OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 21. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	279
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	262
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	220
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	128
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	104
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities	94
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	88
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	88
Psychological Selfishness	84
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge	83
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	81
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations	81
Significance-Quest Theory	80
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	77
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	75
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	75
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	74
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	74
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	73
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	73
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	69
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	67
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change	65
The Number of Senders and Total Judgments Matter More Than Sample Size in Deception-Detection Experiments	65
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	64

Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	63
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	59
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	59
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	56
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	55
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	51
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	50
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	50
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	49
Toward a Psychology of Consent	49
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	47
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution	46
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach	46
Critique of the Bias-of-Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model: Reply to Connor and Evers (2020)	45
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	43
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It	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?	40
Corrigendum: Mystical and Other Alterations in Sense of Self: An Expanded Framework for Studying Nonordinary Experiences	40
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	39
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
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition	38
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories	37
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)	37
How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective	36
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors	36
Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption	36
The Power of Odor Persuasion: The Incorporation of Olfactory Cues in Virtual Environments for Personalized Relaxation	36
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence	36
How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the United States	35
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk	34
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive	34
The Myth of Normal Reading	34
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions	32
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms	32
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors	31
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment	31
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes	31
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail	30
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research	30
Racial Microaggressions: Critical Questions, State of the Science, and New Directions	30
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization	30
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms	29
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward	29
What Makes a Champion? Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance	28
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice	27
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia	27
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza	27
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness	27

Viewing Development Through the Lens of Culture: Integrating Developmental and Cultural Psychology to Better Understand Cognition and Behavior	27
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?	26
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives	26
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine	26
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention	26
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces	25
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters	25
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response	25
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness	24
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems	24
Global Diversity of Authors, Editors, and Journal Ownership Across Subdisciplines of Psychology: Current State and Policy Implications	23
Metacognitive Feelings: A Predictive-Processing Perspective	23
Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning	23
Measuring Racial Discrimination Remotely: A Contemporary Review of Unobtrusive Measures	23
Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?	22
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health	22
Outside the “Cultural Binary”: Understanding Why Latin American Collectivist Societies Foster Independent Selves	21
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence	21
Coping or Thriving? Reviewing Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Societal Factors Associated With Well-Being in Singlehood From a Within-Group Perspective	21
Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes	21
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication	21