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Cockburn, J., Man, V., Cunningham, W. A., & O’Doherty, J. P. (2022). Novelty and uncertainty regulate the balance between exploration and exploitation through distinct mechanisms in the human brain. Neuron, 110, 1-12.

Cunningham, W. A., & Kirkland, T. (2014). The joyful, yet balanced, amygdala: Moderated responses to positive but not negative stimuli in trait happiness. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 760–766.

Cunningham, W. A., Van Bavel, J. J., & Johnsen, I. R. (2008). Affective flexibility: Evaluative processing goals shape amygdala activity. Psychological Science, 19, 152–160.

Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2008). The neural substrates of in-group bias: A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation. Psychological Science, 19, 1131– 1139.

Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2011). Modulation of the Fusiform Face Area following minimal exposure to motivationally relevant faces: Evidence of in-group enhancement (not out-group disregard). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 3343–3354.

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Beer, J. S., Stallen, M., Lombardo, M. V., Gonsalkorale, K., Cunningham, W. A., & Sherman, J. W. (2008). The Quadruple Process model approach to examining the neural underpinnings of prejudice. NeuroImage, 43, 775–783.

Berkman, E. T., Cunningham, W. A., & Lieberman, M. D. (2014). Research methods in social and affective neuroscience. In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd (Eds.) Handbook of research methods in personality and social psychology (2nd ed), 123–158. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Botvinik-Nezer et al. (2020). Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. Nature, 582, 84–88.

Cockburn, J., Man, V., Cunningham, W. A., & O’Doherty, J. P. (2022). Novelty and uncertainty regulate the balance between exploration and exploitation through distinct mechanisms in the human brain. Neuron, 110, 1-12.

Cunningham, W. A. (2010). In defense of brain mapping in social and affective neuroscience. Social Cognition, 28, 716–721.

Cunningham, W. A., Arbuckle, N. L., Jahn, A., Mowrer, S. M., & Abduljalil, A.M. (2010). Aspects of neuroticism and the amygdala: Chronic tuning from motivational styles. Neuropsychologia, 48, 3399–3404.

Cunningham, W. A. & Brosch, T. (2012). Motivational salience: Amygdala tuning from traits, needs, values, and goals. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 54–59.

Cunningham, W. A., Espinet, S. D., DeYoung, C. G., & Zelazo, P. D. (2005). Attitudes to the right – and left: Frontal ERP asymmetries associated with stimulus valence and processing goals. NeuroImage, 28, 827–834.

Cunningham, W. A., Haas, I. J., & Jahn, A. (2011). Attitudes. In J. Decety & J. T. Cacioppo (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Neuroscience, 212–226. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Cunningham, W. A., Johnsen, I. R., & Waggoner, A. S. (2011). Orbitofrontal cortex provides cross-modal valuation of self–‐generated stimuli. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 286– 293.

Cunningham, W. A., Johnson, M. K., Gatenby, J. C., Gore, J. C., & Banaji, M. R. (2003). Neural components of social evaluation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 639–649.

Cunningham, W. A., Johnson, M. K., Raye, C. L., Gatenby, J. C., Gore, J. C., & Banaji, M. R. (2004). Separable neural components in the processing of Black and White Faces. Psychological Science, 15, 806–813.

Cunningham, W. A., Kesek, A., Mowrer, S. M. (2009). Distinct orbitofrontal regions encode stimulus and choice valuation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10, 1956–966.

Cunningham, W. A., & Kirkland, T. (2014). The joyful, yet balanced, amygdala: moderated responses to positive but not negative stimuli in trait happiness. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 760–766.

Cunningham, W. A. & Koscik, T. R. (2017). Balancing Type I and Type II error concerns in fMRI through compartmentalized analysis. Cognitive Neuroscience

Cunningham, W. A., Raye, C. L., & Johnson, M. K. (2004). Implicit and explicit evaluation: fMRI correlates of valence, emotional intensity, and control in the processing of attitudes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1717–1729.

