American Psychologist

Papers
(The TQCC of American Psychologist is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Atypical child–parent neural synchrony is linked to negative family emotional climate and children’s psychopathological symptoms.372
E. Mavis Hetherington (1926–2023).226
Murray Sidman (1923–2019).225
(Un)ethical consequences: How psychology’s cold war defense of military personnel led to enhanced interrogation techniques in the war on terror.166
Supplemental Material for Fears About Artificial Intelligence Across 20 Countries and Six Domains of Application125
Supplemental Material for Step-by-Step to More Creativity: The Number of Steps in Everyday Life Is Related to Creative Ideation Performance109
International Humanitarian Award: Garth Neufeld.94
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.81
An Ocean of Data by Gonzalo Bacigalupe76
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Shinobu Kitayama.68
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice: Gayle Y. Iwamasa.62
Supplemental Material for Intergroup Contact Is Reliably Associated With Reduced Prejudice, Even in the Face of Group Threat and Discrimination59
A window into youth and family policy: State policymaker views on polarization and research utilization.57
Norman B. Anderson (1955–2024).55
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Richard E. Petty.51
Increased functional connectivity between the midbrain and frontal cortex following bright light therapy in subthreshold depression: A randomized clinical trial.50
Conscious and unconscious processing of ensemble statistics oppositely modulate perceptual decision-making.48
Truth and reconciliation for whom? Transitional justice for Indigenous peoples in American psychology.48
Eileen Gavin (1931–2024).46
Mental health and environmental factors in adults: A population-based network analysis.45
Climate change and health equity: A research agenda for psychological science.43
It’s time to replace the personality disorders with the interpersonal disorders.43
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Dobromir Rahnev.41
Martin Y. Iguchi (1955–2021).39
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Brian J. Hall.39
Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training.37
Rosalind Dymond Cartwright (1922–2021).36
Lee D. Ross (1942–2021).36
Supplemental Material for Resilience of Racial and Ethnic Minority Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of a Prior Disability Prevention Intervention34
Supplemental Material for Dynamic Fit Index Cutoffs for Categorical Factor Analysis With Likert-Type, Ordinal, or Binary Responses34
American psychology is becoming more international, but too slowly: Comment on Thalmayer et al. (2020).33
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.32
James R. Flynn (1934–2020).32
Amplifying Black excellence in industrial–organizational psychology.31
Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s silver lining effects on life satisfaction.30
From “behind the bridge” to the presidency of the American Psychological Association: Lessons learned on an unplanned journey.28
Assessing the safety and efficacy of prescribing psychologists in New Mexico and Louisiana.28
Stanley R. Graham (1926–2023).27
Jerry (Jerald) Rudmann (1944–2024).27
Anthony J. Marsella (1940–2024).26
Supplemental Material for Shifting the Gaze From Racism to Healing From Racism: A Systematic Review of Selected Psychology Journals From 1992 to 202226
No client left behind: A meta-analysis of premature termination from psychotherapy in U.S. service members and veterans.26
Social support and psychological adjustment: A quantitative synthesis of 60 meta-analyses.24
The American Psychological Association and antisemitism: Toward equity, diversity, and inclusion.24
Field social psychology.24
Supplemental Material for Integrating Systems of Power and Privilege in the Study of Resilience22
Dianne L. Chambless (1948–2023).22
A network analysis of high school and college students’ COVID-19-related concerns, self-regulatory skills, and affect.21
Supplemental Material for The Associations and Mediators Between Visual Disabilities and Anxiety Disorders in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Population-Based Study21
Promoting institutional change to support public psychology: Innovations and challenges at the University of California.21
Supplemental Material for Reflections From the Wading Pool: Detoxifying Racist Psychological Waters While Submerged in Their Waves20
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Jennifer C. Wolff.20
Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology: Stephen L. Chew.20
All Hands In by Yolanda Peña Mazzoni20
Gary B. Melton (1952–2020).19
Process-focused psychotherapy training is evidence-based psychotherapy training: Commentary on Westra and Di Bartolomeo (2024).19
Carol McDonald Connor (1953–2020).19
Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. (1924–2022).19
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.19
Michael E. Connor (1942–2023).19
Supplemental Material for How Elections Shape Perceptions of Ideal Leadership18
Interpersonal and personality disorders: Commentary on Wright et al. (2022).18
Scholarship, not politics: Reply to Eidelson (2025).17
Intelligence … moving beyond the lowest common denominator.17
Mental health care equity and access: A group therapy solution.17
Supplemental Material for Responses to Political Partisans Are Shaped by a COVID-19-Sensitive Disease Avoidance Psychology: A Longitudinal Investigation of Functional Flexibility17
A randomized wait-list controlled trial of Men in Mind: Enhancing mental health practitioners’ self-rated clinical competencies to work with men.17
Cotton Candy Sunset by Randy Bott17
Scaling up psychological treatments: Lessons learned from global mental health.16
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Cynthia J. Najdowski.16
Language brokering and immigrant-origin youth’s well-being: A meta-analytic review.16
Summary report of journal operations, 2023.16
