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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
Vetter, P., Badde, S., Phelps, E.A., & Carrasco, M. (2019). Emotional faces guide the eyes in the absence of awareness. eLife, 8, e43467. 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
FeldmanHall, O., Dunsmoor, J.E., Tompary, A., Hunter, L.E., Todorov, A., & Phelps, E.A. (2018). Stimulus generalization as a mechanism for learning to trust. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 1690-7. Abstract PDF
FeldmanHall, O., Dunsmoor, J.E., Kroes, M.C.W., Lackovic, S., & Phelps, E.A. (2017). Associative learning of social value in dynamic groups. Psychological Science, 28, 1160-70. Abstract PDF
Dunsmoor, J.E., Kubota, J.T., Li, J., Coehlo, C.A., & Phelps, E.A. (2016). Racial stereotypes impair flexibility of emotional learning.Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 1363-73. 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
Kubota, J.T., Li, J., Bar-David, E., Banaji, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2015). All claims in the original article hold as stated: A response to Arkes (2015). Psychological Science, 26, 246-8. 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
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
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
Brosch, T., Schiller, D., Mojdehbakhsh, R., Uleman, J., & Phelps, E.A. (2013). Neural mechanisms underlying the integration of situational information into attribution outcomes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 640-6. Abstract PDF
Brosch, T., Bar-David, E., & Phelps, E.A. (2013). Implicit race bias decreases the similarity of neural representations of black and white faces.Psychological Science, 24, 160-6. Abstract PDF
Kubota, J.T., Banaji, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2012). The neuroscience of race. Nature Neuroscience, 15,940-8. Abstract PDF
Phelps, E.A. (2012). Emotion and memory. In L. Nadel & W. Sinnott-Armstrong (eds), Memory and Law. New York: Oxford University Press (7-28).
Stanley, D.A, Sokol-Hessner, P., Fareri, D.S., Perino, M.T., Delgado, M.R., Banaji, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2012). Race and reputation: perceived racial group trustworthiness influences the neural correlates of trust decisions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Biological Sciences, 367, 744-53. Abstract PDF
Stanley, D.A., Sokol-Hessner, P., Banaji, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2011). Implicit race attitudes predict trustworthiness judgments and economic trust decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 7710-15. Abstract PDF
Ferneyhough, E., Stanley, D.A., Phelps, E.A., & Carrasco, M. (2010). Cueing effects of faces are dependent on handedness and visual field. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 529-35. Abstract PDF
Whalen1, P.J. & Phelps. E.A. (2009). The Human Amygdala. New York: Guilford Press. Abstract PDF
Bizzi, E., Hyman, S.E., Raichle, M.E., Kanwisher, N., Phelps, E.A., Morse, S.J., Sinnot-Armstrong, W., Rakoff, J.S. & Greely, H.T. (2009). Using Imaging to Detect Deceit. Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Abstract PDF
Schiller, D., Freeman, J.B., Mitchell, J.P., Uleman, J.S. & Phelps, E.A. (2009). A neural mechanism of first impressions. Nature Neuroscience, 12, 508-14. Abstract PDF
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. Abstract PDF
Stanley, D., Phelps, E.A., & Banaji, M.R. (2008). The neural basis of implicit attitudes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 164-70. Abstract PDF
Sharot, T., Riccardi, A.M., Raio, C.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2007). Neural mechanisms mediating optimism bias. Nature, 450, 102-5. Abstract PDF
Ochsner, K.N. & Phelps, E.A. (2007). Emerging perspectives on emotion-cognition interactions. Trends in Cognitive Science, 11, 317-8. Abstract PDF
Phelps, E.A. (2007). The neuroscience of a person network. American Journal of Bioethics, 7, 49-50. Abstract PDF
Olsson, A. & Phelps, E.A. (2007). Understanding social evaluations: What we can (and cannot) learn from neuroimaging. In B. Wittenbrink & N. Schwarz (Eds). Implicit Measures of Attitudes. New York: Guilford Press (159-75). Abstract PDF
Phelps, E.A., Ling, S., & Carrasco, M. (2006). Emotion facilitates perception and potentiates the perceptual benefit of attention. Psychological Science, 17, 292-299. Abstract PDF
Phelps, E.A. (2006). Emotion, learning and the brain: From classical conditioning to cultural bias. In Baltes, P., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., Roesler, F. (Eds) Lifespan Development and the Brain: The Perspective of Biocultural Co-Constructivism. New York: Cambridge University Press (200-216). 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
