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)
Jin, T., Zhang, S., Yan, X., Vilares, I. Learning from the Crowd: the Statistical Information of others shapes the Magnitude and Variability of Individual Donation Behavior. PsyArXiv (2026)
Yue, S., Vilares, I. The Effects of Arbitrary Social Comparison on Trust and Risky Decision-Making. PsyArXiv (2025)
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2026
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.