James K. Rilling

Emory Healthcare — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

64h-index20.8kcitations159works2.12yr avg
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Research Topics

Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior(56), Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior(36), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies(34), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications(27), Neural dynamics and brain function(15)

Publications159 total

The transition to human fatherhood involves increased brain activation to infant stimuli in regions involved with reward and motivation
Journal of Neuroendocrinology·2025Open Access
“One More Picture”: Caption Content and Empathy Gains in a Photo Captioning Intervention for Dementia-Caregivers
Innovation in Aging·2025Open Access
Oxytocin and the pace of life history strategies: From evolutionary trade-offs to translational pathways
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews·2025
“One More Picture:” A Mixed-Methods Examination of Caption Content in a Photo Captioning Cognitive Empathy Intervention for Dementia-Caregivers
Journal of Applied Gerontology·2025Open Access
The emergence of genetic variants linked to brain and cognitive traits in human evolution
Cerebral Cortex·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Hormonal changes in first-time human fathers in relation to paternal investment
Hormones and Behavior·2025· 7 citedOpen Access
Random forest and Shapley Additive exPlanations predict oxytocin targeted effects on brain functional networks involved in salience and sensorimotor processing, in a randomized clinical trial in autism
Neuropsychopharmacology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Are women really (not) more talkative than men? A registered report of binary gender similarities/differences in daily word use.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Grandmaternal caregiving is associated with a distinct multi-voxel neural representation of grandchildren in the parental motivation circuit
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Caregiving is associated with lower brain age in humans
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Grandmotherhood is associated with reduced OXTR DNA methylation
Psychoneuroendocrinology·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Evaluation of a Photo Captioning Cognitive Empathy Intervention for Dementia Caregivers
Clinical Gerontologist·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Effects of arginine vasopressin on human anxiety and associations with sex, dose, and V1a-receptor genotype
Psychopharmacology·2024· 5 cited
Paleogenomic insights into cooperation in the ancient Andes from positive selection on oxytocin pathway genes
Genes Brain & Behavior·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Neuroendocrinology of Human Cooperation and Parental Care
Masterclass in neuroendocrinology·2024
Mating-related stimuli induce rapid shifts in fathers' assessments of infants
Evolution and Human Behavior·2023· 2 cited
A Mixed Methods Study of the Challenges and Rewards of Fatherhood in a Diverse Sample of U.S. Fathers
SAGE Open·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Human temporal lobes have been reorganized: A response to Pearson et al, “updated imaging and phylogenetic comparative methods reassess relative temporal lobe size in anthropoids and modern humans”
American Journal of Biological Anthropology·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Human and chimpanzee shared and divergent neurobiological systems for general and specific cognitive brain functions
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2023· 20 citedOpen Access
Frustration responses of single and partnered mothers to prolonged infant crying.
Journal of Family Psychology·2023· 1 cited
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Todd M. Preuss(14), Matthew F. Glasser(9), Giuseppe Pagnoni(8), Alan G. Sanfey(6), Longchuan Li(6), Patrick D. Hackett(5), Jonathan D. Cohen(4), Xiaoping Hu(4), Xu Chen(4), Jennifer S. Mascaro(4), Jessica A. Aronson(3), Leigh E. Nystrom(3), David A. Gutman(3), Andrea L. Glenn(3), David R. Goldsmith(3), Thomas R. Insel(3), Ashley C. DeMarco(3), Beate Ditzen(3), Rajan Patel(3), Lianne H. Scholtens(3)