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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Corrigendum: Dissociating Representations of Time and Number in Reinforcement-Rate Learning by Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit in Mice	158
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study	125
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences	68
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory	67
Low Perinatal Androgens Predict Recalled Childhood Gender Nonconformity in Men	49
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix	48
Doubling-Back Aversion: A Reluctance to Make Progress by Undoing It	43
Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions	43
Bidirectional Relationships Between Well-Being and Cognitive Function	42
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects	40
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration	40
Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance	39
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments	38
Deception Cues During High-Risk Situations: 911 Homicide Calls	37
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes	37
Peripheral Visual Information Halves Attentional Choice Biases	36
*Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia	36
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets	35
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity	35
Who’s the “Real” Victim? How Victim Framing Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Assault	35
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness	34
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases	33
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented	32
Psychometric Curves Reveal Three Mechanisms of Vigilance Decrement	31
*The Ethnic and Political Divide in the Preference for Strong Leaders	30

Mugs and Plants: Object Semantic Knowledge Alters Perceptual Processing With Behavioral Ramifications	29
Radial Bias Alters Perceived Object Orientation	29
Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory	29
Ambivalent Sexism and Tolerance of Violence Against Women in India	29
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test	28
Reducing Facial Stereotype Bias in Consequential Social Judgments: Intervention Success With White Male Faces	28
Time to Pay Attention? Information Search Explains Amplified Framing Effects Under Time Pressure	27
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure	27
What Might Books Be Teaching Young Children About Gender?	27
Acknowledgment	26
Exploring the Semantic-Inconsistency Effect in Scenes Using a Continuous Measure of Linguistic-Semantic Similarity	26
Can Feelings “Feel” Wrong? Similarities Between Counter-Normative Emotion Reports and Perceptual Errors	26
Unlocking the Benefits of Gender Diversity: How an Ecological-Belonging Intervention Enhances Performance in Science Classrooms	25
Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field	25
Strength of Belief Guides Information Foraging	25
Agent Preference in Chasing Interactions in Guinea Baboons ( Papio papio ): Uncovering the Roots of Subject–Object Order in Language	25
How Convincing Is a Crowd? Quantifying the Persuasiveness of a Consensus for Different Individuals and Types of Claims	25
Poison Parasite Counter: Turning Duplicitous Mass Communications Into Self-Negating Memory-Retrieval Cues	24
The Cognition/Metacognition Trade-Off	23
Neural Representations of the Committed Romantic Partner in the Nucleus Accumbens	23
Regional Measures of Sexual-Orientation Bias Predict Where Same-Gender Couples Live	22
Contactless Real-Time Heart Rate Predicts the Performance of Elite Athletes: Evidence From Tokyo 2020 Olympic Archery Competition	22
Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones	22
Can One Donation a Day Keep Depression Away? Three Randomized Controlled Trials of an Online Micro-Charitable Giving Intervention	22
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior	22
Introspective Access or Retrospective Inference? Mind-Wandering Reports Are Shaped by Performance Feedback	22
Signal Intrusion Explains Divergent Effects of Visual Distraction on Working Memory	22
Vocal-Stress Diary: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Association of Everyday Work Stressors and Human Voice Features	21
The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-Dependent Trade-Off Between External and Internal Memory	21
Gaze-Triggered Communicative Intention Compresses Perceived Temporal Duration	21
Improving Memory Search Through Model-Based Cue Selection	21
Visual Perception Is Highly Flexible and Context Dependent in Young Infants: A Case of Top-Down-Modulated Motion Perception	21
Perceptual Grouping Explains Similarities in Constellations Across Cultures	21
Early Adolescents Demonstrate Peer-Network Homophily in Political Attitudes and Values	20
When and Why People Conceal Infectious Disease	20
Neural and Cognitive Signatures of Guilt Predict Hypocritical Blame	20
Where the Blame Lies: Unpacking Groups Into Their Constituent Subgroups Shifts Judgments of Blame in Intergroup Conflict	20
