New Paradigms in psychological research

A bibliography of transdisciplinary science and psychology articles that have

gone past the traditional division of research into specialized subsections.
These articles bridge the gap between previously separated areas of research
to create new paradigms in psychological science. This is a great resource for
creating a seminar to teach “out of the box” research methodology.

Genetics and Behavior:

Scientific American-entire January 2009 issue

*Buller, D.J. (2009). Four fallacies of pop evolutionary psychology. Scientific American, 300
(1), 74-81.
Dickson, B.J. (2008). Wired for sex: The neurobiology of drosophila mating decisions. Science,
322(5903), 904-909.
*Donaldson, Z.R. & Young, L.J. (2008). Oxytocin, vasopressin, and the neurogenetics of
sociality. Science, 322(5903), 900-904.
Ferguson, J.N., Young, L.J., Hearn, E.F., Matzuk, M.M., Insel, T.R. & Winslow, J.T.(2000).
Social amnesia in mice lacking the oxytocin gene. Nature Genetics. 25.284-288.
*Fowler, J.H. & Schreiber, D. (2008). Biology, politics, and the emerging science of human
nature. Science, 322(5903), 912-914.
*Gerhart, J.C., & Kirschner, M.W. (2005). The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin’s
Dilemma. New Haven: Yale University Press.
*Gottesman, I.I. & Hanson, D.R. (2005). Human development: Biological and Genetic
Processes. Annual Review of Psychology. 56. 263-286.
Hayden, E.C. (2007). So similar, yet so different. Nature, 449(7164), 762-763.
Holden, C. (2007). Gene Variant May Influence How People Learn From Their Mistakes.
Science, 318(5856), 1539a.
*Holden, C. (2008). Parsing the genetics of behavior. Science, 322(5903), 892-895.
*Jasny, B.R., Kelner, K.L., & Pennisi, E. (2008). Introduction: From genes to social behavior.
Science, 322(5903), 891.
Klein, T. A., Neumann, J., Reuter, M., Hennig, J., von Cramon, D. Y., & Ullsperger, M. (2007).
Genetically Determined Differences in Learning from Errors. Science, 318(5856), 1642-
1645.
Lester, B. (2007, July 30). Bad memories tied to DNA. ScienceNOW Daily News. Retrieved
January 2, 2008 from http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/730/2
Pitkow, L.J., Sharer, C.A., Ren, X., Insel, T.R., Terwilliger, E.F. & Young, L.J. (2001).
Facilitation of Affiliation and Pair-Bond Formation by Vasopressin Receptor Gene
Transfer into the Ventral Forebrain of a Monogamous Vole. The Journal of
Neuroscience. 21(18). 7392-7396.
*Robinson, G.E., Fernald, R.D., & Clayton, D.F. (2008). Genes and social behavior. Science,
322(5903), 896-900.
Takahashi, J.S., Shimomura, K., & Kumar, V. (2008). Searching for genes underlying behavior:
Lessons from circadian rhythms. Science, 322(5903), 909-912.
Vosshall, L. B. (2007). Into the mind of a fly. Nature, 450(7167), 193-197.
*Ward, P. (2009). What will become of homo sapiens? Scientific American, 300(1), 68-73.

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Behavior:

