Current Opinion in Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Psychology is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board362
Balancing listening and action is key to supportive parenting311
Impacts of COVID-19 on the school experience of children and adolescents with special educational needs and disabilities245
Looking back, forging ahead: Fifteen years of Strength and Vulnerability Integration (SAVI)212
Generation COVID: Coming of age amid the pandemic182
Direct and indirect reciprocity among individuals and groups182
The butt of the joke: Understanding the social evaluations of leader humor targets162
The hope theory and specific learning disorders and/or attention deficit disorders (SLD/ADHD): Developmental perspectives160
The disconnected couple: intimate relationships in the context of social isolation145
Speaking your language: The psychological impact of dialect integration in artificial intelligence systems142
How small-scale societies achieve large-scale cooperation117
The Venezuelan diaspora: Migration-related experiences and mental health117
Emotions and ethics: How emotions sensitize perceptions of the consequences for self and others to motivate unethical behavior113
Social media multitasking (SMM) and well-being: Existing evidence and future directions112
Impression (mis)management: When what you say is not what they hear106
Social isolation: An underappreciated determinant of physical health104
Social media use, social displacement, and well-being103
How language framing shapes the perception of social norms102
Towards a psychology of religion and the environment101
Corrigendum to “Rampage shootings: An historical, empirical, and theoretical overview” [Curr Opin Psychol 19 (2018) 28–33]90
Misplaced certainty in the context of conspiracy theories87
Processes of persuasion and social influence in conspiracy beliefs85
Self-control ≠ temporal discounting84
Perceived diversity in teams: Conceptualizations, effects, and new research avenues83
What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation?81
Attachment, loss, and related challenges in migration79
Interdependent culture and older adults’ well-being: Health and psychological happiness in Japanese communities79
Reading emotions, reading people: Emotion perception and inferences drawn from perceived emotions72
Computational modeling of social decision-making72
The proust effect: Scents, food, and nostalgia72
Dimensions of religiousness and their connection to racial, ethnic, and atheist prejudices66
Nostalgia and acculturation66
Drug, demon, or donut? Theorizing the relationship between social media use, digital well-being and digital disconnection65
Behaviour change to address climate change65
The multi-dimensional stigma of chronic pain: A narrative review64
Self-perceptions of aging: A conceptual and empirical overview63
Measuring dishonest behavior: Hidden dimensions that matter63
Children's developing understanding of social norms62
The importance of friendships in reducing brain responses to stress in adolescents exposed to childhood adversity: a preregistered systematic review60
The instigating effects of isolation on substance-related intimate partner violence: A review58
False polarization: Cognitive mechanisms and potential solutions58
Cultural dyes: Cultural norms color person perception57
Entertainment media as a source of relationship misinformation56
Nostalgia, and what it used to be55
Fighting misinformation among the most vulnerable users53
Artificial intelligence, workers, and future of work skills53
Ostracism and social exclusion: Implications for separation, social isolation, and loss52
Cause and effect: On the antecedents and consequences of conspiracy theory beliefs51
Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories50
Peer network studies and interventions in adolescence50
Challenging the law of least effort49
The fable of state self-control48
Psychological distance: How to make climate change less abstract and closer to the self48
Sex, gender, and pain: Evidence and knowledge gaps48
Upward spirals of positive emotions and religious behaviors47
Contents47
Meta-perception and misinformation47
Locating nostalgia among the emotions: A bridge from loss to love46
Sexual and romantic spectrums: Mostly straights and mostly gays/lesbians46
Can't buy me meaning? Lay theories impede people from deriving meaning and well-being from consumption46
Humor and job satisfaction46
Bypassing as a non-confrontational influence strategy45
Mental distress through the prism of predictive processing theory45
Scholarship on well-being and social media: A sociotechnical perspective44
Changes in Lesbian identity in the 21st century44
Economic inequality and conspiracy theories44
Derailment within the landscape of psychopathology44
Social media and body image: Recent trends and future directions43
Leader humor across levels43
The loss of humanness in close relationships: An interpersonal model of dehumanization42
Social comparison and envy on social media: A critical review42
Meta-nudging honesty: Past, present, and future of the research frontier42
Psychological science for a responsible sharing economy41
Do institutions evolve like material technologies?41
When does moral engagement risk triggering a hypocrite penalty?40
Organisations that promote eco-human flourishing40
Confidence as a metacognitive contributor to and consequence of misinformation experiences39
Femininity in the 21st century39
Confirmation in personal relationships38
Introducing conspiracy intuitions to better understand conspiracy beliefs38
New directions for studying the aging social-cognitive brain38
Kindness in short supply: Evidence for inadequate prosocial input37
The psychological, social, and societal relevance of nostalgia36
Compulsive shopping: A review and update36
