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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board384
Balancing listening and action is key to supportive parenting337
Looking back, forging ahead: Fifteen years of Strength and Vulnerability Integration (SAVI)253
Speaking your language: The psychological impact of dialect integration in artificial intelligence systems219
How small-scale societies achieve large-scale cooperation194
Impression (mis)management: When what you say is not what they hear183
The butt of the joke: Understanding the social evaluations of leader humor targets180
The disconnected couple: intimate relationships in the context of social isolation172
The Venezuelan diaspora: Migration-related experiences and mental health151
The hope theory and specific learning disorders and/or attention deficit disorders (SLD/ADHD): Developmental perspectives147
Social media multitasking (SMM) and well-being: Existing evidence and future directions122
Generation COVID: Coming of age amid the pandemic122
Social isolation: An underappreciated determinant of physical health117
How language framing shapes the perception of social norms116
Impacts of COVID-19 on the school experience of children and adolescents with special educational needs and disabilities111
Emotions and ethics: How emotions sensitize perceptions of the consequences for self and others to motivate unethical behavior110
Social media use, social displacement, and well-being108
Direct and indirect reciprocity among individuals and groups107
Corrigendum to “Rampage shootings: An historical, empirical, and theoretical overview” [Curr Opin Psychol 19 (2018) 28–33]104
Misplaced certainty in the context of conspiracy theories95
Processes of persuasion and social influence in conspiracy beliefs91
Self-control ≠ temporal discounting90
Perceived diversity in teams: Conceptualizations, effects, and new research avenues88
What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation?86
Interdependent culture and older adults’ well-being: Health and psychological happiness in Japanese communities85
Self-perceptions of aging: A conceptual and empirical overview83
False polarization: Cognitive mechanisms and potential solutions82
Attachment, loss, and related challenges in migration78
Nostalgia and acculturation76
Computational modeling of social decision-making76
The multi-dimensional stigma of chronic pain: A narrative review68
Measuring dishonest behavior: Hidden dimensions that matter68
The importance of friendships in reducing brain responses to stress in adolescents exposed to childhood adversity: a preregistered systematic review67
Children's developing understanding of social norms66
Drug, demon, or donut? Theorizing the relationship between social media use, digital well-being and digital disconnection66
Reading emotions, reading people: Emotion perception and inferences drawn from perceived emotions65
The proust effect: Scents, food, and nostalgia64
Behaviour change to address climate change63
The instigating effects of isolation on substance-related intimate partner violence: A review62
Cultural dyes: Cultural norms color person perception60
Sex, gender, and pain: Evidence and knowledge gaps59
The loss of humanness in close relationships: An interpersonal model of dehumanization58
Meta-perception and misinformation58
Scholarship on well-being and social media: A sociotechnical perspective57
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Challenging the law of least effort56
Mental distress through the prism of predictive processing theory55
Bypassing as a non-confrontational influence strategy54
Changes in Lesbian identity in the 21st century52
Sexual and romantic spectrums: Mostly straights and mostly gays/lesbians52
Can't buy me meaning? Lay theories impede people from deriving meaning and well-being from consumption52
Derailment within the landscape of psychopathology50
Humor and job satisfaction50
Locating nostalgia among the emotions: A bridge from loss to love50
Nostalgia, and what it used to be48
Leader humor across levels48
Economic inequality and conspiracy theories48
Entertainment media as a source of relationship misinformation47
Fighting misinformation among the most vulnerable users47
Artificial intelligence, workers, and future of work skills47
Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories46
Peer network studies and interventions in adolescence46
The fable of state self-control45
Social comparison and envy on social media: A critical review45
Meta-nudging honesty: Past, present, and future of the research frontier45
Ostracism and social exclusion: Implications for separation, social isolation, and loss45
Psychological distance: How to make climate change less abstract and closer to the self44
Social media and body image: Recent trends and future directions44
Cause and effect: On the antecedents and consequences of conspiracy theory beliefs44
Psychological science for a responsible sharing economy43
Do institutions evolve like material technologies?42
New directions for studying the aging social-cognitive brain42
Femininity in the 21st century42
Organisations that promote eco-human flourishing42
Confidence as a metacognitive contributor to and consequence of misinformation experiences41
Kindness in short supply: Evidence for inadequate prosocial input40
Compulsive shopping: A review and update39
Introducing conspiracy intuitions to better understand conspiracy beliefs39
The psychological, social, and societal relevance of nostalgia39
When does moral engagement risk triggering a hypocrite penalty?38
A cognitive approach to learning, monitoring, and shifting social norms38
Targeting body image in eating disorders37
The mental health–migration interface among sub-Saharan African and Chinese populations37
Editorial Board37
