Jean Decety

67.3k citations
326 papers · 45.7k · 26 hit papers · h-index 112

Impact in

    • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
    • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
    • Motor Control and Adaptation
    • Action Observation and Synchronization
    • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior

Papers in

    • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment 83
    • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies 46
    • Motor Control and Adaptation 42
    • Action Observation and Synchronization 90
    • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior 34

Jean Decety

318 papers receiving 43.8k citations

Jean Decety's Hit Papers

Empathy as a driver of prosocial behaviour: highly conserved neurobehavioural mechanisms across species 2015 · 477 citations
4770+7+14Years since publication50010001.5k2.0k

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Jean Decety
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  • Cognitive Neuroscience 25.0k
  • Social Psychology 22.5k
  • Psychiatry and Mental health 9.0k
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 7.5k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 7.1k
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All Works

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The Functional Architecture of Human Empathy
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20042156
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Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain
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20101434
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Functional anatomy of execution, mental simulation, observation, and verb generation of actions: A meta-analysis
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20001165
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The Neural Substrate of Human Empathy: Effects of Perspective-taking and Cognitive Appraisal
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2007986
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How do we perceive the pain of others? A window into the neural processes involved in empathy
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2004900
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Effect of subjective perspective taking during simulation of action: a PET investigation of agency
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2001886
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The Role of the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Social Interaction: How Low-Level Computational Processes Contribute to Meta-Cognition
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2007805
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Mapping motor representations with positron emission tomography
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1994774
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Brain activity during observation of actions. Influence of action content and subject's strategy
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Shared representations between self and other: a social cognitive neuroscience view
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2003718
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From the perception of action to the understanding of intention
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2001693
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Human Empathy Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience
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2006654
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Neural mechanisms subserving the perception of human actions
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1999653
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Empathy examined through the neural mechanisms involved in imagining how I feel versus how you feel pain
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2005606
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The neurophysiological basis of motor imagery
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1996603
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Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats
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2011592
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The timing of mentally represented actions
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1989559
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A Social-Neuroscience Perspective on Empathy
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2006552
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Modulating the experience of agency: a positron emission tomography study
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2003545
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The power of simulation: Imagining one's own and other's behavior
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2006536

About Jean Decety

Jean Decety is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Clinical Psychology, having authored 326 papers that have together received 45.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Action Observation and Synchronization (90 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (83 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (46 papers), Motor Control and Adaptation (42 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (41 papers), Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments (41 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (34 papers) and Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (31 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cognitive Neuroscience (25.0k citations), Social Psychology (22.5k citations), Psychiatry and Mental health (9.0k citations), Developmental and Educational Psychology (7.5k citations) and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (7.1k citations). Jean Decety has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Taiwan. Frequent co-authors include Philip L. Jackson, Claus Lamm, Marc Jeannerod, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Perrine Ruby, Jason M. Cowell, Tania Singer, Thierry Chaminade, Julie Grèzes and Jessica A. Sommerville. Their work appears in journals such as NeuroImage, Neuropsychologia, Neuroreport, Human Brain Mapping and Social Neuroscience.

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