The Neuroscience of Social Decision-Making

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An Integrative Theory of Prefrontal Cortex Function

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Conflict monitoring and cognitive control.

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Altruistic punishment in humans

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The cognitive control of emotion

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The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition

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Empathy for Pain Involves the Affective but not Sensory Components of Pain

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Oxytocin increases trust in humans

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Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion

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The Neural Basis of Economic Decision-Making in the Ultimatum Game

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The nature of human altruism

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Functional Neuroimaging of Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis of Emotional Processing in PTSD, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Specific Phobia

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New cognitive neurosciences

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The Neural Bases of Cognitive Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment

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Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior

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Putting the Altruism Back into Altruism: The Evolution of Empathy

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People thinking about thinking peopleThe role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind”

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Dissociable Roles of Ventral and Dorsal Striatum in Instrumental Conditioning

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Can cognitive processes be inferred from neuroimaging data?

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Functional imaging of ‘theory of mind’

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Social Cognitive Neuroscience: A Review of Core Processes

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The functional neuroanatomy of the human orbitofrontal cortex: evidence from neuroimaging and neuropsychology

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The neural correlates of subjective value during intertemporal choice

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The somatic marker hypothesis: A neural theory of economic decision

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“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

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The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment

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Empathic neural responses are modulated by the perceived fairness of others

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Oxytocin Modulates Neural Circuitry for Social Cognition and Fear in Humans

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The empathic brain: how, when and why?

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A Neural Basis for Social Cooperation

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Behavioral Game Theory

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Human neural systems for face recognition and social communication

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Oxytocin Shapes the Neural Circuitry of Trust and Trust Adaptation in Humans

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Neural mechanisms of autonomic, affective, and cognitive integration

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The evolution of cultural evolution

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Neural Economics and the Biological Substrates of Valuation

2002 • 1,012 citations

Neural Responses to Taxation and Voluntary Giving Reveal Motives for Charitable Donations

2007 • 1,006 citations

Diminishing Reciprocal Fairness by Disrupting the Right Prefrontal Cortex

2006 • 1,000 citations

Automatic and intentional brain responses during evaluation of trustworthiness of faces

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The neural basis of human moral cognition

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The Neurobiology of Decision: Consensus and Controversy

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Associative learning of social value

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Cooperation between non-kin in animal societies

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Dehumanizing the Lowest of the Low

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The Human Amygdala in Social Judgment

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Human fronto–mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donation

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The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition.

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Processing of Social and Monetary Rewards in the Human Striatum

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Oxytocin Increases Generosity in Humans

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Neural Activity Relating to Generation and Representation of Galvanic Skin Conductance Responses: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

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Unto others: the evolution and psychology of unselfish behavior

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Oxytocin Attenuates Amygdala Responses to Emotional Faces Regardless of Valence

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Oxytocin Enhances Amygdala-Dependent, Socially Reinforced Learning and Emotional Empathy in Humans

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Social neuroeconomics: the neural circuitry of social preferences

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Intranasal Oxytocin Increases Positive Communication and Reduces Cortisol Levels During Couple Conflict

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Perceptions of moral character modulate the neural systems of reward during the trust game

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Anterior Prefrontal Function and the Limits of Human Decision-Making

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Understanding Other Minds: Linking Developmental Psychology and Functional Neuroimaging

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Conflict monitoring and cognitive control.

2001 • 668 citations

Social Decision-Making: Insights from Game Theory and Neuroscience

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The neural correlates of theory of mind within interpersonal interactions

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Understanding evaluation of faces on social dimensions

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Temporal difference models describe higher-order learning in humans

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The Rupture and Repair of Cooperation in Borderline Personality Disorder

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The Neural Signature of Social Norm Compliance

2007 • 578 citations

Irrational Economic Decision-Making after Ventromedial Prefrontal Damage: Evidence from the Ultimatum Game

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Neuroeconomics: cross-currents in research on decision-making

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Know Your Place: Neural Processing of Social Hierarchy in Humans

2008 • 557 citations

The !Kung San: Men, Women, and Work in a Foraging Society

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The Sunny Side of Fairness

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Reinforcement Learning Signal Predicts Social Conformity

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Neural correlates of mentalizing-related computations during strategic interactions in humans

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The African Wild Dog

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Intranasal Administration of Oxytocin Increases Envy and Schadenfreude (Gloating)

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Effects of intranasal oxytocin on emotional face processing in women

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When Your Gain Is My Pain and Your Pain Is My Gain: Neural Correlates of Envy and Schadenfreude

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Primates--A Natural Heritage of Conflict Resolution

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Affective state and decision-making in the Ultimatum Game

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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

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Oxytocin Attenuates Affective Evaluations of Conditioned Faces and Amygdala Activity

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Prejudice and truth about the effect of testosterone on human bargaining behaviour

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Monkeys Pay Per View: Adaptive Valuation of Social Images by Rhesus Macaques

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The Computation of Social Behavior

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Serotonin Modulates Behavioral Reactions to Unfairness

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The primate neocortex in comparative perspective using magnetic resonance imaging

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Chemical neuromodulation of frontal-executive functions in humans and other animals

2000 • 400 citations

Neural Correlates of Social Cooperation and Non-Cooperation as a Function of Psychopathy

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The regulatory function of self-conscious emotion: Insights from patients with orbitofrontal damage.

