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Papers

(The median citation count of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 11. 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
Toward a Psychology of Consent	64
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	64
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach	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
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)	40
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict	39
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward	38
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence	37
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories	36
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition	36
How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective	36
Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption	33
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk	33
Asking Better Questions: Strategic Questioning as a Psychologically Wise Intervention	33
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors	33
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms	32
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms	31
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization	31
The Myth of Normal Reading	30
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail	30
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes	30
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness	30
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward	30
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research	29
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions	28
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive	28
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors	28
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment	27
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza	27
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia	26
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine	26
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems	26
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?	26
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives	26
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters	26
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention	26
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice	26
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health	25

Measuring Racial Discrimination Remotely: A Contemporary Review of Unobtrusive Measures	25
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence	25
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness	25
Global Diversity of Authors, Editors, and Journal Ownership Across Subdisciplines of Psychology: Current State and Policy Implications	25
Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning	25
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces	25
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response	24
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication	24
Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes	24
Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?	24
Outside the “Cultural Binary”: Understanding Why Latin American Collectivist Societies Foster Independent Selves	24
Metacognitive Feelings: A Predictive-Processing Perspective	24
Coping or Thriving? Reviewing Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Societal Factors Associated With Well-Being in Singlehood From a Within-Group Perspective	24
Accelerating Psychological Science With Metastudies: A Demonstration Using the Risky-Choice Framing Effect	23
Health Communication and Behavioral Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic	23
Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise	23
Destigmatizing Borderline Personality Disorder: A Call to Action for Psychological Science	23
The Costs of Polarizing a Pandemic: Antecedents, Consequences, and Lessons	22
Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy	22
Toward an Integrative Approach to the Study of Positive-Affect-Related Aggression	22
Editorial: Perspectives on Psychological Science—A Key Journal to Foster the Quality of Research	21
Rule-ish Patterns in the Psychology of Norms	21
Diversity for Truth: Reply to Jussim, Stanovich, and Stroebe	21
Lay Misperceptions of Culture as “Biological” and Suggestions for Reducing Them	20
Epistemic Oppression, Construct Validity, and Scientific Rigor: Commentary on Woo et al. (2022)	20
Individual-Specific Animated Profiles of Mental Health	20
Toward Understanding of the Social Hysteresis: Insights From Agent-Based Modeling	20
Multiple Memory Subsystems: Reconsidering Memory in the Mind and Brain	20
Building Human-Like Artificial Agents: A General Cognitive Algorithm for Emulating Human Decision-Making in Dynamic Environments	19
A Strange Kind of Wave: Response to Payne, Vuletich, and Lundberg (2022)	19
Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale	19
Clarifying Eudaimonia and Psychological Functioning to Complement Evaluative and Experiential Well-Being: Why Basic Psychological Needs Should Be Measured in National Accounts of Well-Being	19
Toward a New Science of Psychedelic Social Psychology: The Effects of MDMA (Ecstasy) on Social Connection	19
The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds	18
New Forms of Collaboration Between the Social and Natural Sciences Could Become Necessary for Understanding Rapid Collective Transitions in Social Systems	18
The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control	18
A Case for Translation From the Clinic to the Laboratory	18
Incomparability and Incommensurability in Choice: No Common Currency of Value?	18
A Challenge to Orthodoxy in Psychology: Thomas Sowell and Social Justice	17
Reference-Point Theory: An Account of Individual Differences in Risk Preferences	17
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science and Ideology	17
Blinding to Circumvent Human Biases: Deliberate Ignorance in Humans, Institutions, and Machines	17
Happiness Maximization Is a WEIRD Way of Living	17
Do COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Backfire? The Effects of Mandates, Vaccination Passports, and Financial Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination	17
Advancing the Study of Resilience to Daily Stressors	16
A Role for Uncertainty in the Neural Distinction Between Social and Nonsocial Thought	16
Understanding Sensory-Motor Disorders in Autism Spectrum Disorders by Extending Hebbian Theory: Formation of a Rigid-Autonomous Phase Sequence	16
Individuals, Collectives, and Individuals in Collectives: The Ineliminable Role of Dependence	15
Experimental Therapeutics: Opportunities and Challenges Stemming From the National Institute of Mental Health Workshop on Novel Target Discovery and Psychosocial Intervention Development	15
Why Warmth Matters More Than Competence: A New Evolutionary Approach	15
Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic	15
Managing Fear During Pandemics: Risks and Opportunities	14
Psychological AI: Designing Algorithms Informed by Human Psychology	14
How Do Pandemic Policies and Communication Shape Intergroup Outcomes? Initial Findings From the COVID-19 Pandemic and Open Questions for Research and Policy	14
Intervention Tournaments: An Overview of Concept, Design, and Implementation	14
Rethinking Norm Psychology	14
How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact	14
Snapping Out of Autopilot: Overriding Habits in Real Time and the Role of Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex	14
The Spread of Beliefs in Partially Modularized Communities	13
Kinds of Replication: Examining the Meanings of “Conceptual Replication” and “Direct Replication”	13
The State of Cognitive Control in Language Processing	13
The Psychological Science of Pandemics: Contributions to and Recommendations for Social, Educational, and Health Policy	13
How Genetic-Conflict Theory Can Inform Studies of Human Nature	13
Assessing Autism in Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Youths: Interdisciplinary Teams, COVID Considerations, and Future Directions	12
The Sins of the Parents Are to Be Laid Upon the Children: Biased Humans, Biased Data, Biased Models	12
Improving Scale Equivalence by Increasing Access to Scale-Specific Information	12
A Network Approach to Investigate the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Beliefs: Advances and Applications of the BENDING Model	12
How Social Media Algorithms Shape Offline Civic Participation: A Framework of Social-Psychological Processes	12
Shifting the Level of Selection in Science	12
(Why) Is Misinformation a Problem?	12
Control Yourself: Broad Implications of Narrowed Attention	12
Toward a Psychology of Ideas Rather Than Demographics: Commentary on Hommel (2024)	12
Human Crowds as Social Networks: Collective Dynamics of Consensus and Polarization	11
Gadgets Meet Artefacts: Aligning Heyes’s Cultural Evolutionary Account With the Archaeological Record	11
Are Small Effects the Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science? A Reply to Götz et al. (2022)	11
Capacity for Social Norms, or Statistical and Prescriptive Hybrid?	11
Toward Precision Characterization and Treatment of Psychopathology: A Path Forward and Integrative Framework of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology and the Research Domain Criteria	11
Normative Processing Needs Multiple Levels of Explanation: From Algorithm to Implementation	11
A New Chapter for Perspectives on Psychological Science	11
Suspicion About Suspicion Probes: Ways Forward	11