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Dean Mobbs
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 93
Citations - 10464
Dean Mobbs is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anxiety & Ventromedial prefrontal cortex. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 84 publications receiving 7729 citations. Previous affiliations of Dean Mobbs include Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit & Stanford University.
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Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.
Jay J. Van Bavel,Katherine Baicker,Paulo S. Boggio,Valerio Capraro,Aleksandra Cichocka,Aleksandra Cichocka,Mina Cikara,Molly J. Crockett,Alia J. Crum,Karen M. Douglas,James N. Druckman,John Drury,Oeindrila Dube,Naomi Ellemers,Eli J. Finkel,James H. Fowler,Michele J. Gelfand,Shihui Han,S. Alexander Haslam,Jolanda Jetten,Shinobu Kitayama,Dean Mobbs,Lucy E. Napper,Dominic J. Packer,Gordon Pennycook,Ellen Peters,Richard E. Petty,David G. Rand,Stephen Reicher,Simone Schnall,Azim F. Shariff,Linda J. Skitka,Sandra Susan Smith,Cass R. Sunstein,Nassim Tabri,Joshua A. Tucker,Sander van der Linden,Paul A. M. Van Lange,Kim A. Weeden,Michael J. A. Wohl,Jamil Zaki,Sean R. Zion,Robb Willer +42 more
TL;DR: Evidence from a selection of research topics relevant to pandemics is discussed, including work on navigating threats, social and cultural influences on behaviour, science communication, moral decision-making, leadership, and stress and coping.
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When Fear Is Near: Threat Imminence Elicits Prefrontal-Periaqueductal Gray Shifts in Humans
Dean Mobbs,Predrag Petrovic,Jennifer L. Marchant,Demis Hassabis,Nikolaus Weiskopf,Ben Seymour,Raymond J. Dolan,Chris D. Frith +7 more
TL;DR: Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, it is found that as the virtual predator grew closer, brain activity shifted from the ventromedial prefrontal cortex to the periaqueductal gray, and showed maximal expression when a high degree of pain was anticipated.
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Changes in risk perception and self-reported protective behaviour during the first week of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated risk perception and self-reported engagement in protective behaviours in 1591 United States-based individuals cross-sectionally and longitudinally over the first week of the pandemic.
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When Your Gain Is My Pain and Your Pain Is My Gain: Neural Correlates of Envy and Schadenfreude
TL;DR: The findings document mechanisms of painful emotion, envy, and a rewarding reaction, schadenfreude, which were induced when misfortunes happened to envied persons.
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From Threat to Fear: The Neural Organization of Defensive Fear Systems in Humans
Dean Mobbs,Jennifer L. Marchant,Demis Hassabis,Ben Seymour,Geoffrey Tan,Marcus A. Gray,Predrag Petrovic,Raymond J. Dolan,Chris D. Frith +8 more
TL;DR: These findings support models suggesting that higher forebrain areas are involved in early-threat responses, including the assignment and control of fear, whereas imminent danger results in fast, likely “hard-wired,” defensive reactions mediated by the midbrain.