OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	207
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	158
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	152
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	144
Socializing While Alone: Loss of Impact and Engagement When Interacting Remotely via Technology	127
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	119
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	119
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	117
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	115
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	113
People’s Responses to Nuclear Weapons: Mapping Post-Cold War Research	112
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	110
Why It May Be Useful to Integrate the Stereotype Content Model and the Interpersonal Perspective	108
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	105
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	97
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	87
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	78
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	76
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	73
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	71
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	70
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	68
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	67
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	66
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	59

Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	54
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	53
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	53
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	49
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	48
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	48
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	47
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology	46
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward	46
Is Open Science Neoliberal?	45
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories	45
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence	45
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	44
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition	43
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict	41
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It	40
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)	40