Psychological Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychological Science is 5. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention858
What Is the Test-Retest Reliability of Common Task-Functional MRI Measures? New Empirical Evidence and a Meta-Analysis406
The Emotional Path to Action: Empathy Promotes Physical Distancing and Wearing of Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic312
Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance283
Age Advantages in Emotional Experience Persist Even Under Threat From the COVID-19 Pandemic159
Early Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Relationship Satisfaction and Attributions109
People Reject Algorithms in Uncertain Decision Domains Because They Have Diminishing Sensitivity to Forecasting Error98
Teacher Mindsets Help Explain Where a Growth-Mindset Intervention Does and Doesn’t Work82
A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect71
Changing Social Contexts to Foster Equity in College Science Courses: An Ecological-Belonging Intervention69
Universal Patterns in Color-Emotion Associations Are Further Shaped by Linguistic and Geographic Proximity69
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 Words64
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 Review54
Relational Mobility Predicts Faster Spread of COVID-19: A 39-Country Study53
Behavioral Immune Trade-Offs: Interpersonal Value Relaxes Social Pathogen Avoidance52
Minding Your Own Business? Mindfulness Decreases Prosocial Behavior for People With Independent Self-Construals49
Revisiting the Integration Hypothesis: Correlational and Longitudinal Meta-Analyses Demonstrate the Limited Role of Acculturation for Cross-Cultural Adaptation49
The Experience of Empathy in Everyday Life46
Preverbal Infants Discover Statistical Word Patterns at Similar Rates as Adults: Evidence From Neural Entrainment44
Training for Wisdom: The Distanced-Self-Reflection Diary Method43
Does Happiness Improve Health? Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial43
Children Prioritize Humans Over Animals Less Than Adults Do42
Aging Increases Prosocial Motivation for Effort40
Responsible Use of Open-Access Developmental Data: The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study38
The Development of Intersectional Social Prototypes36
Face Pareidolia Recruits Mechanisms for Detecting Human Social Attention34
Playing With Fear: A Field Study in Recreational Horror34
The Truth Is Out There: Accuracy in Recall of Verifiable Real-World Events34
The Crowd-Emotion-Amplification Effect32
Prosocial Influence and Opportunistic Conformity in Adolescents and Young Adults31
Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance31
Acute Psychosocial Stress Increases Cognitive-Effort Avoidance31
Moral-Language Use by U.S. Political Elites30
The Psychological Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Associated With Antisystemic Attitudes and Political Violence29
Linking Detail to Temporal Structure in Naturalistic-Event Recall29
Age-Related Changes in Spatial Navigation Are Evident by Midlife and Differ by Sex28
Using Machine Learning to Generate Novel Hypotheses: Increasing Optimism About COVID-19 Makes People Less Willing to Justify Unethical Behaviors28
Automatic Guidance (and Misguidance) of Visuospatial Attention by Acquired Scene Memory: Evidence From an N1pc Polarity Reversal27
The Earliest Origins of Genetic Nurture: The Prenatal Environment Mediates the Association Between Maternal Genetics and Child Development26
Reminders of Everyday Misinformation Statements Can Enhance Memory for and Beliefs in Corrections of Those Statements in the Short Term25
The Importance of Random Slopes in Mixed Models for Bayesian Hypothesis Testing25
The Latent Genetic Structure of Impulsivity and Its Relation to Internalizing Psychopathology25
Reframing Achievement Setbacks: A Motivation Intervention to Improve 8-Year Graduation Rates for Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Fields24
The Effect of Repetition on Truth Judgments Across Development23
Correlates of Hallucinatory Experiences in the General Population: An International Multisite Replication Study22
Facial Impressions Are Predicted by the Structure of Group Stereotypes22
The Language of Social Touch Is Intuitive and Quantifiable22
Cultures Crossing: The Power of Habit in Delaying Gratification22
Looking for Semantic Similarity: What a Vector-Space Model of Semantics Can Tell Us About Attention in Real-World Scenes22
