Jamil Zaki

23.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
118 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Jamil Zaki is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jamil Zaki has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Social Psychology, 45 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 32 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Jamil Zaki's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (28 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (20 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (17 papers). Jamil Zaki is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (28 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (20 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (17 papers). Jamil Zaki collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Singapore. Jamil Zaki's co-authors include Kevin N. Ochsner, Niall Bolger, Jennifer A. Bartz, Jason P. Mitchell, William C. Williams, Sylvia A. Morelli, Desmond C. Ong, Erika Weisz, Jeremy N. Bailenson and Joshua Ian Davis and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Jamil Zaki

112 papers receiving 10.9k citations

Hit Papers

Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person ... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2012 2013 2014 2018 250 500 750 1000
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. Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter
    2011 1.2k citations Jamil Zaki, Kevin N. Ochsner et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
  2. The neuroscience of empathy: progress, pitfalls and promise
    2012 776 citations Jamil Zaki, Kevin N. Ochsner profile →
  3. Interpersonal emotion regulation.
    2013 577 citations Jamil Zaki et al. Emotion profile →
  4. Empathy: A motivated account.
    2014 516 citations Jamil Zaki profile →
  5. Building long-term empathy: A large-scale comparison of traditional and virtual reality perspective-taking
    2018 400 citations Erika Weisz, Jamil Zaki et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  6. Mental Health During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and Recommendations for Moving Forward
    2022 272 citations Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn et al. profile →
  7. Policy stringency and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis of data from 15 countries
    2022 132 citations Lara B. Aknin, John F. Helliwell et al. profile →

Peers

Jamil Zaki
Claus Lamm Austria
Elaine N. Aron United States
Pierre Philippot Belgium
Ethan Kross United States
Sander L. Koole Netherlands
Derek M. Isaacowitz United States
Piotr Winkielman United States
Iris B. Mauss United States
Naomi I. Eisenberger United States
Tanya L. Chartrand United States
Claus Lamm Austria
Jamil Zaki
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Countries citing papers authored by Jamil Zaki

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jamil Zaki

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jamil Zaki

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jamil Zaki. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jamil Zaki based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jamil Zaki. Jamil Zaki is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jackson, Matthew O., et al.. (2025). Differences in perceived social connection help explain SES-based gaps in well-being. Social Networks. 82. 55–64. 1 indexed citations
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Zaki, Jamil, et al.. (2025). Repairing cognitive distortions in political divides. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 30(1). 13–25.
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Reddan, Marianne C., et al.. (2025). Neural signatures of emotional intent and inference align during social consensus. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6156–6156.
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Vaid, Sumer S., et al.. (2024). Meaningful Peer Social Interactions and Momentary Well-Being in Context. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 15(8). 921–932. 3 indexed citations
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Voelkel, Jan G., et al.. (2024). Positive beliefs about cross-partisan empathy can strengthen Americans’ support for democracy. PNAS Nexus. 3(10). pgae394–pgae394. 2 indexed citations
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Pei, Rui, et al.. (2023). A neural signature of social support mitigates negative emotion. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 17293–17293. 7 indexed citations
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Ong, Desmond C., et al.. (2022). Mu rhythm suppression over sensorimotor regions is associated with greater empathic accuracy. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 17(9). 788–801. 12 indexed citations
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Ong, Desmond C., et al.. (2022). Impaired empathic accuracy following damage to the left hemisphere. Biological Psychology. 172. 108380–108380. 5 indexed citations
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Aknin, Lara B., Daisy Fancourt, Edward Karam, et al.. (2021). The Lancet's COVID-19 Commission Mental Health Task Force. Acta Neuropsychologica. 19(3). 301–305. 1 indexed citations
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Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daisy Fancourt, et al.. (2021). Mental Health During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and Recommendations for Moving Forward. 2 indexed citations
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Leong, Yuan Chang, Janice Chen, Robb Willer, & Jamil Zaki. (2020). Conservative and liberal attitudes drive polarized neural responses to political content. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(44). 27731–27739. 44 indexed citations
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Selle, Nathalie klein, et al.. (2020). The contribution of linguistic and visual cues to physiological synchrony and empathic accuracy. Cortex. 132. 296–308. 36 indexed citations
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Morelli, Sylvia A., et al.. (2018). Neural detection of socially valued community members. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(32). 8149–8154. 34 indexed citations
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Weisz, Erika & Jamil Zaki. (2017). Empathy-Building Interventions. Oxford University Press eBooks. 13 indexed citations
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Ong, Desmond C., Jamil Zaki, & Noah D. Goodman. (2016). Emotions in lay explanations of behavior.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations
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Morelli, Sylvia A., et al.. (2015). Emotional and instrumental support provision interact to predict well-being.. Emotion. 15(4). 484–493. 214 indexed citations
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Ong, Desmond C., Noah D. Goodman, & Jamil Zaki. (2015). Near-misses sting even when they are uncontrollable.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations
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Zaki, Jamil, Joshua Ian Davis, & Kevin N. Ochsner. (2012). Overlapping activity in anterior insula during interoception and emotional experience. NeuroImage. 62(1). 493–499. 346 indexed citations
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Zaki, Jamil, et al.. (2007). Different circuits for different pain: Patterns of functional connectivity reveal distinct networks for processing pain in self and others. Social Neuroscience. 2(3-4). 276–291. 137 indexed citations

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