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Kent C. Berridge 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 Kent C. Berridge sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 364 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kent C. Berridge 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 Kent C. Berridge sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 116 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% 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 - Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville
  • 2016 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Kent C. Berridge is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within neuroscience and psychology, focusing primarily on the neural mechanisms underlying motivation, reward, and affective processes.

The main fields of study associated with Kent C. Berridge include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Within these disciplines, Berridge's work has concentrated on several subfields, notably:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The central topics addressed in their research cover aspects such as:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors

Berridge has published extensively in scientific journals with notable frequent venues including:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • PLoS ONE
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Physiology & Behavior

Their recent significant publications illustrate the breadth of research interests and include:

  • 'Liking' and 'wanting' in eating and food reward: Brain mechanisms and clinical implications (2020) in Physiology & Behavior
  • The rise of affectivism (2021) in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Positive affect: nature and brain bases of liking and wanting (2021) in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • The central amygdala recruits mesocorticolimbic circuitry for pursuit of reward or pain (2020) in Nature Communications
  • Activating Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Systems in the Nucleus Accumbens, Amygdala, and Bed Nucleus of Stria Terminalis: Incentive Motivation or Aversive Motivation? (2021) in Biological Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators in Berridge's research include:

  • Hannah Baumgartner
  • Erin E. Naffziger
  • Shelley M. Warlow
  • Ileana Morales
  • Daniel Dukes

Over the course of their career, Berridge has received multiple awards and honors, such as:

  • Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville (2019)
  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association (2016)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2011)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2005)
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) (1998)

Best Publications

  • The neural basis of drug craving: An incentive-sensitization theory of addiction

    Terry E. Robinson;Kent C. Berridge

  • What is the role of dopamine in reward: hedonic impact, reward learning, or incentive salience?

    Kent C Berridge;Terry E Robinson

  • The debate over dopamine’s role in reward: the case for incentive salience

    Kent C. Berridge

  • Food reward: Brain substrates of wanting and liking

    Kent C. Berridge

  • Dissecting components of reward: 'liking', 'wanting', and learning.

    Kent C Berridge;Terry E Robinson;J Wayne Aldridge

  • The Neuroscience of Natural Rewards: Relevance to Addictive Drugs

    Ann E. Kelley;Kent C. Berridge

  • The incentive sensitization theory of addiction: some current issues

    Terry E. Robinson;Kent C. Berridge

  • The psychology and neurobiology of addiction: an incentive–sensitization view

    Terry E. Robinson;Kent C. Berridge

  • Pleasure Systems in the Brain

    Kent C. Berridge;Morten L. Kringelbach

  • Incentive-sensitization and addiction

    Terry E. Robinson;Kent C. Berridge

  • Motivation concepts in behavioral neuroscience.

    Kent C Berridge

  • Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals.

    Kent C. Berridge;Morten L. Kringelbach;Morten L. Kringelbach

  • Parsing reward

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  • 'Liking' and 'wanting' food rewards: Brain substrates and roles in eating disorders

    Kent C. Berridge

  • Liking, wanting, and the incentive-sensitization theory of addiction.

    Kent C. Berridge;Terry E. Robinson

  • Unconscious Affective Reactions to Masked Happy Versus Angry Faces Influence Consumption Behavior and Judgments of Value

    Piotr Winkielman;Kent C. Berridge;Julia L. Wilbarger

  • The tempted brain eats: Pleasure and desire circuits in obesity and eating disorders

    Kent C. Berridge;Chao Yi Ho;Jocelyn M. Richard;Alexandra G. Difeliceantonio

  • Measuring hedonic impact in animals and infants: microstructure of affective taste reactivity patterns.

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  • Comparative expression of hedonic impact: affective reactions to taste by human infants and other primates

    Jacob E Steiner;Dieter Glaser;Maria E Hawilo;Kent C Berridge

  • Intra-Accumbens Amphetamine Increases the Conditioned Incentive Salience of Sucrose Reward: Enhancement of Reward “Wanting” without Enhanced “Liking” or Response Reinforcement

    Cindy L. Wyvell;Kent C. Berridge

  • Erratum to: “Parsing reward” [Trends Neurosci. 26 (2003) 507–513]

    Kent C Berridge;Terry E Robinson

  • Pleasures of the brain.

    Kent C. Berridge

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Wayne Aldridge
J. Wayne Aldridge University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Terry E. Robinson
Terry E. Robinson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Morten L. Kringelbach
Morten L. Kringelbach University of Oxford
Harvey J. Grill
Harvey J. Grill University of Pennsylvania
Piotr Winkielman
Piotr Winkielman University of California, San Diego
Dallas Treit
Dallas Treit University of Alberta
Allan V. Kalueff
Allan V. Kalueff Ural Federal University
Israel Liberzon
Israel Liberzon Texas A&M University
Jennifer C. Britton
Jennifer C. Britton University of Miami

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