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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Music, Memory, and Imagination	178
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	131
Historical Psychology	109
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	95
Positive Affect Dynamics	94
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	85
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	66
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	66
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	64
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	63
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	61
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	58
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	56
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	52
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	51
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	48
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	48
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	44
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	44
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	41
Motivated Egalitarianism	39
Beyond Stereotypes: Using Socioemotional Selectivity Theory to Improve Messaging to Older Adults	39
Parenting by Lying	36
Forms and Functions of the Social Emotions	36
Acknowledgment	35

The New Psychology of Secrecy	35
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	34
The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	33
Agency Through the We: Group-Based Control Theory	31
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	30
Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions	30
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	28
Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model	27
The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context	26
Lessons for the Next Pandemic: What Children Taught Us About Navigating New Social Norms During COVID-19	26
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	25
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	23
Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes	23
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	23
The Major Health Implications of Social Connection	23
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	22
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	21
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	21
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	21
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	20
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	20
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	20
Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution	19
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	19
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	18
The Development of Communication Across Timescales	18
Moral-Exemplar Intervention: A New Paradigm for Conflict Resolution and Intergroup Reconciliation	18
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	18
Consequences of Bilingual Language Coactivation for Higher Order Cognition	18
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	18
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	18
Ecospirituality	17
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	17
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	17
Decomposing the Motivation to Exert Mental Effort	17
Influences of Caregiving on Development: A Sensitive Period for Biological Embedding of Predictability and Safety Cues	16
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	16
Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain	16
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	16
Placebos and Movies: What Do They Have in Common?	16
The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology	15
Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence	15
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	15
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	15
How Does Religion Deter Adolescent Risk Behavior?	15
The Impacts of Anxiety and Motivation on Spatial Performance: Implications for Gender Differences in Mental Rotation and Navigation	14
The Profound Heterogeneity of Substance Use Disorders: Implications for Treatment Development	14
Intergroup Leadership: The Challenge of Successfully Leading Fractured Groups and Societies	14
Toward a “Standard Model” of Early Language Learning	14
Self-Derivation Through Memory Integration: A Mechanism for Building Semantic Memory	14

Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and Potential	14
Abnormalities in Attention and Working Memory in Schizophrenia: The Hyperfocusing Hypothesis	14
Secret Agents of Influence: Leveraging Social Norms for Good	13
Cognitive Inertia: Cyclical Interactions Between Attention and Memory Shape Learning	13
Hidden Reward: Affect and Its Prediction Errors as Windows Into Subjective Value	13
What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition?	12
Porosity Is the Heart of Religion	12
Humans’ Bias Blind Spot and Its Societal Significance	12
There Are Multiple Paths to Personalized Education, and They Should Be Combined	12
Developing Effective Interventions for Math Anxiety	11
Philosophy of Perception in the Psychologist’s Laboratory	11
Deepfakes: Vehicles for Radicalization, Not Persuasion	11
Explanation Is Effective Because It Is Selective	10
The Development of Human Cortical Scene Processing	10
Parent-Focused Interventions to Support Children’s Early Math Learning	10
The Role of Phenomenological Control in Experience	10
A Scripted Sexuality: Media, Gendered Sexual Scripts, and Their Impact on Our Lives	10
Lie Detection: What Works?	10
Does Too Much Closeness Dampen Desire? On the Balance of Closeness and Otherness for the Maintenance of Sexual Desire in Romantic Relationships	10
Habits, Goals, and Effective Behavior Change	10
The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social Relationships	10
The Role of Real-World Statistical Regularities in Visual Perception	10
Delusions as Epistemic Hypervigilance	10
Hyper-Binding: Older Adults Form Too Many Associations, Not Too Few	10
Theories of Context Effects in Multialternative, Multiattribute Choice	9
Corrigendum to “Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions”	9
Intuitive Theories and the Cultural Evolution of Morality	9
Emotional Disclosure and Social Judgment	9
The Predictive Brain Must Have a Limitation in Short-Term Memory Capacity	9
Covid-19 Pandemic as a Natural Experiment: The Case of Home Advantage in Sports	8
Identifying Objects and Remembering Images: Insights From Deep Neural Networks	8
Response Durations: A Flexible, No-Cost Tool for Psychological Science	8
How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?	8
Perception, Action, and Intrinsic Motivation in Infants’ Motor-Skill Development	7
Integrating Insights About Human Movement Patterns From Digital Data Into Psychological Science	7
Origins of Face Responses in the Human Cortex: fNIRS and fMRI Evidence From Infants	7
The Missing Side of Acculturation: How Majority-Group Members Relate to Immigrant and Minority-Group Cultures	7
Population-Level Administrative Data: A Resource to Advance Psychological Science	7
Corrigendum: Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn	7
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions	7
Fostering Executive-Function Skills and Promoting Far Transfer to Real-World Outcomes: The Importance of Life Skills and Civic Science	7
Successive Relearning: An Underexplored but Potent Technique for Obtaining and Maintaining Knowledge	7
Active Learning in Language Development	7
Assessing Attention in Category Learning by Animals	7
Back to Basics: The Importance of Conceptual Clarification in Psychological Science	7
Evidence and Implications From a Natural Experiment of Prenatal Androgen Effects on Gendered Behavior	7
Cognitive Blame Is Socially Shaped	6
How Can We Characterize Human Generalization and Distinguish It From Generalization in Machines?	6
Preventing the Onset of Depressive Disorders: State of the Art and Future Directions	6
Credibility Beyond Replicability: Improving the Four Validities in Psychological Science	6
The Structure of Systematicity in the Brain	6
The Psychology of Erectile Dysfunction	6
Maximizing the Potential of Digital Games for Understanding Skill Acquisition	6
Children’s Reputation Management: Learning to Identify What Is Socially Valued and Acting Upon It	6
A Grand Challenge for Psychology: Reducing the Age-Related Digital Divide	5
Understanding Trajectories to Anxiety and Depression: Neural Responses to Errors and Rewards as Indices of Susceptibility to Stressful Life Events	5
The New Reality: Non-Eyewitness Identifications in a Surveillance World	5
Exceptional Abilities in Autism: Theories and Open Questions	5
Filial Piety Across Sociocultural Context and the Life Span	5
Addressing Anti-Blackness in Education Through Psychological Approaches to Racial and Radical Healing	5
Ancestral Diversity: A Socioecological Account of Emotion Culture	5
The Double-Edged Sword of Loyalty	5
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement From Parent-Child Interaction in Informal Learning Environments	5
Casting a Wider Net: Using Automated Content Analysis to Discover New Ideas	5
Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes	5
Models of Identity Signaling	5
Gender Prototypes Shape Perceptions of and Responses to Sexual Harassment	5
The Emergency of Prosociality: A Developmental Perspective on Altruism and Other Prosocial Behavior in the Face of Disaster	5
Cognitive Modeling With Representations From Large-Scale Digital Data	5
Neuroticism and Disorders of Emotion: A New Synthesis	5