology30
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The Default Mode Network and inner time consciousness30
Nature of mathematics tasks and what teachers do28
Dehumanizing organizations: insidious effects of having one’s human integrity denied at work28
Children: dehumanized or not yet fully human?28
Space, the original frontier28
Current prevention strategies and future directions for problem Internet use27
The default mode network and the complex dynamics of ongoing experience: an attractor-state perspective27
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates27
Attentional and perceptual biases of climate change26
Theory of Mind in the wild24
Multisensory contributions to affective touch23
Theoretical and philosophical perspectives on race and racism in education23
A broader mind: concern with other humans, equality, and animals23
Efficacy of a combined food-response inhibition and attention training for weight loss23
The brain that controls itself22
Cognition is an emergent property21
Cultural differences in mindset beliefs regarding mathematics learning21
Erratum regarding editorial disclosures20
Learning and skill development in wild primates: toward a better understanding of cognitive evolution20
Insights from an online self-help forum for people with gaming problems19
How technology can advance the study of animal cognition in the wild19
Epigenetic protection: maternal touch and DNA-methylation in early life19
Cooperation and cognition in wild canids19
Act natural: a review of new methods for assessing dopamine’s role in natural behavior19
Supporting mathematics learning: a review of spatial abilities from research to practice19
Stress and the control of remembering: balancing hippocampal and striatal forms of memory retrieval18
Understanding the effects of partisan identity on climate change18
What are we measuring when we measure task switch costs?18
The goal conflict model: a theory of the hedonic regulation of eating behavior18
Gut microbiome-brain axis and inflammation in temperament, personality and psychopathology17
The Data Chronicles: how teacher metrics shape urban realities17
Brief touch is different from a massage: insights from nonhuman primates17
Addressing loneliness through AI: philosophical perspectives16
An individual–collective–systemic behavioral climate intervention framework16
Slow touch in non-human species: translational research into the C-tactile (CT) afferent system16
Optimizing self-motion perception: a control theory perspective on vestibular–visual integration and adaptive mechanisms16
Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy15
Corrigendum to ‘On the age-specific neurochemical and endocrine biomarkers of temperament traits in adolescents’ [Curr Opin Behav Sci, vol 43, February 2022, Pages 118–124]15
Beyond food for thought: tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts15
Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild15
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The brain bases of regulation of eating behaviors: the role of reward, executive control, and valuation processes, and new paths to propel the field forward14
Enlarging the victim’s perspective on dehumanization14
Associative learning and high-level cognitive processes in the control of food-related behaviors14
From individual to collective climate emotions and actions: a review14
Legal aspects of problematic Internet usage13
Supporting children and adolescents developing in adversity: a scoping review of resilience-promoting interventions from a socioecological perspective13
Dynamics of neural activity in early nervous system evolution13
Multicomponential affective processes modulating food-seeking behaviors13
Bridging the gap: (a)typical psychedelic and near-death experience insights13
Variations on an ancient theme — the central complex across insects13
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Evolution of fish brains and behaviors: how many ways to generate the same outcomes?13
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Dehumanization of outgroup members and cross-group interactions13
Diversity of the nature of input and output signals in the cerebellum suggests a diversity of function13
The question why and how people differ in personality cannot be answered satisfactorily while neglecting biological approaches12
C-tactile (CT) afferents: evidence of their function from microneurography studies in humans12
Erratum to “The basal forebrain serves social information processing” [Curr Opin Behav Sci 56 (2024) 101372]12
Theoretical models of types of problematic usage of the Internet: when theorists meet therapists12
The non-human perspective on the neurobiology of temperament, personality, and psychopathology: what’s next?12
The impact of public health messages on audience engagement and collective climate action12
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The frog-manikin holding the blue parasol umbrella: imaginative generativity in evolution, life, and consciousness11
Answering big questions with small data: the use of field experiments in primate cognition11
Extended cognition and life after death11
Contributions of the subcortical auditory system to predictive coding and the neural encoding of speech11
Positivity and collective climate action11
