Psychological Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychological Science is 6. 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
Doubling-Back Aversion: A Reluctance to Make Progress by Undoing It116
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix70
Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions68
The 2008 Great Recession Lowered Americans’ Class Identity58
Fidelity Versus Validity Using Anendophasia as an Example: Commentary on Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024) and Lind (2025)56
*Social Rewards Protection Theory: Why People Morally Derogate Prosocial Actors for Undisclosed Personal Benefits56
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study54
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects54
Bidirectional Relationships Between Well-Being and Cognitive Function53
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences52
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration50
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory49
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments45
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness43
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity43
Invariant Recognition Memory Spaces for Real-World Objects Revealed With Signal-Detection Analysis43
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases42
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets42
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes39
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented39
Peripheral Visual Information Halves Attentional Choice Biases37
*Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia37
Motive Alignment Promotes Adolescents’ Proenvironmental Behavior: A Field Experiment in Two Cultures34
Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory32
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure32
Mugs and Plants: Object Semantic Knowledge Alters Perceptual Processing With Behavioral Ramifications32
Radial Bias Alters Perceived Object Orientation31
Ambivalent Sexism and Tolerance of Violence Against Women in India30
Does Income Inequality Predict Adolescent Depressive Symptoms?30
Reducing Facial Stereotype Bias in Consequential Social Judgments: Intervention Success With White Male Faces30
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test30
Unlocking the Benefits of Gender Diversity: How an Ecological-Belonging Intervention Enhances Performance in Science Classrooms29
*The Ethnic and Political Divide in the Preference for Strong Leaders29
Exploring the Semantic-Inconsistency Effect in Scenes Using a Continuous Measure of Linguistic-Semantic Similarity27
How Convincing Is a Crowd? Quantifying the Persuasiveness of a Consensus for Different Individuals and Types of Claims27
Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field27
Agent Preference in Chasing Interactions in Guinea Baboons ( Papio papio ): Uncovering the Roots of Subject–Object Order in Language27
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior26
Regional Measures of Sexual-Orientation Bias Predict Where Same-Gender Couples Live25
Associations Between Meat Consumption and Depression Are Small and Unlikely to Be Causal25
Signal Intrusion Explains Divergent Effects of Visual Distraction on Working Memory25
Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones25
Introspective Access or Retrospective Inference? Mind-Wandering Reports Are Shaped by Performance Feedback25
Contactless Real-Time Heart Rate Predicts the Performance of Elite Athletes: Evidence From Tokyo 2020 Olympic Archery Competition25
Can One Donation a Day Keep Depression Away? Three Randomized Controlled Trials of an Online Micro-Charitable Giving Intervention25
The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-Dependent Trade-Off Between External and Internal Memory24
Gaze-Triggered Communicative Intention Compresses Perceived Temporal Duration24
Neural and Cognitive Signatures of Guilt Predict Hypocritical Blame23
Improving Memory Search Through Model-Based Cue Selection22
Visual Perception Is Highly Flexible and Context Dependent in Young Infants: A Case of Top-Down-Modulated Motion Perception22
When and Why People Conceal Infectious Disease22
Assortative Mating Is a Natural Consequence of Heritable Variation in Preferences and Preferred Traits21
From the Viscera to First Impressions: Phase-Dependent Cardio-Visual Signals Bias the Perceived Trustworthiness of Faces21
The Visual Mandela Effect as Evidence for Shared and Specific False Memories Across People20
Preschoolers and Adults Learn From Novel Metaphors19
What’s in a Badge? A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science19
Perceptions of Falling Behind “Most White People”: Within-Group Status Comparisons Predict Fewer Positive Emotions and Worse Health Over Time Among White (but Not Black) Americans19
Cross-Modal Facilitation of Episodic Memory by Sequential Action Execution19
The Rise, Impact, and Imbalances of Big-Team Psychology19
What You See Is What You Hear: Sounds Alter the Contents of Visual Perception19
The Dispositional Essence of Proactive Social Preferences: The Dark Core of Personality vis-à-vis 58 Traits19
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help19
Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change18
Self-Relevance Predicts the Aesthetic Appeal of Real and Synthetic Artworks Generated via Neural Style Transfer18
Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia18
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions18
Adolescents’ Perceptions of Household Chaos Predict Their Adult Mental Health: A Twin-Difference Longitudinal Cohort Study18
Do We Become More Lonely With Age? A Coordinated Data Analysis of Nine Longitudinal Studies18
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind18
Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration18
