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Papers

(The median citation count of New Ideas in Psychology is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Enhanced Agentic Diversity Perspective (EADP): An appeal for Co-creating an accommodative social space so that diversity unlocks innovativeness rather than problems	205
Disconnected from complexity: on nature exposure, sociality, and the self-organizing self	64
Does beautiful nature motivate to work? Outlining an alternative pathway to nature-induced cognitive performance benefits	33
Environmental resource theory: An integrative perspective on human habitat preferences and emotional responses to the environment	30
Religion and cognitive control: An event-coding approach	27
Probabilistic processing: Possible, probable, or preposterous? A dialectical essay	24
Passion a key for success: Exploring motivational factors in football players	22
Extending the two-component model of delusion to substance use disorder etiology and recovery	18
A self-regulatory perspective on human motivation and its implications for understanding adaptation to chronic pain	18
Beyond sorrow and terror management Theories: A dual-emotion model of death reflection after mortality salience across cultures and time	17
Group dancing as the evolutionary origin of rhythmic entrainment in humans	16
What is the process of personal growth? Introducing the Personal Growth Process Model	16
The evolution of prestige: Perspectives and hypotheses from comparative studies	16
Editorial Board	15
Modeling the mood state on thermal sensation with a data mining algorithm and testing the accuracy of mood state correction factor	15
A cultural identity approach to the generational divide	14
When sensitivity means strength: Distinguishing between soft and hard threats as part of the personality	14
The impact of fabrication on recognition memory: An experimental study	13
New directions in research on somatic concerns in individuals with eating disorders	13
Beyond chaos and rigidity, flexstability	13
Information, representation, and cognition	12
Confronting microaggressions: Developing innovative strategies to challenge and prevent harm	12
What happens to representatives during family constellations? Attempts at explanation and comparison with other difficult-to-explain phenomena	11
Editorial Board	11
The American psychological Association's practice guidelines for men and boys: Are they hurting rather than helping male mental wellness?	11

The person as an extended field: Querying the ontological binaries and dominant “container” metaphor at the core of psychology	10
Me and my brand(s): Exploring the psychological resource exchange in consumer-brand relationships	10
Using artworks to understand human memory and its neural mechanisms	9
The trip from metaphor to reality and back	9
The psychometric properties of the Passion Scale	9
A theory of moral categorization: The conceptual performance of moral cognition	8
Memory reconsolidation and the crisis of mechanism in psychotherapy	8
An “orthorexic society”: The role of psychological flexibility in responding to healthy eating pressures	8
Call for new measures suitable for intensive longitudinal studies: Ideas and suggestions	8
Partnering with AI for instrument development: Possibilities and pitfalls	8
Researching causal relationships from the first-person perspective. An Expansion of the micro-phenomenological method	8
Examining the root of intergroup sensitivity: What is the norm underlying defensive reactions to criticism?	8
Technopsychology: A new wave of psychological inquiry	8
Conceptualizing and measuring psychological resilience: What can we learn from physics?	7
The imperative of happiness in positive psychology: Towards a psychopolitics of wellbeing	7
Editorial Board	7
Presenting a strengths-based ecological model for promoting well-being among LGBTQ+ adults	7
The flawed logic of theory-free natural kind reasoning	7
‘What is the self anyway?’ towards a more parsimonious conceptualisation of the self: A review	7
Expertise and becoming conscious of something	7
If you don't problematize it, you won't see it, and you won't understand it	7
Understanding the relation between the need and ability to achieve closure: A single paper meta-analysis assessing subscale correlations	7
Epistemic cultural constraints on the uses of psychology	6
When resilience becomes undesirable – A cautionary note	6
The organization of construal networks and functional adaptation	6
The dual metaphorical role of abstract symbols in symbolic mathematical processing	6
Becoming a person: How long-distance walking can lead to personal growth – A cultural and health-related approach	6
A tripartite perspective on self-evaluation: Three forms of self-regard and their social basis	6
Editorial Board	6
Large language models (LLMs) as research Subjects: Status, opportunities and challenges	6
Critical decision-making: Bridging critical reflection and action	5
Distinguishing interpersonal and ideological prosociality:Introducing the construct of ideological prosociality	5
The role of identity in anorexia nervosa: A narrative review	5
Critique of the standard model of moral injury	5
The illusion of knowledge in the emerging field of psychedelic research	5
Using targeted visceroception to improve interoceptive sensibility and emotion regulation	4
A theoretical paradigm proposal of music arousal and emotional valence interrelations with tempo, preference, familiarity, and presence of lyrics	4
Activating creative behaviour of academic knowledge workers in selected public universities in Uganda: The role of hope	4
Artificial intelligence in lie detection: Why do cognitive theories matter?	4
Making sense of the modularity debate	4
Symbolic elevation theory: How groups gate the ascent of individual understanding	4
Clarifying the use of Theodosius Dobzhansky's and E. O. Wilson's evolutionary maxims: A guide for psychologists	4
Adolescents thinking on economic inequality: Expanding the discussion beyond the Global North	4
Merging the Self-Determination Theory and the Broaden and Build Theory through the nexus of positive affect: A macro theory of positive functioning	4
What can sports psychology learn from work and organizational psychology? Benefits and pitfalls of applying theoretical models from one context to another	4
An evolutionary look at oddity and schizotypy: How the rise of social brain informs clinical practice	4
Not complex enough for complexity: Some intricacies of interpersonal synergies theory	4
Beyond outcome studies: Good psychotherapy rests on many secure epistemic foundations	4
Adaptation to stressors: Hormesis as a framework for human performance	4
Does mental toughness predict happiness over and above resilience, self-efficacy and grit?	4

