American Psychologist

Papers
(The median citation count of American Psychologist is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
E. Mavis Hetherington (1926–2023).392
(Un)ethical consequences: How psychology’s cold war defense of military personnel led to enhanced interrogation techniques in the war on terror.247
Supplemental Material for Fears About Artificial Intelligence Across 20 Countries and Six Domains of Application237
Supplemental Material for Step-by-Step to More Creativity: The Number of Steps in Everyday Life Is Related to Creative Ideation Performance194
Eileen Gavin (1931–2024).127
International Humanitarian Award: Garth Neufeld.118
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.108
An Ocean of Data by Gonzalo Bacigalupe68
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Shinobu Kitayama.63
Supplemental Material for Intergroup Contact Is Reliably Associated With Reduced Prejudice, Even in the Face of Group Threat and Discrimination58
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice: Gayle Y. Iwamasa.58
A window into youth and family policy: State policymaker views on polarization and research utilization.57
Norman B. Anderson (1955–2024).55
Atypical child–parent neural synchrony is linked to negative family emotional climate and children’s psychopathological symptoms.53
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Richard E. Petty.53
Truth and reconciliation for whom? Transitional justice for Indigenous peoples in American psychology.51
Climate change and health equity: A research agenda for psychological science.49
Mental health and environmental factors in adults: A population-based network analysis.45
Applying rigorous standards is not a ban or censorship: A reply to León (2025) and Connor and Fuerst (2025).43
It’s time to replace the personality disorders with the interpersonal disorders.43
Increased functional connectivity between the midbrain and frontal cortex following bright light therapy in subthreshold depression: A randomized clinical trial.42
Conscious and unconscious processing of ensemble statistics oppositely modulate perceptual decision-making.41
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Dobromir Rahnev.39
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Brian J. Hall.37
Martin Y. Iguchi (1955–2021).37
Rosalind Dymond Cartwright (1922–2021).36
Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training.36
Lee D. Ross (1942–2021).36
Supplemental Material for Dynamic Fit Index Cutoffs for Categorical Factor Analysis With Likert-Type, Ordinal, or Binary Responses34
Report of the American Psychological Association’s Board of Scientific Affairs Task Force on Promotion, Tenure, and Retention of Faculty of Color in Psychology.34
Supplemental Material for Resilience of Racial and Ethnic Minority Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of a Prior Disability Prevention Intervention33
James R. Flynn (1934–2020).32
Modeling cultural change: Computational models of interpersonal influence dynamics can yield new insights about how cultures change, which cultures change more rapidly than others, and why.31
From “behind the bridge” to the presidency of the American Psychological Association: Lessons learned on an unplanned journey.30
Amplifying Black excellence in industrial–organizational psychology.30
Jerry (Jerald) Rudmann (1944–2024).29
Assessing the safety and efficacy of prescribing psychologists in New Mexico and Louisiana.29
Stanley R. Graham (1926–2023).28
Field social psychology.27
Dianne L. Chambless (1948–2023).27
Supplemental Material for Shifting the Gaze From Racism to Healing From Racism: A Systematic Review of Selected Psychology Journals From 1992 to 202227
Social support and psychological adjustment: A quantitative synthesis of 60 meta-analyses.26
Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s silver lining effects on life satisfaction.24
Anthony J. Marsella (1940–2024).23
No client left behind: A meta-analysis of premature termination from psychotherapy in U.S. service members and veterans.23
Supplemental Material for Integrating Systems of Power and Privilege in the Study of Resilience22
The American Psychological Association and antisemitism: Toward equity, diversity, and inclusion.22
A randomized wait-list controlled trial of Men in Mind: Enhancing mental health practitioners’ self-rated clinical competencies to work with men.22
Interpersonal and personality disorders: Commentary on Wright et al. (2022).22
Supplemental Material for Reflections From the Wading Pool: Detoxifying Racist Psychological Waters While Submerged in Their Waves21
Language brokering and immigrant-origin youth’s well-being: A meta-analytic review.21
All Hands In by Yolanda Peña Mazzoni21
Supplemental Material for The Associations and Mediators Between Visual Disabilities and Anxiety Disorders in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Population-Based Study21
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Jennifer C. Wolff.20
Carol McDonald Connor (1953–2020).20
Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology: Stephen L. Chew.20
Gary B. Melton (1952–2020).20
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.20
Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. (1924–2022).20
Supplemental Material for Responses to Political Partisans Are Shaped by a COVID-19-Sensitive Disease Avoidance Psychology: A Longitudinal Investigation of Functional Flexibility19
