| Self-referential cognition and empathy in autism MV Lombardo, JL Barnes, SJ Wheelwright, S Baron-Cohen PloS one 2 (9), e883, 2007 | 620 | 2007 |
| Does reading a single passage of literary fiction really improve theory of mind? An attempt at replication. ME Panero, DS Weisberg, J Black, TR Goldstein, JL Barnes, H Brownell, ... Journal of personality and social psychology 111 (5), e46, 2016 | 317 | 2016 |
| Fiction and social cognition: The effect of viewing award-winning television dramas on theory of mind. J Black, JL Barnes Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 9 (4), 423, 2015 | 180 | 2015 |
| The effects of reading material on social and non-social cognition JE Black, JL Barnes Poetics 52, 32-43, 2015 | 142 | 2015 |
| ‘Unwilling’ versus ‘unable’: capuchin monkeys’ (Cebus apella) understanding of human intentional action W Phillips, JL Barnes, N Mahajan, M Yamaguchi, LR Santos Developmental science 12 (6), 938-945, 2009 | 131 | 2009 |
| The big picture: Storytelling ability in adults with autism spectrum conditions JL Barnes, S Baron-Cohen Journal of autism and developmental disorders 42, 1557-1565, 2012 | 117 | 2012 |
| Fanfiction as imaginary play: What fan-written stories can tell us about the cognitive science of fiction JL Barnes Poetics 48, 69-82, 2015 | 113 | 2015 |
| Moral dilemmas film task: A study of spontaneous narratives by individuals with autism spectrum conditions JL Barnes, MV Lombardo, S Wheelwright, S Baron‐Cohen Autism research 2 (3), 148-156, 2009 | 104 | 2009 |
| Expectations about numerical events in four lemur species (Eulemur fulvus, Eulemur mongoz, Lemur catta and Varecia rubra) LR Santos, JL Barnes, N Mahajan Animal Cognition 8, 253-262, 2005 | 93 | 2005 |
| Helping behaviour and regard for others in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) JL Barnes, T Hill, M Langer, M Martinez, LR Santos Biology Letters 4 (6), 638-640, 2008 | 89 | 2008 |
| Fiction, imagination, and social cognition: Insights from autism JL Barnes Poetics 40 (4), 299-316, 2012 | 65 | 2012 |
| No support for the claim that literary fiction uniquely and immediately improves theory of mind: A reply to Kidd and Castano’s commentary on Panero et al.(2016). ME Panero, DS Weisberg, J Black, TR Goldstein, JL Barnes, H Brownell, ... American Psychological Association 112 (3), e5, 2017 | 62 | 2017 |
| Fact or fiction? Children’s preferences for real versus make-believe stories JL Barnes, E Bernstein, P Bloom Imagination, Cognition and Personality 34 (3), 243-258, 2015 | 61 | 2015 |
| How prosimian primates represent tools: experiments with two lemur species (Eulemur fulvus and Lemur catta). LR Santos, N Mahajan, JL Barnes Journal of Comparative Psychology 119 (4), 394, 2005 | 61 | 2005 |
| Imaginary engagement, real-world effects: Fiction, emotion, and social cognition JL Barnes Review of General Psychology 22 (2), 125-134, 2018 | 55 | 2018 |
| Brief Report: Does Watching The Good Doctor Affect Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Autism? SC Stern, JL Barnes Journal of autism and developmental disorders 49, 2581-2588, 2019 | 46 | 2019 |
| Measuring the unimaginable: Imaginative resistance to fiction and related constructs JE Black, JL Barnes Personality and Individual Differences 111, 71-79, 2017 | 43 | 2017 |
| Fiction, genre exposure, and moral reality. JE Black, SC Capps, JL Barnes Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 12 (3), 328, 2018 | 41 | 2018 |
| Children’s preference for social stories. JL Barnes, P Bloom Developmental Psychology 50 (2), 498, 2014 | 40 | 2014 |
| Who can resist a villain? Morality, Machiavellianism, imaginative resistance and liking for dark fictional characters JE Black, Y Helmy, O Robson, JL Barnes Poetics 74, 101344, 2019 | 26 | 2019 |