Vetter, P., Badde, S., Phelps, E.A., & Carrasco, M. (2019). Emotional faces guide the eyes in the absence of awareness. eLife, 8, e43467. 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
FeldmanHall, O., Dunsmoor, J.E., Tompary, A., Hunter, L.E., Todorov, A., & Phelps, E.A. (2018). Stimulus generalization as a mechanism for learning to trust. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 1690-7. Abstract PDF
FeldmanHall, O., Dunsmoor, J.E., Kroes, M.C.W., Lackovic, S., & Phelps, E.A. (2017). Associative learning of social value in dynamic groups. Psychological Science, 28, 1160-70. Abstract PDF
Dunsmoor, J.E., Kubota, J.T., Li, J., Coehlo, C.A., & Phelps, E.A. (2016). Racial stereotypes impair flexibility of emotional learning.Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 1363-73. 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
Kubota, J.T., Li, J., Bar-David, E., Banaji, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2015). All claims in the original article hold as stated: A response to Arkes (2015). Psychological Science, 26, 246-8. 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
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
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
Brosch, T., Schiller, D., Mojdehbakhsh, R., Uleman, J., & Phelps, E.A. (2013). Neural mechanisms underlying the integration of situational information into attribution outcomes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 640-6. Abstract PDF
Brosch, T., Bar-David, E., & Phelps, E.A. (2013). Implicit race bias decreases the similarity of neural representations of black and white faces.Psychological Science, 24, 160-6. Abstract PDF
Kubota, J.T., Banaji, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2012). The neuroscience of race. Nature Neuroscience, 15,940-8. Abstract PDF
Phelps, E.A. (2012). Emotion and memory. In L. Nadel & W. Sinnott-Armstrong (eds), Memory and Law. New York: Oxford University Press (7-28).
Stanley, D.A, Sokol-Hessner, P., Fareri, D.S., Perino, M.T., Delgado, M.R., Banaji, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2012). Race and reputation: perceived racial group trustworthiness influences the neural correlates of trust decisions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Biological Sciences, 367, 744-53. Abstract PDF
Stanley, D.A., Sokol-Hessner, P., Banaji, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2011). Implicit race attitudes predict trustworthiness judgments and economic trust decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 7710-15. Abstract PDF
Ferneyhough, E., Stanley, D.A., Phelps, E.A., & Carrasco, M. (2010). Cueing effects of faces are dependent on handedness and visual field. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 529-35. Abstract PDF
Whalen1, P.J. & Phelps. E.A. (2009). The Human Amygdala. New York: Guilford Press. Abstract PDF
Bizzi, E., Hyman, S.E., Raichle, M.E., Kanwisher, N., Phelps, E.A., Morse, S.J., Sinnot-Armstrong, W., Rakoff, J.S. & Greely, H.T. (2009). Using Imaging to Detect Deceit. Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Abstract PDF
Schiller, D., Freeman, J.B., Mitchell, J.P., Uleman, J.S. & Phelps, E.A. (2009). A neural mechanism of first impressions. Nature Neuroscience, 12, 508-14. Abstract PDF
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. Abstract PDF
Stanley, D., Phelps, E.A., & Banaji, M.R. (2008). The neural basis of implicit attitudes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 164-70. Abstract PDF
Sharot, T., Riccardi, A.M., Raio, C.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2007). Neural mechanisms mediating optimism bias. Nature, 450, 102-5. Abstract PDF
Ochsner, K.N. & Phelps, E.A. (2007). Emerging perspectives on emotion-cognition interactions. Trends in Cognitive Science, 11, 317-8. Abstract PDF
Phelps, E.A. (2007). The neuroscience of a person network. American Journal of Bioethics, 7, 49-50. Abstract PDF
Olsson, A. & Phelps, E.A. (2007). Understanding social evaluations: What we can (and cannot) learn from neuroimaging. In B. Wittenbrink & N. Schwarz (Eds). Implicit Measures of Attitudes. New York: Guilford Press (159-75). Abstract PDF
Phelps, E.A., Ling, S., & Carrasco, M. (2006). Emotion facilitates perception and potentiates the perceptual benefit of attention. Psychological Science, 17, 292-299. Abstract PDF
Phelps, E.A. (2006). Emotion, learning and the brain: From classical conditioning to cultural bias. In Baltes, P., Reuter-Lorenz, P.A., Roesler, F. (Eds) Lifespan Development and the Brain: The Perspective of Biocultural Co-Constructivism. New York: Cambridge University Press (200-216). Abstract PDF
Threat learning promotes generalizations of episodic memory
Vetter, P., Badde, S., Phelps, E.A., & Carrasco, M. (2019). Emotional faces guide the eyes in the absence of awareness. eLife, 8, e43467.