Adolphs, R. (2009). The social brain: Neural basis of social knowledge. Annual Review of
Psychology, 60, 693-716.
Angier, N. (2008, January 22). Political animals (yes, animals). The New York Times. Retrieved
January 24, 2008, from http://www.nytimes.com
Ash, C., Chin, G., Pennisi, E., & Sugden, A. (2007). Living in Societies. Science, 317(5843),
1337-.
Bishop, S. J. (2009). Trait anxiety and impoverished prefrontal control of attention. Nature
Neuroscience, 12(1), 92-98.
*Blake, R., Shiffrar, M. (2007). Perception of Human Motion. Annual Review of Psychology. 58.
47-73.
Coan, J.A., Schaefer, H.S. & Davidson, R.J. (2006). Lending a Hand. Psychological Science.
17(12). 1032-1039.
Cohen, M.X., Schoene-Bake, J., Elger, C.E., & Weber, B. (2009). Connectivity-based
segregation of the human striatum predicts personality characteristics. Nature
Neuroscience, 12(1), 32-34.
*Dunbar, R. I. M., & Shultz, S. (2007). Evolution in the Social Brain. Science, 317(5843), 1344-
1347.
Emery, N.J. and Clayton, N.S. (2009). Comparative social cognition. Annual Review of
Psychology, 60, 87-113.
Fliessbach, K., Weber, B., Trautner, P., Dohmen, T., Sunde, U., Elger, C. E., et al. (2007). Social
Comparison Affects Reward-Related Brain Activity in the Human Ventral Striatum.
Science, 318(5854), 1305-1308.
*Fogassi, L., & Ferrari, P. F. (2007). Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Embodied Language.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16(3), 136-141.
Gibbons, A. (4 February 2008). Team uncovers new evidence of recent human evolution.
ScienceNOW Daily News. Retrieved from http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/.
*Gilbert, D. T., & Wilson, T. D. (2007). Prospection: Experiencing the Future. Science,
317(5843), 1351-1354.
*Horner, V., Whiten, A., Flynn, E. & de Waal, F.B. (2006). Faithful replication of foraging
techniques along cultural transmission chains by chimpanzees and children. PNAS. 103
(37). 13878-13883.
Iacoboni, M. (2009). Imitation, empathy, and mirror neurons. Annual Review of Psychology,
60, 653-670.
*Langford, D.J., Crager, S.E., Shehzad, Z., Smith, S.B., Sotocinal, S.G., Levenstadt, J.S. et.al.
(2006). Social Modulation of Pain as Evidence for Empathy in Mice. Science. 312. 1967-
1970.
*Lieberman, D., Tooby, J., Cosmides, L. (2007). The Architecture of Human Kin Detection.
Nature. 445. 727-731.
Lim, M., Metzler, R., & Bar-Yam, Y. (2007). Global Pattern Formation and Ethnic/Cultural
Violence. Science, 317(5844), 1540-1544.
*Miller, G. (2006). Signs of empathy seen in mice. Science, 312, 1860-1861.
Miller, G. (2007). All Together Now--Pull! Science, 317(5843), 1338-1340.
Miller, G. (2007). The Promise of Parallel Universes. Science, 317(5843), 1341-1343.
Olsson, A., & Phelps, E. A. (2007). Social learning of fear. Nature Neuroscience, 10(9), 1095-
1102.
Pinker, St. (2008, January 13). The moral instinct. The New York Times. Retrieved January 14,
2008, from http://www.nytimes.com
*Rizzolatti, G. & Craighero, L. (2004). The Mirror-Neuron System. Annual Review of
Neuroscience. 27. 169-192.
Silk, J. B. (2007). Social Components of Fitness in Primate Groups. Science, 317(5843), 1347-
1351.
Svoboda, E. (2007). Faces, Faces Everywhere. The New York Times. Article Printed February 13,
2007.
*Thornton, A. & McAuliffe. (2006). Teaching in Wild Meerkats. Science, 313, 227-229.
Weiss, R. (2006). Who’s That Pretty Pachyderm? Washington Post. Article Printed October 31,
2006.

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Decision-Making:

