Acta Psychologica

Article	Citations
Specification curve analysis shows that social media use is linked to poor mental health, especially among girls	51
Dark triads, tetrads, tents, and cores: Why navigate (research) the jungle of dark personality models without a compass (criterion)?	36
The relationships between social support and loneliness: A meta-analysis and review	36
Gamification for behavior change: A scientometric review	31
Psychometric properties of the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21) among different Chinese populations: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis	29
The psychological and behavioural correlates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the UK	26
Social media use in female adolescents: Associations with anxiety, loneliness, and sleep disturbances	25
Laughing at funerals and frowning at weddings: Top-down influences of context-driven social judgments on emotional mimicry	25
The intrapersonal and interpersonal consequences of interpersonal synchrony	24
Do you listen to music while studying? A portrait of how people use music to optimize their cognitive performance	23
University students' mental well-being during COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of resilience between meaning in life and mental well-being	22
COVID-19 information overload: Intolerance of uncertainty moderates the relationship between frequency of internet searching and fear of COVID-19	22
The psychometric properties of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) Bangla version	22
Loneliness unlocked: Associations with smartphone use and personality	22
The effect of aging on facial attractiveness: An empirical and computational investigation	22
Factors affecting social TV acceptance among Generation Z in Jordan	21
Attention and memory after COVID-19 as measured by neuropsychological tests: Systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Is the n-back task a measure of unstructured working memory capacity? Towards understanding its connection to other working memory tasks	20
The relationship between internet addiction and aggressive behavior among adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: Anxiety as a mediator	20
Investigating individual differences in emotion recognition ability using the ERAM test	20
Adolescents and social media: The effects of frequency of use, self-presentation, social comparison, and self esteem on possible self imagery	19
Evidence for associations between Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test and motor skill learning in older adults	18
Parasocial relations and social media influencers' persuasive power. Exploring the moderating role of product involvement	18
The role of valence in word processing: Evidence from lexical decision and emotional Stroop tasks	18
Self-motivated and directed learning across the lifespan	18

Mental health in the post-lockdown pandemic phase: Relief or exacerbation of psychological distress? A cross-sectional study in the general population in Italy	18
Depression and anxiety among individuals with medical conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from a nationwide survey in Bangladesh	18
Effects of cognitive-motor dual task training on cognitive and physical performance in healthy children and adolescents: A scoping review	18
Normality mediates the effect of symmetry on facial attractiveness	18
Let the beat flow: How game difficulty in virtual reality affects flow	17
Becoming “us” in digital spaces: How online users creatively and strategically exploit social media affordances to build up social identity	17
The acute effects of mental fatigue on balance performance in healthy young and older adults – A systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Understanding joint action: Current theoretical and empirical approaches	17
Dissociation of proprioceptive drift and feelings of ownership in the somatic rubber hand illusion	17
Explaining the high working memory capacity of gifted children: Contributions of processing skills and executive control	16
Psychological well-being, risk factors, and coping strategies with social isolation and new challenges in times of adversity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Understanding smart education continuance intention in a delayed benefit context: An integration of sensory stimuli, UTAUT, and flow theory	15
Simultaneous self-other integration and segregation support real-time interpersonal coordination in a musical joint action task	15
Perceived risk factors for severe Covid-19 symptoms and their association with health behaviours: Findings from the HEBECO study	15
The motor-related brain activity that supports joint action: A review	15
The role of executive functions in the effects of lying on memory	15
Conspiracy beliefs of Italian voters for populist parties: The moderated mediational role of political interest and ideological attitudes	15
Leaving without a word: Ghosting and the Dark Triad traits	15
Does emotional valence modulate word recognition? A behavioral study manipulating frequency and arousal	14
Tourist behaviour: The role of digital marketing and social media	14
Variation in the “coefficient of variation”: Rethinking the violation of the scalar property in time-duration judgments	14
Nonliteral language processing across the lifespan	14
Does body posture reduce the Stroop effect? Evidence from two conceptual replications and a meta-analysis	14
