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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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	123
A systematic review of interventions to address workplace bias: What we know, what we don't, and lessons learned	53
Passion a key for success: Exploring motivational factors in football players	46
Does beautiful nature motivate to work? Outlining an alternative pathway to nature-induced cognitive performance benefits	31
Editorial Board	28
Religion and cognitive control: An event-coding approach	27
The neural substrate of schadenfreude: The effects of competition level changes on the processing of pain in others	26
What is the process of personal growth? Introducing the Personal Growth Process Model	26
Extending the two-component model of delusion to substance use disorder etiology and recovery	25
The evolution of prestige: Perspectives and hypotheses from comparative studies	22
A self-regulatory perspective on human motivation and its implications for understanding adaptation to chronic pain	22
Group dancing as the evolutionary origin of rhythmic entrainment in humans	21
Editorial Board	14
When sensitivity means strength: Distinguishing between soft and hard threats as part of the personality	14
A scoping review on the extent and nature of anxiety-related research within the research domain criteria (RDoC) framework: Limited coverage using non-disorder-specific search terms	14
Modeling the mood state on thermal sensation with a data mining algorithm and testing the accuracy of mood state correction factor	13
New directions in research on somatic concerns in individuals with eating disorders	12
Confronting microaggressions: Developing innovative strategies to challenge and prevent harm	12
The impact of fabrication on recognition memory: An experimental study	12
Beyond chaos and rigidity, flexstability	12
What happens to representatives during family constellations? Attempts at explanation and comparison with other difficult-to-explain phenomena	11
The trip from metaphor to reality and back	11
Editorial Board	11
Using artworks to understand human memory and its neural mechanisms	10
The person as an extended field: Querying the ontological binaries and dominant “container” metaphor at the core of psychology	10

Researching causal relationships from the first-person perspective. An Expansion of the micro-phenomenological method	10
Me and my brand(s): Exploring the psychological resource exchange in consumer-brand relationships	10
Expanding the concept of birthparent loss to orphans: Exploratory findings from adolescents in institutional care in South Korea	9
Memory reconsolidation and the crisis of mechanism in psychotherapy	9
Partnering with AI for instrument development: Possibilities and pitfalls	9
The psychometric properties of the Passion Scale	9
Racial microaffirmations as a response to racial microaggressions: Exploring risk and protective factors	9
The American psychological Association's practice guidelines for men and boys: Are they hurting rather than helping male mental wellness?	9
Call for new measures suitable for intensive longitudinal studies: Ideas and suggestions	8
Mitigating racial microaggressions on campus: Documenting targets’ responses	8
Editorial Board	7
Conceptualizing and measuring psychological resilience: What can we learn from physics?	7
Understanding the relation between the need and ability to achieve closure: A single paper meta-analysis assessing subscale correlations	7
A theory of moral categorization: The conceptual performance of moral cognition	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
‘What is the self anyway?’ towards a more parsimonious conceptualisation of the self: A review	6
Editorial Board	6
Expertise and becoming conscious of something	6
Epistemic cultural constraints on the uses of psychology	6
The organization of construal networks and functional adaptation	6
When resilience becomes undesirable – A cautionary note	5
Distinguishing interpersonal and ideological prosociality:Introducing the construct of ideological prosociality	5
Not complex enough for complexity: Some intricacies of interpersonal synergies theory	5
The illusion of knowledge in the emerging field of psychedelic research	5
Critique of the standard model of moral injury	5
Passion, grit, and mindset in undergraduate sport sciences students	5
Becoming a person: How long-distance walking can lead to personal growth – A cultural and health-related approach	5
The role of identity in anorexia nervosa: A narrative review	5
Envisioning human service organizations free of microaggressions	5
Editorial Board	5
An evolutionary look at oddity and schizotypy: How the rise of social brain informs clinical practice	4
Does mental toughness predict happiness over and above resilience, self-efficacy and grit?	4
Using targeted visceroception to improve interoceptive sensibility and emotion regulation	4
The relationship between mental toughness and subjective mental illness recovery	4
Making sense of the modularity debate	4
Artificial intelligence in lie detection: Why do cognitive theories matter?	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
Beyond outcome studies: Good psychotherapy rests on many secure epistemic foundations	4
Adolescents thinking on economic inequality: Expanding the discussion beyond the Global North	4
Adaptation to stressors: Hormesis as a framework for human performance	4
What can sports psychology learn from work and organizational psychology? Benefits and pitfalls of applying theoretical models from one context to another	4
Activating creative behaviour of academic knowledge workers in selected public universities in Uganda: The role of hope	4
Clarifying the use of Theodosius Dobzhansky's and E. O. Wilson's evolutionary maxims: A guide for psychologists	4
A theoretical paradigm proposal of music arousal and emotional valence interrelations with tempo, preference, familiarity, and presence of lyrics	4
Communicative Feedback in language acquisition	3
Editorial Board	3
Episodic memories as proxy or independent representations: A theoretical review and an empirical test of distinct episodic memories on work outcomes	3
Measuring metaaesthetics: Challenges and ways forward	3
Hypnosis for acquired brain injury: Four patient cases and five testable predictions	3

Future avenues for education and neuroenhancement	3
Minimization, denial, moralization, and exaggeration: A taxonomy of backlash to transgender recognition and rights	3
A new perspective on trends in psychology	3
Bystander training for faculty: A promising approach to tackling microaggressions in the academy	3
Horizontal eye movements foster approach to negative pictures but do not change emotional valence: A dopaminergic regulation hypothesis	3
Can autoethnography enhance research in health psychology?	3
Psychological distance as a means of evaluation	3
Special Issue Editorial: The Psychology of Orphanhood	2
How to study the early development of executive function? Let's put control back in the hands of children	2
Amateur hour: Improving knowledge diversity in psychological and behavioral science by harnessing contributions from amateurs	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
Unveiling the influence of disciplinary biases on information sampling during an interdisciplinary collaboration creative task through eye-tracking analysis	2
Exploring artificial intelligence approach to art therapy assessment: A case study on the classification and the estimation of psychological state based on a drawing	2
Dynamic locomotor imagery in athletes with severe visual impairments	2
Growth Mindset Scale: Aspects of reliability and validity of a new 8-item scale assessing growth mindset	2
Environments “develop”: Infant motor development can inform the study of physical space	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
To identify and limit the risks of neglect in orphaned students: Can France manage it?	2
Moods in transition: Theorizing the affective-dynamic constitution of situatedness	2
Re-enchanting mirror neurons through lexical changes	2
Hypergraph models of the mental lexicon capture greater information than pairwise networks for predicting language learning	2