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Papers

(The median citation count of New Ideas in Psychology is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A systematic review of interventions to address workplace bias: What we know, what we don't, and lessons learned	187
The Enhanced Agentic Diversity Perspective (EADP): An appeal for Co-creating an accommodative social space so that diversity unlocks innovativeness rather than problems	68
Environmental resource theory: An integrative perspective on human habitat preferences and emotional responses to the environment	56
Does beautiful nature motivate to work? Outlining an alternative pathway to nature-induced cognitive performance benefits	38
Religion and cognitive control: An event-coding approach	36
Passion a key for success: Exploring motivational factors in football players	33
Group dancing as the evolutionary origin of rhythmic entrainment in humans	32
A self-regulatory perspective on human motivation and its implications for understanding adaptation to chronic pain	30
The evolution of prestige: Perspectives and hypotheses from comparative studies	30
What is the process of personal growth? Introducing the Personal Growth Process Model	29
Extending the two-component model of delusion to substance use disorder etiology and recovery	26
Modeling the mood state on thermal sensation with a data mining algorithm and testing the accuracy of mood state correction factor	21
When sensitivity means strength: Distinguishing between soft and hard threats as part of the personality	21
Editorial Board	17
A scoping review on the extent and nature of anxiety-related research within the research domain criteria (RDoC) framework: Limited coverage using non-disorder-specific search terms	17
The impact of fabrication on recognition memory: An experimental study	16
New directions in research on somatic concerns in individuals with eating disorders	16
Beyond chaos and rigidity, flexstability	16
Confronting microaggressions: Developing innovative strategies to challenge and prevent harm	15
Editorial Board	15
What happens to representatives during family constellations? Attempts at explanation and comparison with other difficult-to-explain phenomena	14
The trip from metaphor to reality and back	14
Researching causal relationships from the first-person perspective. An Expansion of the micro-phenomenological method	14
Using artworks to understand human memory and its neural mechanisms	13
Me and my brand(s): Exploring the psychological resource exchange in consumer-brand relationships	13

The psychometric properties of the Passion Scale	13
The American psychological Association's practice guidelines for men and boys: Are they hurting rather than helping male mental wellness?	13
The person as an extended field: Querying the ontological binaries and dominant “container” metaphor at the core of psychology	13
Partnering with AI for instrument development: Possibilities and pitfalls	12
Racial microaffirmations as a response to racial microaggressions: Exploring risk and protective factors	11
Expanding the concept of birthparent loss to orphans: Exploratory findings from adolescents in institutional care in South Korea	11
Conceptualizing and measuring psychological resilience: What can we learn from physics?	10
Memory reconsolidation and the crisis of mechanism in psychotherapy	10
Call for new measures suitable for intensive longitudinal studies: Ideas and suggestions	9
Examining the root of intergroup sensitivity: What is the norm underlying defensive reactions to criticism?	9
Mitigating racial microaggressions on campus: Documenting targets’ responses	9
The imperative of happiness in positive psychology: Towards a psychopolitics of wellbeing	8
Editorial Board	8
If you don't problematize it, you won't see it, and you won't understand it	8
Understanding the relation between the need and ability to achieve closure: A single paper meta-analysis assessing subscale correlations	8
A theory of moral categorization: The conceptual performance of moral cognition	8
‘What is the self anyway?’ towards a more parsimonious conceptualisation of the self: A review	7
Expertise and becoming conscious of something	7
Distinguishing interpersonal and ideological prosociality:Introducing the construct of ideological prosociality	7
When resilience becomes undesirable – A cautionary note	7
Editorial Board	7
Becoming a person: How long-distance walking can lead to personal growth – A cultural and health-related approach	7
The role of identity in anorexia nervosa: A narrative review	7
The organization of construal networks and functional adaptation	7
Epistemic cultural constraints on the uses of psychology	7
The illusion of knowledge in the emerging field of psychedelic research	7
Critique of the standard model of moral injury	7
Not complex enough for complexity: Some intricacies of interpersonal synergies theory	6
Merging the Self-Determination Theory and the Broaden and Build Theory through the nexus of positive affect: A macro theory of positive functioning	6
A theoretical paradigm proposal of music arousal and emotional valence interrelations with tempo, preference, familiarity, and presence of lyrics	6
Editorial Board	6
Activating creative behaviour of academic knowledge workers in selected public universities in Uganda: The role of hope	6
Clarifying the use of Theodosius Dobzhansky's and E. O. Wilson's evolutionary maxims: A guide for psychologists	6
Envisioning human service organizations free of microaggressions	6
Adolescents thinking on economic inequality: Expanding the discussion beyond the Global North	6
Beyond outcome studies: Good psychotherapy rests on many secure epistemic foundations	6
Making sense of the modularity debate	5
Adaptation to stressors: Hormesis as a framework for human performance	5
The relationship between mental toughness and subjective mental illness recovery	5
Does mental toughness predict happiness over and above resilience, self-efficacy and grit?	5
Communicative Feedback in language acquisition	5
Psychiatrization in Czech lexical data: Everyday adjectives are acquiring clinical connotations	5
Using targeted visceroception to improve interoceptive sensibility and emotion regulation	5
An evolutionary look at oddity and schizotypy: How the rise of social brain informs clinical practice	5
Artificial intelligence in lie detection: Why do cognitive theories matter?	4
Can autoethnography enhance research in health psychology?	4
Future avenues for education and neuroenhancement	4
Towards a theory of biological intelligence	4
To identify and limit the risks of neglect in orphaned students: Can France manage it?	4
Re-enchanting mirror neurons through lexical changes	4

