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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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	248
Disconnected from complexity: on nature exposure, sociality, and the self-organizing self	70
Environmental resource theory: An integrative perspective on human habitat preferences and emotional responses to the environment	41
Does beautiful nature motivate to work? Outlining an alternative pathway to nature-induced cognitive performance benefits	32
Probabilistic processing: Possible, probable, or preposterous? A dialectical essay	31
Religion and cognitive control: An event-coding approach	29
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	23
Extending the two-component model of delusion to substance use disorder etiology and recovery	22
Beyond sorrow and terror management Theories: A dual-emotion model of death reflection after mortality salience across cultures and time	21
How expectations affect conversational assessment and memory formation	20
A self-regulatory perspective on human motivation and its implications for understanding adaptation to chronic pain	20
What is the process of personal growth? Introducing the Personal Growth Process Model	19
The evolution of prestige: Perspectives and hypotheses from comparative studies	19
Modeling the mood state on thermal sensation with a data mining algorithm and testing the accuracy of mood state correction factor	17
When sensitivity means strength: Distinguishing between soft and hard threats as part of the personality	17
The impact of fabrication on recognition memory: An experimental study	16
A cultural identity approach to the generational divide	16
Beyond chaos and rigidity, flexstability	15
Information, representation, and cognition	15
Editorial Board	14
New directions in research on somatic concerns in individuals with eating disorders	14
What happens to representatives during family constellations? Attempts at explanation and comparison with other difficult-to-explain phenomena	14
Using artworks to understand human memory and its neural mechanisms	12
The psychometric properties of the Passion Scale	11
Researching causal relationships from the first-person perspective. An Expansion of the micro-phenomenological method	11

An “orthorexic society”: The role of psychological flexibility in responding to healthy eating pressures	11
The trip from metaphor to reality and back	10
The American psychological Association's practice guidelines for men and boys: Are they hurting rather than helping male mental wellness?	10
The person as an extended field: Querying the ontological binaries and dominant “container” metaphor at the core of psychology	10
Technopsychology: A new wave of psychological inquiry	9
Me and my brand(s): Exploring the psychological resource exchange in consumer-brand relationships	9
Partnering with AI for instrument development: Possibilities and pitfalls	9
Call for new measures suitable for intensive longitudinal studies: Ideas and suggestions	8
A theory of moral categorization: The conceptual performance of moral cognition	8
Examining the root of intergroup sensitivity: What is the norm underlying defensive reactions to criticism?	8
Memory reconsolidation and the crisis of mechanism in psychotherapy	8
Editorial Board	8
Conceptualizing and measuring psychological resilience: What can we learn from physics?	8
The flawed logic of theory-free natural kind reasoning	8
The dual metaphorical role of abstract symbols in symbolic mathematical processing	7
The imperative of happiness in positive psychology: Towards a psychopolitics of wellbeing	7
If you don't problematize it, you won't see it, and you won't understand it	7
Editorial Board	7
A tripartite perspective on self-evaluation: Three forms of self-regard and their social basis	7
Understanding the relation between the need and ability to achieve closure: A single paper meta-analysis assessing subscale correlations	7
‘What is the self anyway?’ towards a more parsimonious conceptualisation of the self: A review	7
Presenting a strengths-based ecological model for promoting well-being among LGBTQ+ adults	7
Symbolic narratives and embodied selves: Exploring identity and affective expression in neurodivergent youth	6
The organization of construal networks and functional adaptation	6
The illusion of knowledge in the emerging field of psychedelic research	6
Becoming a person: How long-distance walking can lead to personal growth – A cultural and health-related approach	6
Epistemic cultural constraints on the uses of psychology	6
When resilience becomes undesirable – A cautionary note	5
Critique of the standard model of moral injury	5
Critical decision-making: Bridging critical reflection and action	5
Beyond outcome studies: Good psychotherapy rests on many secure epistemic foundations	5
The role of identity in anorexia nervosa: A narrative review	5
A theoretical paradigm proposal of music arousal and emotional valence interrelations with tempo, preference, familiarity, and presence of lyrics	5
Large language models (LLMs) as research Subjects: Status, opportunities and challenges	5
Using targeted visceroception to improve interoceptive sensibility and emotion regulation	4
Psychiatrization in Czech lexical data: Everyday adjectives are acquiring clinical connotations	4
Communicative Feedback in language acquisition	4
An evolutionary look at oddity and schizotypy: How the rise of social brain informs clinical practice	4
Adaptation to stressors: Hormesis as a framework for human performance	4
Merging the Self-Determination Theory and the Broaden and Build Theory through the nexus of positive affect: A macro theory of positive functioning	4
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
Editorial Board	4
Adolescents thinking on economic inequality: Expanding the discussion beyond the Global North	4
Symbolic elevation theory: How groups gate the ascent of individual understanding	4
Hypnosis for acquired brain injury: Four patient cases and five testable predictions	4
Artificial intelligence in lie detection: Why do cognitive theories matter?	4
Making sense of the modularity debate	4
Co-constructing layers of meaning: Early triadic interactions at the threshold of intentionality	3
The hallmark of a good life: Introducing fulfillment in life	3

How to study the early development of executive function? Let's put control back in the hands of children	3
Towards a theory of biological intelligence	3
The Kraemer Effect Reconsidered: Do probability-raising accounts of intentionality explain the Kraemer Effect?	3
Minimization, denial, moralization, and exaggeration: A taxonomy of backlash to transgender recognition and rights	3
A new perspective on trends in psychology	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
Special Issue Editorial: The Psychology of Orphanhood	3
Re-enchanting mirror neurons through lexical changes	3
Can autoethnography enhance research in health psychology?	3
Editorial Board	3
Happiness as a signal: The social functions of expressions of happiness in the context of culture and emotional tribes	3
To identify and limit the risks of neglect in orphaned students: Can France manage it?	3
Editorial Board	3
Unveiling the influence of disciplinary biases on information sampling during an interdisciplinary collaboration creative task through eye-tracking analysis	2
Face perception and synchrony disruption in theatre masks	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
Psychological preparedness & anticipatory response tendencies	2
“Unseen strategies” what can the experience of Aphantasia teach us about cognitive strategies in memory?	2
Hypergraph models of the mental lexicon capture greater information than pairwise networks for predicting language learning	2
The institutional impact of research challenges and constraints on psychology and other social and behavioral sciences	2
The Circumplex Model of Stress: A model integrating stress appraisal constructs	2
Environments “develop”: Infant motor development can inform the study of physical space	2
Speaking from the in-between: Neurotypical perspectivelessness, neurodivergent authority, and the politics of knowledge	2
Feeling the Heat: A Thermodynamic Perspective on Emotions, Motivation, and Time Perception	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