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Fan, H., Burke, T., Sambrano, D. C., Dial, E., Phelps, E. A., & Gershman, S. J. (2023). Pupil Size Encodes Uncertainty during Exploration. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 35, 1508-20. Abstract.
Fan, H., Gershman, S.J., & Phelps, E.A. (2022). Trait somatic anxiety is associated with reduced directed exploration and underestimation of uncertainty. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 102-13. . Abstract. PDF.
FeldmanHall, O., Montez, D.F., Phelps, E.A., Davachi, L., & Murty, V.P. (2021). Hippocampus Guides Adaptive Learning during Dynamic Social Interactions. Journal of Neuroscience, 41, 1340-8. Abstract PDF
FeldmanHall, O., Glimcher, P. Baker, A.L., NYU PROSPEC Collaboration, & Phelps, E.A. (2019). The functional roles of the amygdala and prefrontal cortex in processing uncertainty. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11, 1742-54. Abstract PDF
FeldmanHall, O., Otto, A.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2018). Learning moral values: Another’s desire to punish enhances one’s own punitive behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 1211-24. Abstract PDF
Lempert, K.M., McGuire, J.T., Hazeltine, D.B., Phelps, E.A., & Kable, J.W. (2017). The effects of acute stress on the calibration of persistence. Neurobiology of Stress, 8, 1-9. Abstract PDF
Lempert, K.M., Lackovic, S.F., Tobe, R.H., Glimcher, P.W., & Phelps, E.A. (2017). Propranolol reduces reference-dependence in intertemporal choice. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 1394-1401. Abstract PDF
Lempert, K.M., Speer, M.E., Delgado, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2017). Positive autobiographical memory retrieval reduces temporal discounting. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 1584-93. Abstract PDF
Lenow, J.K., Constantino, S.M., Daw, N.D., & Phelps, E.A. (2017). Chronic and acute stress promote overexploitation in serial decision making. Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 5681-9. Abstract PDF
Sokol-Hessner, P., Raio, C.M., Gottesman, S.P., Lackovic, S.F., & Phelps, E.A. (2016). Acute stress does not affect risky monetary decision-making. Neurobiology of Stress, 5, 19-25. Abstract PDF
FeldmanHall, O., Glimcher, P., Baker, A.L., & Phelps, E.A. (2016). Emotion and decision-making under uncertainty: Physiological arousal predicts increased gambling during ambiguity but not risk. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1255-62. Abstract PDF
Murty, V.P., FeldmanHall, O., Hunter, L.E., Phelps, E.A., & Davachi, L. (2016). Episodic memories predict adaptive value-based decision-making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 548-58. Abstract PDF
Gillan, C.M., Kosinski, M., Whelan, R., Phelps, E.A., & Daw, N.D. (2016). Characterizing a psychiatric symptom dimension related to deficits in goal-oriented control. eLife, 5, e11305. Abstract PDF
Lempert, K.M., Johnson, E., & Phelps, E.A. (2016). Emotional arousal predicts intertemporal choice. Emotion, 16, 647-56. Abstract PDF
Lempert, K.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2016). The malleability of intertemporal choice. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 64-74. Abstract PDF
FeldmanHall, O., Raio, C.M., Kubota, J.T., Seiler, M.G., & Phelps, E.A. (2015). The effects of social context and acute stress on decision making under uncertainty. Psychological Science, 26, 1918-26. Abstract PDF
Sokol-Hessner, P., Lackovic, S.F., Tobe, R.H., Camerer, C.F., Leventhal, B.L., & Phelps, E.A. (2015). Determinants of propranolol’s selective effect on loss aversion. Psychological Science, 26, 1123-30. Abstract PDF
Gillan, C.M., Otto, A.R., Phelps, E.A., & Daw, N.D. (2015). Model-based learning protects against forming habits. Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, 523-36. Abstract PDF
Lempert, K.M., Glimcher, P.W., & Phelps, E.A. (2015). Emotional arousal and discount rate in intertemporal choice are reference dependent. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 366-73. Abstract PDF
FeldmanHall, O., Sokol-Hessner, P., Van Bavel, J., & Phelps, E.A. (2014). Fairness violations elicit greater punishment on behalf of another than for oneself. Nature Communications, 5, Article number: 5306. Abstract PDF
Kubota, J.T., Mojdehbakhsh, R., Raio, C., Brosch, T., Uleman, J.S., & Phelps, E.A. (2014). Stressing the person: Legal and everyday person attributions under stress. Biological Psychology, 103, 117-24. Abstract PDF
Sokol-Hessner, P., Hartley, C.A., Hamilton, J.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2014). Interoceptive ability predicts aversion to losses. Cognition and Emotion, 11, 1-7. Abstract PDF
