Publications

Kimberly C. Doell, Boryana Todorova, Madalina Vlasceanu, Joseph B. Bak Coleman, Ekaterina Pronizius, …, Magdalena Zawisza, Xian Zhao, Jiaying Zhao, Dawid Żuk, Jay J. Van Bavel

Scientific Data · 01 Oct 2024 · doi:10.1038/s41597-024-03865-1

prosociality climate-action intervention-science open-science

Political ideology shapes beliefs about others’ generosity, not one’s own generosity

Paige Amormino, Shawn A. Rhoads, Kruti Vekaria, Lin Gan, Abigail Marsh

PsyArXiv · 13 Jun 2024 · doi:10.31234/osf.io/qdr9y

prosociality social-decision-making interpersonal-perception

Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases

Xin Yang, Jonathan Friedemann Schulz, Kathleen Schmidt, Adam R Kenny, Gerit Pfuhl, …, Serkan Ozcakan, Lucia Freira, Ceren Gökdağ, Ognen Spasovski, Yarrow Dunham

PsyArXiv · 05 Jun 2024 · doi:10.31234/osf.io/5gpr4

prosociality social-decision-making interpersonal-perception

Fear: An evolutionary perspective on its biological, behavioral, and communicative features

Katherine O’Connell, Shawn A. Rhoads, Abigail A. Marsh

The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions · 22 May 2024 · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544754.013.25

emotion interpersonal-perception affective-experience

Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

Madalina Vlasceanu, Kimberly C. Doell, Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Boryana Todorova, Michael M. Berkebile-Weinberg, …, Magdalena Zawisza, Xian Zhao, Jiaying Zhao, Dawid Żuk, Jay J. Van Bavel

Science Advances · 09 Feb 2024 · doi:10.1126/sciadv.adj5778

prosociality climate-action intervention-science social-decision-making

Modeling the minds of friends: Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex encodes accurate dyadic meta-evaluations about how others perceive us

Shawn A. Rhoads, Abigail Marsh

PsyArXiv · 17 Jan 2024 · doi:10.31234/osf.io/g9e3z

social-connection social-distance social-inference interpersonal-perception

2023

Traits of extraordinary altruists

Shawn A. Rhoads, Abigail A. Marsh

Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies · 10 Oct 2023 · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-17125-3_501-1

altruism prosociality individual-differences

Neural responses underlying extraordinary altruists’ generosity for socially distant others

Shawn A. Rhoads, Katherine O’Connell, Kathryn Berluti, Montana L Ploe, Hannah S Elizabeth, Paige Amormino, Joanna L Li, Mary Ann Dutton, Ashley Skye VanMeter, Abigail A Marsh

PNAS Nexus · 13 Jun 2023 · doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad199

altruism prosociality social-distance social-decision-making individual-differences intervention-science neuroimaging

Towards a neurocomputational account of social controllability: From models to mental health

Soojung Na, Shawn A. Rhoads, Alessandra N.C. Yu, Vincenzo G. Fiore, Xiaosi Gu

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 01 May 2023 · doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105139

computational-psychiatry mental-health social-inference computational-modeling

A generalizable computational mechanism underlying the interaction between momentary craving and decision-making

Kaustubh R. Kulkarni, Laura A. Berner, Shawn A. Rhoads, Vincenzo G. Fiore, Daniela Schiller, Xiaosi Gu

bioRxiv · 24 Apr 2023 · doi:10.1101/2023.04.24.538109

craving computational-psychiatry mental-health individual-differences computational-modeling

Unselfish traits and social decision-making patterns characterize six populations of real-world extraordinary altruists

Shawn A. Rhoads, Kruti M. Vekaria, Katherine O’Connell, Hannah S. Elizabeth, David G. Rand, Megan N. Kozak Williams, Abigail A. Marsh

Nature Communications · 31 Mar 2023 · doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37283-5

altruism prosociality social-distance social-decision-making individual-differences

Doing good and feeling good: Relationships between altruism and well-being for altruists, beneficiaries, and observers

Shawn A. Rhoads, Abigail A. Marsh

World Happiness Report · 20 Mar 2023

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prosociality altruism social-decision-making subjective-well-being

Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others

Shawn A. Rhoads, Lin Gan, Kathryn Berluti, Katherine O’Connell, Jo Cutler, Patricia Lockwood, Abigail Marsh

PsyArXiv · 24 Feb 2023 · doi:10.31234/osf.io/rf4x9

social-learning antisociality prosociality individual-differences computational-modeling neuroimaging

2022

Computational models of human social behavior and neuroscience: An open educational course and Jupyter Book to advance computational training

Shawn A. Rhoads, Lin Gan

Journal of Open Source Education · 26 Jan 2022 · doi:10.21105/jose.00146

open-science computational-modeling

2021

Associations of Irritability With Functional Connectivity of Amygdala and Nucleus Accumbens in Adolescents and Young Adults With ADHD

