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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
E. Mavis Hetherington (1926–2023).490
International Humanitarian Award: Garth Neufeld.168
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.165
An Ocean of Data by Gonzalo Bacigalupe90
Eileen Gavin (1931–2024).87
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Shinobu Kitayama.87
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice: Gayle Y. Iwamasa.81
Supplemental Material for Intergroup Contact Is Reliably Associated With Reduced Prejudice, Even in the Face of Group Threat and Discrimination80
Supplemental Material for Step-by-Step to More Creativity: The Number of Steps in Everyday Life Is Related to Creative Ideation Performance77
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Richard E. Petty.75
David A. Washburn (1961–2025).67
Climate change and health equity: A research agenda for psychological science.57
Mental health and environmental factors in adults: A population-based network analysis.55
Conscious and unconscious processing of ensemble statistics oppositely modulate perceptual decision-making.52
Applying rigorous standards is not a ban or censorship: A reply to León (2025) and Connor and Fuerst (2025).51
From policy to practice: A framework for promoting scientific integrity in psychology.51
Translating neurophysiological biomarkers into clinical tools: A psychometric blueprint illustrated with the error-related negativity.47
Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology.46
Supplemental Material for Fears About Artificial Intelligence Across 20 Countries and Six Domains of Application44
Norman B. Anderson (1955–2024).44
Atypical child–parent neural synchrony is linked to negative family emotional climate and children’s psychopathological symptoms.43
Increased functional connectivity between the midbrain and frontal cortex following bright light therapy in subthreshold depression: A randomized clinical trial.42
It’s time to replace the personality disorders with the interpersonal disorders.39
Truth and reconciliation for whom? Transitional justice for Indigenous peoples in American psychology.39
Martin Y. Iguchi (1955–2021).38
Supplemental Material for Resilience of Racial and Ethnic Minority Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of a Prior Disability Prevention Intervention38
Supplemental Material for Dynamic Fit Index Cutoffs for Categorical Factor Analysis With Likert-Type, Ordinal, or Binary Responses36
Dianne L. Chambless (1948–2023).33
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers33
Stanley R. Graham (1926–2023).30
From “behind the bridge” to the presidency of the American Psychological Association: Lessons learned on an unplanned journey.30
Supplemental Material for Shifting the Gaze From Racism to Healing From Racism: A Systematic Review of Selected Psychology Journals From 1992 to 202230
Jerry (Jerald) Rudmann (1944–2024).30
Anthony J. Marsella (1940–2024).29
Amplifying Black excellence in industrial–organizational psychology.29
Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s silver lining effects on life satisfaction.28
Epistemological oppression and racism—Failure to see the forest from the trees: Reply to Mckay and Koppelman-White (2025) and Strambler (2025).28
Relational and situated agency in communal women in Peru.28
John H. Flavell (1928–2025).27
Supplemental Material for From Policy to Practice: A Framework for Promoting Scientific Integrity in Psychology26
The American Psychological Association and antisemitism: Toward equity, diversity, and inclusion.26
Report of the American Psychological Association’s Board of Scientific Affairs Task Force on Promotion, Tenure, and Retention of Faculty of Color in Psychology.26
Field social psychology.26
Assessing the safety and efficacy of prescribing psychologists in New Mexico and Louisiana.26
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Amie Michelle Gordon.25
No client left behind: A meta-analysis of premature termination from psychotherapy in U.S. service members and veterans.23
Scholarship, not politics: Reply to Eidelson (2025).23
Interpersonal and personality disorders: Commentary on Wright et al. (2022).23
All Hands In by Yolanda Peña Mazzoni23
Social support and psychological adjustment: A quantitative synthesis of 60 meta-analyses.23
Supplemental Material for Integrating Systems of Power and Privilege in the Study of Resilience23
Supplemental Material for The Associations and Mediators Between Visual Disabilities and Anxiety Disorders in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Population-Based Study23
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.22
Amboseli Awakening by Amanda Thompson22
Intelligence … moving beyond the lowest common denominator.22
A randomized wait-list controlled trial of Men in Mind: Enhancing mental health practitioners’ self-rated clinical competencies to work with men.22
Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology: Stephen L. Chew.22
James H. Korn (1938–2025).22
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Jennifer C. Wolff.21
Process-focused psychotherapy training is evidence-based psychotherapy training: Commentary on Westra and Di Bartolomeo (2024).20
Supplemental Material for How Elections Shape Perceptions of Ideal Leadership20
Michael E. Connor (1942–2023).20
Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. (1924–2022).20
Supplemental Material for Reflections From the Wading Pool: Detoxifying Racist Psychological Waters While Submerged in Their Waves20
Supplemental Material for Cultural Tightness Reduces Humor Production: Evidence From Multiple Countries19
Cotton Candy Sunset by Randy Bott19
Supplemental Material for Responses to Political Partisans Are Shaped by a COVID-19-Sensitive Disease Avoidance Psychology: A Longitudinal Investigation of Functional Flexibility19
A network analysis of high school and college students’ COVID-19-related concerns, self-regulatory skills, and affect.18
