Publications

2022

Van der Plas E, Zhang S, Dong K, Bang D, Li J, Wright ND, Fleming SM (in press) Identifying cultural differences in metacognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Wright ND (in press) Neither triumph nor disaster: United Kingdom responses to Covid-19 and the future of national security, PRISM, National Defense University Press, US

Wright ND (January 2022) DARPA's Magic Ingredient—Speed—Can Help Build a Fleet of Allied "DARPAs", Commentary, Center for Strategic and International Studies

2021

Wright ND (2021) The future character of information in strategy: forged by cognition and technology, Intelligent Biology

Wright ND (2021) Cognitive defense of the Joint Force in a digitizing world, Intelligent Biology

Wright ND, Lewis JA, Rees G (2021) Innovation with Allies: Practical Paths Forward, Commentary, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Wright ND, Giordano J, DiEuliis D (2021) 3 Tricks for Strategically Competing in the Global Innovation Smackdown, National Interest

2020

Wright ND (2020) Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Norms: Meeting the authoritarian challenge, National Endowment for Democracy (Washington, DC)

Wright ND (2020) Coronavirus and the future of surveillance, Foreign Affairs

Wright ND (2020) Affording new futures: The neuroscience and cognition of reintegration and reconciliation, Intelligent Biology

Wright ND (2020) Young people aged 0-17: Neuroscience and cognition to break cycles of radicalization, Intelligent Biology

Tong Y, Sun J, Wright ND, & Li J (2020). Disgust selectively dampens value-independent risk-taking for potential gains. Cognition, 200, 104266.

2019

Wright ND (2019) Global Strategy amidst the globe’s cultures: cultures in individual cognition, states and the global system (v2) Intelligent Biology [Supplementary materials]

Wright ND (2019) How durable May a Digital Authoritarian Regime Be Within China? In Chinese Strategic Intentions: A Deep Dive into China’s Worldwide Activities, U.S. Dept. of Defense Joint Staff

Wright ND (2019) The Durability of a Digital Authoritarian Model’s Influence Outside China. In Chinese Strategic Intentions: A Deep Dive into China’s Worldwide Activities, U.S. Dept. of Defense Joint Staff

Wright ND (Ed. 2019) Artificial Intelligence, China, Russia and the Global Order, Air University Press

Kim D, Wright ND, Lee K (2019) The United States Needs a Gray-Zone Strategy Against North Korea, Foreign Policy

Vogel A, Wright ND (2019), Alexa, What Is a Conflict of Interest?, Slate

Wright ND (2019) The Neurobiology of Deterrence: Lessons for U.S. and Chinese Doctrine in Eds. Knopf J and Harrington A "Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons", University of Georgia Press

2018

Wright ND (2018) AI & Global Governance: Three Distinct AI Challenges for the UN, Centre for Policy Research, United Nations University

Wright ND (2018) The neuroscience, psychology and practice of target audience self-report, in White Paper: What Do Others Think and How Do We Know What They Are Thinking?, U.S. Dept. of Defense Joint Staff

2017

Vlaev, I., Wallace, B., Wright, ND, Nicolle, A., Dolan, P., & Dolan, R. (2017). Other people's money: The role of reciprocity and social uncertainty in decisions for others. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics.

Eassa C, Sitterle V, Toguchi R, Wright ND (2017) “Chapter 5: Rethinking Control and Influence in the Age of Complex Geopolitical Systems” in White Paper on Influence in an Age of Rising Connectedness, U.S. Dept. of Defense Joint Staff

Wright ND (2017) “Chapter 9: Rethinking Control and Influence in the Age of Complex Geopolitical Systems” in White Paper on Influence in an Age of Rising Connectedness, U.S. Dept. of Defense Joint Staff

Wright ND (2017) “Chapter 10: Evidence-based Principles of Influence” in White Paper on Influence in an Age of Rising Connectedness U.S. Dept. of Defense Joint Staff

Multiple contributions (2017) in “Proceedings of the 10th Annual Strategic Multi-Layer Assessment (SMA) Conference, From Control to Influence? A View of—and Vision for—the Future”, U.S. Dept. of Defense Joint Staff

2016

Wright ND Entrepreneurs of fear (2016) in Giordano J (Ed.), White Paper on Assessing and Anticipating Threats to US Security Interests: A Bio-Psycho-Social Approach for Understanding the Emergence of and Mitigating Violence and Terrorism, US DoD Joint Staff

Hertz U, Rutledge R, Winston J, Wright ND, Dolan RJ, Bahrmai B (2016) Oxytocin Effect on Collective Decision Making: A Randomized Placebo Controlled Study, Plos One

2015

Wright ND (2015) Neuro-cognitive Mechanisms of Motivation and Decision-Making in Giordano J and DiEuliis D (Eds.), White Paper on Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Underpinnings of ISIL Behavior and Implications for Strategic Communication, Messaging, and Influence, US DoD Joint Staff

Wright ND and Astorino-Courtois A (Eds.; 2015) Strategic Multilayer Assessment White Paper: The Science of Decision Making across the Span of Human Activity, US DoD Joint Staff

