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Papers

(The TQCC of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 25. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	310
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	163
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	131
Psychological Selfishness	127
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	116
Significance-Quest Theory	108
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	101
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	100
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	97
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	96
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	96
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	95
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	94
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	87
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	85
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	84
Why It May Be Useful to Integrate the Stereotype Content Model and the Interpersonal Perspective	81
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	80
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	70
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	66
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	65
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach	64
Toward a Psychology of Consent	64
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	64
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	59

Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	55
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	53
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	51
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	50
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	49
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	49
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	48
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	48
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	46
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution	45
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	45
Corrigendum: Mystical and Other Alterations in Sense of Self: An Expanded Framework for Studying Nonordinary Experiences	42
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It	42
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	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?	41
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)	40
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
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence	37
How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective	36
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories	36
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition	36
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors	33
Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption	33
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk	33
Asking Better Questions: Strategic Questioning as a Psychologically Wise Intervention	33
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms	32
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization	31
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms	31
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness	30
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward	30
The Myth of Normal Reading	30
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail	30
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes	30
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research	29
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors	28
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions	28
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive	28
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza	27
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment	27
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice	26
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia	26
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine	26
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems	26
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?	26
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives	26
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters	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

Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health	25
Measuring Racial Discrimination Remotely: A Contemporary Review of Unobtrusive Measures	25
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence	25
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness	25
Global Diversity of Authors, Editors, and Journal Ownership Across Subdisciplines of Psychology: Current State and Policy Implications	25
Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning	25