Terminal Increases in Depressive Symptoms in a Multinational Twin Consortium17
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity17
Individual Differences in Great Ape Cognition Across Time and Domains: Stability, Structure, and Predictability17
Perceiving Topological Relations17
Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical Conclusions16
Statistical Learning Facilitates Access to Awareness16
Exploration, Distributed Attention, and Development of Category Learning15
Gender-Ambiguous Voices and Social Disfluency15
Underestimating Counterparts’ Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations15
Overconfidence Persists Despite Years of Accurate, Precise, Public, and Continuous Feedback: Two Studies of Tournament Chess Players15
A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It15
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems15
Becoming an Ostrich: The Development of Information Avoidance15
Sexual Identity Development Milestones, Latent Profiles, and Proximal Minority Stressors in Australia’s Generation Z15
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence15
Proenvironmental Behavior Increases Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From an Experience-Sampling Study and a Randomized Experiment14
Directing Attention Shapes Learning in Adults but Not Children14
People Place Larger Bets When Risky Choices Provide a Postbet Option to Cash Out14
The Relative Importance of Joke and Audience Characteristics in Eliciting Amusement14
Corrigendum to “Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence”14
Replication of “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Precommitment”14
Attention to Authenticity: An Essential Analogue to Focus on Rigor and Replicability14
Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction14
Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?14
Perceptual Generalization of Alcohol-Related Value Characterizes Risky Drinkers14
Changing What You Like: Modifying Contour Properties Shifts Aesthetic Valuations of Scenes14
Compassion Fatigue as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Believing Compassion Is Limited Increases Fatigue and Decreases Compassion13
Just Dead, Not Alive: Reconsidering Belief in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories13
The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect Context-Sensitive Information Priorities13
Fluctuations in Sustained Attention Explain Moment-to-Moment Shifts in Children’s Memory Formation13
Early Impacts of College, Interrupted: Considering First-Year Students’ Narratives About COVID and Reports of Adjustment During College Shutdowns13
The Effect of Auditory and Visual Recommendations on Choice13
Native Now, Equity Now: Implicit Associations Between Native Peoples and the Past Predict Reduced Support for Racial Equity12
The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Participation Is Partially Explained by the Generational-Shift Account but Fully Inconsistent With Existing Alternative Accounts: A Partial Concession and Reply to12
Cutting Through the Noise: Auditory Scenes and Their Effects on Visual Object Processing12
Drawing Generalizable Conclusions From Multilevel Models: Commentary on12
Cross-Cultural Sex/Gender Differences in Produced Word Content Before the Age of 3 Years12
Prototypes of People With Depression12
How the Listener’s Attention Dynamically Switches Between Different Speakers During a Natural Conversation11
The Language of Social Touch Is Intuitive and Quantifiable11
Representational Momentum Transcends Motion11
Food Is All Around: How Contexts Create Misbeliefs About the Health–Taste Relationship11
Manipulating Prior Beliefs Causally Induces Under- and Overconfidence11
Divergent and Convergent Creativity Are Different Kinds of Foraging11
The Role of Beta Oscillations in Mental Time Travel10
Choice Set Size Neglect in Predicting Others’ Preferences10
The Development of Spatial Cognition and Its Malleability Assessed in Mass Population via a Mobile Game10
A Practical Significance Bias in Laypeople’s Evaluation of Scientific Findings10
Preregistered Direct Replication and Extension of “The Wisdom to Know the Difference: Strategy-Situation Fit in Emotion Regulation in Daily Life Is Associated With Well-Being”10
Corrigendum to “Spatial Distance and Mental Construal of Social Events”10
Commentary: On the Equal-Opportunity Jerk “Defense”: Rudeness Complicates Sexism Attributions but Comes at a Cost10
The Well-Being Costs of Informal Caregiving10
Different Mechanisms for Supporting Mental Imagery and Perceptual Representations: Modulation Versus Excitation10
The Effects of Group Affiliation Versus Individuating Information on Direct and Indirect Measures of the Evaluation of Novel Individual Group Members10
Mindful-Gratitude Practice Reduces Prejudice at High Levels of Collective Narcissism10
No Evidence for Self-Esteem Effects on Aggression: Findings From a Multi-Year, Multi-Informant Longitudinal Study of Mexican-Origin Families10
Does Testosterone Affect Cognitive Reflection? Evidence From a Double-Blind, Randomized Controlled Study of 1,000 Participants10
Children Sustain Cooperation in a Threshold Public-Goods Game Even When Seeing Others’ Outcomes9
Transfer of Learned Cognitive Flexibility to Novel Stimuli and Task Sets9
Mnemonic Content and Hippocampal Patterns Shape Judgments of Time9
The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Holds Among Young Players: A Commentary on the Vishkin (2022) Study9
Parents of Children With High Weight Are Viewed as Responsible for Child Weight and Thus Stigmatized9
Is Overconfidence a Trait? An Adversarial Collaboration9
Devaluation by Omission: Limited Identity Options Elicit Anger and Increase Identification9
Registered Report: A Replication Examining Occupational Experience and Performance on the Water-Level Task9
