Perspectives on Psychological Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 10. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”292
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations230
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding111
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities110
Psychological Selfishness101
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience99
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect94
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment89
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon88
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes86
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge83
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations82
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children82
Significance-Quest Theory80
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual78
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”74
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification73
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science71
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications71
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review66
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors65
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment65
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology61
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science59
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations58
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions57
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means57
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace54
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?54
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach53
Toward a Psychology of Consent53
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity50
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases48
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change47
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond47
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls46
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings45
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures44
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution42
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology41
Critique of the Bias-of-Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model: Reply to Connor and Evers (2020)41
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It40
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories40
Corrigendum: Mystical and Other Alterations in Sense of Self: An Expanded Framework for Studying Nonordinary Experiences39
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology39
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition38
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict38
Is Open Science Neoliberal?38
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward37
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence37
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)37
The Power of Odor Persuasion: The Incorporation of Olfactory Cues in Virtual Environments for Personalized Relaxation36
How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective36
Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption35
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk34
How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the United States34
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors33
The Myth of Normal Reading32
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive31
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes31
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms31
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness31
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward30
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail30
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization30
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors30
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research30
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions29
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment29
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms29
Racial Microaggressions: Critical Questions, State of the Science, and New Directions29
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?27
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives27
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia27
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza26
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice26
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters25
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention25
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence24
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 Implications24
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine24
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness24
Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning23
Outside the “Cultural Binary”: Understanding Why Latin American Collectivist Societies Foster Independent Selves23
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health23
Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes23
Metacognitive Feelings: A Predictive-Processing Perspective22
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces22
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication22
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response22
Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?22
Measuring Racial Discrimination Remotely: A Contemporary Review of Unobtrusive Measures22
Health Communication and Behavioral Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic21
Coping or Thriving? Reviewing Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Societal Factors Associated With Well-Being in Singlehood From a Within-Group Perspective21
Values in Psychometrics21
Destigmatizing Borderline Personality Disorder: A Call to Action for Psychological Science20
The Logic of Microaggressions Assumes a Racist Society20
White Parents’ Socialization of Racial Attitudes: A Commentary on Scott et al. (2020)20
Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise20
Accelerating Psychological Science With Metastudies: A Demonstration Using the Risky-Choice Framing Effect20
Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy19
Racial and Language Microaggressions in the School Ecology19
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
A Behavioral-Science Framework for Understanding College Campus Sexual Assault19
Toward an Integrative Approach to the Study of Positive-Affect-Related Aggression19
Diversity for Truth: Reply to Jussim, Stanovich, and Stroebe19
Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does It Operate?19
Epistemic Oppression, Construct Validity, and Scientific Rigor: Commentary on Woo et al. (2022)19
The Costs of Polarizing a Pandemic: Antecedents, Consequences, and Lessons19
Lay Misperceptions of Culture as “Biological” and Suggestions for Reducing Them18
Nudgeability: Mapping Conditions of Susceptibility to Nudge Influence18
Rule-ish Patterns in the Psychology of Norms18
Toward Understanding of the Social Hysteresis: Insights From Agent-Based Modeling18
Editorial: Perspectives on Psychological Science—A Key Journal to Foster the Quality of Research18
A Balancing Act: Response to Frankfurt and Coady (2021)18
Individual-Specific Animated Profiles of Mental Health18
Building Human-Like Artificial Agents: A General Cognitive Algorithm for Emulating Human Decision-Making in Dynamic Environments18
New Forms of Collaboration Between the Social and Natural Sciences Could Become Necessary for Understanding Rapid Collective Transitions in Social Systems17
Multiple Memory Subsystems: Reconsidering Memory in the Mind and Brain17
Clarifying Eudaimonia and Psychological Functioning to Complement Evaluative and Experiential Well-Being: Why Basic Psychological Needs Should Be Measured in National Accounts of Well-Being17
Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale17
Toward a New Science of Psychedelic Social Psychology: The Effects of MDMA (Ecstasy) on Social Connection17
The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control16
A Strange Kind of Wave: Response to Payne, Vuletich, and Lundberg (2022)16
Person Perception, Meet People Perception: Exploring the Social Vision of Groups16
The Rise, Demise, and Reprise of the Increasingly Protracted APA Journal Article?16
A Case for Translation From the Clinic to the Laboratory16
The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds15
Incomparability and Incommensurability in Choice: No Common Currency of Value?15
A Challenge to Orthodoxy in Psychology: Thomas Sowell and Social Justice15
Reference-Point Theory: An Account of Individual Differences in Risk Preferences15
Racial Incivility in Everyday Life: A Conceptual Framework for Linking Process, Person, and Context14
Good Theories in Need of Better Data: Combining Clinical and Social Psychological Approaches to Study the Mechanisms Linking Relationships and Health14
Happiness Maximization Is a WEIRD Way of Living14
Individual Differences in Structure Building: Impacts on Comprehension and Learning, Theoretical Underpinnings, and Support for Less Able Structure Builders14
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science and Ideology14
Advancing the Study of Resilience to Daily Stressors14
Do COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Backfire? The Effects of Mandates, Vaccination Passports, and Financial Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination14
Blinding to Circumvent Human Biases: Deliberate Ignorance in Humans, Institutions, and Machines14
Experimental Therapeutics: Opportunities and Challenges Stemming From the National Institute of Mental Health Workshop on Novel Target Discovery and Psychosocial Intervention Development13
Understanding Sensory-Motor Disorders in Autism Spectrum Disorders by Extending Hebbian Theory: Formation of a Rigid-Autonomous Phase Sequence13
Managing Fear During Pandemics: Risks and Opportunities13
A Role for Uncertainty in the Neural Distinction Between Social and Nonsocial Thought13
Why Warmth Matters More Than Competence: A New Evolutionary Approach13
Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic13
Individuals, Collectives, and Individuals in Collectives: The Ineliminable Role of Dependence13
How Do Pandemic Policies and Communication Shape Intergroup Outcomes? Initial Findings From the COVID-19 Pandemic and Open Questions for Research and Policy12
Intervention Tournaments: An Overview of Concept, Design, and Implementation12
The Spread of Beliefs in Partially Modularized Communities12
Snapping Out of Autopilot: Overriding Habits in Real Time and the Role of Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex12
How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact12
Kinds of Replication: Examining the Meanings of “Conceptual Replication” and “Direct Replication”12
Focusing the Lens to See More Clearly: Overcoming Definitional Challenges and Identifying New Directions in Racial Microaggressions Research12
Psychological AI: Designing Algorithms Informed by Human Psychology12
Rethinking Norm Psychology12
Toward a Psychology of Ideas Rather Than Demographics: Commentary on Hommel (2024)11
How Social Media Algorithms Shape Offline Civic Participation: A Framework of Social-Psychological Processes11
The Psychological Science of Pandemics: Contributions to and Recommendations for Social, Educational, and Health Policy11
How Genetic-Conflict Theory Can Inform Studies of Human Nature11
Shifting the Level of Selection in Science11
A Network Approach to Investigate the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Beliefs: Advances and Applications of the BENDING Model11
The State of Cognitive Control in Language Processing11
Control Yourself: Broad Implications of Narrowed Attention11
Human Crowds as Social Networks: Collective Dynamics of Consensus and Polarization11
Improving Scale Equivalence by Increasing Access to Scale-Specific Information11
Are Small Effects the Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science? A Reply to Götz et al. (2022)10
(Why) Is Misinformation a Problem?10
Capacity for Social Norms, or Statistical and Prescriptive Hybrid?10
Normative Processing Needs Multiple Levels of Explanation: From Algorithm to Implementation10
Applying the Evidence We Have: Support for Having Race Conversations in White U.S. Families10
Suspicion About Suspicion Probes: Ways Forward10
Gadgets Meet Artefacts: Aligning Heyes’s Cultural Evolutionary Account With the Archaeological Record10
The Sins of the Parents Are to Be Laid Upon the Children: Biased Humans, Biased Data, Biased Models10
Toward Precision Characterization and Treatment of Psychopathology: A Path Forward and Integrative Framework of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology and the Research Domain Criteria10
Autistic-Like Traits and Positive Schizotypy as Diametric Specializations of the Predictive Mind10
Normative Expectations in Human and Nonhuman Animals10
Dismissing “Don’t Know” Responses to Perceived Risk Survey Items Threatens the Validity of Theoretical and Empirical Behavior-Change Research10
Assessing Autism in Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Youths: Interdisciplinary Teams, COVID Considerations, and Future Directions10
A New Chapter for Perspectives on Psychological Science10
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