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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Corrigendum: Dissociating Representations of Time and Number in Reinforcement-Rate Learning by Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit in Mice151
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study121
Low Perinatal Androgens Predict Recalled Childhood Gender Nonconformity in Men81
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences67
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory64
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects47
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix46
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments46
Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions42
Doubling-Back Aversion: A Reluctance to Make Progress by Undoing It41
Bidirectional Relationships Between Well-Being and Cognitive Function40
Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance39
Deception Cues During High-Risk Situations: 911 Homicide Calls37
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes37
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration37
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented35
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets35
*Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia35
Peripheral Visual Information Halves Attentional Choice Biases35
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases34
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity33
Who’s the “Real” Victim? How Victim Framing Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Assault33
Psychometric Curves Reveal Three Mechanisms of Vigilance Decrement32
*The Ethnic and Political Divide in the Preference for Strong Leaders32
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness32
What Might Books Be Teaching Young Children About Gender?31
Radial Bias Alters Perceived Object Orientation29
Mugs and Plants: Object Semantic Knowledge Alters Perceptual Processing With Behavioral Ramifications29
Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory29
Ambivalent Sexism and Tolerance of Violence Against Women in India28
Time to Pay Attention? Information Search Explains Amplified Framing Effects Under Time Pressure27
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure27
Strength of Belief Guides Information Foraging27
Reducing Facial Stereotype Bias in Consequential Social Judgments: Intervention Success With White Male Faces27
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test27
Can Feelings “Feel” Wrong? Similarities Between Counter-Normative Emotion Reports and Perceptual Errors26
Acknowledgment26
Unlocking the Benefits of Gender Diversity: How an Ecological-Belonging Intervention Enhances Performance in Science Classrooms25
Exploring the Semantic-Inconsistency Effect in Scenes Using a Continuous Measure of Linguistic-Semantic Similarity25
Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field25
Agent Preference in Chasing Interactions in Guinea Baboons ( Papio papio ): Uncovering the Roots of Subject–Object Order in Language25
Introspective Access or Retrospective Inference? Mind-Wandering Reports Are Shaped by Performance Feedback23
How Convincing Is a Crowd? Quantifying the Persuasiveness of a Consensus for Different Individuals and Types of Claims23
Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones22
Poison Parasite Counter: Turning Duplicitous Mass Communications Into Self-Negating Memory-Retrieval Cues22
Mind-Body Practices and Self-Enhancement: Direct Replications of Gebauer et al.’s (2018) Experiments 1 and 222
Neural Representations of the Committed Romantic Partner in the Nucleus Accumbens22
Contactless Real-Time Heart Rate Predicts the Performance of Elite Athletes: Evidence From Tokyo 2020 Olympic Archery Competition22
The Cognition/Metacognition Trade-Off22
Gaze-Triggered Communicative Intention Compresses Perceived Temporal Duration21
Regional Measures of Sexual-Orientation Bias Predict Where Same-Gender Couples Live21
The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-Dependent Trade-Off Between External and Internal Memory21
Can One Donation a Day Keep Depression Away? Three Randomized Controlled Trials of an Online Micro-Charitable Giving Intervention21
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior21
Signal Intrusion Explains Divergent Effects of Visual Distraction on Working Memory21
Perceptual Grouping Explains Similarities in Constellations Across Cultures20
From the Viscera to First Impressions: Phase-Dependent Cardio-Visual Signals Bias the Perceived Trustworthiness of Faces20
Visual Perception Is Highly Flexible and Context Dependent in Young Infants: A Case of Top-Down-Modulated Motion Perception20
Neural and Cognitive Signatures of Guilt Predict Hypocritical Blame20
Improving Memory Search Through Model-Based Cue Selection20
Vocal-Stress Diary: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Association of Everyday Work Stressors and Human Voice Features20
Where the Blame Lies: Unpacking Groups Into Their Constituent Subgroups Shifts Judgments of Blame in Intergroup Conflict20