Concerns About Automation and Negative Sentiment Toward Immigration22
How Collective-Action Failure Shapes Group Heterogeneity and Engagement in Conventional and Radical Action Over Time22
The Attitude–Behavior Relationship Revisited21
General Enhancement of Spatial Hearing in Congenitally Blind People21
The Dramatic Impact of Explicit Instruction on Learning to Read in a New Writing System21
Convergent and Discriminant Validity of Retrospective Assessments of the Quality of Childhood Parenting: Prospective Evidence From Infancy to Age 26 Years21
A Contextual Approach to the Psychological Study of Identity Concealment: Examining Direct, Interactive, and Indirect Effects of Structural Stigma on Concealment Motivation Across Proximal and Distal 21
Incel Activity on Social Media Linked to Local Mating Ecology21
On Intersectionality: How Complex Patterns of Discrimination Can Emerge From Simple Stereotypes20
Positive Affect Is Associated With Less Memory Decline: Evidence From a 9-Year Longitudinal Study20
Affective Arousal Links Sound to Meaning20
Against Empathy Bias: The Moral Value of Equitable Empathy20
The Negative Effect of Smartphone Use on Academic Performance May Be Overestimated: Evidence From a 2-Year Panel Study20
The Unintended Consequences of the Things We Say: What Generic Statements Communicate to Children About Unmentioned Categories20
The Lure of Counterfactual Curiosity: People Incur a Cost to Experience Regret20
Neighborhood Deprivation Shapes Motivational-Neurocircuit Recruitment in Children20
Action Enhances Predicted Touch20
Parents Fine-Tune Their Speech to Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge20
Massive Effects of Saliency on Information Processing in Visual Working Memory19
Global Variation in Subjective Well-Being Predicts Seven Forms of Altruism19
Does Neuronal Recycling Result in Destructive Competition? The Influence of Learning to Read on the Recognition of Faces19
Misogynistic Tweets Correlate With Violence Against Women19
Placebo Analgesia Reduces Costly Prosocial Helping to Lower Another Person’s Pain19
Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: IV. Change and Stability From 2007 to 202019
An Emphasis on Brilliance Fosters Masculinity-Contest Cultures18
Racial Bias in Police Traffic Stops: White Residents’ County-Level Prejudice and Stereotypes Are Related to Disproportionate Stopping of Black Drivers18
Truth, Lies, and Gossip18
Real-World Exploration Increases Across Adolescence and Relates to Affect, Risk Taking, and Social Connectivity18
The Well-Being Benefits of Person-Culture Match Are Contingent on Basic Personality Traits18
Twin Differences in Harsh Parenting Predict Youth’s Antisocial Behavior18
Resourceful Actors, Not Weak Victims: Reframing Refugees’ Stigmatized Identity Enhances Long-Term Academic Engagement17
The Impact of Feedback on Perceptual Decision-Making and Metacognition: Reduction in Bias but No Change in Sensitivity17
Air Pollution, State Anxiety, and Unethical Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review17
Personality Traits and Memory: A Multilevel Analysis Across 27 Countries From the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe17
Coping With Health Threats: The Costs and Benefits of Managing Emotions17
The Effect of Replications on Citation Patterns: Evidence From a Large-Scale Reproducibility Project17
The Effect of Prediction Error on Belief Update Across the Political Spectrum16
The Psychological Appeal of Fake-News Attributions16
Generating Options and Choosing Between Them Depend on Distinct Forms of Value Representation16
The Effects of Handwriting Experience on Literacy Learning16
Alertness Training Increases Visual Processing Speed in Healthy Older Adults16
The Contribution of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills to Intergenerational Social Mobility16
Delay of Gratification as Reputation Management16
Preregistered Direct Replication of “Sick Body, Vigilant Mind: The Biological Immune System Activates the Behavioral Immune System”15
The Effects of Retirement on Sense of Purpose in Life: Crisis or Opportunity?15
Using Body Ownership to Modulate the Motor System in Stroke Patients15
Niche Diversity Predicts Personality Structure Across 115 Nations15
Children’s Cognitive Reflection Predicts Conceptual Understanding in Science and Mathematics15
Why Is an Early Start of Training Related to Musical Skills in Adulthood? A Genetically Informative Study15