Cunningham, W. A., Raye, C. L., & Johnson, M. K. (2005). Neural correlates of evaluation associated with promotion and prevention regulatory focus. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 202–211.

Cunningham, W. A. & Van Bavel, J. J. (2009). A neural analysis of intergroup perception and evaluation. In J. T. Cacioppo & G. Berntson (Eds.), Handbook of neuroscience for the behavioral sciences, 975–984. New York: Wiley.

Cunningham, W. A., Van Bavel, J. J., Arbuckle, N. L., Packer, D. J., & Waggoner, A. S. (2012). Rapid social perception is flexible: Approach and avoidance motivational states shape P100 responses to other– race faces. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 1–7.

Cunningham, W. A., Van Bavel, J. J., & Johnsen, I. R. (2008). Affective flexibility: Evaluative processing goals shape amygdala activity. Psychological Science, 19, 152–160.

Cunningham, W.A., & Zelazo, P.D. (2007). Attitudes and evaluations: A social cognitive neuroscience perspective. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 97–104.

Cunningham, W. A., Zelazo, P. D., Packer, D. J., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2007). The iterative reprocessing model: A multilevel framework for attitudes and evaluation. Social Cognition, 25, 736–760.

Dutra, S. J., Cunningham, W.A., Kober, H., & Gruber, J. (2015). Elevated striatal reactivity across monetary and social rewards in bipolar I disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 124(4), 890-904.

Dutra, S. J*., Man, V.*, Kober, H., Cunningham, W. A., & Gruber, J. (2017). Disrupted cortico-limbic connectivity during reward processing in remitted bipolar I disorder. Bipolar Disorders, 19(8), 661-675. *authors contributed equally.

Gaut, G., Li, X., Turner, B., Cunningham, W.A., Lu, Z.L., & Steyvers, M. (2019). Predicting Task and Subject Differences with Functional Connectivity and BOLD Variability. Brain Connectivity,9(6), 451-463.

Johnson, M. K., Raye, C. L., Mitchell, K. J., Greene, E. J., Cunningham, W. A., & Sanislow, C. A. (2005). Using fMRI to investigate a component process of reflection: Prefrontal correlates of refreshing a just activated representation. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 339–361.

Kanayet, F. J., Opfer, J. O., & Cunningham, W. A. (2014). The Value of Numbers in Economic Rewards. Psychological Science, 25, 1534–1545.

Kirkland, T. & Cunningham, W. A. (2011). The neural basis of affect and emotion. WIRES: Cognitive Science, 2, 656–665.

Kosik, T. R., Man, V., Jahn, A., Lee, C. H., & Cunningham, W. A. (2020). Decomposing the neural pathways in a simple, value-based choice. NeuroImage, 116764.

Lieberman, M.,D. & Cunningham, W. A. (2009). Type I and Type II error concerns in fMRI research: Re-balancing the scale. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 4, 423–42.

Long, E. U., Wheeler, N. E., & Cunningham, W. A. (2020). Through the looking glass: Distinguishing neural correlates of relational and nonrelational self-reference and person representation. Cortex, 130, 257-274.

Luttrell, A., Briñol,P, Petty, R. E., Cunningham, W. A., & Diaz, D. (2013). Metacognitive Confidence: A Neuroscience Approach. Revista de Psicologia Social, 28, 317–332.

Luttrell, A., Stillman, P. E., Hasinski, A., & Cunningham, W. A. (2016). Neural dissociations in attitude strength: Distinct regions of cingulate cortex track ambivalence and certainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(4), 419-433.

Man, V., Ames, D. L., Todorov, A., & Cunningham, W. A. (2016). Amygdala Tuning toward Self and Other. Positive Neuroscience, 105-123, Chapter 7.

Man, V., & Cunningham, W. A. (2021). Multiple scales of valence processing in the brain. Social neuroscience, 16(1), 57-67.

