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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	196
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	155
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	152
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	133
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	122
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	116
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	111
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	111
Socializing While Alone: Loss of Impact and Engagement When Interacting Remotely via Technology	110
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	110
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	105
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	102
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	102
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	98
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	94
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	90
People’s Responses to Nuclear Weapons: Mapping Post-Cold War Research	87
Why It May Be Useful to Integrate the Stereotype Content Model and the Interpersonal Perspective	76
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	76
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	71
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	68
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	66
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	64
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	64
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	62

Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	56
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	53
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	53
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	50
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	50
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	50
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	48
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	47
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
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It	46
Is Open Science Neoliberal?	45
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition	45
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)	44
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories	42
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence	42
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward	42
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict	39
How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective	39
Asking Better Questions: Strategic Questioning as a Psychologically Wise Intervention	39
Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption	38
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors	37
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk	36
Social Psychology’s Empty-Self Metaphor and the Replication Crisis	35
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms	35
The Myth of Normal Reading	35
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization	35
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms	35
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail	34
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors	34
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions	34
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes	34
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment	33
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research	33
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia	32
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward	32
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine	31
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?	31
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza	31
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice	31
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention	31
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives	31
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems	30
Global Diversity of Authors, Editors, and Journal Ownership Across Subdisciplines of Psychology: Current State and Policy Implications	30
Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?	30
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces	30
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters	30
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence	29
Metacognitive Feelings: A Predictive-Processing Perspective	29
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response	28

Coping or Thriving? Reviewing Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Societal Factors Associated With Well-Being in Singlehood From a Within-Group Perspective	28
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness	28
Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning	28
Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes	28
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication	28
Destigmatizing Borderline Personality Disorder: A Call to Action for Psychological Science	27
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health	27
Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise	27
Health Communication and Behavioral Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic	27
Accelerating Psychological Science With Metastudies: A Demonstration Using the Risky-Choice Framing Effect	26
Presence Is Reality: Rethinking Virtual and Real-World Consciousness	26
Reframing the Performance and Ethics of Empathic AI: Wisdom of the Crowd and Placebos	25
Rule-ish Patterns in the Psychology of Norms	25
The Costs of Polarizing a Pandemic: Antecedents, Consequences, and Lessons	25
Toward an Integrative Approach to the Study of Positive-Affect-Related Aggression	25
Diversity for Truth: Reply to Jussim, Stanovich, and Stroebe	24
Sliding Into Silence? We Are Speaking 300 Daily Words Fewer Every Year	24
From Voice to Self: An Integrative Framework on Self-Voice Processing	24
Epistemic Oppression, Construct Validity, and Scientific Rigor: Commentary on Woo et al. (2022)	24
Individual-Specific Animated Profiles of Mental Health	24
Toward Understanding of the Social Hysteresis: Insights From Agent-Based Modeling	24
Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy	24
Toward a New Science of Psychedelic Social Psychology: The Effects of MDMA (Ecstasy) on Social Connection	23
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	23
Lay Misperceptions of Culture as “Biological” and Suggestions for Reducing Them	23
Building Human-Like Artificial Agents: A General Cognitive Algorithm for Emulating Human Decision-Making in Dynamic Environments	23
Multiple Memory Subsystems: Reconsidering Memory in the Mind and Brain	23
Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale	23
New Forms of Collaboration Between the Social and Natural Sciences Could Become Necessary for Understanding Rapid Collective Transitions in Social Systems	22
The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control	21
A Challenge to Orthodoxy in Psychology: Thomas Sowell and Social Justice	20
The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds	20
A Role for Uncertainty in the Neural Distinction Between Social and Nonsocial Thought	20
Incomparability and Incommensurability in Choice: No Common Currency of Value?	20
Do COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Backfire? The Effects of Mandates, Vaccination Passports, and Financial Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination	19
Blinding to Circumvent Human Biases: Deliberate Ignorance in Humans, Institutions, and Machines	19
Reference-Point Theory: An Account of Individual Differences in Risk Preferences	19
Happiness Maximization Is a WEIRD Way of Living	18
Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic	18
Managing Fear During Pandemics: Risks and Opportunities	18
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science and Ideology	18
Advancing the Study of Resilience to Daily Stressors	18
Individuals, Collectives, and Individuals in Collectives: The Ineliminable Role of Dependence	18
Understanding Sensory-Motor Disorders in Autism Spectrum Disorders by Extending Hebbian Theory: Formation of a Rigid-Autonomous Phase Sequence	18
Experimental Therapeutics: Opportunities and Challenges Stemming From the National Institute of Mental Health Workshop on Novel Target Discovery and Psychosocial Intervention Development	18
Why Warmth Matters More Than Competence: A New Evolutionary Approach	17
Psychological AI: Designing Algorithms Informed by Human Psychology	17
How Do Pandemic Policies and Communication Shape Intergroup Outcomes? Initial Findings From the COVID-19 Pandemic and Open Questions for Research and Policy	17
Rethinking Norm Psychology	16
Intervention Tournaments: An Overview of Concept, Design, and Implementation	16
Snapping Out of Autopilot: Overriding Habits in Real Time and the Role of Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex	16
Toward a Psychology of Ideas Rather Than Demographics: Commentary on Hommel (2024)	15
The Spread of Beliefs in Partially Modularized Communities	15
How Genetic-Conflict Theory Can Inform Studies of Human Nature	15
How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact	15
The Psychological Science of Pandemics: Contributions to and Recommendations for Social, Educational, and Health Policy	15
Control Yourself: Broad Implications of Narrowed Attention	14
Assessing Autism in Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Youths: Interdisciplinary Teams, COVID Considerations, and Future Directions	14
(Why) Is Misinformation a Problem?	14
The Sins of the Parents Are to Be Laid Upon the Children: Biased Humans, Biased Data, Biased Models	14
Shifting the Level of Selection in Science	14
Human Crowds as Social Networks: Collective Dynamics of Consensus and Polarization	14
Gadgets Meet Artefacts: Aligning Heyes’s Cultural Evolutionary Account With the Archaeological Record	13
The State of Cognitive Control in Language Processing	13
Capacity for Social Norms, or Statistical and Prescriptive Hybrid?	13
A Network Approach to Investigate the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Beliefs: Advances and Applications of the BENDING Model	13
Improving Scale Equivalence by Increasing Access to Scale-Specific Information	13
How Social Media Algorithms Shape Offline Civic Participation: A Framework of Social-Psychological Processes	13
Normative Processing Needs Multiple Levels of Explanation: From Algorithm to Implementation	12
Suspicion About Suspicion Probes: Ways Forward	12
Are Small Effects the Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science? A Reply to Götz et al. (2022)	12
A New Chapter for Perspectives on Psychological Science	12
Putting Emotional Memories in Context: The Constructionist Model of Emotional Memory	11
Revisiting Hebb: The Mechanisms of Repetition Learning	11
Autistic-Like Traits and Positive Schizotypy as Diametric Specializations of the Predictive Mind	11