Representative Recent Publications

For a complete list of publications, please visit Ralph Adolphs' Google Scholar page.

R. Adolphs (2026). The New Science of Emotion: How Brains Represent What Matters in the World. Princeton University Press (forthcoming).

C. Lin, U. Keles, M.A. Thornton, R. Adolphs (2025). "How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inference." Nature Human Behavior 9: 208-226

Y. Xu, U. Keles, C. Lin, R. Adolphs (in press). "Trait judgments of faces using a task without word labels." Nature Human Behavior (in press).

Q. Wu, Q. Hong, N.Y. Kim, R. Adolphs, L.K. Paul, C.J. Charpentier (2025). "Variability and stability of autistic traits in the general population: A systematic comparison between online and in-lab samples. Personality Neuroscience 8: e5.

Y. Han, R. Adolphs (2024). "A shared structure for emotion experiences from narratives, videos, and everyday life." i Science 27 (7).

D. Kliemann, P. Galdi, A.L. Van De Water, B. Egger, D. Jarecka, R. Adolphs, S. Ghosh (2024). "Resting-state functional connectivity of the amygdala in autism: a preregistered large-scale study." American Journal of Psychiatry 20230249.

Na Yeon Kim, Junfeng He, Qianying Wu, Na Dai, Kai Kohlhoff, Jasmin Turner, Lynn Paul, Daniel P. Kennedy, Ralph Adolphs, Vidhya Navalpakkam (2024). Smartphone-based gaze estimation for in-home autism research. Autism Research 10.1002/aur.3140.

Umit Keles, Julien Dubois, Kevin JM Le, J Michael Tyszka, David A Kahn, Chrystal M Reed, Jeffrey M Chung, Adam N Mamelak, Ralph Adolphs, Ueli Rutishauser (2024). "Multimodal single-neuron, intracranial EEG, and fMRI brain responses during movie watching in human patients". Scientific Data 11: 214.

Tessa Rusch, Yanting Han, Dehua Liang, Amber R. Hopkins, Caroline V. Lawrence, Uri Maoz, Lynn K. Paul, Damian Stanley and the COVID-Dynamic Team (2023). "COVID-Dynamic: a large-scale longitudinal study of socioemotional and behavioral change across the pandemic." Scientific Data 10: 71.

N. Rouhani, D. Stanley, R. Adolphs (2023). "Collective events and individual affect shape autobiographical memory." PNAS 120: e2221919120.

K. Saltoun, R. Adolphs, L. Paul, V. Sharma, J. Diedrichsen, B.T. T. Yeo, D. Bzdok (2023). "Dissociable brain structural asymmetry patterns reveal unique phenome-wide profiles". Nature Human Behavior, 7:251-268.

A. Tusche, B. Spunt, L. Paul, J.M. Tyszka, R. Adolphs (2023). "Neural signatures of social inferences predict the number of real-life social contacts and autism severity." Nature Communications 14: 4399.

Z. Fu, D. Beam, J.M. Chung, C.M. Reed, A.N. Mamelak, R. Adolphs, U. Rutishauser (2022). "The geometry of domain-general performance monitoring in the human medial frontal cortex." Science 376: eabm9922.

U. Keles, D. Kliemann, L. Byrge, H. Saarimaki, L.K. Paul, D.P. Kennedy, R. Adolphs (2022). "Atypical gaze patterns in autistic adults are heterogeneous across but reliable within individuals." Molecular Autism, 13: 39.

D. Kliemann, R. Adolphs, et al. (2022). "Caltech Conte Center - a multimodal data resource for exploring social cognition and decision-making." Scientific Data 31: 138.

M. Sawada, R. Adolphs, B.J. Dlouhy, R.L. Jenison, A.E. Rhone, C.K. Kovach, J.D.W. Greenlee, M.A. Howard, H. Oya (2022). "Mapping Effective Connectivity of Human Amygdala Subdivisions with Intracranial Stimulation." Nature Communications 13: 4909.