Integrating insights from implementation science and behavioral economics to strengthen suicide screening strategies for pediatric populations37
Confirmation in personal relationships37
Editorial Board37
Internal and external forces that prevent (vs. Facilitate) healthy eating: Review and outlook within consumer Psychology36
Stranger or a clone? Future self-connectedness depends on who you ask, when you ask, and what dimension you focus on36
Machine yearning: How advances in computational methods lead to new insights about reactions to loss36
Deception, honesty, and professionalism: A persistent challenge in modern medicine36
The power to harm: AI assistants pave the way to unethical behavior35
Nostalgic intergroup contact and intergroup relations:Theoretical, empirical, and applied dimensions35
Ethics and honesty in organizations: Unique organizational challenges35
Emotionally focused therapy: Attachment, connection, and health35
Modeling the onset of a depressive episode: A self-regulation perspective35
The good, bad and ugly of dispositional greed35
Nostalgia in Tourism35
Trends and associated risks in adolescent substance use: E-cigarette use and nitrous oxide use34
Community Gardens and the Cultivation of Social Capital34
Global priorities for improving access to mental health services for adolescents in the post-pandemic world33
Current biopsychosocial science on understanding kink33
Personality and misinformation33
The experience of trust in everyday life33
Hope and depression and personality disorders33
Beyond minority stress: Toward a multidimensional psychology of trans/nonbinary gender33
The neurobiology of antisocial behavior in adolescence; current knowledge and relevance for youth forensic clinical practice33
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The benefits (and costs) of sexual responsiveness in romantic relationships32
Current state of psychological therapies for children and adults with chronic pain: Where next?32
The current state of memory Specificity Training (MeST) for emotional disorders32
AI-induced hyper-learning in humans32
Editorial Board31
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent mental health across the world31
Systems and subversion: A review of structural violence and im/migrant health31
Social psychological aspects of gay identity development31
Contents31
Promoting hope in minoritized and economically disadvantaged students31
Honesty as a trait30
Listening and the pursuit of communal relationships29
Overcoming listener skepticism: Costly signaling in communication increases perceived honesty29
Responsiveness in cultural-ecological context29
Impacts of COVID-19 quarantine and isolation on adolescent social functioning29
A review of current and proposed behavioral nudge strategies to improve the readiness of the United States military29
A critical review of clinician-directed nudges29
Friendship loss and dissolution in adulthood: A conceptual model28
The effects of consumption on self-esteem28
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent sleep behavior28
Nostalgia: A potential pathway to greater well-being28
The power of cultural habits: The role of effortless control in delaying gratification28
Conspiracy beliefs and science rejection27
Implications of social isolation, separation, and loss during the COVID-19 pandemic for couples' relationships27
The vicious cycle of violent intergroup conflicts and conspiracy theories27
Narratives of Collective Memory in Intractable Conflict: The Israeli Case.27
The nexus between immigration status, policy, and proceedings, and mental health27
Contents26
Why women choose divorce: An evolutionary perspective26
Editorial Board26
Professions, honesty, and income26
Measurement structures of hope: A review of single-factor and two-factor models across hope scales25
Goals in old age: What we want when we are old and why it matters25
On the role of memory in misinformation corrections: Repeated exposure, correction durability, and source credibility25
A micro-sociological theory of adjustment to loss25
New directions in ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness development: Contextual considerations in the aftermath of COVID-1925
How therapist effects shape pain-related outcome improvement in psychological treatments for chronic pain25
Blinded by our sight: Understanding the prominence of visual information in judgments of competence and performance25
The moral psychology of misinformation: Why we excuse dishonesty in a post-truth world25
Editorial Board24
Social media, self-harm, and suicide24
Hear, hear! A review of accent discrimination at work24
Stress and adolescence: vulnerability and opportunity during a sensitive window of development24
Moral currencies: Explaining corrupt collaboration24
Responsive support: A matter of psychological need fulfillment24
Social media and adolescent well-being in the Global South24
Contents24
Lay standards for reasoning predict people's acceptance of suspect claims23
How food overconsumption has hijacked our notions about eating as a pleasurable activity23
Insomnia disorder and its reciprocal relation with psychopathology23
Why stress and hunger both increase and decrease prosocial behaviour23
‘Pleasureful self-control’? A new perspective on old problems23
Prosociality in science23
Uncertainty as a driver of the youth mental health crisis23
The unmatchable brightness of doing: Experiential consumption facilitates greater satisfaction than spending on material possessions23
Editorial overview: Diversity in organizations – Current insights and future directions23
Chronic pain and comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder: Potential mechanisms, conceptualizations, and interventions23
Using semantic similarity to understand the psychological constructs related to prosociality22