Cohen, M.X. (2008). Neurocomputational mechanisms of reinforcement-guided learning in
humans: A review. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 8(2), 113-125.
Daw, N. D. (2007). Dopamine: at the intersection of reward and action. Nature Neuroscience,
10(12), 1505-1507.
Glimcher, P.W. (2005). Indeterminacy in brain and behavior. Annual Review of Psychology.
56. 25-56.
*Glimcher, P.W. (2008). Understanding risk: A guide for the perplexed. Cognitive, Affective &
Behavioral Neuroscience, 8(4), 348-54.
Gold, J.I. & Shadlen, M.N. (2007). The neural basis of decision making. Annual Review of
Neuroscience, 30, 535-74.
Hamlin, J. K., Wynn, K., & Bloom, P. (2007). Social evaluation by preverbal infants. Nature,
450(7169), 557-559.
*Heyman, K. (2006). The Map in the Brain: Grid Cells May Help Us Navigate. Science. 312.
680-1.
*Kampe, K.W., Frith, C.D., Dolan, R.J. & Frith, U. (2001). Reward Value of Attractiveness and
Gaze. Nature. 413. 589.
Koechlin, E., & Hyafil, A. (2007). Anterior Prefrontal Function and the Limits of Human
Decision-Making. Science, 318(5850), 594-598.
*Levine, J. D. (2008). Glia and romance. Nat Neurosci, 11(1), 8-10.
*Loewenstein, G., Rick, S., Cohen, J.D. (2008). Neuroeconomics. Annual Review of Psychology,
59, 647-72.
Miller, G. (2006). The Emotional Brain Weighs Its Options. Science, 313, 600-1.
Montague, P.R., King-Casas, B. & Cohen, J.D. (2006). Imaging Valuation Models in Human
Choice. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 29. 417-48.
Pompilio, L., Kacelnik, A. & Behmer, S.T. (2006). State-Dependent Learned Valuation Drives
Choice in an Invertebrate. Science. 311. 1613-15.
Roesch, M. R., Calu, D. J., & Schoenbaum, G. (2007). Dopamine neurons encode the better
option in rats deciding between differently delayed or sized rewards. Nature
Neuroscience, 10(12), 1615-1624.
Rudebeck, P.H., Walton, M.E., Smyth, A.N., Bannerman, D.M. & Rushworth, M.F. (2006).
Separate Neural Pathways Process Different Decision Costs. Nature Neuroscience. 9(9).
1161-68.
Sanfey, A. G. (2007). Decision Neuroscience: New Directions in Studies of Judgment and
Decision Making. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16(3), 151-155.
*Sanfey, A. G. (2007). Social Decision-Making: Insights from Game Theory and Neuroscience.
Science, 318(5850), 598-602.
*Schultz, W. (2007). Multiple dopamine functions at different time courses. Annual Review of
Neuroscience, 30, 259-88.
Stefani, M.R. & Moghaddam, B. (2006). Rule learning and reward contingency are associated
with dissociable patterns of dopamine activation in the rat prefrontal cortex, nucleus
accumbens, and dorsal striatum. The Journal of Neuroscience, 26(34), 8810-8818.
Stern, P. (2007). Decisions, Decisions. Science, 318(5850), 593.
Suddendorf, T. F. (2006). Foresight and Evolution of the Human Mind. Science, 312, 1006-7.
*Weber, E.U. & Johnson, E.J. (2009). Mindful judgment and decision making. Annual Review
of Psychology, 60, 53—85.
Weller, J. A., Levin, I. P., Shiv, B., & Bechara, A. (2007). Neural Correlates of Adaptive
Decision Making for Risky Gains and Losses. Psychological Science, 18(11), 958-964.

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Emotion/Motivation:

*Barrett, L. F., Lindquist, K. A., Bliss-Moreau, E., Duncan, S., Gendron, M., Mize, J., et al.
(2007). Of Mice and Men: Natural Kinds of Emotions in the Mammalian Brain? A
Response to Panksepp and Izard. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2(3), 297-312.
*Barrett, L.F., Mesquita, B., Ochsner, K.N. & Gross, J.J. (2007). The Experience of Emotion.
Annual Review of Psychology. 58:373-403.
Buchanan, T. W. (2007). Retrieval of Emotional Memories. Psychological Bulletin, 133(5), 761-
779.
Day, J. J., Roitman, M. F., Wightman, R. M., & Carelli, R. M. (2007). Associative learning
mediates dynamic shifts in dopamine signaling in the nucleus accumbens. Nature
Neuroscience, 10(8), 1020-1028.
Frijda, N. H., & Sundararajan, L. (2007). Emotion Refinement: A Theory Inspired by Chinese
Poetics. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2(3), 227-241.
Izard, C. E. (2007). Basic Emotions, Natural Kinds, Emotion Schemas, and a New Paradigm.
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2(3), 260-280.
*Izard, C.E. (2009). Emotion theory and research: Highlights, unanswered questions, and
emerging issues. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 1-25.
LaBar, K. S. (2007). Beyond Fear: Emotional Memory Mechanisms in the Human Brain.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16(4), 173-177.
Maxwell, J. S., & Davidson, R. J. (2007). Emotion as Motion: Asymmetries in Approach and
Avoidant Actions. Psychological Science, 18(12), 1113-1119.
*Panksepp, J. (2007). Neurologizing the Psychology of Affects: How Appraisal-Based
Constructivism and Basic Emotion Theory Can Coexist. Perspectives on Psychological
Science, 2(3), 281-296.
Tsai, J. L. (2007). Ideal Affect: Cultural Causes and Behavioral Consequences. Perspectives on
Psychological Science, 2(3), 242-259.