Phelps, E.A., Lempert, K.M., & Sokol-Hessner, P. (2014). Emotion and decision making: multiple modulatory neural circuits. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 37, 263-87. Abstract PDF
Farah, M.J., Hutchinson, J.B., Phelps, E.A., & Wagner, A.D. (2014). Functional MRI-based lie detection: scientific and societal challenges. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15, 123-31. Abstract PDF
Otto, A.R., Raio, C.M., Chiang, A., Phelps, E.A., & Daw, N.D. (2013). Working-memory capacity protects model-based learning from stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 20941-6. Abstract PDF
Lempert, K.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2013). Neuroeconomics of emotion and decision making. In P.W. Glimcher & E. Fehr (eds). Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain, 2nd edition. Waltham, MA: Academic Press (219-236). Abstract PDF
Kubota, J.T., Li, J., Bar-David, E., Banaji, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2013). The price of racial bias: intergroup negotiations in the ultimatum game. Psychological Science, 24, 2498-504. Abstract PDF
Raio, C.M., Orederu, T.A., Palazzolo, L., Shurick, A.A., & Phelps, E.A. (2013). Cognitive emotion regulation fails the stress test. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 15139-44. Abstract PDF
Hartley, C.A., & Phelps, E.A. (2012). Anxiety and decision-making. Biological Psychiatry, 72, 113-8. Abstract PDF
Sokol-Hessner, P., Camerer, C.F., & Phelps, E.A. (2012). Emotion regulation reduces loss aversion and decreases amygdala responses to losses.Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 341-50. Abstract PDF
Fan, H., Burke, T., Sambrano, D. C., Dial, E., Phelps, E. A., & Gershman, S. J. (2023). Pupil Size Encodes Uncertainty during Exploration. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 35, 1508-20. Abstract.
Fan, H., Gershman, S.J., & Phelps, E.A. (2022). Trait somatic anxiety is associated with reduced directed exploration and underestimation of uncertainty. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 102-13. . Abstract. PDF.
FeldmanHall, O., Montez, D.F., Phelps, E.A., Davachi, L., & Murty, V.P. (2021). Hippocampus Guides Adaptive Learning during Dynamic Social Interactions. Journal of Neuroscience, 41, 1340-8. Abstract PDF
FeldmanHall, O., Glimcher, P. Baker, A.L., NYU PROSPEC Collaboration, & Phelps, E.A. (2019). The functional roles of the amygdala and prefrontal cortex in processing uncertainty. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11, 1742-54. Abstract PDF
FeldmanHall, O., Otto, A.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2018). Learning moral values: Another’s desire to punish enhances one’s own punitive behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 1211-24. Abstract PDF
Lempert, K.M., McGuire, J.T., Hazeltine, D.B., Phelps, E.A., & Kable, J.W. (2017). The effects of acute stress on the calibration of persistence. Neurobiology of Stress, 8, 1-9. Abstract PDF
Lempert, K.M., Lackovic, S.F., Tobe, R.H., Glimcher, P.W., & Phelps, E.A. (2017). Propranolol reduces reference-dependence in intertemporal choice. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 1394-1401. Abstract PDF
Lempert, K.M., Speer, M.E., Delgado, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2017). Positive autobiographical memory retrieval reduces temporal discounting. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 1584-93. Abstract PDF
Lenow, J.K., Constantino, S.M., Daw, N.D., & Phelps, E.A. (2017). Chronic and acute stress promote overexploitation in serial decision making. Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 5681-9. Abstract PDF
Sokol-Hessner, P., Raio, C.M., Gottesman, S.P., Lackovic, S.F., & Phelps, E.A. (2016). Acute stress does not affect risky monetary decision-making. Neurobiology of Stress, 5, 19-25. Abstract PDF
FeldmanHall, O., Glimcher, P., Baker, A.L., & Phelps, E.A. (2016). Emotion and decision-making under uncertainty: Physiological arousal predicts increased gambling during ambiguity but not risk. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1255-62. Abstract PDF
Murty, V.P., FeldmanHall, O., Hunter, L.E., Phelps, E.A., & Davachi, L. (2016). Episodic memories predict adaptive value-based decision-making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 548-58. Abstract PDF
Gillan, C.M., Kosinski, M., Whelan, R., Phelps, E.A., & Daw, N.D. (2016). Characterizing a psychiatric symptom dimension related to deficits in goal-oriented control. eLife, 5, e11305. Abstract PDF
Lempert, K.M., Johnson, E., & Phelps, E.A. (2016). Emotional arousal predicts intertemporal choice. Emotion, 16, 647-56. Abstract PDF
Lempert, K.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2016). The malleability of intertemporal choice. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 64-74. Abstract PDF
