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Papers

(The TQCC of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 23. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	296
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	235
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	120
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge	112
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	105
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	100
Psychological Selfishness	100
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	88
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations	88
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities	86
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	86
Significance-Quest Theory	85
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	84
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	81
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	78
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	77
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	77
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	72
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	71
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	68
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	66
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	66
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	65
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	64
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change	63

Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	58
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach	56
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	56
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	56
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	55
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	54
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	53
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	51
Toward a Psychology of Consent	47
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	47
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	47
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	46
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	43
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution	43
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It	41
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	41
Critique of the Bias-of-Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model: Reply to Connor and Evers (2020)	41
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology	41
Corrigendum: Mystical and Other Alterations in Sense of Self: An Expanded Framework for Studying Nonordinary Experiences	40
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)	40
Is Open Science Neoliberal?	39
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict	39
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition	39
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories	38
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence	38
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors	37
How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective	37
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward	37
How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the United States	35
Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption	35
The Power of Odor Persuasion: The Incorporation of Olfactory Cues in Virtual Environments for Personalized Relaxation	33
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization	33
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk	33
The Myth of Normal Reading	33
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors	32
Racial Microaggressions: Critical Questions, State of the Science, and New Directions	32
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms	32
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness	31
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail	31
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive	31
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes	31
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions	30
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment	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
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives	28
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research	28
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia	27
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice	27
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?	27

Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention	27
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine	26
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters	26
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza	26
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems	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
Metacognitive Feelings: A Predictive-Processing Perspective	24
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication	24
Global Diversity of Authors, Editors, and Journal Ownership Across Subdisciplines of Psychology: Current State and Policy Implications	24
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health	24
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response	23
Measuring Racial Discrimination Remotely: A Contemporary Review of Unobtrusive Measures	23
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces	23