Targeting body image in eating disorders36
A cognitive approach to learning, monitoring, and shifting social norms36
Editorial Board36
The power to harm: AI assistants pave the way to unethical behavior35
Internal and external forces that prevent (vs. Facilitate) healthy eating: Review and outlook within consumer Psychology35
The mental health–migration interface among sub-Saharan African and Chinese populations35
Machine yearning: How advances in computational methods lead to new insights about reactions to loss35
Stranger or a clone? Future self-connectedness depends on who you ask, when you ask, and what dimension you focus on35
Emotionally focused therapy: Attachment, connection, and health35
Deception, honesty, and professionalism: A persistent challenge in modern medicine35
Integrating insights from implementation science and behavioral economics to strengthen suicide screening strategies for pediatric populations35
Editorial Board35
Religion and delusion34
The good, bad and ugly of dispositional greed34
Ethics and honesty in organizations: Unique organizational challenges34
Personality and misinformation34
Modeling the onset of a depressive episode: A self-regulation perspective34
Nostalgic intergroup contact and intergroup relations:Theoretical, empirical, and applied dimensions34
You can learn a lot about religion from food34
The experience of trust in everyday life33
Nostalgia in Tourism33
The benefits (and costs) of sexual responsiveness in romantic relationships33
Trends and associated risks in adolescent substance use: E-cigarette use and nitrous oxide use33
AI-induced hyper-learning in humans32
The current state of memory Specificity Training (MeST) for emotional disorders32
Contents32
The neurobiology of antisocial behavior in adolescence; current knowledge and relevance for youth forensic clinical practice32
Beyond minority stress: Toward a multidimensional psychology of trans/nonbinary gender32
Current state of psychological therapies for children and adults with chronic pain: Where next?32
Current biopsychosocial science on understanding kink32
Hope and depression and personality disorders32
Global priorities for improving access to mental health services for adolescents in the post-pandemic world32
Honesty as a trait31
Contents31
A review of current and proposed behavioral nudge strategies to improve the readiness of the United States military31
Editorial Board31
Contents31
The power of cultural habits: The role of effortless control in delaying gratification30
Responsiveness in cultural-ecological context30
The nexus between immigration status, policy, and proceedings, and mental health30
Religious radicalization: social appraisals and finding radical redemption in extreme beliefs29
Systems and subversion: A review of structural violence and im/migrant health29
A critical review of clinician-directed nudges29
Why women choose divorce: An evolutionary perspective29
Promoting hope in minoritized and economically disadvantaged students29
Listening and the pursuit of communal relationships28
Impacts of COVID-19 quarantine and isolation on adolescent social functioning28
Friendship loss and dissolution in adulthood: A conceptual model28
Collective Memory and Autobiographical Memory: The Same Evolutionary Basis Serving Group Cohesion and Cooperation28
A review of personality/religiousness associations28
The vicious cycle of violent intergroup conflicts and conspiracy theories28
Do religious people self-enhance?27
The effects of consumption on self-esteem27
Overcoming listener skepticism: Costly signaling in communication increases perceived honesty27
Social psychological aspects of gay identity development27
Implications of social isolation, separation, and loss during the COVID-19 pandemic for couples' relationships27
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent sleep behavior26
How therapist effects shape pain-related outcome improvement in psychological treatments for chronic pain26
Blinded by our sight: Understanding the prominence of visual information in judgments of competence and performance26
Conspiracy beliefs and science rejection26
Nostalgia: A potential pathway to greater well-being26
Contents26
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent mental health across the world26
Professions, honesty, and income26
Editorial Board26
Social media, self-harm, and suicide25
Goals in old age: What we want when we are old and why it matters25
Measurement structures of hope: A review of single-factor and two-factor models across hope scales25
The psychology of nonbelievers25
New directions in ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness development: Contextual considerations in the aftermath of COVID-1925
How cultural learning and cognitive biases shape religious beliefs25
Social media and adolescent well-being in the Global South24
Contents24
Attachment theory and religion24
Stress and adolescence: vulnerability and opportunity during a sensitive window of development24
On the role of memory in misinformation corrections: Repeated exposure, correction durability, and source credibility24
Moral currencies: Explaining corrupt collaboration24
The moral psychology of misinformation: Why we excuse dishonesty in a post-truth world24
Chronic pain and comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder: Potential mechanisms, conceptualizations, and interventions23
The new trinity of religious moral character: the Cooperator, the Crusader, and the Complicit23
Lay standards for reasoning predict people's acceptance of suspect claims23
A micro-sociological theory of adjustment to loss23
Editorial overview: Diversity in organizations – Current insights and future directions23
Responsive support: A matter of psychological need fulfillment23
Editorial Board23
Hear, hear! A review of accent discrimination at work23
