2026 Simone Shamay-Tsoory: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	62	3465	3168	23	21	196	20241
Psychology	62	3184	2930	21	19	194	20234

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

2032
Citations
The Neural Bases for Empathy

Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory

1313
Citations
Dissociable prefrontal networks for cognitive and affective theory of mind: a lesion study.

Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory;Judith Aharon-Peretz

996
Citations
The Social Salience Hypothesis of Oxytocin

Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory;Ahmad Abu-Akel

948
Citations
Neuroanatomical and neurochemical bases of theory of mind.

Ahmad Abu-Akel;Simone Shamay-Tsoory

750
Citations
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

707
Citations
Intranasal administration of oxytocin increases envy and schadenfreude (gloating).

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

630
Citations
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

603
Citations
Impaired "affective theory of mind" is associated with right ventromedial prefrontal damage.

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

594
Citations
Dissociating cognitive from affective theory of mind: A TMS study

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

551
Citations
Dissociation of cognitive from affective components of theory of mind in schizophrenia

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

515
Citations
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

419
Citations
Double dissociation between cognitive and affective empathy in borderline personality disorder.

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

384
Citations
The neuroanatomical basis of understanding sarcasm and its relationship to social cognition.

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

361
Citations
Towards a neuroscience of empathy: Ontogeny, phylogeny, brain mechanisms, context and psychopathology

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

360
Citations
Theory of Mind and Empathy as Multidimensional Constructs: Neurological Foundations.

Jonathan Dvash;Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory

338
Citations
Brain-to-brain coupling during handholding is associated with pain reduction

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

329
Citations
Real-Life Neuroscience: An Ecological Approach to Brain and Behavior Research.

Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory;Avi Mendelsohn

290
Citations
Herding Brains: A Core Neural Mechanism for Social Alignment

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

270
Citations
The origins of originality: the neural bases of creative thinking and originality.

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

265
Citations
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

252
Citations
The effect of intranasal administration of oxytocin on fear recognition.

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

247
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yechiel Levkovitz Tel Aviv University

Talma Hendler Tel Aviv University

Jean Decety University of Chicago

Shihui Han Peking University

Richard P. Ebstein Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Edward T. Bullmore King's College London

Sigal Zilcha-Mano University of Haifa

Matthias Brand University of Duisburg-Essen

Martin Brüne Ruhr University Bochum

Bhismadev Chakrabarti University of Reading

External Links

Personal website of Simone Shamay-Tsoory

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