Psychological Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychological Science is 6. 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.)
ArticleCitations
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study103
Bidirectional Relationships Between Well-Being and Cognitive Function97
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences65
Corrigendum: Dissociating Representations of Time and Number in Reinforcement-Rate Learning by Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit in Mice59
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix53
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects52
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration50
*Social Rewards Protection Theory: Why People Morally Derogate Prosocial Actors for Undisclosed Personal Benefits50
Doubling-Back Aversion: A Reluctance to Make Progress by Undoing It50
The 2008 Great Recession Lowered Americans’ Class Identity48
Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions48
Fidelity Versus Validity Using Anendophasia as an Example: Commentary on Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024) and Lind (2025)48
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments45
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory45
Deception Cues During High-Risk Situations: 911 Homicide Calls43
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets40
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes40
Invariant Recognition Memory Spaces for Real-World Objects Revealed With Signal-Detection Analysis39
Peripheral Visual Information Halves Attentional Choice Biases38
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented38
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness38
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases36
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity36
Radial Bias Alters Perceived Object Orientation35
*Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia35
Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory31
Mugs and Plants: Object Semantic Knowledge Alters Perceptual Processing With Behavioral Ramifications30
Ambivalent Sexism and Tolerance of Violence Against Women in India30
*The Ethnic and Political Divide in the Preference for Strong Leaders30
Reducing Facial Stereotype Bias in Consequential Social Judgments: Intervention Success With White Male Faces30
Does Income Inequality Predict Adolescent Depressive Symptoms?29
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test29
Agent Preference in Chasing Interactions in Guinea Baboons ( Papio papio ): Uncovering the Roots of Subject–Object Order in Language28
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure28
How Convincing Is a Crowd? Quantifying the Persuasiveness of a Consensus for Different Individuals and Types of Claims28
Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field27
Exploring the Semantic-Inconsistency Effect in Scenes Using a Continuous Measure of Linguistic-Semantic Similarity25
Unlocking the Benefits of Gender Diversity: How an Ecological-Belonging Intervention Enhances Performance in Science Classrooms25
Signal Intrusion Explains Divergent Effects of Visual Distraction on Working Memory24
Contactless Real-Time Heart Rate Predicts the Performance of Elite Athletes: Evidence From Tokyo 2020 Olympic Archery Competition24
Regional Measures of Sexual-Orientation Bias Predict Where Same-Gender Couples Live24
Can Feelings “Feel” Wrong? Similarities Between Counter-Normative Emotion Reports and Perceptual Errors24
Introspective Access or Retrospective Inference? Mind-Wandering Reports Are Shaped by Performance Feedback24
Can One Donation a Day Keep Depression Away? Three Randomized Controlled Trials of an Online Micro-Charitable Giving Intervention24
Visual Perception Is Highly Flexible and Context Dependent in Young Infants: A Case of Top-Down-Modulated Motion Perception23
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior23
Early Adolescents Demonstrate Peer-Network Homophily in Political Attitudes and Values23
Associations Between Meat Consumption and Depression Are Small and Unlikely to Be Causal23
Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones23
Assortative Mating Is a Natural Consequence of Heritable Variation in Preferences and Preferred Traits22
The Visual Mandela Effect as Evidence for Shared and Specific False Memories Across People22
Vocal-Stress Diary: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Association of Everyday Work Stressors and Human Voice Features21
