Leonardo Christov‐Moore

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 901 citations indexed

About

Leonardo Christov‐Moore is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonardo Christov‐Moore has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 901 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 4 papers in Social Psychology and 4 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Leonardo Christov‐Moore's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (4 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (4 papers) and Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (4 papers). Leonardo Christov‐Moore is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (4 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (4 papers) and Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (4 papers). Leonardo Christov‐Moore collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Israel. Leonardo Christov‐Moore's co-authors include Marco Iacoboni, Kristina Grigaityte, Elizabeth A. Simpson, Pier Francesco Ferrari, Nicholas R. Hasulak, Vikram R. Rao, Diane Villaroman, Nanthia Suthana, Matthias Stangl and Uros Topalovic and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Neuron and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Leonardo Christov‐Moore

14 papers receiving 879 citations

Hit Papers

Empathy: Gender effects i... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 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. Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior
    2014 670 citations Leonardo Christov‐Moore, Elizabeth A. Simpson et al. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leonardo Christov‐Moore United States 9 325 322 211 171 146 18 901
Erika Weisz United States 8 331 1.0× 186 0.6× 143 0.7× 90 0.5× 103 0.7× 9 847
Valantis Fyndanis Greece 12 218 0.7× 564 1.8× 102 0.5× 148 0.9× 244 1.7× 28 1.1k
Chrystel Besche‐Richard France 12 168 0.5× 228 0.7× 237 1.1× 368 2.2× 206 1.4× 41 863
Somogy Varga Denmark 17 225 0.7× 391 1.2× 174 0.8× 159 0.9× 150 1.0× 90 961
Leonora G Weil United Kingdom 7 226 0.7× 430 1.3× 151 0.7× 274 1.6× 165 1.1× 11 976
Maurizio Tirassa Italy 19 257 0.8× 326 1.0× 103 0.5× 177 1.0× 203 1.4× 43 992
Eric A. Walle United States 14 324 1.0× 220 0.7× 90 0.4× 256 1.5× 143 1.0× 36 910
Alexander J. Mussap Australia 19 197 0.6× 222 0.7× 73 0.3× 443 2.6× 82 0.6× 64 972
Moniek Bresser Switzerland 7 224 0.7× 330 1.0× 45 0.2× 184 1.1× 188 1.3× 15 950
Dorsa Amir United States 11 249 0.8× 170 0.5× 49 0.2× 104 0.6× 111 0.8× 26 652

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leonardo Christov‐Moore

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Christov‐Moore, Leonardo, Félix Schoeller, Anthony G. Vaccaro, et al.. (2025). Individual differences in aesthetic experience point to the role of bodily awareness in political orientation. Political Psychology. 47(2).
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Simpson, Sierra, Juan Pablo Zuniga-Hertz, Jan M. Schilling, et al.. (2025). Neural and molecular changes during a mind-body reconceptualization, meditation, and open label placebo healing intervention. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1525–1525.
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Schoeller, Félix, et al.. (2025). Repeated exposure decreases aesthetic chills likelihood but increases intensity. PLoS ONE. 20(4). e0300494–e0300494.
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Christov‐Moore, Leonardo, et al.. (2024). Empathy from dissimilarity: Multivariate pattern analysis of neural activity during observation of somatosensory experience. Imaging Neuroscience. 2. 1 indexed citations
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Vaccaro, Anthony G., et al.. (2024). Brain activity associated with emotion regulation predicts individual differences in working memory ability. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 25(2). 329–343.
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Christov‐Moore, Leonardo, et al.. (2024). Self-transcendence accompanies aesthetic chills. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(5). e0000125–e0000125. 7 indexed citations
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Schoeller, Félix, et al.. (2024). Predicting individual differences in peak emotional response. PNAS Nexus. 3(3). pgae066–pgae066. 7 indexed citations
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Christov‐Moore, Leonardo, Nicco Reggente, Anthony G. Vaccaro, et al.. (2023). Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial empathy. Science Robotics. 8(80). eabq3658–eabq3658. 12 indexed citations
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Kaplan, Jonas, et al.. (2023). Moral reframing of messages about mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 10140–10140. 9 indexed citations
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Karwowski, Waldemar, Farzad V. Farahani, Krzysztof Fiok, et al.. (2022). Decoding Task-Based fMRI Data with Graph Neural Networks, Considering Individual Differences. Brain Sciences. 12(8). 1094–1094. 16 indexed citations
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Christov‐Moore, Leonardo, et al.. (2022). Neuroprotection in late life attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A review of pharmacotherapy and phenotype across the lifespan. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 16. 938501–938501. 1 indexed citations
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Vaccaro, Anthony G., Panthea Heydari, Leonardo Christov‐Moore, António R. Damásio, & Jonas Kaplan. (2022). Perspective-taking is associated with increased discriminability of affective states in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 17(12). 1082–1090. 3 indexed citations
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Jain, Felipe A., Sergey Chernyak, Lisa D. Nickerson, et al.. (2021). Mentalizing imagery therapy for depressed family dementia caregivers: Feasibility, clinical outcomes and brain connectivity changes. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. 5. 100155–100155. 10 indexed citations
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Stangl, Matthias, Uros Topalovic, Cory S. Inman, et al.. (2020). Boundary-anchored neural mechanisms of location-encoding for self and others. Nature. 589(7842). 420–425. 57 indexed citations
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Topalovic, Uros, Zahra M. Aghajan, Diane Villaroman, et al.. (2020). Wireless Programmable Recording and Stimulation of Deep Brain Activity in Freely Moving Humans. Neuron. 108(2). 322–334.e9. 47 indexed citations
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Christov‐Moore, Leonardo & Marco Iacoboni. (2018). Sex differences in somatomotor representations of others’ pain: a permutation-based analysis. Brain Structure and Function. 224(2). 937–947. 19 indexed citations
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Christov‐Moore, Leonardo, et al.. (2016). Increasing generosity by disrupting prefrontal cortex. Social Neuroscience. 12(2). 174–181. 42 indexed citations
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Christov‐Moore, Leonardo, et al.. (2014). Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 46. 604–627. 670 indexed citations breakdown →

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