Perspectives on Psychological Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 8. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Racial Microaggressions: Critical Questions, State of the Science, and New Directions272
Psychological Selfishness249
The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control207
A Review of Multisite Replication Projects in Social Psychology: Is It Viable to Sustain Any Confidence in Social Psychology’s Knowledge Base?121
The Rise, Demise, and Reprise of the Increasingly Protracted APA Journal Article?99
Moral Judgment as Categorization (MJAC)83
The Effects of Editorial-Board Diversity on Race Scholars and Their Scholarship: A Field Experiment80
Neoliberalism and the Ideological Construction of Equity Beliefs79
Wrecked by Success? Not to Worry77
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations76
Improving Graduate-School Admissions by Expanding Rather Than Eliminating Predictors74
The View From a Social Constructivist Framework: Comparing Explicit Conversations About Mental States and Explicit Conversations About Norms73
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience72
Applying the Science of Habit Formation to Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Mental Illness71
A Strange Kind of Wave: Response to Payne, Vuletich, and Lundberg (2022)71
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail67
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”67
The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds67
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect66
Recommendations for Investigating the Cross-Category Effect Among Hispanic and Latino Populations65
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness64
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms61
“When” Versus “Whether” Gender/Sex Differences: Insights From Psychological Research on Negotiation, Risk-Taking, and Leadership60
Communities of Knowledge in Trouble59
Research-Problem Validity in Primary Research: Precision and Transparency in Characterizing Past Knowledge58
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization56
Normative Expectations in Human and Nonhuman Animals52
A Novel, Network-Based Approach to Assessing Romantic-Relationship Quality52
Polarization and the Psychology of Collectives51
“It’s Not in Your Head”: Gaslighting, ‘Splaining, Victim Blaming, and Other Harmful Reactions to Microaggressions49
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities49
Learning in Individual Organisms, Genes, Machines, and Groups: A New Way of Defining and Relating Learning in Different Systems46
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions45
New Forms of Collaboration Between the Social and Natural Sciences Could Become Necessary for Understanding Rapid Collective Transitions in Social Systems45
A New Way to Think About Internal and External Validity45
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge42
What Happens When Payments End? Fostering Long-Term Behavior Change With Financial Incentives42
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms40
The Sweet Spot: When Children’s Developing Abilities, Brains, and Knowledge Make Them Better Learners Than Adults39
Enriching Psychology by Zooming Out to General Mindsets and Practices in Natural Habitats39
What Is Digital Parenting? A Systematic Review of Past Measurement and Blueprint for the Future39
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive38
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes37
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children36
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research35
A Case for Translation From the Clinic to the Laboratory35
A Systematic Review and New Analyses of the Gender-Equality Paradox35
What Makes a Champion? Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance35
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon34
Person Perception, Meet People Perception: Exploring the Social Vision of Groups34
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward34
Leveraging the Strengths of Psychologists With Lived Experience of Psychopathology33
Significance-Quest Theory33
Well-Being Science for Teaching and the General Public33
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment32
Pushing Back Against the Microaggression Pushback in Academic Psychology: Reflections on a Concept-Creep Paradox31
Are All “Basic Emotions” Emotions? A Problem for the (Basic) Emotions Construct31
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes31
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors30
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations30
Are Regional Differences in Psychological Characteristics and Their Correlates Robust? Applying Spatial-Analysis Techniques to Examine Regional Variation in Personality29
A Description–Experience Framework of the Psychology of Risk29
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment29
A Signal Detection Approach to Understanding the Identification of Fake News28
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding27
The Myth of Normal Reading27
Improving the Generalizability of Behavioral Science by Using Reality Checks: A Tool for Assessing Heterogeneity in Participants’ Consumership of Study Stimuli26
Incomparability and Incommensurability in Choice: No Common Currency of Value?26
Past, Present, and Future of Human Chemical Communication Research26
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention25
Motivated Cognition in Cooperation25
Too Anecdotal to Be True? Mechanical Turk Is Not All Bots and Bad Data: Response to Webb and Tangney (2022)24
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual24
Individual Differences in Structure Building: Impacts on Comprehension and Learning, Theoretical Underpinnings, and Support for Less Able Structure Builders24
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification23
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia23
Struggling With Change: The Fragile Resilience of Collectives23
Viewing Development Through the Lens of Culture: Integrating Developmental and Cultural Psychology to Better Understand Cognition and Behavior23
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”23
Family Constellation Therapy in the Context of Esotericism22
Neither Human Normativity nor Human Groupness Are in Humanity’s Genes: A Commentary on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”22
Clinical Psychologists as T-Shaped Professionals22
Reference-Point Theory: An Account of Individual Differences in Risk Preferences21
Reconsidering the Minimum Voting Age in the United States21
Racial Incivility in Everyday Life: A Conceptual Framework for Linking Process, Person, and Context21
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?20
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives20
The Myth of the Need for Diversity Among Subjects in Theory-Testing Research: Comments on “Racial Inequality in Psychological Research” by Roberts et al. (2020)20
Is Normative Thinking Even a Gadget?19
A Social-Identity Theory of Information-Access Regulation (SITIAR): Understanding the Psychology of Sharing and Withholding19
