Everything about Behavior coding

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Behavior codingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Predicting modular functions and neural coding of behavior from a synaptic wiring diagramInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Where the Wild Things AreThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Repertoire of Nonverbal Behavior: Categories, Origins, Usage, and CodingCited 2,146 times
5. Go sideways: Questionnaire constructionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Cognitive pretestingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Repertoire of Nonverbal Behavior: Categories, Origins, Usage, and Coding

  PAUL EKMAN, WALLACE V. FRIESEN · 1969 · Semiotica · 2,146 citations

• Coding gestural behavior with the NEUROGES-ELAN system

  Hedda Lausberg, Han Sloetjes · 2009 · Behavior Research Methods · 435 citations

• Context-sensitive coding, associative memory, and serial order in (speech) behavior.

  Wayne A. Wickelgran · 1969 · Psychological Review · 212 citations

• Chemical Coding of Behavior in the Brain

  Neal E. Miller · 1965 · Science · 179 citations

• The prototypical pride expression: Development of a nonverbal behavior coding system.

  Jessica L. Tracy, Richard W. Robins · 2007 · Emotion · 134 citations

• Quantitative Coding of Negotiation Behavior

  Laurie Weingart, Philip Smith, Mara Olekalns · 2004 · International Negotiation · 78 citations

• Non-Coding RNAs in Psychiatric Disorders and Suicidal Behavior

  Yuta Yoshino, Yogesh Dwivedi · 2020 · Frontiers in Psychiatry · 78 citations

• Some-or-none characteristics of coding behavior

  Burton H. Cohen · 1966 · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior · 72 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Predicting modular functions and neural coding of behavior from a synaptic wiring diagram

  Ashwin Vishwanathan, Alex Sood, Jingpeng Wu · 2024 · Nature Neuroscience · 32 citations

• Frontal and temporal coding dynamics in successive steps of complex behavior

  Mikiko Kadohisa, Makoto Kusunoki, Daniel J. Mitchell · 2023 · Neuron · 27 citations

• Interaction coding in leadership research: A critical review and best-practice recommendations to measure behavior

  Amelie V. Güntner, Annika L. Meinecke, Zuva E.K. Lüders · 2023 · The Leadership Quarterly · 23 citations

• Testosterone levels mediate the dynamics of motor oscillatory coding and behavior in developing youth

  Abraham D. Killanin, Brittany K. Taylor, Christine M. Embury · 2023 · Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience · 17 citations

• Analysis of software developers’ coding behavior: A survey of visualization analysis techniques using eye trackers

  Daniel Kyle Davis, Feng Zhu · 2022 · Computers in Human Behavior Reports · 16 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Where the Wild Things AreMaurice Sendak · 1963
• The Big SnowBerta Hader, Elmer Hader · 1948
• 📕RBT® Ethics CodeJon S. Bailey, Mary R. Burch · 2020
• Mental RepresentationsAllan Paivio · 1986
• The Man in the Cat-Hair SuitWilliam R. Greene · 2011
• 📕Nouvelle grilleHenri Laborit · 1977
• Road rage and aggressive drivingJames, Leon Dr, Leon James · 2000
• Tao of chaosKatya McCall Walter · 1994

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