C. Lin, U. Keles, M. Thornton, R. Adolphs (2022). "How trait impressions of faces shape subsequent mental state inferences." (Registered report). (in press). Nature Human Behavior.

C. Lin, U. Keles, R. Adolphs (2021). "Four dimensions characterize attributions from faces using a representative set of English trait words". Nature Communications 12: 5168.

M. Bowren, R. Adolphs, J. Bruss, K. Manzel, M. Corbetta, D. Tranel, A. Boes (2020). "Multivariate lesion-behavior mapping of general intelligence and its psychometric constituents." J. Neurosci 40: 8924-8937.

W.H. Thompson, R. Nair, H. Oya, O. Esteban, J.M. Shine, C.I. Petkov, R.A. Poldrack, M. Howard, R. Adolphs (2020). "A data resource from concurrent intracranial stimulation and functional MRI of the human brain (es-fMRI)." Scientific Data 7:258.

J. Dubois, F. Eberhardt, L.K. Paul, R. Adolphs (2020). "Personality beyond taxonomy." Nature Human Behavior 4: 1110-1117.

J. Minxha, R. Adolphs, S. Fusi, A. Mamelak, U. Rutishauser (2020). "Flexible recruitment of memory-based choice representations by human medial-frontal cortex." Science 368: eaba3313.

L. Feldman Barrett, R. Adolphs, S. Marsella, A.M. Martinez, S.D. Pollack (2019). "Emotional expressions reconsidered: challenges to inferring emotion from human facial movements." Psychological Science in the Public Interest 20: 1-68.

D. Kliemann, R. Adolphs, J.M. Tyszka, B. Fischl., B.T. Yeo, R. Nair, J. Dubois, L.K. Paul (2019). "Intrinsic functional connectivity of the brain in adults with a single cerebral hemisphere." Cell Reports 29: 2398-2407.

R. Adolphs, L. Mlodinow, L.F. Barrett (2019). "What is an emotion?" Current Biology 29: R1060-1064.

J. Glaescher, R. Adolphs, D. Tranel (2019). "Model-based lesion mapping of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test." Nature Communications 10: e20.

I.A. Rosenthal, C.A. Hutcherson, R. Adolphs, D. Stanley (2019). "Deconstructing theory-of-mind impairment in high-functioning adults with autism." Current Biology 29: 513-519.

S. Wang, A.N. Mamelak, R. Adolphs, U. Rutishauser (2018). "Encoding of target detection during visual search by single neurons in the human brain." Current Biology 28: 2058-2069.

Z. Fu, D-A. J. Wu, I. Ross, J.M. Chung, A.N. Mamelak, R. Adolphs, U. Rutishauser (2018). "Single-neuron correlates of error monitoring and post-error adjustments in human medial frontal cortex." Neuron 101: 165-177.

R. Adolphs, D. Andler (2018). "Investigating emotions as functional states distinct from feelings." Emotion Review 10: 191-201. NIHMSID 986619.

Lin C., Adolphs R., Alvarez, R.M. (2018). "Inferring whether officials are corruptible from looking at their faces." Psychological Science 29:1807-1823.

Dubois, J.C., Galdi, P., Paul, L.K., Adolphs R. (2018). "A distributed brain network predicts general intelligence from resting-state human neuroimaging data." Phil Trans R Soc B 373: 20170284. PMCID PMC6107566.

R. Adolphs (2017). "How should neuroscience study emotions? By distinguishing emotion states, concepts, and experiences." SCAN 12: 24-31.

H. Oya, ......, and R. Adolphs (2017). "Mapping effective connectivity in the human brain with concurrent intracranial electrical stimulation and BOLD-fMRI." Journal of Neuroscience Methods 277: 101-112. PMCID: PMC5534177

J. Minxha, C. Mosher, A. Mamelak, R. Adolphs, K. Gothard, U. Rutishauser 2017). "Fixations gate species-specific response to free viewing of faces in the human and macaque amygdala." Cell Reports 18: 878-891.

This list includes a selection of recent publications from the Adolphs Lab.
For a complete list, please visit Ralph Adolphs' Google Scholar page.