OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychological Science is 13. 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
Corrigendum: Dissociating Representations of Time and Number in Reinforcement-Rate Learning by Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit in Mice	144
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects	110
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study	87
Low Perinatal Androgens Predict Recalled Childhood Gender Nonconformity in Men	75
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences	70
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration	68
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix	65
Bidirectional Relationships Between Well-Being and Cognitive Function	58
Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions	46
Doubling-Back Aversion: A Reluctance to Make Progress by Undoing It	44
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory	43
Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance	42
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments	39
Deception Cues During High-Risk Situations: 911 Homicide Calls	37
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes	37
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets	36
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented	36
Who’s the “Real” Victim? How Victim Framing Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Assault	35
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases	35
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity	35
Peripheral Visual Information Halves Attentional Choice Biases	33
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness	33
*Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia	32
Beyond the Shape of Things: Infants Can Be Taught to Generalize Nouns by Objects’ Functions	32
Psychometric Curves Reveal Three Mechanisms of Vigilance Decrement	32

Looking for Semantic Similarity: What a Vector-Space Model of Semantics Can Tell Us About Attention in Real-World Scenes	31
Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory	30
Mugs and Plants: Object Semantic Knowledge Alters Perceptual Processing With Behavioral Ramifications	30
Radial Bias Alters Perceived Object Orientation	30
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure	30
Time to Pay Attention? Information Search Explains Amplified Framing Effects Under Time Pressure	29
Reducing Facial Stereotype Bias in Consequential Social Judgments: Intervention Success With White Male Faces	29
Ambivalent Sexism and Tolerance of Violence Against Women in India	27
*The Ethnic and Political Divide in the Preference for Strong Leaders	27
What Might Books Be Teaching Young Children About Gender?	27
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test	27
Acknowledgment	26
Strength of Belief Guides Information Foraging	26
Exploring the Semantic-Inconsistency Effect in Scenes Using a Continuous Measure of Linguistic-Semantic Similarity	25
Neural Representations of the Committed Romantic Partner in the Nucleus Accumbens	25
Most Findings Obtained With Untimed Visual Illusions Are Confounded	25
Unlocking the Benefits of Gender Diversity: How an Ecological-Belonging Intervention Enhances Performance in Science Classrooms	25
Mind-Body Practices and Self-Enhancement: Direct Replications of Gebauer et al.’s (2018) Experiments 1 and 2	25
Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field	25
Can Feelings “Feel” Wrong? Similarities Between Counter-Normative Emotion Reports and Perceptual Errors	25
Poison Parasite Counter: Turning Duplicitous Mass Communications Into Self-Negating Memory-Retrieval Cues	25
The Cognition/Metacognition Trade-Off	24
Contactless Real-Time Heart Rate Predicts the Performance of Elite Athletes: Evidence From Tokyo 2020 Olympic Archery Competition	24
Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones	23
Can One Donation a Day Keep Depression Away? Three Randomized Controlled Trials of an Online Micro-Charitable Giving Intervention	23
Regional Measures of Sexual-Orientation Bias Predict Where Same-Gender Couples Live	23
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior	22
The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-Dependent Trade-Off Between External and Internal Memory	22
Signal Intrusion Explains Divergent Effects of Visual Distraction on Working Memory	22
Perceptual Grouping Explains Similarities in Constellations Across Cultures	21
The Visual Mandela Effect as Evidence for Shared and Specific False Memories Across People	21
Improving Memory Search Through Model-Based Cue Selection	21
Gaze-Triggered Communicative Intention Compresses Perceived Temporal Duration	21
Vocal-Stress Diary: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Association of Everyday Work Stressors and Human Voice Features	20
From the Viscera to First Impressions: Phase-Dependent Cardio-Visual Signals Bias the Perceived Trustworthiness of Faces	20
Coping With Health Threats: The Costs and Benefits of Managing Emotions	20
What’s in a Badge? A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science	20
When and Why People Conceal Infectious Disease	20
Where the Blame Lies: Unpacking Groups Into Their Constituent Subgroups Shifts Judgments of Blame in Intergroup Conflict	20
Visual Perception Is Highly Flexible and Context Dependent in Young Infants: A Case of Top-Down-Modulated Motion Perception	20
