Psychological Bulletin

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychological Bulletin is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Reassessing the cognitive benefits of physical activity: A meta-analytic reanalysis of Mavilidi et al. (2025).336
Supplemental Material for Internalized Racism and Personal Self-Esteem Among Ethnoracial Minoritized Groups: A Meta-Analytic Review298
Supplemental Material for Effort-Based Decision Making in Psychopathology: A Transdiagnostic Multilevel Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Behavioral Patterns and Mechanisms Underlying Amotivation276
The unpleasantness of thinking: A meta-analytic review of the association between mental effort and negative affect.221
Male suicide risk and recovery factors: A systematic review and qualitative metasynthesis of two decades of research.185
Influences of past moral behavior on future behavior: A review of sequential moral behavior studies using meta-analytic techniques.183
Supplemental Material for Project Harmony: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Psychotherapy and Pharmacologic Trials for Comorbid Posttraumatic Stress, Alcohol, and Other Drug Use Disord137
Supplemental Material for How Do Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Interpersonal Psychotherapy Improve Youth Depression? Applying Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling to Three Decades of Randomiz113
Supplemental Material for Ignorance by Choice: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Underlying Motives of Willful Ignorance and Its Consequences111
Evaluating the robustness of parameter estimates in cognitive models: A meta-analytic review of multinomial processing tree models across the multiverse of estimation methods.105
Supplemental Material for Acoustic Exaggeration of Vowels in Infant-Directed Speech: A Multimethod Meta-Analytic Review105
Supplemental Material for Emotion Regulation in Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis of Transdiagnostic and Disorder-Specific Impairments97
Supplemental Material for Attention Bias for Facial Expressions of Emotion: A Meta-Analytic Review80
A systematic review and meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions: For whom, how, and why might such interventions work?73
Data extraction by generative artificial intelligence: Assessing determinants of accuracy using human-extracted data from systematic review databases.68
Early childhood executive function predicts concurrent and later social and behavioral outcomes: A review and meta-analysis.68
Supplemental Material for The Development of Children’s Gender Stereotypes About STEM and Verbal Abilities: A Preregistered Meta-Analytic Review of 98 Studies67
Ignored, dismissed, and minimized: Understanding the harmful consequences of invalidation in health care—A systematic meta-synthesis of qualitative research.67
On the mechanisms of intervention effect fade-out: A meta-analytic review of interventions targeting at-risk students’ achievement.63
Supplemental Material for Internalized Racism, Stress, and Health: A Comprehensive Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Model Test of the Internalized Racism Framework63
Internalized racism and personal self-esteem among ethnoracial minoritized groups: A meta-analytic review.62
Religiosity predicts prosociality, especially when measured by self-report: A meta-analysis of almost 60 years of research.61
Can sociocultural and contextual factors explain gender differences in sex drive? A response to Frankenbach et al. (2022).58
Sex drive: Theoretical conceptualization and meta-analytic review of gender differences.57
Cognitive factors underlying mathematical skills: A systematic review and meta-analysis.56
Pervasive failure to report properties of visual stimuli in experimental research in psychology and neuroscience: Two metascientific studies.54
Supplemental Material for Parent–Child Boundary Dissolution and Children’s Psychological Difficulties: A Meta-Analytic Review54
Supplemental Material for Positive and Negative Parenting Practices and Offspring Disruptive Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review of Quasi-Experimental Evidence54
Committed (dis)honesty: A systematic meta-analytic review of the divergent effects of social commitment to individuals or honesty oaths on dishonest behavior.51
Cognitive control biases in depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis.50
Mind-wandering increases in frequency over time during task performance: An individual-participant meta-analytic review.49
Supplemental Material for How Spatial Skills Relate to Science Achievement: A Meta-Analytic Review49
Electronic screen use and children’s socioemotional problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.47
Supplemental Material for Does Confronting Prejudice Reduce Intergroup Bias? A Meta-Analytic Review46
Supplemental Material for The Association Between Reading Anxiety and Reading Achievement: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review44