From the Viscera to First Impressions: Phase-Dependent Cardio-Visual Signals Bias the Perceived Trustworthiness of Faces	20
The Visual Mandela Effect as Evidence for Shared and Specific False Memories Across People	19
The Dispositional Essence of Proactive Social Preferences: The Dark Core of Personality vis-à-vis 58 Traits	19
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help	18
Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia	18
What’s in a Badge? A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science	18
Human Echolocators Have Better Localization Off Axis	18
Idiosyncratic Tower of Babel: Individual Differences in Word-Meaning Representation Increase as Word Abstractness Increases	18
Generating Options and Choosing Between Them Depend on Distinct Forms of Value Representation	17
Cross-Modal Facilitation of Episodic Memory by Sequential Action Execution	17
Adolescents’ Perceptions of Household Chaos Predict Their Adult Mental Health: A Twin-Difference Longitudinal Cohort Study	17
Self-Relevance Predicts the Aesthetic Appeal of Real and Synthetic Artworks Generated via Neural Style Transfer	17
Do We Become More Lonely With Age? A Coordinated Data Analysis of Nine Longitudinal Studies	17

Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration	17
What You See Is What You Hear: Sounds Alter the Contents of Visual Perception	16
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	16
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity	16
Preschoolers and Adults Learn From Novel Metaphors	16
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions	16
Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical Conclusions	16
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind	16
Gender-Ambiguous Voices and Social Disfluency	16
Exploration, Distributed Attention, and Development of Category Learning	16
Becoming an Ostrich: The Development of Information Avoidance	15
Perceiving Topological Relations	15
A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It	15
Overconfidence Persists Despite Years of Accurate, Precise, Public, and Continuous Feedback: Two Studies of Tournament Chess Players	15
Directing Attention Shapes Learning in Adults but Not Children	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
Corrigendum: What’s in a Name? Popular Names Are Less Common on Frontiers	15
The Effect of Replications on Citation Patterns: Evidence From a Large-Scale Reproducibility Project	15
Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change	15
Corrigendum to “Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence”	15
Statistical Learning Facilitates Access to Awareness	15
Terminal Increases in Depressive Symptoms in a Multinational Twin Consortium	15
Detecting Prejudice From Egalitarianism: Why Black Americans Don’t Trust White Egalitarians’ Claims	15
Do People Prescribe Optimism, Overoptimism, or Neither?	15
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence	14
Moral Frames Are Persuasive and Moralize Attitudes; Nonmoral Frames Are Persuasive and De-Moralize Attitudes	14
Psychological Science Stepping Up a Level	14
Proenvironmental Behavior Increases Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From an Experience-Sampling Study and a Randomized Experiment	14
Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?	14
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems	14
The Relative Importance of Joke and Audience Characteristics in Eliciting Amusement	14
Safe and Sound: The Effects of Experimentally Priming the Sense of Attachment Security on Pure-Tone Audiometric Thresholds Among Young and Older Adults	14
Attention to Authenticity: An Essential Analogue to Focus on Rigor and Replicability	14
The One That Got Away: Overestimation of Forgone Alternatives as a Hidden Source of Regret	14
Sources of Interference in Memory Across Development	14
Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction	14
Shared Time Scarcity and the Pursuit of Extraordinary Experiences	14
Compassion Fatigue as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Believing Compassion Is Limited Increases Fatigue and Decreases Compassion	13
Perceptual Generalization of Alcohol-Related Value Characterizes Risky Drinkers	13
Fluctuations in Sustained Attention Explain Moment-to-Moment Shifts in Children’s Memory Formation	13
The Effect of Auditory and Visual Recommendations on Choice	13
People Place Larger Bets When Risky Choices Provide a Postbet Option to Cash Out	13
Changing What You Like: Modifying Contour Properties Shifts Aesthetic Valuations of Scenes	13
Just Dead, Not Alive: Reconsidering Belief in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories	13
Psychological Well-Being in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Middle Adulthood: Findings From the 1958 British Birth Cohort	13
A Personal Model of Trumpery: Linguistic Deception Detection in a Real-World High-Stakes Setting	13
Exact Number Concepts Are Limited to the Verbal Count Range	13
Early Impacts of College, Interrupted: Considering First-Year Students’ Narratives About COVID and Reports of Adjustment During College Shutdowns	13