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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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	132
A systematic review of interventions to address workplace bias: What we know, what we don't, and lessons learned	58
Editorial Board	50
Passion a key for success: Exploring motivational factors in football players	31
Religion and cognitive control: An event-coding approach	31
Does beautiful nature motivate to work? Outlining an alternative pathway to nature-induced cognitive performance benefits	28
What is the process of personal growth? Introducing the Personal Growth Process Model	27
A self-regulatory perspective on human motivation and its implications for understanding adaptation to chronic pain	27
The neural substrate of schadenfreude: The effects of competition level changes on the processing of pain in others	26
Extending the two-component model of delusion to substance use disorder etiology and recovery	24
The evolution of prestige: Perspectives and hypotheses from comparative studies	23
Group dancing as the evolutionary origin of rhythmic entrainment in humans	22
Editorial Board	15
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	14
The impact of fabrication on recognition memory: An experimental study	14
Modeling the mood state on thermal sensation with a data mining algorithm and testing the accuracy of mood state correction factor	14
When sensitivity means strength: Distinguishing between soft and hard threats as part of the personality	14
Beyond chaos and rigidity, flexstability	13
Editorial Board	12
Confronting microaggressions: Developing innovative strategies to challenge and prevent harm	12
The trip from metaphor to reality and back	12
New directions in research on somatic concerns in individuals with eating disorders	12
What happens to representatives during family constellations? Attempts at explanation and comparison with other difficult-to-explain phenomena	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

Me and my brand(s): Exploring the psychological resource exchange in consumer-brand relationships	11
Using artworks to understand human memory and its neural mechanisms	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
Partnering with AI for instrument development: Possibilities and pitfalls	10
Call for new measures suitable for intensive longitudinal studies: Ideas and suggestions	9
Memory reconsolidation and the crisis of mechanism in psychotherapy	9
A theory of moral categorization: The conceptual performance of moral cognition	9
Expanding the concept of birthparent loss to orphans: Exploratory findings from adolescents in institutional care in South Korea	9
Racial microaffirmations as a response to racial microaggressions: Exploring risk and protective factors	9
Conceptualizing and measuring psychological resilience: What can we learn from physics?	8
Mitigating racial microaggressions on campus: Documenting targets’ responses	8
Editorial Board	8
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
Expertise and becoming conscious of something	7
If you don't problematize it, you won't see it, and you won't understand it	7
‘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
When resilience becomes undesirable – A cautionary note	6
Epistemic cultural constraints on the uses of psychology	6
Distinguishing interpersonal and ideological prosociality:Introducing the construct of ideological prosociality	6
Editorial Board	6
Becoming a person: How long-distance walking can lead to personal growth – A cultural and health-related approach	6
Critique of the standard model of moral injury	5
Envisioning human service organizations free of microaggressions	5
Clarifying the use of Theodosius Dobzhansky's and E. O. Wilson's evolutionary maxims: A guide for psychologists	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
The relationship between mental toughness and subjective mental illness recovery	5
The illusion of knowledge in the emerging field of psychedelic research	5
Not complex enough for complexity: Some intricacies of interpersonal synergies theory	5
The role of identity in anorexia nervosa: A narrative review	5
Using targeted visceroception to improve interoceptive sensibility and emotion regulation	5
Beyond outcome studies: Good psychotherapy rests on many secure epistemic foundations	5
Editorial Board	5
Passion, grit, and mindset in undergraduate sport sciences students	5
Adolescents thinking on economic inequality: Expanding the discussion beyond the Global North	5
A theoretical paradigm proposal of music arousal and emotional valence interrelations with tempo, preference, familiarity, and presence of lyrics	5
Activating creative behaviour of academic knowledge workers in selected public universities in Uganda: The role of hope	5
Editorial Board	4
An evolutionary look at oddity and schizotypy: How the rise of social brain informs clinical practice	4
Making sense of the modularity debate	4
Can autoethnography enhance research in health psychology?	4
Adaptation to stressors: Hormesis as a framework for human performance	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
Does mental toughness predict happiness over and above resilience, self-efficacy and grit?	4
Artificial intelligence in lie detection: Why do cognitive theories matter?	4
Communicative Feedback in language acquisition	4
Episodic memories as proxy or independent representations: A theoretical review and an empirical test of distinct episodic memories on work outcomes	3

Hypnosis for acquired brain injury: Four patient cases and five testable predictions	3
Special Issue Editorial: The Psychology of Orphanhood	3
To identify and limit the risks of neglect in orphaned students: Can France manage it?	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
A new perspective on trends in psychology	3
Psychological distance as a means of evaluation	3
Horizontal eye movements foster approach to negative pictures but do not change emotional valence: A dopaminergic regulation hypothesis	3
Dynamic locomotor imagery in athletes with severe visual impairments	3
Unveiling the influence of disciplinary biases on information sampling during an interdisciplinary collaboration creative task through eye-tracking analysis	3
Future avenues for education and neuroenhancement	3
Minimization, denial, moralization, and exaggeration: A taxonomy of backlash to transgender recognition and rights	3
Measuring metaaesthetics: Challenges and ways forward	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
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
Editorial Board	2
Opening a conceptual space for metamemory experience	2
How did I do it then? How will I do it later? A theoretical review of the impact of mental time travel on decision-making processes	2
The importance of the null hypothesis in the formulation of theory in media psychology	2
Amateur hour: Improving knowledge diversity in psychological and behavioral science by harnessing contributions from amateurs	2
Editorial Board	2
Enlarging the model of the human at the heart of human-centered AI: A social self-determination model of AI system impact	2
Human values and basic philosophical beliefs	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
Psychological preparedness & anticipatory response tendencies	2
Person-environment fit and social camouflaging in autism	2
An active inference approach to interpersonal differences in depression	2
Are the anchoring effect and the Einstellung effect two facets of the same phenomenon?	2
New insights into the contributions of playfulness to dealing with stress at work: Correlates of self- and peer-rated playfulness and coping strategies	2
The institutional impact of research challenges and constraints on psychology and other social and behavioral sciences	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
Moods in transition: Theorizing the affective-dynamic constitution of situatedness	2
Merging and modifying hypotheses on the emotional and cognitive effects of eye movements: The dopaminergic regulation hypothesis	2