Man, V., Gruber, J., Glahn, D. C., & Cunningham, W. A. (2019). Altered amygdala circuits underlying valence processing among manic and depressed phases in bipolar adults. Journal of Affective Disorders, 245, 394-402. 

Man, V., Nohlen, H.U., Melo, H., & Cunningham, W.A. (2017). Hierarchical Brain Systems Support Multiple Representations of Valence and Mixed Affect. Emotion Review, 1-9.

Mowrer, S. M., Jahn, A. A., Abduljalil, A., & Cunningham, W. A. (2011). The value of success: Acquiring gains, avoiding losses, and simply being successful. PLoS One, 6, 1–8.

Nohlen, H. U., van Harreveld, F., & Cunningham, W. A. (2019). Social evaluations under conflict: Negative judgments of conflicting information are easier than positive judgments. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14(7), 709-718.

Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2009). Neural correlates of reflection on goal states: The role of regulatory focus and temporal distance. Social Neuroscience, 4, 412–425.

Phelps, E. A., Cannistraci, C. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2003). Intact performance on an indirect measure of race bias following amygdala damage. Neuropsychologia, 41, 203–208.

Phelps, E. A., O’Connor, K. J., Cunningham, W. A., Funayama, E. S., Gatenby, J. C., Gore, J. C., & Banaji, M. R. (2000). Performance on indirect measures of race evaluation predicts amygdala activation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 729–738.

Roese, N.J., Melo, H.L,. Vrantsidis, T. H., & Cunningham, W. A. (2017). Reward: A marketer’s guide to the biological basis of pleasure. In M. Cerf & M. Garcia (Eds). Consumer Neurosciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Seck, S., Kim, Y. J., Cunningham, W. A., Olshefski, R., Yeates, K. O., Vannatta, K., & Hoskinson, K. R. (2022). Pilot study of associations among functional connectivity and neurocognition in survivors of pediatric brain tumor and healthy peers. Journal of Child Neurology, 37(12-14), 927-938.

Stillman, P. E., Lee, H., Deng, X., Unnava, H. R., Cunningham, W. A., & Fujita, K. (2017). Neurological evidence for the role of construal level in future-directed thought. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(6), 937-947.

Stillman, P., Van Bavel, J. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2015). Valence asymmetries in the human amygdala: Task relevance modulates amygdala responses cues. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27, 842–851.

Touryan, S. R., Johnson, M. K., Mitchell, K. J., Farb, N., Cunningham, W. A., & Raye, C. L. (2007). The influence of self-regulatory focus on encoding of, and memory for, emotional words. Social Neuroscience, 2, 14–27.

Van Bavel, J. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2009). A social neuroscience approach to intergroup perception and evaluation. In W. P. Banks (Ed.), Encyclopedia of consciousness, 379–388. New York: Academic Press.

Van Bavel, J. J. & Cunningham, W. A. (2010). A social neuroscience approach to self and social categorization: A New Look at an old issue. European Review of Social Psychology, 21, 237–284.

Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2008). The neural substrates of in-group bias: A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation. Psychological Science, 19, 1131– 1139.

Van Bavel, J. J., Packer, D. J., & Cunningham, W. A. (2011). Modulation of the Fusiform Face Area following minimal exposure to motivationally relevant faces: Evidence of in-group enhancement (not out-group disregard). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 3343–3354.

Wonch, K.E., de Medeiros, C., Barrett, J., Dudin, A, Cunningham, W. A., Hall, G. B., Steiner, M., & Fleming, A. S. (2016). Postpartum Depression and Brain Response to Infants: Differential Amygdala Response and Connectivity. Social Neuroscience, 11(6), 600-617.

Zelazo, P. D., & Cunningham, W. (2007). Executive function: Mechanisms underlying emotion regulation. In J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation (pp. 135–158). New York: Guilford.