OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is 17. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Affect and emotions as drivers of climate change perception and action: a review	174
A guide to the measurement and interpretation of fMRI test-retest reliability	100
Balancing exploration and exploitation with information and randomization	97
Influences of social norms on climate change-related behaviors	95
Conspiracy theories and the conspiracy mindset: implications for political ideology	91
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
Positive emotions and climate change	75
Polarization in the contemporary political and media landscape	73
Nationalism as collective narcissism	71
Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference	68
Age-related neural dedifferentiation and cognition	61
The role of cognitive rigidity in political ideologies: theory, evidence, and future directions	61
Resource-rational decision making	60
The prevalence and importance of statistical learning in human cognition and behavior	57
The early origins and the growing popularity of the individual-subject analytic approach in human neuroscience	57
Global Warming’s Six Americas: a review and recommendations for climate change communication	56
Meta-learning in natural and artificial intelligence	55
Consumer behavior and climate change: consumers need considerable assistance	54
What do reinforcement learning models measure? Interpreting model parameters in cognition and neuroscience	50
Polarization in America: two possible futures	49
Motivated reasoning and climate change	48
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	47
Acetylcholine and the complex interdependence of memory and attention	46

The neuroscience of socioeconomic inequality	46
Brain activity is not only for thinking	45
Not quite over the rainbow: the unrelenting and insidious nature of heteronormative ideology	45
Problematic Internet use (PIU) in youth: a brief literature review of selected topics	44
Testing network properties of episodic memory using non-invasive brain stimulation	43
Habit and climate change	41
Rethinking the episodic-semantic distinction from a gradient perspective	41
Sensitive periods in human development: charting a course for the future	40
Looking up at the curious personality: individual differences in curiosity and openness to experience	39
Ideology and the promotion of social change	38
Environmental values and identities at the personal and group level	38
Neural circuitry of information seeking	38
Sensitive periods in executive function development	37
Context-dependent outcome encoding in human reinforcement learning	37
Why so curious? Quantifying mechanisms of information seeking	37
The authoritarian-conservatism nexus	36
Explanation-seeking curiosity in childhood	36
The eyes are a window into memory	36
Cultivating an understanding of curiosity as a seed for creativity	36
Ideologies that justify political violence	35
The seductive lure of curiosity: information as a motivationally salient reward	35
What can narratives tell us about the neural bases of human memory?	32
Epistemic curiosity and the region of proximal learning	32
Computational theory-driven studies of reinforcement learning and decision-making in addiction: what have we learned?	32
The social functions of positive emotions	31
Reward and emotion: an affective neuroscience approach	31
Extreme weather experience and climate change opinion	31
The role of worldviews in shaping how people appraise climate change	31
Sleep in the dog: comparative, behavioral and translational relevance	31
Positive affect and behavior change	31
Affective regulation through touch: homeostatic and allostatic mechanisms	30
Characteristics and consequences of co-experienced positive affect: understanding the origins of social skills, social bonds, and caring, healthy communities	30
Timescales of cognition in the brain	30
Positive affect: nature and brain bases of liking and wanting	28
Conceptual, empirical, and practical problems with the claim that intolerance, prejudice, and discrimination are equivalent on the political left and right	27
Sleep and academic performance: measuring the impact of sleep	27
Computation noise in human learning and decision-making: origin, impact, function	27
Multi-step planning in the brain	27
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
How different are cultural and economic ideology?	26
Mindful positive emotion regulation as a treatment for addiction: from hedonic pleasure to self-transcendent meaning	26
Physiological changes in sleep that affect fMRI inference	26
High-resolution fMRI at 7 Tesla: challenges, promises and recent developments for individual-focused fMRI studies	26
When and why is economic inequality seen as fair	26
Representations of uncertainty: where art thou?	26
Prevalence of problematic Internet use during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	25
Editorial overview: Deep imaging of the individual brain: past, practice, and promise	25
Attentional and perceptual biases of climate change	25
Ideological (A)symmetries in prejudice and intergroup bias	25

Sweet anticipation and positive emotions in music, groove, and dance	24
Climate change, behavior, and the possibility of spillover effects: recent advances and future directions	24
Learning from other minds: an optimistic critique of reinforcement learning models of social learning	24
The prime psychological suspects of toxic political polarization	24
The political significance of fragile masculinity	24
Understanding the effects of partisan identity on climate change	24
Meaning makes touch affective	24
The current status of Cyberbullying research: a short review of the literature	24
Light through the fog: using precision fMRI data to disentangle the neural substrates of cognitive control	23
Interoception relates to sleep and sleep disorders	23
Predicting attention across time and contexts with functional brain connectivity	23
Climate change mitigation within the Campbell paradigm: doing the right thing for a reason and against all odds	23
How do we remember events?	23
The palliative function of system-justifying ideologies	23
Assessing problematic use of social media: where do we stand and what can be improved?	23
Variable specificity of memory trace reactivation during hippocampal sharp wave ripples	23
A conflict within a conflict: intragroup ideological polarization and intergroup intractable conflict	22
Xenophobia, prejudice, and right-wing populism in East-Central Europe	22
On educating, curiosity, and interest development	22
Curiosity, information demand and attentional priority	22
Curiosity as the impulse to know: common behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying curiosity and impulsivity	22
Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy	21
Development of face processing: are there critical or sensitive periods?	21
Applying dense-sampling methods to reveal dynamic endocrine modulation of the nervous system	21
Three types of individual variation in brain networks revealed by single-subject functional connectivity analyses	21
Sensitive periods in cognitive development: a mutualistic perspective	21
Understanding how early life effects evolve: progress, gaps, and future directions	20
Latent learning, cognitive maps, and curiosity	20
Differentiating self-touch from social touch	20
Systems neuroscience of curiosity	20
Sleep and academic performance: considering amount, quality and timing	20
How positive affect buffers stress responses	20
Intrinsic reward: potential cognitive and neural mechanisms	19
Precision functional mapping of human memory systems	19
Improving precision functional mapping routines with multi-echo fMRI	19
Cognitive maps and novel inferences: a flexibility hierarchy	19
The retrosplenial cortex and long-term spatial memory: from the cell to the network	19
The merciless mind in a dog-eat-dog society: neoliberalism and the indifference to social inequality	19
Coping with Politics: The Benefits and Costs of Emotion Regulation	19
Is there evidence for sensitive periods in emotional development?	19
Value-free reinforcement learning: policy optimization as a minimal model of operant behavior	19
Is the core function of orbitofrontal cortex to signal values or make predictions?	19
The hierarchical construction of value	18
Neural correlates of sleep, stress, and selective memory consolidation	18
Supporting curiosity in schools and classrooms	18
Caregiving influences on emotional learning and regulation: applying a sensitive period model	18
Sensitive phases in the development of rodent social behavior	18
The promise of awake behaving infant fMRI as a deep measure of cognition	18
A taxonomy of positive emotions	18
Curiosity and the economics of attention	18
To know, to feel, to share? Exploring the motives that drive curiosity for negative content	17
Resilience to stress and social touch	17
C-tactile (CT) afferents: evidence of their function from microneurography studies in humans	17
Human skill learning: expansion, exploration, selection, and refinement	17
The self-regulatory affective touch: a speculative framework for the development of executive functioning	17
Approach motivation and positive affect	17
Finding a balance: modulatory effects of positive affect on attentional and cognitive control	17
What are ‘positive’ affect and emotion?	17
On the genetic basis of political orientation	17
Context-sensitive valuation and learning	17
Concept formation as a computational cognitive process	17