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Cutler, J, Nitschke, JP, Lamm, C & Lockwood, PL 2021, 'Older adults across the globe exhibit increased prosocial behavior but also greater in-group preferences', Nature Aging, vol. 1, pp. 880–888. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-021-00118-3
Cutler, J, Wittmann, MK, Abdurahman, A, Hargitai, LD, Drew, D, Husain, M & Lockwood, PL 2021, 'Ageing is associated with disrupted reinforcement learning whilst learning to help others is preserved', Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 4440. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24576-w
Lockwood, PL, Apps, MAJ, Valton, V, Viding, E & Roiser, JP 2016, 'Neurocomputational mechanisms of prosocial learning and links to empathy', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 113, no. 35, pp. 9763–9768. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1603198113
Lockwood, PL, Hamonet, M, Zhang, SH, Ratnavel, A, Salmony, FU, Husain, M & Apps, MAJ 2017, 'Prosocial apathy for helping others when effort is required', Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 1, no. 7, 0131. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0131
Lockwood, PL, Klein-Flügge, MC, Abdurahman, A & Crockett, MJ 2020, 'Model-free decision making is prioritized when learning to avoid harming others', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117, no. 44, pp. 27719-27730. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2010890117
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Elster, EM, Pauli, R, Fairchild, G, McDonald, M, Baumann, S, Sidlauskaite, J, De Brito, S, Freitag, CM, Konrad, K, Roessner, V, Brazil, IA, Lockwood, PL & Kohls, G 2025, 'Altered Neural Responses to Punishment Learning in Conduct Disorder', Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2025.01.003
Pauli, R, Brazil, I, Kohls, G, Hauser, TU, Gistelinck, L, Dikeos, D, Dochnal, R, Fairchild, G, Fernández-Rivas, A, Herpertz-Dahlmann, B, Hervas, A, Konrad, K, Popma, A, Stadler, C, Freitag, CM, De Brito, SA & Lockwood, PL 2025, 'Conduct disorder is associated with heightened action initiation and reduced learning from punishment but not reward', Biological Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.03.005
Holton, E, van Opheusden, B, Grohn, J, Ward, H, Grogan, J, Lockwood, PL, Ma, I, Ma, WJ & Manohar, SG 2025, 'Disentangling the component processes in complex planning impairments following ventromedial prefrontal lesions', The Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1814-24.2025
Talbot, J, Cutler, J, Tamm, M, Little, SJ, Harmer, CJ, Husain, M, Lockwood, PL & Apps, MAJ 2025, 'Dopamine boosts motivation for prosocial effort in Parkinson's disease', The Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1593-24.2024
Su, Z, Garvert, MM, Zhang, L, Vogel, T, Cutler, J, Husain, M, Manohar, SG & Lockwood, P 2025, 'Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting', PLoS Biology. <https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/7dy9f_v2>
Vanags, P, Cutler, J, Kosse, F & Lockwood, PL 2025, 'Greater income and financial well-being are associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviors across 76 countries', PNAS nexus, vol. 4, no. 2, pgae582. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae582
Gueguen, M, Cutler, J, Drew, D, Apps, MAJ, Jeyaretna, DS, Husain, M, Manohar, SG & Lockwood, PL 2025, 'Ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions disrupt learning to reward others', Brain. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaf056
Contreras-Huerta, LS, Pisauro, MA, Küchenhoff, S, Gekiere, A, Le Heron, C, Lockwood, PL & Apps, MAJ 2024, 'A reward self-bias leads to more optimal foraging for ourselves than others', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 26845. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-69452-x
Lockwood, PL, Cutler, J, Drew, D, Abdurahman, A, Jeyaretna, DS, Apps, MAJ, Husain, M & Manohar, SG 2024, 'Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation', Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 1403-1416. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01899-4
Elster, E, Pauli, R, Baumann, S, De Brito, S, Fairchild, G, Freitag, CM, Konrad, K, Roessner, V, Brazil, IA, Lockwood, P & Kohls, G 2024, 'Impaired Punishment Learning in Conduct Disorder', Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 454-463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2023.05.032
Vogel, T & Lockwood, PL 2024, 'Normative Processing Needs Multiple Levels of Explanation: From Algorithm to Implementation', Perspectives on Psychological Science, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 53–56. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231187393
