Dean Mobbs

16.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
91 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Dean Mobbs is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dean Mobbs has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 42 papers in Social Psychology and 19 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Dean Mobbs's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (26 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (22 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (21 papers). Dean Mobbs is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (26 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (22 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (21 papers). Dean Mobbs collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Dean Mobbs's co-authors include Tim Dalgleish, Oriel FeldmanHall, Cindy C. Hagan, Ben Seymour, Chris Frith, Allan L. Reiss, Demis Hassabis, Raymond J. Dolan, Vinod Menon and Jennifer L. Marchant and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Dean Mobbs

89 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

When Fear Is Near: Threat Imminence Elicits Prefrontal-Pe... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2020 2009 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. When Fear Is Near: Threat Imminence Elicits Prefrontal-Periaqueductal Gray Shifts in Humans
    2007 675 citations Dean Mobbs, Jennifer L. Marchant et al. Science profile →
  2. Changes in risk perception and self-reported protective behaviour during the first week of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
    2020 534 citations Toby Wise, Tomislav D. Zbozinek et al. profile →
  3. From Threat to Fear: The Neural Organization of Defensive Fear Systems in Humans
    2009 352 citations Dean Mobbs, Jennifer L. Marchant et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dean Mobbs United States 39 3.5k 2.3k 1.8k 1.2k 755 91 6.6k
Giuseppe Pagnoni Italy 37 3.9k 1.1× 1.9k 0.8× 1.7k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 506 0.7× 68 7.4k
Gregory S. Berns United States 41 5.0k 1.4× 1.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 495 0.4× 791 1.0× 95 9.1k
Scott A. Huettel United States 58 7.7k 2.2× 1.4k 0.6× 2.1k 1.2× 792 0.7× 642 0.9× 168 11.7k
Mara Mather United States 60 8.5k 2.4× 3.2k 1.4× 3.4k 2.0× 931 0.8× 831 1.1× 208 14.7k
Hauke R. Heekeren Germany 63 8.5k 2.4× 2.0k 0.9× 2.4k 1.4× 2.1k 1.7× 612 0.8× 200 12.9k
Andrew J. Tomarken United States 36 3.2k 0.9× 1.3k 0.6× 2.3k 1.3× 1.6k 1.4× 419 0.6× 79 6.7k
Joseph W. Kable United States 36 5.3k 1.5× 1.2k 0.6× 2.1k 1.2× 649 0.5× 382 0.5× 105 7.9k
Alan G. Sanfey Netherlands 42 6.5k 1.9× 2.9k 1.3× 2.7k 1.5× 1.1k 0.9× 2.0k 2.6× 116 10.7k
Jeremy R. Gray United States 44 6.2k 1.8× 2.0k 0.9× 4.4k 2.5× 2.8k 2.4× 595 0.8× 69 11.3k
Georg W. Alpers Germany 44 2.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.6× 2.5k 1.4× 1.5k 1.3× 575 0.8× 187 6.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dean Mobbs

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Zhang, Haoming, Kuang Hu, Feng‐Peng Wang, et al.. (2025). An intracranial dissection of human escape circuits. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5520–5520.
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Qi, Song, et al.. (2024). The Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Spatial Margin of Safety Calculations. Journal of Neuroscience. 44(34). e1162222024–e1162222024. 3 indexed citations
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Wise, Toby, Tomislav D. Zbozinek, Caroline J. Charpentier, et al.. (2022). Computationally-defined markers of uncertainty aversion predict emotional responses during a global pandemic.. Emotion. 23(3). 722–736. 4 indexed citations
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Zbozinek, Tomislav D., et al.. (2022). Ambiguity drives higher-order Pavlovian learning. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(9). e1010410–e1010410. 3 indexed citations
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Mobbs, Dean, et al.. (2021). Promises and challenges of human computational ethology. Neuron. 109(14). 2224–2238. 37 indexed citations
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Zbozinek, Tomislav D., et al.. (2021). Pavlovian occasion setting in human fear and appetitive conditioning: Effects of trait anxiety and trait depression. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 147. 103986–103986. 11 indexed citations
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Qi, Song, et al.. (2018). How cognitive and reactive fear circuits optimize escape decisions in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(12). 3186–3191. 97 indexed citations
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Mobbs, Dean. (2018). The ethological deconstruction of fear(s). Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 24. 32–37. 47 indexed citations
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Frith, Chris, Owen D. Jones, Hakwan Lau, & Dean Mobbs. (2017). Law, responsibility, and the brain.. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong). 14 indexed citations
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Mobbs, Dean, et al.. (2015). The ecology of human fear: survival optimization and the nervous system. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 9. 55–55. 260 indexed citations
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FeldmanHall, Oriel & Dean Mobbs. (2015). A Neural Network for Moral Decision Making. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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FeldmanHall, Oriel, Tim Dalgleish, Davy Evans, & Dean Mobbs. (2015). Empathic Concern Drives Costly Altruism. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
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Mobbs, Dean, Demis Hassabis, Rongjun Yu, et al.. (2013). Foraging under Competition: The Neural Basis of Input-Matching in Humans. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(23). 9866–9872. 37 indexed citations
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FeldmanHall, Oriel, Tim Dalgleish, Russell Thompson, et al.. (2012). Differential Neural Circuitry and Self-Interest in Real vs Hypothetical Moral Decisions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations
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Mobbs, Dean, et al.. (2010). Neural Activity Associated with Monitoring the Oscillating Threat Value of a Tarantula. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Mobbs, Dean, et al.. (2010). The neuroscience of motivation. 4 indexed citations
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Takahashi, Hidehiko, Motoichiro Kato, Masato Matsuura, et al.. (2009). When Your Gain Is My Pain and Your Pain Is My Gain: Neural Correlates of Envy and Schadenfreude. Science. 323(5916). 937–939. 358 indexed citations
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Mobbs, Dean, Demis Hassabis, Ben Seymour, et al.. (2009). Choking on the Money. Psychological Science. 20(8). 955–962. 69 indexed citations
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Reiss, Allan L., et al.. (2008). Anomalous Hypothalamic Responses to Humor in Cataplexy. PLoS ONE. 3(5). e2225–e2225. 46 indexed citations
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Mobbs, Dean, Cindy C. Hagan, Eiman Azim, Vinod Menon, & Allan L. Reiss. (2005). Personality predicts activity in reward and emotional regions associated with humor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(45). 16502–16506. 120 indexed citations

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