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Papers

(The H4-Index of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 41. 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 2022-04-01 to 2026-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	189
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	149
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	148
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	121
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	117
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	110
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	110
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	109
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	108
Socializing While Alone: Loss of Impact and Engagement When Interacting Remotely via Technology	107
Psychological Selfishness	98
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	97
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	97
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	92
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	90
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	86
Why It May Be Useful to Integrate the Stereotype Content Model and the Interpersonal Perspective	80
People’s Responses to Nuclear Weapons: Mapping Post-Cold War Research	72
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	72
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	70
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	66
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	64
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	61
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	59
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	56

The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	54
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	52
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach	50
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	48
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	48
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	47
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	46
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	46
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	46
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	44
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It	44
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	44
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology	42
Is Open Science Neoliberal?	41
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories	41
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward	41