Brent Hughes

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Brent Hughes is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brent Hughes has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Brent Hughes's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (12 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (11 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (10 papers). Brent Hughes is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (12 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (11 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (10 papers). Brent Hughes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Brent Hughes's co-authors include Kevin N. Ochsner, Tor D. Wager, Matthew Davidson, Martin A. Lindquist, John D. E. Gabrieli, Kateri McRae, James J. Gross, Jennifer S. Beer, Jeffrey C. Cooper and Jamil Zaki and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Brent Hughes

34 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Prefrontal-Subcortical Pathways Mediating Successful Emotion Regulation

2008 1.3k citations Tor D. Wager, Matthew Davidson et al. Neuron profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brent Hughes United States	21	2.0k	1.3k	708	684	384	34	3.3k
Jean‐Claude Dreher France	35	3.0k 1.5×	935 0.7×	729 1.0×	724 1.1×	552 1.4×	83	4.8k
Rita Santos Portugal	5	1.5k 0.7×	1.9k 1.4×	790 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	308 0.8×	14	3.7k
Bertram Walter Germany	37	2.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	783 1.1×	919 1.3×	701 1.8×	78	3.5k
Ajay B. Satpute United States	30	2.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	441 0.6×	402 1.0×	59	4.0k
Jeffrey C. Cooper United States	14	3.2k 1.6×	1.6k 1.2×	842 1.2×	905 1.3×	591 1.5×	15	4.5k
Elaine R. Robertson United States	7	2.5k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	728 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	474 1.2×	9	3.8k
Dean Sabatinelli United States	29	3.6k 1.8×	1.9k 1.4×	903 1.3×	741 1.1×	478 1.2×	58	5.0k
Paul F. Collins United States	28	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	614 0.9×	1.1k 1.6×	610 1.6×	55	4.1k
Hillary S. Schaefer United States	15	2.7k 1.4×	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	1.6k 2.3×	593 1.5×	22	4.5k
Burkhard Brocke Germany	31	1.3k 0.7×	855 0.7×	505 0.7×	682 1.0×	464 1.2×	60	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Brent Hughes

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brent Hughes

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brent Hughes

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Schneider, Marilyn J., et al.. (2024). Simulation requires activation of self-knowledge to change self-concept.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 154(2). 358–377. 3 indexed citations

Rubien-Thomas, Estée, Kristina M. Rapuano, Lena J. Skalaban, et al.. (2023). Uncertain threat is associated with greater impulsive actions and neural dissimilarity to Black versus White faces. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 23(3). 944–956. 2 indexed citations

Suri, Gaurav, et al.. (2023). Stereotypes disrupt probabilistic category learning.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(6). 1622–1638. 1 indexed citations

Davis, Tyler, et al.. (2023). A Fluid Self-Concept: How the Brain Maintains Coherence and Positivity across an Interconnected Self-Concept While Incorporating Social Feedback. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(22). 4110–4128. 11 indexed citations

Davis, Tyler, et al.. (2022). Mapping the self: A network approach for understanding psychological and neural representations of self-concept structure.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 124(2). 237–263. 19 indexed citations

Bergh, Robin, et al.. (2022). Partisan-motivated sampling: Re-examining politically motivated reasoning across the information processing stream.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 123(2). 316–336. 8 indexed citations

Hughes, Brent, et al.. (2022). Computational underpinnings of partisan information processing biases and associations with depth of cognitive reasoning. Cognition. 230. 105304–105304. 6 indexed citations

Luo, Yangmei, et al.. (2021). Self-choice preference: The propensity to under-delegate irrespective of sense of control. Acta Psychologica. 214. 103262–103262. 1 indexed citations

Davis, T. N., Micah B. Goldwater, Brent Hughes, et al.. (2020). Communicating about diseases that originate in animals: Lessons from the psychology of inductive reasoning. Behavioral Science & Policy. 6(2). 1–11. 3 indexed citations

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Phillips, L Taylor, Michael L. Slepian, & Brent Hughes. (2018). Perceiving groups: The people perception of diversity and hierarchy.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 114(5). 766–785. 58 indexed citations

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Hughes, Brent, Jamil Zaki, & Nalini Ambady. (2016). Motivation alters impression formation and related neural systems. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 12(1). 49–60. 29 indexed citations

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Hughes, Brent & Jamil Zaki. (2015). The neuroscience of motivated cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 19(2). 62–64. 82 indexed citations

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Beer, Jennifer S., David S. Chester, & Brent Hughes. (2013). Social threat and cognitive load magnify self-enhancement and attenuate self-deprecation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 49(4). 706–711. 27 indexed citations

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Buhle, Jason T., Hedy Kober, Kevin N. Ochsner, et al.. (2012). Common representation of pain and negative emotion in the midbrain periaqueductal gray. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 8(6). 609–616. 77 indexed citations

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Hughes, Brent & Jennifer S. Beer. (2012). Medial orbitofrontal cortex is associated with shifting decision thresholds in self-serving cognition. NeuroImage. 61(4). 889–898. 35 indexed citations

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Ochsner, Kevin N., Brent Hughes, Kateri McRae, et al.. (2009). Bottom-up and top-down processes in emotion generation: common and distinct neural mechanisms.. PubMed. 20(11). 1322–31. 12 indexed citations

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Ochsner, Kevin N., Brent Hughes, Kateri McRae, et al.. (2009). Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processes in Emotion Generation. Psychological Science. 20(11). 1322–1331. 356 indexed citations

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Wager, Tor D., Vanessa A. van Ast, Brent Hughes, et al.. (2009). Brain mediators of cardiovascular responses to social threat, Part II: Prefrontal-subcortical pathways and relationship with anxiety. NeuroImage. 47(3). 836–851. 214 indexed citations

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Ochsner, Kevin N., Brent Hughes, Elaine R. Robertson, Jeffrey C. Cooper, & John D. E. Gabrieli. (2008). Neural Systems Supporting the Control of Affective and Cognitive Conflicts. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 21(9). 1841–1854. 152 indexed citations

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Wager, Tor D., Matthew Davidson, Brent Hughes, Martin A. Lindquist, & Kevin N. Ochsner. (2008). Prefrontal-Subcortical Pathways Mediating Successful Emotion Regulation. Neuron. 59(6). 1037–1050. 1266 indexed citations breakdown →

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