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Yanga, X, Schulza, J, Schmidt, K, Kenny, AR, Pfuhl, G, Gjoneska, B, Dalgar, I, Lewis, SC, Exner, A, Buchanan, EM, Lander, K, Becker, M, Du, H, Johri, A, Selcuk, E, Gallyamova, A, Calluso, C, Reggev, N, Vranka, MA, Acar, OA, Palma, TA, Kocur, M, Oliveros, JC, Montefinese, M, Wilton, LS, Zdybek, PM, Ferreira, PRS, Pfattheicher, S, Akkas, H, Autin, F, Sorokowska, A, Janssen, SMJ, March, DS, Young, DM, Valentova, JV, Taşbaş, EHO, Bükün, MF, Giammusso, I, Brandt, MJ, Couto, C, Simon, DA, Cutler, J, Prokosch, ML, Sjåstad, H, Manunta, E, Whyte, S, Marsh, AA, Papadatou-Pastou, M, Jaeger, B, Morvinski, C, Primbs, MA, Akil, AM, Kapoor, H, Barzykowski, K, Ghai, S, Moreau, D, Seehuus, M, Kowal, M, Evans, TR, Hill, KM, Calvillo, DP, Wiechert, S, Afhami, R, Hoyer, K, Korbmacher, M, Elbaek, CT, Alsuhaibani, Z, Pronizius, E, Cui, Q, Wang, Z, Cundiff, JM, Panahi, AT, Bjornsdottir, RT, Baskin, E, Ergiyen, T, Metin-Orta, I, Collins, WM, Bø, S, Marinucci, M, Baker, BJ, Özdoğru, AA, Anne, M, Standage, M, Tullett, AM, Milfont, TL, Flynn, FJ, Zidkova, R, Ruiz-Fernandez, S, Sachs, T, Bilancini, E, Verheyen, S, Massoni, S, Jiahui, W, Camargo, A, Wang, YA, Zhou, S, Peetz, HK, Grigoryev, D, Ghasemi, O, Cong, CW, Westgate, EC, Sutherland, CAM, Boucher, L, Grigoryan, L, Paltoglou, AE, Al-Hoorie, AH, Sacco, DF, Thomas, AG, Haeffel, GJ, Davis, WE, Mandalaywala, TM, Cruz, F, Ross, RM, Jiang, X, Studzinska, A, Dumbravă, A, University, IC, Misiak, M, Tran, US, Felisberti, FM, Nagy, T, Gunaydin, G, Buchanan, EM, Miranda, JF, Behnke, M, Akin, K, Berkessel, JB, Johnson, DC, Wu, Y, Godbersen, H, Edlund, JE, Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A, Martin, D, Norman, JB, Batres, C, Kütük, B, Szumowska, E, Storage, D, Bouguettaya, A, Lins, S, Voracek, M, Trémolière, B, Cyrus-Lai, W, Alzahawi, S, Tavel, P, Anderson, LD, Röer, JP, Malinakova, K, Varella, MAC, Karababa, A, Walczak, RB, Ribeiro, G, Sarı, E, Pypno-Blajda, K, Paruzel-Czachura, M, Travaglino, GA, Neta, M, Vaidis, DC, Lu, JG, Tatachari, S, Camgöz, SM, Lockwood, PL, Panagiotis, M, Lin, W, Rathje, S, van Lent, T, Greijdanus, H, Faure, R, Lamm, C, Brick, C, Zhao, X, Aquino, SD, Ulloa, JL, Walker, B, Malecki, WP, Lou, NM, Pizziol, V, Kuzminska, AO, Michael, S, Adıgüzel, A, Karadeniz, G, Yücel, E, Isloi, C, Chwiłkowska, P, Yu, Z, Fay, N, Papaioannou, K, Peker, M, Huang, G, El-Haddad, RW, Verschuere, B, Meier, Z, Vaughn, LA, Albayrak-Aydemir, N, Stieger, S, Çoksan, S, Bijlstra, G, Alves, SG, Hartanto, A, Mallik, PR, Jami, WA, Chen, R, Fellnhofer, K, Marcu, GM, Batalha, L, Kocalar, HE, Vieira, L, Gleibs, IH, Sharifian, MH, Hadjisolomou, SP, Riva, P, Sirota, M, Novak, L, Sorokowski, P, Li, Y, Elsherif, M, Carvalho, CL, de Lima, TJS, Baker, A, Ishii, T, Mifune, N, Miura, A, Ohtsubo, Y, Takahashi, R, Szala, A, Wolfe, K, Özdemir, F, Komyaginskaya, E, Wu, Q, Boncinelli, L, Lin, J, Gupta, R, Vazirian, MH, Hajighasemi, M, Sepehri, A, Peters, K, Emery, C, Collis, H, Henningsen, L, Aglioti, SM, Mirisola, A, Manriquez-Robles, D, Baeza-Rivera, MJ, Salazar-Fernández, C, Paydarfard, S, Dorfman, A, Katzir, M, Ram, H, Butt, MM, Jia, L, Chua, KQ, Ismail, I, WIllinger, D, Siebenhandl, A, Kaminski, G, Bennett, T, Kohl, A, Stevens, L, Flowe, HD, Colloff, MF, Scott, K, Wagner, K, Ingham, MP, Krishnappa, SM, Fabbri, M, Limata, P, Smalarz, L, Eerdmans, RE, Garza, PB, Gaviria, A, Espín, AM, Kovářík, J, Benito-Ostolaza, JM, Galang, RMN, Denzon, EES, Taborda-Osorio, H, Otálora, Y, Aminnuddin, NA, Kaça, G, Boğa, M, Solescu, DM, Balım, S, Bürhan, P, Bilger, D, Liu, L, Kruse, E, Solak, Ç, Akpınar, B, Coşkun, B, Gül, D, Muftareviç, S, Deschrijver, E, Zigdon, I, Krosch, AR, Ilchovska, ZG, Dokovova, M, Daryani, Y, Tome, NL, Görzig, A, Rhoads, SA, Kountouriotis, G, Özçakan, S, Gökdağ, C, Freira, L, Spasovski, O & Dunham, Y 2024 'Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases' PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5gpr4
Lockwood, P, Bos, WVD & Dreher, J-C 2024 'Moral learning and decision-making across the lifespan' PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/b5xf7
Su, Z, Garvert, MM, Zhang, L, Manohar, S, Vogel, TA, Thomas, L, Balsters, JH, Husain, M, Apps, MAJ & Lockwood, PL 2024 'Older adults are more susceptible to impulsive social influence' PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zdr7q
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Lockwood, PL, van den Bos, W & Dreher, J-C 2025, 'Moral Learning and Decision-Making Across the Lifespan', Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 475-500. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-021324-060611
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