Keeping an Eye on Effort: A Pupillometric Investigation of Effort and Effortlessness in Visual Word Recognition15
Confidence as a Priority Signal15
Harsh but Expedient: Dominant Leaders Increase Group Cooperation via Threat of Punishment15
Female Chess Players Show Typical Stereotype-Threat Effects: Commentary on Stafford (2018)15
Broken Physics: A Conjunction-Fallacy Effect in Intuitive Physical Reasoning15
Charged With a Crime: The Neuronal Signature of Processing Negatively Evaluated Faces Under Different Attentional Conditions15
Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence15
Reasoning Through the Disjunctive Syllogism in Monkeys15
The Long-Term Effects of New Evidence on Implicit Impressions of Other People15
Dominance-Driven Autocratic Political Orientations Predict Political Violence in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) and Non-WEIRD Samples15
Adaptive Repulsion of Long-Term Memory Representations Is Triggered by Event Similarity15
Personality Changes Predict Early Career Outcomes: Discovery and Replication in 12-Year Longitudinal Studies15
Attitudes Based on Feelings: Fixed or Fleeting?14
Scene Context Impairs Perception of Semantically Congruent Objects14
Narratives Shape Cognitive Representations of Immigrants and Immigration-Policy Preferences14
Children With More Uncertainty in Their Intuitive Theories Seek Domain-Relevant Information14
Exploring the Facets of Emotional Episodic Memory: Remembering “What,” “When,” and “Which”14
Effects of Time-Varying Parent Input on Children’s Language Outcomes Differ for Vocabulary and Syntax14
Time to Pay Attention? Information Search Explains Amplified Framing Effects Under Time Pressure14
Effortful Control Moderates the Relation Between Electronic-Media Use and Objective Sleep Indicators in Childhood14
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions14
Personality Traits Predict Long-Term Physical Health via Affect Reactivity to Daily Stressors14
Frequency-Specific Effects in Infant Electroencephalograms Do Not Require Entrained Neural Oscillations: A Commentary on Köster et al. (2019)14
Attentional Guidance and Match Decisions Rely on Different Template Information During Visual Search14
Idiosyncratic Tower of Babel: Individual Differences in Word-Meaning Representation Increase as Word Abstractness Increases14
Theory-of-Mind Development in Young Deaf Children With Early Hearing Provisions13
Cheaters, Liars, or Both? A New Classification of Dishonesty Profiles13
Effects of Selective Attention on Mean-Size Computation: Weighted Averaging and Perceptual Enlargement13
Preregistered Replication of “Feeling Superior Is a Bipartisan Issue: Extremity (Not Direction) of Political Views Predicts Perceived Belief Superiority”13
Acting Like a Baby Boomer? Birth-Cohort Differences in Adults’ Personality Trajectories During the Last Half a Century13
Expectancy Violation Drives Memory Boost for Stressful Events13
Flavor Sensing in Utero and Emerging Discriminative Behaviors in the Human Fetus13
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior13
Little Between-Region and Between-Country Variance When People Form Impressions of Others12
Lay Beliefs About Gender and Sexual Behavior: First Evidence for a Pervasive, Robust (but Seemingly Unfounded) Stereotype12
Motivating Personal Growth by Seeking Discomfort12
The Distinct Effects of Empathic Accuracy for a Romantic Partner’s Appeasement and Dominance Emotions12
What’s in a Badge? A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science12
What Is Time Good for in Working Memory?12
Titrating the Smell of Fear: Initial Evidence for Dose-Invariant Behavioral, Physiological, and Neural Responses12
Harder Than You Think: How Outside Assistance Leads to Overconfidence12
Revisiting the Suffixing Preference: Native-Language Affixation Patterns Influence Perception of Sequences12
Interleaving Retrieval Practice Promotes Science Learning12
Blind at First Sight: The Role of Distinctively Accurate and Positive First Impressions in Romantic Interest11
Queen’s Gambit Declined: The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Participation Across 160 Countries11
Stress and Stress-Induced Glucocorticoids Facilitate Empathic Accuracy in Men but Have No Effects for Women11
Early-Life Socioeconomic Circumstances and Physical Activity in Older Age: Women Pay the Price11
Testing Deprivation and Threat: A Preregistered Network Analysis of the Dimensions of Early Adversity11