Supplemental Material for Why Meta-Analyses of Growth Mindset and Other Interventions Should Follow Best Practices for Examining Heterogeneity: Commentary on Macnamara and Burgoyne (2023) and Burnette44
Supplemental Material for Do Immediate Judgments of Learning Alter Memory Performance? A Meta-Analytical Review43
Culturally fluent theories, metascience, and scientific progress: A case example: Commentary on Macnamara and Burgoyne (2023) and Burnette et al. (2023).41
Secondary benefits of family member participation in treatments for childhood disorders: A multilevel meta-analytic review.41
Intergenerational stability in parenting across two generations: A multilevel meta-analytic review.40
Priming behavior: A meta-analysis of the effects of behavioral and nonbehavioral primes on overt behavioral outcomes.39
A spotlight on bias in the growth mindset intervention literature: A reply to commentaries that contextualize the discussion (Oyserman, 2023; Yan & Schuetze, 2023) and illustrate the conclusion (T36
Crossmodal semantics in memory: Scoping review and meta-analyses of multisensory effects in short-term and episodic memory systems.36
Supplemental Material for Sleep Loss and Emotion: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Over 50 Years of Experimental Research36
How do cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy improve youth depression? Applying meta-analytic structural equation modeling to three decades of randomized trials.35
Supplemental Material for Comparing Gesture Frequency Between Autistic and Neurotypical Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis34
Parent–child boundary dissolution and children’s psychological difficulties: A meta-analytic review.34
Acknowledgment33
Supplemental Material for Mapping Domains of Life Success: Insights From Meta-Analytic Criterion Profile Analysis31
Supplemental Material for Effects of Acute Exercise on Cognitive Function: A Meta-Review of 30 Systematic Reviews With Meta-Analyses29
Structuring hierarchy concepts: Evaluating measures of power, status, dominance, and prestige on the basis of an integrative model and systematic literature review.29
Supplemental Material for Categories of Training to Improve Empathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis28
Supplemental Material for Associations Between Cognitive Appraisals and Emotions: A Meta-Analytic Review27
Artificial intelligence as a partner in meta-analysis—Research agenda, user recommendations, and speed–accuracy tradeoffs: Commentary on Jansen et al. (2025).27
The gender convergence effect in older age: A meta-analytic review comparing modern attitudes toward younger, middle-aged, and older women and men.26
Risk of undermining the cognitive benefits of physical activity by overcorrecting for risk of bias: Reply to Román-Caballero (2025).26
The first 20,000 strange situation procedures: A meta-analytic review.25
Child maltreatment and alexithymia: A meta-analytic review.25
Intuitive deontology? A systematic review and multivariate, multilevel meta-analysis of experimental studies on the psychological drivers of moral judgments.25
On the relationship between unprompted thought and affective well-being: A systematic review and meta-analysis.25
Supplemental Material for “All We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”: Paradigms for Reducing Fear by Preventing Awareness of It24
A systematic review and meta-analysis of predictors of response to trauma-focused psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder.24
Supplemental Material for A Systematic Review and Bayesian Meta-Analysis of 30 Years of Stress Generation Research: Clinical, Psychological, and Sociodemographic Risk and Protective Factors for Prospe24
Prenatal stress and externalizing behaviors in childhood and adolescence: A systematic review and meta-analysis.24
Supporting the status quo is weakly associated with subjective well-being: A comparison of the palliative function of ideology across social status groups using a meta-analytic approach.21
Supplemental Material for The Gender Convergence Effect in Older Age: A Meta-Analytic Review Comparing Modern Attitudes Toward Younger, Middle-Aged, and Older Women and Men21
Supplemental Material for How Does Perceived Social Support Relate to Human Thriving? A Systematic Review With Meta-Analyses20
Knowing before doing: Review and mega-analysis of action understanding in prereaching infants.19
Effectiveness of psychotherapy: Synthesis of a “meta-analytic research domain” across world regions and 12 mental health problems.19
Rethinking emotional reactivity in bipolar disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis.19
Effects of peer observation on risky decision-making in adolescence: A meta-analytic review.19
The vicious cycle of psychopathology and stressful life events: A meta-analytic review testing the stress generation model.18
Negativity bias in intergroup contact: Meta-analytical evidence that bad is stronger than good, especially when people have the opportunity and motivation to opt out of contact.18