What’s in a Badge? A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science19
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help19
The Visual Mandela Effect as Evidence for Shared and Specific False Memories Across People19
Early Adolescents Demonstrate Peer-Network Homophily in Political Attitudes and Values19
When and Why People Conceal Infectious Disease19
Human Echolocators Have Better Localization Off Axis18
Preschoolers and Adults Learn From Novel Metaphors18
The Dispositional Essence of Proactive Social Preferences: The Dark Core of Personality vis-à-vis 58 Traits18
Do We Become More Lonely With Age? A Coordinated Data Analysis of Nine Longitudinal Studies17
What You See Is What You Hear: Sounds Alter the Contents of Visual Perception17
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind17
Adolescents’ Perceptions of Household Chaos Predict Their Adult Mental Health: A Twin-Difference Longitudinal Cohort Study17
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) Americans17
Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration17
Cross-Modal Facilitation of Episodic Memory by Sequential Action Execution17
Self-Relevance Predicts the Aesthetic Appeal of Real and Synthetic Artworks Generated via Neural Style Transfer16
Idiosyncratic Tower of Babel: Individual Differences in Word-Meaning Representation Increase as Word Abstractness Increases16
Corrigendum: What’s in a Name? Popular Names Are Less Common on Frontiers16
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity16
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions16
Gender-Ambiguous Voices and Social Disfluency16
Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical Conclusions16
Generating Options and Choosing Between Them Depend on Distinct Forms of Value Representation16
Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia16
Disproportionate School Punishment and Significant Life Outcomes: A Prospective Analysis of Black Youths16
Exploration, Distributed Attention, and Development of Category Learning16
Terminal Increases in Depressive Symptoms in a Multinational Twin Consortium15
Becoming an Ostrich: The Development of Information Avoidance15
Sources of Interference in Memory Across Development15
Detecting Prejudice From Egalitarianism: Why Black Americans Don’t Trust White Egalitarians’ Claims15
Perceiving Topological Relations15
Corrigendum to “Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence”15
Nurturing the Mathematical Brain: Home Numeracy Practices Are Associated With Children’s Neural Responses to Arabic Numerals15
Statistical Learning Facilitates Access to Awareness15
Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change15
A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It15
Underestimating Counterparts’ Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations15
Moral Frames Are Persuasive and Moralize Attitudes; Nonmoral Frames Are Persuasive and De-Moralize Attitudes14
The Relative Importance of Joke and Audience Characteristics in Eliciting Amusement14
Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?14
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems14
The Effect of Replications on Citation Patterns: Evidence From a Large-Scale Reproducibility Project14
Directing Attention Shapes Learning in Adults but Not Children14
Do People Prescribe Optimism, Overoptimism, or Neither?14
A Personal Model of Trumpery: Linguistic Deception Detection in a Real-World High-Stakes Setting14
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence14
The One That Got Away: Overestimation of Forgone Alternatives as a Hidden Source of Regret14
Changing What You Like: Modifying Contour Properties Shifts Aesthetic Valuations of Scenes13
Safe and Sound: The Effects of Experimentally Priming the Sense of Attachment Security on Pure-Tone Audiometric Thresholds Among Young and Older Adults13
Psychological Well-Being in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Middle Adulthood: Findings From the 1958 British Birth Cohort13
The Effect of Auditory and Visual Recommendations on Choice13
Search for the Unknown: Guidance of Visual Search in the Absence of an Active Template13
Psychological Science Stepping Up a Level13
Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction13
People Place Larger Bets When Risky Choices Provide a Postbet Option to Cash Out13
Shared Time Scarcity and the Pursuit of Extraordinary Experiences13
Proenvironmental Behavior Increases Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From an Experience-Sampling Study and a Randomized Experiment13
Attention to Authenticity: An Essential Analogue to Focus on Rigor and Replicability13
Compassion Fatigue as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Believing Compassion Is Limited Increases Fatigue and Decreases Compassion13
Perceptual Generalization of Alcohol-Related Value Characterizes Risky Drinkers13
Fluctuations in Sustained Attention Explain Moment-to-Moment Shifts in Children’s Memory Formation12
Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior12
Just Dead, Not Alive: Reconsidering Belief in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories12
