Jean Decety

66.6k total citations · 26 hit papers
324 papers, 45.2k citations indexed

About

Jean Decety is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Jean Decety has authored 324 papers receiving a total of 45.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 208 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 174 papers in Social Psychology and 82 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Jean Decety's work include Action Observation and Synchronization (91 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (83 papers) and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (48 papers). Jean Decety is often cited by papers focused on Action Observation and Synchronization (91 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (83 papers) and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (48 papers). Jean Decety collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Taiwan. Jean Decety's co-authors include Philip L. Jackson, Claus Lamm, Marc Jeannerod, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Perrine Ruby, Jason M. Cowell, Thierry Chaminade, Tania Singer, Julie Grèzes and Jessica A. Sommerville and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jean Decety

317 papers receiving 43.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The Functional Architecture of Human Empathy

2004 2.1k citations Jean Decety, Philip L. Jackson profile →
Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain

2010 1.4k citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
Functional anatomy of execution, mental simulation, observation, and verb generation of actions: A meta-analysis

2000 1.2k citations Jean Decety et al. Human Brain Mapping profile →
The Neural Substrate of Human Empathy: Effects of Perspective-taking and Cognitive Appraisal

2007 978 citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
How do we perceive the pain of others? A window into the neural processes involved in empathy

2004 898 citations Philip L. Jackson, Jean Decety et al. profile →
Effect of subjective perspective taking during simulation of action: a PET investigation of agency

2001 881 citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
The Role of the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Social Interaction: How Low-Level Computational Processes Contribute to Meta-Cognition

2007 798 citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
Mapping motor representations with positron emission tomography

1994 772 citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
Brain activity during observation of actions. Influence of action content and subject's strategy

1997 720 citations Jean Decety profile →
Shared representations between self and other: a social cognitive neuroscience view

2003 712 citations Jean Decety et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
From the perception of action to the understanding of intention

2001 691 citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
Neural mechanisms subserving the perception of human actions

1999 649 citations Jean Decety Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →
Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience

2006 645 citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
Empathy examined through the neural mechanisms involved in imagining how I feel versus how you feel pain

2005 606 citations Philip L. Jackson, Jean Decety et al. profile →
The neurophysiological basis of motor imagery

1996 597 citations Jean Decety profile →
Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats

2011 582 citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
The timing of mentally represented actions

1989 555 citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
Modulating the experience of agency: a positron emission tomography study

2003 542 citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
A Social-Neuroscience Perspective on Empathy

2006 539 citations Jean Decety, Philip L. Jackson profile →
The power of simulation: Imagining one's own and other's behavior

2006 534 citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
How Would You Feel versus How Do You Think She Would Feel? A Neuroimaging Study of Perspective-Taking with Social Emotions

2004 503 citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
A PET Investigation of the Attribution of Intentions with a Nonverbal Task

2000 500 citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
Empathy as a driver of prosocial behaviour: highly conserved neurobehavioural mechanisms across species

2015 460 citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
The Neurodevelopment of Empathy in Humans

2010 428 citations Jean Decety profile →
Empathy in Clinical Practice: How Individual Dispositions, Gender, and Experience Moderate Empathic Concern, Burnout, and Emotional Distress in Physicians

2013 375 citations Jean Decety et al. profile →
The complex relation between morality and empathy