Impulsive and risky decision-making in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): The need for a developmental perspective22
(Mis)perceiving cooperativeness22
When listening is spoken22
Suspicion of institutions: How distrust and conspiracy theories deteriorate social relationships22
Listening and perceived responsiveness: Unveiling the significance and exploring crucial research endeavors22
Can positive and self-transcendent emotions promote pro-environmental behavior?22
Social media and well-being: A methodological perspective22
College and COVID-19: The Pandemic's reverberations on adolescents and emerging adults on campus21
Employee green behaviour: How organizations can help the environment21
Seeing the funny side: Humor in pro-environmental communication21
The other pandemic: Mental illness in young people from low and middle-income countries21
Social media, parenting, and well-being21
Do people know how others view them? Two approaches for identifying the accuracy of metaperceptions21
Mean rating difference scores are poor measures of discernment: The role of response criteria21
Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing?21
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From primary to pluralistic: A typology of intersectionality21
Beliefs about self-control20
Motivational interviewing-based interventions with patients with comorbid anxiety and substance use disorders20
Perceptions and behaviors toward first-generation, low-income individuals in organizations20
Children's susceptibility to online misinformation19
Can self-control make you happy?19
Prosocial development in adolescence19
The complexities of consumer empowerment in the modern consumption environment19
Plant behavior: Theoretical and technological advances19
Losses experienced by children alienated from a parent19
Self-control and behavioral public policy19
Motivation and climate change: A review19
Prosocial vaccination18
Resisting harmful social norms change using social inoculation18
Tackling cognitive decline in late adulthood: Cognitive interventions18
Publisher’s Note – Virtual Special issue18
Early warning signals and critical transitions in psychopathology: challenges and recommendations18
How narratives of racial progress create barriers to diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations18
Social isolation and social support in good times and bad times18
Persuasive communication, financial incentives, and social norms: Interactions and effects on behaviors18
Interpersonal dynamics in chronic pain: The role of partner behaviors and interactions in chronic pain adjustment18
Intergenerational ties in late life18
An attachment perspective on loss and grief17
Cultural differences in humor: A systematic review and critique17
Social baseline theory: State of the science and new directions17
Editorial Board17
Friend or fiend? Disentangling upward humor's (De)stabilizing effects on hierarchies17
“I don't need your pills, I need your attention:” Steps toward deep listening in medical encounters17
Ethics, morality, and the psychology of climate justice17
The Online Misinformation Engagement Framework17
Shifting consumer behavior to address climate change17
Contents17
An evolutionary psychology view of forgiveness: individuals, groups, and culture17
The current state of sexual fluidity research17
Effortless self-control17
Advances in immersive virtual reality interventions for mental disorders: A new reality?17
The coin of consumption: Understanding the bright and dark sides17
Rare exemplars and missed opportunities: Intersectionality within current sexual and gender diversity research and scholarship in psychology17
Predicting personality or prejudice? Facial inference in the age of artificial intelligence16
Nudging society toward more adaptive approaches to material possessions: Harnessing implicit approaches to reduce overconsumption and excessive saving16
Maltreatment, harsh parenting, and parent–adolescent relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic16
A truly responsive listener is a self-verifying listener16
Supernatural punishment beliefs as cognitively compelling tools of social control16
The self in pain16
Talking to strangers: Intention, competence, and opportunity16
Evaluative conditioning as a source gut feelings and its potential for behavioral nudging15
Harnessing opportunity cost salience for effortless self-control15
Bridging the digital and physical: The psychology of augmented reality15
Nostalgia and consumer behavior15
Human-algorithm interactions help explain the spread of misinformation15
Aging in culture revisited15
Prosociality in the social dilemma of antibiotic prescribing15
Self-control and self-expression15
Adolescence as a pivotal period for emotion regulation development15
Mental health, risk and resilience among refugee families in Europe15
Contents15
Why listening to traumatic disclosures sometimes fails and how it can succeed15
Daily experiences and adolescent affective wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: The CHESS model15
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 strategies15
Critical psychologies and climate change14
Self-regulation as a key boundary condition in the relationship between social media use and well-being14
Understanding adolescent stress during the COVID-19 pandemic14
Listening and attitude change14
The psychological study of conspiracy theories: Strengths and limitations14
Mechanisms in psychosocial treatments of chronic pain: What does the evidence tell us?14
Advancing our understanding of the associations between social media use and well-being14
Updating the identity-based model of belief: From false belief to the spread of misinformation14
Researching and countering misinformation in the Global South14
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