Current Opinion in Psychology

Papers
(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Psychology is 18. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Balancing listening and action is key to supportive parenting418
Editorial Board412
How language framing shapes the perception of social norms264
Social media multitasking (SMM) and well-being: Existing evidence and future directions240
Emotions and ethics: How emotions sensitize perceptions of the consequences for self and others to motivate unethical behavior217
Generation COVID: Coming of age amid the pandemic199
Direct and indirect reciprocity among individuals and groups199
The disconnected couple: intimate relationships in the context of social isolation192
The butt of the joke: Understanding the social evaluations of leader humor targets166
The hope theory and specific learning disorders and/or attention deficit disorders (SLD/ADHD): Developmental perspectives157
The Venezuelan diaspora: Migration-related experiences and mental health131
Speaking your language: The psychological impact of dialect integration in artificial intelligence systems129
How small-scale societies achieve large-scale cooperation128
Impacts of COVID-19 on the school experience of children and adolescents with special educational needs and disabilities127
Social isolation: An underappreciated determinant of physical health124
Four big problems of big five agreeableness120
Social media use, social displacement, and well-being119
Impression (mis)management: When what you say is not what they hear119
Looking back, forging ahead: Fifteen years of Strength and Vulnerability Integration (SAVI)115
Nostalgia and acculturation97
Corrigendum to “Rampage shootings: An historical, empirical, and theoretical overview” [Curr Opin Psychol 19 (2018) 28–33]97
Perceived diversity in teams: Conceptualizations, effects, and new research avenues94
Computational modeling of social decision-making94
Misplaced certainty in the context of conspiracy theories90
Children's developing understanding of social norms87
The importance of friendships in reducing brain responses to stress in adolescents exposed to childhood adversity: a preregistered systematic review86
Processes of persuasion and social influence in conspiracy beliefs85
The multi-dimensional stigma of chronic pain: A narrative review83
Drug, demon, or donut? Theorizing the relationship between social media use, digital well-being and digital disconnection81
Measuring dishonest behavior: Hidden dimensions that matter73
Interdependent culture and older adults’ well-being: Health and psychological happiness in Japanese communities73
Self-perceptions of aging: A conceptual and empirical overview72
What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation?71
False polarization: Cognitive mechanisms and potential solutions70
Attachment, loss, and related challenges in migration68
Reading emotions, reading people: Emotion perception and inferences drawn from perceived emotions68
The proust effect: Scents, food, and nostalgia67
Self-control ≠ temporal discounting66
Willful inattention: Integrating visual attention mechanisms and willful ignorance63
Bridging the gap between personality and stereotypes: A conceptual and methodological integration63
The instigating effects of isolation on substance-related intimate partner violence: A review62
Behaviour change to address climate change62
Cultural dyes: Cultural norms color person perception61
Changes in Lesbian identity in the 21st century59
Leader humor across levels59
Locating nostalgia among the emotions: A bridge from loss to love57
Artificial intelligence, workers, and future of work skills57
Cause and effect: On the antecedents and consequences of conspiracy theory beliefs55
Entertainment media as a source of relationship misinformation55
Meta-perception and misinformation53
Fighting misinformation among the most vulnerable users53
Psychological distance: How to make climate change less abstract and closer to the self53
The loss of humanness in close relationships: An interpersonal model of dehumanization53
Sexual and romantic spectrums: Mostly straights and mostly gays/lesbians52
Nostalgia, and what it used to be51
Bypassing as a non-confrontational influence strategy51
Humor and job satisfaction50
Challenging the law of least effort50
Contents50
Scholarship on well-being and social media: A sociotechnical perspective50
Sex, gender, and pain: Evidence and knowledge gaps49
Peer network studies and interventions in adolescence49
Can't buy me meaning? Lay theories impede people from deriving meaning and well-being from consumption49
The fable of state self-control48
Social comparison and envy on social media: A critical review47
Economic inequality and conspiracy theories47
Meta-nudging honesty: Past, present, and future of the research frontier47
Corrigendum to “Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy” [Curr Opin Psychol 54 (2023) 101711]46
Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories46
Social media and body image: Recent trends and future directions45
Ostracism and social exclusion: Implications for separation, social isolation, and loss45
Femininity in the 21st century44
Organisations that promote eco-human flourishing44
Psychological science for a responsible sharing economy43
New directions for studying the aging social-cognitive brain43
A cognitive approach to learning, monitoring, and shifting social norms42
When does moral engagement risk triggering a hypocrite penalty?42
Do institutions evolve like material technologies?42
Compulsive shopping: A review and update41
Kindness in short supply: Evidence for inadequate prosocial input41
Confirmation in personal relationships41
Confidence as a metacognitive contributor to and consequence of misinformation experiences40
The psychological, social, and societal relevance of nostalgia40
Utilizing a Psychological Network Approach to Improve Insights Into Science Attitudes40
Using multi-method data for more accurate research findings40
Introducing conspiracy intuitions to better understand conspiracy beliefs40
The mental health–migration interface among sub-Saharan African and Chinese populations40
Integrating insights from implementation science and behavioral economics to strengthen suicide screening strategies for pediatric populations39
Machine yearning: How advances in computational methods lead to new insights about reactions to loss38
Stranger or a clone? Future self-connectedness depends on who you ask, when you ask, and what dimension you focus on38
Editorial Board38
Nostalgia in Tourism38
Editorial Board38
Current biopsychosocial science on understanding kink37
Emotionally focused therapy: Attachment, connection, and health37
Nostalgic intergroup contact and intergroup relations:Theoretical, empirical, and applied dimensions37
The benefits (and costs) of sexual responsiveness in romantic relationships37
The power to harm: AI assistants pave the way to unethical behavior36
Personality and misinformation36
Internal and external forces that prevent (vs. Facilitate) healthy eating: Review and outlook within consumer Psychology36
The neurobiology of antisocial behavior in adolescence; current knowledge and relevance for youth forensic clinical practice36
Deception, honesty, and professionalism: A persistent challenge in modern medicine35
The experience of trust in everyday life35
Hope and depression and personality disorders34
AI-induced hyper-learning in humans34
Trends and associated risks in adolescent substance use: E-cigarette use and nitrous oxide use34
Ethics and honesty in organizations: Unique organizational challenges34
Global priorities for improving access to mental health services for adolescents in the post-pandemic world34
Contents34
The good, bad and ugly of dispositional greed33
A critical review of clinician-directed nudges33
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent sleep behavior33
Beyond minority stress: Toward a multidimensional psychology of trans/nonbinary gender33
The nexus between immigration status, policy, and proceedings, and mental health33
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent mental health across the world33
Editorial Board33
Responsiveness in cultural-ecological context33
A review of current and proposed behavioral nudge strategies to improve the readiness of the United States military33
Contents33
Nostalgia: A potential pathway to greater well-being32
Impacts of COVID-19 quarantine and isolation on adolescent social functioning32
Overcoming listener skepticism: Costly signaling in communication increases perceived honesty32
Honesty as a trait31
Promoting hope in minoritized and economically disadvantaged students31
Why women choose divorce: An evolutionary perspective31
Conspiracy beliefs and science rejection31
Current state of psychological therapies for children and adults with chronic pain: Where next?30
The vicious cycle of violent intergroup conflicts and conspiracy theories30
Listening and the pursuit of communal relationships30
Social psychological aspects of gay identity development30
Systems and subversion: A review of structural violence and im/migrant health30
Implications of social isolation, separation, and loss during the COVID-19 pandemic for couples' relationships30
Friendship loss and dissolution in adulthood: A conceptual model30
The effects of consumption on self-esteem30
The power of cultural habits: The role of effortless control in delaying gratification30
Contents29
Editorial Board29
Professions, honesty, and income29
Contents28
Goals in old age: What we want when we are old and why it matters28
Stress and adolescence: vulnerability and opportunity during a sensitive window of development28
Contents28
Social media, self-harm, and suicide28
Moral currencies: Explaining corrupt collaboration28