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Development:

*Gunnar, M. & Quevedo, K. (2007). The Neurobiology of Stress and Development. Annual
Review of Psychology. 58. 145-73.
*Masten, A.S., Faden, V.B., Zucker, R.A., & Spear, L.P. (2008). Underage drinking: A
developmental framework. Pediatrics, 121, S235—51.
*Meshi, D., Drew, M.R., Saxe, M. Ansorge, M.S., David, D., SAntarelli, L. et. al. (2006).
Hippocampal Neurogenesis is not Required for Behavioral Effects of Environmental
Enrichment. Nature Neuroscience. 9(6). 729-31.
*Mizutani, K. & Gaiano, N. (2006). Chalk one up for ‘nature’ during Neocortical Neurogenesis.
Nature Neuroscience. 9(6) 717-18.
*Powell, K. (2006). How does the Teenage Brain Work? Nature. 442 (24), 865-7.
Spitzer, N.C. (2006). Electrical activity in early neuronal development. Nature. 444(7). 707-12.

Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Brain Systems and Complex Learning:

Blakeslee, S., & Blakeslee, M. (2007). Where Mind And Body Meet. Scientific American Mind,
18(4), 44-51.
*Goldman, M.S., Darkes, J., Reich, R.R., & Brandon, K.O. (2006). From DNA to conscious
thought: The influence of anticipatory processes on human alcohol consumption, Munafo
& Albery (Eds.) Cognition and Addiction, (pp.149-186).
Knight, R. T. (2007). Neural Networks Debunk Phrenology. Science, 316(5831), 1578-1579.
Martin, A. (2007). The Representation of Object Concepts in the Brain. Annual Review of
Psychology. 58. 25-45.
*Posner, M.I., Rothbart, M. K. (2007). Research on Attention Networks as a Model for the
Integration of Psychological Science. Annual Review of Psychology. 58. 1-23.
Tsien, J. Z. (2007). The Memory Code. Scientific American, 297(1), 52-59.
Womelsdorf, T., Schoffelen, J.-M., Oostenveld, R., Singer, W., Desimone, R., Engel, A. K., et
al. (2007). Modulation of Neuronal Interactions Through Neuronal Synchronization.
Science, 316(5831), 1609-1612.