Gaze-Triggered Communicative Intention Compresses Perceived Temporal Duration21
Improving Memory Search Through Model-Based Cue Selection21
Neural and Cognitive Signatures of Guilt Predict Hypocritical Blame21
When and Why People Conceal Infectious Disease20
What’s in a Badge? A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science20
The Dispositional Essence of Proactive Social Preferences: The Dark Core of Personality vis-à-vis 58 Traits19
From the Viscera to First Impressions: Phase-Dependent Cardio-Visual Signals Bias the Perceived Trustworthiness of Faces19
The Rise, Impact, and Imbalances of Big-Team Psychology19
Preschoolers and Adults Learn From Novel Metaphors18
Perceptions of Falling Behind “Most White People”: Within-Group Status Comparisons Predict Fewer Positive Emotions and Worse Health Over Time Among White (but Not Black) Americans18
Self-Relevance Predicts the Aesthetic Appeal of Real and Synthetic Artworks Generated via Neural Style Transfer18
Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia18
The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-Dependent Trade-Off Between External and Internal Memory18
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help18
What You See Is What You Hear: Sounds Alter the Contents of Visual Perception18
Human Echolocators Have Better Localization Off Axis17
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions17
Adolescents’ Perceptions of Household Chaos Predict Their Adult Mental Health: A Twin-Difference Longitudinal Cohort Study17
Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration17
Cross-Modal Facilitation of Episodic Memory by Sequential Action Execution16
Exploration, Distributed Attention, and Development of Category Learning16
Do We Become More Lonely With Age? A Coordinated Data Analysis of Nine Longitudinal Studies16
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind16
A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It16
Perceiving Topological Relations15
Gender-Ambiguous Voices and Social Disfluency15
Becoming an Ostrich: The Development of Information Avoidance15
Individual Differences in Great Ape Cognition Across Time and Domains: Stability, Structure, and Predictability15
Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical Conclusions15
Sources of Interference in Memory Across Development14
Corrigendum to “Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence”14
Overconfidence Persists Despite Years of Accurate, Precise, Public, and Continuous Feedback: Two Studies of Tournament Chess Players14
Statistical Learning Facilitates Access to Awareness14
Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?14
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems14
Attention to Authenticity: An Essential Analogue to Focus on Rigor and Replicability14
Terminal Increases in Depressive Symptoms in a Multinational Twin Consortium14
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity14
Underestimating Counterparts’ Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations14
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence14
Directing Attention Shapes Learning in Adults but Not Children14
Sexual Identity Development Milestones, Latent Profiles, and Proximal Minority Stressors in Australia’s Generation Z14
Corrigendum: What’s in a Name? Popular Names Are Less Common on Frontiers14
Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change14
The Relative Importance of Joke and Audience Characteristics in Eliciting Amusement13
Proenvironmental Behavior Increases Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From an Experience-Sampling Study and a Randomized Experiment13
Perceptual Generalization of Alcohol-Related Value Characterizes Risky Drinkers13
Changing What You Like: Modifying Contour Properties Shifts Aesthetic Valuations of Scenes13
Just Dead, Not Alive: Reconsidering Belief in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories13
Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction13
The Effect of Auditory and Visual Recommendations on Choice13
Representational Momentum Transcends Motion12
Drawing Generalizable Conclusions From Multilevel Models: Commentary on12
Early Impacts of College, Interrupted: Considering First-Year Students’ Narratives About COVID and Reports of Adjustment During College Shutdowns12
Fluctuations in Sustained Attention Explain Moment-to-Moment Shifts in Children’s Memory Formation12
Taking a Disagreeing Perspective Improves the Accuracy of People’s Quantitative Estimates12