Mutually beneficial relationship between meaning in life and resilience10
New challenges in facing cyberchondria during the coronavirus disease pandemic10
Harnessing temperament to elucidate the complexities of serotonin function10
Response inhibition training and measures of explicit and implicit food valuation10
Socially scripted vocal learning in primates10
Transient nature of stable behavioural patterns, and how we can respect it10
Virtuous cycles of organizational climate action: a multilevel view of pro-environmental behavior in the workplace10
Priors and proprioceptive predictions10
A light at the end of the axon: genetically encoded fluorescent indicators shine light on the dopamine system10
Clinical cerebellar neuroscience: cognitive functioning in spinocerebellar ataxias: an update and future directions10
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review10
On the age-specific neurochemical and endocrine biomarkers of temperament traits in adolescents10
Affect and emotions as drivers of climate change perception and action: a review10
Diversity of REM sleep10
Recent advancements in optimising transcranial electrical stimulation: reducing response variability through individualised stimulation9
The mathematical brain at rest9
A critical reflection on behavioural difficulty: proposing a barrier-first approach9
Prevalence of problematic Internet use during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic9
Back to basics: human rights violations and dehumanization9
Approaching dehumanizing interactions: Joint consideration of other-, meta-, and self-dehumanization9
Reflections on my engagement with QuantCrit: operating as a lens or corrective surgery?9
Stress-induced modulation of maternal behavior and mesolimbic dopamine function9
Affective regulation through touch: homeostatic and allostatic mechanisms9
Targeting replay and default mode network dynamics during rest in psychiatric disorders8
Clinical services for problematic internet usage8
Rejection sensitivity and its relationship to schizotypy and aggression: current status and future directions8
Dopaminergic computations for perceptual decisions8
Toward a computational role for locus coeruleus/norepinephrine arousal systems8
Environmental values and identities at the personal and group level8
Developmental exposure to cannabis compromises dopamine system function and behavior8
Liberty and the pursuit of science denial8
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The adaptive value of behavioral inhibition8
Is the time’s flow an illusion? — the issue of the temporality of the conscious experience8
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Using cognitive behavioral therapy as the select treatment approach for problematic Internet usage7
Cortico-cortical paired-associative stimulation to investigate the plasticity of cortico-cortical visual networks in humans7
Unraveling sequence learning in obsessive–compulsive disorder7
Evolution of neural circuits in the origin of behavioral novelty7
The impact of mathematics teachers’ professional competence on instructional quality and students’ mathematics learning outcomes7
Resilience to stress and trauma: a narrative review of neuroimaging research7
Shifting attention to orient or avoid: a unifying account of the tail of the striatum and its dopaminergic inputs7
Relating mind-blanking to the content and dynamics of spontaneous thinking7
Habit and climate change7
Sensorimotor foundations of self-consciousness in utero7
The role of natural history in animal cognition6
The future of work loneliness research6
Assessing problematic use of social media: where do we stand and what can be improved?6
The ‘Go’s and the ‘No-Go’s of response-inhibition training to food: lessons learned from trials6
Exposure/isolation measures of segregation through a QuantCrit lens: implications for education research6
Climate change mitigation within the Campbell paradigm: doing the right thing for a reason and against all odds6
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Social cognition in degenerative cerebellar ataxias6
Social norms and loneliness6
The social brain has a nerve: insights from attachment and autistic phenotypes6
Consumer behavior and climate change: consumers need considerable assistance6
Psychological interventions for loneliness: a narrative review of recent findings and suggestions for future research6
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Differentiating self-touch from social touch6
Climate change, behavior, and the possibility of spillover effects: recent advances and future directions6
Pathways between digital activity and depressed mood in adolescence: outlining a developmental model integrating risk, reactivity, resilience and reciprocity5
Theories of consciousness and a life worth living5
Transcranial magnetic stimulation5
From sensory motor and perceptual development to primary consciousness in the fetus: converging neural, behavioral, and imaging correlates of cognition-mediated emergent transitions5
Socioeconomic status and brain development: insights and theoretical perspectives on deficit, adaptation, and resilience5
Knismesis: the aversive facet of tickle5
Toward an ion‐channel‐centric approach to ultrasound neuromodulation5