Multivariate Assessment of Inhibitory Control in Youth: Links With Psychopathology and Brain Function9
Predictive Processing of Scene Layout Depends on Naturalistic Depth of Field9
Socioeconomic Status Shapes Dyadic Interactions: Examining Behavioral and Physiologic Responses9
Are There Really People With No Inner Voice? Commentary on Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024)9
Is Mansplaining Gendered? The Effects of Unsolicited, Generic, and Prescriptive Advice on U.S. Women9
Attention Shifts to More Complex Structures With Experience9
Toward Antifragility: Social Defeat Stress Enhances Learning and Memory in Young Mice Via Hippocampal Synaptosome Associated Protein 258
Psychosocial Resilience to Inflammation-Associated Depression: A Prospective Study of Breast-Cancer Survivors8
The Costs of Paying Overt and Covert Attention Assessed With Pupillometry8
Physical Effort Exertion for Peer Feedback Reveals Evolving Social Motivations From Adolescence to Young Adulthood8
Intelligence Polygenic Score Is More Predictive of Crystallized Measures: Evidence From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study8
Multitarget Visual Search Flexibly Switches Between Concurrent and Sequential Search Modes8
iGen or shy Gen? Generational Differences in Shyness8
Severe Developmental Dyscalculia Is Characterized by Core Deficits in Both Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Number Sense8
Adaptive Encoding Speed in Working Memory8
Neural-Context Reinstatement of Recurring Events8
When and Why Antiegalitarianism Affects Resistance to Supporting Black-Owned Businesses8
On How to Be Liked in First Encounters: The Effects of Agentic and Communal Behaviors on Popularity and Unique Liking8
Do Open-Science Badges Increase Trust in Scientists Among Undergraduates, Scientists, and the Public?8
Awe Sparks Prosociality in Children8
The Golden Age Is Behind Us: How the Status Quo Impacts the Evaluation of Technology8
Caricaturing Shapes in Visual Memory8
Face-Information Sampling in Super-Recognizers7
Boosting Media Literacy Using Lateral Reading and Online Search Interventions7
Preferential Attraction Effects With Visual Stimuli: The Role of Quantitative Versus Qualitative Visual Attributes7
Socially Stratified Epigenetic Profiles Are Associated With Cognitive Functioning in Children and Adolescents7
*Reluctance to Downplay: Asymmetric Sensitivity to Differences in the Severity of Moral Transgressions7
Where Do Children Look When Watching Videos With Same-Language Subtitles?7
Effects of Voice Pitch on Social Perceptions Vary With Relational Mobility and Homicide Rate7
Experience of Playing a Musical Instrument and Lifetime Change in General Cognitive Ability: Evidence From the Lothian Birth Cohort 19367
Cognitive Change Before Old Age (11 to 70) Predicts Cognitive Change During Old Age (70 to 82)7
Bridging the Gap Between Self-Report and Behavioral Laboratory Measures: A Real-Time Driving Task With Inverse Reinforcement Learning7
Disagreement Gets Mistaken for Bad Listening7
Today’s Older Adults Are Cognitively Fitter Than Older Adults Were 20 Years Ago, but When and How They Decline Is No Different Than in the Past7
Gaze Behavior Reveals Expectations of Potential Scene Changes7
Synchrony Influences Estimates of Cooperation in a Public-Goods Game7
Test Anxiety Does Not Predict Exam Performance When Knowledge Is Controlled For: Strong Evidence Against the Interference Hypothesis of Test Anxiety6
Flavor Sensing in Utero and Emerging Discriminative Behaviors in the Human Fetus6
Thinking About God Encourages Prosociality Toward Religious Outgroups: A Cross-Cultural Investigation6
Participating in a Digital-History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today6
Neural Signatures of Evidence Accumulation Encode Subjective Perceptual Confidence Independent of Performance6
Two-Year-Olds’ Eye Movements Reflect Confidence in Their Understanding of Words6
Younger Than Ever? Subjective Age Is Becoming Younger and Remains More Stable in Middle-Age and Older Adults Today6
Not Everybody Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia6
Estranged and Unhappy? Examining the Dynamics of Personal and Relationship Well-Being Surrounding Infidelity6
Well-Being and Cognitive Resilience to Dementia-Related Neuropathology6
Corrigendum to “Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior”6
Why Do Children Think Words Are Mutually Exclusive?6
Cognitive Maps for a Non-Euclidean Environment: Path Integration and Spatial Memory on a Sphere6
Are Empathic People Better Adjusted? A Test of Competing Models of Empathic Accuracy and Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Facets of Adjustment Using Self- and Peer Reports6
What Is Rationality, Whom Is It Ascribed To, and Why Does It Matter? Evidence From Internet Text for 66 Social Groups and 101 Occupations6
Cognitive Abilities and Educational Attainment as Antecedents of Mental Disorders: A Total Population Study of Males6
The Formation of Negative Attitudes Toward Novel Groups6
Preregistered Replication and Extension of “Moral Hypocrisy: Social Groups and the Flexibility of Virtue”6
Detection of Idiosyncratic Gaze-Fingerprint Signatures in Humans6
Do the Effects of a Preschool Language Intervention Last in the Long Run? A 4-Year Follow-Up Study6
Thinking Beyond COVID-19: How Has the Pandemic Impacted Future Time Horizons?6
The Anticipated Relational Effects of Confronting Bias (or not) in Interracial Friendships6
Internal Social Attention: Gaze Cues Stored in Working Memory Trigger Involuntary Attentional Orienting6
Task Termination Triggers Spontaneous Removal of Information From Visual Working Memory6
Perceptual Awareness Occurs Along a Graded Continuum: No Evidence of All-or-None Failures in Continuous Reproduction Tasks6
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