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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
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
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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, TA, Cutler, J, Husain, M, Manohar, SG & Lockwood, PL 2025, 'Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting', PLoS Biology, vol. 23, no. 4, e3003079. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003079
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
Vogel, TA, Priestley, L, Cutler, J, Hogg, T, Khalighinejad, N, Garrett, N, Apps, MAJ, Rushworth, MFS & Lockwood, PL 2025, 'Humans are more prosocial in poor foraging environments', Nature Communications.
Rhoads, SA, Gan, L, Berluti, K, O'Connell, K, Cutler, J, Lockwood, P & Marsh, AA 2025, 'Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others', Nature Communications, vol. 16, 9350. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64424-9
Cutler, J, Contreras-Huerta, LS, Todorova, B, Nitschke, JP, Michalaki, K, Koppel, L, Gkinopoulos, T, Vogel, T, Lamm, C, Vastfjall, D, Tsakiris, M, Apps, M & Lockwood, P 2025, 'Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change', Communications Psychology, vol. 3, 148. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00332-4
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, vol. 148, no. 10, awaf056, pp. 3537-3550. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaf056
Gaule, A, Martin, P, Lockwood, PL, Cutler, J, Apps, M, Roberts, R, Phillips, H, Brown, K, McCrory, EJ & Viding, E 2024, 'Reduced prosocial motivation and effort in adolescents with conduct problems and callous‐unemotional traits', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13945
The International Climate Psychology Collaboration, Contreras-Huerta, LS & Elsherif, M 2024, 'The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries', Scientific Data, vol. 11, 1066. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03865-1
Jansen, M, Lockwood, PL, Cutler, J & Bruijn, ERAD 2023, 'l-DOPA and oxytocin influence the neurocomputational mechanisms of self-benefitting and prosocial reinforcement learning', NeuroImage, vol. 270, 119983. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h7yrz, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119983
International Collaboration on the Social & Moral Psychology of COVID-19 2023, 'Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries', Scientific Data, vol. 10, no. 1, 272. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02080-8
Lockwood, P, Wittmann, MK, Nili, H, Matsumoto-Ryan, M, Abdurahman, A, Cutler, J, Husain, M & Apps, M 2022, 'Distinct neural representations for prosocial and self-benefiting effort', Current Biology, vol. 32, no. 19, pp. 4172-4185.e7. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.27.461936, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.010
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