Publications

* indicates lab trainee

2026

Wilson, D.J. & Hutcherson, C.A. (2026). Day-to-day fluctuations in cognitive precision predict the domain-general intention-behavior gap. Science Advances, 12, eaea8697.

2025

Gill, D.J., Trachtenberg, M., Gill, M.J., Tetlock, P.E., Robb, T.K., Varnum, M.E.W., Hutcherson, C.A., Grossman, I., & Trodd, Z. (2025). Predicting the past: Testing expert historical judgment. American Historical Review, 130, 1615-1630.

Teoh, Y., Hutcherson, C.A., (2025) Value computations underpin flexible emotion expression. Communications Psychology, 3, 69

Teoh, Y., Cho, H., Hutcherson, C.A. (2025). Information prioritization underpins the flexible expression of social preferences under time constraints. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 16, 815-826.

Bas, L., *Roberts, I.D., Hutcherson, C.A., & Tusche, A*. (2025). A neurocomputational account of the link between social perception and social action. eLife, 12, RP92539.

2024

*Roberts, I.D., *HajiHosseini, A., & Hutcherson, C.A. (2024). How bad becomes good: A neurocomputational model of flexible affect valuation. Emotion, 24, 1737-1752.

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.
* Winner of 2024 Best Paper Award from the Society for Neuroeconomics

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.