Tales from the trenches: The barriers to and facilitators of decolonizing doctoral research in psychology departments of Aotearoa.18
Inconvenience and generalization in building a better psychology: Commentary on Sherman (2025).18
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Cynthia J. Najdowski.17
Language brokering and immigrant-origin youth’s well-being: A meta-analytic review.17
Mental health care equity and access: A group therapy solution.17
Robin J. Hailstorks (1954–2023).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 Psychological Predictors of Socioeconomic Resilience Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Machine Learning16
Supplemental Material for How Subjective Idea Valuation Energizes and Guides Creative Idea Generation16
AA1133 (Rothko) by Alan D. Entin16
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 Citation Accuracy in American Psychological Association Amicus Curiae Briefs15
Untitled by KwangHo Shin15
A refreshing and necessary start: Commentary on Westra and Di Bartolomeo (2024).15
Summary report of journal operations, 2023.15
Supplemental Material for The Impact of Self-Affirmation Interventions on Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis15
Vagueness as imprecision is a bug to be mitigated: Commentary on Hutmacher and Franz (2025).14
The evolution of social paradoxes.14
Decolonial research practices from an indigenous psychology perspective: Critical contributions to knowledge.14
Cultural tightness reduces humor production: Evidence from multiple countries.14
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Riana Elyse Anderson.14
“Don't hold back”: Swearing improves strength through state disinhibition.14
A stigma-conscious framework for resilience and posttraumatic change.14
A quasi-experimental study examining the efficacy of multimodal bot screening tools and recommendations to preserve data integrity in online psychological research.13
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Pim Cuijpers.13
Vineland Near Ventura, Right Bank Looking East by Randye N. Sandel13
Is psychological research producing the kind of knowledge clinicians find useful?13
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 Symptoms13
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.13
Still WEIRD, still underreported: An updated benchmark for psychological science.13
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology.13
Susan M. Johnson (1947–2024).12
Supplemental Material for I Forgot That You Existed: Role of Memory Accessibility in the Gender Citation Gap12
Toward a better understanding of cultural change: Reply to Bao et al. (2022).12
Edison J. Trickett (1941–2022).12
Supplemental Material for To Read or Not to Read? Motives for Reading Negative COVID-19 News12
Supplemental Material for Racial Uplifts and the Asian American Experience11
Supplemental Material for Five Decades of Research on Psychological Treatments of Depression: A Historical and Meta-Analytic Overview11
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Arie W. Kruglanski.11
Race versus the human.11
Supplemental Material for Navigating Ethical Challenges in Psychological Research Involving Digital Remote Technologies and People Who Use Alcohol or Drugs11
Standing on the shoulders of a giant: The legacy of Robert M. Sellers.11
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.11
Building a dynamic adaptational process theory of resilience (ADAPTOR): Stress exposure, reserve capacity, adaptation, and consequence.11
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Karen Chan Osilla.11
“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
Moving human rights to the forefront of psychology: Summary of the final report of the APA task force on human rights.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
A nuanced view of the extent to which samples from narrow populations are scientifically problematic.10
Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award.10
A tale of two perspectives: Reply to Schneider (2022).10
Resilience of racial and ethnic minority older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of a prior disability prevention intervention.10
Neural specialization with generalizable representations underlies children’s cognitive development of attention.10
International Humanitarian Award.10
Rocky Mountain Sunflowers by Jan Bushart10
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Kathryn J. Holland.9
Components of evolutionary psychology are falsifiable, but does that make it a good theory? Commentary on Costello et al. (2026).9
Broadening the evidentiary basis for clinical practice guidelines: Recommendations from qualitative psychotherapy researchers.9
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.9
Interventions in everyday life to improve mental health and reduce symptoms of psychiatric disorders.9
Leveraging psychological fit to encourage saving behavior.9
Intergenerational transmission of depression risk and the developing brain.9
Lewis Paeff Lipsitt (1929–2021).9
International Humanitarian Award.9
Professional practice guidelines for operational psychology: An executive summary.9
Exponential authorship inflation in neuroscience and psychology from the 1950s to the 2020s.9
Responsible data sharing: Identifying and remedying possible re-identification of human participants.9
Psychologist undercover: George Kelly and the Central Intelligence Agency.9
APF Charles l. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology: Jeffrey S. Nevid.9
Jerome Kagan (1929–2021).9
Idea ex Plenum by Philip Zelazo8
Pathways to queer thriving in an LGBTQ+ intergenerational community.8
On the accuracy, media representation, and public perception of psychological scientists’ judgments of societal change.8
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice: Brigitte Khoury.8
Daniel Kahneman (1934–2024).8
To reduce editor bias and increase diversity and transparency, editors must be motivated: Commentary on Sharpe (2024).8
Supplemental Material for Personality Portrait of Psychologists in 170 Years of English Books8