Theories of motivation: A comprehensive analysis of human behavior drivers	14
Shadow of cyber ostracism over remote environment: Implication on remote work challenges, virtual work environment and employee mental well-being during a Covid-19 pandemic	14
How poetry evokes emotions	13
Intensive mothering and the perpetuation of gender inequality: Evidence from a mixed methods research	13
The action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE): Meta-analysis of a benchmark finding for embodiment	13
Excessive enterprise social media usage and employee creativity: An application of the transactional theory of stress and coping	13
The problem with the internet: An affordance-based approach for psychological research on networked technologies	13
Tennis expertise reduces costs in cognition but not in motor skills in a cognitive-motor dual-task condition	13
Semi-structured interview for self-esteem regulation research	13
Willingness to accept (WTA), willingness to pay (WTP), and the WTA/WTP disparity in Chinese social media platforms: Descriptive statistics and associations with personality and social media use	13
Light and Dark core of personality and the adherence to COVID-19 containment measures: The roles of motivation and trust in government	13
The effectiveness of dual-task interventions for modulating emotional memories in the laboratory: A meta-analysis	13
Big Five personality traits predict illegal drug use in young people	12
How humans impair automated deception detection performance	12
Investigating COVID-19 risk perception and preventive behaviours in third-level students in Ireland	12
Consequences of local culinary memorable experience: Evidence from TikTok influencers	12
Happiness, domains of life satisfaction, perceptions, and valuation differences across genders	12
Exploring the sex and gender correlates of cognitive sex differences	12
Unpacking the mediating role of classroom interaction between student satisfaction and perceived online learning among Chinese EFL tertiary learners in the new normal of post-COVID-19	12
Trust in science and belief in misinformation mediate the effects of political orientation on vaccine hesitancy and intention to be vaccinated	12
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy in the neuropsychological assessment of spatial memory: A systematic review	12
Addressing joint action challenges in HRI: Insights from psychology and philosophy	12
“I don't fit into any category”: Adult perspectives on the dynamics of past sexual acts between siblings in Jewish Orthodox society	11
Attachment anxiety and resilience: The mediating role of coping	11
Recognizing biased reasoning: Conflict detection during decision-making and decision-evaluation	11
The effects of childhood maltreatment on cyberbullying in college students: The roles of cognitive processes	11
ERP markers of action planning and outcome monitoring in human – robot interaction	11

Using behavioural science in public health settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: The experience of public health practitioners and behavioural scientists	11
Should I focus on self-language actions or should I follow others? Cross-language interference effects in voluntary and cued language switching	10
The validation of the English Impostor-Profile 30 and the exploratory formulation of the learned helplessness model of the impostor phenomenon	10
Tracking statistical learning online: Word segmentation in a target detection task	10
Tracking the Irish adult population during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A methodological report of the COVID-19 psychological research consortium (C19PRC) study in Ireland	10
Positive emotions, self-regulatory capacity, and EFL performance in the Chinese senior high school context	10
The dark side of sports: Personality, values, and athletic aggression	10
Movers and shakers of cognition: Hand movements, speech, task properties, and variability	10
Context but not reading speed modulates transposed-word effects in Chinese reading	10
On the association between personality, fear of missing out (FoMO) and problematic social media use tendencies in European and Arabian samples	10
A Gratton-like effect concerning task order in dual-task situations	10
Sex differences in emotional and meta-emotional intelligence in pre-adolescents and adolescents	10
The effects of adverse and advantageous childhood experiences on adult health in a low-income sample	10
Social information rapidly prioritizes overt but not covert attention in a joint spatial cueing task	10
Depression and learning problems in children: Executive function impairments and inattention as mediators	10
General academic anxiety and math anxiety in primary school. The impact of math anxiety on calculation skills	9
The effects of self-relevance vs. reward value on facial mimicry	9
A pre-existing self-referential anchor is not necessary for self-prioritisation	9
Deciding while moving: Cognitive interference biases value-based decisions	9
Correlates of belief in climate change: Demographics, ideology and belief systems	9
Prevalence and associated factors of depressive symptoms among the young adults during the post-epidemic period — Evidence from the first wave of COVID-19 in Hubei Province, China	9
The influence of parental autonomy support on cyberbullying victimization of high school students: A latent moderation analysis	9
Females' negative affective valence to math-related words	9