Globally Inaccurate Stereotypes Can Result From Locally Adaptive Exploration12
An Emphasis on Brilliance Fosters Masculinity-Contest Cultures12
Acting Like a Baby Boomer? Birth-Cohort Differences in Adults’ Personality Trajectories During the Last Half a Century12
Early Impacts of College, Interrupted: Considering First-Year Students’ Narratives About COVID and Reports of Adjustment During College Shutdowns12
Exact Number Concepts Are Limited to the Verbal Count Range12
Mental Logout: Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Regulating Temptations to Use Social Media12
Resourceful Actors, Not Weak Victims: Reframing Refugees’ Stigmatized Identity Enhances Long-Term Academic Engagement12
Sex, Drugs, and Genes: Illuminating the Moral Condemnation of Recreational Drugs12
Tips From the Top: Do the Best Performers Really Give the Best Advice?11
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 to11
Divergent and Convergent Creativity Are Different Kinds of Foraging11
Manipulating Prior Beliefs Causally Induces Under- and Overconfidence11
Food Is All Around: How Contexts Create Misbeliefs About the Health–Taste Relationship11
Expression of Concern: Is It Light or Dark? Recalling Moral Behavior Changes Perception of Brightness11
Lifting the Bar: A Relationship-Orienting Intervention Reduces Recidivism Among Children Reentering School From Juvenile Detention11
The Language of Social Touch Is Intuitive and Quantifiable11
The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect Context-Sensitive Information Priorities11
Cutting Through the Noise: Auditory Scenes and Their Effects on Visual Object Processing11
Drawing Generalizable Conclusions From Multilevel Models: Commentary on11
Taking a Disagreeing Perspective Improves the Accuracy of People’s Quantitative Estimates11
Prototypes of People With Depression10
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
Different Mechanisms for Supporting Mental Imagery and Perceptual Representations: Modulation Versus Excitation10
Understanding Everyday Events: Predictive-Looking Errors Drive Memory Updating10
The Development of Spatial Cognition and Its Malleability Assessed in Mass Population via a Mobile Game10
Cross-Cultural Sex/Gender Differences in Produced Word Content Before the Age of 3 Years10
Mindful-Gratitude Practice Reduces Prejudice at High Levels of Collective Narcissism10
Corrigendum to “Spatial Distance and Mental Construal of Social Events”10
The Psychological Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Associated With Antisystemic Attitudes and Political Violence10
The Role of Beta Oscillations in Mental Time Travel10
How the Listener’s Attention Dynamically Switches Between Different Speakers During a Natural Conversation10
The Effects of Group Affiliation Versus Individuating Information on Direct and Indirect Measures of the Evaluation of Novel Individual Group Members10
Feeling Appreciated Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Unequal Division of Household Labor on Relationship Satisfaction10
Physiological Responses to a Haunted-House Threat Experience: Distinct Tonic and Phasic Effects10
Is Mansplaining Gendered? The Effects of Unsolicited, Generic, and Prescriptive Advice on U.S. Women10
Socioeconomic Status Shapes Dyadic Interactions: Examining Behavioral and Physiologic Responses9
Evaluating Benefits, Costs, and Social Value as Predictors of Gratitude9
Copy the In-group: Group Membership Trumps Perceived Reliability, Warmth, and Competence in a Social-Learning Task9
Devaluation by Omission: Limited Identity Options Elicit Anger and Increase Identification9
Early-Life Socioeconomic Circumstances and Physical Activity in Older Age: Women Pay the Price9
Attention Shifts to More Complex Structures With Experience9
A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary-Drink Buying9
Transfer of Learned Cognitive Flexibility to Novel Stimuli and Task Sets9
The Evolution of Cognitive Control in Lemurs9
Mnemonic Content and Hippocampal Patterns Shape Judgments of Time9
Multivariate Assessment of Inhibitory Control in Youth: Links With Psychopathology and Brain Function9
Psychological Drivers of Individual Differences in Risk Perception: A Systematic Case Study Focusing on 5G9
The Well-Being Costs of Informal Caregiving9
Frequent Interpersonal Stress and Inflammatory Reactivity Predict Depressive-Symptom Increases: Two Tests of the Social-Signal-Transduction Theory of Depression9
Are There Really People With No Inner Voice? Commentary on Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024)9
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
A Practical Significance Bias in Laypeople’s Evaluation of Scientific Findings9
On How to Be Liked in First Encounters: The Effects of Agentic and Communal Behaviors on Popularity and Unique Liking8
Psychosocial Resilience to Inflammation-Associated Depression: A Prospective Study of Breast-Cancer Survivors8
Scene Context Impairs Perception of Semantically Congruent Objects8
Awe Sparks Prosociality in Children8
Adaptive Encoding Speed in Working Memory8
The Costs of Paying Overt and Covert Attention Assessed With Pupillometry8
