Dean Mobbs

16.7k citations

91 papers · 6.6k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 39

Impact in

Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.5%
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Neural dynamics and brain function
Behavioral Neuroscience top 0.5%
- Stress Responses and Cortisol

Papers in

Cognitive Neuroscience 66
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies 26
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms 21
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment 17
- Neural dynamics and brain function 13
General Decision Sciences 6

Co-authors: Tim Dalgleish Oriel FeldmanHall Cindy C. Hagan Ben Seymour Chris Frith Allan L. Reiss Demis Hassabis Raymond J. Dolan
Journals: Trends in Cognitive Sciences (8 papers)Journal of Neuroscience (6 papers)Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (6 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (4 papers)Cortex (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom China

In The Last Decade

Dean Mobbs

89 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Royal Society Open Science
2009 Journal of Neuroscience
2007 Science

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	An intracranial dissection of human escape circuits Nature Communications ·Haoming Zhang, Р. Т. Гуцуляк, Kuang Hu, Feng‐Peng Wang, Song Qi, Quanying Liu, Yi Yao, Dean Mobbs, Haiyan Wu	2025	0
2	The Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Spatial Margin of Safety Calculations Journal of Neuroscience ·Song Qi, HAO LU, Toby Wise, Xin Sui, John P. O’Doherty, Dean Mobbs	2024	3
3	Interactive cognitive maps support flexible behavior under threat Cell Reports ·Toby Wise, Caroline J. Charpentier, Peter Dayan, Dean Mobbs	2023	5
4	The nature and neurobiology of fear and anxiety: State of the science and opportunities for accelerating discovery Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews ·Zhaopeng Cao, Eliza Bliss‐Moreau, Kristin A. Buss, Lee Anna Clark, Andrew S. Fox, Dacher Keltner, Alan Cowen, Jeansok J. Kim, Philip A. Kragel, Colin MacLeod, Dean Mobbs, Kristin Naragon‐Gainey, Miquel À. Fullana, Alexander J. Shackman	2023	37
5	Computationally-defined markers of uncertainty aversion predict emotional responses during a global pandemic. Emotion ·Toby Wise, Tomislav D. Zbozinek, Caroline J. Charpentier, Giorgia Michelini, Cindy C. Hagan, Dean Mobbs	2022	4
6	Ambiguity drives higher-order Pavlovian learning PLoS Computational Biology ·Tomislav D. Zbozinek, Zhang Shu-tian, Toby Wise, Michael S. Fanselow, Dean Mobbs	2022	3
7	Pavlovian occasion setting in human fear and appetitive conditioning: Effects of trait anxiety and trait depression Behaviour Research and Therapy ·Tomislav D. Zbozinek, Toby Wise, Zhang Shu-tian, Song Qi, Michael S. Fanselow, Dean Mobbs	2021	11
8	Promises and challenges of human computational ethology Neuron ·Dean Mobbs, Toby Wise, Nanthia Suthana, H.-D. Reidenbach, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Joel Z. Leibo	2021	37
9	Fear in groups: Increasing group size reduces perceptions of danger. Emotion ·C.J. Myers, Sophia Armand, Soojah Park, Brian Silston, Dean Mobbs	2021	9
10	Mentalizing during social InterAction: A four component model Cortex ·Haiyan Wu, Xun Liu, Cindy C. Hagan, Dean Mobbs	2020	46
11	How cognitive and reactive fear circuits optimize escape decisions in humans Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Song Qi, Demis Hassabis, Maynard D. Filter, Youta Nagai, Nathaniel D. Daw, Dean Mobbs	2018	97
12	The ethological deconstruction of fear(s) Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences ·Dean Mobbs	2018	47
13	Law, responsibility, and the brain. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong) ·Chris Frith, Owen D. Jones, Hakwan Lau, Dean Mobbs	2017	14
14	Social pain and social gain in the adolescent brain: A common neural circuitry underlying both positive and negative social evaluation Scientific Reports ·Tim Dalgleish, N. Walsh, Dean Mobbs, Susanne Schweizer, Anne‐Laura van Harmelen, Barnaby D. Dunn, Valerie Dunn, Ian Goodyer, Jason Stretton	2017	60
15	Empathic Concern Drives Costly Altruism SSRN Electronic Journal ·Oriel FeldmanHall, Tim Dalgleish, Davy Evans, Dean Mobbs	2015	6
16	Empathic concern drives costly altruism NeuroImage ·Oriel FeldmanHall, Tim Dalgleish, Davy Evans, Dean Mobbs	2014	218
17	Neural Activity Associated with Monitoring the Oscillating Threat Value of a Tarantula SSRN Electronic Journal ·Dean Mobbs, J. G. Ulan, James B. Rowe, Oriel FeldmanHall, Tim Dalgleish	2010	1
18	Insula and Striatum Mediate the Default Bias Journal of Neuroscience ·Rongjun Yu, Dean Mobbs, Ben Seymour, Andrew J. Calder	2010	33
19	When Your Gain Is My Pain and Your Pain Is My Gain: Neural Correlates of Envy and Schadenfreude Science ·Hidehiko Takahashi, Motoichiro Kato, Masato Matsuura, Dean Mobbs, Tetsuya Suhara, Yoshiro Okubo	2009	358
20	Humor Modulates the Mesolimbic Reward Centers Neuron ·Dean Mobbs, Michael D. Greicius, Eiman Azim, Vinod Menon, Allan L. Reiss	2003	301

About Dean Mobbs

Dean Mobbs is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Behavioral Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, having authored 91 papers that have together received 6.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (26 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (22 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (21 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (17 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (13 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (11 papers), Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (7 papers) and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cognitive Neuroscience (3.5k citations), Behavioral Neuroscience (563 citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (1.8k citations), General Decision Sciences (230 citations) and Social Psychology (2.3k citations). Dean Mobbs has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Frequent 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. Their work appears in journals such as Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Cortex.

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