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Papers

(The median citation count of Psychological Inquiry is 0. 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
Commentary on Gries, Muller and Jost’s “The Market for Belief Systems: A Formal Model of Ideological Choice”	28
The Inductive Reasoning Model: A Step Forward into the Future or a Step Back into the Past?	27
The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT): Highlighting Core Concepts and Potential Extensions	21
On the Role of Metacognitive Beliefs and Experience With Internal and External Autobiographical Memory	16
Inductive Reasoning Model	14
Reply to Dahl: Moral Content is Varied, and Premature Definitions Should Not Constrain It	13
People Who Need People	11
Constructs in Psychology: Lessons from the Philosophy of Science	10
Defining and Describing Morality: The View from Personality Psychology	10
Analogies Offer Value Through the Struggle to Make Them Work: Making Sense of the Psychological Immune System	9
Strange Bedfellows and Their Irrational Pillow Talk	9
What Are Constructs? Ontological Nature, Epistemological Challenges, Theoretical Foundations and Key Sources of Misunderstandings and Confusions	7
Ideology as a Moral-Relational Language	5
The Psychological Immune System: What Needs Defending?	5
Ideologies Are Like Possessions	5
Costs and Benefits of a Market-Based Model of Ideological Choice: Responding to Consumers and Critics	4
Seven Grand Challenges for Evolutionary Political Psychology or: Political Ideologies as Ad-Hoc Alliances…So What?	4
The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT): Applying Appraisal Theories to Understand Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Conspiracy Theories	3
Toward a Parsimonious Framework for Understanding Emotional Reactions to Conspiracy Theories Across Cultures	3
How Prevalent is Social Projection?	2
The Necessary Efforts to Reduce Social Inequality Must be Grounded in Political Reality	2
Understanding Belief-Behavior Correspondence Requires More Conceptual Clarity	2
Reflections on the Difference Between Implicit Bias and Bias on Implicit Measures	2
A Homeostatic Perspective on Narcissistic Personality Dynamics	2
A Call for Keeping Doors Open and for Parallel Efforts	2

Focusing Inward: A Timely Yet Daunting Challenge for Clinical Psychological Science	2
Autobiographical Narratives Reflect, Repair, and Rewrite Self-Views	2
The Case for Social Support as Social Assistance: When Social Means to Personal Goal Pursuit Enhance Agency	2
Who Needs to Define Morality, and Other Conversations	2
Lost in the Supermarket? A Commentary on Gries, Müller, and Jost	2
Three Pokes into the Comfort Zone of the Inductive Reasoning Model	2
The Future of Social Perception Models: Further Directions for Theoretical Development of the Inductive Reasoning Model	2
The AMCT and Conceptual Clarity	2
Resources and Partisanship: Response to Commentaries	1
Decomposing Implicit Bias	1
Beliefs and Belief-to-Behavior Inferences: Clarifications, Rebuttals, and Extensions	1
The Strange Epicycles of Political Psychology: A Response to Commentaries	1
It’s More Complicated Than That—Alliances Are One of Many Factors Shaping Political Belief Systems	1
It’s All About Significance: A Reframing in Response to Commentaries	1
The “Implicit Bias” Wording Is a Relic. Let’s Move On and Study Unconscious Social Categorization Effects	1
The Emotive Effects of Conspiracy Beliefs: More About Emotion and Motivation	1
Culture, Partisanship, and Signaling: The Social Nature of Political Belief Systems	1
Alphabetical Diaries and Autobiographical Memory in the Digital Age	1
Self-Construction, Self-Protection, and Self-Enhancement: A Homeostatic Model of Identity Protection	1
Experts Are People, Too: Attitudes and Cognition Impact Experts’ Progress Toward Racial Equality	1
The Relevance of Cognitive Processes to the Formation and Consequences of Conspiracy Theory Appraisals	1
What is Morality? Narrow and Broad Definition	1
The Difficult But Important Journey From Here to Equality	1