The SNARC effect occurs in the response-selection stage	9
Teaching after the pandemic: The role of technostress and organizational support on intentions to adopt remote teaching technologies	9
Beauty, the feeling	9
The epidemiology and effects of video game addiction: A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Psychological resilience in athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative insight	9
Social pain by non-social agents: Exclusion hurts and provokes punishment even if the excluding source is a computer	9
Improving vaccination intent among skeptics through confidence in governments' handling of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Stress, and coping strategy of university students during COVID-19 in Korea: The mediating role of ego-resiliency	9
Hand dominance in the performance and perceptions of virtual reach control	9
The role of anxious attachment in the continuation of abusive relationships: The potential for strengthening a secure attachment schema as a tool of empowerment	9
Humans share task load with a computer partner if (they believe that) it acts human-like	9
Cognitive functioning and social media: Has technology changed us?	9
Automatic imitation is reduced in narcissists but only in egocentric perspective-takers	9
The effects of sketching while narrating on information elicitation and deception detection in multiple interviews	9
Fear trumps the common good: Psychological antecedents of vaccination attitudes and behaviour	9
Associations between self-disgust, depression, and anxiety: A three-level meta-analytic review	9
Social categorization and joint attention: Interacting effects of age, sex, and social status	9
The network structure of dysfunctional metacognition: Analysis of the MCQ-30	9
Learning mathematics with shackles: How lower reading comprehension in the language of mathematics instruction accounts for lower mathematics achievement in speakers of different home languages	9
The association between smartphone and tablet usage and children development	9
How explicit warnings reduce the truth effect: A multinomial modeling approach	8
Social influences in the digital era: When do people conform more to a human being or an artificial intelligence?	8
Validation of the COVID-19 Disbelief Scale: Conditional indirect effects of religiosity and COVID-19 fear on intent to vaccinate	8
The reciprocal relationship between mobile phone dependence and school adaptation in Korean adolescents: Autoregressive cross-lagged modeling	8
How are mothers negatively affected and supported by following parenting-related Instagram profiles? A mixed-methods study	8
Direct and indirect effects from parenting self-efficacy and parenting practices to social-emotional adjustment in 3- to 5-year-old children	8
Verbal count sequence knowledge underpins numeral order processing in children	8
Table tennis expertise influences dual-task costs in timed and self-initiated tasks	8
Task demands determine whether shape or arousal of a stimulus modulates competition for visual working memory resources	8
Spontaneous strategy use during a working memory updating task	8
Emotion matters: Different psychophysiological responses to expressive and non-expressive full-body movements	8
The influence of duration, arm crossing style, gender, and emotional closeness on hugging behaviour	8
Structuralist mental representation of dual-action demands: Evidence for compositional coding from dual tasks with low cross-task dimensional overlap	8
The Development of a Parental Questionnaire (QQ-MediaSEED) on Bilingual Children’s Quantity and Quality of Digital Media Use at Home	8
The associations between academic stress and depression among college students: A moderated chain mediation model of negative affect, sleep quality, and social support	8
Remembering more than you can say: Re-examining “amnesia” of attended attributes	8
Sharing is caring: How sharing opinions online can connect people into groups and foster identification	8
Pragmatic and knowledge range lenience towards foreigners	8
Prototypical autism: New diagnostic criteria and asymmetrical bifurcation model	8
Determinants of health behaviours intended to prevent spread of respiratory pathogens that have pandemic potential: A rapid review	8
Fine motor skills and finger gnosia contribute to preschool children's numerical competencies	8
Exploring the relationship between social exclusion and social media addiction: The mediating roles of anger and impulsivity	8
Employing a sort of “we” based VBN model to gauge Chinese tourists' intentions to support low-carbon tourism	8
Neuroticism, stress, and rumination in anxiety and depression of people with Vitiligo: An explanatory model	7
Selection of determinants of students' adherence to COVID-19 guidelines and translation into a brief intervention	7
The psychosocial impact of losing an eye through traumatic injury and living with prosthetic restoration: A thematic analysis	7
The effects of mood disorders and childhood trauma on fear of positive and negative evaluation	7
Femitags for feminist connected crowds in Latin America and Spain	7
Unveiling Chinese senior high school EFL students' burnout and engagement: Profiles and antecedents	7
The tangled webs they weave: A scoping review of deception detection and production in relation to Dark Triad traits	7
Curiosity did not kill the cat: It made it stronger and happy, but only if the cat was not “dark”	7
