Current Opinion in Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Psychology is 5. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Understanding the role of gender in humor expression: Directions for future scholarship303
Unpredictable volatility and trust: The VISA model of person perception221
Publisher’s Note201
Bullshit can be harmful to your health: Bullibility as a precursor to poor decision--making175
The butt of the joke: Understanding the social evaluations of leader humor targets156
Laughter and lies: Unraveling the intricacies of humor and deception152
Contents134
Editorial Board123
Contents114
Sense of control and conspiracy perceptions: Generative directions on a well-worn path112
Psychedelics and connectedness to natural and social worlds: An examination of the evidence and a proposed conceptual framework110
Reframing pain care: An equity lens on psychosocial and behavioural interventions106
Anxiety and activism in response to climate change102
Navigating marginalized identities in diverse organizations101
How therapist effects shape pain-related outcome improvement in psychological treatments for chronic pain95
Dark social media participation and well-being93
Nostalgia in organizations89
Death anxiety and religion89
The sociology of nostalgia89
Blinded by our sight: Understanding the prominence of visual information in judgments of competence and performance86
Editorial Board79
Why consumers have everything but happiness: An evolutionary mismatch perspective76
Contents73
Editorial Board72
Youth psychosocial resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic70
How small-scale societies achieve large-scale cooperation69
Recent insights into the mental health needs of two-spirit people68
“Do you hear me?”: Understanding the interplay of listening and perceived partner responsiveness67
Humor and morality in organizations62
Adult age differences in value-based decision making61
Direct and indirect reciprocity among individuals and groups61
Considering information-sharing motives to reduce misinformation61
Moral currencies: Explaining corrupt collaboration59
On the role of memory in misinformation corrections: Repeated exposure, correction durability, and source credibility59
Sacrifices: Costly prosocial behaviors in romantic relationships59
The disconnected couple: intimate relationships in the context of social isolation58
Interpersonal transgressions and psychological loss: Understanding moral repair as dyadic, reciprocal, and interactionist56
The causal systems approach to prolonged grief: Recent developments and future directions56
The Venezuelan diaspora: Migration-related experiences and mental health55
Who benefits most from using social media, the socially rich or the socially poor?54
Is this food healthy? The impact of lay beliefs and contextual cues on food healthiness perception and consumption53
Social media as a bridge and a window: The changing relationship of adolescents with social media and digital platforms51
A meta-analytic review of nature and nurture in religiousness across the lifespan49
Balancing listening and action is key to supportive parenting48
Some things aren't better left unsaid: Interpersonal barriers to gratitude expression and prosocial engagement47
Social media, self-harm, and suicide47
New directions in ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness development: Contextual considerations in the aftermath of COVID-1946
Increases in prosociality across adulthood: The pure-altruism hypothesis46
Daily affect across adulthood and into old age: Recent advances from ambulatory research46
Beyond sex: A review of recent literature on asexuality45
Generation COVID: Coming of age amid the pandemic45
A sacred commitment: How rituals promote group survival44
Extortion — A voracious prosocial strategy44
Impression (mis)management: When what you say is not what they hear44
The psychology of luxury consumption44
Goals in old age: What we want when we are old and why it matters43
Responsiveness in interracial interactions42
The revolting body: Self-disgust as a key factor in anorexia nervosa42
Cancer: A model topic for misinformation researchers41
Improving the measurement of prosociality through aggregation of game behavior41
Self-control and limited willpower: Current status of ego depletion theory and research41
The hope theory and specific learning disorders and/or attention deficit disorders (SLD/ADHD): Developmental perspectives41
Compassionate goals, responsiveness, and well-being40
Relationship quality and physical health: Responsiveness as an active ingredient predicting health across the lifespan39
Cooperation in the cross-national context39
Professions, honesty, and income38
Speaking your language: The psychological impact of dialect integration in artificial intelligence systems38
Editorial Board38
Regulating relationship risk: Partner responsiveness as a safety signal38
The dark and bright side of video game consumption: Effects of violent and prosocial video games38
Affect, (group-based) emotions, and climate change action37
The psychology of nonbelievers37
Hope across cultural groups36
Positive psychotic symptoms in childhood and adolescence35
Revealing secrets35
Impacts of COVID-19 on the school experience of children and adolescents with special educational needs and disabilities34
Listening and responsiveness in getting-acquainted processes34
Towards a psychology of religion and the environment33
Undocumented college students’ psychosocial well-being: A systematic review33
Nostalgia in video games33
The moral psychology of misinformation: Why we excuse dishonesty in a post-truth world33
The psychology of object attachment: Our bond with teddy bears, coffee mugs, and wedding rings32
Metacognitive knowledge about self-control32
Social media use and eudaimonic well-being32
Organizational diversity climate: Recent scholarship and What's missing32