2014 343 citations Jean Decety et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Empathy in autistic children: Emotional overarousal in response to others' physical pain 2024 ·Autism Research ·Tianbi Li, Jean Decety, (unknown), (unknown), Li Yi	5
2	Moral conviction interacts with metacognitive ability in modulating neural activity during sociopolitical decision-making 2024 ·Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience ·(unknown), Michael S. Cohen, Akram Bakkour, Yuan Chang Leong, Jean Decety	1
3	Pourquoi les convictions morales facilitent le dogmatisme, l’intolérance et la violence 2023 ·L Évolution Psychiatrique ·Jean Decety	0
4	Using Latent Profile Analysis to Understand Health Practitioners’ Attitudes Toward Voluntary Assisted Dying 2023 ·OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ·Morgana Lizzio‐Wilson, Emma F. Thomas, Winnifred R. Louis, Monique F. Crane, (unknown), Pascal Molenberghs, Susilo Wibisono, (unknown), Catherine E. Amiot, Jean Decety, Lauren J. Breen, Kerrie Noonan, Liz Forbat, Felicity Allen	2
5	The moderating role of different forms of empathy on the association between performing animal euthanasia and career sustainability 2023 ·Journal of Applied Social Psychology ·Monique F. Crane, (unknown), Emma F. Thomas, Jean Decety, Pascal Molenberghs, Catherine E. Amiot, Morgana Lizzio‐Wilson, Susilo Wibisono, (unknown), Winnifred R. Louis	6
6	Attitudes Toward and Experience With Assisted-Death Services and Psychological Implications for Health Practitioners: A Narrative Systematic Review 2022 ·OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying ·Susilo Wibisono, (unknown), Morgana Lizzio‐Wilson, Emma F. Thomas, Monique F. Crane, Pascal Molenberghs, (unknown), Catherine E. Amiot, Jean Decety, Lauren J. Breen, Kerrie Noonan, Liz Forbat, Winnifred R. Louis	4
7	EEG distinguishes heroic narratives in ISIS online video propaganda 2020 ·Scientific Reports ·Keith J. Yoder, (unknown), Robert A. Pape, Jean Decety	7
8	Third-party punishment following observed social rejection. 2019 ·Emotion ·(unknown), (unknown), Karen E. Smith, (unknown), Jean Decety, Greg J. Norman	13
9	How empathic are war veterans? An examination of the psychological impacts of combat exposure. 2017 ·Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology ·(unknown), Natalia Trujillo, Juan E. Ugarriza, (unknown), David Pineda, Daniel Camilo Aguirre–Acevedo, Agustín Ibáñez, Jean Decety, Mauricio A. García-Barrera	6
10	Primary empathy deficits in frontotemporal dementia 2014 ·Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience ·Sandra Báez, Facundo Manes, David Huepe, Teresa Torralva, (unknown), Fabian Richter, (unknown), Jesica Ferrari, (unknown), Pablo Reyes, Diana Matallana, Nora Silvana Vigliecca, Jean Decety, Agustín Ibáñez	116
11	The Role of Affect in the Neurodevelopment of Morality 2013 ·Child Development Perspectives ·Jean Decety, Lauren H. Howard	46
12	The Role of Gender in the Interaction Between Self-Pain and the Perception of Pain in Others 2012 ·Journal of Pain ·Michel‐Pierre Coll, (unknown), Pierre Rainville, Jean Decety, Philip L. Jackson	34
13	Naturaliser l'empathie. 2008 ·Jean Decety	20
14	The human mirror neuron system in a population with deficient self‐awareness: An fMRI study in alexithymia 2008 ·Human Brain Mapping ·Yoshiya Moriguchi, Takashi Ohnishi, Jean Decety, Makiko Hirakata, Motonari Maeda, Hiroshi Matsuda, Gen Komaki	61
15	From emotion resonance to empathic understanding: A social developmental neuroscience account 2008 ·Development and Psychopathology ·Jean Decety, Meghan L. Meyer	401
16	L'empathie ou l'émotion partagée 2003 ·Jean Decety	1
17	Is perceptual anticipation a motor simulation? A PET study 2001 ·Neuroreport ·Thierry Chaminade, David Méary, Jean-Pierre Orliaguet, Jean Decety	52
18	Functional anatomy of execution, mental simulation, observation, and verb generation of actions: A meta-analysis breakdown → 2000 ·Human Brain Mapping ·(unknown), Jean Decety	1156
19	Neural mechanisms subserving the perception of human actions breakdown → 1999 ·Trends in Cognitive Sciences ·Jean Decety	649
20	Perception and action : recent advances in cognitive neuropsychology 1998 ·Jean Decety	1

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