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Papers

(The median citation count of New Ideas in Psychology is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Enhanced Agentic Diversity Perspective (EADP): An appeal for Co-creating an accommodative social space so that diversity unlocks innovativeness rather than problems	284
Disconnected from complexity: on nature exposure, sociality, and the self-organizing self	78
Does beautiful nature motivate to work? Outlining an alternative pathway to nature-induced cognitive performance benefits	42
Environmental resource theory: An integrative perspective on human habitat preferences and emotional responses to the environment	42
Corrigendum to “Psychological flexibility, self-control, and self-management skills in marital commitment: A cognitive and motivational perspective from psychiatric nursing” [New Ideas in Psychology 8	40
Religion and cognitive control: An event-coding approach	31
Probabilistic processing: Possible, probable, or preposterous? A dialectical essay	30
Beyond sorrow and terror management Theories: A dual-emotion model of death reflection after mortality salience across cultures and time	24
Extending the two-component model of delusion to substance use disorder etiology and recovery	24
A self-regulatory perspective on human motivation and its implications for understanding adaptation to chronic pain	23
How expectations affect conversational assessment and memory formation	23
What is the process of personal growth? Introducing the Personal Growth Process Model	22
The evolution of prestige: Perspectives and hypotheses from comparative studies	22
When sensitivity means strength: Distinguishing between soft and hard threats as part of the personality	20
State or non-state: that is the question. How a modern understanding of altered states of consciousness can help redefine the idea of hypnosis	19
A cultural identity approach to the generational divide	18
Modeling the mood state on thermal sensation with a data mining algorithm and testing the accuracy of mood state correction factor	18
The impact of fabrication on recognition memory: An experimental study	17
Information, representation, and cognition	16
Accumulated evidence as an additive performance measure based on confidence ratings	16
Beyond chaos and rigidity, flexstability	15
New directions in research on somatic concerns in individuals with eating disorders	15
Editorial Board	14
The trip from metaphor to reality and back	13
What happens to representatives during family constellations? Attempts at explanation and comparison with other difficult-to-explain phenomena	13

Me and my brand(s): Exploring the psychological resource exchange in consumer-brand relationships	13
The person as an extended field: Querying the ontological binaries and dominant “container” metaphor at the core of psychology	12
Researching causal relationships from the first-person perspective. An Expansion of the micro-phenomenological method	12
The psychometric properties of the Passion Scale	12
Using artworks to understand human memory and its neural mechanisms	11
The American psychological Association's practice guidelines for men and boys: Are they hurting rather than helping male mental wellness?	11
Memory reconsolidation and the crisis of mechanism in psychotherapy	10
Technopsychology: A new wave of psychological inquiry	10
Attention and self-control: self-regulation from the bottom up	10
An “orthorexic society”: The role of psychological flexibility in responding to healthy eating pressures	10
Partnering with AI for instrument development: Possibilities and pitfalls	10
Conceptualizing and measuring psychological resilience: What can we learn from physics?	9
The flawed logic of theory-free natural kind reasoning	9
Examining the root of intergroup sensitivity: What is the norm underlying defensive reactions to criticism?	9
A theory of moral categorization: The conceptual performance of moral cognition	9
Call for new measures suitable for intensive longitudinal studies: Ideas and suggestions	9
Horror, disgust, and aesthetic disinterest	9
Editorial Board	8
Endurance for life projects: Individual resilience in the context of chronic pain	8
Entropy and the free energy principle in psychopathology	8
Understanding the relation between the need and ability to achieve closure: A single paper meta-analysis assessing subscale correlations	8
‘What is the self anyway?’ towards a more parsimonious conceptualisation of the self: A review	7
The imperative of happiness in positive psychology: Towards a psychopolitics of wellbeing	7
A tripartite perspective on self-evaluation: Three forms of self-regard and their social basis	7
Presenting a strengths-based ecological model for promoting well-being among LGBTQ+ adults	7
Editorial Board	7
If you don't problematize it, you won't see it, and you won't understand it	7
The illusion of knowledge in the emerging field of psychedelic research	6
Critical decision-making: Bridging critical reflection and action	6
The organization of construal networks and functional adaptation	6
Symbolic narratives and embodied selves: Exploring identity and affective expression in neurodivergent youth	6
When resilience becomes undesirable – A cautionary note	6
The role of identity in anorexia nervosa: A narrative review	6
The dual metaphorical role of abstract symbols in symbolic mathematical processing	6
Epistemic cultural constraints on the uses of psychology	6
Large language models (LLMs) as research Subjects: Status, opportunities and challenges	6
Exploring ethical outputs: Evaluating moral judgments in advanced artificial intelligence	6
Becoming a person: How long-distance walking can lead to personal growth – A cultural and health-related approach	6
A theoretical paradigm proposal of music arousal and emotional valence interrelations with tempo, preference, familiarity, and presence of lyrics	5
Adolescents thinking on economic inequality: Expanding the discussion beyond the Global North	5
Merging the Self-Determination Theory and the Broaden and Build Theory through the nexus of positive affect: A macro theory of positive functioning	5
Beyond outcome studies: Good psychotherapy rests on many secure epistemic foundations	5
Critique of the standard model of moral injury	5
Using targeted visceroception to improve interoceptive sensibility and emotion regulation	5
Does mental toughness predict happiness over and above resilience, self-efficacy and grit?	4
What can sports psychology learn from work and organizational psychology? Benefits and pitfalls of applying theoretical models from one context to another	4
Amazement: Reading Kant's conception of the sublime as the coincidence of disinterest and affect	4
Communicative Feedback in language acquisition	4
Adaptation to stressors: Hormesis as a framework for human performance	4
An evolutionary look at oddity and schizotypy: How the rise of social brain informs clinical practice	4

