2026 Alan G. Sanfey: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	48	5791	5382	276	265	139	18752

Overview

Alan G. Sanfey is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands. Their research spans social sciences and neuroscience, with a strong focus on various interdisciplinary subfields including cognitive neuroscience, safety research, general decision sciences, sociology and political science, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

They have contributed extensively to topics related to experimental behavioral economics studies, decision-making and behavioral economics, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, neural and behavioral psychology studies, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, behavioral health and interventions, and economic and environmental valuation.

Recent notable publications include:

The role of demographics on adolescents' preferences for risk, ambiguity, and prudence (2020) in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Out of control: An altered parieto-occipital-cerebellar network for impulsivity in bipolar disorder (2021) in Behavioural Brain Research
Decoding dynamic affective responses to naturalistic videos with shared neural patterns (2020) in NeuroImage
Moral strategies and psychopathic traits (2021) in Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Two distinct and separable processes underlie individual differences in algorithm adherence: Differences in predictions and differences in trust thresholds (2021) in PLoS ONE

Sanfey has frequently published in venues such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports, NeuroImage, Brain Sciences, and the SSRN Electronic Journal. These platforms reflect a range of interdisciplinary research interests bridging neuroscience and behavioral sciences.

Collaborations have been a significant part of their work, with several frequent co-authors including Sarah Vahed, Alessandro Grecucci, Elijah Paul Galvan, Maarten A.S. Boksem, and Achiel Fenneman. These partnerships suggest a collaborative approach within the research community focused on behavioral and cognitive neuroscience.

Best Publications

The neural basis of economic decision-making in the Ultimatum Game.

Alan G. Sanfey;James K. Rilling;Jessica A. Aronson;Leigh E. Nystrom

4606
Citations
Independent Coding of Reward Magnitude and Valence in the Human Brain

Nick Yeung;Alan G. Sanfey

1130
Citations
The Neuroscience of Social Decision-Making

James K. Rilling;Alan G. Sanfey

1043
Citations
Decoding the Role of the Insula in Human Cognition: Functional Parcellation and Large-Scale Reverse Inference

Luke J. Chang;Tal Yarkoni;Mel Win Khaw;Alan G. Sanfey;Alan G. Sanfey

974
Citations
Social decision-making: insights from game theory and neuroscience.

Alan G. Sanfey

858
Citations
The neural correlates of theory of mind within interpersonal interactions

James K Rilling;Alan G Sanfey;Jessica A Aronson;Leigh E Nystrom

843
Citations
Affective state and decision-making in the Ultimatum Game

Mascha van ’t Wout;René S. Kahn;Alan G. Sanfey;André Aleman

637
Citations
Friend or foe: the effect of implicit trustworthiness judgments in social decision-making.

M. van ’t Wout;A.G. Sanfey

525
Citations
Seeing is believing: trustworthiness as a dynamic belief.

Luke J. Chang;Bradley B. Doll;Mascha van ’t Wout;Michael J. Frank

375
Citations
Organizational Neuroscience: Taking Organizational Theory Inside the Neural Black Box

William J. Becker;Russell Cropanzano;Alan G. Sanfey

362
Citations
Triangulating the Neural, Psychological, and Economic Bases of Guilt Aversion

Luke J. Chang;Alec Smith;Alec Smith;Martin Dufwenberg;Martin Dufwenberg;Alan G. Sanfey;Alan G. Sanfey

318
Citations
Reappraising the Ultimatum: an fMRI Study of Emotion Regulation and Decision Making

Alessandro Grecucci;Cinzia Giorgetta;Mascha van't Wout;Nicolao Bonini

296
Citations
Opposing BOLD responses to reciprocated and unreciprocated altruism in putative reward pathways.

James K. Rilling;Alan G. Sanfey;Jessica A. Aronson;Leigh E. Nystrom

295
Citations
Incidental sadness biases social economic decisions in the Ultimatum Game.

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271
Citations
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex affects strategic decision-making.

Mascha van 't Wout;René S Kahn;Alan G Sanfey;André Aleman

262
Citations
Instructional control of reinforcement learning: A behavioral and neurocomputational investigation

Bradley B. Doll;W. Jake Jacobs;Alan G. Sanfey;Michael J. Frank

262
Citations
Functional Imaging of Decision Conflict

Jean Baptiste Pochon;Jason Riis;Alan G. Sanfey;Leigh E. Nystrom

258
Citations
The Herding Hormone Oxytocin Stimulates In-Group Conformity

Mirre Stallen;Mirre Stallen;Carsten K. W. De Dreu;Shaul Shalvi;Ale Smidts

233
Citations
Reappraising social emotions: the role of inferior frontal gyrus, temporo-parietal junction and insula in interpersonal emotion regulation.

Alessandro Grecucci;Cinzia Giorgetta;Nicolao Bonini;Alan Gerard Sanfey

222
Citations
Testosterone Inhibits Trust but Promotes Reciprocity

Maarten A. S. Boksem;Maarten A. S. Boksem;Pranjal H. Mehta;Pranjal H. Mehta;Pranjal H. Mehta;Bram Van den Bergh;Veerle van Son

215
Citations
Unforgettable ultimatums? Expectation violations promote enhanced social memory following economic bargaining

Luke J Chang;Alan G Sanfey

73
Citations
Emotional Responses to Movie-Trailers Predict Individual Preferences For Movies and Their Population-Wide Commercial Success

Maarten Boksem;Hang-Yee Chan;Vincent Schoots;Alan Sanfey

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Maarten A. S. Boksem Erasmus University Rotterdam

Michael J. Frank Brown University

Pranjal H. Mehta University College London

Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University

Karin Roelofs Radboud University

Carsten K. W. De Dreu University of Groningen

Eni S. Becker Radboud University

George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University

W. Jake Jacobs University of Arizona

John J.B. Allen University of Arizona

External Links

Personal website of Alan G. Sanfey

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