The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Participation Is Partially Explained by the Generational-Shift Account but Fully Inconsistent With Existing Alternative Accounts: A Partial Concession and Reply to12
Psychological Well-Being in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Middle Adulthood: Findings From the 1958 British Birth Cohort12
The Language of Social Touch Is Intuitive and Quantifiable12
How the Listener’s Attention Dynamically Switches Between Different Speakers During a Natural Conversation12
Compassion Fatigue as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Believing Compassion Is Limited Increases Fatigue and Decreases Compassion12
People Place Larger Bets When Risky Choices Provide a Postbet Option to Cash Out12
Cross-Cultural Sex/Gender Differences in Produced Word Content Before the Age of 3 Years11
Prototypes of People With Depression11
Manipulating Prior Beliefs Causally Induces Under- and Overconfidence11
Different Mechanisms for Supporting Mental Imagery and Perceptual Representations: Modulation Versus Excitation11
Native Now, Equity Now: Implicit Associations Between Native Peoples and the Past Predict Reduced Support for Racial Equity11
Food Is All Around: How Contexts Create Misbeliefs About the Health–Taste Relationship11
The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect Context-Sensitive Information Priorities11
Mindful-Gratitude Practice Reduces Prejudice at High Levels of Collective Narcissism11
Divergent and Convergent Creativity Are Different Kinds of Foraging11
Cutting Through the Noise: Auditory Scenes and Their Effects on Visual Object Processing11
Corrigendum to “Spatial Distance and Mental Construal of Social Events”11
The Effects of Group Affiliation Versus Individuating Information on Direct and Indirect Measures of the Evaluation of Novel Individual Group Members10
The Role of Beta Oscillations in Mental Time Travel10
Socioeconomic Status Shapes Dyadic Interactions: Examining Behavioral and Physiologic Responses10
The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Holds Among Young Players: A Commentary on the Vishkin (2022) Study10
Choice Set Size Neglect in Predicting Others’ Preferences10
Feeling Appreciated Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Unequal Division of Household Labor on Relationship Satisfaction10
The Development of Spatial Cognition and Its Malleability Assessed in Mass Population via a Mobile Game10
Preregistered Direct Replication and Extension of “The Wisdom to Know the Difference: Strategy-Situation Fit in Emotion Regulation in Daily Life Is Associated With Well-Being”10
Commentary: On the Equal-Opportunity Jerk “Defense”: Rudeness Complicates Sexism Attributions but Comes at a Cost10
Devaluation by Omission: Limited Identity Options Elicit Anger and Increase Identification10
Is Overconfidence a Trait? An Adversarial Collaboration9
A Practical Significance Bias in Laypeople’s Evaluation of Scientific Findings9
Psychosocial Resilience to Inflammation-Associated Depression: A Prospective Study of Breast-Cancer Survivors9
Multivariate Assessment of Inhibitory Control in Youth: Links With Psychopathology and Brain Function9
Mnemonic Content and Hippocampal Patterns Shape Judgments of Time9
The Well-Being Costs of Informal Caregiving9
Parents of Children With High Weight Are Viewed as Responsible for Child Weight and Thus Stigmatized9
Is Mansplaining Gendered? The Effects of Unsolicited, Generic, and Prescriptive Advice on U.S. Women9
Attention Shifts to More Complex Structures With Experience9
Transfer of Learned Cognitive Flexibility to Novel Stimuli and Task Sets9
The Evolution of Cognitive Control in Lemurs9
Registered Report: A Replication Examining Occupational Experience and Performance on the Water-Level Task9
Are There Really People With No Inner Voice? Commentary on Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024)9
iGen or shyGen? Generational Differences in Shyness9
Awe Sparks Prosociality in Children8
Predictive Processing of Scene Layout Depends on Naturalistic Depth of Field8
Toward Antifragility: Social Defeat Stress Enhances Learning and Memory in Young Mice Via Hippocampal Synaptosome Associated Protein 258
Experience of Playing a Musical Instrument and Lifetime Change in General Cognitive Ability: Evidence From the Lothian Birth Cohort 19368
The Golden Age Is Behind Us: How the Status Quo Impacts the Evaluation of Technology8
Socially Stratified Epigenetic Profiles Are Associated With Cognitive Functioning in Children and Adolescents8
