Perspectives on Psychological Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 9. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”279
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations262
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes220
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect128
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children104
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities94
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience88
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment88
Psychological Selfishness84
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge83
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding81
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations81
Significance-Quest Theory80
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon77
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment75
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification75
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual74
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors74
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science73
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”73
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications69
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology67
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change65
The Number of Senders and Total Judgments Matter More Than Sample Size in Deception-Detection Experiments65
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace64
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity63
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science59
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations59
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls56
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions55
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings51
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond50
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means50
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases49
Toward a Psychology of Consent49
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?47
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution46
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach46
Critique of the Bias-of-Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model: Reply to Connor and Evers (2020)45
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures43
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It42
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology41
Is Open Science Neoliberal?40
Corrigendum: Mystical and Other Alterations in Sense of Self: An Expanded Framework for Studying Nonordinary Experiences40
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology39
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict39
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward38
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition38
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories37
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)37
How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective36
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors36
Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption36
The Power of Odor Persuasion: The Incorporation of Olfactory Cues in Virtual Environments for Personalized Relaxation36
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence36
How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the United States35
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk34
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive34
The Myth of Normal Reading34
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions32
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms32
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors31
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment31
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes31
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail30
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research30
Racial Microaggressions: Critical Questions, State of the Science, and New Directions30
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization30
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms29
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward29
What Makes a Champion? Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance28
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice27
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia27
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza27
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness27
Viewing Development Through the Lens of Culture: Integrating Developmental and Cultural Psychology to Better Understand Cognition and Behavior27
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?26
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives26
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine26
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention26
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces25
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters25
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response25
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness24
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems24
Global Diversity of Authors, Editors, and Journal Ownership Across Subdisciplines of Psychology: Current State and Policy Implications23
Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning23
Metacognitive Feelings: A Predictive-Processing Perspective23
Measuring Racial Discrimination Remotely: A Contemporary Review of Unobtrusive Measures23
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health22
Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?22
Coping or Thriving? Reviewing Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Societal Factors Associated With Well-Being in Singlehood From a Within-Group Perspective21
Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes21
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication21
Outside the “Cultural Binary”: Understanding Why Latin American Collectivist Societies Foster Independent Selves21
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence21
A Behavioral-Science Framework for Understanding College Campus Sexual Assault20
Destigmatizing Borderline Personality Disorder: A Call to Action for Psychological Science20
Health Communication and Behavioral Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic20
White Parents’ Socialization of Racial Attitudes: A Commentary on Scott et al. (2020)20
The Logic of Microaggressions Assumes a Racist Society20
Beyond Statistical Ritual: Theory in Psychological Science20
Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise20
Another Attempt to Move Beyond the Cross-Sectional U Shape of Happiness: A Reply19
Values in Psychometrics19
The Costs of Polarizing a Pandemic: Antecedents, Consequences, and Lessons19
Reexamining Social Media and Socioemotional Well-Being Among Adolescents Through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Theoretical Review and Directions for Future Research19
