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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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

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	175
A systematic review of interventions to address workplace bias: What we know, what we don't, and lessons learned	67
Religion and cognitive control: An event-coding approach	54
Does beautiful nature motivate to work? Outlining an alternative pathway to nature-induced cognitive performance benefits	36
Environmental resource theory: An integrative perspective on human habitat preferences and emotional responses to the environment	32
Extending the two-component model of delusion to substance use disorder etiology and recovery	31
Passion a key for success: Exploring motivational factors in football players	31
What is the process of personal growth? Introducing the Personal Growth Process Model	30
The evolution of prestige: Perspectives and hypotheses from comparative studies	29
Group dancing as the evolutionary origin of rhythmic entrainment in humans	28
A self-regulatory perspective on human motivation and its implications for understanding adaptation to chronic pain	25
Editorial Board	20
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	19
Modeling the mood state on thermal sensation with a data mining algorithm and testing the accuracy of mood state correction factor	17
The impact of fabrication on recognition memory: An experimental study	16
When sensitivity means strength: Distinguishing between soft and hard threats as part of the personality	16
Beyond chaos and rigidity, flexstability	16
Confronting microaggressions: Developing innovative strategies to challenge and prevent harm	15
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
The psychometric properties of the Passion Scale	13
Me and my brand(s): Exploring the psychological resource exchange in consumer-brand relationships	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
Editorial Board	13

Researching causal relationships from the first-person perspective. An Expansion of the micro-phenomenological method	13
The trip from metaphor to reality and back	12
Using artworks to understand human memory and its neural mechanisms	11
Memory reconsolidation and the crisis of mechanism in psychotherapy	11
Expanding the concept of birthparent loss to orphans: Exploratory findings from adolescents in institutional care in South Korea	11
Mitigating racial microaggressions on campus: Documenting targets’ responses	10
Partnering with AI for instrument development: Possibilities and pitfalls	10
Racial microaffirmations as a response to racial microaggressions: Exploring risk and protective factors	10
Examining the root of intergroup sensitivity: What is the norm underlying defensive reactions to criticism?	9
Call for new measures suitable for intensive longitudinal studies: Ideas and suggestions	9
A theory of moral categorization: The conceptual performance of moral cognition	9
Expertise and becoming conscious of something	8
Conceptualizing and measuring psychological resilience: What can we learn from physics?	8
Editorial Board	8
If you don't problematize it, you won't see it, and you won't understand it	8
Editorial Board	7
The imperative of happiness in positive psychology: Towards a psychopolitics of wellbeing	7
Epistemic cultural constraints on the uses of psychology	7
Understanding the relation between the need and ability to achieve closure: A single paper meta-analysis assessing subscale correlations	7
The organization of construal networks and functional adaptation	7
‘What is the self anyway?’ towards a more parsimonious conceptualisation of the self: A review	7
Distinguishing interpersonal and ideological prosociality:Introducing the construct of ideological prosociality	6
Editorial Board	6
Clarifying the use of Theodosius Dobzhansky's and E. O. Wilson's evolutionary maxims: A guide for psychologists	6
Becoming a person: How long-distance walking can lead to personal growth – A cultural and health-related approach	6
When resilience becomes undesirable – A cautionary note	6
Not complex enough for complexity: Some intricacies of interpersonal synergies theory	6
Envisioning human service organizations free of microaggressions	6
The role of identity in anorexia nervosa: A narrative review	6
The illusion of knowledge in the emerging field of psychedelic research	6
Critique of the standard model of moral injury	6
Beyond outcome studies: Good psychotherapy rests on many secure epistemic foundations	5
A theoretical paradigm proposal of music arousal and emotional valence interrelations with tempo, preference, familiarity, and presence of lyrics	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
Using targeted visceroception to improve interoceptive sensibility and emotion regulation	5
Adolescents thinking on economic inequality: Expanding the discussion beyond the Global North	5
Activating creative behaviour of academic knowledge workers in selected public universities in Uganda: The role of hope	5
Artificial intelligence in lie detection: Why do cognitive theories matter?	5
The relationship between mental toughness and subjective mental illness recovery	5
Adaptation to stressors: Hormesis as a framework for human performance	5
An evolutionary look at oddity and schizotypy: How the rise of social brain informs clinical practice	5
Making sense of the modularity debate	5
Hypnosis for acquired brain injury: Four patient cases and five testable predictions	4
Episodic memories as proxy or independent representations: A theoretical review and an empirical test of distinct episodic memories on work outcomes	4
Special Issue Editorial: The Psychology of Orphanhood	4
Does mental toughness predict happiness over and above resilience, self-efficacy and grit?	4
Editorial Board	4
Minimization, denial, moralization, and exaggeration: A taxonomy of backlash to transgender recognition and rights	4
Psychological distance as a means of evaluation	4
To identify and limit the risks of neglect in orphaned students: Can France manage it?	4

Psychiatrization in Czech lexical data: Everyday adjectives are acquiring clinical connotations	4
Communicative Feedback in language acquisition	4
Future avenues for education and neuroenhancement	4
Can autoethnography enhance research in health psychology?	4
A new perspective on trends in psychology	4
What can sports psychology learn from work and organizational psychology? Benefits and pitfalls of applying theoretical models from one context to another	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	3
Re-enchanting mirror neurons through lexical changes	3
Growth Mindset Scale: Aspects of reliability and validity of a new 8-item scale assessing growth mindset	3
Amateur hour: Improving knowledge diversity in psychological and behavioral science by harnessing contributions from amateurs	3
The importance of the null hypothesis in the formulation of theory in media psychology	3
Towards a theory of biological intelligence	3
Editorial Board	3
The institutional impact of research challenges and constraints on psychology and other social and behavioral sciences	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
Face perception and synchrony disruption in theatre masks	3
How to study the early development of executive function? Let's put control back in the hands of children	3
Unveiling the influence of disciplinary biases on information sampling during an interdisciplinary collaboration creative task through eye-tracking analysis	3
Hypergraph models of the mental lexicon capture greater information than pairwise networks for predicting language learning	3
Environments “develop”: Infant motor development can inform the study of physical space	3