Recent Preprints from the Lab
Song, X., Manavalan, M., Griem, J., Nolte, T., Fonagy,P., Vilares, I. Investigating Sensorimotor Decision-Making in Depressed Individuals using a Bayesian Approach . PsyArXiv (2026) - Just accepted at Computational Psychiatry
Yue, S., Vilares, I. The Effects of Arbitrary Social Comparison on Trust and Risky Decision-Making. PsyArXiv (2025)
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2026
Jin, T., Zhang, S., Yan, X., Vilares, I. (2026) Social Influence in Donation Behavior: The Effect of Mean, Variance, and Psychopathy. eLife, 15:RP112321
Kedrick, K., Burhite, K., Vilares, I., & Schrater, P. R. (2026). Creative Foraging and the Explore-Exploit Trade-off in Knowledge Networks. Cognition, 271, 106451.
Manavalan, M., Lee, V., Vilares, I. (2026) The Influence of Visibility and Prevalence Rate on Visual Search (2026), Journal of Vision, 26(2), 4-4.
Torunsky, N., Vilares, I., Koutstaal, W. (2026). Development and Application of the Propensity/Ability Framework in Alexithymia. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 180, 106447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106447.
2025
Toribio‐Flórez, D., Altenmüller, M. S., Douglas, K. M., Gollwitzer, M., Adinugroho, I., Alfano, M., ... Jin, T., ...Vilares, I., Warwas, I., Weber, M., Westfal, M. & Wojcik, A. D. (2025). Victims of conspiracies? An examination of the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and dispositional individual victimhood. European journal of social psychology, 55 (7), 1252-126
Mede, N. G., Cologna, V., Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., … Jin, T.,…, Vilares, I., ... & TISP Consortium (2025). Public communication about science in 68 countries: Global evidence on how people encounter information about science and engage with it. Science Communication, 10755470251376615.
Kazinka, R., Kwashie, A., Pratt, D., Vilares, I., Iacono, W., Wilson, S. & MacDonald, A. (2025). Twin differences in the Minnesota Trust Game relate to neural mechanisms of suspiciousness. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-14.
Cologna, V., Meiler, S., Kropf, C. M., Lüthi, S., Mede, N. G., Bresch, D. N., ... Linden, S. V. D., & TISP Consortium [including Jin, T. and Vilares, I., among others] (2025). Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world. Nature Climate Change, 1-11.
Cologna, V., Mede, N., Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., … Jin, T.,…, Vilares, I., ... & Teran-Escobar, C. (2025). Trust in scientists and their role in society across 67 countries. Nature Human Behavior
Torunsky, N., Kedrick, K. & Vilares, I. (2025). Information seeking and the expected utility of information about COVID-19 can be associated with uncertainty and related attitudes. Scientific reports, 15(1), 6096.
Mede, N. G.*, Cologna, V.*, Berger, S., et al. [including Jin, T., and Vilares, I.] (2025). Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries: The TISP dataset. Scientific Data, 12(1), 114.
2024
Hall, B., Schmidt, K., Wagge, J., Lewis, S., Weissgerber, S., Kiunke, F., ...Vilares, I., … & Buchanan, E. (2024). Registered replication report: A large multilab cross-cultural conceptual replication of Turri, Buckwalter, & Blouw (2015). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science , 7(4), 25152459241267902.
Wolf, K., Tajchman, Z. J., & Vilares, I. (2024). Relation between parenting style and confident decision-making in a student population. PloS One, 19(11), e0302495.
Lahnakoski, J. M., Nolte, T., Solway, A., Vilares, I., Hula, A., Feigeinbaum, J., Lohrens, T., Fonagy,P., Montague,R. & Schilbach, L. (2024). A machine-learning approach for differentiating borderline personality disorder from community participants with brain-wide functional connectivity. Journal of Affective Disorders, 360, 345-353.
Kazinka, R., Kwashie, A., Pratt, D., Vilares, I., & MacDonald, A. (2024). Value Representations of Spite Sensitivity in Psychosis on the Minnesota Trust Game. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 9(4), 429-436.
Manavalan, M., Song, X., Nolte, T., Fonagy, P., Montague, P. R., & Vilares, I. (2024). Bayesian Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Borderline Personality Disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 38(1), 53-74.