Supplemental Material for How Elections Shape Perceptions of Ideal Leadership19
Cotton Candy Sunset by Randy Bott19
Michael E. Connor (1942–2023).19
Scholarship, not politics: Reply to Eidelson (2025).19
Process-focused psychotherapy training is evidence-based psychotherapy training: Commentary on Westra and Di Bartolomeo (2024).19
Promoting institutional change to support public psychology: Innovations and challenges at the University of California.18
Intelligence … moving beyond the lowest common denominator.18
Scaling up psychological treatments: Lessons learned from global mental health.18
Mental health care equity and access: A group therapy solution.18
A network analysis of high school and college students’ COVID-19-related concerns, self-regulatory skills, and affect.17
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Cynthia J. Najdowski.17
Summary report of journal operations, 2023.17
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Vonnie C. McLoyd.16
Supplemental Material for How Subjective Idea Valuation Energizes and Guides Creative Idea Generation16
AA1133 (Rothko) by Alan D. Entin16
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research.16
Robin J. Hailstorks (1954–2023).16
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Megan R. Gunnar.16
APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Shawntell Nicole Pace.16
Public psychology: Introduction to the special issue.15
Expert predictions of societal change: Insights from the world after COVID project.15
Supplemental Material for Exponential Authorship Inflation in Neuroscience and Psychology From the 1950s to the 2020s15
A refreshing and necessary start: Commentary on Westra and Di Bartolomeo (2024).15
A stigma-conscious framework for resilience and posttraumatic change.15
Supplemental Material for Psychological Predictors of Socioeconomic Resilience Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Machine Learning15
A quasi-experimental study examining the efficacy of multimodal bot screening tools and recommendations to preserve data integrity in online psychological research.15
Is psychological research producing the kind of knowledge clinicians find useful?15
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Pim Cuijpers.14
Supplemental Material for “More Is Better” or “Better Near the Middle”? A U.S.-Based Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Socioeconomic Status and Depressive Symptoms14
Asuncion (Siony) Miteria Austria (1932–2020).14
Evolving evolutionary psychology.14
Supplemental Material for To Read or Not to Read? Motives for Reading Negative COVID-19 News14
Supplemental Material for I Forgot That You Existed: Role of Memory Accessibility in the Gender Citation Gap14
Vineland Near Ventura, Right Bank Looking East by Randye N. Sandel13
Susan M. Johnson (1947–2024).13
Beyond “heartfelt condolences”: A critical take on mainstream psychology’s responses to anti-Black police brutality.13
Integrating evolutionary game theory and cross-cultural psychology to understand cultural dynamics.13
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.13
Duane F. Alexander (1940–2020).13
Edison J. Trickett (1941–2022).13
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology.13
The role of data in facilitating discussion: Reply to Jackson (2021).13
Standing on the shoulders of a giant: The legacy of Robert M. Sellers.13
Supplemental Material for Five Decades of Research on Psychological Treatments of Depression: A Historical and Meta-Analytic Overview12
Building a dynamic adaptational process theory of resilience (ADAPTOR): Stress exposure, reserve capacity, adaptation, and consequence.12
Toward a better understanding of cultural change: Reply to Bao et al. (2022).12
Supplemental Material for Language Brokering and Immigrant-Origin Youth’s Well-Being: A Meta-Analytic Review11
Supplemental Material for Navigating Ethical Challenges in Psychological Research Involving Digital Remote Technologies and People Who Use Alcohol or Drugs11
Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award.11
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.11
International Humanitarian Award.11
Supplemental Material for Racial Uplifts and the Asian American Experience11
Aaron T. Beck (1921–2021).11
There is much more to tolerance than social categorization: Commentary on Simon (2023).11
A tale of two perspectives: Reply to Schneider (2022).10
A nuanced view of the extent to which samples from narrow populations are scientifically problematic.10
Donald K. Routh (1937–2021).10
Intergenerational transmission of depression risk and the developing brain.10
Addressing racial equity in health psychology research: An application of the multicultural orientation framework.10
Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Kimberly G. Noble.10
The far reach of personality traits in relationship functioning and COVID-19: Comment on Pietromonaco and Overall (2020).10
Möbius Rising by Allison Zuckerman10
Resilience of racial and ethnic minority older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of a prior disability prevention intervention.10
Leveraging psychological fit to encourage saving behavior.9
Rocky Mountain Sunflowers by Jan Bushart9
Patterns of implicit and explicit attitudes II. Long-term change and stability, regardless of group membership.9
