Molly J. Crockett

17.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
113 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

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Molly J. Crockett is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Molly J. Crockett has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 41 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 32 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Molly J. Crockett's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (60 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (20 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (17 papers). Molly J. Crockett is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (60 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (20 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (17 papers). Molly J. Crockett collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Molly J. Crockett's co-authors include Luke Clark, Trevor W. Robbins, Matthew D. Lieberman, Jim A. C. Everett, William J. Brady, Nadira S. Faber, Jenifer Z. Siegel, Golnaz Tabibnia, Jennifer H. Pfeifer and Baldwin M. Way and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Molly J. Crockett

107 papers receiving 6.2k citations

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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.

Putting Feelings Into Words

2007 742 citations Matthew D. Lieberman, Naomi I. Eisenberger et al. Psychological Science profile →
Moral outrage in the digital age

2017 292 citations Molly J. Crockett Nature Human Behaviour profile →
The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online

2020 208 citations William J. Brady, Molly J. Crockett et al. Perspectives on Psychological Science profile →
Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research

2024 204 citations Molly J. Crockett et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Molly J. Crockett United States	41	3.0k	1.9k	1.9k	1.2k	1.1k	113	6.5k
Tali Sharot United Kingdom	41	2.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.3×	611 0.6×	86	6.7k
Alan G. Sanfey Netherlands	42	6.5k 2.2×	2.9k 1.5×	2.0k 1.1×	2.7k 2.2×	1.1k 1.0×	116	10.7k
Jason P. Mitchell United States	47	5.9k 2.0×	3.5k 1.8×	1.8k 1.0×	2.0k 1.6×	733 0.7×	75	9.0k
Tiffany A. Ito United States	30	3.9k 1.3×	2.5k 1.3×	2.3k 1.2×	2.5k 2.0×	765 0.7×	52	8.0k
Andreas Roepstorff Denmark	50	4.6k 1.6×	3.2k 1.7×	1000 0.5×	1.8k 1.5×	1.1k 1.0×	142	8.3k
Samuel M. McClure United States	42	6.4k 2.1×	1.2k 0.6×	721 0.4×	2.4k 1.9×	1.1k 1.0×	75	10.9k
Antonio Rangel United States	55	9.3k 3.2×	1.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	2.6k 2.1×	1.3k 1.2×	84	15.7k
Scott A. Huettel United States	58	7.7k 2.6×	1.4k 0.7×	642 0.3×	2.1k 1.7×	792 0.7×	168	11.7k
Howard Rachlin United States	47	3.3k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	167	11.4k
Gregory R. Samanez‐Larkin United States	39	2.8k 0.9×	2.6k 1.4×	946 0.5×	1.8k 1.4×	2.2k 2.0×	88	8.7k

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McLoughlin, Killian Lorcan, et al.. (2024). Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online. Science. 386(6725). 991–996. 10 indexed citations

Crockett, Molly J., Judy Kim, & Yeon Soon Shin. (2024). Intuitive Theories and the Cultural Evolution of Morality. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 33(4). 211–219. 1 indexed citations

Contreras-Huerta, Luis Sebastian, Michel‐Pierre Coll, Geoffrey Bird, et al.. (2023). Neural representations of vicarious rewards are linked to interoception and prosocial behaviour. NeuroImage. 269. 119881–119881. 10 indexed citations

Brady, William J. & Molly J. Crockett. (2023). Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 19(1). 62–64. 10 indexed citations

Colombatto, Clara, et al.. (2023). Vaccine Nationalism Counterintuitively Erodes Public Trust in Leaders. Psychological Science. 34(12). 1309–1321. 1 indexed citations

Carlson, Ryan W., Yochanan Bigman, Kurt Gray, Melissa J. Ferguson, & Molly J. Crockett. (2022). How inferred motives shape moral judgements. Nature Reviews Psychology. 1(8). 468–478. 26 indexed citations

Yu, Hongbo, Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta, Annayah Miranda Beatrice Prosser, et al.. (2022). Neural and Cognitive Signatures of Guilt Predict Hypocritical Blame. Psychological Science. 33(11). 1909–1927. 8 indexed citations

Aly, Mariam, Eliana Colunga, Molly J. Crockett, et al.. (2022). Changing the Culture of Peer Review for a More Inclusive and Equitable Psychological Science. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 3 indexed citations

Chituc, Vladimir, L. A. Paul, & Molly J. Crockett. (2021). Evaluating Transformative Decisions. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(43). 1 indexed citations

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Brady, William J., et al.. (2021). How social learning amplifies moral outrage expression in online social networks. Science Advances. 7(33). 146 indexed citations

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Marshall, Julia, et al.. (2020). Children punish third parties to satisfy both consequentialist and retributive motives. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(3). 361–368. 41 indexed citations

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Carlson, Ryan W., et al.. (2020). Motivated misremembering of selfish decisions. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2100–2100. 43 indexed citations

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Contreras-Huerta, Luis Sebastian, Patricia Lockwood, Geoffrey Bird, Matthew A J Apps, & Molly J. Crockett. (2020). Prosocial behavior is associated with transdiagnostic markers of affective sensitivity in multiple domains.. Emotion. 22(5). 820–835. 31 indexed citations

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Kappes, Andreas, Anne-Marie Nußberger, Nadira S. Faber, et al.. (2018). Uncertainty about the impact of social decisions increases prosocial behaviour. Nature Human Behaviour. 2(8). 573–580. 49 indexed citations

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Kappes, Andreas, Nadira S. Faber, Guy Kahane, Julian Savulescu, & Molly J. Crockett. (2018). Concern for Others Leads to Vicarious Optimism. Psychological Science. 29(3). 379–389. 18 indexed citations

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Crockett, Molly J., Jenifer Z. Siegel, Zeb Kurth‐Nelson, Peter Dayan, & Raymond J. Dolan. (2017). Moral transgressions corrupt neural representations of value. Nature Neuroscience. 20(6). 879–885. 92 indexed citations

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Everett, Jim A. C., Nadira S. Faber, & Molly J. Crockett. (2015). The influence of social preferences and reputational concerns on intergroup prosocial behaviour in gains and losses contexts. Royal Society Open Science. 2(12). 150546–150546. 29 indexed citations

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Crockett, Molly J., Zeb Kurth‐Nelson, Jenifer Z. Siegel, Peter Dayan, & Raymond J. Dolan. (2014). Harm to others outweighs harm to self in moral decision making. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(48). 17320–17325. 212 indexed citations

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Crockett, Molly J.. (2009). The Neurochemistry of Fairness. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1167(1). 76–86. 62 indexed citations

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Lieberman, Matthew D., et al.. (2007). Putting Feelings Into Words. Psychological Science. 18(5). 421–428. 742 indexed citations breakdown →

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