American Psychologist

Papers
(The TQCC of American Psychologist is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
E. Mavis Hetherington (1926–2023).499
International Humanitarian Award: Garth Neufeld.172
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.170
An Ocean of Data by Gonzalo Bacigalupe94
Eileen Gavin (1931–2024).90
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Shinobu Kitayama.84
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice: Gayle Y. Iwamasa.80
Supplemental Material for Intergroup Contact Is Reliably Associated With Reduced Prejudice, Even in the Face of Group Threat and Discrimination78
Supplemental Material for Step-by-Step to More Creativity: The Number of Steps in Everyday Life Is Related to Creative Ideation Performance58
Applying rigorous standards is not a ban or censorship: A reply to León (2025) and Connor and Fuerst (2025).57
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Richard E. Petty.55
Supplemental Material for Fears About Artificial Intelligence Across 20 Countries and Six Domains of Application51
Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology.49
From policy to practice: A framework for promoting scientific integrity in psychology.47
Norman B. Anderson (1955–2024).45
Mental health and environmental factors in adults: A population-based network analysis.44
Climate change and health equity: A research agenda for psychological science.44
Increased functional connectivity between the midbrain and frontal cortex following bright light therapy in subthreshold depression: A randomized clinical trial.43
Truth and reconciliation for whom? Transitional justice for Indigenous peoples in American psychology.40
Translating neurophysiological biomarkers into clinical tools: A psychometric blueprint illustrated with the error-related negativity.40
It’s time to replace the personality disorders with the interpersonal disorders.38
David A. Washburn (1961–2025).35
Conscious and unconscious processing of ensemble statistics oppositely modulate perceptual decision-making.34
Martin Y. Iguchi (1955–2021).33
Atypical child–parent neural synchrony is linked to negative family emotional climate and children’s psychopathological symptoms.33
Supplemental Material for Resilience of Racial and Ethnic Minority Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of a Prior Disability Prevention Intervention31
Supplemental Material for Dynamic Fit Index Cutoffs for Categorical Factor Analysis With Likert-Type, Ordinal, or Binary Responses31
Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s silver lining effects on life satisfaction.30
Dianne L. Chambless (1948–2023).30
From “behind the bridge” to the presidency of the American Psychological Association: Lessons learned on an unplanned journey.30
Stanley R. Graham (1926–2023).29
Assessing the safety and efficacy of prescribing psychologists in New Mexico and Louisiana.29
Jerry (Jerald) Rudmann (1944–2024).29
Epistemological oppression and racism—Failure to see the forest from the trees: Reply to Mckay and Koppelman-White (2025) and Strambler (2025).28
No client left behind: A meta-analysis of premature termination from psychotherapy in U.S. service members and veterans.26
Supplemental Material for Shifting the Gaze From Racism to Healing From Racism: A Systematic Review of Selected Psychology Journals From 1992 to 202226
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Amie Michelle Gordon.26
Amplifying Black excellence in industrial–organizational psychology.26
Anthony J. Marsella (1940–2024).26
Relational and situated agency in communal women in Peru.25
Social support and psychological adjustment: A quantitative synthesis of 60 meta-analyses.24
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers24
John H. Flavell (1928–2025).24
Field social psychology.23
Interpersonal and personality disorders: Commentary on Wright et al. (2022).23
Report of the American Psychological Association’s Board of Scientific Affairs Task Force on Promotion, Tenure, and Retention of Faculty of Color in Psychology.23
Supplemental Material for From Policy to Practice: A Framework for Promoting Scientific Integrity in Psychology23
All Hands In by Yolanda Peña Mazzoni23
Scholarship, not politics: Reply to Eidelson (2025).23
The American Psychological Association and antisemitism: Toward equity, diversity, and inclusion.23
Supplemental Material for The Associations and Mediators Between Visual Disabilities and Anxiety Disorders in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Population-Based Study23
Supplemental Material for Integrating Systems of Power and Privilege in the Study of Resilience23
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Jennifer C. Wolff.22
Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology: Stephen L. Chew.22
