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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	310
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	163
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	131
Psychological Selfishness	127
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	116
Significance-Quest Theory	108
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	101
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	100
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	97
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	96
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	96
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	95
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	94
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	87
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	85
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	84
Why It May Be Useful to Integrate the Stereotype Content Model and the Interpersonal Perspective	81
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	80
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	70
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	66
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	65
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach	64
Toward a Psychology of Consent	64
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	64
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	59

Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	55
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	53
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	51
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	50
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	49
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	49
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	48
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	48
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	46
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution	45
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	45
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It	42
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	42
Corrigendum: Mystical and Other Alterations in Sense of Self: An Expanded Framework for Studying Nonordinary Experiences	42
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology	41
Is Open Science Neoliberal?	41