Dylan D. Wagner
Psychology · The Ohio State University
Publications
79
Citations
4,478
Est. group size
~8
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
58
Publishing since 1969
Dylan D. Wagner studies how the brain represents information about the self and other people, using brain imaging (fMRI) methods to examine topics like social connection, identification with fictional characters, and self-control around food choices. His work also extends into using smartphone sensing and ecological momentary assessment (tracking mood and behavior via repeated brief surveys) to study mental health, stress, and depression in college students, including during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Publication output peaked around 2018 and has gradually declined and leveled off to a steadier, lower rate of about 3-4 papers per year in recent years.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- The boundary between real and fictional others in the medial prefrontal cortex is blurred in lonelier individuals
Cerebral Cortex · 2023
- Mental Health and Behavior of College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Mobile Smartphone and Ecological Momentary Assessment Study, Part II (Preprint)
2021
- Mental Health and Behavior of College Students in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Mobile Smartphone and Ecological Momentary Assessment Study - Part II
2021
- Becoming the King in the North: identification with fictional characters is associated with greater self–other neural overlap
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · 2021
- Mental Health and Behavior of College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Mobile Smartphone and Ecological Momentary Assessment Study, Part II
Journal of Medical Internet Research · 2021
- Mental Health and Behavior of College Students During the Early Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Smartphone and Ecological Momentary Assessment Study (Preprint)
2020
- Mental Health and Behavior During the Early Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Mobile Smartphone and Ecological Momentary Assessment Study in College Students
2020
- The orbitofrontal cortex spontaneously encodes food health and contains more distinct representations for foods highest in tastiness
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · 2020
- Causal Factors of Anxiety and Depression in College Students: Longitudinal Ecological Momentary Assessment and Causal Analysis Using Peter and Clark Momentary Conditional Independence
JMIR Mental Health · 2020
- Mental Health and Behavior of College Students During the Early Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Smartphone and Ecological Momentary Assessment Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research · 2020
- Causal Factors of Anxiety and Depression in College Students: Longitudinal Ecological Momentary Assessment and Causal Analysis Using Peter and Clark Momentary Conditional Independence (Preprint)
2019
- Correction: Calorie information and dieting status modulate reward and control activation during the evaluation of food images
PLoS ONE · 2019
- The neural representation of self is recapitulated in the brains of friends: A round-robin fMRI study
2019
- Media multitasking is associated with higher risk for obesity and increased responsiveness to rewarding food stimuli
Brain Imaging and Behavior · 2019
- Recruitment of cognitive control regions during effortful self-control is associated with altered brain activity in control and reward systems in dieters during subsequent exposure to food commercials
PeerJ · 2019
- Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs×3
- Journal of Medical Internet Research×2
- Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience×2
- Cerebral Cortex×2
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences×2
- Nathaniel Haines
Psychology · The Ohio State University
- Kristen A. Lindquist
Psychology · The Ohio State University
- Joshua M. Smyth
Psychology · The Ohio State University
- Nikki A. Puccetti
Psychology · The Ohio State University
- Scott A. Langenecker
Psychology · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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