Prerona Mukherjee, Veronika Vilgis, Shawn A. Rhoads, Rajpreet Chahal, Catherine Fassbender, …, Murat Pakyurek, Wouter van den Bos, Stephen P. Hinshaw, Amanda E. Guyer, Julie B. Schweitzer

Journal of Attention Disorders · 02 Nov 2021 · doi:10.1177/10870547211057074

irritability individual-differences mental-health neuroimaging

Global variation in subjective well-being predicts seven forms of altruism

Shawn A. Rhoads, Devon Gunter, Rebecca M. Ryan, Abigail A. Marsh

Psychological Science · 08 Jul 2021 · doi:10.1177/0956797621994767

prosociality altruism social-decision-making subjective-well-being

A feature-based network analysis and fMRI meta-analysis reveal three distinct types of prosocial decisions

Shawn A. Rhoads, Jo Cutler, Abigail A Marsh

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · 23 Jun 2021 · doi:10.1093/scan/nsab079

social-decision-making prosociality altruism cooperation equity neuroimaging

Brainhack: Developing a culture of open, inclusive, community-driven neuroscience

Rémi Gau, Stephanie Noble, Katja Heuer, Katherine L. Bottenhorn, Isil P. Bilgin, …, Ting Xu, Chao-Gan Yan, Fang-Cheng Yeh, B.T. Thomas Yeo, Xi-Nian Zuo

Neuron · 01 Jun 2021 · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2021.04.001

open-science neuroimaging

Reduced social distancing early in the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with antisocial behaviors in an online United States sample

Katherine O’Connell, Kathryn Berluti, Shawn A. Rhoads, Abigail A. Marsh

PLOS ONE · 07 Jan 2021 · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0244974

antisociality social-decision-making

2020

Reduced multivoxel pattern similarity of vicarious neural pain responses

Kathryn Berluti, Katherine M. O’Connell, Shawn A. Rhoads, Kristin M. Brethel-Haurwitz, Elise M. Cardinale, Kruti M. Vekaria, Emily L. Robertson, Brian Walitt, John W. VanMeter, Abigail A. Marsh

Journal of Personality Disorders · 01 Oct 2020 · doi:10.1521/pedi.2020.34.5.628

empathy antisociality neuroimaging individual-differences

Activation in bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) corresponds to everyday helping

Kruti M. Vekaria, Katherine O’Connell, Shawn A. Rhoads, Kristin M. Brethel-Haurwitz, Elise M. Cardinale, Emily L. Robertson, Brian Walitt, John W. VanMeter, Abigail A. Marsh

Cortex · 01 Jun 2020 · doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2020.02.001

empathy altruism prosociality neuroimaging individual-differences

Mapping neural activity patterns to contextualized fearful facial expressions onto callous-unemotional (CU) traits: intersubject representational similarity analysis reveals less variation among high-CU adolescents

Shawn A. Rhoads, Elise M. Cardinale, Katherine O’Connell, Amy L. Palmer, John W. VanMeter, Abigail A. Marsh

Personality Neuroscience · 01 Jan 2020 · doi:10.1017/pen.2020.13

emotion interpersonal-perception individual-differences neuroimaging

2019

Girls' brain structural connectivity in late adolescence relates to history of depression symptoms

Rajpreet Chahal, David G. Weissman, Scott Marek, Shawn A. Rhoads, Alison E. Hipwell, Erika E. Forbes, Kate Keenan, Amanda E. Guyer

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · 26 Dec 2019 · doi:10.1111/jcpp.13184

neuroimaging individual-differences mental-health

A multi-semester classroom demonstration yields evidence in support of the facial feedback effect.

Abigail A. Marsh, Shawn A. Rhoads, Rebecca M. Ryan

Emotion · 01 Dec 2019 · doi:10.1037/emo0000532

emotion affective-experience

Direct replication of task‐dependent neural activation patterns during sadness introspection in two independent adolescent samples

Veronika Vilgis, Shawn A. Rhoads, David G. Weissman, Kristina L. Gelardi, Erika E. Forbes, Alison E. Hipwell, Kate Keenan, Paul D. Hastings, Amanda E. Guyer

Human Brain Mapping · 22 Oct 2019 · doi:10.1002/hbm.24836

emotion interpersonal-perception individual-differences mental-health neuroimaging

Katherine O’Connell, Kristin M. Brethel-Haurwitz, Shawn A. Rhoads, Elise M. Cardinale, Kruti M. Vekaria, Emily L. Robertson, Brian Walitt, John W. VanMeter, Abigail A. Marsh

Scientific Reports · 24 Jul 2019 · doi:10.1038/s41598-019-47196-3

empathy altruism prosociality neuroimaging individual-differences