Cannabis use and psychosocial functioning: evidence from prospective longitudinal studies32
Beyond deliberate self-control: Habits automatically achieve long-term goals32
Disability-based discrimination in organizations31
Deconstructing moral character judgments31
The psychology of people with variable sex characteristics/intersex31
Measurement structures of hope: A review of single-factor and two-factor models across hope scales31
Social norm interventions as a tool for pro-climate change31
Consuming in response to loneliness: Bright side and dark side effects31
Editorial Board31
How cultural learning and cognitive biases shape religious beliefs30
Harnessing technology to provide online couple interventions30
Social media multitasking (SMM) and well-being: Existing evidence and future directions30
Why do people oppose new rules? Policy change, norm change, and public outrage30
Social media and adolescent well-being in the Global South29
Nostalgia supports a meaningful life29
One year on: What we have learned about the psychological effects of COVID-19 social restrictions: A meta-analysis29
Unaccompanied migrant youth from Central America: Challenges and opportunities29
Emotions and ethics: How emotions sensitize perceptions of the consequences for self and others to motivate unethical behavior29
A micro-sociological theory of adjustment to loss28
Prosociality from the perspective of environmental psychology28
An interpretation of meta-analytical evidence for the link between collective narcissism and conspiracy theories28
Attachment theory and religion28
Cognitive aging and the life course: A new look at the Scaffolding theory28
How language framing shapes the perception of social norms27
Allyship, authenticity and agency: The Triple A Model of Social Justice Mentoring27
Deception in negotiations: Insights and opportunities27
Social media use, social displacement, and well-being27
Social media use and well-being: What we know and what we need to know27
Religiosity in adolescence27
Social isolation: An underappreciated determinant of physical health27
Gender and humor27
Listen to resonate: Better listening as a gateway to interpersonal positivity resonance through enhanced sensory connection and perceived safety26
Uncertainty as a driver of the youth mental health crisis26
Educational impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: Inequities by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status26
The role of conspiracy beliefs for COVID-19 health responses: A meta-analysis26
Why stress and hunger both increase and decrease prosocial behaviour26
Social media use and well-being among older adults26
Looking back, forging ahead: Fifteen years of Strength and Vulnerability Integration (SAVI)26
Reward, punishment, and prosocial behavior: Recent developments and implications26
Can positive and self-transcendent emotions promote pro-environmental behavior?26
Stress and adolescence: vulnerability and opportunity during a sensitive window of development26
Why social norms may fail us when we need them most25
Chronic pain and comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder: Potential mechanisms, conceptualizations, and interventions25
Social norms and the expression of prejudice: How the norm changes25
Changing norms of trust25
Social media and close relationships: a puzzle of connection and disconnection25
Using agent-based modelling to explore behavioural dynamics affecting our climate25
Object attachment, transitory attachment, and materialism in childhood24
The multi-dimensional stigma of chronic pain: A narrative review24
Motives underlying human agency: How self-efficacy versus self-enhancement affect consumer behavior24
Anticipated nostalgia24
Understanding the individual's transition from acute to chronic disabling pain: Opportunities for improved care24
Helping in the context of refugee immigration24
Enhancing psychological assessment and treatment of chronic pain: A research agenda for personalized and process-based approaches24
Mental health interventions in adolescence23
Too good to go? Consumers’ replacement behaviour and potential strategies for stimulating product retention23
The impact of feminist approaches on masculinity scholarship23
Social-rank cues: Decoding rank from physical characteristics, behaviors, and possessions23
Attachment, loss, and related challenges in migration23
Sensitive responsiveness in expectant and new fathers23
Editorial Board22
How food overconsumption has hijacked our notions about eating as a pleasurable activity22
“You spent how much?” Toward an understanding of how romantic partners respond to each other's financial decisions22
Clicks and tricks: The dark art of online persuasion22
Unveiling the adverse effects of artificial intelligence on financial decisions via the AI-IMPACT model22
Yours truly: On the complex relationship between authenticity and honesty22
Self-control ≠ temporal discounting21
Editorial Board21
Editorial Board21
Discrimination in organizations on the basis of age21
Heteroprofessionalism: The power of the gender/sex binary in the workplace21
Contents21
Unfit or disliked: How descriptive and prescriptive gender stereotypes lead to discrimination against women21
Perceived diversity in teams: Conceptualizations, effects, and new research avenues21
Editorial Board21
Hope and work: From the pandemic to possibility, purpose, and resilience21
Editorial Board20
Nostalgia and acculturation20
From perception to projection: Exploring neuroaffective advances in understanding optimism bias and belief updating20
Editorial Board20
Norm learning, teaching, and change20
Computational modeling of social decision-making20
Issues in bisexual men's lives: Identity, health and relationships20
Hear, hear! A review of accent discrimination at work20
Risks and rewards in adolescent decision-making19
Object attachment in hoarding disorder and its role in a compensatory process19