People Who Need People (and Some Who Think They Don't): On Compensatory Personal and Social Means of Goal Pursuit	1
The Alliance Theory: A Strategic Model of Moral Judgments?	1
A Functional Approach to Memory “Errors” (and Why Technology Need Not Doom Us All)	1
Working toward a Psychological Definition of Morality	1
The Market for Belief Systems: A Formal Model of Ideological Choice	1
Mind the (Construct-Measurement) Gap	1
The Homeostatic Model of Identity Protection: Lingering Issues	1
Transparency and Inclusion in Psychological Inquiry: Reflecting on the Past, Embracing the Present, and Building an Inclusive Future	1
Rollerbladers, Luthiers, and Self-Loathing: Questions on Using the IRM	1
Reflecting on Past Theoretical Contributions in Psychological Science: A New Initiative	1
Agency and Assistance Are Compensatory When They Are Perceived as Substitutable Means: A Response to Commentaries	1
Dahl’s Definition of Morality	1
Psychological Homeostasis and Environmental Control via Preemptive and Reparative Narrative-Specificity	1
The Dangers of Alliances Caused the Evolution of Moral Principles	1
How Appraisal Model Allows to Distinguish Intergroup Conspiracy Theories from Other Forms of Hate Speech	1
Political Ideology is Not Meaningfully Explained by Alliances and is Not Inconsistent with Attitudinal Inconsistencies	1
Shoring Up the Shaky Psychological Foundations of a Micro-Economic Model of Ideology: Adversarial Collaboration Solutions	1
How Behavioral Reasoning May Further Explain the Belief-to-Behavior Connection: Exploring the Role of Primary Reasons, Counter Reasons, and Comparative Reasoning Facets	1
Not by Bread Alone: Immoderate Politics and the Roots of Suffering	0
What Implicit Measures of Bias Can Do	0
Beliefs to Behavior or Behavior to Beliefs? On What Makes Intentions Reality	0
Speech Repression and Outrage from Orthodox Activists as Attempts at Facilitating Mobilization and Gaining Status among Allies	0
The Full Equation: On the Context-Dependency of Ideological Morality	0
Homeostasis, Interrupted: Living with and Recovering from a Stigmatized Identity	0
Memory Augmentation, Cognitive Offloading, and Digital Technology	0
Understanding Belief-Behavior Correspondence: Beliefs and Belief-to-Behavior Inferences	0
Morality as Fish: Defining Morality as a Prototype Concept	0

Theoretical Blindspots in Theory and Model Building	0
Political Belief Systems Are Not Singularly Rooted in Alliance Psychology	0
Mental Computations of Ideological Choice and Conviction: The Utility of Integrating Psycho-Economics and Bayesian Models of Belief	0
Is a Novel Model of Autobiographical Remembering Needed in the Digital Age? A Commentary on Hutmacher, Appel, & Schwan	0
Political Belief Systems: Alliances without Values?	0
Agency, Social Assistance (Communion), And Goal Pursuit	0
Similarities between Autobiographical Memory and Engaging with Narrative	0
Balancing Model Parsimony and Utility	0
Belief-Behavior Consistency and Inconsistency: It’s Complicated	0
Avoiding Bias in the Search for Implicit Bias	0
Achieving Equality in a Pluralist Democracy	0
The Homeostatic Ego: Self-Enhancement as a Biological Adaptation	0
Evidencing the Impact of Misinformed and Disinformed Beliefs on Individual and Group Behaviors	0
Agency and Assistance in Transactive Goal Systems	0
Beyond Awareness: The Many Forms of Implicit Bias and Its Implications	0
Do We Need a Definition of Morality? A Comment on the Distinctions between Definition and Theory and the Problem of Porn	0
Remembering Digitally: Unpacking the Impact of Technology on Autobiographical Memory	0
Self-Enhancement is Unlikely to Require Somatic Cues nor is it Likely to be a Successful Long-Term Approach to Promoting Environmental Mastery	0
Economic Values, Social Values and Cultural Animal Theory	0
Where We Go One, We Go All: The Psychological Group as the Link between Conspiracy Beliefs, (Specific) Emotions and Collective Action	0
Do Positive Appraisals Work Differently? And Can We Use Them to Counter Conspiracy Beliefs? A Commentary on Pummerer et al.	0
Does Technology-Mediated Memory Differ from Human-Mediated Memory?	0