Blinded by our sight: Understanding the prominence of visual information in judgments of competence and performance27
New directions in ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness development: Contextual considerations in the aftermath of COVID-1926
Measurement structures of hope: A review of single-factor and two-factor models across hope scales26
The moral psychology of misinformation: Why we excuse dishonesty in a post-truth world26
Editorial Board25
How therapist effects shape pain-related outcome improvement in psychological treatments for chronic pain25
Using semantic similarity to understand the psychological constructs related to prosociality25
Social media and adolescent well-being in the Global South25
A micro-sociological theory of adjustment to loss25
Editorial overview: Diversity in organizations – Current insights and future directions25
Hear, hear! A review of accent discrimination at work25
On the role of memory in misinformation corrections: Repeated exposure, correction durability, and source credibility25
Responsive support: A matter of psychological need fulfillment25
Chronic pain and comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder: Potential mechanisms, conceptualizations, and interventions25
Prosociality in science24
Why stress and hunger both increase and decrease prosocial behaviour24
Social media, parenting, and well-being24
When listening is spoken24
How food overconsumption has hijacked our notions about eating as a pleasurable activity24
‘Pleasureful self-control’? A new perspective on old problems24
(Mis)perceiving cooperativeness24
Impulsive and risky decision-making in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): The need for a developmental perspective23
Social media and well-being: A methodological perspective23
Listening and perceived responsiveness: Unveiling the significance and exploring crucial research endeavors23
Uncertainty as a driver of the youth mental health crisis23
Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing?23
The unmatchable brightness of doing: Experiential consumption facilitates greater satisfaction than spending on material possessions23
Employee green behaviour: How organizations can help the environment23
Suspicion of institutions: How distrust and conspiracy theories deteriorate social relationships23
Lay standards for reasoning predict people's acceptance of suspect claims23
Deliberate ignorance in resource allocations to others: The role of entitlement22
Self-control and behavioral public policy22
Plant behavior: Theoretical and technological advances22
Losses experienced by children alienated from a parent22
Contents22
Can positive and self-transcendent emotions promote pro-environmental behavior?22
Do people know how others view them? Two approaches for identifying the accuracy of metaperceptions21
Prosocial vaccination21
Perceptions and behaviors toward first-generation, low-income individuals in organizations21
Prosocial development in adolescence21
From primary to pluralistic: A typology of intersectionality21
Mean rating difference scores are poor measures of discernment: The role of response criteria21
Can self-control make you happy?21
Motivation and climate change: A review21
Children's susceptibility to online misinformation21
Evolutionary theory and personality20
College and COVID-19: The Pandemic's reverberations on adolescents and emerging adults on campus20
Seeing the funny side: Humor in pro-environmental communication20
Faking on personality assessments in high-stakes settings: A critical review20
The complexities of consumer empowerment in the modern consumption environment20
The other pandemic: Mental illness in young people from low and middle-income countries20
Social isolation and social support in good times and bad times20
Motivational interviewing-based interventions with patients with comorbid anxiety and substance use disorders20
Publisher’s Note – Virtual Special issue19
Intergenerational ties in late life19
Beliefs about self-control19
“I don't need your pills, I need your attention:” Steps toward deep listening in medical encounters18
Cultural differences in humor: A systematic review and critique18
Interpersonal dynamics in chronic pain: The role of partner behaviors and interactions in chronic pain adjustment18
Does curiosity make us riskier? The mediating role of willful ignorance18
An attachment perspective on loss and grief18
Tackling cognitive decline in late adulthood: Cognitive interventions18
Resisting harmful social norms change using social inoculation18
Effortless self-control18
Persuasive communication, financial incentives, and social norms: Interactions and effects on behaviors18
The Online Misinformation Engagement Framework18
The current state of sexual fluidity research18
Social baseline theory: State of the science and new directions18
Personal disclosure in science communication18
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