Evaluating voice samples as a potential source of information about personality	7
Factors associated with body image perception of adolescents	7
The startle reflex as an indicator of psychopathic personality from childhood to adulthood: A systematic review	7
Pathways to healthy aging – Exploring the determinants of self-rated health in older adults	7
Predicting social media use intensity in late adolescence: The role of attachment to friends and fear of missing out	7
What colour should I wear? How clothing colour affects women's judgement of other women's body attractiveness and body size	7

To start or stop an action depends on which movement we perform: An appraisal of the horse–race model	7
“I'm getting too old for this stuff”: The conceptual structure of tattoo aesthetics	7
Primary vs. secondary knowledge contents in reasoning: Motivated and efficient vs. overburdened	7
The impact of Confucianism on social and emotional health of Vietnamese adolescents: A phenomenological study	7
Investigating the contributions of active, playful learning to student interest and educational outcomes	7
An exploration of the role played by attachment factors in the formation of social media addiction from a cognition-affect-conation perspective	6
Unlocking luxury purchase intentions in China: A study of consumer attitude, perceived value, and the moderating effect of perceived enjoyment	6
Preschoolers' engagement with screen content and associations with sleep and cognitive development	6
Effectiveness of family-centered program for enhancing competencies of responsive parenting among caregivers for early childhood development in rural India	6
Impairments of interpersonal synchrony evident in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	6
Judging emoji by occupation: A case of emoji-based sarcasm interpretation	6
The association between attachment orientations and empathy: The mediation effect of self-concept clarity	6
The influence of childhood emotional neglect on emotional face processing in young adults	6
Impact of you only live once: A resilience-based HIV prevention intervention to reduce risky sexual behaviour among youth in South Africa	6
Judging me and you: Task design modulates self-prioritization	6
Facing stress: No effect of acute stress at encoding or retrieval on face recognition memory	6
Embodiment: I sat, I felt, I performed – Posture effects on mood and cognitive performance	6
Clinician perspectives on how digital phenotyping can inform client treatment	6
Introducing the Basic Psychological Needs Frustration in Second Language Scale (BPNF-L2): Examining its factor structure and effect on L2 motivation and achievement	6
Integration of newly learned L2 words into the mental lexicon is modulated by vocabulary learning method	6
Feeling rushed? Perceived time pressure impacts executive function and stress.	6
Perceptual-motor skill transfer: Multidimensionality and specificity of both general and specific transfers	6
On the indicators for perceiving empty sets as zero	6
Memory improvement in aging as a function of exposure to mood-matching music	6
The Dark Side of Humanity Scale: A reconstruction of the Dark Tetrad constructs	6
Overlooked advantages of interactive book reading in early childhood? A systematic review and research agenda	6
Why do children struggle on analogical reasoning tasks? Considering the role of problem format by measuring visual attention	6
Fitts’ law when errors are not allowed: Quantification of reciprocating trajectories and estimating information processing	6
Cognitive style predicts how people explain mental magic tricks	6
Socio-cognitive training impacts emotional and perceptual self-salience but not self-other distinction	6
I was being sarcastic!: The effect of foreign accent and political ideology on irony (mis)understanding	6
Assessing stress causing factors and language related challenges among first year students in higher institutions in Pakistan	5
Types of interference and their resolution in monolingual word production	5
Shaping the aesthetical landscape by using image statistics measures	5
Exploring the role of verbal-semantic overlap in response-effect compatibility	5
How do we process feedback? The role of self-esteem in processing self-related and other-related information	5
Facial mimicry is independent of stimulus format: Evidence for facial mimicry of stick figures and photographs	5
Negative time perspective predicts the self-perceived affective and physical components of pain independently from depression, anxiety, and early life circumstances	5
Top-down social modulation of perception-action coupling	5
Stigmatization, panic disorder, and death anxiety among patients of Covid-19: Fourth wave of pandemic in Pakistan	5
Stimulus and response conflict from a second language: Stroop interference in weakly-bilingual and recently-trained languages	5
Summing up: A functional role of eye movements along the mental number line for arithmetic	5
Examining the relevance of basic numerical skills for mathematical achievement in secondary school using a within-task assessment approach	5
Prospective effects of social support on self-actualization at work – The mediating role of basic psychological need fulfillment	5
A sequential mediation model of perceived social support, mindfulness, perceived hope, and mental health literacy: An empirical study on Taiwanese university students	5