FeldmanHall, O., Raio, C.M., Kubota, J.T., Seiler, M.G., & Phelps, E.A. (2015). The effects of social context and acute stress on decision making under uncertainty. Psychological Science, 26, 1918-26. Abstract PDF
Sokol-Hessner, P., Lackovic, S.F., Tobe, R.H., Camerer, C.F., Leventhal, B.L., & Phelps, E.A. (2015). Determinants of propranolol’s selective effect on loss aversion. Psychological Science, 26, 1123-30. Abstract PDF
Gillan, C.M., Otto, A.R., Phelps, E.A., & Daw, N.D. (2015). Model-based learning protects against forming habits. Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, 523-36. Abstract PDF
Lempert, K.M., Glimcher, P.W., & Phelps, E.A. (2015). Emotional arousal and discount rate in intertemporal choice are reference dependent. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 366-73. Abstract PDF
FeldmanHall, O., Sokol-Hessner, P., Van Bavel, J., & Phelps, E.A. (2014). Fairness violations elicit greater punishment on behalf of another than for oneself. Nature Communications, 5, Article number: 5306. Abstract PDF
Kubota, J.T., Mojdehbakhsh, R., Raio, C., Brosch, T., Uleman, J.S., & Phelps, E.A. (2014). Stressing the person: Legal and everyday person attributions under stress. Biological Psychology, 103, 117-24. Abstract PDF
Sokol-Hessner, P., Hartley, C.A., Hamilton, J.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2014). Interoceptive ability predicts aversion to losses. Cognition and Emotion, 11, 1-7. Abstract PDF
Phelps, E.A., Lempert, K.M., & Sokol-Hessner, P. (2014). Emotion and decision making: multiple modulatory neural circuits. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 37, 263-87. Abstract PDF
Farah, M.J., Hutchinson, J.B., Phelps, E.A., & Wagner, A.D. (2014). Functional MRI-based lie detection: scientific and societal challenges. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15, 123-31. Abstract PDF
Otto, A.R., Raio, C.M., Chiang, A., Phelps, E.A., & Daw, N.D. (2013). Working-memory capacity protects model-based learning from stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 20941-6. Abstract PDF
Lempert, K.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2013). Neuroeconomics of emotion and decision making. In P.W. Glimcher & E. Fehr (eds). Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain, 2nd edition. Waltham, MA: Academic Press (219-236). Abstract PDF
Kubota, J.T., Li, J., Bar-David, E., Banaji, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2013). The price of racial bias: intergroup negotiations in the ultimatum game. Psychological Science, 24, 2498-504. Abstract PDF
Raio, C.M., Orederu, T.A., Palazzolo, L., Shurick, A.A., & Phelps, E.A. (2013). Cognitive emotion regulation fails the stress test. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 15139-44. Abstract PDF
Hartley, C.A., & Phelps, E.A. (2012). Anxiety and decision-making. Biological Psychiatry, 72, 113-8. Abstract PDF
Sokol-Hessner, P., Camerer, C.F., & Phelps, E.A. (2012). Emotion regulation reduces loss aversion and decreases amygdala responses to losses.Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 341-50. Abstract PDF
Pupil Size Encodes Uncertainty during Exploration.
Trait somatic anxiety is associated with reduced directed exploration and underestimation of uncertainty.
Hippocampus Guides Adaptive Learning during Dynamic Social Interactions
Threat learning promotes generalizations of episodic memory
Learning moral values: Another’s desire to punish enhances one’s own punitive behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
The effects of acute stress on the calibration of persistence. Neurobiology of Stress
Propranolol reduces reference-dependence in intertemporal choice. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Positive autobiographical memory retrieval reduces temporal discounting. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Chronic and acute stress promote overexploitation in serial decision making. Journal of Neuroscience
Acute stress does not affect risky monetary decision-making. Neurobiology of Stress
Emotion and decision-making under uncertainty: Physiological arousal predicts increased gambling during ambiguity but not risk. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Episodic memories predict adaptive value-based decision-making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Characterizing a psychiatric symptom dimension related to deficits in goal-oriented control. eLife
Lempert, K.M., Johnson, E., & Phelps, E.A. (2016). Emotional arousal predicts intertemporal choice. Emotion, 16, 647-56.
Lempert, K.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2016). The malleability of intertemporal choice. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 64-74.