Supplemental Material for The Efficacy of Combining Cognitive Training and Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: A Transdiagnostic Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis18
Supplemental Material for Exposure to Community Violence and Biomarkers of Allostatic Load: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis17
Supplemental Material for Cultural Diversity Climate in School: A Meta-Analytic Review of Its Relationships With Intergroup, Academic, and Socioemotional Outcomes17
Supplemental Material for Crossmodal Semantics in Memory: Scoping Review and Meta-Analyses of Multisensory Effects in Short-Term and Episodic Memory Systems16
Supplemental Material for Procedural Skill Retention and Decay: A Meta-Analytic Review16
Supplemental Material for Negativity Bias in Intergroup Contact: Meta-Analytical Evidence That Bad Is Stronger Than Good, Especially When People Have the Opportunity and Motivation to Opt Out of Conta16
Handedness in mental and neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review and second-order meta-analysis.14
Getting comfortable with physical discomfort: A scoping review of interoceptive exposure in physical and mental health conditions.14
Empathy, sympathy, and emotion regulation: A meta-analytic review.14
Supplemental Material for Defining Social Reward: A Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies13
Social class and prosociality: A meta-analytic review.12
Supplemental Material for Reasons to Believe: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analytic Synthesis of the Motives Associated With Conspiracy Beliefs12
A meta-analytic review of the relation between spatial anxiety and spatial skills.12
Supplemental Material for Age-Related Changes in Emotion Recognition Across Childhood: A Meta-Analytic Review12
What is meant by “growth mindset”? Current theory, measurement practices, and empirical results leave much open to interpretation: Commentary on Macnamara and Burgoyne (2023) and Burnette et al. (202311
Cognitive mechanisms underlying sense of agency: Meta-analytic reviews of behavioral and neuroimaging studies.11
Feeds, feelings, and focus: A systematic review and meta-analysis examining the cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use.10
A meta-analytic review of cultural variation in affect valuation.10
Supplemental Material for A Systematic Review of the Ambivalent Sexism Literature: Hostile Sexism Protects Men’s Power; Benevolent Sexism Guards Traditional Gender Roles9
Supplemental Material for The Predictive Power of Autobiographical Memory in Shaping the Mental Health of Young People: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis8
Supplemental Material for The Approach-Inhibition Theory of Power: A Meta-Analytic Test and Synthesis8
How emotional stimuli modulate cognitive control: A meta-analytic review of studies with conflict tasks.7
The development of subjective well-being across the life span: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal studies.7
When connecting with LGBTQ+ communities helps and why it does: A meta-analysis of the relationship between connectedness and health-related outcomes.7
Relative effects of implicit and explicit attitudes on behavior: A meta-analytic review and test of key moderators.7
Internalized racism, stress, and health: A comprehensive meta-analytic structural equation model test of the internalized racism framework.7
A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of 30 years of stress generation research: Clinical, psychological, and sociodemographic risk and protective factors for prospective negative life events6
A systematic review of the ambivalent sexism literature: Hostile sexism protects men’s power; benevolent sexism guards traditional gender roles.5
Supplemental Material for Do Growth Mindset Interventions Impact Students’ Academic Achievement? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis With Recommendations for Best Practices5
Misogynous messages in the media increase hostility to women: Evidence from a meta-analysis of 257 experimental and nonexperimental studies.5
Supplemental Material for The Development of Subjective Well-Being Across the Life Span: A Meta-Analytic Review of Longitudinal Studies5
Supplemental Material for A Spotlight on Bias in the Growth Mindset Intervention Literature: A Reply to Commentaries That Contextualize the Discussion (Oyserman, 2023; Yan & Schuetze, 2023) and Il5
The kernel of truth in text-based personality assessment: A meta-analysis of the relations between the Big Five and the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC).5
Supplemental Material for Religiosity Predicts Prosociality, Especially When Measured by Self-Report: A Meta-Analysis of Almost 60 Years of Research5
Fadeout and persistence of intervention impacts on social–emotional and cognitive skills in children and adolescents: A meta-analytic review of randomized controlled trials.4
Supplemental Material for The Conspiratorial Mind: A Meta-Analytic Review of Motivational and Personological Correlates4