Psychiatrization in Czech lexical data: Everyday adjectives are acquiring clinical connotations	4
Can artificial intelligence assistance enhance creativity in university students? An experimental study	4
Symbolic elevation theory: How groups gate the ascent of individual understanding	4
Making sense of the modularity debate	4
Artificial intelligence in lie detection: Why do cognitive theories matter?	4
Intention, control, and the feeling of commitment	3
Towards a theory of biological intelligence	3
Hypnosis for acquired brain injury: Four patient cases and five testable predictions	3
A new perspective on trends in psychology	3
To identify and limit the risks of neglect in orphaned students: Can France manage it?	3
Special Issue Editorial: The Psychology of Orphanhood	3
The Kraemer Effect Reconsidered: Do probability-raising accounts of intentionality explain the Kraemer Effect?	3
Exploring artificial intelligence approach to art therapy assessment: A case study on the classification and the estimation of psychological state based on a drawing	3
Minimization, denial, moralization, and exaggeration: A taxonomy of backlash to transgender recognition and rights	3
Editorial Board	3
Can autoethnography enhance research in health psychology?	3
Re-enchanting mirror neurons through lexical changes	3
Co-constructing layers of meaning: Early triadic interactions at the threshold of intentionality	3
Happiness as a signal: The social functions of expressions of happiness in the context of culture and emotional tribes	3
Editorial Board	3
The hallmark of a good life: Introducing fulfillment in life	3
Editorial Board	3
How to study the early development of executive function? Let's put control back in the hands of children	3
Feeling the Heat: A Thermodynamic Perspective on Emotions, Motivation, and Time Perception	2
Speaking from the in-between: Neurotypical perspectivelessness, neurodivergent authority, and the politics of knowledge	2
Hypergraph models of the mental lexicon capture greater information than pairwise networks for predicting language learning	2
Environments “develop”: Infant motor development can inform the study of physical space	2
Unveiling the influence of disciplinary biases on information sampling during an interdisciplinary collaboration creative task through eye-tracking analysis	2
The Circumplex Model of Stress: A model integrating stress appraisal constructs	2
Editorial Board	2
True grit? The perception of a partner's effort boosts cognitive control to sustain commitment in joint action	2
Is emesis a part of antenatal depression? A proposal of emesis-depression complex during pregnancy	2
Growth Mindset Scale: Aspects of reliability and validity of a new 8-item scale assessing growth mindset	2
“Why would they call me an orphan when I have parents”: Care leavers’ experiences of labelling and stereotyping whilst living in residential care facilities in Zimbabwe	2
Merging and modifying hypotheses on the emotional and cognitive effects of eye movements: The dopaminergic regulation hypothesis	2
“Unseen strategies” what can the experience of Aphantasia teach us about cognitive strategies in memory?	2
Face perception and synchrony disruption in theatre masks	2
The institutional impact of research challenges and constraints on psychology and other social and behavioral sciences	2
Caring for the child before conception: The need for preconception cohorts to optimize child health and development	2
The importance of the null hypothesis in the formulation of theory in media psychology	2