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Simone Shamay-Tsoory

Simone Shamay-Tsoory

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
62
Citations
20234
World Ranking
3182
National Ranking
21

Neuroscience

D-Index
62
Citations
20241
World Ranking
3465
National Ranking
23

Simone Shamay-Tsoory 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 Simone Shamay-Tsoory sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 194 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Simone Shamay-Tsoory 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 Simone Shamay-Tsoory sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Simone Shamay-Tsoory is affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on psychology and neuroscience.

The main fields of study for Simone Shamay-Tsoory include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Within these fields, their work extensively covers several subfields, such as:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

The research topics addressed by Simone Shamay-Tsoory involve:

  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion

Simone Shamay-Tsoory's publication record includes several recent papers, with a focus on social and cognitive neuroscience:

  • "Loneliness and the Social Brain: How Perceived Social Isolation Impairs Human Interactions" (2021), published in Advanced Science
  • "Exogenous Effects of Oxytocin in Five Psychiatric Disorders: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analyses and a Personalized Approach through the Lens of the Social Salience Hypothesis" (2020), published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Opposing Association of Situational and Chronic Loneliness with Interpersonal Distance" (2021), published in Brain Sciences
  • "The Default Network Is Causally Linked to Creative Thinking" (2022), published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Defining Key Concepts for Mental State Attribution" (2024), published in Communications Psychology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • René Hurlemann
  • Dirk Scheele
  • Jana Lieberz
  • Alisa Kanterman
  • Nira Saporta

Their work is frequently published in several core venues such as:

  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE
  • Brain Sciences

Best Publications

  • Two systems for empathy: a double dissociation between emotional and cognitive empathy in inferior frontal gyrus versus ventromedial prefrontal lesions.

    Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory;Judith Aharon-Peretz;Daniella Perry

  • The Neural Bases for Empathy

    Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory

  • Dissociable prefrontal networks for cognitive and affective theory of mind: a lesion study.

    Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory;Judith Aharon-Peretz

  • The Social Salience Hypothesis of Oxytocin

    Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory;Ahmad Abu-Akel

  • Neuroanatomical and neurochemical bases of theory of mind.

    Ahmad Abu-Akel;Simone Shamay-Tsoory

  • Characterization of Empathy Deficits following Prefrontal Brain Damage: The Role of the Right Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex

    S. G. Shamay-Tsoory;R. Tomer;B. D. Berger;J. Aharon-peretz

  • Intranasal administration of oxytocin increases envy and schadenfreude (gloating).

    Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory;Meytal Fischer;Jonathan Dvash;Hagai Harari

  • The role of the orbitofrontal cortex in affective theory of mind deficits in criminal offenders with psychopathic tendencies.

    Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory;Hagai Harari;Judith Aharon-Peretz;Yechiel Levkovitz

  • Impaired "affective theory of mind" is associated with right ventromedial prefrontal damage.

    S G Shamay-Tsoory;R Tomer;B D Berger;D Goldsher

  • Dissociating cognitive from affective theory of mind: A TMS study

    Elke Kalbe;Marius Schlegel;Alexander T. Sack;Dennis A. Nowak

  • Dissociation of cognitive from affective components of theory of mind in schizophrenia

    Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory;Syvan Shur;Liat Barcai-Goodman;S. Medlovich

  • Impairment in cognitive and affective empathy in patients with brain lesions: anatomical and cognitive correlates.

    S G Shamay-Tsoory;R Tomer;D Goldsher;B D Berger

  • Double dissociation between cognitive and affective empathy in borderline personality disorder.

    Hagai Harari;Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory;Milli Ravid;Yechiel Levkovitz

  • The neuroanatomical basis of understanding sarcasm and its relationship to social cognition.

    S. G. Shamay-Tsoory;R. Tomer;J. Aharon-Peretz

  • Towards a neuroscience of empathy: Ontogeny, phylogeny, brain mechanisms, context and psychopathology

    Cristina Gonzalez-Liencres;Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory;Martin Brüne

  • Theory of Mind and Empathy as Multidimensional Constructs: Neurological Foundations.

    Jonathan Dvash;Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory

  • Brain-to-brain coupling during handholding is associated with pain reduction

    Pavel Goldstein;Irit Weissman-Fogel;Guillaume Dumas;Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory

  • Real-Life Neuroscience: An Ecological Approach to Brain and Behavior Research.

    Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory;Avi Mendelsohn

  • Herding Brains: A Core Neural Mechanism for Social Alignment

    Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory;Nira Saporta;Inbar Z. Marton-Alper;Hila Z. Gvirts

  • The origins of originality: the neural bases of creative thinking and originality.

    S.G. Shamay-Tsoory;N. Adler;J. Aharon-Peretz;D. Perry

  • The ventromedial prefrontal cortex is involved in understanding affective but not cognitive theory of mind stories

    Simone G Shamay-Tsoory;Yasmin Tibi-Elhanany;Judith Aharon-Peretz

  • The effect of intranasal administration of oxytocin on fear recognition.

    M. Fischer-Shofty;S.G. Shamay-Tsoory;H. Harari;Y. Levkovitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Yechiel Levkovitz
Yechiel Levkovitz Tel Aviv University
Jean Decety
Jean Decety University of Chicago
Talma Hendler
Talma Hendler Tel Aviv University
Edward T. Bullmore
Edward T. Bullmore King's College London
Shihui Han
Shihui Han Peking University
Richard P. Ebstein
Richard P. Ebstein Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Sigal Zilcha-Mano
Sigal Zilcha-Mano University of Haifa
John H. Krystal
John H. Krystal Yale University
Martin Brüne
Martin Brüne Ruhr University Bochum
Bhismadev Chakrabarti
Bhismadev Chakrabarti University of Reading

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