Shir Atzil

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Shir Atzil is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shir Atzil has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Social Psychology, 8 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 5 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Shir Atzil's work include Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (10 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (4 papers). Shir Atzil is often cited by papers focused on Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (10 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 papers) and Action Observation and Synchronization (4 papers). Shir Atzil collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Spain. Shir Atzil's co-authors include Ruth Feldman, Talma Hendler, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Isaac Fradkin, Wei Gao, Orna Zagoory‐Sharon, Yonatan Winetraub, Maria Gendron, Shamgar Ben‐Eliyahu and Ariella Glasner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Bulletin and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Shir Atzil

21 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Growing a social brain

2018 201 citations Shir Atzil, Wei Gao et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

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Carol Van Hulle United States

Annukka Lehtonen United Kingdom

Julie Spicer United States

Elseline Hoekzema Spain

Janet Woodruff‐Borden United States

Rickard L. Sjöberg Sweden

Christina Stadler Germany

Marcia J. Slattery United States

Shota Nishitani Japan

Tamás Tényi Hungary

Carol Van Hulle United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shir Atzil

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Atzil, Shir, et al.. (2026). A metabolic framework for reward: Redefining dopamine and opioids as physiological agents. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 184. 106608–106608.

Cohen, Marisa T., et al.. (2024). Social and nonsocial synchrony are interrelated and romantically attractive. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 57–57. 4 indexed citations

Selle, Nathalie klein, et al.. (2023). Breastfeeding at Any Cost? Adverse Effects of Breastfeeding Pain on Mother–Infant Behavior. Biology. 12(5). 636–636.

Atzil, Shir, Ajay B. Satpute, Jiahe Zhang, et al.. (2023). The impact of sociality and affective valence on brain activation: A meta-analysis. NeuroImage. 268. 119879–119879. 8 indexed citations

Lobel, Marci, Heidi Preis, Brittain Mahaffey, et al.. (2022). Common model of stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in pregnant women from seven high-income Western countries at the COVID-19 pandemic onset. Social Science & Medicine. 315. 115499–115499. 13 indexed citations

Selle, Nathalie klein, et al.. (2022). Bio-behavioral synchrony is a potential mechanism for mate selection in humans. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 22 indexed citations

Yirmiya, Karen, et al.. (2021). Women’s Depressive Symptoms during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Pregnancy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(8). 4298–4298. 39 indexed citations

Atzil, Shir, et al.. (2021). What Is Social about Autism? The Role of Allostasis-Driven Learning. Brain Sciences. 11(10). 1269–1269. 9 indexed citations

Schweizer, Susanne, Ajay B. Satpute, Shir Atzil, et al.. (2019). The impact of affective information on working memory: A pair of meta-analytic reviews of behavioral and neuroimaging evidence.. Psychological Bulletin. 145(6). 566–609. 96 indexed citations

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Atzil, Shir, Wei Gao, Isaac Fradkin, & Lisa Feldman Barrett. (2018). Growing a social brain. Nature Human Behaviour. 2(9). 624–636. 201 indexed citations breakdown →

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Atzil, Shir, Alexandra Touroutoglou, Stephanie Salcedo, et al.. (2017). Dopamine in the medial amygdala network mediates human bonding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(9). 2361–2366. 102 indexed citations

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Atzil, Shir & Maria Gendron. (2017). Bio-behavioral synchrony promotes the development of conceptualized emotions. Current Opinion in Psychology. 17. 162–169. 54 indexed citations

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Atzil, Shir & Lisa Feldman Barrett. (2017). Social regulation of allostasis: Commentary on “Mentalizing homeostasis: The social origins of interoceptive inference” by Fotopoulou and Tsakiris. Neuropsychoanalysis. 19(1). 29–33. 41 indexed citations

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Raz, Gal, Alexandra Touroutoglou, Christine D. Wilson‐Mendenhall, et al.. (2016). Functional connectivity dynamics during film viewing reveal common networks for different emotional experiences. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 16(4). 709–723. 75 indexed citations

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Atzil, Shir, Talma Hendler, & Ruth Feldman. (2013). The brain basis of social synchrony. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 9(8). 1193–1202. 64 indexed citations

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Atzil, Shir, Talma Hendler, Orna Zagoory‐Sharon, Yonatan Winetraub, & Ruth Feldman. (2012). Synchrony and Specificity in the Maternal and the Paternal Brain: Relations to Oxytocin and Vasopressin. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 51(8). 798–811. 167 indexed citations

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Atzil, Shir, Talma Hendler, & Ruth Feldman. (2011). Specifying the Neurobiological Basis of Human Attachment: Brain, Hormones, and Behavior in Synchronous and Intrusive Mothers. Neuropsychopharmacology. 36(13). 2603–2615. 265 indexed citations

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Bartal, Inbal Ben-Ami, Rivka Melamed, Shir Atzil, et al.. (2009). Immune perturbations in patients along the perioperative period: Alterations in cell surface markers and leukocyte subtypes before and after surgery. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 24(3). 376–386. 80 indexed citations

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Atzil, Shir, Michal Arad, Ariella Glasner, et al.. (2008). Blood Transfusion Promotes Cancer Progression: A Critical Role for Aged Erythrocytes. Anesthesiology. 109(6). 989–997. 93 indexed citations

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Arad, Michal, et al.. (2005). Poly I‐C Induces Early Embryo Loss in F344 Rats: a Potential Role for NK Cells. American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. 54(1). 49–53. 11 indexed citations

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