White fragility: An emotion regulation perspective.8
Decolonizing psychology education in Australia through the Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project.8
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.8
Supplemental Material for A Review of General Cognitive-Behavioral Programs in English and Welsh Prisons and Probation Services: Three Decades of Quasi-Experimental Evaluations8
Reducing racial bias in scientific communication: Journal policies and their influence on reporting racial demographics.8
The detection of automatic behavior in other people.8
James S. Jackson and the program for research on Black Americans: Contributions to psychology and the social sciences.8
Supplemental Material for Publication Trends for Qualitative Inquiry in American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science Journals8
Frans B. M. de Waal (1948–2024).8
Developing practices for hospital-based violence intervention programs to address anti-Black racism and historical trauma.8
Provenance by Lyle Rushing7
Harvey Schlossberg (1936–2021).7
Supplemental Material for Atypical Child–Parent Neural Synchrony Is Linked to Negative Family Emotional Climate and Children’s Psychopathological Symptoms7
Psychologists return to the first question of Western philosophy.7
The Long Wait by Lisa Jacobs7
Psychology and whiteness itself.7
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.7
Fears about artificial intelligence across 20 countries and six domains of application.7
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Susan Goldin-Meadow.7
Racism exposure and trauma accumulation perpetuate pain inequities—advocating for change (RESTORATIVE): A conceptual model.7
What is awe? On an uncontested definition, conceptual ambiguities, and cultural limitations.7
APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Sarah C. Leighton.7
Supplemental Material for What Is Unique About Acceptance and Correction of Misinformation? Insights From Work on Attitudes, Persuasion, and Beyond7
A new model explaining number-line estimation performance across development: An adversarial collaboration.7
Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures.7
Some closure on exposure—Realigning the perspective on trauma treatment and finding a pathway forward: Reply to Brown (2024) and Najavits (2024).6
Ethical applications of digital community-based research with Black immigrant and refugee youth and families.6
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.6
“And they are still the guardians of these sacred waters …”: Land as a process of reconciliation.6
The Faceless by Jane Zich6
The social determinants of resilience: A conceptual framework to integrate psychological and policy research.6
Expanding the role of justice in secondary research using digital psychological data.6
APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Robert D. Enright.5
Frank L. Schmidt (1944–2021).5
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Keely A. Muscatell.5
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Dylan G. Gee.5
On definition and description in psychopathology: Reply to Widiger et al. (2023).5
A review of general cognitive-behavioral programs in English and Welsh prisons and probation services: Three decades of quasi-experimental evaluations.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: Mark L. Hatzenbuehler.5
Supplemental Material for Gender Disparities in Authorship of Invited Submissions in High-Impact Psychology Journals5
Demographics and clinical characteristics of patients of prescribing psychologists, psychiatrists, and primary care physicians.5
A cultural script for suicide among White men in the Mountain West Region of the United States.5
La Luna Como un Garbanzo (The Moon as a Chickpea) by Marcia Salas5
Robert Sommer (1929–2021).5
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Judith L. Gibbons.5
Vineyard at Volpaia by Catherine Renzi5
Misinformation is a symptom: Commentary on Ecker et al. (2025).5
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
A historic apology: The American Psychological Association’s commitment to dismantling systemic racism and advancing racial equity in psychology.4
Irwin G. Sarason (1929–2025).4
Decolonizing mental health in the polycrisis: Pathways toward neuro-decolonization.4
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: BJ Casey.4
Supplemental Material for Replicating and Extending Sengupta et al. (2023): Contact Predicts No Within-Person Longitudinal Outgroup-Bias Change4
Sanctuary mindset: An action framework to affirm immigrant mental health in distressing periods.4
What divides and unites our memories: Multifactor trial-wise predictions of memory across 6+ million trials.4
Jean Maria Arrigo (1944–2024).4
Ron E. Franco Durán (1963–2022).4
The meditation app revolution.4
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Michael S. Fanselow.4
Supplemental Material for The Misperception of Organizational Racial Progress Toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion4
Dismantling racism through partnership with resettled refugee communities.4
James “Jim” C. Coyne (1947–2024).4
Supplemental Material for Assessing the Safety and Efficacy of Prescribing Psychologists in New Mexico and Louisiana4
Herbert J. Greenwald (1929–2024).4
Internalization of weight bias and stigma: Scientific challenges and opportunities.4
Using psychological science to understand and fight health misinformation: An APA consensus statement.4
Duane Schultz (1934–2023).4
Responses to political partisans are shaped by a COVID-19-sensitive disease avoidance psychology: A longitudinal investigation of functional flexibility.4
Biological and cultural influences on the expression of sex differences: Commentary on Costello et al. (2026).4
Supplemental Material for No Client Left Behind: A Meta-Analysis of Premature Termination From Psychotherapy in U.S. Service Members and Veterans4
Philip G. Zimbardo (1933–2024).4
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