OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 14. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Music, Memory, and Imagination	192
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	116
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	99
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	95
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	71
Positive Affect Dynamics	68
Historical Psychology	68
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	66
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	63
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	63
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	60
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	59
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	50
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	50
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	50
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	47
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	43
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	41
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	41
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	36
Motivated Egalitarianism	36
The New Psychology of Secrecy	35
Acknowledgment	33
The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	31
Parenting by Lying	30

Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	28
Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as a Pathway to Social Integration	28
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	27
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	27
Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model	27
Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions	26
Agency Through the We: Group-Based Control Theory	25
Lessons for the Next Pandemic: What Children Taught Us About Navigating New Social Norms During COVID-19	24
The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context	24
Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes	23
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	23
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	23
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	23
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	22
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	22
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	20
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	20
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	20
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	19
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	19
The Development of Communication Across Timescales	19
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	19
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	19
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
Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution	18
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	18
Consequences of Bilingual Language Coactivation for Higher Order Cognition	17
Decomposing the Motivation to Exert Mental Effort	17
Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain	17
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	17
Ecospirituality	17
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	16
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	16
Influences of Caregiving on Development: A Sensitive Period for Biological Embedding of Predictability and Safety Cues	16
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	16
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	15
The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology	15
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	15
Abnormalities in Attention and Working Memory in Schizophrenia: The Hyperfocusing Hypothesis	14
Intergroup Leadership: The Challenge of Successfully Leading Fractured Groups and Societies	14
How Does Religion Deter Adolescent Risk Behavior?	14
Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence	14