OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Psychological Science is 32. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention	858
What Is the Test-Retest Reliability of Common Task-Functional MRI Measures? New Empirical Evidence and a Meta-Analysis	406
The Emotional Path to Action: Empathy Promotes Physical Distancing and Wearing of Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic	312
Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance	283
Age Advantages in Emotional Experience Persist Even Under Threat From the COVID-19 Pandemic	159
Early Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Relationship Satisfaction and Attributions	109
People Reject Algorithms in Uncertain Decision Domains Because They Have Diminishing Sensitivity to Forecasting Error	98
Teacher Mindsets Help Explain Where a Growth-Mindset Intervention Does and Doesn’t Work	82
A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect	71
Changing Social Contexts to Foster Equity in College Science Courses: An Ecological-Belonging Intervention	69
Universal Patterns in Color-Emotion Associations Are Further Shaped by Linguistic and Geographic Proximity	69
Functional MRI Can Be Highly Reliable, but It Depends on What You Measure: A Commentary on Elliott et al. (2020)	68
Polluted Psyche: Is the Effect of Air Pollution on Unethical Behavior More Physiological or Psychological?	67
Gender Stereotypes in Natural Language: Word Embeddings Show Robust Consistency Across Child and Adult Language Corpora of More Than 65 Million Words	64
How Accurate Are Accuracy-Nudge Interventions? A Preregistered Direct Replication of Pennycook et al. (2020)	55
The Bilingual Advantage in Children’s Executive Functioning Is Not Related to Language Status: A Meta-Analytic Review	54
Relational Mobility Predicts Faster Spread of COVID-19: A 39-Country Study	53
Behavioral Immune Trade-Offs: Interpersonal Value Relaxes Social Pathogen Avoidance	52
Minding Your Own Business? Mindfulness Decreases Prosocial Behavior for People With Independent Self-Construals	49
Revisiting the Integration Hypothesis: Correlational and Longitudinal Meta-Analyses Demonstrate the Limited Role of Acculturation for Cross-Cultural Adaptation	49
The Experience of Empathy in Everyday Life	46
Preverbal Infants Discover Statistical Word Patterns at Similar Rates as Adults: Evidence From Neural Entrainment	44
Training for Wisdom: The Distanced-Self-Reflection Diary Method	43
Does Happiness Improve Health? Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial	43
Children Prioritize Humans Over Animals Less Than Adults Do	42

Aging Increases Prosocial Motivation for Effort	40
Responsible Use of Open-Access Developmental Data: The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study	38
The Development of Intersectional Social Prototypes	36
Face Pareidolia Recruits Mechanisms for Detecting Human Social Attention	34
Playing With Fear: A Field Study in Recreational Horror	34
The Truth Is Out There: Accuracy in Recall of Verifiable Real-World Events	34
The Crowd-Emotion-Amplification Effect	32