Cognitive flexibility as the shifting of brain network flows by flexible neural representations5
Evolution of neural mechanisms underlying the behavioral diversification of weakly electric fishes5
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Cerebellar roots of aggression in violent psychopathic offenders: evidence from structural neuroimaging studies5
Complementary roles of serotonin and dopamine in model-based learning5
Gaming disorder: current research directions5
Cerebellar imaging with diffusion magnetic resonance imaging: approaches, challenges, and potential5
Explanatory personality science in the neuroimaging era: the map is not the territory5
Individual differences in temperament and the efficiency of brain networks5
Dehumanization: insights from developmental science4
Inhuman animals: moving dehumanization into the domain of human–animal relations4
Embedding historical and contextual sensitivity in QuantCrit approaches to STEM identity research: implications for data collection and analysis techniques4
The default mode subnetworks’ involvement in diverse cognitive transitions suggests a role in external update of internal models4
Social touch in virtual reality4
Processing and transmission of affective touch in the spinal cord4
Elaborating humanness: a direct comparison between mindful and mindless entities4
Problematic Internet usage: brain imaging findings4
Role of C-tactile fibers in pain modulation: animal and human perspectives4
The self-regulatory affective touch: a speculative framework for the development of executive functioning4
Editorial overview: Can behavioral science solve the climate crisis?4
Special challenges in mathematics education in Sub Sahara Africa4
Problematic Internet use (PIU) in youth: a brief literature review of selected topics4
A review of QuantCrit-informed approaches to group participants and explore ethno-racial heterogeneity in educational research4
Social touch and allostasis4
Individual differences in mathematical cognition: a Bert's eye view4
Screening for forms of problematic Internet usage4
Animals are diverse: distinct forms of animalized dehumanization4
Local warming is real: A meta-analysis of the effect of recent temperature on climate change beliefs4
Extreme weather experience and climate change opinion4
Toward a better understanding of durable behavior change by food Go/NoGo training4
Advanced cognition in wild chimpanzees: lessons from observational studies4
Global Warming’s Six Americas: a review and recommendations for climate change communication4
A review of consistency in climate action: The role of social interactions and institutions in cultivating positive behavioral spillover4
Wild cognition – linking form and function of cognitive abilities within a natural context3
On the role of behavioural modes during temporally extended decision-making and their neural substrates3
A continuum of predictive control between motor and mental actions: language production as a test case3
Core of consciousness: the default mode network as nexus of convergence and divergence in the human brain3
Neurostimulation to improve cognitive flexibility3
The social foundations of collective climate action3
Understanding cerebellar cognitive and social functions: methodological challenges and new directions for future transcranial magnetic stimulation studies3
Methods for cerebellar imaging: cerebellar subdivision3
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Molecular heterogeneity and development of the ventral tegmental area3
The most difficult thing in the world: a sociocultural perspective on putting pro-environmental thoughts into action3
Corrigendum to: “Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies” [Curr Opin Behav Sci 51(2023) 101277]3
Strepsirrhine movement and navigation: sense and sociality3
Looking backward to look forward: Tracing critical quantitative perspectives in critical consciousness research3
Negative affect related traits and the chasm between self-report and neuroscience3
Prefrontal cortex drives the flexibility of whole-brain orchestration of cognition3
“But why?” Dopamine and causal learning3
How does selection shape spatial memory in the wild?3
Affective touch: a communication channel for social exchange3
The current status of Cyberbullying research: a short review of the literature3
Diencephalic modulation of the hippocampus in affective and cognitive behavior3
Does cognitive control have a general stability/flexibility tradeoff problem?3
A “thinking animal” in conflict: studying wild elephant cognition in the shadow of anthropogenic change3
A review of critical race mixed methodology in education: current trends and future directions3
How do animals navigate the urban jungle? A review of cognition in urban-adapted animals3
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Default mode network synchrony reflects shared understanding3
Integrating problem posing into the mathematics classroom: current advances and future directions of research3
Problematic video-streaming: a short review3
A meta-analytic structural equation analysis of the Gateway Belief Model: highlighting scientific consensus increases support for public action on climate change3
Differential profiles of cognitive and behavioral inflexibility in addictive disorders3
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