OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 15. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Positive Affect Dynamics	139
Toward Complementary Intelligence: Integrating Cognitive and Machine AI	116
Facing Ambiguity: What We Do in the Space Between Stimulus and Response	101
Metacognition and Uncertainty Communication in Humans and Large Language Models	83
Music, Memory, and Imagination	68
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	62
Historical Psychology	54
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	49
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	43
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	42
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	40
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	40
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	36
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	36
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	36
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	36
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	35
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	34
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	32
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	31
Motivated Egalitarianism	30
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	30
Parenting by Lying	29
Crossing Boundaries: A Culture-First Approach to Studying Early Learning	29
Dyadic Decisions About Effort: How Caregivers Shape Young Children’s Persistence	29

Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Schizophrenia and the Psychosis Continuum: Integrating New Insights	29
The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	27
Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as a Pathway to Social Integration	27
Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions	27
An Integrated Immuno-Reward Model of Adolescent Depression: Theory, Evidence, and Implications	25
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	24
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	24
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	24
The New Psychology of Secrecy	24
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	24
Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes	23
Lessons for the Next Pandemic: What Children Taught Us About Navigating New Social Norms During COVID-19	23
The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context	23
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	22
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	21
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	21
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	20
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	20
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	20
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	20
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	20
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	19
Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution	19
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	18
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	18
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	18
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	18
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	17
Consequences of Bilingual Language Coactivation for Higher Order Cognition	16
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	15
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	15
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	15
Ecospirituality	15
Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain	15
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	15
Generative Behaviors as Key Targets for Cognitive Models	15
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	15