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Amitai Shenhav publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amitai Shenhav sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 97 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Amitai Shenhav D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amitai Shenhav sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Amitai Shenhav is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and decision sciences, with a strong focus on cognitive neuroscience and general decision sciences as prominent subfields. Applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and safety research also feature among their areas of study.

Their work addresses topics such as neural and behavioral psychology studies, decision-making and behavioral economics, behavioral health and interventions, neural dynamics and brain function, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, memory and neural mechanisms, and experimental behavioral economics studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Shenhav include Xiamin Leng, Romy Frömer, Harrison Ritz, Ivan Grahek, and Debbie Yee. They have published extensively in several venues, with notable recurring publications appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), the 2022 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Nature Human Behaviour, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, and Cognition.

Recent publications by Amitai Shenhav feature the following works:

  • "Expectations of reward and efficacy guide cognitive control allocation," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Advances in modeling learning and decision-making in neuroscience," 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Decomposing the Motivation to Exert Mental Effort," 2021, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • "A computational perspective on the roles of affect in cognitive control," 2020, International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • "Filling the gaps: Cognitive control as a critical lens for understanding mechanisms of value-based decision-making," 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Amitai Shenhav's contributions have been recognized with the award of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2019.

Best Publications

  • The Expected Value of Control: An Integrative Theory of Anterior Cingulate Cortex Function

    Amitai Shenhav;Matthew M. Botvinick;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort.

    Amitai Shenhav;Sebastian Musslick;Falk Lieder;Wouter Kool

  • The Effort Paradox: Effort Is Both Costly and Valued.

    Michael Inzlicht;Amitai Shenhav;Christopher Y. Olivola

  • Divine intuition: cognitive style influences belief in God.

    Amitai Shenhav;David G. Rand;Joshua D. Greene

  • Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and the value of control

    Amitai Shenhav;Jonathan D Cohen;Matthew M Botvinick

  • Moral judgments recruit domain-general valuation mechanisms to integrate representations of probability and magnitude.

    Amitai Shenhav;Joshua D. Greene

  • Motivation and cognitive control in depression

    Ivan Grahek;Amitai Shenhav;Sebastian Musslick;Ruth M. Krebs

  • Habits without values.

    Kevin J. Miller;Amitai Shenhav;Elliot Andrew Ludvig

  • Anterior cingulate engagement in a foraging context reflects choice difficulty, not foraging value.

    Amitai Shenhav;Mark A Straccia;Jonathan D Cohen;Matthew M Botvinick

  • Integrative moral judgment: dissociating the roles of the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

    Amitai Shenhav;Joshua D. Greene

  • Resolving uncertainty in a social world

    Oriel FeldmanHall;Amitai Shenhav

  • Expectations of reward and efficacy guide cognitive control allocation.

    R. Frömer;H. Lin;C. K. Dean Wolf;M. Inzlicht

  • Rational metareasoning and the plasticity of cognitive control

    Falk Lieder;Amitai Shenhav;Sebastian Musslick;Thomas L. Griffiths

  • Increased locus coeruleus tonic activity causes disengagement from a patch-foraging task

    Gary A. Kane;Elena M. Vazey;Robert C. Wilson;Amitai Shenhav;Amitai Shenhav

  • Cholinergic enhancement reduces spatial spread of visual responses in human early visual cortex.

    Michael A. Silver;Amitai Shenhav;Amitai Shenhav;Mark D'Esposito;Mark D'Esposito

  • The Eighty Five Percent Rule for optimal learning

    Robert C. Wilson;Amitai Shenhav;Mark Straccia;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Aiming for the stomach and hitting the heart: dissociable triggers and sources for disgust reactions.

    Amitai Shenhav;Wendy Berry Mendes

  • Advances in modeling learning and decision-making in neuroscience.

    Anne G E Collins;Amitai Shenhav

  • Goal congruency dominates reward value in accounting for behavioral and neural correlates of value-based decision-making.

    Romy Frömer;Carolyn K. Dean Wolf;Amitai Shenhav

  • Neural correlates of dueling affective reactions to win–win choices

    Amitai Shenhav;Amitai Shenhav;Randy L. Buckner

  • Dorsal anterior cingulate and ventromedial prefrontal cortex have inverse roles in both foraging and economic choice.

    Amitai Shenhav;Amitai Shenhav;Mark A. Straccia;Mark A. Straccia;Matthew M. Botvinick;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Affective value and associative processing share a cortical substrate.

    Amitai Shenhav;Amitai Shenhav;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Moshe Bar;Moshe Bar

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University
Matthew Botvinick
Matthew Botvinick Yale University
Joshua D. Greene
Joshua D. Greene Harvard University
Nathaniel D. Daw
Nathaniel D. Daw Princeton University
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University
Michael Inzlicht
Michael Inzlicht University of Toronto
Moshe Bar
Moshe Bar Bar-Ilan University
Naomi Ehrich Leonard
Naomi Ehrich Leonard Princeton University
Michael J. Frank
Michael J. Frank Brown University
Mark D'Esposito
Mark D'Esposito University of California, Berkeley

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