Publications

* indicates lab trainee

In press

Bas, L., *Roberts, I.D., Hutcherson, C.A.,, & Tusche, A*. (in press). A neurocomputational account of the link between social perception and social action. eLife, 12, RP92539.

*Roberts, I.D., *HajiHosseini, A., & Hutcherson, C.A. (in press). How bad becomes good: A neurocomputational model of flexible affect valuation. Emotion.

2024

Grossmann, I., Mandel, D., Hutcherson, C.A., & Varnum, M. (2024). When expert predictions fail. Trends in Cognitive Science, 28, 113-123.

Janet, R., Smallwood, J., Plassmann, H., Hutcherson, C.A., & Tusche, A. (2024). Body mass index-dependent shifts along large-scale gradients in human cortical organization explain dietary regulatory success. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 121(18), e2314224121.

2023

Chu, S., Hutcherson, C.A., Ito, R., & Lee, A. (2023). Elucidating medial temporal and frontal lobe contributions to approach-avoidance conflict decision-making using functional MRI and the hierarchical drift diffusion model. Cerebral Cortex, 33, 7797-7815.

*Cho, H., *Teoh, Y., Cunningham, W., & Hutcherson, C.A. (2023). Deliberative control is more than just reactive: Insights from sequential sampling models. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46,E116.

Hutcherson, C.A., Sharpinsky, K., Rotella, A., Wormley, A., Varnum, M., & Grossmann, I. (2023). On the accuracy, media representation, and public perception of psychological scientists’ judgments of societal change. American Psychologist, 78(8), 968-981.

The Forecasting Collaborative (2023). Insights into accuracy of social scientists' forecasts of societal change. Nature Human Behavior, 7,484-501.

*Teoh, Y., Cunningham, W. & Hutcherson, C.A. (2023). Framing subjective emotion reports as dynamic affective decisions. Affective Science, 4, 522-528.

*Wilson, D. J., *HajiHosseini, A., & Hutcherson, C.A. (2023). Recruitment of dlPFC during dietary self-regulation predicts the transience of regulatory effects. Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, 18(1), nsab088.

2022

Hutcherson, C.A. & Tusche, A. (2022). Evidence accumulation, not “self-control,” explains dorsolateral prefrontal activation during normative choice. eLife, 11, e65661.

*Roberts, I.D., & Hutcherson, C.A. (2022). Time to pay attention?: Information search explains amplified framing effects under time pressure. Psychological Science, 33(1), 90-104.

*Teoh, Y. & Hutcherson, C.A. (2022). The games we play: Prosocial choices under time pressure reflect context-sensitive information priorities. Psychological Science, 33, 1541-1556.

*Teoh, Y., *Roberts, I.D., & Hutcherson, C.A.. (2022). Reframing rationality: Exogenous constraints on controlled information search. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45,e242.

2021

*HajiHosseini, A., & Hutcherson, C.A. (2021). Alpha oscillations and event related potentials reflect distinct dynamics of attribute construction and evidence accumulation in dietary decision making. eLife, 10, e60874.

Harris, A. & Hutcherson, C.A. (2021). The temporal dynamics of decision making: A synthesis of computational and neurophysiological approaches. WIREs Cognitive Science, e1586.

2020

*HajiHosseini, A., Hutcherson, C.A., & Holroyd, C. B. (2020). Beta oscillations following performance feedback predict subsequent recall of task relevant information. Scientific Reports, 10, 1-8.

*Teoh, Y., *Yao, Z., Cunningham, W., & Hutcherson, C.A. (2020). Attentional priorities drive effects of time pressure on altruistic choice. Nature Communications, 11, 3534.

2019

*Roberts, I.D., & Hutcherson, C.A. (2019). Affect and decision making: Insights and predictions from computational models. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23, 602-614

Cameron, C.D., Hutcherson, C.A., Scheffer, J., Ferguson, A., Inzlicht, M. (2019). Empathy is hard work: People choose to avoid empathy because of its cognitive costs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 962-976

*Roberts, I.D., *Teoh, Y.Y., & Hutcherson, C.A., (2019). Oxytocin and the altruistic ‘Goldilocks zone’.Nature Neuroscience, 22(4), 510-512

Rosenthal, I.A., Hutcherson, C.A., Adolphs, R., Stanley, D.A. (2019). Model-based analysis of theory-of-mind learning in autism. Current Biology, 29, 513-519.