The effects of social context and acute stress on decision making under uncertainty. Psychological Science
Determinants of propranolol’s selective effect on loss aversion. Psychological Science
Gillan, C.M., Otto, A.R., Phelps, E.A., & Daw, N.D. (2015). Model-based learning protects against forming habits. Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, 523-36.
Emotional arousal and discount rate in intertemporal choice are reference dependent. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Fairness violations elicit greater punishment on behalf of another than for oneself. Nature Communications
Stressing the person: Legal and everyday person attributions under stress. Biological Psychology
Sokol-Hessner, P., Hartley, C.A., Hamilton, J.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2014). Interoceptive ability predicts aversion to losses. Cognition and Emotion, 11, 1-7.
Phelps, E.A., Lempert, K.M., & Sokol-Hessner, P. (2014). Emotion and decision making: multiple modulatory neural circuits. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 37, 263-87.
Farah, M.J., Hutchinson, J.B., Phelps, E.A., & Wagner, A.D. (2014). Functional MRI-based lie detection: scientific and societal challenges. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15, 123-31.
Working-memory capacity protects model-based learning from stress. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Neuroeconomics of emotion and decision making. In P.W. Glimcher & E. Fehr (eds). Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain, 2nd edition
Kubota, J.T., Li, J., Bar-David, E., Banaji, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2013). The price of racial bias: intergroup negotiations in the ultimatum game. Psychological Science, 24, 2498-504.
Cognitive emotion regulation fails the stress test. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Hartley, C.A., & Phelps, E.A. (2012). Anxiety and decision-making. Biological Psychiatry, 72, 113-8.
Emotion regulation reduces loss aversion and decreases amygdala responses to losses. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Race and reputation: perceived racial group trustworthiness influences the neural correlates of trust decisions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Biological Sciences
Social and emotional factors in decision-making: appraisal and value. In R.J. Dolan, & T. Sharot (eds), Neuroscience of Preference and Choice: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms
Implicit race attitudes predict trustworthiness judgments and economic trust decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Delgado, M.R., Phelps E.A. & Robbins, T.W. (2011). Decision Making, Affect, and Learning: Attention and Performance XXIII. Oxford England: Oxford University Press.
Whalen, P.J. & Phelps. E.A. (2009). The Human Amygdala. New York: Guilford Press.
Thinking like a trader selectively reduces individuals’ loss aversion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Using Imaging to Detect Deceit
Phelps, E.A. & Delgado, M.R. (2009). Emotion and decision-making. In M.S. Gazzaniga (ed), The Cognitive Neurosciences, 4th edition. Cambridge: MIT Press (1093-1106).
Delgado, M.R., Schotter, A., Ozbay, E.Y. & Phelps, E.A. (2008). Understanding overbidding: Using the neural circuitry of reward to design economic auctions. Science, 321, 1849-52.
Delgado, M.R., Gillis, M,M, & Phelps, E.A. (2008). Regulating the expectation of reward via cognitive strategies. Nature Neuroscience, 11, 880-1.
The study of emotion in neuroeconomics
Phelps, E.A. (2006). Emotion and Cognition. In Smith, E.E., Koslyn, S.M. (Eds) Cognitive Psychology: Mind and Brain. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall (pp. 325-363).
Phelps, E.A. (2006). Emotion and cognition: Insights from studies of the human amygdala. Annual Review of Psychology, 57, 27-53.
Phelps, E.A. & LeDoux, J.E. (2005). Neural systems underlying emotion behavior: From animal models to human function. Neuron, 48, 175-87.
Delgado, M.R., Frank, R. & Phelps, E.A. (2005). Perception of moral character modulates the neural circuitry of reward during the trust game. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 1611-8.
Social Neuroscience: People Thinking about Thinking People
Delgado, M.R., Miller, M.M., Inati, S., & Phelps, E.A. (2005). An fMRI study of reward-related probability learning. NeuroImage, 24, 862-873.
Is the human amygdala critical for the subjective experience of emotion? Evidence of intact dispositional affect in patients with amygdala lesions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Phelps, E.A. (2002). The cognitive neuroscience of emotion. In M.S. Gazzaniga, R.B. Ivry & G.R. Mangun (Eds), Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of Mind 2nd ed. New York: Norton.
Phelps, E.A. (1999). Brain vs. Behavioral Studies in Cognition. In R. Sternberg (ed.) Nature of Cognition. Cambridge: MIT Press (295-322).
Phelps, E.A., Hyder, F., Blamire, A., & Shulman, R.G. (1997). FMRI of the pre-frontal cortex during overt verbal fluency. NeuroReport, 8, 561-65.
An fMRI study of prefrontal cortex activation in a sensorimotor task. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences