Emile Bruneau

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
50 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Emile Bruneau is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Emile Bruneau has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 30 papers in Social Psychology and 16 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Emile Bruneau's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (35 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (23 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (11 papers). Emile Bruneau is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (35 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (23 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (11 papers). Emile Bruneau collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Canada. Emile Bruneau's co-authors include Nour Kteily, Rebecca Saxe, Mina Cikara, Adam Waytz, Sarah Cotterill, Mohammed Akaaboune, Gordon Hodson, Boaz Hameiri, Samantha L. Moore‐Berg and Jay Joseph Van Bavel and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Emile Bruneau

47 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

The ascent of man: Theoretical and empirical evidence for blatant dehumanization.

2015 405 citations Nour Kteily, Emile Bruneau et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
They see us as less than human: Metadehumanization predicts intergroup conflict via reciprocal dehumanization.

2016 233 citations Nour Kteily, Gordon Hodson et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emile Bruneau United States	26	1.9k	1.5k	994	284	254	50	3.2k
Jeffrey A. Hall United States	34	1.4k 0.7×	958 0.6×	577 0.6×	603 2.1×	473 1.9×	112	3.8k
Neil Levy Australia	32	855 0.5×	435 0.3×	2.0k 2.0×	436 1.5×	285 1.1×	205	3.5k
Donald A. Saucier United States	25	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	288 0.3×	869 3.1×	144 0.6×	92	3.0k
Qi Wang United States	48	1.9k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	1.8k 1.8×	1.2k 4.3×	981 3.9×	179	6.6k
Michelle F. Wright United States	37	1.5k 0.8×	2.2k 1.5×	607 0.6×	910 3.2×	172 0.7×	145	4.7k
Pamela K. Smith United States	24	1.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 1.4×	272 1.0×	746 2.9×	44	4.1k
Laurent Bègue France	25	1.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	582 0.6×	527 1.9×	188 0.7×	87	2.4k
Chiara Volpato Italy	31	1.1k 0.6×	831 0.5×	641 0.6×	589 2.1×	259 1.0×	109	2.9k
John Brennan Australia	35	461 0.2×	1.0k 0.7×	535 0.5×	1.3k 4.6×	372 1.5×	124	4.3k
James E. Côté Canada	36	2.1k 1.1×	756 0.5×	77 0.1×	596 2.1×	415 1.6×	94	4.9k

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Hameiri, Boaz, Linda R. Tropp, Samantha L. Moore‐Berg, et al.. (2025). Virtual contact improves intergroup relations between non-Muslim American and Muslim students from the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia in a field quasi-experiment. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 34–34. 1 indexed citations

Jacoby, Nir, J. Pearl, Alexandra Paúl, et al.. (2024). Partisans process policy-based and identity-based messages using dissociable neural systems. Cerebral Cortex. 34(9).

Bruneau, Emile, et al.. (2022). Exposure to a media intervention helps promote support for peace in Colombia. Nature Human Behaviour. 6(6). 847–857. 13 indexed citations

Bruneau, Emile, et al.. (2019). A collective blame hypocrisy intervention enduringly reduces hostility towards Muslims. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(1). 45–54. 23 indexed citations

Bruneau, Emile & Nour Kteily. (2017). The enemy as animal: Symmetric dehumanization during asymmetric warfare. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0181422–e0181422. 63 indexed citations

Kteily, Nour, Gordon Hodson, & Emile Bruneau. (2016). They see us as less than human: Metadehumanization predicts intergroup conflict via reciprocal dehumanization.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 110(3). 343–370. 233 indexed citations breakdown →

Kteily, Nour & Emile Bruneau. (2016). Backlash. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 43(1). 87–104. 150 indexed citations

Kteily, Nour, Emile Bruneau, Adam Waytz, & Sarah Cotterill. (2015). The ascent of man: Theoretical and empirical evidence for blatant dehumanization.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 109(5). 901–931. 405 indexed citations breakdown →

Jacoby, Nir, Emile Bruneau, Jorie Koster-Hale, & Rebecca Saxe. (2015). Localizing Pain Matrix and Theory of Mind networks with both verbal and non-verbal stimuli. NeuroImage. 126. 39–48. 88 indexed citations

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Bruneau, Emile, Mina Cikara, & Rebecca Saxe. (2015). Minding the Gap: Narrative Descriptions about Mental States Attenuate Parochial Empathy. PLoS ONE. 10(10). e0140838–e0140838. 38 indexed citations

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Bruneau, Emile, Nir Jacoby, & Rebecca Saxe. (2015). Empathic control through coordinated interaction of amygdala, theory of mind and extended pain matrix brain regions. NeuroImage. 114. 105–119. 44 indexed citations

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Cikara, Mina, Jay Joseph Van Bavel, Emile Bruneau, & Rebecca Saxe. (2014). Their pain gives us pleasure: How intergroup dynamics shape empathic failures and counter-empathic responses. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 1 indexed citations

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Cikara, Mina, et al.. (2014). Their pain gives us pleasure: How intergroup dynamics shape empathic failures and counter-empathic responses. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 55. 110–125. 236 indexed citations

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Bruneau, Emile, Nicholas Dufour, & Rebecca Saxe. (2013). How We Know It Hurts: Item Analysis of Written Narratives Reveals Distinct Neural Responses to Others' Physical Pain and Emotional Suffering. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e63085–e63085. 21 indexed citations

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Bruneau, Emile & Rebecca Saxe. (2010). Attitudes towards the outgroup are predicted by activity in the precuneus in Arabs and Israelis. NeuroImage. 52(4). 1704–1711. 44 indexed citations

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Bruneau, Emile & Mohammed Akaaboune. (2010). Dynamics of the Rapsyn Scaffolding Protein at the Neuromuscular Junction of Live Mice. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(2). 614–619. 20 indexed citations

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Bruneau, Emile, Daniel Brenner, John Y. Kuwada, & Mohammed Akaaboune. (2008). Acetylcholine Receptor Clustering Is Required for the Accumulation and Maintenance of Scaffolding Proteins. Current Biology. 18(2). 109–115. 15 indexed citations

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Bruneau, Emile & Mohammed Akaaboune. (2007). The Dynamics of the Rapsyn Scaffolding Protein at Individual Acetylcholine Receptor Clusters. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(13). 9932–9940. 19 indexed citations

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Bruneau, Emile, Robert E. McCullumsmith, Vahram Haroutunian, Kenneth L. Davis, & James H. Meador‐Woodruff. (2005). Increased expression of glutaminase and glutamine synthetase mRNA in the thalamus in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 75(1). 27–34. 62 indexed citations

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Bruneau, Emile, et al.. (2005). Identification of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Recycling and Its Role in Maintaining Receptor Density at the Neuromuscular JunctionIn Vivo. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(43). 9949–9959. 87 indexed citations

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