2018

Harris, A., Clithero, J., Hutcherson, C.A. (2018). Accounting for taste: A multi-attribute neurocomputational model explains neural dynamics of choices for self and others. Journal of Neuroscience, 38, 7952-7968. >>

*Lin, H.S., Saunders, B., Hutcherson, C.A., & Inzlicht, M. (2018). Midfrontal theta and pupil dilation parametrically track subjective conflict (but also surprise) during intertemporal choice. NeuroImage, 172, 838-852.

Schmidt, L., Tusche, A., Manoharan, N., Hutcherson, C.A., Hare, T., & Plassmann, H. (2018). Neuroanatomy of the vmPFC and dlPFC predicts individual differences in cognitive regulation during dietary self-control across regulation strategies. Journal of Neuroscience, 38, 5799-5805.

Tusche, A., & Hutcherson, C.A., (2018). Cognitive regulation alters social and dietary choice by changing attribute representations in domain-general and domain-specific brain circuits. eLife, 7, e31185. >>

2017

Berkman, E., Hutcherson, C.A., Livingston, J.L., Kahn, L.E., & Inzlicht, M. (2017). Self-control as value-based choice. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 422-428.

Inzlicht, M., & Hutcherson, C.A. (2017). People work less hard for others. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, s41562-017-0148.

2015

Hutcherson, C.A., Bushong, B., & Rangel, A. (2015). A neurocomputational model of altruistic choice and its implications. Neuron, 87, 451-462.

Hutcherson, C.A., Montaser-Kouhsari, L., Woodward, J., & Rangel, A. (2015). Emotional and utilitarian values of moral dilemmas are encoded in separate areas and integrated in ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 12593-12605.

Hutcherson, C.A., Seppälä, E.M., & Gross, J.J. (2015). The neural correlates of social connection. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, 1-15.

Sullivan, N., Hutcherson, C.A., Harris, A., & Rangel, A. (2015). Dietary self-control is related to the speed with which health and taste attributes are processed. Psychological Science, 26, 122-134.

2014

Seppälä, E.M., Hutcherson, C.A., Nguyen, D.T.H., Doty, J.R., & Gross, J.J. (2014). Loving-kindness meditation: a tool to improve healthcare provider compassion, resilience, and patient care. Journal of Compassionate Healthcare, 1, 1-9.

2012

Hutcherson, C.A., Plassmann, H., Gross, J.J., & Rangel, A. (2012). Cognitive regulation during decision-making shifts behavioral control between ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal value systems. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(39), 13543-13554.

Sokol-Hessner, P., Hutcherson, C.A., Hare, T., & Rangel, A. (2012). Decision value computations in DLPFC and VMPFC adjust to the available decision time. European Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 1065-1074.

2011

Hutcherson, C.A., & Gross, J.J. (2011). The moral emotions: a social functionalist account of anger, disgust, and contempt. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 719-737.

Pre-2010

Pace-Schott, E.F., Hutcherson, C.A., Bemporad, B., Morgan, A., Kumar, A., Hobson, A, & Stickgold, R. (2009). Failure to find executive function deficits following one night's total sleep-depriation in university students under naturalistic conditions. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 7, 136-163.

Hutcherson, C.A., Seppälä, E.M., & Gross, J.J. (2008). Lovingkindness meditation increases social connectedness. Emotion, 8, 720-724.

Hutcherson, C.A., Goldin, P.R., Ramel, W., McRae, K.N., & Gross, J.J. (2008). Attention and emotion influence the relationship between extraversion and neural response. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3, 71-79.

Bailenson, J.N., Pontikakis, E.D., Mauss, I.B., Gross, J.J., Jabon, M.E., Hutcherson, C.A., Nass, C., & John, O. (2008). Real-time classification of evoked emotions using facial feature tracking and physiological responses. International Journal of Human Machine Studies, 66, 303-317.

Hutcherson, C.A., Goldin, P.R., Ochsner, K.N., Gabrieli, J.D., Feldman-Barrett, L., & Gross, J.J. (2005). Attention to emotion: does rating emotion alter neural repsonse to sad and amusing films? NeuroImage, 27, 656-668.

Goldin, P.R., Hutcherson, C.A., Ochsner, K.N., Glover, G.H., Gabrieli, J.D., & Gross, J.J. (2005). The neural bases of amusement and sadness: a comparison of block and subject-specific emotion intensity regression approaches. NeuroImage, 27, 26-36.