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.22
Supplemental Material for Reflections From the Wading Pool: Detoxifying Racist Psychological Waters While Submerged in Their Waves21
Michael E. Connor (1942–2023).21
Supplemental Material for How Elections Shape Perceptions of Ideal Leadership21
Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. (1924–2022).21
Tales from the trenches: The barriers to and facilitators of decolonizing doctoral research in psychology departments of Aotearoa.19
Supplemental Material for Responses to Political Partisans Are Shaped by a COVID-19-Sensitive Disease Avoidance Psychology: A Longitudinal Investigation of Functional Flexibility19
Cotton Candy Sunset by Randy Bott19
A randomized wait-list controlled trial of Men in Mind: Enhancing mental health practitioners’ self-rated clinical competencies to work with men.18
Mental health care equity and access: A group therapy solution.18
Inconvenience and generalization in building a better psychology: Commentary on Sherman (2025).18
Supplemental Material for Cultural Tightness Reduces Humor Production: Evidence From Multiple Countries18
James H. Korn (1938–2025).18
Language brokering and immigrant-origin youth’s well-being: A meta-analytic review.18
A network analysis of high school and college students’ COVID-19-related concerns, self-regulatory skills, and affect.17
Amboseli Awakening by Amanda Thompson17
Process-focused psychotherapy training is evidence-based psychotherapy training: Commentary on Westra and Di Bartolomeo (2024).17
Intelligence … moving beyond the lowest common denominator.17
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Cynthia J. Najdowski.16
APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Shawntell Nicole Pace.16
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research.16
Supplemental Material for Exponential Authorship Inflation in Neuroscience and Psychology From the 1950s to the 2020s16
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Vonnie C. McLoyd.16
Supplemental Material for How Subjective Idea Valuation Energizes and Guides Creative Idea Generation16
AA1133 (Rothko) by Alan D. Entin15
Still WEIRD, still underreported: An updated benchmark for psychological science.15
Supplemental Material for Psychological Predictors of Socioeconomic Resilience Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Machine Learning15
Supplemental Material for Citation Accuracy in American Psychological Association Amicus Curiae Briefs15
Robin J. Hailstorks (1954–2023).15
Untitled by KwangHo Shin15
A refreshing and necessary start: Commentary on Westra and Di Bartolomeo (2024).15
Is psychological research producing the kind of knowledge clinicians find useful?14
Summary report of journal operations, 2023.14
Vagueness as imprecision is a bug to be mitigated: Commentary on Hutmacher and Franz (2025).14
The evolution of social paradoxes.14
Supplemental Material for The Impact of Self-Affirmation Interventions on Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis14
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Riana Elyse Anderson.14
Cultural tightness reduces humor production: Evidence from multiple countries.14
A stigma-conscious framework for resilience and posttraumatic change.13
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Pim Cuijpers.13
A quasi-experimental study examining the efficacy of multimodal bot screening tools and recommendations to preserve data integrity in online psychological research.13
Decolonial research practices from an indigenous psychology perspective: Critical contributions to knowledge.13
“Don't hold back”: Swearing improves strength through state disinhibition.13
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.12
Supplemental Material for “More Is Better” or “Better Near the Middle”? A U.S.-Based Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Socioeconomic Status and Depressive Symptoms12
Edison J. Trickett (1941–2022).12
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology.12
Supplemental Material for I Forgot That You Existed: Role of Memory Accessibility in the Gender Citation Gap12
Vineland Near Ventura, Right Bank Looking East by Randye N. Sandel12
Susan M. Johnson (1947–2024).12
Building a dynamic adaptational process theory of resilience (ADAPTOR): Stress exposure, reserve capacity, adaptation, and consequence.11
Standing on the shoulders of a giant: The legacy of Robert M. Sellers.11
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Arie W. Kruglanski.11
Supplemental Material for Navigating Ethical Challenges in Psychological Research Involving Digital Remote Technologies and People Who Use Alcohol or Drugs11
Supplemental Material for To Read or Not to Read? Motives for Reading Negative COVID-19 News11
Race versus the human.11