Supplemental Material for Exponential Authorship Inflation in Neuroscience and Psychology From the 1950s to the 2020s15
Robin J. Hailstorks (1954–2023).15
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research.15
APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Shawntell Nicole Pace.15
Supplemental Material for How Subjective Idea Valuation Energizes and Guides Creative Idea Generation15
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Vonnie C. McLoyd.15
AA1133 (Rothko) by Alan D. Entin15
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Megan R. Gunnar.15
Expert predictions of societal change: Insights from the world after COVID project.14
Supplemental Material for Psychological Predictors of Socioeconomic Resilience Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Machine Learning14
A stigma-conscious framework for resilience and posttraumatic change.14
A refreshing and necessary start: Commentary on Westra and Di Bartolomeo (2024).14
A quasi-experimental study examining the efficacy of multimodal bot screening tools and recommendations to preserve data integrity in online psychological research.13
Building a dynamic adaptational process theory of resilience (ADAPTOR): Stress exposure, reserve capacity, adaptation, and consequence.13
Asuncion (Siony) Miteria Austria (1932–2020).13
Is psychological research producing the kind of knowledge clinicians find useful?13
Public psychology: Introduction to the special issue.13
Supplemental Material for To Read or Not to Read? Motives for Reading Negative COVID-19 News12
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 Symptoms12
Supplemental Material for I Forgot That You Existed: Role of Memory Accessibility in the Gender Citation Gap12
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology.12
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Pim Cuijpers.12
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.12
Vineland Near Ventura, Right Bank Looking East by Randye N. Sandel11
The role of data in facilitating discussion: Reply to Jackson (2021).11
Standing on the shoulders of a giant: The legacy of Robert M. Sellers.11
Susan M. Johnson (1947–2024).11
Toward a better understanding of cultural change: Reply to Bao et al. (2022).11
Supplemental Material for Five Decades of Research on Psychological Treatments of Depression: A Historical and Meta-Analytic Overview11
Integrating evolutionary game theory and cross-cultural psychology to understand cultural dynamics.11
Duane F. Alexander (1940–2020).11
Edison J. Trickett (1941–2022).11
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.10
Supplemental Material for Racial Uplifts and the Asian American Experience10
Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award.10
Supplemental Material for Navigating Ethical Challenges in Psychological Research Involving Digital Remote Technologies and People Who Use Alcohol or Drugs10
Evolving evolutionary psychology.10
Aaron T. Beck (1921–2021).10
Supplemental Material for Language Brokering and Immigrant-Origin Youth’s Well-Being: A Meta-Analytic Review10
Beyond “heartfelt condolences”: A critical take on mainstream psychology’s responses to anti-Black police brutality.10
The far reach of personality traits in relationship functioning and COVID-19: Comment on Pietromonaco and Overall (2020).9
International Humanitarian Award.9
Intergenerational transmission of depression risk and the developing brain.9
Möbius Rising by Allison Zuckerman9
Exponential authorship inflation in neuroscience and psychology from the 1950s to the 2020s.9
Addressing racial equity in health psychology research: An application of the multicultural orientation framework.9
Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Kimberly G. Noble.9
A nuanced view of the extent to which samples from narrow populations are scientifically problematic.9
There is much more to tolerance than social categorization: Commentary on Simon (2023).9
A tale of two perspectives: Reply to Schneider (2022).9
Resilience of racial and ethnic minority older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of a prior disability prevention intervention.8
Broadening the evidentiary basis for clinical practice guidelines: Recommendations from qualitative psychotherapy researchers.8
Patterns of implicit and explicit attitudes II. Long-term change and stability, regardless of group membership.8
Lewis Paeff Lipsitt (1929–2021).8
Reducing racial bias in scientific communication: Journal policies and their influence on reporting racial demographics.8
Donald K. Routh (1937–2021).8
Leveraging psychological fit to encourage saving behavior.8
Neural specialization with generalizable representations underlies children’s cognitive development of attention.8
Daniel Kahneman (1934–2024).8
What is awe? On an uncontested definition, conceptual ambiguities, and cultural limitations.8
Moving human rights to the forefront of psychology: Summary of the final report of the APA task force on human rights.8
Responsible data sharing: Identifying and remedying possible re-identification of human participants.8
Irwin Pollack (1925–2021).8
To reduce editor bias and increase diversity and transparency, editors must be motivated: Commentary on Sharpe (2024).8
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.7
Psychology and whiteness itself.7
Supplemental Material for Publication Trends for Qualitative Inquiry in American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science Journals7
International Humanitarian Award.7
Jerome Kagan (1929–2021).7
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research.7
Pathways to queer thriving in an LGBTQ+ intergenerational community.7
The detection of automatic behavior in other people.7
Supplemental Material for A Review of General Cognitive-Behavioral Programs in English and Welsh Prisons and Probation Services: Three Decades of Quasi-Experimental Evaluations7
APF Charles l. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology: Jeffrey S. Nevid.7
Professional practice guidelines for operational psychology: An executive summary.7
Frans B. M. de Waal (1948–2024).7
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology.7
