OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychological Science is 12. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Feeling Appreciated Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Unequal Division of Household Labor on Relationship Satisfaction	137
Physically Implied Surfaces	98
Task Termination Triggers Spontaneous Removal of Information From Visual Working Memory	78
In Which Direction Does Happiness Predict Subsequent Social Interactions? A Commentary on Quoidbach et al. (2019)	71
Do They Look the Same Unless They Are Angry? Investigating the Other-Race Effect in the Presence of Angry Expressions	69
Following Other People’s Footsteps: A Contextual-Attraction Effect Induced by Biological Motion	67
Corrigendum to “Spatial Distance and Mental Construal of Social Events”	65
Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration	62
Physiological Responses to a Haunted-House Threat Experience: Distinct Tonic and Phasic Effects	49
Pain as Social Glue: A Preregistered Direct Replication of Experiment 2 of Bastian et al. (2014)	48
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	46
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects	41
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences	39
The “Equal-Opportunity Jerk” Defense: Rudeness Can Obfuscate Gender Bias	35
Charged With a Crime: The Neuronal Signature of Processing Negatively Evaluated Faces Under Different Attentional Conditions	35
Personality Traits and Memory: A Multilevel Analysis Across 27 Countries From the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe	35
Understanding Everyday Events: Predictive-Looking Errors Drive Memory Updating	34
Corrigendum: Dissociating Representations of Time and Number in Reinforcement-Rate Learning by Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit in Mice	34
Working Memory Content Is Distorted by Its Use in Perceptual Comparisons	34
Human Echolocators Have Better Localization Off Axis	33
Political Person–Culture Match and Longevity: The Partisanship–Mortality Link Depends on the Cultural Context	32
Adolescents’ Perceptions of Household Chaos Predict Their Adult Mental Health: A Twin-Difference Longitudinal Cohort Study	32
Human Vision Reconstructs Time to Satisfy Causal Constraints	32
The Causes and Consequences of Drifting Expectations	31
Preschoolers and Adults Learn From Novel Metaphors	30

Gender Inequality and Well-Being: Concepts and Their Measures Are Cultural Products—A Reflection on Li et al. (2021)	30
Seeing Soft Materials Draped Over Objects: A Case Study of Intuitive Physics in Perception, Attention, and Memory	30
Variety Is the Spice of Life: Diverse Social Networks Are Associated With Social Cohesion and Well-Being	29
Attentional Guidance and Match Decisions Rely on Different Template Information During Visual Search	29
Children With More Uncertainty in Their Intuitive Theories Seek Domain-Relevant Information	29
Neural Signatures of Evidence Accumulation Encode Subjective Perceptual Confidence Independent of Performance	28
Cross-Modal Facilitation of Episodic Memory by Sequential Action Execution	28
Two-Year-Olds’ Eye Movements Reflect Confidence in Their Understanding of Words	28
Experienced Love: An Empirical Account	27
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory	26
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind	26
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix	25
Absolute Versus Relative Success: Why Overconfidence Creates an Inefficient Equilibrium	25
The Role of Beta Oscillations in Mental Time Travel	25
Time and Punishment: Time Delays Exacerbate the Severity of Third-Party Punishment	25
Undetected Neurodegenerative Disease Biases Estimates of Cognitive Change in Older Adults	25
Statistical Learning Within Objects	24
Not Everybody Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia	24
Are Sex Differences in Human Brain Structure Associated With Sex Differences in Behavior?	24
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study	24
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions	23
Nonsymbolic-Magnitude Deficit in Adults With Developmental Dyscalculia: Evidence of Impaired Size Discrimination but Intact Size Constancy	23
What You See Is What You Hear: Sounds Alter the Contents of Visual Perception	23
Parents’ Political Ideology Predicts How Their Children Punish	23
Melting Ice With Your Mind: Representational Momentum for Physical States	23
Generating Options and Choosing Between Them Depend on Distinct Forms of Value Representation	23
The Effects of Group Affiliation Versus Individuating Information on Direct and Indirect Measures of the Evaluation of Novel Individual Group Members	22
Interleaving Retrieval Practice Promotes Science Learning	22
*Deconfounding Sex and Sex of Partner in Mate-Preference Research	22
Perturbation of Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Makes Power Holders Less Resistant to Tempting Bribes	22
Low Perinatal Androgens Predict Recalled Childhood Gender Nonconformity in Men	21
The Formation of Negative Attitudes Toward Novel Groups	21
Mind Wandering Impedes Response Inhibition by Affecting the Triggering of the Inhibitory Process	20
Different Mechanisms for Supporting Mental Imagery and Perceptual Representations: Modulation Versus Excitation	20
Cognitive Maps for a Non-Euclidean Environment: Path Integration and Spatial Memory on a Sphere	20
Idiosyncratic Tower of Babel: Individual Differences in Word-Meaning Representation Increase as Word Abstractness Increases	20
Self-Relevance Predicts the Aesthetic Appeal of Real and Synthetic Artworks Generated via Neural Style Transfer	20
The Bilingual Advantage in Children’s Executive Functioning Is Not Related to Language Status: A Meta-Analytic Review	20
Perceptual Awareness Occurs Along a Graded Continuum: No Evidence of All-or-None Failures in Continuous Reproduction Tasks	20
Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions	19
Are Empathic People Better Adjusted? A Test of Competing Models of Empathic Accuracy and Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Facets of Adjustment Using Self- and Peer Reports	19