Prosocial and punishment behaviors in everyday life19
Processes of persuasion and social influence in conspiracy beliefs19
Individual differences in adolescent self-control: The role of gene-environment interplay19
On the challenges of cognitive psychopathology research and possible ways forward: Arguments for a pragmatic cognitive approach19
Measuring dishonest behavior: Hidden dimensions that matter19
Responsive support: A matter of psychological need fulfillment19
Believe in your self-control: Lay theories of self-control and their downstream effects18
Interdependent culture and older adults’ well-being: Health and psychological happiness in Japanese communities18
The importance of friendships in reducing brain responses to stress in adolescents exposed to childhood adversity: a preregistered systematic review18
A review of the peak-end rule in mental health contexts18
Metamotivation: The regulation of motivation in self-control18
When listening is spoken17
Editorial: A field guide to people-watching17
Intuition, reason, and conspiracy beliefs17
‘Pleasureful self-control’? A new perspective on old problems17
The new trinity of religious moral character: the Cooperator, the Crusader, and the Complicit17
Memory and aging across cultures17
Prosociality in science17
God. . . Karma, Jinn, spirits, and other metaphysical forces17
Collective action control: Ubiquitous processes and cultural differences17
Drug, demon, or donut? Theorizing the relationship between social media use, digital well-being and digital disconnection17
Insincere negotiations: How negotiators can misrepresent their objectives to exploit counterparts during and after negotiations17
Corrigendum to “Rampage shootings: An historical, empirical, and theoretical overview” [Curr Opin Psychol 19 (2018) 28–33]17
Listening and perceived responsiveness: Unveiling the significance and exploring crucial research endeavors17
Social media, parenting, and well-being17
Are we any closer to identifying a causal relationship between cannabis and psychosis?16
The dispositional basis of human prosociality16
Lessons learned in several states eight years after states legalized marijuana16
Conceptualizing Puerto Rican migration to the United States16
The proust effect: Scents, food, and nostalgia16
What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation?16
Social and cultural influences on older consumers16
Cognitive styles and religion16
Listening to bridge societal divides16
Terrorism and conspiracy theories: A view from the 3N model of radicalization16
Editorial Board16
Using semantic similarity to understand the psychological constructs related to prosociality16
Motives for acquiring and saving and their relationship with object attachment16
The unmatchable brightness of doing: Experiential consumption facilitates greater satisfaction than spending on material possessions16
Impulsive and risky decision-making in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): The need for a developmental perspective16
“No one left behind”: A social determinant of health lens to the wellbeing of undocumented immigrants15
Ambulatory assessment in psychopathology research: Current achievements and future ambitions15
Responsiveness in romantic partners’ interactions15
False polarization: Cognitive mechanisms and potential solutions15
(Mis)perceiving cooperativeness15
Insomnia disorder and its reciprocal relation with psychopathology15
Queer identities in the 21st century: Reclamation and stigma15
Hope and suicidal ideation and behaviour14
Employee green behaviour: How organizations can help the environment14
Belief in conspiracy theories and non-normative behavior14
Conspiracy beliefs as an adaptation to historical trauma14
Materialistic value orientation and wellbeing14
Mental health misinformation on social media: Review and future directions14
Misplaced certainty in the context of conspiracy theories14
Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing?14
Cognitive and affective processes of prosociality14
Dimensions of religiousness and their connection to racial, ethnic, and atheist prejudices14
AI and culture: Culturally dependent responses to AI systems14
The illusory truth effect: A review of how repetition increases belief in misinformation14
Suicidal behaviour and ideation among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic14
Conducting ethical misinformation research: Deception, dialogue, and debriefing14
Rabbit Hole Syndrome: Inadvertent, accelerating, and entrenched commitment to conspiracy beliefs14
Sexual and gender diversity in the twenty-first century14
Making sense of strengths and weaknesses observed in adolescent laboratory rodents14
Leaving religion: deconversion14
Generation COVID: Young adult substance use13
Misinformation warning labels are widely effective: A review of warning effects and their moderating features13
Lay standards for reasoning predict people's acceptance of suspect claims13
Tearing apart the “evil” twins: A general conspiracy mentality is not the same as specific conspiracy beliefs13
Behaviour change to address climate change13
Social media and well-being: A methodological perspective13
Suspicion of institutions: How distrust and conspiracy theories deteriorate social relationships13
Identified needs of peripartum adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa from 2013 to 2021: a mapping of domains for strengthening psychosocial interventions13
Trends over time in adult cannabis use: A review of recent findings13
Decision-making under the deep uncertainty of climate change: The psychological and political agency of narratives13
Building and breaking social media habits13
Early and late development of hub connectivity in the human brain13
Self-perceptions of aging: A conceptual and empirical overview13
Reading emotions, reading people: Emotion perception and inferences drawn from perceived emotions13
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