Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Article	Citations
Affect and emotions as drivers of climate change perception and action: a review	164
A guide to the measurement and interpretation of fMRI test-retest reliability	97
Balancing exploration and exploitation with information and randomization	95
Influences of social norms on climate change-related behaviors	91
Conspiracy theories and the conspiracy mindset: implications for political ideology	89
Learning Structures: Predictive Representations, Replay, and Generalization	87
Extensive sampling for complete models of individual brains	85
The dimensionality of neural representations for control	77
Polarization in the contemporary political and media landscape	72
Positive emotions and climate change	71
Nationalism as collective narcissism	71
Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference	68
The role of cognitive rigidity in political ideologies: theory, evidence, and future directions	59
Age-related neural dedifferentiation and cognition	58
Resource-rational decision making	57
Global Warming’s Six Americas: a review and recommendations for climate change communication	56
The early origins and the growing popularity of the individual-subject analytic approach in human neuroscience	55
The prevalence and importance of statistical learning in human cognition and behavior	55
Meta-learning in natural and artificial intelligence	53
Consumer behavior and climate change: consumers need considerable assistance	53
What do reinforcement learning models measure? Interpreting model parameters in cognition and neuroscience	49
Motivated reasoning and climate change	48
Polarization in America: two possible futures	47
The neuroscience of socioeconomic inequality	46
Acetylcholine and the complex interdependence of memory and attention	46

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	46
Brain activity is not only for thinking	44
Not quite over the rainbow: the unrelenting and insidious nature of heteronormative ideology	42
Testing network properties of episodic memory using non-invasive brain stimulation	42
Rethinking the episodic-semantic distinction from a gradient perspective	41
Habit and climate change	40
Environmental values and identities at the personal and group level	38
Sensitive periods in human development: charting a course for the future	38
Problematic Internet use (PIU) in youth: a brief literature review of selected topics	38
Looking up at the curious personality: individual differences in curiosity and openness to experience	37
Ideology and the promotion of social change	37
Neural circuitry of information seeking	37
Context-dependent outcome encoding in human reinforcement learning	36
Why so curious? Quantifying mechanisms of information seeking	36
Cultivating an understanding of curiosity as a seed for creativity	36
The eyes are a window into memory	35
The authoritarian-conservatism nexus	35
Explanation-seeking curiosity in childhood	34
Sensitive periods in executive function development	34
The seductive lure of curiosity: information as a motivationally salient reward	33
Ideologies that justify political violence	33
Epistemic curiosity and the region of proximal learning	32
Extreme weather experience and climate change opinion	31
Computational theory-driven studies of reinforcement learning and decision-making in addiction: what have we learned?	31
Positive affect and behavior change	31
Reward and emotion: an affective neuroscience approach	30
Sleep in the dog: comparative, behavioral and translational relevance	30
The role of worldviews in shaping how people appraise climate change	30
What can narratives tell us about the neural bases of human memory?	30
Affective regulation through touch: homeostatic and allostatic mechanisms	29
Timescales of cognition in the brain	28
Characteristics and consequences of co-experienced positive affect: understanding the origins of social skills, social bonds, and caring, healthy communities	28
The social functions of positive emotions	28
Precision estimates of parallel distributed association networks: evidence for domain specialization and implications for evolution and development	27
The role of executive function in shaping reinforcement learning	27
Sleep and academic performance: measuring the impact of sleep	26
Physiological changes in sleep that affect fMRI inference	26
Positive affect: nature and brain bases of liking and wanting	26
How different are cultural and economic ideology?	26
Multi-step planning in the brain	26
Representations of uncertainty: where art thou?	26
When and why is economic inequality seen as fair	25
Conceptual, empirical, and practical problems with the claim that intolerance, prejudice, and discrimination are equivalent on the political left and right	25
High-resolution fMRI at 7 Tesla: challenges, promises and recent developments for individual-focused fMRI studies	25
Mindful positive emotion regulation as a treatment for addiction: from hedonic pleasure to self-transcendent meaning	25
Ideological (A)symmetries in prejudice and intergroup bias	25
Editorial overview: Deep imaging of the individual brain: past, practice, and promise	25
Understanding the effects of partisan identity on climate change	24
Computation noise in human learning and decision-making: origin, impact, function	24
Meaning makes touch affective	24

Predicting attention across time and contexts with functional brain connectivity	23
Climate change, behavior, and the possibility of spillover effects: recent advances and future directions	23
Interoception relates to sleep and sleep disorders	23
Prevalence of problematic Internet use during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	23
Attentional and perceptual biases of climate change	23
Assessing problematic use of social media: where do we stand and what can be improved?	23
Sweet anticipation and positive emotions in music, groove, and dance	23
The political significance of fragile masculinity	23
Variable specificity of memory trace reactivation during hippocampal sharp wave ripples	23
The current status of Cyberbullying research: a short review of the literature	22
Light through the fog: using precision fMRI data to disentangle the neural substrates of cognitive control	22