Wright ND, The biology of cooperative decision-making: neurobiology to international relations (2015) Handbook of international negotiation: Interpersonal, intercultural and diplomatic perspectives, Ed. Galluccio M, Springer

Wright ND (2015) Neurobiological and Emotional Influences: a realistic organic account of human decision making, in Wright ND and Astorino-Courtois A (Eds.) Strategic Multilayer Assessment White Paper: The Science of Decision Making across the Span of Human Activity, US DoD Joint Staff

Wright ND (2015) Helping the United States Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority understand the minds of others, in Wilkenfeld J (Ed.) Strategic Multilayer Assessment White Paper: A Geopolitical and Cognitive Assessment of the Israeli-Palestinian Security Conundrum, US DoD Joint Staff

Wright ND, Hewstone M, Lolliot S, Savage S, Ditlmann R, Bruneau E, Packer D, Castano E, Bock J (2015) Helping the United States Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority understand the minds of others, Report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for the US DoD Joint Staff

2014

Wright ND and Schoff J (2014) China and Japan's real problem: enter the Fairness Dilemma, The National Interest

Eds. DiEuliis D, Casebeer W, Giordano J, Wright ND, Cabayan H (2014) White paper on Leveraging Neuroscientific and Neurotechnological (NeuroS&T) Developments with Focus on Influence and Deterrence in a Networked World, U.S. DoD Joint Staff

Wright ND, The biology of cooperative decision-making: neurobiology to international relations (2014) Handbook of international negotiation: Interpersonal, intercultural and diplomatic perspectives, Ed. Galluccio M, Springer

Eds. Cabayan H, Wright ND (2014) A multi-disciplinary, multi-method approach to leader assessment at a distance: The case of Bashar Al-Assad, U.S. DoD Joint Staff

Proceedings from Joint Staff Strategic Multilayer Assessment conference (Nov 2013) at which Wright presented.

Proceedings from DARPA-organised meeting on deterrence and influence (Oct 2013) at which Wright presented.

Wright ND and Sadjadpour K (2014) The neuroscience guide to negotiations with Iran, The Atlantic

2013

Wright ND, Symmonds M, Morris LS, Dolan RJ (2013) Dissociable influences of skewness and valence on economic choice and neural activity, Plos One

Wright ND, Morris LS, Guitart-Masip M, Dolan RJ (2013) Manipulating the contribution of approach-avoidance to the perturbation of economic choice by valence, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Smittenaar P, FitzGerald THB, Romei V, Wright ND, Dolan RJ (2013) Disruption of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex decreases model-based in favor of model-free control in humans, Neuron

Wright ND, Symmonds M, Dolan RJ (2013) Distinct encoding of risk and value in economic choice between multiple risky options, Neuroimage

Symmonds M, Moran RJ, Wright ND, Bossaerts P, Barnes G, Dolan RJ (2013) The chronometry of risk processing in the human cortex, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Wolf LK*, Wright ND*, Kilford EJ, Dolan RJ, Blakemore SJ (2013) Developmental changes in effects of risk and valence on adolescent decision-making, Cognitive Development

*Joint first author

Symmonds M, Fagan E, Wright ND, Dolan RJ (2013) Assaying the effect of Levodopa on the evaluation of risk in healthy humans, PLoS One

2012

Wright ND, Hodgson K, Fleming SM, Symmonds M, Guitart-Masip M, Dolan RJ (2012) Human responses to unfairness with primary rewards and their biological limits, Scientific Reports

Wright ND, Edwards T, Fleming SM, Dolan RJ (2012) Testosterone induces off-line perceptual learning, Psychopharmacology

Wright ND, Symmonds M, Hodgson K, Fitzgerald THB, Crawford B, Dolan RJ (2012) Approach-avoidance processes contribute to dissociable impacts of risk and loss on choice, Journal of Neuroscience

Vlaev I, Seymour B, Chater N, Winston J, Yoshida W, Wright ND, Symmonds M, Dolan RJ (2012) Prices Need No Preferences: Social Trends Determine Decisions in Experimental Markets for Pain Relief, Health Psychology

Wright ND, Bahrami B, Johnson E, Di Malta G, Rees G, Frith CD, Dolan RJ (2012) Testosterone disrupts human collaboration by increasing egocentric choices. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Coverage in Nature as a most viewed paper in science Download

A most downloaded article in Proceedings of 2012 Link

2011

Symmonds M, Wright ND, Bach DR, Dolan RJ (2011) Deconstructing risk: separable encoding of variance and skewness in the brain, Neuroimage 58(4): 1139-49

Wright ND, Symmonds M, Fleming SF, Dolan RJ (2011) Neural segregation of objective and contextual aspects of fairness, Journal of Neuroscience 31:5244-5252

2008

Wright ND, Mechelli A, Noppeney U, Veltman D, Rombouts S, Glensman J, Haynes J-D, Price CJ (2008) Selective activation around the left occipito-temporal sulcus for words relative to pictures: individual variability or false positives? Human Brain Mapping 29:986–1000