Toward an Integrative Approach to the Study of Positive-Affect-Related Aggression19
Accelerating Psychological Science With Metastudies: A Demonstration Using the Risky-Choice Framing Effect19
Diversity for Truth: Reply to Jussim, Stanovich, and Stroebe18
Editorial: Perspectives on Psychological Science—A Key Journal to Foster the Quality of Research18
Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does It Operate?18
Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy18
Racial and Language Microaggressions in the School Ecology18
Epistemic Oppression, Construct Validity, and Scientific Rigor: Commentary on Woo et al. (2022)18
Toward a New Science of Psychedelic Social Psychology: The Effects of MDMA (Ecstasy) on Social Connection17
Rule-ish Patterns in the Psychology of Norms17
Toward Understanding of the Social Hysteresis: Insights From Agent-Based Modeling17
Individual-Specific Animated Profiles of Mental Health17
A Balancing Act: Response to Frankfurt and Coady (2021)17
Clarifying Eudaimonia and Psychological Functioning to Complement Evaluative and Experiential Well-Being: Why Basic Psychological Needs Should Be Measured in National Accounts of Well-Being16
Multiple Memory Subsystems: Reconsidering Memory in the Mind and Brain16
Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale16
Building Human-Like Artificial Agents: A General Cognitive Algorithm for Emulating Human Decision-Making in Dynamic Environments16
A Case for Translation From the Clinic to the Laboratory15
The Rise, Demise, and Reprise of the Increasingly Protracted APA Journal Article?15
New Forms of Collaboration Between the Social and Natural Sciences Could Become Necessary for Understanding Rapid Collective Transitions in Social Systems15
Incomparability and Incommensurability in Choice: No Common Currency of Value?15
Lay Misperceptions of Culture as “Biological” and Suggestions for Reducing Them15
The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control15
A Strange Kind of Wave: Response to Payne, Vuletich, and Lundberg (2022)15
Nudgeability: Mapping Conditions of Susceptibility to Nudge Influence15
A Challenge to Orthodoxy in Psychology: Thomas Sowell and Social Justice14
Do COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Backfire? The Effects of Mandates, Vaccination Passports, and Financial Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination14
The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds14
Person Perception, Meet People Perception: Exploring the Social Vision of Groups14
Moral Judgment as Categorization (MJAC)14
Reference-Point Theory: An Account of Individual Differences in Risk Preferences14
Reframing Single- and Dual-Process Theories as Cognitive Models: Commentary on De Neys (2021)13
Good Theories in Need of Better Data: Combining Clinical and Social Psychological Approaches to Study the Mechanisms Linking Relationships and Health13
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science and Ideology13
Advancing the Study of Resilience to Daily Stressors13
Racial Incivility in Everyday Life: A Conceptual Framework for Linking Process, Person, and Context13
A Role for Uncertainty in the Neural Distinction Between Social and Nonsocial Thought13
Blinding to Circumvent Human Biases: Deliberate Ignorance in Humans, Institutions, and Machines13
Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic12
How Do Pandemic Policies and Communication Shape Intergroup Outcomes? Initial Findings From the COVID-19 Pandemic and Open Questions for Research and Policy12
Happiness Maximization Is a WEIRD Way of Living12
Understanding Sensory-Motor Disorders in Autism Spectrum Disorders by Extending Hebbian Theory: Formation of a Rigid-Autonomous Phase Sequence12
Small Effects: The Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science12
How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact12
Managing Fear During Pandemics: Risks and Opportunities12
Experimental Therapeutics: Opportunities and Challenges Stemming From the National Institute of Mental Health Workshop on Novel Target Discovery and Psychosocial Intervention Development12
Why Warmth Matters More Than Competence: A New Evolutionary Approach12
Focusing the Lens to See More Clearly: Overcoming Definitional Challenges and Identifying New Directions in Racial Microaggressions Research12
Individual Differences in Structure Building: Impacts on Comprehension and Learning, Theoretical Underpinnings, and Support for Less Able Structure Builders12
Individuals, Collectives, and Individuals in Collectives: The Ineliminable Role of Dependence12
Intervention Tournaments: An Overview of Concept, Design, and Implementation11
Rethinking Norm Psychology11
Shifting the Level of Selection in Science11
Assessing Autism in Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Youths: Interdisciplinary Teams, COVID Considerations, and Future Directions11
Psychological AI: Designing Algorithms Informed by Human Psychology11
The Spread of Beliefs in Partially Modularized Communities11
The Sins of the Parents Are to Be Laid Upon the Children: Biased Humans, Biased Data, Biased Models11
How Genetic-Conflict Theory Can Inform Studies of Human Nature11
Kinds of Replication: Examining the Meanings of “Conceptual Replication” and “Direct Replication”11
Snapping Out of Autopilot: Overriding Habits in Real Time and the Role of Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex11
Toward a Psychology of Ideas Rather Than Demographics: Commentary on Hommel (2024)11
Improving Scale Equivalence by Increasing Access to Scale-Specific Information10
Control Yourself: Broad Implications of Narrowed Attention10
A Network Approach to Investigate the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Beliefs: Advances and Applications of the BENDING Model10
How Social Media Algorithms Shape Offline Civic Participation: A Framework of Social-Psychological Processes10
Human Crowds as Social Networks: Collective Dynamics of Consensus and Polarization10
The State of Cognitive Control in Language Processing10
Gadgets Meet Artefacts: Aligning Heyes’s Cultural Evolutionary Account With the Archaeological Record9
Normative Processing Needs Multiple Levels of Explanation: From Algorithm to Implementation9
Suspicion About Suspicion Probes: Ways Forward9
Are Small Effects the Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science? A Reply to Götz et al. (2022)9
Capacity for Social Norms, or Statistical and Prescriptive Hybrid?9
The Psychological Science of Pandemics: Contributions to and Recommendations for Social, Educational, and Health Policy9
Autistic-Like Traits and Positive Schizotypy as Diametric Specializations of the Predictive Mind9
Toward Precision Characterization and Treatment of Psychopathology: A Path Forward and Integrative Framework of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology and the Research Domain Criteria9
Applying the Evidence We Have: Support for Having Race Conversations in White U.S. Families9
(Why) Is Misinformation a Problem?9
Dismissing “Don’t Know” Responses to Perceived Risk Survey Items Threatens the Validity of Theoretical and Empirical Behavior-Change Research9
Wrecked by Success? Not to Worry9
A New Chapter for Perspectives on Psychological Science9
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