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Overview

Dean Mobbs is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within neuroscience and psychology, focusing particularly on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology.

Their work covers a broad range of topics, including:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Dean Mobbs has published extensively in prominent journals, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Notable recent papers include:

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Changes in risk perception and self-reported protective behaviour during the first week of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, 2020, Royal Society Open Science
  • Space, Time, and Fear: Survival Computations along Defensive Circuits, 2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19, 2023, Nature
  • Using Social and Behavioural Science to Support COVID-19 Pandemic Response, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dean Mobbs include:

  • Toby Wise
  • Song Qi
  • Sarah M. Tashjian
  • Tomislav D. Zbozinek
  • Haiyan Wu

Their publications are predominantly situated in the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with key subfields involving Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • When Fear Is Near: Threat Imminence Elicits Prefrontal-Periaqueductal Gray Shifts in Humans

    Dean Mobbs;Predrag Petrovic;Jennifer L. Marchant;Demis Hassabis

  • Changes in risk perception and self-reported protective behaviour during the first week of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

    Toby Wise;Toby Wise;Tomislav D. Zbozinek;Giorgia Michelini;Cindy C. Hagan

  • When Your Gain Is My Pain and Your Pain Is My Gain: Neural Correlates of Envy and Schadenfreude

    Hidehiko Takahashi;Motoichiro Kato;Masato Matsuura;Dean Mobbs

  • Humor modulates the mesolimbic reward centers.

    Dean Mobbs;Michael D Greicius;Eiman Abdel-Azim;Vinod Menon

  • From Threat to Fear: The Neural Organization of Defensive Fear Systems in Humans

    Dean Mobbs;Jennifer L. Marchant;Demis Hassabis;Ben Seymour

  • The ecology of human fear: survival optimization and the nervous system.

    Dean Mobbs;Cindy C. Hagan;Tim Dalgleish;Brian Silston

  • Law, responsibility, and the brain.

    Dean Mobbs;Dean Mobbs;Hakwan C Lau;Hakwan C Lau;Owen D Jones;Christopher D Frith

  • Training the Emotional Brain: Improving Affective Control through Emotional Working Memory Training

    Susanne Schweizer;Jessica Grahn;Adam Hampshire;Dean Mobbs

  • Neural activity associated with monitoring the oscillating threat value of a tarantula

    Dean Mobbs;Rongjun Yu;James B. Rowe;Hannah Eich

  • Empathic concern drives costly altruism.

    Oriel FeldmanHall;Tim Dalgleish;Davy Evans;Dean Mobbs

  • A Key Role for Similarity in Vicarious Reward

    Dean Mobbs;Rongjun Yu;Marcel Meyer;Marcel Meyer;Luca Passamonti

  • What we say and what we do: the relationship between real and hypothetical moral choices.

    Oriel FeldmanHall;Dean Mobbs;Davy Evans;Davy Evans;Lucy Hiscox

  • Foraging for foundations in decision neuroscience: insights from ethology

    Dean Mobbs;Pete C. Trimmer;Daniel T. Blumstein;Peter Dayan

  • Sex differences in brain activation elicited by humor.

    Eiman Azim;Dean Mobbs;Booil Jo;Vinod Menon

  • Emotional Attribution in High-Functioning Individuals With Autistic Spectrum Disorder: A Functional Imaging Study

    Judith Piggot;Hower Kwon;Dean Mobbs;Christine Blasey

  • Space, Time, and Fear: Survival Computations along Defensive Circuits.

    Dean Mobbs;Drew B. Headley;Weilun Ding;Peter Dayan;Peter Dayan

  • The Kuleshov Effect: The influence of contextual framing on emotional attributions

    Dean Mobbs;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Hakwan C. Lau;Eric Featherstone

  • Personality predicts activity in reward and emotional regions associated with humor

    Dean Mobbs;Cindy C. Hagan;Eiman Azim;Vinod Menon

  • Changes in risk perception and protective behavior during the first week of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

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  • Changes in risk perception and self-reported protective behaviour during the first week of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: COVID-19 risk perception and behavior

    T. Wise;T. D. Zbozinek;G. Michelini;C. C. Hagan

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Dalgleish
Tim Dalgleish University of Cambridge
Rongjun Yu
Rongjun Yu National University of Singapore
Hakwan Lau
Hakwan Lau Sungkyunkwan University
Allan L. Reiss
Allan L. Reiss Stanford University
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Ben Seymour
Ben Seymour University of Oxford
Vinod Menon
Vinod Menon Stanford University
Andrew J. Calder
Andrew J. Calder University of Cambridge
James B. Rowe
James B. Rowe University of Cambridge
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London

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