New Material:
Begley, S. (9 February 2009). Of Voodoo and the Brain. Newsweek, 52.
Bergner, D. (25 January 2009). What Do Women Want? The New York Times. Retrieved
January 26, 2009 from http://nytimes.com.
Bobova, L., Finn, P.R., Rickert, M.E., & Lucas, J. (2009). Disinhibitory psychopathology and
delay discounting in alcohol dependence: personality and cognitive correlates.
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 17(1), 51-61.
Borgatti, S.P., Mehra, A., Brass, D.J., & Labianca, G. (2009). Network analysis in the social
sciences. Science, 323(5916), 892-895.
Bowers, J.S. (2009). On the biological plausibility of grandmother cells: Implications for neural
network theories in psychology and neuroscience. Psychological Review, 116(1), 220-
251.
Brooks, D. (16 January 2009). An economy of faith and trust. The New York Times. Retrieved
January 21, 2009 from http://nytimes.com.
Buchanan, M. (2009). Secret signals. Nature, 457(7229), 528-530.
Carey, B. (24 2009 February). After abuse, changes in the brain. The New York Times.
Retrieved February 24, 2009 from http://nytimes.com.
Carey, B. & Rabin, R.C. (15 January 2009). Study finds drug risk with newer antipsychotics.
The New York Times. Retrieved January 21, 2009 from http://nytimes.com.
Chapman, H.A., Kim, D.A., Susskind, J.M., &Anderson, A.K. (2009). In bad taste:
evidence for the oral origins of moral disgust. Science, 323(5918), 1222-1226.
Gately, I. (24 January 2009). Drunk as a Skunk…or a Wild Monkey… or a Pig. The New York
Time. Retrieved January 26, 2009 from http://nytimes.com.
Kawakami, K., Dunn, E., Karmali, F., & Dovidio, J.F. (2009). Mispredicting affective and
behavioral responses to racism. Neuroscience, 323(5911), 276-278.
Lazer, D., Pentland, A., Adamic, :., Aral, S, Barabasi, A-L., Brewer, D., Christakis, N.,
Contractor, N., Fowler, J., Gutmann, M., Jebara, T., King, G., Macy, M., Roy, D., & Van
Alstyne, M. (2009). Computational social science. Science, 323(5915), 721-723.
Lehrer, J. (2009). Making connections. Nature, 457(7229), 524-527.
Lieberman, M.D. & Eisenberger, N.I. (2009). Pains and pleasures in social life. Science,
323(5916), 890-891.
Markoff, J (2009 January 23). Work Infects Millions of Computers Worldwide. The New York
Times. Retrieved January 26, 2009 from http://nytimes.com.
Marshall, P.J. (2009). Relating psychology and neuroscience. Perspectives on Psychological
Science, 4(2), 113-125.
McNab, F., Varrone, A.., Farde, L., Jucaite, A., Bystritsky, P., Forssberg, H., & Klingberg, T.
(2009). Changes in cortical dopamine D1 receptor binding associated with cognitive
training. Science, 323(5915), 800-802.
Mehta, R. & Zhu, R. (2009). Blue or red? Exploring the effect of color on cognitive task
performances. Science, 323(5918), 1226-1229.
Miller, G. (2009). Brain scans of pain raise questions for the law. Neuroscience, 323(5911), 95.
Nagourney, E. (2009 January 20). Higher alcohol taxes, less drinking. The New York Times.
Retrieved January 21, 2009 from http://nytimes.com.
Pascalis, O. & Kelly, D.J. (2009). The origins of face processing in humans. Perspectives on
Psychological Science, 4(2), 200-209.
Penske, L., Denissen, J.J.A., & Miller, G.F. (2007). The evolutionary genetics of personality.
European Journal of Personality, 21(5), 549-87.
Pinker, S. (2009 January 7). My Genome, My Self. The New York Times. Retrieved January 12,
2009, from http://www.nytimes.com.
Prather, J.F., Nowicki, S., Anderson, R.C., Peters, S., & Mooney, R. (2009). Neural correlates of
categorical perception in learned vocal communication. Nature Neuroscience, 12(2),
221-228.
Quake, S. (17 February 2009). Guest Column: The Absurdly Artificial Divide Between Pure and
Applied Research. The New York Times. Retrieved February 24, 2009 from
http://www.nytimes.com.
Smith, E.R. & Mackie, D.M. (2009). Surprising emotions. Neuroscience, 323(5911), 215-216.
Takahashi, H., Kato, M., Matsuura, M., Mobbs, D., Suhara, T., & Okubo, Y. (2009). When your
gain is my pain and your pain is my gain: Neural correlates of envy and schadenfreude.
Science, 323(5916), 937-939.
Tierney, J. (2009 January 12). Anti-Love Drug May Be Ticket to Bliss. The New York Times.
Retrieved January 13, 2009, from http://www.nytimes.com.
Van Der Werf, Y.D., Altena, E., Schoonheim, M.M., Sanz-Arigita, E.J., Vis, J.C., Rijke, W.D.,
& Van Someren, E.J.W. (2009). Sleep benefits subsequent hippocampal functioning.
Nature Neuroscience, 12(2), 122-123.
Wade, N. (24 February 2009). From One Genome, Many Types of Cells. But How? The New
York Times. Retrieved February 24, 2009 from http://www.nytimes.com.
Wagner, U. & Vuilleumier, P. (2009). Brain reflections: mirroring people. Nature
Neuroscience, 12(2), 101.