Beach balls: Assessing frustration tolerance in young children using a computerized task	5
Effect of stimulus dimension on perception and cognition	5
Coordination effort in joint action is reflected in pupil size	5
Testing alternative models and predictive utility of the Death Anxiety Inventory-Revised: A COVID-19 related longitudinal population based study	5
Practices regarding the COVID-19 outbreak and life satisfaction: A moderated mediation model of psychological distress and fear of Covid-19	5
Influence of current physical exercise on the relationship between aging and episodic memory and fluid intelligence	5
Reaction time and working memory in middle-aged gamers and non-gamers	5
Withdrawing from job search: The effect of age discrimination on occupational future time perspective, career exploration, and retirement intentions	5
Positive and negative action-effects improve task-switching performance	5
Trait resilience and resilient behavior at work: The mediating role of the learning climate	5
Relationship between stress response and depression in vocational medical school students in the COVID-19 epidemic: A moderated mediation model	5
Get creative to get ahead? How personality contributes to creative performance and perceptions by supervisors at work	5
Does anxiety induced by social interaction influence the perception of bistable biological motion?	5
Alexithymia and internet gaming disorder in the light of depression: A cross-sectional clinical study	5
Negative urgency is related to impaired response inhibition during threatening conditions	5
Does social media usage contribute to cross-border social commerce? An empirical evidence from SEM and fsQCA analysis	5
Emotion regulation in blind and visually impaired children aged 3 to 12 years assessed by a parental questionnaire	5
Re-examining the relationship between interpersonal reactivity index sub-scales and mental well-being: Implications of the pandemic	5
Which group matters more: The relative strength of minimal vs. gender and race group memberships in children's intergroup thinking	5
The effect of medical staff's professional identity on psychological stress during public health emergencies: The role of intolerance of uncertainty and adversity appraisal	5
The new unbounded number line estimation task: A systematic literature review	5
Misattribution of duties as free choices: The role of emotional awareness in self-infiltration	5
The acute effects of continuous and intermittent cycling on executive function in children	5
Crossmodal correspondences as common ground for joint action	5
The mediating role of emotions in the relation between beliefs and teachers' job satisfaction	5
The part-list cuing effect in working memory: The influence of task presentation mode	5
Social context effects on emotional language: The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the emotional evaluation of words	5
The interconnections among the intensity of social network use, anxiety, smartphone addiction and the parent-child relationship of adolescents: A moderated mediation effect	5
Experimental control of conflict in a predictive visual probe task: Highly reliable bias scores related to anxiety	5
Exploring the impact of social media on tourist behavior in rural mountain tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of perceived risk and community participation	5
The moderating role of resilience in the relationship between state and trait anxiety and post-traumatic growth of medical freshmen	5
Imitation and interindividual differences: Belief in free will is not related to automatic imitation	5
Establishing conversational engagement and being effective: The role of body movement in mediated communication	5
Effect of temporal distance and goal type on predictions of future information security: Focus on moderation of self-efficacy and social responsibility	4
Given the option, people avoid incongruent responses in a dual-tasking situation	4
Children perform better on left than right targets in an ordinal task	4
Impact of COVID-19 anxiety on loneliness and sleep quality of students and professionals in Bangladesh	4
Numerosity sense correlates with fluent mathematical abilities	4
The relationship between neuroticism and passive use of mobile social networks among Chinese young adults: The mediating role of fear of missing out and online social support	4
Linear correlation is insufficient as the sole measure of associations: The case of technology use and mental health	4
Dual-task interference in action programming and action planning — Evidence from the end-state comfort effect	4
Pictorial vs. linguistic negation: Investigating negation in imperatives across different symbol domains	4
Digital joint action: Avatar-mediated social interaction in digital spaces	4
Mediating process between fine motor skills, finger gnosis, and calculation abilities in preschool children	4
Workplace ostracism influencing turnover intentions: Moderating roles of perceptions of organizational virtuousness and authentic leadership	4
Revealing the hierarchical structure of temperamental constructs distinguished in eight theories	4
Interaction mechanism between location and sequence in letter cognition	4
Spatial-numerical associations without a motor response? Grip force says ‘Yes’	4
Imitation in one's own presence: No specific effect of self-focus on imitation	4
Unequal home literacy environments between preschool-age boys and girls predict unequal language and preliteracy outcomes	4