Queen’s Gambit Declined: The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Participation Across 160 Countries8
Children Sustain Cooperation in a Threshold Public-Goods Game Even When Seeing Others’ Outcomes8
Severe Developmental Dyscalculia Is Characterized by Core Deficits in Both Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Number Sense8
The Golden Age Is Behind Us: How the Status Quo Impacts the Evaluation of Technology8
Predictive Processing of Scene Layout Depends on Naturalistic Depth of Field8
iGen or shyGen? Generational Differences in Shyness8
Toward Antifragility: Social Defeat Stress Enhances Learning and Memory in Young Mice Via Hippocampal Synaptosome Associated Protein 258
Do Open-Science Badges Increase Trust in Scientists Among Undergraduates, Scientists, and the Public?8
When and Why Antiegalitarianism Affects Resistance to Supporting Black-Owned Businesses7
Socially Stratified Epigenetic Profiles Are Associated With Cognitive Functioning in Children and Adolescents7
Preferential Attraction Effects With Visual Stimuli: The Role of Quantitative Versus Qualitative Visual Attributes7
Cognitive Change Before Old Age (11 to 70) Predicts Cognitive Change During Old Age (70 to 82)7
Memory Fidelity Reveals Qualitative Changes in Interactions Between Items in Visual Working Memory7
Where Do Children Look When Watching Videos With Same-Language Subtitles?7
Are You for Real? Perceptions of Authenticity Are Systematically Biased and Not Accurate7
Experience of Playing a Musical Instrument and Lifetime Change in General Cognitive Ability: Evidence From the Lothian Birth Cohort 19367
Gaze Behavior Reveals Expectations of Potential Scene Changes7
Caricaturing Shapes in Visual Memory7
Face-Information Sampling in Super-Recognizers7
Preregistered Replication and Extension of “Moral Hypocrisy: Social Groups and the Flexibility of Virtue”7
Disagreement Gets Mistaken for Bad Listening7
*Reluctance to Downplay: Asymmetric Sensitivity to Differences in the Severity of Moral Transgressions7
Bridging the Gap Between Self-Report and Behavioral Laboratory Measures: A Real-Time Driving Task With Inverse Reinforcement Learning7
Physical Effort Exertion for Peer Feedback Reveals Evolving Social Motivations From Adolescence to Young Adulthood7
Aging Impairs Inhibitory Control Over Incidental Cues: A Construal-Level Perspective7
Intelligence Polygenic Score Is More Predictive of Crystallized Measures: Evidence From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study7
Facial Impressions Are Predicted by the Structure of Group Stereotypes7
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
Specific Effects of Characteristics of Enriched Environment on Innovative Problem Solving by Animals7
Synchrony Influences Estimates of Cooperation in a Public-Goods Game7
Participating in a Digital-History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today6
Thinking About God Encourages Prosociality Toward Religious Outgroups: A Cross-Cultural Investigation6
Well-Being and Cognitive Resilience to Dementia-Related Neuropathology6
Effects of Voice Pitch on Social Perceptions Vary With Relational Mobility and Homicide Rate6
Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence6
Neural Signatures of Evidence Accumulation Encode Subjective Perceptual Confidence Independent of Performance6
Cognitive Abilities and Educational Attainment as Antecedents of Mental Disorders: A Total Population Study of Males6
Flavor Sensing in Utero and Emerging Discriminative Behaviors in the Human Fetus6
A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect6
Corrigendum to “Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior”6
Fear in the Theater of the Mind: Differential Fear Conditioning With Imagined Stimuli6
Why Do Children Think Words Are Mutually Exclusive?6
Estranged and Unhappy? Examining the Dynamics of Personal and Relationship Well-Being Surrounding Infidelity6
Mind Wandering Impedes Response Inhibition by Affecting the Triggering of the Inhibitory Process6
Perceptual Awareness Occurs Along a Graded Continuum: No Evidence of All-or-None Failures in Continuous Reproduction Tasks6
Human Vision Reconstructs Time to Satisfy Causal Constraints6
Cognitive Maps for a Non-Euclidean Environment: Path Integration and Spatial Memory on a Sphere6
Thinking Beyond COVID-19: How Has the Pandemic Impacted Future Time Horizons?6
Acute Psychosocial Stress Increases Cognitive-Effort Avoidance6
Perceptual and Cognitive Judgments Show Both Anchoring and Repulsion6
The Effects of Retirement on Sense of Purpose in Life: Crisis or Opportunity?6
What’s in a Name? The Hidden Historical Ideologies Embedded in the Black and African American Racial Labels6
Test Anxiety Does Not Predict Exam Performance When Knowledge Is Controlled For: Strong Evidence Against the Interference Hypothesis of Test Anxiety6
Attentional Guidance and Match Decisions Rely on Different Template Information During Visual Search6
Two-Year-Olds’ Eye Movements Reflect Confidence in Their Understanding of Words6
Perturbation of Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Makes Power Holders Less Resistant to Tempting Bribes6
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