Systemic Considerations in Child Development and the Pursuit of Racial Equality in the United States	0
Remembering Our Lives in the 21st Century	0
Can New Constructs Overcome the Old Challenge of Coordinating Psychological Theory and Psychometric Methods?	0
Personal Agency and Social Support: Substitutes of Complements?	0
So close, Yet So Far: Stopping Short of Killing Implicit Bias	0
Implicit Bias as Automatic Behavior	0
Implicit Bias ≠ Bias on Implicit Measures	0
On the Social Dimensions of Remembering with and through Digital Media	0
What a Capital Ideology! Framing Ideological Choice as a Capitalist Consumer Process	0
Cultural Animal Theory of Political Partisan Conflict and Hostility	0
Social Projection is Less Universal than One Might Think	0
Integrating Social and Moral Psychology to Reduce Inequality	0
Elucidating the Processes by Which Specific Beliefs and Attitudes Predict Behavior: Advocacy for a Comprehensive, Integrated Approach	0
Understanding Autobiographical Memory in the Digital Age: The AMEDIA-Model	0
Dynamics of Internal Attention and Internally-Directed Cognition: The Attention-to-Thoughts (A2T) Model	0
Baumeister and Bushman’s Conflicted Theory of Political Conflict	0
Research on Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Our Definition of Morality	0
Complex, Dynamic, & Internal: As Simple As Possible, But No Simpler Than That	0
Clarifying Internally-Directed Cognition: A Commentary on the Attention to Thoughts Model	0
Defining Morality for Psychology: The Risk of Integrating Paradigms	0
On the Subjectivity of Conspiracy Theory Appraisals	0
Bias in Implicit Measures as Instances of Biased Behavior under Suboptimal Conditions in the Laboratory	0
Delight in Disorder: Inclusively Defining and Operationalizing Implicit Bias	0
Maps by Which We May Not Steer: Why Psychologists Should Expect Low Belief-Behavior Correspondence	0
Grappling with Social Complexity When Defining and Assessing Implicit Bias	0
Misinformation-Based Beliefs Can Have Behavioral Consequences	0
Too Much Flexibility in a Dynamical Model of Repetitive Negative Thinking?	0
Questioning Psychological Constructs: Current Issues and Proposed Changes	0
Inductive Reasoning Renewed: A Reply to Commentators	0
Can We Get Social Assistance Without Losing Agency? Engaging in Market Relationships as an Alternative to Searching for Help from Others	0
Kahneman in Quotes and Reflections	0
Moving Beyond a W.E.I.R.D Psychology: A Multicultural Perspective on the Evolution of Ideology	0
Strange Bedfellows: The Alliance Theory of Political Belief Systems	0
Personal and Social Means Can Be (But Need Not Be) Opposing: The Case of Social Class	0
Social Projection Meets Social Reality: A Probabilistic Implementation of the Inductive Reasoning Model	0
The Time to Delve Deeper: Understanding the Consequences of Conspiracy Theories and Moving Forward	0
Moral Memories and Identity Protection	0
Narrative Identity in the Digital Age	0
What is the Nature of “Internal Content” Prior to Attentional Selection?	0
Questionable Research Practices Distort Impressions of Reality: Comment on Questioning Psychological Constructs	0
Social Projection and Cognitive Differentiation Co-Explain Self-Enhancement and in-Group Favoritism	0
Realism, Behaviorism, and Psychological Theory	0
Perspective getting in a democracy	0
Commentary on Gawronski, Ledgerwood, and Eastwick, Implicit Bias ≠ Bias on Implicit Measures	0
Precision and Provocativeness as Virtues and Vulnerabilities in Modeling	0
Can We Achieve “Equality” When We Have Different Understandings of Its Meaning? How Contexts and Identities Shape the Pursuit of Egalitarian Goals	0
Distinguishing Between Worldview Conflict and Shared Alliances: Commentary on Pinsof, Sears, and Haselton	0
Homeostasis as Affective-Motivational State: A Threat and Defense Perspective	0
What We Do When We Define Morality (and Why We Need to Do It)	0
Emotional Foundations of Conspiracy Beliefs: From Individual Emotions to Emotional Sharing and Collective Emotion Regulation	0
Beliefs, Behaviors, and the Inferences That Bind Them: Scrutinizing the Mechanism of Action	0