The conspiratorial mind: A meta-analytic review of motivational and personological correlates.4
Do immediate judgments of learning alter memory performance? A meta-analytical review.4
Why meta-analyses of growth mindset and other interventions should follow best practices for examining heterogeneity: Commentary on Macnamara and Burgoyne (2023) and Burnette et al. (2023).4
Supplemental Material for Intergenerational Stability in Parenting Across Two Generations: A Multilevel Meta-Analytic Review4
Suicidality among individuals with gambling problems: A meta-analytic literature review.3
Home learning environments and children’s language and literacy skills: A meta-analytic review of studies conducted in low- and middle-income countries.3
Supplemental Material for Supporting the Status Quo Is Weakly Associated With Subjective Well-Being: A Comparison of the Palliative Function of Ideology Across Social Status Groups Using a Meta-Analyt3
The association between reading anxiety and reading achievement: A meta-analysis and systematic review.3
Supplemental Material for Pervasive Failure to Report Properties of Visual Stimuli in Experimental Research in Psychology and Neuroscience: Two Metascientific Studies3
Supplemental Material for Parents Favor Daughters: A Meta-Analysis of Gender and Other Predictors of Parental Differential Treatment3
Temperament, personality, and psychopathology in youth: A preregistered multilevel meta-analytic review and preregistered large-scale replication and extension.3
Fenneman et al.’s (2022) review of formal impulsivity models: Implications for theory and measures of impulsivity.3
Supplemental Material for Health-Promotion Interventions Targeting Multiple Behaviors: A Meta-Analytic Review of General and Behavior-Specific Processes of Change2
Supplemental Material for The First 20,000 Strange Situation Procedures: A Meta-Analytic Review2
Cultural diversity climate in school: A meta-analytic review of its relationships with intergroup, academic, and socioemotional outcomes.2
The immediate effect of discrimination on mental health: A meta-analytic review of the causal evidence.2
Supplemental Material for Cognitive Factors Underlying Mathematical Skills: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis2
How physical activity context relates to cognition across the lifespan: A systematic review and meta-analysis.2
Age effects on delay discounting across the lifespan: A meta-analytical approach to theory comparison and model development.2
Supplemental Material for Suicidality Among Individuals With Gambling Problems: A Meta-Analytic Literature Review1
Supplemental Material for Knowing Before Doing: Review and Mega-Analysis of Action Understanding in Prereaching Infants1
Supplemental Material for Wipe It Off: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Psychological Consequences and Antecedents of Physical Cleansing1
Acknowledgment1
Content knowledge and comprehension: A meta-analytic review of correlational and causal associations.1
Parental self-regulation and engagement in emotion socialization: A systematic review.1
Trust and subjective well-being across the lifespan: A multilevel meta-analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal associations.1
Supplemental Material for Digital Data and Personality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Human Perception and Computer Prediction1
Supplemental Material for Rethinking Emotional Reactivity in Bipolar Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis1
Supplemental Material for Home Learning Environments and Children’s Language and Literacy Skills: A Meta-Analytic Review of Studies Conducted in Low- and Middle-Income Countries1
Supplemental Material for The Unpleasantness of Thinking: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Association Between Mental Effort and Negative Affect1
Supplemental Material for Feeds, Feelings, and Focus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Examining the Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Video Use1
The efficacy of combining cognitive training and noninvasive brain stimulation: A transdiagnostic systematic review and meta-analysis.1
Acute effects of fasting on cognitive performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis.1
Supplemental Material for Fadeout and Persistence of Intervention Impacts on Social–Emotional and Cognitive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analytic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials1
Supplemental Material for Social Class and Prosociality: A Meta-Analytic Review1
Supplemental Material for A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Predictors of Response to Trauma-Focused Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder1
Supplemental Material for Too Risky to Use, or Too Risky Not to? Lessons Learned From Over 30 Years of Research on Forensic Risk Assessment With Indigenous Persons1
Supplemental Material for How Emotional Stimuli Modulate Cognitive Control: A Meta-Analytic Review of Studies With Conflict Tasks1
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