Supplemental Material for Five Decades of Research on Psychological Treatments of Depression: A Historical and Meta-Analytic Overview11
Supplemental Material for Racial Uplifts and the Asian American Experience11
Toward a better understanding of cultural change: Reply to Bao et al. (2022).11
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Karen Chan Osilla.11
A tale of two perspectives: Reply to Schneider (2022).10
Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award.10
Rocky Mountain Sunflowers by Jan Bushart10
“We are not alone in the world”: Creating possibilities for transnational radical relationality, epistemic justice, and expanded ecologies of knowledge through the Indaba podcast.10
Components of evolutionary psychology are falsifiable, but does that make it a good theory? Commentary on Costello et al. (2026).10
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.10
International Humanitarian Award.10
Neural specialization with generalizable representations underlies children’s cognitive development of attention.10
Resilience of racial and ethnic minority older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of a prior disability prevention intervention.10
Aaron T. Beck (1921–2021).10
Möbius Rising by Allison Zuckerman10
There is much more to tolerance than social categorization: Commentary on Simon (2023).10
Exponential authorship inflation in neuroscience and psychology from the 1950s to the 2020s.10
Broadening the evidentiary basis for clinical practice guidelines: Recommendations from qualitative psychotherapy researchers.9
International Humanitarian Award.9
Supplemental Material for A Review of General Cognitive-Behavioral Programs in English and Welsh Prisons and Probation Services: Three Decades of Quasi-Experimental Evaluations9
Psychologist undercover: George Kelly and the Central Intelligence Agency.9
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.9
Intergenerational transmission of depression risk and the developing brain.9
Supplemental Material for Two Dimensions of Access: Availability and Affordability of Mental Health Care Across the United States9
Idea ex Plenum by Philip Zelazo9
To reduce editor bias and increase diversity and transparency, editors must be motivated: Commentary on Sharpe (2024).9
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.9
A nuanced view of the extent to which samples from narrow populations are scientifically problematic.9
Responsible data sharing: Identifying and remedying possible re-identification of human participants.9
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Kathryn J. Holland.9
Daniel Kahneman (1934–2024).9
Developing practices for hospital-based violence intervention programs to address anti-Black racism and historical trauma.9
Frans B. M. de Waal (1948–2024).9
Leveraging psychological fit to encourage saving behavior.9
Professional practice guidelines for operational psychology: An executive summary.8
Collective emotion regulation.8
Decolonizing psychology education in Australia through the Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project.8
What is awe? On an uncontested definition, conceptual ambiguities, and cultural limitations.8
Reducing racial bias in scientific communication: Journal policies and their influence on reporting racial demographics.8
Supplemental Material for Publication Trends for Qualitative Inquiry in American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science Journals8
On the accuracy, media representation, and public perception of psychological scientists’ judgments of societal change.8
Psychology and whiteness itself.8
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice: Brigitte Khoury.8
James S. Jackson and the program for research on Black Americans: Contributions to psychology and the social sciences.8
APF Charles l. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology: Jeffrey S. Nevid.8
The detection of automatic behavior in other people.8
Supplemental Material for Personality Portrait of Psychologists in 170 Years of English Books8
Pathways to queer thriving in an LGBTQ+ intergenerational community.7
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.7
The Long Wait by Lisa Jacobs7
Supplemental Material for Atypical Child–Parent Neural Synchrony Is Linked to Negative Family Emotional Climate and Children’s Psychopathological Symptoms7
Interventions in everyday life to improve mental health and reduce symptoms of psychiatric disorders.7
Provenance by Lyle Rushing7
Psychologists return to the first question of Western philosophy.7
Supplemental Material for What Is Unique About Acceptance and Correction of Misinformation? Insights From Work on Attitudes, Persuasion, and Beyond7
Fears about artificial intelligence across 20 countries and six domains of application.7
