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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
Rush, P, Keating, C, Lugtmeijer, S, Allmark, E, Davis, A, Beejadhur, A, Tarling, A, Todd, K, Hannon, S, Iddles, A, Vichare, C, Gachomba, MJM, Lockwood, P, Apps, M & Sowden-Carvalho, S 2025, 'Autistic and non-autistic prosocial decision-making: The impact of recipient neurotype', Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, vol. 128, 202710 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reia.2025.202710
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, 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.
Contreras-Huerta, LS, Yu, H, Prosser, AMB, Lockwood, PL, Crockett, MJ & Apps, MAJ 2025, 'Hypocritical blame is associated with reduced prosocial motivation', Scientific Reports, vol. 15, no. 1, 32811. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-17698-4
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
Vlasceanu, M, Doell, KC, Bak-Coleman, JB, Todorova, B, Berkebile-Weinberg, MM, Grayson, SJ, Patel, Y, Goldwert, D, Pei, Y, Chakroff, A, Pronizius, E, van den Broek, KL, Vlasceanu, D, Constantino, S, Morais, MJ, Schumann, P, Rathje, S, Fang, K, Aglioti, SM, Alfano, M, Alvarado-Yepez, AJ, Andersen, A, Anseel, F, Apps, MAJ, Asadli, C, Awuor, FJ, Azevedo, F, Basaglia, P, Bélanger, JJ, Berger, S, Bertin, P, Białek, M, Bialobrzeska, O, Blaya-Burgo, M, Bleize, DNM, Bø, S, Boecker, L, Boggio, PS, Borau, S, Bos, B, Bouguettaya, A, Brauer, M, Brick, C, Brik, T, Briker, R, Brosch, T, Buchel, O, Buonauro, D, Butalia, R, Carvacho, H, Chamberlain, SAE, Chan, HY, Chow, D, Chung, D, Cian, L, Cohen-Eick, N, Contreras-Huerta, LS, Contu, D, Cristea, V, Cutler, J, D'Ottone, S, De Keersmaecker, J, Delcourt, S, Delouvée, S, Diel, K, Douglas, BD, Drupp, MA, Dubey, S, Ekmanis, J, Elbaek, CT, Elsherif, M, Engelhard, IM, Escher, YA, Etienne, TW, Farage, L, Farias, AR, Feuerriegel, S, Findor, A, Freira, L, Friese, M, Gains, NP, Gallyamova, A, Geiger, SJ, Genschow, O, Gjoneska, B, Gkinopoulos, T, Goldberg, B, Goldenberg, A, Gradidge, S, Grassini, S, Gray, K, Grelle, S, Griffin, SM, Grigoryan, L, Grigoryan, A, Grigoryev, D, Gruber, J, Guilaran, J, Hadar, B, Hahnel, UJJ, Halperin, E, Harvey, AJ, Haugestad, CAP, Herman, AM, Hershfield, HE, Himichi, T, Hine, DW, Hofmann, W, Howe, L, Huaman-Chulluncuy, ET, Huang, G, Ishii, T, Ito, A, Jia, F, Jost, JT, Jovanović, V, Jurgiel, D, Kácha, O, Kankaanpää, R, Kantorowicz, J, Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, E, Mintz, KK, Kaya, I, Kaya, O, Khachatryan, N, Klas, A, Klein, C, Klöckner, CA, Koppel, L, Kosachenko, AI, Kothe, EJ, Krebs, R, Krosch, AR, Krouwel, APM, Kyrychenko, Y, Lagomarsino, M, Lamm, C, Lange, F, Cunningham, JL, Lees, J, Leung, TY, Levy, N, Lockwood, PL, Longoni, C, López Ortega, A, Loschelder, DD, Lu, JG, Luo, Y, Luomba, J, Lutz, AE, Majer, JM, Markowitz, E, Marsh, AA, Mascarenhas, KL, Mbilingi, B, Mbungu, W, McHugh, C, Meijers, MHC, Mercier, H, Mhagama, FL, Michalakis, K, Mikus, N, Milliron, S, Mitkidis, P, Monge-Rodríguez, FS, Mora, YL, Moreau, D, Motoki, K, Moyano, M, Mus, M, Navajas, J, Nguyen, TL, Nguyen, DM, Nguyen, T, Niemi, L, Nijssen, SRR, Nilsonne, G, Nitschke, JP, Nockur, L, Okura, R, Öner, S, Özdoğru, AA, Palumbo, H, Panagopoulos, C, Panasiti, MS, Pärnamets, P, Paruzel-Czachura, M, Pavlov, YG, Payán-Gómez, C, Pearson, AR, da Costa, LP, Petrowsky, HM, Pfattheicher, S, Pham, NT, Ponizovskiy, V, Pretus, C, Rêgo, GG, Reimann, R, Rhoads, SA, Riano-Moreno, J, Richter, I, Röer, JP, Rosa-Sullivan, J, Ross, RM, Sabherwal, A, Saito, T, Sarrasin, O, Say, N, Schmid, K, Schmitt, MT, Schoenegger, P, Scholz, C, Schug, MG, Schulreich, S, Shreedhar, G, Shuman, E, Sivan, S, Sjåstad, H, Soliman, M, Soud, K, Spampatti, T, Sparkman, G, Spasovski, O, Stanley, SK, Stern, JA, Strahm, N, Suko, Y, Sul, S, Syropoulos, S, Taylor, NC, Tedaldi, E, Tinghög, G, Huynh, LDT, Travaglino, GA, Tsakiris, M, Tüter, İ, Tyrala, M, Uluğ, ÖM, Urbanek, A, Valko, D, van der Linden, S, van Schie, K, van Stekelenburg, A, Vanags, E, Västfjäll, D, Vesely, S, Vintr, J, Vranka, M, Wanguche, PO, Willer, R, Wojcik, AD, Xu, R, Yadav, A, Zawisza, M, Zhao, X, Zhao, J, Żuk, D & Van Bavel, JJ 2024, 'Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries', Science Advances, vol. 10, no. 6, eadj5778. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj5778
Comment/debate
Lockwood, PL 2025, 'Why I value peer review', Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 831-832. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02188-4
Review article
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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