The Psychological Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Associated With Antisystemic Attitudes and Political Violence	18
Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia	18
Aging Increases Prosocial Motivation for Effort	18
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration	18
Mindful-Gratitude Practice Reduces Prejudice at High Levels of Collective Narcissism	18
Thinking Beyond COVID-19: How Has the Pandemic Impacted Future Time Horizons?	18
A Network Analysis of Children’s Emerging Place-Value Concepts	18
Responsible Use of Open-Access Developmental Data: The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study	17
The Impact of Feedback on Perceptual Decision-Making and Metacognition: Reduction in Bias but No Change in Sensitivity	17

Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance	17
Is Mansplaining Gendered? The Effects of Unsolicited, Generic, and Prescriptive Advice on U.S. Women	17
Do We Become More Lonely With Age? A Coordinated Data Analysis of Nine Longitudinal Studies	17
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments	17
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes	17
Younger Than Ever? Subjective Age Is Becoming Younger and Remains More Stable in Middle-Age and Older Adults Today	17
Response Bias Reflects Individual Differences in Sensory Encoding	17
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity	16
Psychological Drivers of Individual Differences in Risk Perception: A Systematic Case Study Focusing on 5G	16
Culture Moderates the Relation Between Gender Inequality and Well-Being	16
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases	16
The Relational Wear and Tear of Everyday Racism Among African American Couples	16
Devaluation by Omission: Limited Identity Options Elicit Anger and Increase Identification	16
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets	16
Expression of Concern: Effort for Payment: A Tale of Two Markets	16
A Practical Significance Bias in Laypeople’s Evaluation of Scientific Findings	15
Spatial Representations Without Spatial Computations	15
Erratum: The Implications of Sociosexuality for Marital Satisfaction and Dissolution	15
Corrigendum: What’s in a Name? Popular Names Are Less Common on Frontiers	15
Disproportionate School Punishment and Significant Life Outcomes: A Prospective Analysis of Black Youths	15
A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary-Drink Buying	15
Many Roads Lead to Rome: Differential Learning Processes for the Same Perceptual Improvement	15
Attention Shifts to More Complex Structures With Experience	15
Concepts Are Restructured During Language Contact: The Birth of Blue and Other Color Concepts in Tsimane’-Spanish Bilinguals	15
Parenting Practices May Buffer the Impact of Adversity on Epigenetic Age Acceleration Among Young Children With Developmental Delays	14
Evaluating Benefits, Costs, and Social Value as Predictors of Gratitude	14
Visual Distraction’s “Silver Lining”: Distractor Suppression Boosts Attention to Competing Stimuli	14
Identity Concealment May Discourage Health-Seeking Behaviors: Evidence From Sexual-Minority Men During the 2022 Global Mpox Outbreak	14
Exploration, Distributed Attention, and Development of Category Learning	14
A Self-Controlled Mind Is Reflected by Stable Mental Processing	14
Underestimating Counterparts’ Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations	14
No Evidence That Siblings’ Gender Affects Personality Across Nine Countries	14
Corrigendum: The Crowd-Emotion-Amplification Effect	14
Adaptive Repulsion of Long-Term Memory Representations Is Triggered by Event Similarity	13
The Interactive Effect of Incentive Salience and Prosocial Motivation on Prosocial Behavior	13
Mnemonic Content and Hippocampal Patterns Shape Judgments of Time	13
Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical Conclusions	13
The Well-Being Costs of Informal Caregiving	13
The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Holds Among Young Players: A Commentary on the Vishkin (2022) Study	13
The Evolution of Cognitive Control in Lemurs	13
Computational Methods for Predicting and Understanding Food Judgment	13
A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It	13
Retraction Notice to “The Moral Virtue of Authenticity: How Inauthenticity Produces Feelings of Immorality and Impurity”	13
Do Diversity Awards Discourage Applicants From Marginalized Groups From Pursuing More Lucrative Opportunities?	13
Psychometric Curves Reveal Three Mechanisms of Vigilance Decrement	13
Early-Life Socioeconomic Circumstances and Physical Activity in Older Age: Women Pay the Price	12
Rational Simplification and Rigidity in Human Planning	12
Deception Cues During High-Risk Situations: 911 Homicide Calls	12
Multivariate Assessment of Inhibitory Control in Youth: Links With Psychopathology and Brain Function	12
Internal Social Attention: Gaze Cues Stored in Working Memory Trigger Involuntary Attentional Orienting	12
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness	12
Who’s the “Real” Victim? How Victim Framing Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Assault	12
Navigable Space and Traversable Edges Differentially Influence Reorientation in Sighted and Blind Mice	12
Once and Again: Repeated Viewing Affects Judgments of Spontaneity and Preparation	12
Does Valuing Happiness Lead to Well-Being?	12
Consolidation Enhances Sequential Multistep Anticipation but Diminishes Access to Perceptual Features	12
Too Reluctant to Reach Out: Receiving Social Support Is More Positive Than Expressers Expect	12
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented	12
Copy the In-group: Group Membership Trumps Perceived Reliability, Warmth, and Competence in a Social-Learning Task	12
Transfer of Learned Cognitive Flexibility to Novel Stimuli and Task Sets	12
Detecting Prejudice From Egalitarianism: Why Black Americans Don’t Trust White Egalitarians’ Claims	12
Why Twitter Sometimes Rewards What Most People Disapprove of: The Case of Cross-Party Political Relations	12
Statistical Learning Facilitates Access to Awareness	12
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity	12