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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study	86
Corrigendum: Dissociating Representations of Time and Number in Reinforcement-Rate Learning by Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit in Mice	66
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects	52
Low Perinatal Androgens Predict Recalled Childhood Gender Nonconformity in Men	52
Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions	46
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments	46
Bidirectional Relationships Between Well-Being and Cognitive Function	46
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix	46
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences	44
Doubling-Back Aversion: A Reluctance to Make Progress by Undoing It	44
The 2008 Great Recession Lowered Americans’ Class Identity	44
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory	43
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration	43
Deception Cues During High-Risk Situations: 911 Homicide Calls	42
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity	42
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes	38
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets	38
Who’s the “Real” Victim? How Victim Framing Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Assault	36
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases	35
*Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia	35
Invariant Recognition Memory Spaces for Real-World Objects Revealed With Signal-Detection Analysis	35
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented	34
Peripheral Visual Information Halves Attentional Choice Biases	33
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness	32
Radial Bias Alters Perceived Object Orientation	31

*The Ethnic and Political Divide in the Preference for Strong Leaders	30
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test	30
Reducing Facial Stereotype Bias in Consequential Social Judgments: Intervention Success With White Male Faces	30
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure	29
Mugs and Plants: Object Semantic Knowledge Alters Perceptual Processing With Behavioral Ramifications	28
Ambivalent Sexism and Tolerance of Violence Against Women in India	28
Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory	28
Exploring the Semantic-Inconsistency Effect in Scenes Using a Continuous Measure of Linguistic-Semantic Similarity	27
Can Feelings “Feel” Wrong? Similarities Between Counter-Normative Emotion Reports and Perceptual Errors	26
Strength of Belief Guides Information Foraging	26
Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field	26
Acknowledgment	26
Agent Preference in Chasing Interactions in Guinea Baboons ( Papio papio ): Uncovering the Roots of Subject–Object Order in Language	25
Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones	25
How Convincing Is a Crowd? Quantifying the Persuasiveness of a Consensus for Different Individuals and Types of Claims	25
Can One Donation a Day Keep Depression Away? Three Randomized Controlled Trials of an Online Micro-Charitable Giving Intervention	25
Unlocking the Benefits of Gender Diversity: How an Ecological-Belonging Intervention Enhances Performance in Science Classrooms	25
Introspective Access or Retrospective Inference? Mind-Wandering Reports Are Shaped by Performance Feedback	25
Regional Measures of Sexual-Orientation Bias Predict Where Same-Gender Couples Live	24
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior	24
Signal Intrusion Explains Divergent Effects of Visual Distraction on Working Memory	24
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
Improving Memory Search Through Model-Based Cue Selection	23
From the Viscera to First Impressions: Phase-Dependent Cardio-Visual Signals Bias the Perceived Trustworthiness of Faces	22
The Dispositional Essence of Proactive Social Preferences: The Dark Core of Personality vis-à-vis 58 Traits	21
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help	21
When and Why People Conceal Infectious Disease	21
Neural and Cognitive Signatures of Guilt Predict Hypocritical Blame	20
The Visual Mandela Effect as Evidence for Shared and Specific False Memories Across People	20
Perceptual Grouping Explains Similarities in Constellations Across Cultures	20
Gaze-Triggered Communicative Intention Compresses Perceived Temporal Duration	20
The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-Dependent Trade-Off Between External and Internal Memory	20
Assortative Mating Is a Natural Consequence of Heritable Variation in Preferences and Preferred Traits	20
Early Adolescents Demonstrate Peer-Network Homophily in Political Attitudes and Values	19
Human Echolocators Have Better Localization Off Axis	19
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	19
What’s in a Badge? A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science	19
Preschoolers and Adults Learn From Novel Metaphors	19
Adolescents’ Perceptions of Household Chaos Predict Their Adult Mental Health: A Twin-Difference Longitudinal Cohort Study	19
Vocal-Stress Diary: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Association of Everyday Work Stressors and Human Voice Features	19
Visual Perception Is Highly Flexible and Context Dependent in Young Infants: A Case of Top-Down-Modulated Motion Perception	19
Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration	19
Self-Relevance Predicts the Aesthetic Appeal of Real and Synthetic Artworks Generated via Neural Style Transfer	19
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind	18
Cross-Modal Facilitation of Episodic Memory by Sequential Action Execution	18
Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia	18
Do We Become More Lonely With Age? A Coordinated Data Analysis of Nine Longitudinal Studies	18
Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical Conclusions	17
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions	17

Gender-Ambiguous Voices and Social Disfluency	17
What You See Is What You Hear: Sounds Alter the Contents of Visual Perception	17
Underestimating Counterparts’ Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations	16
Terminal Increases in Depressive Symptoms in a Multinational Twin Consortium	16
Overconfidence Persists Despite Years of Accurate, Precise, Public, and Continuous Feedback: Two Studies of Tournament Chess Players	16
Corrigendum: What’s in a Name? Popular Names Are Less Common on Frontiers	16
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity	16
Exploration, Distributed Attention, and Development of Category Learning	16
Statistical Learning Facilitates Access to Awareness	16
Sexual Identity Development Milestones, Latent Profiles, and Proximal Minority Stressors in Australia’s Generation Z	16
A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It	16
Sources of Interference in Memory Across Development	15
Becoming an Ostrich: The Development of Information Avoidance	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
Detecting Prejudice From Egalitarianism: Why Black Americans Don’t Trust White Egalitarians’ Claims	15
The One That Got Away: Overestimation of Forgone Alternatives as a Hidden Source of Regret	15
Perceiving Topological Relations	15
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems	14
Directing Attention Shapes Learning in Adults but Not Children	14
Changing What You Like: Modifying Contour Properties Shifts Aesthetic Valuations of Scenes	14
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence	14
Attention to Authenticity: An Essential Analogue to Focus on Rigor and Replicability	14
Moral Frames Are Persuasive and Moralize Attitudes; Nonmoral Frames Are Persuasive and De-Moralize Attitudes	14
Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?	14
Nurturing the Mathematical Brain: Home Numeracy Practices Are Associated With Children’s Neural Responses to Arabic Numerals	14
Psychological Science Stepping Up a Level	14
The Relative Importance of Joke and Audience Characteristics in Eliciting Amusement	13
Proenvironmental Behavior Increases Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From an Experience-Sampling Study and a Randomized Experiment	13
Early Impacts of College, Interrupted: Considering First-Year Students’ Narratives About COVID and Reports of Adjustment During College Shutdowns	13
Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior	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
Psychological Well-Being in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Middle Adulthood: Findings From the 1958 British Birth Cohort	13
Exact Number Concepts Are Limited to the Verbal Count Range	13
Compassion Fatigue as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Believing Compassion Is Limited Increases Fatigue and Decreases Compassion	13
Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction	13
Perceptual Generalization of Alcohol-Related Value Characterizes Risky Drinkers	13
The Effect of Auditory and Visual Recommendations on Choice	13