Ming Hsu

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Ming Hsu is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ming Hsu has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 21 papers in General Decision Sciences and 10 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Ming Hsu's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (30 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (21 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (16 papers). Ming Hsu is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (30 papers), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (21 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (16 papers). Ming Hsu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Ming Hsu's co-authors include Colin F. Camerer, Ian Krajbich, Lusha Zhu, Min Jeong Kang, George Loewenstein, Samuel M. McClure, Joseph Tao‐yi Wang, Steven R. Quartz, Kenji Kobayashi and Mauricio R. Delgado and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ming Hsu

64 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

The Wick in the Candle of Learning 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300 400 500
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. The Wick in the Candle of Learning
    2009 520 citations Ming Hsu, Ian Krajbich et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ming Hsu United States 26 1.6k 808 611 523 434 67 2.9k
Benedetto De Martino United Kingdom 22 2.1k 1.4× 589 0.7× 1.1k 1.7× 380 0.7× 262 0.6× 34 3.4k
Peter Sokol‐Hessner United States 16 1.3k 0.8× 655 0.8× 491 0.8× 436 0.8× 322 0.7× 27 2.4k
Johannes Hewig Germany 34 2.0k 1.3× 955 1.2× 360 0.6× 537 1.0× 348 0.8× 113 3.1k
Christopher Y. Olivola United States 22 1.4k 0.9× 1.5k 1.8× 331 0.5× 639 1.2× 1.0k 2.4× 41 3.3k
Douglas H. Wedell United States 29 798 0.5× 527 0.7× 996 1.6× 498 1.0× 369 0.9× 90 2.7k
Rui Mata Switzerland 32 1.1k 0.7× 599 0.7× 1.2k 2.0× 519 1.0× 386 0.9× 88 3.4k
Eldad Yechiam Israel 32 1.2k 0.8× 474 0.6× 1.3k 2.2× 282 0.5× 409 0.9× 93 3.4k
Bernd Figner Netherlands 20 1.2k 0.7× 875 1.1× 726 1.2× 492 0.9× 364 0.8× 58 3.1k
Terry Lohrenz United States 25 1.3k 0.8× 476 0.6× 269 0.4× 449 0.9× 309 0.7× 50 2.5k
Joseph T. McGuire United States 14 2.4k 1.5× 755 0.9× 729 1.2× 435 0.8× 198 0.5× 29 3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Ming Hsu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ming Hsu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ming Hsu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ming Hsu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ming Hsu 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 Ming Hsu. Ming Hsu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Moxon, Karen A., Jack J. Lin, Edward F. Chang, et al.. (2025). Distributed Intracranial Activity Underlying Human Decision-making Behavior. Journal of Neuroscience. 45(15). e0572242024–e0572242024. 3 indexed citations
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Elliott, Matthew, et al.. (2025). Introducing the Glutamate-Amplifies-Noradrenergic-Effects (GANE) Model to the Neurocognitive Study of Emotion-Related Impulsivity. Clinical Psychological Science. 13(4). 810–834. 1 indexed citations
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Lee, Sangil, et al.. (2024). Distinguishing deception from its confounds by improving the validity of fMRI-based neural prediction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(50). e2412881121–e2412881121. 3 indexed citations
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Horen, Femke van, et al.. (2023). From scanner to court: A neuroscientifically informed “reasonable person” test of trademark infringement. Science Advances. 9(6). eabo1095–eabo1095. 2 indexed citations
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Hunter, Lindsay E., Elana Meer, Claire M. Gillan, Ming Hsu, & Nathaniel D. Daw. (2021). Increased and biased deliberation in social anxiety. Nature Human Behaviour. 6(1). 146–154. 30 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Kenji & Ming Hsu. (2019). Common neural code for reward and information value. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(26). 13061–13066. 80 indexed citations
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Gao, Xiaoxue, Hongbo Yu, Ignacio Sáez, et al.. (2018). Distinguishing neural correlates of context-dependent advantageous- and disadvantageous-inequity aversion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(33). E7680–E7689. 74 indexed citations
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Seaman, Kendra Leigh, Teresa M. Karrer, Jaime J. Castrellon, et al.. (2018). Subjective value representations during effort, probability and time discounting across adulthood. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 13(5). 449–459. 63 indexed citations
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Castrellon, Jaime J., Kendra Leigh Seaman, Jennifer L. Crawford, et al.. (2018). Individual Differences in Dopamine Are Associated with Reward Discounting in Clinical Groups But Not in Healthy Adults. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(2). 321–332. 25 indexed citations
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Lui, Ming & Ming Hsu. (2018). Viewing sexual images is associated with reduced physiological arousal response to gambling loss. PLoS ONE. 13(4). e0195748–e0195748. 4 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Kenji & Ming Hsu. (2017). Neural Mechanisms of Updating under Reducible and Irreducible Uncertainty. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(29). 6972–6982. 33 indexed citations
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Seaman, Kendra Leigh, Marissa A. Gorlick, Kruti M. Vekaria, et al.. (2016). Adult age differences in decision making across domains: Increased discounting of social and health-related rewards.. Psychology and Aging. 31(7). 737–746. 62 indexed citations
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Chark, Robin, et al.. (2016). Computational substrates of social norm enforcement by unaffected third parties. NeuroImage. 129. 95–104. 33 indexed citations
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García-García, Manuel, Ming Hsu, & William Hedgcock. (2015). Advancing Connections Between Neuromarketing Academics and Industry. ACR North American Advances. 1 indexed citations
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Bertoux, Maxime, Florián Cova, Mathias Pessiglione, et al.. (2014). Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia patients do not succumb to the Allais paradox. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 8. 287–287. 5 indexed citations
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Sáez, Ignacio, et al.. (2014). From genes to behavior: placing cognitive models in the context of biological pathways. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 8. 336–336. 9 indexed citations
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Hsu, Ming, Ian Krajbich, Chen Zhao, & Colin F. Camerer. (2009). Neural Response to Reward Anticipation under Risk Is Nonlinear in Probabilities. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(7). 2231–2237. 184 indexed citations
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Hsu, Ming, et al.. (2008). The Right and the Good: Distributive Justice and Neural Encoding of Equity and Efficiency. Science. 320(5879). 1092–1095. 235 indexed citations
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Hsu, Ming. (2004). Ambiguity Aversion in the Brain. 1 indexed citations

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