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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”304
Psychological Selfishness142
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children118
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience117
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes110
Significance-Quest Theory95
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities94
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations94
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect90
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon87
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding87
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment86
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment85
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”84
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications81
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review80
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology79
Why It May Be Useful to Integrate the Stereotype Content Model and the Interpersonal Perspective79
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual73
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification70
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors66
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science60
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls60
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions58
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond58
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations58
Toward a Psychology of Consent58
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change50
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity49
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach47
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science45
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means44
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings44
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace44
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?42
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases42
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution41
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures40
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 Etiology40
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It38
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)37
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict37
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology37
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 Effervescence36
Is Open Science Neoliberal?34
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories34
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition34
Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption33
How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective33
The Power of Odor Persuasion: The Incorporation of Olfactory Cues in Virtual Environments for Personalized Relaxation33
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors33
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk32
Asking Better Questions: Strategic Questioning as a Psychologically Wise Intervention32
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms31
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization30
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness30
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research29
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive29
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors29
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions28
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail28
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward28
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms28
The Myth of Normal Reading27
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes27
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment27
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine26
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia26
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention25
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters25
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives25
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza24
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?24
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice24
Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?23
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response23
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness23
Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes23
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems23
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication23
Measuring Racial Discrimination Remotely: A Contemporary Review of Unobtrusive Measures22
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces22
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence22
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health22
Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning22
Coping or Thriving? Reviewing Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Societal Factors Associated With Well-Being in Singlehood From a Within-Group Perspective22
Global Diversity of Authors, Editors, and Journal Ownership Across Subdisciplines of Psychology: Current State and Policy Implications22
Accelerating Psychological Science With Metastudies: A Demonstration Using the Risky-Choice Framing Effect21
A Behavioral-Science Framework for Understanding College Campus Sexual Assault21
Outside the “Cultural Binary”: Understanding Why Latin American Collectivist Societies Foster Independent Selves21
Destigmatizing Borderline Personality Disorder: A Call to Action for Psychological Science21
White Parents’ Socialization of Racial Attitudes: A Commentary on Scott et al. (2020)21
Metacognitive Feelings: A Predictive-Processing Perspective21
Reexamining Social Media and Socioemotional Well-Being Among Adolescents Through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Theoretical Review and Directions for Future Research21
Health Communication and Behavioral Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic21
Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise21
Values in Psychometrics20
Toward an Integrative Approach to the Study of Positive-Affect-Related Aggression20
Diversity for Truth: Reply to Jussim, Stanovich, and Stroebe19
Editorial: Perspectives on Psychological Science—A Key Journal to Foster the Quality of Research19
Epistemic Oppression, Construct Validity, and Scientific Rigor: Commentary on Woo et al. (2022)19
Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy19
Toward Understanding of the Social Hysteresis: Insights From Agent-Based Modeling19
Rule-ish Patterns in the Psychology of Norms19
The Costs of Polarizing a Pandemic: Antecedents, Consequences, and Lessons19
Lay Misperceptions of Culture as “Biological” and Suggestions for Reducing Them18
Toward a New Science of Psychedelic Social Psychology: The Effects of MDMA (Ecstasy) on Social Connection18
Multiple Memory Subsystems: Reconsidering Memory in the Mind and Brain18
Individual-Specific Animated Profiles of Mental Health18
A Case for Translation From the Clinic to the Laboratory17
Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale17
New Forms of Collaboration Between the Social and Natural Sciences Could Become Necessary for Understanding Rapid Collective Transitions in Social Systems17
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
A Strange Kind of Wave: Response to Payne, Vuletich, and Lundberg (2022)17
Building Human-Like Artificial Agents: A General Cognitive Algorithm for Emulating Human Decision-Making in Dynamic Environments17
Incomparability and Incommensurability in Choice: No Common Currency of Value?16
The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds16
The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control16
A Challenge to Orthodoxy in Psychology: Thomas Sowell and Social Justice16
Person Perception, Meet People Perception: Exploring the Social Vision of Groups16
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science and Ideology16
Good Theories in Need of Better Data: Combining Clinical and Social Psychological Approaches to Study the Mechanisms Linking Relationships and Health15
Happiness Maximization Is a WEIRD Way of Living15
Do COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Backfire? The Effects of Mandates, Vaccination Passports, and Financial Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination15
A Role for Uncertainty in the Neural Distinction Between Social and Nonsocial Thought15
Reference-Point Theory: An Account of Individual Differences in Risk Preferences15
Advancing the Study of Resilience to Daily Stressors14
Understanding Sensory-Motor Disorders in Autism Spectrum Disorders by Extending Hebbian Theory: Formation of a Rigid-Autonomous Phase Sequence14
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 Development14
Snapping Out of Autopilot: Overriding Habits in Real Time and the Role of Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex13
Managing Fear During Pandemics: Risks and Opportunities13
How Do Pandemic Policies and Communication Shape Intergroup Outcomes? Initial Findings From the COVID-19 Pandemic and Open Questions for Research and Policy13
Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic13
Psychological AI: Designing Algorithms Informed by Human Psychology13
Why Warmth Matters More Than Competence: A New Evolutionary Approach13
Individuals, Collectives, and Individuals in Collectives: The Ineliminable Role of Dependence13
Improving Scale Equivalence by Increasing Access to Scale-Specific Information12
How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact12
The Spread of Beliefs in Partially Modularized Communities12
How Genetic-Conflict Theory Can Inform Studies of Human Nature12
The Psychological Science of Pandemics: Contributions to and Recommendations for Social, Educational, and Health Policy12
Intervention Tournaments: An Overview of Concept, Design, and Implementation12
How Social Media Algorithms Shape Offline Civic Participation: A Framework of Social-Psychological Processes12
Assessing Autism in Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Youths: Interdisciplinary Teams, COVID Considerations, and Future Directions12
Rethinking Norm Psychology12
Kinds of Replication: Examining the Meanings of “Conceptual Replication” and “Direct Replication”12
Shifting the Level of Selection in Science11
Dismissing “Don’t Know” Responses to Perceived Risk Survey Items Threatens the Validity of Theoretical and Empirical Behavior-Change Research11
Toward a Psychology of Ideas Rather Than Demographics: Commentary on Hommel (2024)11
The Sins of the Parents Are to Be Laid Upon the Children: Biased Humans, Biased Data, Biased Models11
Control Yourself: Broad Implications of Narrowed Attention11
The State of Cognitive Control in Language Processing11
A Network Approach to Investigate the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Beliefs: Advances and Applications of the BENDING Model11
Human Crowds as Social Networks: Collective Dynamics of Consensus and Polarization11
(Why) Is Misinformation a Problem?10
Autistic-Like Traits and Positive Schizotypy as Diametric Specializations of the Predictive Mind10
Are Small Effects the Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science? A Reply to Götz et al. (2022)10
Normative Expectations in Human and Nonhuman Animals10
Gadgets Meet Artefacts: Aligning Heyes’s Cultural Evolutionary Account With the Archaeological Record10
Capacity for Social Norms, or Statistical and Prescriptive Hybrid?10
Suspicion About Suspicion Probes: Ways Forward10
Toward Precision Characterization and Treatment of Psychopathology: A Path Forward and Integrative Framework of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology and the Research Domain Criteria10
Normative Processing Needs Multiple Levels of Explanation: From Algorithm to Implementation10
A New Chapter for Perspectives on Psychological Science10
Applying the Evidence We Have: Support for Having Race Conversations in White U.S. Families10
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