Personality Change Through Arts Education: A Review and Call for Further Research19
Blinding to Circumvent Human Biases: Deliberate Ignorance in Humans, Institutions, and Machines19
Reckoning With Our Crisis: An Agenda for the Field of Social and Personality Psychology19
Toward a Harm-Based Account of Microaggressions19
Interpersonal Distance Theory of Autism and Its Implication for Cognitive Assessment, Therapy, and Daily Life19
A Challenge to Orthodoxy in Psychology: Thomas Sowell and Social Justice18
Good Theories in Need of Better Data: Combining Clinical and Social Psychological Approaches to Study the Mechanisms Linking Relationships and Health18
Adopted Utility Calculus: Origins of a Concept of Social Affiliation18
Bias, Fairness, and Validity in Graduate-School Admissions: A Psychometric Perspective17
Only Human: Mental-Health Difficulties Among Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology Faculty and Trainees17
How Do People Come to Judge What Is “Reasonable”? Effects of Legal and Sociological Systems on Human Psychology17
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment17
Do COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Backfire? The Effects of Mandates, Vaccination Passports, and Financial Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination17
A Role for Uncertainty in the Neural Distinction Between Social and Nonsocial Thought17
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science and Ideology16
Happiness Maximization Is a WEIRD Way of Living16
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology16
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science16
People Think That Social Media Platforms Do (but Should Not) Amplify Divisive Content16
Understanding the Magnitude of Psychological Differences Between Women and Men Requires Seeing the Forest and the Trees16
How Racism “Gets Under the Skin”: An Examination of the Physical- and Mental-Health Costs of Culturally Compelled Coping16
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors15
The Number of Senders and Total Judgments Matter More Than Sample Size in Deception-Detection Experiments15
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters15
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications14
When and Why Do People Accept Public-Policy Interventions? An Integrative Public-Policy-Acceptance Framework14
Advancing the Study of Resilience to Daily Stressors14
Three Challenges for AI-Assisted Decision-Making14
The Benefits, Barriers, and Risks of Big-Team Science14
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice14
Reframing Single- and Dual-Process Theories as Cognitive Models: Commentary on De Neys (2021)13
New Insights on Expert Opinion About Eyewitness Memory Research13
Judgments of Morality in War: Commentary on Watkins (2020)13
Why and When Beliefs Change13
Maintaining Transient Diversity Is a General Principle for Improving Collective Problem Solving13
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza12
Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning12
Diversity Is Diverse: Social Justice Reparations and Science12
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine12
Is Psychological Science Self-Correcting? Citations Before and After Successful and Failed Replications12
Cooperation in the Time of COVID12
Balancing the Freedom–Security Trade-Off During Crises and Disasters12
Is It the Judge, the Sender, or Just the Individual Message? Disentangling Person and Message Effects on Variation in Lie-Detection Judgments12
The WEIRD Microcosm of Microaggression Research: Toward a Cultural-Psychological Approach11
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions11
Focusing the Lens to See More Clearly: Overcoming Definitional Challenges and Identifying New Directions in Racial Microaggressions Research11
The Cooperation Databank: Machine-Readable Science Accelerates Research Synthesis11
The Field of Evolutionary Neuroscience: A Commentary on “Rethinking Norm Psychology” by Cecilia Heyes11
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces11
Contemplative Psychology: History, Key Assumptions, and Future Directions11
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace11
The “Golden Age” of Behavior Genetics?11
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity11
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings11
The Evolution of Developmental Theories Since Piaget: A Metaview10
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?10
Does Electrophysiological Maturation Shape Language Acquisition?10
Two Different Mismatches: Integrating the Developmental and the Evolutionary-Mismatch Hypothesis10
A Normative Framework for Assessing the Information Curation Algorithms of the Internet10
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems10
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response10
The Effect of Income and Wealth on Behavioral Strategies, Personality Traits, and Preferences10
Managing Fear During Pandemics: Risks and Opportunities10
Toward a Psychology of Consent10
Global Diversity of Authors, Editors, and Journal Ownership Across Subdisciplines of Psychology: Current State and Policy Implications9
Outside the “Cultural Binary”: Understanding Why Latin American Collectivist Societies Foster Independent Selves9
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach9
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness9
An Ethics and Social-Justice Approach to Collecting and Using Demographic Data for Psychological Researchers9
Metacognitive Feelings: A Predictive-Processing Perspective9
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond9
Measuring Racial Discrimination Remotely: A Contemporary Review of Unobtrusive Measures9
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science9
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence9
Experimental Therapeutics: Opportunities and Challenges Stemming From the National Institute of Mental Health Workshop on Novel Target Discovery and Psychosocial Intervention Development9
Affect Is at the Heart of Norm Psychology: Commentary on Heyes, “Rethinking Norm Psychology”9
Acknowledgment9
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health9
Flexible Cultural Learning Through Action Coordination8
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls8
The Role of Subjective Expectations for Exhaustion and Recovery: The Sample Case of Work and Leisure8
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations8
Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?8
Understanding Sensory-Motor Disorders in Autism Spectrum Disorders by Extending Hebbian Theory: Formation of a Rigid-Autonomous Phase Sequence8
Beyond Right and Wrong: Fostering Connection in Emotion Theory Debates8
Beyond Experiments8
Is Religion Special?8
Music in the Middle: A Culture-Cognition-Mediator Model of Musical Functionality8
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means8
Illusory Essences: A Bias Holding Back Theorizing in Psychological Science8
Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic8
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