Learning moral values: Another’s desire to punish enhances one’s own punitive behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Stimulus generalization as a mechanism for learning to trust. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Associative learning of social value in dynamic groups. Psychological Science
Racial stereotypes impair flexibility of emotional learning. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
The effects of social context and acute stress on decision making under uncertainty. Psychological Science
Kubota, J.T., Li, J., Bar-David, E., Banaji, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2015). All claims in the original article hold as stated: A response to Arkes (2015). Psychological Science, 26, 246-8.
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
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.
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.
Neural mechanisms underlying the integration of situational information into attribution outcomes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Brosch, T., Bar-David, E., & Phelps, E.A. (2013). Implicit race bias decreases the similarity of neural representations of black and white faces.Psychological Science, 24, 160-6.
Kubota, J.T., Banaji, M.R., & Phelps, E.A. (2012). The neuroscience of race. Nature Neuroscience, 15,940-8.
Race and reputation: perceived racial group trustworthiness influences the neural correlates of trust decisions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Biological Sciences
Implicit race attitudes predict trustworthiness judgments and economic trust decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Ferneyhough, E., Stanley, D.A., Phelps, E.A., & Carrasco, M. (2010). Cueing effects of faces are dependent on handedness and visual field. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 529-35.
Whalen, P.J. & Phelps. E.A. (2009). The Human Amygdala. New York: Guilford Press.
Using Imaging to Detect Deceit
Schiller, D., Freeman, J.B., Mitchell, J.P., Uleman, J.S. & Phelps, E.A. (2009). A neural mechanism of first impressions. Nature Neuroscience, 12, 508-14.
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.
Stanley, D., Phelps, E.A., & Banaji, M.R. (2008). The neural basis of implicit attitudes. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 164-70.
Sharot, T., Riccardi, A.M., Raio, C.M. & Phelps, E.A. (2007). Neural mechanisms mediating optimism bias. Nature, 450, 102-5.
Ochsner, K.N. & Phelps, E.A. (2007). Emerging perspectives on emotion-cognition interactions. Trends in Cognitive Science, 11, 317-8.
Phelps, E.A. (2007). The neuroscience of a person network. American Journal of Bioethics, 7, 49-50.
Understanding social evaluations: What we can (and cannot) learn from neuroimaging. In B. Wittenbrink & N. Schwarz (Eds). Implicit Measures of Attitudes
Phelps, E.A., Ling, S., & Carrasco, M. (2006). Emotion facilitates perception and potentiates the perceptual benefit of attention. Psychological Science, 17, 292-299.
Lifespan Development and the Brain: The Perspective of Biocultural Co-Constructivism
Emotion and social cognition: The role of the human amygdala. In R. Cabeza & A. Kingstone (Eds) Handbook on Functional Imaging of Cognition, vol. 2
Olsson, A., Ebert J.P, Banaji, M.R. & Phelps, E.A. (2005). The role of social group in the persistence of learned fear. Science, 309, 785-7.
Phelps, E.A. (2004). Interacting social minds. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 897.
Phelps, E.A. & Thomas, L.A. (2003). Race, behavior and the brain: The role of neuroimaging in understanding complex human behaviors. Political Psychology, 24, 747-58.
Phelps, E.A., Cannistraci, C.J., & Cunningham, W.A. (2003). Intact performance on an indirect measure of race bias following amygdala damage. Neuropsychologia, 41, 203-208.
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. (2001). Faces and races in the brain. Nature Neuroscience, 4, 775-776 (News and Views).
Anderson, A.K., & Phelps, E.A. (2001). Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient events. Nature, 411, 305-309.
Anderson A.K., & Phelps, E.A. (2000). Perceiving emotion: More than meets the eye. Current Biology, 10, R551-4.
Performance on indirect measures of race evaluation predicts amygdala activity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Anderson, A.K., Fulbright, R.K., Spencer, D.D., & Phelps, E.A. (2000). The representation of facial emotion in the anteromedial temporal lobe. Neuropsychology, 14, 526-36.
Anderson, A.K., & Phelps, E.A. (2000). Expression without recognition: Contributions of the human amygdala to emotional communication. Psychological Science,11, 106-11.
Recognition of facial emotion in nine individuals with bilateral amygdala damage. Neuropsychologia
Anderson, A.K., & Phelps, E.A. (1998). Intact recognition of vocal expressions of fear following bilateral lesions of the amygdala. NeuroReport, 9, 3607-13.