Psychiatrization in Czech lexical data: Everyday adjectives are acquiring clinical connotations	4
Communicative Feedback in language acquisition	4
Can autoethnography enhance research in health psychology?	3
Minimization, denial, moralization, and exaggeration: A taxonomy of backlash to transgender recognition and rights	3
Happiness as a signal: The social functions of expressions of happiness in the context of culture and emotional tribes	3
How to study the early development of executive function? Let's put control back in the hands of children	3
Episodic memories as proxy or independent representations: A theoretical review and an empirical test of distinct episodic memories on work outcomes	3
A new perspective on trends in psychology	3
To identify and limit the risks of neglect in orphaned students: Can France manage it?	3
Exploring artificial intelligence approach to art therapy assessment: A case study on the classification and the estimation of psychological state based on a drawing	3
Editorial Board	3
Hypnosis for acquired brain injury: Four patient cases and five testable predictions	3
The hallmark of a good life: Introducing fulfillment in life	3
Special Issue Editorial: The Psychology of Orphanhood	3
Feeling the Heat: A Thermodynamic Perspective on Emotions, Motivation, and Time Perception	2
The Kraemer Effect Reconsidered: Do probability-raising accounts of intentionality explain the Kraemer Effect?	2
Face perception and synchrony disruption in theatre masks	2
Unveiling the influence of disciplinary biases on information sampling during an interdisciplinary collaboration creative task through eye-tracking analysis	2
Environments “develop”: Infant motor development can inform the study of physical space	2
Merging and modifying hypotheses on the emotional and cognitive effects of eye movements: The dopaminergic regulation hypothesis	2
Towards a theory of biological intelligence	2
Editorial Board	2
The institutional impact of research challenges and constraints on psychology and other social and behavioral sciences	2
“Why would they call me an orphan when I have parents”: Care leavers’ experiences of labelling and stereotyping whilst living in residential care facilities in Zimbabwe	2
Growth Mindset Scale: Aspects of reliability and validity of a new 8-item scale assessing growth mindset	2
Re-enchanting mirror neurons through lexical changes	2
“Unseen strategies” what can the experience of Aphantasia teach us about cognitive strategies in memory?	2
Amateur hour: Improving knowledge diversity in psychological and behavioral science by harnessing contributions from amateurs	2
Hypergraph models of the mental lexicon capture greater information than pairwise networks for predicting language learning	2
The importance of the null hypothesis in the formulation of theory in media psychology	2