Sylvia A. Morelli

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Sylvia A. Morelli is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvia A. Morelli has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Social Psychology, 13 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sylvia A. Morelli's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (8 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (7 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (6 papers). Sylvia A. Morelli is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (8 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (7 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (6 papers). Sylvia A. Morelli collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Sylvia A. Morelli's co-authors include Jamil Zaki, Matthew D. Lieberman, Naomi I. Eisenberger, Joshua D. Greene, Leigh E. Nystrom, Jonathan D. Cohen, Lian T. Rameson, Carrie L. Masten, Desmond C. Ong and William C. Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Sylvia A. Morelli

23 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment

2008 777 citations Joshua D. Greene, Sylvia A. Morelli et al. Cognition profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sylvia A. Morelli United States	18	1.6k	1.5k	697	672	587	23	3.0k
Christopher Oveis United States	24	2.1k 1.3×	916 0.6×	1.1k 1.6×	888 1.3×	832 1.4×	40	3.6k
Isaac Davis United States	2	1.6k 1.0×	836 0.5×	717 1.0×	1.2k 1.7×	521 0.9×	8	3.6k
Cendri A. Hutcherson Canada	23	977 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	447 0.6×	731 1.1×	831 1.4×	41	2.9k
Oriel FeldmanHall United States	26	734 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	665 1.0×	295 0.4×	510 0.9×	60	2.3k
Jim Fultz United States	23	1.7k 1.0×	698 0.5×	1.1k 1.6×	1.0k 1.5×	424 0.7×	37	3.3k
Ilja van Beest Netherlands	32	1.9k 1.1×	697 0.5×	1.4k 2.0×	773 1.2×	479 0.8×	120	3.4k
Miriam Liss United States	34	963 0.6×	930 0.6×	1.5k 2.2×	2.0k 3.0×	506 0.9×	67	4.7k
Luke D. Smillie Australia	35	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	680 1.0×	1.7k 2.5×	1.4k 2.4×	120	3.9k
Sara B. Algoe United States	28	3.1k 1.9×	562 0.4×	1.1k 1.6×	1.7k 2.6×	755 1.3×	64	5.1k
Lasana T. Harris United States	20	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	969 1.4×	233 0.3×	375 0.6×	61	2.2k

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Morelli, Sylvia A., et al.. (2022). Mutual identification promotes children's generosity. Infant and Child Development. 31(3). 3 indexed citations

Morelli, Sylvia A., et al.. (2019). Paths to Empathy: Heterogeneous Effects of Reading Personal Stories Online. 570–579. 4 indexed citations

Funkhouser, Carter J., Randy P. Auerbach, Autumn Kujawa, et al.. (2019). Social Feedback Valence Differentially Modulates the Reward Positivity, P300, and Late Positive Potential. Journal of Psychophysiology. 34(4). 255–267. 21 indexed citations

Morelli, Sylvia A., et al.. (2018). Neural detection of socially valued community members. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(32). 8149–8154. 34 indexed citations

Williams, William C., Sylvia A. Morelli, Desmond C. Ong, & Jamil Zaki. (2018). Interpersonal emotion regulation: Implications for affiliation, perceived support, relationships, and well-being.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 115(2). 224–254. 221 indexed citations

Morelli, Sylvia A., et al.. (2017). Empathy and well-being correlate with centrality in different social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(37). 9843–9847. 93 indexed citations

Nook, Erik C, Desmond C. Ong, Sylvia A. Morelli, Jason P. Mitchell, & Jamil Zaki. (2016). Prosocial Conformity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 42(8). 1045–1062. 130 indexed citations

Morelli, Sylvia A., et al.. (2015). Emotional and instrumental support provision interact to predict well-being.. Emotion. 15(4). 484–493. 214 indexed citations

Morelli, Sylvia A., Matthew D. Lieberman, & Jamil Zaki. (2015). The Emerging Study of Positive Empathy. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 9(2). 57–68. 236 indexed citations

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Morelli, Sylvia A., Matthew D. Sacchet, & Jamil Zaki. (2014). Common and distinct neural correlates of personal and vicarious reward: A quantitative meta-analysis. NeuroImage. 112. 244–253. 141 indexed citations

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Falk, Emily B., et al.. (2013). Creating Buzz: The Neural Correlates of Effective Message Propagation. ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania). 3 indexed citations

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Morelli, Sylvia A. & Matthew D. Lieberman. (2013). The role of automaticity and attention in neural processes underlying empathy for happiness, sadness, and anxiety. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7. 160–160. 76 indexed citations

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Falk, Emily B., et al.. (2013). Creating Buzz. Psychological Science. 24(7). 1234–1242. 53 indexed citations

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Muscatell, Keely A., Sylvia A. Morelli, Emily B. Falk, et al.. (2012). Social status modulates neural activity in the mentalizing network. NeuroImage. 60(3). 1771–1777. 146 indexed citations

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Morelli, Sylvia A.. (2012). The Neural and Behavioral Basis of Empathy for Positive and Negative Emotions. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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Rameson, Lian T., Sylvia A. Morelli, & Matthew D. Lieberman. (2011). The Neural Correlates of Empathy: Experience, Automaticity, and Prosocial Behavior. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 24(1). 235–245. 199 indexed citations

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Spreng, R. Nathan, Howard J. Rosen, Stephen C. Strother, et al.. (2010). Occupation attributes relate to location of atrophy in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Neuropsychologia. 48(12). 3634–3641. 21 indexed citations

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Masten, Carrie L., Sylvia A. Morelli, & Naomi I. Eisenberger. (2010). An fMRI investigation of empathy for ‘social pain’ and subsequent prosocial behavior. NeuroImage. 55(1). 381–388. 345 indexed citations

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Ram, Nilàm, Sylvia A. Morelli, Casey Lindberg, & Laura L. Carstensen. (2008). From static to dynamic: The ongoing dialectic about human development. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 115–130. 2 indexed citations

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Greene, Joshua D., et al.. (2008). Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment. Cognition. 107(3). 1144–1154. 777 indexed citations breakdown →

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