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help	20
Cross-Modal Facilitation of Episodic Memory by Sequential Action Execution	19
Neural and Cognitive Signatures of Guilt Predict Hypocritical Blame	19
The Dispositional Essence of Proactive Social Preferences: The Dark Core of Personality vis-à-vis 58 Traits	19
Preschoolers and Adults Learn From Novel Metaphors	19
Human Echolocators Have Better Localization Off Axis	19
Early Adolescents Demonstrate Peer-Network Homophily in Political Attitudes and Values	19
Generating Options and Choosing Between Them Depend on Distinct Forms of Value Representation	18
Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration	18
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) Americans	18

Children With More Uncertainty in Their Intuitive Theories Seek Domain-Relevant Information	18
What You See Is What You Hear: Sounds Alter the Contents of Visual Perception	18
Idiosyncratic Tower of Babel: Individual Differences in Word-Meaning Representation Increase as Word Abstractness Increases	17
Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia	17
Adolescents’ Perceptions of Household Chaos Predict Their Adult Mental Health: A Twin-Difference Longitudinal Cohort Study	17
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind	17
Personality Traits and Memory: A Multilevel Analysis Across 27 Countries From the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe	17
Do We Become More Lonely With Age? A Coordinated Data Analysis of Nine Longitudinal Studies	17
Self-Relevance Predicts the Aesthetic Appeal of Real and Synthetic Artworks Generated via Neural Style Transfer	17
Corrigendum: What’s in a Name? Popular Names Are Less Common on Frontiers	16
Exploration, Distributed Attention, and Development of Category Learning	16
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity	16
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions	16
Detecting Prejudice From Egalitarianism: Why Black Americans Don’t Trust White Egalitarians’ Claims	16
Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical Conclusions	16
Statistical Learning Facilitates Access to Awareness	16
Gender-Ambiguous Voices and Social Disfluency	16
A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It	16
How Accurate Are Accuracy-Nudge Interventions? A Preregistered Direct Replication of Pennycook et al. (2020)	15
Nurturing the Mathematical Brain: Home Numeracy Practices Are Associated With Children’s Neural Responses to Arabic Numerals	15
Underestimating Counterparts’ Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations	15
Disproportionate School Punishment and Significant Life Outcomes: A Prospective Analysis of Black Youths	15
Corrigendum to “Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence”	15
Perceiving Topological Relations	15
Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change	15
Sources of Interference in Memory Across Development	15
Moral Frames Are Persuasive and Moralize Attitudes; Nonmoral Frames Are Persuasive and De-Moralize Attitudes	14
Directing Attention Shapes Learning in Adults but Not Children	14
The Effect of Replications on Citation Patterns: Evidence From a Large-Scale Reproducibility Project	14
The One That Got Away: Overestimation of Forgone Alternatives as a Hidden Source of Regret	14
Do People Prescribe Optimism, Overoptimism, or Neither?	14
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems	14
A Personal Model of Trumpery: Linguistic Deception Detection in a Real-World High-Stakes Setting	14
Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?	14
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence	14
The Relative Importance of Joke and Audience Characteristics in Eliciting Amusement	14
Shared Time Scarcity and the Pursuit of Extraordinary Experiences	13
Psychological Science Stepping Up a Level	13
Compassion Fatigue as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Believing Compassion Is Limited Increases Fatigue and Decreases Compassion	13
People Place Larger Bets When Risky Choices Provide a Postbet Option to Cash Out	13
Acting Like a Baby Boomer? Birth-Cohort Differences in Adults’ Personality Trajectories During the Last Half a Century	13
Attention to Authenticity: An Essential Analogue to Focus on Rigor and Replicability	13
Changing What You Like: Modifying Contour Properties Shifts Aesthetic Valuations of Scenes	13
Proenvironmental Behavior Increases Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From an Experience-Sampling Study and a Randomized Experiment	13
Psychological Well-Being in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Middle Adulthood: Findings From the 1958 British Birth Cohort	13
Perceptual Generalization of Alcohol-Related Value Characterizes Risky Drinkers	13
Correlates of Hallucinatory Experiences in the General Population: An International Multisite Replication Study	13
Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction	13
Safe and Sound: The Effects of Experimentally Priming the Sense of Attachment Security on Pure-Tone Audiometric Thresholds Among Young and Older Adults	13
Search for the Unknown: Guidance of Visual Search in the Absence of an Active Template	13
Are Preschoolers’ Neurobiological Stress Systems Responsive to Culturally Relevant Contexts?	13
Mental Logout: Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Regulating Temptations to Use Social Media	13