(Mis)perceiving cooperativeness22
Can positive and self-transcendent emotions promote pro-environmental behavior?22
Social media, parenting, and well-being22
‘Pleasureful self-control’? A new perspective on old problems22
Social media and well-being: A methodological perspective22
Uncertainty as a driver of the youth mental health crisis22
How food overconsumption has hijacked our notions about eating as a pleasurable activity21
Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing?21
Suspicion of institutions: How distrust and conspiracy theories deteriorate social relationships21
Employee green behaviour: How organizations can help the environment21
From primary to pluralistic: A typology of intersectionality21
Prosociality in science21
Why stress and hunger both increase and decrease prosocial behaviour21
When listening is spoken21
Contents21
Self-control and behavioral public policy21
The unmatchable brightness of doing: Experiential consumption facilitates greater satisfaction than spending on material possessions21
Listening and perceived responsiveness: Unveiling the significance and exploring crucial research endeavors21
Impulsive and risky decision-making in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): The need for a developmental perspective21
Insomnia disorder and its reciprocal relation with psychopathology21
Do people know how others view them? Two approaches for identifying the accuracy of metaperceptions21
Using semantic similarity to understand the psychological constructs related to prosociality21
Perceptions and behaviors toward first-generation, low-income individuals in organizations20
Losses experienced by children alienated from a parent20
Seeing the funny side: Humor in pro-environmental communication20
Beliefs about self-control20
Motivational interviewing-based interventions with patients with comorbid anxiety and substance use disorders20
Children's susceptibility to online misinformation20
College and COVID-19: The Pandemic's reverberations on adolescents and emerging adults on campus20
Can self-control make you happy?20
The complexities of consumer empowerment in the modern consumption environment20
Plant behavior: Theoretical and technological advances19
Motivation and climate change: A review19
Mean rating difference scores are poor measures of discernment: The role of response criteria19
The other pandemic: Mental illness in young people from low and middle-income countries19
Social isolation and social support in good times and bad times19
Prosocial vaccination19
Publisher’s Note – Virtual Special issue18
Effortless self-control18
Intergenerational ties in late life18
“I don't need your pills, I need your attention:” Steps toward deep listening in medical encounters18
Persuasive communication, financial incentives, and social norms: Interactions and effects on behaviors18
The Online Misinformation Engagement Framework18
Early warning signals and critical transitions in psychopathology: challenges and recommendations18
Prosocial development in adolescence18
Resisting harmful social norms change using social inoculation18
How narratives of racial progress create barriers to diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations18
Interpersonal dynamics in chronic pain: The role of partner behaviors and interactions in chronic pain adjustment18
The coin of consumption: Understanding the bright and dark sides17
Daily experiences and adolescent affective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: The CHESS model17
Sexual prejudice, sexism, and religion17
Social baseline theory: State of the science and new directions17
Cultural differences in humor: A systematic review and critique17
Advances in immersive virtual reality interventions for mental disorders: A new reality?17
A truly responsive listener is a self-verifying listener17
Mental health, risk and resilience among refugee families in Europe17
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Ethics, morality, and the psychology of climate justice17
Tackling cognitive decline in late adulthood: Cognitive interventions17
Shifting consumer behavior to address climate change17
Friend or fiend? Disentangling upward humor's (De)stabilizing effects on hierarchies17
Nudging society toward more adaptive approaches to material possessions: Harnessing implicit approaches to reduce overconsumption and excessive saving17
Talking to strangers: Intention, competence, and opportunity17
The current state of sexual fluidity research17
An attachment perspective on loss and grief17
Editorial Board17
Editorial overview: Mapping the current state of affairs and future outlook of self-control and self-regulation research: From effortful inhibition to motivated and situated strategies17
The self in pain16
Nostalgia and consumer behavior16
Personality and vocational interests: Connections between two fundamental individual-differences construct domains16
Maltreatment, harsh parenting, and parent–adolescent relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic16
An evolutionary psychology view of forgiveness: individuals, groups, and culture16
Rare exemplars and missed opportunities: Intersectionality within current sexual and gender diversity research and scholarship in psychology16
Predicting personality or prejudice? Facial inference in the age of artificial intelligence16
Human-algorithm interactions help explain the spread of misinformation16
Supernatural punishment beliefs as cognitively compelling tools of social control16
Self-control and self-expression15
Support provision in a digitalized world: The consequences of social sharing across different communication channels15
An overview of the hallmarks of cognitive aging15
Researching and countering misinformation in the Global South15
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