2023
Torunsky, N. T., Knauz, S., Vilares, I.*, Marcoulides, K. M.*, & Koutstaal, W.* (2023). What is the relationship between alexithymia and experiential avoidance? A latent analysis using three alexithymia questionnaires. Personality and Individual Differences, 214, 112308. *joint senior authors
Jin, T., Zhang, S., Lockwood, P., Vilares, I., Wu, H., Liu, C., & Ma, Y. (2023). Learning whom to cooperate with: neurocomputational mechanisms for choosing cooperative partners. Cerebral Cortex.
Randeniya, R., Vilares, I., Mattingley, J. B., & Garrido, M. I. (2023). Increased functional activity, bottom-up and intrinsic effective connectivity in autism. NeuroImage: Clinical, 37, 103293.
2022
Dorison, C. A., Lerner, J. S., Heller, B. H., Rothman, A. J., Kawachi, I. I., Wang, K., ... & Pantazi, M. (2022). In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective science, 3(3), 577-602.
Redish, A.D., Kepecs, A., Anderson, L.M., Calvin, O.L., Grissom, N.M., Haynos, A.F., Heilbronner, S.R., Herman, A.B., Jacob, S., Ma, S., Vilares, I., Vinogradov, S., Walters, C., Widge, A., Zick, J., Zilverstand, A. 2022. Computational validity: using computation to translate behaviours across species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1844).
Legate, N., Ngyuen, T. V., Weinstein, N., Moller, A., Legault, L., Vally, Z., ... & Ogbonnaya, C. E. (2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(22).
Kazinka, R., Vilares, I., & MacDonald, A. W. (2022). A Computational Model of Non-optimal Suspiciousness in the Minnesota Trust Game. Computational Psychiatry, 6(1).
2021
Randeniya, R., Vilares, I., Mattingley, J. B., & Garrido, M. I. (2021). Reduced Context Updating but Intact Visual Priors in Autism. Computational Psychiatry, 5(1).
Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C. A., Miller, J. K., Uusberg, A., Lerner, J. S., ... & Štrukelj, E. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(8), 1089-1110.
Song, X., & Vilares, I. (2021). Assessing the relationship between the human learned helplessness depression model and anhedonia. Plos one, 16(3), e0249056.
Kelleher-Unger, I., Tajchman, Z., Chittano, G., & Vilares, I. (2021). Meta-Analysis of white matter diffusion tensor imaging alterations in borderline personality disorder. Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging, 111205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2020.111205
2020
Trapp, S., & Vilares, I. (2020). Bayesian decision-making under stress-preserved weighting of prior and likelihood information. Scientific reports, 10(1), 21456. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76493-5
2018 and Before
Hula, A., Vilares, I., Lohrenz, T., Dayan, P. & Montague, P. R. (2018). A model of risk and mental state shifts during social interaction, PLoS Computational Biology, 14(2),e1005935.
Vilares, I. & Kording, K. P. (2017). Dopaminergic medication increases reliance on current information in Parkinson's disease. Nature Human Behaviour,1(8), 0129. [Link to open access version]
Vilares, I., Wesley, M. J., Ahn, W. Y., Bonnie, R. J., Hoffman, M., Jones, O. D., Morse, S. J., Yaffe, G., Lohrenz, T. & Montague, P. R. (2017). Predicting the knowledge-recklessness distinction in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(12), 3222-3227.
Fernandes, H. L., Stevenson, I. H., Vilares, I. & Kording, K. P. (2014). The generalization of prior uncertainty during reaching. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(34),11470-11484.
Mhatre, P. V., Vilares, I., Stibb, S. M., Albert, M. V., Pickering, L., Marciniak, C. M., Kording, K. & Toledo, S., Jan 1 2013. Wii Fit Balance Board Playing Improves Balance and Gait in Parkinson Disease. Pm&r, 5(9),769-777.
Vilares, I., Howard, J. D., Fernandes, H. L., Gottfried, J. A. & Kording, K. P. (2012). Differential representations of prior and likelihood uncertainty in the human brain. Current Biology. 22(18), 1641-1648.
Vilares, I. & Kording, K., (2011). Bayesian models: The structure of the world, uncertainty, behavior, and the brain. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1224(1), 22-39.
Vilares, I., Dam, G. & Kording, K. (2011). Trust and reciprocity: Are effort and money equivalent?. PloS one. 6, 2, e17113.
Stevenson, I. H., Fernandes, H. L., Vilares, I., Wei, K. & Körding, K. P. (2009). Bayesian integration and non-linear feedback control in a full-body motor task. PLoS Computational Biology, 5(12), e1000629.