Effects of Trust and Threat Messaging on Academic Cheating: A Field Study11
Too Reluctant to Reach Out: Receiving Social Support Is More Positive Than Expressers Expect11
Feeling Appreciated Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Unequal Division of Household Labor on Relationship Satisfaction11
Never Too Much—The Benefit of Talent to Team Performance in the National Basketball Association: Comment on Swaab, Schaerer, Anicich, Ronay, and Galinsky (2014)11
Enhancing the Wisdom of the Crowd With Cognitive-Process Diversity: The Benefits of Aggregating Intuitive and Analytical Judgments11
Severe Developmental Dyscalculia Is Characterized by Core Deficits in Both Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Number Sense11
Aging Predicts Decline in Explicit and Implicit Memory: A Life-Span Study11
B or 13? Unconscious Top-Down Contextual Effects at the Categorical but Not the Lexical Level11
Physically Implied Surfaces10
Lifting the Bar: A Relationship-Orienting Intervention Reduces Recidivism Among Children Reentering School From Juvenile Detention10
Do Religious Primes Increase Risk Taking? Evidence Against “Anticipating Divine Protection” in Two Preregistered Direct Replications of Kupor, Laurin, and Levav (2015)10
Asking People to Explain Complex Policies Does Not Increase Political Moderation: Three Preregistered Failures to Closely Replicate Fernbach, Rogers, Fox, and Sloman’s (2013) Findings10
What Might Books Be Teaching Young Children About Gender?10
Incidental Attitude Formation via the Surveillance Task: A Preregistered Replication of the Olson and Fazio (2001) Study10
Psychometric Curves Reveal Three Mechanisms of Vigilance Decrement10
Does Posture Influence the Stroop Effect?10
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help10
Storage in Visual Working Memory Recruits a Content-Independent Pointer System10
Does Choice Cause an Illusion of Control?10
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure10
Narcissism and Leadership in Children10
Melting Ice With Your Mind: Representational Momentum for Physical States10
Bedtime Music, Involuntary Musical Imagery, and Sleep10
How Long Does It Take for a Voice to Become Familiar? Speech Intelligibility and Voice Recognition Are Differentially Sensitive to Voice Training10
Predictive Uncertainty Underlies Auditory Boundary Perception10
Levels of Processing Affect Perceptual Features in Visual Associative Memory10
Moral Choice When Harming Is Unavoidable10
Anxiety-Related Frontocortical Activity Is Associated With Dampened Stressor Reactivity in the Real World9
The Altered Course of Learning: How Alcohol Outcome Expectancies Are Shaped by First Drinking Experiences9
Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones9
The Social Effects of an Awesome Solar Eclipse9
Mutual Information and Categorical Perception9
Learning Novel Skills From Iconic Gestures: A Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective9
Identifying Long- and Short-Term Processes in Perceptual Learning9
Exploring the Impact of Mindfulness on False-Memory Susceptibility9
Boosting Understanding and Identification of Scientific Consensus Can Help to Correct False Beliefs9
Finding the Pattern: On-Line Extraction of Spatial Structure During Virtual Navigation9
Sustained Stress Reduces the Age Advantages in Emotional Experience of Older Adults: Commentary on Carstensen et al. (2020)9
Parent Contributions to the Development of Political Attitudes in Adoptive and Biological Families9
Culture Moderates the Relation Between Gender Inequality and Well-Being9
Neural Representations of Procedural Knowledge9
Are You for Real? Perceptions of Authenticity Are Systematically Biased and Not Accurate9
The Temporal Dynamics of Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Between Students and Teachers Predict Learning Outcomes9
Dimensions of Perception: 3D Real-Life Objects Are More Readily Detected Than Their 2D Images9
Psychosocial Resilience to Inflammation-Associated Depression: A Prospective Study of Breast-Cancer Survivors9
A Self-Controlled Mind Is Reflected by Stable Mental Processing9
Are Sex Differences in Human Brain Structure Associated With Sex Differences in Behavior?9
Scientific-Consensus Communication About Contested Science: A Preregistered Meta-Analysis8
Working Memory Content Is Distorted by Its Use in Perceptual Comparisons8
Absolute Versus Relative Success: Why Overconfidence Creates an Inefficient Equilibrium8
The Visual Mandela Effect as Evidence for Shared and Specific False Memories Across People8
