OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 19. 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.)

Article	Citations
Racial Microaggressions: Critical Questions, State of the Science, and New Directions	272
Psychological Selfishness	249
The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control	207
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 Experiment	80
Neoliberalism and the Ideological Construction of Equity Beliefs	79
Wrecked by Success? Not to Worry	77
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	76
Improving Graduate-School Admissions by Expanding Rather Than Eliminating Predictors	74
The View From a Social Constructivist Framework: Comparing Explicit Conversations About Mental States and Explicit Conversations About Norms	73
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	72
A Strange Kind of Wave: Response to Payne, Vuletich, and Lundberg (2022)	71
Applying the Science of Habit Formation to Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Mental Illness	71
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	67
The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds	67
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail	67
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	66
Recommendations for Investigating the Cross-Category Effect Among Hispanic and Latino Populations	65
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness	64
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms	61
“When” Versus “Whether” Gender/Sex Differences: Insights From Psychological Research on Negotiation, Risk-Taking, and Leadership	60
Communities of Knowledge in Trouble	59
Research-Problem Validity in Primary Research: Precision and Transparency in Characterizing Past Knowledge	58

Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization	56
Normative Expectations in Human and Nonhuman Animals	52
A Novel, Network-Based Approach to Assessing Romantic-Relationship Quality	52
Polarization and the Psychology of Collectives	51
“It’s Not in Your Head”: Gaslighting, ‘Splaining, Victim Blaming, and Other Harmful Reactions to Microaggressions	49
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities	49
Learning in Individual Organisms, Genes, Machines, and Groups: A New Way of Defining and Relating Learning in Different Systems	46
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions	45
New Forms of Collaboration Between the Social and Natural Sciences Could Become Necessary for Understanding Rapid Collective Transitions in Social Systems	45
A New Way to Think About Internal and External Validity	45
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge	42
What Happens When Payments End? Fostering Long-Term Behavior Change With Financial Incentives	42
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms	40
Enriching Psychology by Zooming Out to General Mindsets and Practices in Natural Habitats	39
What Is Digital Parenting? A Systematic Review of Past Measurement and Blueprint for the Future	39
The Sweet Spot: When Children’s Developing Abilities, Brains, and Knowledge Make Them Better Learners Than Adults	39
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive	38
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes	37
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	36
A Case for Translation From the Clinic to the Laboratory	35
A Systematic Review and New Analyses of the Gender-Equality Paradox	35
What Makes a Champion? Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance	35
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research	35
Person Perception, Meet People Perception: Exploring the Social Vision of Groups	34
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward	34
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	34
Significance-Quest Theory	33
Well-Being Science for Teaching and the General Public	33
Leveraging the Strengths of Psychologists With Lived Experience of Psychopathology	33
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	32
Pushing Back Against the Microaggression Pushback in Academic Psychology: Reflections on a Concept-Creep Paradox	31
Are All “Basic Emotions” Emotions? A Problem for the (Basic) Emotions Construct	31
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	31
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors	30
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations	30
Are Regional Differences in Psychological Characteristics and Their Correlates Robust? Applying Spatial-Analysis Techniques to Examine Regional Variation in Personality	29
A Description–Experience Framework of the Psychology of Risk	29
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment	29
A Signal Detection Approach to Understanding the Identification of Fake News	28
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	27
The Myth of Normal Reading	27
Improving the Generalizability of Behavioral Science by Using Reality Checks: A Tool for Assessing Heterogeneity in Participants’ Consumership of Study Stimuli	26
Incomparability and Incommensurability in Choice: No Common Currency of Value?	26
Past, Present, and Future of Human Chemical Communication Research	26
Motivated Cognition in Cooperation	25
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention	25
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	24
Individual Differences in Structure Building: Impacts on Comprehension and Learning, Theoretical Underpinnings, and Support for Less Able Structure Builders	24
Too Anecdotal to Be True? Mechanical Turk Is Not All Bots and Bad Data: Response to Webb and Tangney (2022)	24
Struggling With Change: The Fragile Resilience of Collectives	23

Viewing Development Through the Lens of Culture: Integrating Developmental and Cultural Psychology to Better Understand Cognition and Behavior	23
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	23
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	23
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia	23
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 Professionals	22
Family Constellation Therapy in the Context of Esotericism	22
Reconsidering the Minimum Voting Age in the United States	21
Racial Incivility in Everyday Life: A Conceptual Framework for Linking Process, Person, and Context	21
Reference-Point Theory: An Account of Individual Differences in Risk Preferences	21
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?	20
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives	20
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
Toward a Harm-Based Account of Microaggressions	19
Interpersonal Distance Theory of Autism and Its Implication for Cognitive Assessment, Therapy, and Daily Life	19
Is Normative Thinking Even a Gadget?	19
A Social-Identity Theory of Information-Access Regulation (SITIAR): Understanding the Psychology of Sharing and Withholding	19
Personality Change Through Arts Education: A Review and Call for Further Research	19
Blinding to Circumvent Human Biases: Deliberate Ignorance in Humans, Institutions, and Machines	19
Reckoning With Our Crisis: An Agenda for the Field of Social and Personality Psychology	19