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Papers

(The median citation count of Current Directions in 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	155
Emotion as Information in Early Social Learning	129
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	115
Understanding Trajectories to Anxiety and Depression: Neural Responses to Errors and Rewards as Indices of Susceptibility to Stressful Life Events	100
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	88
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	87
Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution	87
The Role of Real-World Statistical Regularities in Visual Perception	74
Music, Memory, and Imagination	63
Cognitive Modeling With Representations From Large-Scale Digital Data	61
Color Semantics in Human Cognition	59
How Can Deep Neural Networks Inform Theory in Psychological Science?	58
Debunking Three Myths About Misinformation	56
Gender Prototypes Shape Perceptions of and Responses to Sexual Harassment	52
Embedding Cognition: Judgment and Choice in an Interdependent and Dynamic World	51
Constructing Craving: Applying the Theory of Constructed Emotion to Urge States	49
The Development of Values in Middle Childhood: Five Maturation Criteria	47
Explanation Is Effective Because It Is Selective	47
Popular Psychology Through a Scientific Lens: Evaluating Love Languages From a Relationship Science Perspective	46
Psychological Momentum	45
A Competitiveness-Based Theoretical Framework on the Psychology of Income Inequality	45
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	39
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Underlying Role of Diminished Access to Internal States	37
Models of Identity Signaling	37
Anxiety and Mentalizing: Uncertainty as a Driver of Egocentrism	35

The Psychology of Poverty: Current and Future Directions	35
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	35
The Scams Among Us: Who Falls Prey and Why	33
Ancestral Diversity: A Socioecological Account of Emotion Culture	32
The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social Relationships	32
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	32
Filial Piety Across Sociocultural Context and the Life Span	31
Lie Detection: What Works?	30
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	29
The Predictive Brain Must Have a Limitation in Short-Term Memory Capacity	27
Ten Lessons About Infants’ Everyday Experiences	26
A Grand Challenge for Psychology: Reducing the Age-Related Digital Divide	25
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	24
Moral-Exemplar Intervention: A New Paradigm for Conflict Resolution and Intergroup Reconciliation	23
Neuroticism and Disorders of Emotion: A New Synthesis	23
The Development of Communication Across Timescales	23
Let Me Choose: The Role of Choice in the Development of Executive Function Skills	23
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	23
Decomposing the Motivation to Exert Mental Effort	21
Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes	21
Historical Psychology	20
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement From Parent-Child Interaction in Informal Learning Environments	20
Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of “AI”	19
The Moral Psychology of Artificial Intelligence	19
Ten Things You Should Know About Sign Languages	18
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	17
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	17
Fundamental Motives Illuminate a Broad Range of Individual and Cultural Variations in Thought and Behavior	17
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	17
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	16
Covid-19 Pandemic as a Natural Experiment: The Case of Home Advantage in Sports	16
Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain	16
Placebos and Movies: What Do They Have in Common?	16
The Inequality Cycle: How Psychology Helps Keep Economic Inequality in Place	16
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	16
From Semantic Vectors to Analogical Mapping	15
Ecospirituality	15
Impacts of Learning One’s Own Genetic Susceptibility to Mental Disorders	15
The Nature and Nurture of Callous-Unemotional Traits	15
Intuitive Theories and the Cultural Evolution of Morality	15
Emotional Disclosure and Social Judgment	15
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	15
Self-Control at 220 Miles per Hour: Steering and Braking to Achieve Optimal Outcomes During Adolescence	15
Addressing Anti-Blackness in Education Through Psychological Approaches to Racial and Radical Healing	15
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	15
Theories of Context Effects in Multialternative, Multiattribute Choice	14
Cultural Evolutionary Mismatches in Response to Collective Threat	14
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	14
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	14
Psychological Measurement in the Information Age: Machine-Learned Computational Models	14

Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	14
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	14
How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?	13
Response Durations: A Flexible, No-Cost Tool for Psychological Science	13
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	13
Rethinking the Diagnosis of Mental Disorders: Data-Driven Psychological Dimensions, Not Categories, as a Framework for Mental-Health Research, Treatment, and Training	13
Chasing Unknown Bandits: Uncertainty Guidance in Learning and Decision Making	13
Influences of Caregiving on Development: A Sensitive Period for Biological Embedding of Predictability and Safety Cues	13
Water From the Lake of Memory: The Regulatory Model of Nostalgia	12
Translating Thoughts Into Action: Optimizing Motor Performance and Learning Through Brief Motivational and Attentional Influences	12
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	12
Cognition and Emotion in Extreme Political Action: Individual Differences and Dynamic Interactions	12
Personality Change Through Digital-Coaching Interventions	12
Beyond Stereotypes: Using Socioemotional Selectivity Theory to Improve Messaging to Older Adults	11
Corrigendum: Book Language and Its Implications for Children’s Language, Literacy, and Development	11
Why Recurrent Depression Should Be Reconceptualized and Redefined	11
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	10
Corrigendum: Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn	10
Semantic Space Theory: Data-Driven Insights Into Basic Emotions	10
Insights Into Human and Nonhuman Primate Handedness From Measuring Both Hands	10
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	9
The Slow Development of Real-Time Processing: Spoken-Word Recognition as a Crucible for New Thinking About Language Acquisition and Language Disorders	9
An Introduction to Ecological Active Learning	8
Motivated Egalitarianism	8
Active Learning in Language Development	8
A Prosociality Paradox: How Miscalibrated Social Cognition Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Prosocial Action	8
Forms and Functions of the Social Emotions	8
Embodied and Embedded Learning: Child, Caregiver, and Context	8
Pivoting: Responding to the Mental Health Needs of Youth of Color With Technology	8
What Can Conjuring Tell Us About Cognition? The Future of the Science of Magic	8
Interdependence of Emotion: Conceptualization, Evidence, and Social Implications From Cultural Psychology	8
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	8
Brain Reward Circuits Promote Stress Resilience and Health: Implications for Reward-Based Interventions	7
Identifying Objects and Remembering Images: Insights From Deep Neural Networks	7
The Critical Role of Semantic Working Memory in Language Comprehension and Production	7
Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence	7
Do Rating and Task Measures of Control Abilities Assess the Same Thing?	7
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	7
The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology	7
Social Psychological Research on Racism and the Importance of Historical Context: Implications for Policy	7
Individual Differences in the Intensity and Consistency of Attention	7
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens	7
Developmental Variability and Developmental Cascades: Lessons From Motor and Language Development in Infancy	7
The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	6
Fostering Executive-Function Skills and Promoting Far Transfer to Real-World Outcomes: The Importance of Life Skills and Civic Science	6
A Transdiagnostic Perspective on Youth Irritability	6
Semantic Prosody: How Neutral Words With Collocational Positivity/Negativity Color Evaluative Judgments	6
Self-Derivation Through Memory Integration: A Mechanism for Building Semantic Memory	6
Abnormalities in Attention and Working Memory in Schizophrenia: The Hyperfocusing Hypothesis	6
Effect Size Magnification: No Variable Is as Important as the One You’re Thinking About—While You’re Thinking About It	6
The New Psychology of Secrecy	5
Ovarian Hormones and Binge Eating in Adulthood: Summary of Findings and Implications for Individual Differences in Risk in Women	5
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	5
Intergroup Leadership: The Challenge of Successfully Leading Fractured Groups and Societies	5
The Psychological Reach of Culture in Animals’ Lives	5
The Little Black Box: Contextualizing Empathy	5
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	5
How Does Religion Deter Adolescent Risk Behavior?	5
Three Perceptual Tools for Seeing and Understanding Visualized Data	5
Similarity of Computations Across Domains Does Not Imply Shared Implementation: The Case of Language Comprehension	5
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions	5
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	5
Assessing Attention in Category Learning by Animals	5
Pride-and-Prejudice Perspectives of Marginalization Can Advance Science and Society	5
How Language Learning and Language Use Create Linguistic Structure	5
Perception, Action, and Intrinsic Motivation in Infants’ Motor-Skill Development	5
Acknowledgment	5
Parenting by Lying	5
Integrating Insights About Human Movement Patterns From Digital Data Into Psychological Science	5