What can sports psychology learn from work and organizational psychology? Benefits and pitfalls of applying theoretical models from one context to another	4
Episodic memories as proxy or independent representations: A theoretical review and an empirical test of distinct episodic memories on work outcomes	4
A new perspective on trends in psychology	4
How to study the early development of executive function? Let's put control back in the hands of children	4
Special Issue Editorial: The Psychology of Orphanhood	4
Editorial Board	4
Minimization, denial, moralization, and exaggeration: A taxonomy of backlash to transgender recognition and rights	4
Editorial Board	4
Hypnosis for acquired brain injury: Four patient cases and five testable predictions	4
Bystander training for faculty: A promising approach to tackling microaggressions in the academy	4
Exploring artificial intelligence approach to art therapy assessment: A case study on the classification and the estimation of psychological state based on a drawing	4
Psychological distance as a means of evaluation	4
The Circumplex Model of Stress: A model integrating stress appraisal constructs	3
The institutional impact of research challenges and constraints on psychology and other social and behavioral sciences	3
Unveiling the influence of disciplinary biases on information sampling during an interdisciplinary collaboration creative task through eye-tracking analysis	3
Environments “develop”: Infant motor development can inform the study of physical space	3
Opening a conceptual space for metamemory experience	3
Are the anchoring effect and the Einstellung effect two facets of the same phenomenon?	3
Face perception and synchrony disruption in theatre masks	3
Psychological preparedness & anticipatory response tendencies	3
Amateur hour: Improving knowledge diversity in psychological and behavioral science by harnessing contributions from amateurs	3
Growth Mindset Scale: Aspects of reliability and validity of a new 8-item scale assessing growth mindset	3
Merging and modifying hypotheses on the emotional and cognitive effects of eye movements: The dopaminergic regulation hypothesis	3
Human values and basic philosophical beliefs	3
An active inference approach to interpersonal differences in depression	3
Hypergraph models of the mental lexicon capture greater information than pairwise networks for predicting language learning	3
“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	3
The importance of the null hypothesis in the formulation of theory in media psychology	3
Editorial Board	3
Enlarging the model of the human at the heart of human-centered AI: A social self-determination model of AI system impact	3
New insights into the contributions of playfulness to dealing with stress at work: Correlates of self- and peer-rated playfulness and coping strategies	3