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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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	264
Disconnected from complexity: on nature exposure, sociality, and the self-organizing self	72
Environmental resource theory: An integrative perspective on human habitat preferences and emotional responses to the environment	41
Probabilistic processing: Possible, probable, or preposterous? A dialectical essay	36
Corrigendum to “Psychological flexibility, self-control, and self-management skills in marital commitment: A cognitive and motivational perspective from psychiatric nursing” [New Ideas in Psychology 8	33
Does beautiful nature motivate to work? Outlining an alternative pathway to nature-induced cognitive performance benefits	29
Religion and cognitive control: An event-coding approach	24
Extending the two-component model of delusion to substance use disorder etiology and recovery	23
How expectations affect conversational assessment and memory formation	21
Beyond sorrow and terror management Theories: A dual-emotion model of death reflection after mortality salience across cultures and time	21
A self-regulatory perspective on human motivation and its implications for understanding adaptation to chronic pain	21
The evolution of prestige: Perspectives and hypotheses from comparative studies	20
What is the process of personal growth? Introducing the Personal Growth Process Model	20
When sensitivity means strength: Distinguishing between soft and hard threats as part of the personality	19
Modeling the mood state on thermal sensation with a data mining algorithm and testing the accuracy of mood state correction factor	18
A cultural identity approach to the generational divide	18
Information, representation, and cognition	16
New directions in research on somatic concerns in individuals with eating disorders	15
Beyond chaos and rigidity, flexstability	15
Editorial Board	14
What happens to representatives during family constellations? Attempts at explanation and comparison with other difficult-to-explain phenomena	14
The impact of fabrication on recognition memory: An experimental study	14
An “orthorexic society”: The role of psychological flexibility in responding to healthy eating pressures	12
Using artworks to understand human memory and its neural mechanisms	12
The American psychological Association's practice guidelines for men and boys: Are they hurting rather than helping male mental wellness?	11

The psychometric properties of the Passion Scale	11
The person as an extended field: Querying the ontological binaries and dominant “container” metaphor at the core of psychology	11
Me and my brand(s): Exploring the psychological resource exchange in consumer-brand relationships	10
The trip from metaphor to reality and back	10
Memory reconsolidation and the crisis of mechanism in psychotherapy	9
Technopsychology: A new wave of psychological inquiry	9
Call for new measures suitable for intensive longitudinal studies: Ideas and suggestions	9
Researching causal relationships from the first-person perspective. An Expansion of the micro-phenomenological method	9
Partnering with AI for instrument development: Possibilities and pitfalls	9
Conceptualizing and measuring psychological resilience: What can we learn from physics?	8
The flawed logic of theory-free natural kind reasoning	8
Understanding the relation between the need and ability to achieve closure: A single paper meta-analysis assessing subscale correlations	8
Examining the root of intergroup sensitivity: What is the norm underlying defensive reactions to criticism?	8
Editorial Board	8
A theory of moral categorization: The conceptual performance of moral cognition	8
Presenting a strengths-based ecological model for promoting well-being among LGBTQ+ adults	7
Symbolic narratives and embodied selves: Exploring identity and affective expression in neurodivergent youth	7
Editorial Board	7
‘What is the self anyway?’ towards a more parsimonious conceptualisation of the self: A review	7
A tripartite perspective on self-evaluation: Three forms of self-regard and their social basis	7
The organization of construal networks and functional adaptation	7
If you don't problematize it, you won't see it, and you won't understand it	7
The imperative of happiness in positive psychology: Towards a psychopolitics of wellbeing	7
The dual metaphorical role of abstract symbols in symbolic mathematical processing	7
Critical decision-making: Bridging critical reflection and action	6
Epistemic cultural constraints on the uses of psychology	6
Large language models (LLMs) as research Subjects: Status, opportunities and challenges	6
When resilience becomes undesirable – A cautionary note	6
Becoming a person: How long-distance walking can lead to personal growth – A cultural and health-related approach	6
Critique of the standard model of moral injury	5
Symbolic elevation theory: How groups gate the ascent of individual understanding	5
The illusion of knowledge in the emerging field of psychedelic research	5
Adaptation to stressors: Hormesis as a framework for human performance	5
Merging the Self-Determination Theory and the Broaden and Build Theory through the nexus of positive affect: A macro theory of positive functioning	5
Using targeted visceroception to improve interoceptive sensibility and emotion regulation	5
The role of identity in anorexia nervosa: A narrative review	5
Adolescents thinking on economic inequality: Expanding the discussion beyond the Global North	5
A theoretical paradigm proposal of music arousal and emotional valence interrelations with tempo, preference, familiarity, and presence of lyrics	5
Beyond outcome studies: Good psychotherapy rests on many secure epistemic foundations	5
An evolutionary look at oddity and schizotypy: How the rise of social brain informs clinical practice	4
What can sports psychology learn from work and organizational psychology? Benefits and pitfalls of applying theoretical models from one context to another	4
Psychiatrization in Czech lexical data: Everyday adjectives are acquiring clinical connotations	4
Hypnosis for acquired brain injury: Four patient cases and five testable predictions	4
Does mental toughness predict happiness over and above resilience, self-efficacy and grit?	4
Artificial intelligence in lie detection: Why do cognitive theories matter?	4
Editorial Board	4
Co-constructing layers of meaning: Early triadic interactions at the threshold of intentionality	4
Communicative Feedback in language acquisition	4
Making sense of the modularity debate	4
Minimization, denial, moralization, and exaggeration: A taxonomy of backlash to transgender recognition and rights	4

Can autoethnography enhance research in health psychology?	4
The hallmark of a good life: Introducing fulfillment in life	3
To identify and limit the risks of neglect in orphaned students: Can France manage it?	3
Special Issue Editorial: The Psychology of Orphanhood	3
Re-enchanting mirror neurons through lexical changes	3
A new perspective on trends in psychology	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
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Towards a theory of biological intelligence	3
The Kraemer Effect Reconsidered: Do probability-raising accounts of intentionality explain the Kraemer Effect?	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
Enlarging the model of the human at the heart of human-centered AI: A social self-determination model of AI system impact	2
Environments “develop”: Infant motor development can inform the study of physical space	2
Feeling the Heat: A Thermodynamic Perspective on Emotions, Motivation, and Time Perception	2
Speaking from the in-between: Neurotypical perspectivelessness, neurodivergent authority, and the politics of knowledge	2
Growth Mindset Scale: Aspects of reliability and validity of a new 8-item scale assessing growth mindset	2
Emerging adults’ identity and disclosure of ADHD in social relationships	2
The importance of the null hypothesis in the formulation of theory in media psychology	2
Opening a conceptual space for metamemory experience	2
Unveiling the influence of disciplinary biases on information sampling during an interdisciplinary collaboration creative task through eye-tracking analysis	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
“Unseen strategies” what can the experience of Aphantasia teach us about cognitive strategies in memory?	2
Is emesis a part of antenatal depression? A proposal of emesis-depression complex during pregnancy	2
New insights into the contributions of playfulness to dealing with stress at work: Correlates of self- and peer-rated playfulness and coping strategies	2
Psychological preparedness & anticipatory response tendencies	2
An active inference approach to interpersonal differences in depression	2
The institutional impact of research challenges and constraints on psychology and other social and behavioral sciences	2
Face perception and synchrony disruption in theatre masks	2
Hypergraph models of the mental lexicon capture greater information than pairwise networks for predicting language learning	2
Merging and modifying hypotheses on the emotional and cognitive effects of eye movements: The dopaminergic regulation hypothesis	2
The Circumplex Model of Stress: A model integrating stress appraisal constructs	2