Neural specialization with generalizable representations underlies children’s cognitive development of attention.9
Exponential authorship inflation in neuroscience and psychology from the 1950s to the 2020s.9
Responsible data sharing: Identifying and remedying possible re-identification of human participants.9
Moving human rights to the forefront of psychology: Summary of the final report of the APA task force on human rights.9
Broadening the evidentiary basis for clinical practice guidelines: Recommendations from qualitative psychotherapy researchers.9
Irwin Pollack (1925–2021).8
To reduce editor bias and increase diversity and transparency, editors must be motivated: Commentary on Sharpe (2024).8
Jerome Kagan (1929–2021).8
International Humanitarian Award.8
Psychology and whiteness itself.8
Lewis Paeff Lipsitt (1929–2021).8
Reducing racial bias in scientific communication: Journal policies and their influence on reporting racial demographics.8
Supplemental Material for A Review of General Cognitive-Behavioral Programs in English and Welsh Prisons and Probation Services: Three Decades of Quasi-Experimental Evaluations8
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research.8
APF Charles l. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology: Jeffrey S. Nevid.8
Daniel Kahneman (1934–2024).8
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Kathryn J. Holland.8
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.8
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology.8
Frans B. M. de Waal (1948–2024).7
International Humanitarian Award: Bhava Nath Poudyal.7
Professional practice guidelines for operational psychology: An executive summary.7
International Humanitarian Award.7
Quantifying the selective forgetting and integration of ideas in science and technology.7
Supplemental Material for Publication Trends for Qualitative Inquiry in American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science Journals7
The detection of automatic behavior in other people.7
Fears about artificial intelligence across 20 countries and six domains of application.7
Effectiveness of youth psychotherapy delivered remotely: A meta-analysis.7
Harvey Schlossberg (1936–2021).7
James S. Jackson and the program for research on Black Americans: Contributions to psychology and the social sciences.7
On the accuracy, media representation, and public perception of psychological scientists’ judgments of societal change.7
Pathways to queer thriving in an LGBTQ+ intergenerational community.7
Interventions in everyday life to improve mental health and reduce symptoms of psychiatric disorders.7
White fragility: An emotion regulation perspective.7
What is awe? On an uncontested definition, conceptual ambiguities, and cultural limitations.7
Now is the time to assess the effects of open science practiceswith randomized control trials.7
Developing practices for hospital-based violence intervention programs to address anti-Black racism and historical trauma.7
Online racial discrimination and the role of white bystanders.7
Acceptance and commitment therapy versus trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy: A comparative study of the effects on the posttraumatic stress symptoms of female Afghan adolescents.6
Island Sovereign by Theodore Walker Robinson6
Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures.6
Psychologists return to the first question of Western philosophy.6
La Luna Como un Garbanzo (The Moon as a Chickpea) by Marcia Salas6
The Faceless by Jane Zich6
Supplemental Material for Effectiveness of Youth Psychotherapy Delivered Remotely: A Meta-Analysis6
APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Sarah C. Leighton.6
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.6
Expanding the role of justice in secondary research using digital psychological data.6
Ethical applications of digital community-based research with Black immigrant and refugee youth and families.6
Does risk perception motivate preventive behavior during a pandemic? A longitudinal study in the United States and China.6
Racism exposure and trauma accumulation perpetuate pain inequities—advocating for change (RESTORATIVE): A conceptual model.6
Division 21 has been devoted to human-centered design since the 1950s: Comment on Lyon, Brewer, and Areán (2020).6
Some closure on exposure—Realigning the perspective on trauma treatment and finding a pathway forward: Reply to Brown (2024) and Najavits (2024).6
A Grand Welcome for the Outsider by Grace Lynne Haynes6
Supplemental Material for Atypical Child–Parent Neural Synchrony Is Linked to Negative Family Emotional Climate and Children’s Psychopathological Symptoms6
Supplemental Material for What Is Unique About Acceptance and Correction of Misinformation? Insights From Work on Attitudes, Persuasion, and Beyond6
The social determinants of resilience: A conceptual framework to integrate psychological and policy research.6
“And they are still the guardians of these sacred waters …”: Land as a process of reconciliation.6
Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review with meta-analysis.6
Collaboratively maximizing the impact of human-centered design in psychological and implementation science: Reply to Proctor et al. (2021).6
Provenance by Lyle Rushing6
The Long Wait by Lisa Jacobs6
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Keely A. Muscatell.5
Knowledge and intelligence: Reply to Oswald et al. (2023) and Sternberg (2023).5