Curiosity as the impulse to know: common behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying curiosity and impulsivity	22
Curiosity, information demand and attentional priority	22
The prime psychological suspects of toxic political polarization	22
Xenophobia, prejudice, and right-wing populism in East-Central Europe	22
Learning from other minds: an optimistic critique of reinforcement learning models of social learning	22
A conflict within a conflict: intragroup ideological polarization and intergroup intractable conflict	22
Sensitive periods in cognitive development: a mutualistic perspective	21
Three types of individual variation in brain networks revealed by single-subject functional connectivity analyses	21
The palliative function of system-justifying ideologies	21
How do we remember events?	21
Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy	21
Climate change mitigation within the Campbell paradigm: doing the right thing for a reason and against all odds	21
Applying dense-sampling methods to reveal dynamic endocrine modulation of the nervous system	20
Latent learning, cognitive maps, and curiosity	20
Understanding how early life effects evolve: progress, gaps, and future directions	20
How positive affect buffers stress responses	20
Development of face processing: are there critical or sensitive periods?	20
On educating, curiosity, and interest development	19
The merciless mind in a dog-eat-dog society: neoliberalism and the indifference to social inequality	19
The retrosplenial cortex and long-term spatial memory: from the cell to the network	19
Differentiating self-touch from social touch	19
Is the core function of orbitofrontal cortex to signal values or make predictions?	19
Cognitive maps and novel inferences: a flexibility hierarchy	19
Precision functional mapping of human memory systems	19
Sleep and academic performance: considering amount, quality and timing	19
Improving precision functional mapping routines with multi-echo fMRI	19
Intrinsic reward: potential cognitive and neural mechanisms	19
Caregiving influences on emotional learning and regulation: applying a sensitive period model	18
Sensitive phases in the development of rodent social behavior	18
Coping with Politics: The Benefits and Costs of Emotion Regulation	18
A taxonomy of positive emotions	18
Systems neuroscience of curiosity	18
Is there evidence for sensitive periods in emotional development?	18
Neural correlates of sleep, stress, and selective memory consolidation	18
Supporting curiosity in schools and classrooms	18
Value-free reinforcement learning: policy optimization as a minimal model of operant behavior	17
Finding a balance: modulatory effects of positive affect on attentional and cognitive control	17
Concept formation as a computational cognitive process	17
Approach motivation and positive affect	17
Curiosity and the economics of attention	17
Human skill learning: expansion, exploration, selection, and refinement	17
The hierarchical construction of value	17
C-tactile (CT) afferents: evidence of their function from microneurography studies in humans	17
What are ‘positive’ affect and emotion?	17
The evolution of sensitive periods in development: insights from insects	16
The promise of awake behaving infant fMRI as a deep measure of cognition	16
Context-sensitive valuation and learning	16
Sleep and intelligence: critical review and future directions	16
Proposing a multi-dimensional, context-sensitive approach to the study of ideological (a)symmetry in emotion	16
Physiological effects induced by stimulation of cutaneous sensory nerves, with a focus on oxytocin	16
To know, to feel, to share? Exploring the motives that drive curiosity for negative content	16
Resilience to stress and social touch	16
New directions in sleep and memory research: the role of autonomic activity	15
The power of media in shaping political attitudes	15
Expectable environments in early life	15
Serotonergic modulation of cognitive computations	15
Challenges and opportunities of mesoscopic brain mapping with fMRI	15
Psychopathology and positive emotions in daily life	15
Correspondence between functional connectivity and task-related activity patterns within the individual	15
Improving autobiographical memory in Alzheimer’s disease by transcranial alternating current stimulation	15
A goldilocks critique of the hot cognition perspective on climate change skepticism	15
System justification in France: liberté, égalité, fraternité	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
The self-regulatory affective touch: a speculative framework for the development of executive functioning	15
On the genetic basis of political orientation	15
Emergence of relational reasoning	14
Multisensory contributions to affective touch	14
Social touch in virtual reality	14

Wild cognition – linking form and function of cognitive abilities within a natural context	14
Memory and sleep: brain networks, cell dynamics and global states	13
Understanding subprocesses of working memory through the lens of model-based cognitive neuroscience	13
Curiosity as end and means	13
Ideology and predictive processing: coordination, bias, and polarization in socially constrained error minimization	13
A gene-maturation-environment model for understanding sensitive period effects in musical training	13
Gut microbiome-brain axis and inflammation in temperament, personality and psychopathology	13
Local warming is real: A meta-analysis of the effect of recent temperature on climate change beliefs	13
Learning same and different relations: cross-species comparisons	13
Affective touch: a communication channel for social exchange	13
The role of slow-wave sleep rhythms in the cortical-hippocampal loop for memory consolidation	13
Epigenetic protection: maternal touch and DNA-methylation in early life	13
The role of C-tactile nerve fibers in human social development	13
Multi-level analyses of associative recognition memory: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts	13
Excessive shopping on the internet: recent trends in compulsive buying-shopping disorder	13
When does empathy feel good?	12
Physiology predicts ideology. Or does it? The current state of political psychophysiology research	12
Exploiting the plasticity of compassion to improve psychotherapy	12
The dorsomedial striatum: an optimal cellular environment for encoding and updating goal-directed learning	12
