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 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
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	48
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	48
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	44
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	44
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	41
Beyond Stereotypes: Using Socioemotional Selectivity Theory to Improve Messaging to Older Adults	39
Motivated Egalitarianism	39
Parenting by Lying	36
Forms and Functions of the Social Emotions	36
The New Psychology of Secrecy	35

Acknowledgment	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
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	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
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	18
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
Decomposing the Motivation to Exert Mental Effort	17
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
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