When Not Choosing Leads to Not Liking: Choice-Induced Preference in Infancy8
Susceptibility to Being Lured Away by a Stranger: A Real-World Field Test of Selective Trust in Early Childhood8
Experiencing a Natural Disaster Temporarily Boosts Relationship Satisfaction in Newlywed Couples8
Greater Male Variability in Cooperation: Meta-Analytic Evidence for an Evolutionary Perspective8
Weak and Variable Effects of Exogenous Testosterone on Cognitive Reflection Test Performance in Three Experiments: Commentary on Nave, Nadler, Zava, and Camerer (2017)8
Undetected Neurodegenerative Disease Biases Estimates of Cognitive Change in Older Adults8
When Are Similar Individuals a Group? Early Reasoning About Similarity and In-Group Support8
Socially Stratified Epigenetic Profiles Are Associated With Cognitive Functioning in Children and Adolescents8
Perceived Distance Alters Memory for Scene Boundaries8
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence8
Disproportionate School Punishment and Significant Life Outcomes: A Prospective Analysis of Black Youths8
Children Show a Gender Gap in Negotiation8
A Call for Greater Sensitivity in the Wake of a Publication Controversy8
The Dispositional Essence of Proactive Social Preferences: The Dark Core of Personality vis-à-vis 58 Traits8
Exact Number Concepts Are Limited to the Verbal Count Range8
Grief Symptoms Promote Inflammation During Acute Stress Among Bereaved Spouses8
Walking in Her Shoes: Pretending to Be a Female Role Model Increases Young Girls’ Persistence in Science8
A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary-Drink Buying8
Noise Increases Anchoring Effects7
The Worst-Motive Fallacy: A Negativity Bias in Motive Attribution7
Learning About the Self: Motives for Coherence and Positivity Constrain Learning From Self-Relevant Social Feedback7
Nurturing the Mathematical Brain: Home Numeracy Practices Are Associated With Children’s Neural Responses to Arabic Numerals7
The Relational Wear and Tear of Everyday Racism Among African American Couples7
Understanding Everyday Events: Predictive-Looking Errors Drive Memory Updating7
Perceiving Locations of Moving Objects Across Eyeblinks7
AI Hyperrealism: Why AI Faces Are Perceived as More Real Than Human Ones7
Face-Information Sampling in Super-Recognizers7
Mind-Body Practices and Self-Enhancement: Direct Replications of Gebauer et al.’s (2018) Experiments 1 and 27
Resting (Tonic) Blood Pressure Is Associated With Sensitivity to Imagined and Acute Experiences of Social Pain: Evidence From Three Studies7
Can Short Psychological Interventions Affect Educational Performance? Revisiting the Effect of Self-Affirmation Interventions7
Racial Demographics Explain the Link Between Racial Disparities in Traffic Stops and County-Level Racial Attitudes7
Inhibitory Cognitive Control Allows Automated Advice to Improve Accuracy While Minimizing Misuse7
Physiological Responses to a Haunted-House Threat Experience: Distinct Tonic and Phasic Effects7
Physical Strength Partly Explains Sex Differences in Trait Anxiety in Young Americans7
Belief in the Utility of Cross-Partisan Empathy Reduces Partisan Animosity and Facilitates Political Persuasion7
Gender Gaps in Deceptive Self-Presentation on Social-Media Platforms Vary With Gender Equality: A Multinational Investigation7
Most Findings Obtained With Untimed Visual Illusions Are Confounded7
Safe and Sound: The Effects of Experimentally Priming the Sense of Attachment Security on Pure-Tone Audiometric Thresholds Among Young and Older Adults7
Encoding Context Determines Risky Choice7
Attention Shifts to More Complex Structures With Experience7
Different Mechanisms for Supporting Mental Imagery and Perceptual Representations: Modulation Versus Excitation7
Spontaneous Distractor Reactivation With Age: Evidence for Bound Target-Distractor Representations in Memory7
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
Who’s the “Real” Victim? How Victim Framing Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Assault6
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind6
Response Bias Reflects Individual Differences in Sensory Encoding6
In Which Direction Does Happiness Predict Subsequent Social Interactions? A Commentary on Quoidbach et al. (2019)6
Patterns of Genital Sexual Arousal in Transgender Men6
Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia6
Statistical Learning Within Objects6
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