The basolateral amygdala and lateral hypothalamus bias learning towards motivationally significant events	12
The role of the amygdala in processing social and affective touch	12
The psychological structure, social consequences, function, and expression of pride experiences	12
Combined lesion-deficit and fMRI approaches in single-case studies: unique contributions to cognitive neuroscience	12
A role for adaptive developmental plasticity in learning and decision making	12
The paradox of pursuing happiness	12
Editorial overview: Can behavioral science solve the climate crisis?	12
The contextual regulation of goal-directed actions	12
Political ideology and compensatory control mechanisms	12
Cognitive effects of multi-night adolescent sleep restriction: current data and future possibilities	12
Virtual touch and the human social world	11
Inference as a fundamental process in behavior	11
What is dopamine doing in model-based reinforcement learning?	11
Imaging the temporal dynamics of brain states with highly sampled fMRI	11
How go/no-go training changes behavior: A value-based decision-making perspective	11
Same-different conceptualization: a machine vision perspective	11
Pregnancy as an intergenerational conduit of adversity: how nutritional and psychosocial stressors reflect different historical timescales of maternal experience	11
The visual prefrontal cortex of anthropoids: interaction with temporal cortex in decision making and its role in the making of ‘visual animals’	11
Categorizing the function of positive emotions	11
Revisiting positive affect and reward influences on cognitive control	11
Affective and discriminative touch: a reappraisal	11
Environmental neuroeconomics: how neuroscience can inform our understanding of human responses to climate change	11
Defining immediate effects of sensitive periods on infant neurobehavioral function	11
Understanding exploration in humans and machines by formalizing the function of curiosity	11
Explaining discrepancies in the study of maternal effects: the role of context and embryo	10
Precision functional mapping of the subcortex and cerebellum	10
Dynamic network organization of the self: implications for affective experience	10
Individual differences in learning positive affective value	10
The same-different task as a tool to study unconscious processing	10
Learning of sameness/difference relationships by honey bees: performance, strategies and ecological context	10
Wired for social touch: the sense that binds us to others	10
Change is on the horizon: call to action for the study of positive emotion and reward in psychopathology	10
Liberty and the pursuit of science denial	10
Do C-tactile afferents go to sleep? A potential role for somatosensory stimulation in sleep regulation	10
Issues in the comparative cognition of same/different abstract-concept learning	10
Nested sensitive periods: how plasticity across the microbiota-gut-brain axis interacts to affect the development of learning and memory	10
Curiosity in childhood and adolescence — what can we learn from the brain	10
On defining positive affect (PA): considering attitudes toward emotions, measures of PA, and approach motivation	10
Social touch — a tool rather than a signal	10
Deprivation and discovery motives determine how it feels to be curious	10
Sleep as a window to treat affective disorders	10
Not seeing eye to eye: challenges to building ethnically and economically diverse environmental coalitions	10
Social pleasures of music	10
Neural circuits for inference-based decision-making	10
Fish ecology and cognition: insights from studies on wild and wild-caught teleost fishes	10
Do transdiagnostic factors influence affective touch perception in psychiatric populations?	9
Neuro-cognitive processes as mediators of psychological treatment effects	9
Understanding others through observed touch: neural correlates, developmental aspects, and psychopathology	9
Utopia and ideology in cultural dynamics	9
Precision estimates of macroscale network organization in the human and their relation to anatomical connectivity in the marmoset monkey	9
Zooming in and zooming out: the importance of precise anatomical characterization and broader network understanding of MRI data in human memory experiments	9
A push for examining subjective experience in value-based decision-making	9
Positive affect as a computational mechanism	9
Individual subject approaches to mapping sensory-biased and multiple-demand regions in human frontal cortex	9
Gaming disorder: current research directions	9
A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use	9
A comparative framework of inter-individual coordination and pair-bonding	8
A “thinking animal” in conflict: studying wild elephant cognition in the shadow of anthropogenic change	8
Have behavioral sciences delivered on their promise to influence environmental policy and conservation practice?	8
How do crows and parrots come to spontaneously perceive relations-between-relations?	8
The cost burden of problematic internet usage	8
Current controversies in the cognitive science of short-term memory	8
Beyond the dichotomy between field and lab — the importance of studying cognition in context	8
Population differences in performance on Relational Match to Sample (RMTS) sometimes reflect differences in inductive biases alone	8
Religion, cognitive style, and rational thinking	8
Later-life sleep, cognition, and neuroimaging research: an update for 2020	8
Canonical cortical circuits and the duality of Bayesian inference and optimal control	8
Role of C-tactile fibers in pain modulation: animal and human perspectives	7
Tracking plasticity of individual human brains	7
What is next for the neurobiology of temperament, personality and psychopathology?	7
Dissociable mechanisms of information sampling in prefrontal cortex and the dopaminergic system	7
Climate change cognition and education: given no silver bullet for denial, diverse information-hunks increase global warming acceptance	7
How do animals navigate the urban jungle? A review of cognition in urban-adapted animals	7
What is it about positive affect that alters attentional scope?	7
Acoustic Developmental Programming: implications for adaptive plasticity and the evolution of sensitive periods	7
Infant-inspired intrinsically motivated curious robots	7