Children Sustain Cooperation in a Threshold Public-Goods Game Even When Seeing Others’ Outcomes8
When and Why Antiegalitarianism Affects Resistance to Supporting Black-Owned Businesses8
The Costs of Paying Overt and Covert Attention Assessed With Pupillometry8
Intelligence Polygenic Score Is More Predictive of Crystallized Measures: Evidence From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study8
Adaptive Encoding Speed in Working Memory8
Neural-Context Reinstatement of Recurring Events8
Severe Developmental Dyscalculia Is Characterized by Core Deficits in Both Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Number Sense8
Do Open-Science Badges Increase Trust in Scientists Among Undergraduates, Scientists, and the Public?8
On How to Be Liked in First Encounters: The Effects of Agentic and Communal Behaviors on Popularity and Unique Liking8
Physical Effort Exertion for Peer Feedback Reveals Evolving Social Motivations From Adolescence to Young Adulthood8
Bridging the Gap Between Self-Report and Behavioral Laboratory Measures: A Real-Time Driving Task With Inverse Reinforcement Learning8
Gaze Behavior Reveals Expectations of Potential Scene Changes8
Caricaturing Shapes in Visual Memory8
Specific Effects of Characteristics of Enriched Environment on Innovative Problem Solving by Animals7
Synchrony Influences Estimates of Cooperation in a Public-Goods Game7
Corrigendum to “Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior”7
Cognitive Change Before Old Age (11 to 70) Predicts Cognitive Change During Old Age (70 to 82)7
*Reluctance to Downplay: Asymmetric Sensitivity to Differences in the Severity of Moral Transgressions7
Preferential Attraction Effects With Visual Stimuli: The Role of Quantitative Versus Qualitative Visual Attributes7
Preregistered Replication and Extension of “Moral Hypocrisy: Social Groups and the Flexibility of Virtue”7
Disagreement Gets Mistaken for Bad Listening7
Fear in the Theater of the Mind: Differential Fear Conditioning With Imagined Stimuli7
Today’s Older Adults Are Cognitively Fitter Than Older Adults Were 20 Years Ago, but When and How They Decline Is No Different Than in the Past7
Participating in a Digital-History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today7
Face-Information Sampling in Super-Recognizers7
Effects of Voice Pitch on Social Perceptions Vary With Relational Mobility and Homicide Rate7
Where Do Children Look When Watching Videos With Same-Language Subtitles?7
Why Do Children Think Words Are Mutually Exclusive?7
Perceptual Awareness Occurs Along a Graded Continuum: No Evidence of All-or-None Failures in Continuous Reproduction Tasks6
Cognitive Abilities and Educational Attainment as Antecedents of Mental Disorders: A Total Population Study of Males6
Perceptual and Cognitive Judgments Show Both Anchoring and Repulsion6
Test Anxiety Does Not Predict Exam Performance When Knowledge Is Controlled For: Strong Evidence Against the Interference Hypothesis of Test Anxiety6
Flavor Sensing in Utero and Emerging Discriminative Behaviors in the Human Fetus6
The Anticipated Relational Effects of Confronting Bias (or not) in Interracial Friendships6
Thinking Beyond COVID-19: How Has the Pandemic Impacted Future Time Horizons?6
Mind Wandering Impedes Response Inhibition by Affecting the Triggering of the Inhibitory Process6
Thinking About God Encourages Prosociality Toward Religious Outgroups: A Cross-Cultural Investigation6
Estranged and Unhappy? Examining the Dynamics of Personal and Relationship Well-Being Surrounding Infidelity6
Detection of Idiosyncratic Gaze-Fingerprint Signatures in Humans6
Two-Year-Olds’ Eye Movements Reflect Confidence in Their Understanding of Words6
Neural Signatures of Evidence Accumulation Encode Subjective Perceptual Confidence Independent of Performance6
The Formation of Negative Attitudes Toward Novel Groups6
Are Empathic People Better Adjusted? A Test of Competing Models of Empathic Accuracy and Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Facets of Adjustment Using Self- and Peer Reports6
Well-Being and Cognitive Resilience to Dementia-Related Neuropathology6
Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence6
Do the Effects of a Preschool Language Intervention Last in the Long Run? A 4-Year Follow-Up Study6
Not Everybody Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia6
Task Termination Triggers Spontaneous Removal of Information From Visual Working Memory6
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