Harvey Schlossberg (1936–2021).7
APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Sarah C. Leighton.7
Acceptance and commitment therapy versus trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy: A comparative study of the effects on the posttraumatic stress symptoms of female Afghan adolescents.7
Some closure on exposure—Realigning the perspective on trauma treatment and finding a pathway forward: Reply to Brown (2024) and Najavits (2024).6
A new model explaining number-line estimation performance across development: An adversarial collaboration.6
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Susan Goldin-Meadow.6
The social determinants of resilience: A conceptual framework to integrate psychological and policy research.6
Racism exposure and trauma accumulation perpetuate pain inequities—advocating for change (RESTORATIVE): A conceptual model.6
The Faceless by Jane Zich6
“And they are still the guardians of these sacred waters …”: Land as a process of reconciliation.6
Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures.6
Ethical applications of digital community-based research with Black immigrant and refugee youth and families.6
Expanding the role of justice in secondary research using digital psychological data.6
Supplemental Material for A Randomized Wait-List Controlled Trial of Men in Mind: Enhancing Mental Health Practitioners’ Self-Rated Clinical Competencies to Work With Men5
Demographics and clinical characteristics of patients of prescribing psychologists, psychiatrists, and primary care physicians.5
Irwin G. Sarason (1929–2025).5
Supplemental Material for Gender Disparities in Authorship of Invited Submissions in High-Impact Psychology Journals5
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Judith L. Gibbons.5
Frank L. Schmidt (1944–2021).5
APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Mark L. Hatzenbuehler.5
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Dylan G. Gee.5
A review of general cognitive-behavioral programs in English and Welsh prisons and probation services: Three decades of quasi-experimental evaluations.5
Responses to political partisans are shaped by a COVID-19-sensitive disease avoidance psychology: A longitudinal investigation of functional flexibility.5
Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review with meta-analysis.5
Knowledge and intelligence: Reply to Oswald et al. (2023) and Sternberg (2023).5
APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Robert D. Enright.5
On definition and description in psychopathology: Reply to Widiger et al. (2023).5
Vineyard at Volpaia by Catherine Renzi5
Internalization of weight bias and stigma: Scientific challenges and opportunities.5
La Luna Como un Garbanzo (The Moon as a Chickpea) by Marcia Salas5
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Keely A. Muscatell.5
Decolonizing mental health in the polycrisis: Pathways toward neuro-decolonization.4
Using psychological science to understand and fight health misinformation: An APA consensus statement.4
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: BJ Casey.4
A historic apology: The American Psychological Association’s commitment to dismantling systemic racism and advancing racial equity in psychology.4
James “Jim” C. Coyne (1947–2024).4
Sanctuary mindset: An action framework to affirm immigrant mental health in distressing periods.4
Philip G. Zimbardo (1933–2024).4
Supplemental Material for The Misperception of Organizational Racial Progress Toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion4
The meditation app revolution.4
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Michael S. Fanselow.4
Ron E. Franco Durán (1963–2022).4
Supplemental Material for Replicating and Extending Sengupta et al. (2023): Contact Predicts No Within-Person Longitudinal Outgroup-Bias Change4
Supplemental Material for No Client Left Behind: A Meta-Analysis of Premature Termination From Psychotherapy in U.S. Service Members and Veterans4
Why citation accuracy matters in psychological science: A commentary on Marcus et al. (2025) and call to the field.4
Jean Maria Arrigo (1944–2024).4
A cultural script for suicide among White men in the Mountain West Region of the United States.4
Misinformation is a symptom: Commentary on Ecker et al. (2025).4
Duane Schultz (1934–2023).4
A generalizable framework for assessing the role of emotion during choice.4
Dismantling racism through partnership with resettled refugee communities.4
Herbert J. Greenwald (1929–2024).4
Supplemental Material for Assessing the Safety and Efficacy of Prescribing Psychologists in New Mexico and Louisiana4
Biological and cultural influences on the expression of sex differences: Commentary on Costello et al. (2026).4
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