Becher, T., Essler, S., Pletti, C., & Paulus, M. (2023). Compliance or empathy—What links maternal sensitivity and toddlers’ emotional helping? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 226, Article 105547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105547

Pletti, C., Paulus, M., & Decety, J. (2022). Neural processing of moral content reflects moral identity in 10‐year‐old children. Developmental Science, 25(4), Article e13232. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13232

Christner, N., Pletti, C., & Paulus, M. (2022). How does the moral self-concept relate to prosocial behaviour? Investigating the role of emotions and consistency preference. Cognition and Emotion, 36(5), 894-911. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2067133

Nijssen, S. R. R., Pletti, C., Paulus, M., & Muller, B. C. N. (2021). Does agency matter? Neural processing of robotic movements in 4-and 8-year olds. Neuropsychologia, 157, Article 107853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107853

Sticker, R., Christner, N., Pletti, C., & Paulus, M. (2021). The moral self-concept in preschool children: Its dimensions and relation to prosocial behaviors. Cognitive Development, 58, Article 101033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101033

Rütgen, M., Pfabigan, D., Tik, M., Kraus, C., Pletti, C., Sladky, R., Klöbl, M., Woletz, M., Vanicek, T., Windischberger, C., Lanzenberger, R., & Lamm, C. (2021). Detached empathic experience of others’ pain in remitted states of depression – An fMRI study. NeuroImage: Clinical, 31, Article 102699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102699

Pletti, C., & Paulus, M. (2020). Neural processing of equitable and inequitable distributions in 5-year-old children. Social Neuroscience, 15(5), 584-599. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2020.1816578

Christner, N., Pletti, C., & Paulus, M. (2020). Emotion understanding and the moral self-concept as motivators of prosocial behavior in middle childhood. Cognitive Development, 55, Article 100893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100893

The ManyBabies Consortium (2020). Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(1), 24 - 52. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919900809

Rütgen, M., Pletti, C., Tik, M., Kraus, C., Pfabigan, D., Sladky, R., Klöbl, M., Woletz, M., Vanicek, T., Windischberger, C., Lanzenberger, R., & Lamm, C. (2019). Antidepressant treatment, not depression, leads to reductions in behavioral and neural responses to pain empathy. Translational Psychiatry, 9(1), Article 164. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-019-0496-4

Pletti, C., Decety, J., & Paulus, M. (2019). Moral identity relates to the neural processing of third-party moral behavior. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 14(4), 435–445. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz016

Rütgen, M., Seidel, E.-M., Pletti, C., Riečanský, I., Gartus, A., Eisenegger, C., & Lamm, C. (2018). Psychopharmacological modulation of event-related potentials suggests that first-hand pain and empathy for pain rely on similar opioidergic processes. Neuropsychologia, 116(A), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.04.023

Pletti, C., Scheel, A., & Paulus, M. (2017). Intrinsic Altruism or Social Motivation—What Does Pupil Dilation Tell Us about Children's Helping Behavior? Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 2089. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02089

Cellini, N., Lotto, L., Pletti, C., & Sarlo, M. (2017). Daytime REM sleep affects emotional experience but not decision choices in moral dilemmas. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 11059. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11530-4

Pletti, C., Lotto, L., Buodo, G., & Sarlo, M. (2017). It's immoral, but I'd do it! Psychopathy traits affect decision-making in sacrificial dilemmas and in everyday moral situations. British Journal of Psychology, 108(2), 351-368. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12205

Pletti, C., Lotto, L., Tasso, A., & Sarlo, M. (2016). Will I Regret It? Anticipated Negative Emotions Modulate Choices in Moral Dilemmas. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 1918. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01918

Pletti, C., Dalmaso, M., Sarlo, M., & Galfano, G. (2015). Gaze cuing of attention in snake phobic women: the influence of facial expression. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 454. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00454

Pletti, C., Sarlo, M., Palomba, D., Rumiati, R., & Lotto, L. (2015). Evaluation of the legal consequences of action affects neural activity and emotional experience during the resolution of moral dilemmas. Brain and Cognition, 94, 24-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2015.01.004