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Kathryn J. Holland.7
Fears about artificial intelligence across 20 countries and six domains of application.6
Online racial discrimination and the role of white bystanders.6
Interventions in everyday life to improve mental health and reduce symptoms of psychiatric disorders.6
International Humanitarian Award: Bhava Nath Poudyal.6
Harvey Schlossberg (1936–2021).6
Supplemental Material for Atypical Child–Parent Neural Synchrony Is Linked to Negative Family Emotional Climate and Children’s Psychopathological Symptoms6
APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Sarah C. Leighton.6
White fragility: An emotion regulation perspective.6
International Humanitarian Award.6
Quantifying the selective forgetting and integration of ideas in science and technology.6
Developing practices for hospital-based violence intervention programs to address anti-Black racism and historical trauma.6
The Long Wait by Lisa Jacobs6
A Grand Welcome for the Outsider by Grace Lynne Haynes6
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.6
Now is the time to assess the effects of open science practiceswith randomized control trials.6
James S. Jackson and the program for research on Black Americans: Contributions to psychology and the social sciences.6
On the accuracy, media representation, and public perception of psychological scientists’ judgments of societal change.6
Effectiveness of youth psychotherapy delivered remotely: A meta-analysis.6
Supplemental Material for What Is Unique About Acceptance and Correction of Misinformation? Insights From Work on Attitudes, Persuasion, and Beyond6
Island Sovereign by Theodore Walker Robinson6
Does risk perception motivate preventive behavior during a pandemic? A longitudinal study in the United States and China.6
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
A review of general cognitive-behavioral programs in English and Welsh prisons and probation services: Three decades of quasi-experimental evaluations.5
Provenance by Lyle Rushing5
Ethical applications of digital community-based research with Black immigrant and refugee youth and families.5
The social determinants of resilience: A conceptual framework to integrate psychological and policy research.5
Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures.5
Division 21 has been devoted to human-centered design since the 1950s: Comment on Lyon, Brewer, and Areán (2020).5
Knowledge and intelligence: Reply to Oswald et al. (2023) and Sternberg (2023).5
A cultural script for suicide among White men in the Mountain West Region of the United States.5
Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review with meta-analysis.5
Psychologists return to the first question of Western philosophy.5
If humans design the planet: A call for psychological scientists to engage with climate engineering.5
The Faceless by Jane Zich5
Collaboratively maximizing the impact of human-centered design in psychological and implementation science: Reply to Proctor et al. (2021).5
Intersectionality is not a footnote: Commentary on Roberts and Rizzo (2021).5
Demographics and clinical characteristics of patients of prescribing psychologists, psychiatrists, and primary care physicians.5
Responses to political partisans are shaped by a COVID-19-sensitive disease avoidance psychology: A longitudinal investigation of functional flexibility.5
Racism exposure and trauma accumulation perpetuate pain inequities—advocating for change (RESTORATIVE): A conceptual model.5
Some closure on exposure—Realigning the perspective on trauma treatment and finding a pathway forward: Reply to Brown (2024) and Najavits (2024).5
Expanding the role of justice in secondary research using digital psychological data.5
Supplemental Material for Effectiveness of Youth Psychotherapy Delivered Remotely: A Meta-Analysis5
La Luna Como un Garbanzo (The Moon as a Chickpea) by Marcia Salas5
Frank L. Schmidt (1944–2021).5
Supplemental Material for Assessing the Safety and Efficacy of Prescribing Psychologists in New Mexico and Louisiana4
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Michael S. Fanselow.4
On definition and description in psychopathology: Reply to Widiger et al. (2023).4
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Dylan G. Gee.4
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Lisa Feldman Barrett.4
Internalization of weight bias and stigma: Scientific challenges and opportunities.4
A historic apology: The American Psychological Association’s commitment to dismantling systemic racism and advancing racial equity in psychology.4
Supplemental Material for The Misperception of Organizational Racial Progress Toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion4
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Kathleen M. Pike.4
Herbert J. Greenwald (1929–2024).4
Supplemental Material for Gender Disparities in Authorship of Invited Submissions in High-Impact Psychology Journals4
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Keely A. Muscatell.4
The (post)colonial predicament in community mental health services for American Indians: Explorations in alter-Native psy-ence.4
APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Robert D. Enright.4
Supplemental Material for Active Exploration of Faces in Police Lineups Increases Discrimination Accuracy4
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: BJ Casey.4
Duane Schultz (1934–2023).4
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Judith L. Gibbons.4
Supplemental Material for A Randomized Wait-List Controlled Trial of Men in Mind: Enhancing Mental Health Practitioners’ Self-Rated Clinical Competencies to Work With Men4
Robert Sommer (1929–2021).4
APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Mark L. Hatzenbuehler.4
Supplemental Material for No Client Left Behind: A Meta-Analysis of Premature Termination From Psychotherapy in U.S. Service Members and Veterans4
Supplemental Material for Replicating and Extending Sengupta et al. (2023): Contact Predicts No Within-Person Longitudinal Outgroup-Bias Change4
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