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Papers

(The H4-Index of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 40. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	304
Psychological Selfishness	142
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	118
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	117
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	110
Significance-Quest Theory	95
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	94
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities	94
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	90
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	87
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	87
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	86
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	85
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	84
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	81
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	80
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	79
Why It May Be Useful to Integrate the Stereotype Content Model and the Interpersonal Perspective	79
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	73
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	70
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	66
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	60
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	60
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	58
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	58

Toward a Psychology of Consent	58
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	58
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change	50
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	49
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach	47
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	45
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	44
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	44
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	44
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	42
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	42
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution	41
Corrigendum: Mystical and Other Alterations in Sense of Self: An Expanded Framework for Studying Nonordinary Experiences	40
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	40
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	40