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The Neural Correlates of Third-Party Punishment

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Friend or foe: The effect of implicit trustworthiness judgments in social decision-making

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Neural correlates of trust

2007 • 367 citations

Why Hunter-Gatherers Work: An Ancient Version of the Problem of Public Goods [and Comments and Reply]

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The Right and the Good: Distributive Justice and Neural Encoding of Equity and Efficiency

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The role of social cognition in decision making

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The amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: functional contributions and dysfunction in psychopathy

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Differential involvement of serotonin and dopamine systems in cost-benefit decisions about delay or effort

2004 • 301 citations

A Role for the Macaque Anterior Cingulate Gyrus in Social Valuation

2006 • 301 citations

Individual differences in allocation of funds in the dictator game associated with length of the arginine vasopressin 1a receptor RS3 promoter region and correlation between RS3 length and hippocampal mRNA

2007 • 300 citations

Neural mechanisms of the influence of popularity on adolescent ratings of music

2009 • 297 citations

High-testosterone men reject low ultimatum game offers

2007 • 295 citations

d,l-fenfluramine Response in Impulsive Personality Disorder Assessed with [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography

1999 • 295 citations

The Oxytocin Receptor (OXTR) Contributes to Prosocial Fund Allocations in the Dictator Game and the Social Value Orientations Task

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Meat eating and human evolution

2002 • 278 citations

Opposing BOLD responses to reciprocated and unreciprocated altruism in putative reward pathways

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The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit

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Processing of the Incentive for Social Approval in the Ventral Striatum during Charitable Donation

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Low-Serotonin Levels Increase Delayed Reward Discounting in Humans

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Economic Games Quantify Diminished Sense of Guilt in Patients with Damage to the Prefrontal Cortex

2009 • 253 citations

Effects of oxytocin and prosocial behavior on brain responses to direct and vicariously experienced pain.

2008 • 243 citations

Testosterone Administration Decreases Generosity in the Ultimatum Game

2009 • 243 citations

The Neural Circuitry of a Broken Promise

2009 • 230 citations

The development of interpersonal strategy: Autism, theory-of-mind, cooperation and fairness

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Sex and Context: Hormones and Primate Sexual Motivation

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Economic Choice Theory: An Experimental Analysis of Animal Behavior

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Serotonergic intervention affects both social dominance and affiliative behaviour

2002 • 218 citations

Neural mechanisms of the testosterone-aggression relation: The role of the orbito-frontal cortex

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To Detect and Correct: Norm Violations and Their Enforcement

2007 • 215 citations

Human and nonhuman primate brains: Are they allometrically scaled versions of the same design?

2006 • 214 citations

A randomized trial of the effect of estrogen and testosterone on economic behavior

2009 • 200 citations

Social psychology as a natural kind

2009 • 199 citations

Escitalopram effects on insula and amygdala BOLD activation during emotional processing

2007 • 196 citations

Testosterone reduces amygdala–orbitofrontal cortex coupling

2009 • 191 citations

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex affects strategic decision-making

2005 • 190 citations

Functional Imaging of Decision Conflict

2008 • 189 citations

Cultural neuroscience: a once and future discipline

2009 • 188 citations

Activity in the amygdala elicited by unfair divisions predicts social value orientation

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The neural correlates of the affective response to unreciprocated cooperation

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What motivates repayment? Neural correlates of reciprocity in the Trust Game

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Impairment of Social Perception Associated With Lesions of the Prefrontal Cortex

2004 • 166 citations

Effects of Tryptophan Depletion on the Performance of an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Game in Healthy Adults

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What Do Imaging Studies Tell Us about the Neural Basis of Autism?

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Rational optimist

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Anatomy and neurochemistry of the pair bond

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Economic Choice Theory

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The African Wild Dog: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation

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Functional magnetic resonance imaging responses relate to differences in real-world social experience.

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Lateral Intraparietal Cortex and Reinforcement Learning during a Mixed-Strategy Game

2009 • 131 citations

Structure and function in mammalian societies

2009 • 129 citations

Neural Correlates of Social Target Value in Macaque Parietal Cortex

2008 • 125 citations

Solving the Puzzle of Human Cooperation

2005 • 123 citations

Imaging race.

2005 • 122 citations

The impact of depression on social economic decision making.

2010 • 122 citations

On Why Male Foragers Hunt and Share Food

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Functional neuroimaging of mentalizing during the trust game in social anxiety disorder

2009 • 115 citations

Reward and Social Valuation Deficits following Ventromedial Prefrontal Damage

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Neural correlates of economic game playing

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Neural responses to sanction threats in two-party economic exchange

2009 • 97 citations

Meat-Eating & Human Evolution

2001 • 85 citations

The Effect of Acute Tryptophan Depletion on the Neural Correlates of Emotional Processing in Healthy Volunteers

2007 • 80 citations

The Neurochemistry of Fairness

2009 • 78 citations

Unforgettable Ultimatums? Expectation violations promote enhanced social memory following economic bargaining

2009 • 52 citations

Social Preferences in Primates

2009 • 38 citations

Architectonic distribution of the serotonin transporter within the orbitofrontal cortex of the vervet monkey

2007 • 38 citations

Mirror neurons and social cognition

2012 • 24 citations

Responses to Inequity in Non-human Primates

2009 • 16 citations