Frank L. Schmidt (1944–2021).5
APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Robert D. Enright.5
On definition and description in psychopathology: Reply to Widiger et al. (2023).5
The (post)colonial predicament in community mental health services for American Indians: Explorations in alter-Native psy-ence.5
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Judith L. Gibbons.5
Robert Sommer (1929–2021).5
Responses to political partisans are shaped by a COVID-19-sensitive disease avoidance psychology: A longitudinal investigation of functional flexibility.5
A review of general cognitive-behavioral programs in English and Welsh prisons and probation services: Three decades of quasi-experimental evaluations.5
Supplemental Material for A Randomized Wait-List Controlled Trial of Men in Mind: Enhancing Mental Health Practitioners’ Self-Rated Clinical Competencies to Work With Men5
Intersectionality is not a footnote: Commentary on Roberts and Rizzo (2021).5
Internalization of weight bias and stigma: Scientific challenges and opportunities.5
APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Mark L. Hatzenbuehler.5
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Lisa Feldman Barrett.5
A cultural script for suicide among White men in the Mountain West Region of the United States.5
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Dylan G. Gee.5
Supplemental Material for Gender Disparities in Authorship of Invited Submissions in High-Impact Psychology Journals5
Demographics and clinical characteristics of patients of prescribing psychologists, psychiatrists, and primary care physicians.5
A historic apology: The American Psychological Association’s commitment to dismantling systemic racism and advancing racial equity in psychology.5
Marcia Worrell (1966–2020).4
It remains meaningful to distinguish optimism from pessimism: Reply to VanderWeele and Kubzansky (2021).4
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Michael S. Fanselow.4
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: BJ Casey.4
Supplemental Material for Assessing the Safety and Efficacy of Prescribing Psychologists in New Mexico and Louisiana4
Supplemental Material for Active Exploration of Faces in Police Lineups Increases Discrimination Accuracy4
Socioeconomic disparities and neuroplasticity: Moving toward adaptation, intersectionality, and inclusion.4
Opening editorial 2022.4
Dismantling racism through partnership with resettled refugee communities.4
Duane Schultz (1934–2023).4
Supplemental Material for The Misperception of Organizational Racial Progress Toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion4
Philip G. Zimbardo (1933–2024).4
A generalizable framework for assessing the role of emotion during choice.4
Jean Maria Arrigo (1944–2024).4
Ron E. Franco Durán (1963–2022).4
Supplemental Material for No Client Left Behind: A Meta-Analysis of Premature Termination From Psychotherapy in U.S. Service Members and Veterans4
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Kathleen M. Pike.4
Supplemental Material for Replicating and Extending Sengupta et al. (2023): Contact Predicts No Within-Person Longitudinal Outgroup-Bias Change4
How to live in peace? Mapping the science of sustaining peace: A progress report.4
Herbert J. Greenwald (1929–2024).4
Heat on the brain: The impacts of rising temperatures on psychiatric functioning, potential causes, and related compounding factors.3
Irving B. Weiner (1933–2024).3
Dehumanization risks associated with artificial intelligence use.3
Violence and aggression against educators and school personnel, retention, stress, and training needs: National survey results.3
How psychologists can help achieve equity in health care—advancing innovative partnerships and models of care delivery: Introduction to the special issue.3
Machines, psychology, and hypothesis generation: Commentary on Banker et al. (2024).3
Overcoming the streetlight effect: Shining light on the foundations of learning and development in early childhood.3
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.3
Supplemental Material for Broadening the Evidentiary Basis for Clinical Practice Guidelines: Recommendations From Qualitative Psychotherapy Researchers3
Measuring gender in elementary school-aged children in the United States: Promising practices and barriers to moving beyond the binary.3
Adversarial collaboration: An undervalued approach in behavioral science.3
Claire Crooks (1973–2024).3
Warren K. Bickel (1956–2024).3
A decolonial and liberation lens to social justice research: Upholding promises for diverse, inclusive, and equitable psychological science.3
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Hector Betancourt.3
Guidelines for psychological practice for people with low-income and economic marginalization: Executive summary.3
William M. Reynolds (1951–2024).3
What counts as good science? How the battle for methodological legitimacy affects public psychology.3
“Resilience looks like me”: Community stakeholder perspectives on resilience in Black boys and young men exposed to community violence.3
Honoring elder wisdom: In the classroom, in practice, in life.3
Racial justice allyship requires civil courage: A behavioral prescription for moral growth and change.3
Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Russell B. Lemle.3
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