Psychological Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychological Science is 5. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Thinking Beyond COVID-19: How Has the Pandemic Impacted Future Time Horizons?124
Are Sex Differences in Human Brain Structure Associated With Sex Differences in Behavior?95
Following Other People’s Footsteps: A Contextual-Attraction Effect Induced by Biological Motion78
Melting Ice With Your Mind: Representational Momentum for Physical States71
Do We Become More Lonely With Age? A Coordinated Data Analysis of Nine Longitudinal Studies67
Physically Implied Surfaces67
Personality Traits and Memory: A Multilevel Analysis Across 27 Countries From the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe63
Political Person–Culture Match and Longevity: The Partisanship–Mortality Link Depends on the Cultural Context60
Interleaving Retrieval Practice Promotes Science Learning60
Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia49
Human Vision Reconstructs Time to Satisfy Causal Constraints42
Adolescents’ Perceptions of Household Chaos Predict Their Adult Mental Health: A Twin-Difference Longitudinal Cohort Study39
Charged With a Crime: The Neuronal Signature of Processing Negatively Evaluated Faces Under Different Attentional Conditions39
Cognitive Maps for a Non-Euclidean Environment: Path Integration and Spatial Memory on a Sphere35
The Formation of Negative Attitudes Toward Novel Groups34
Aging Increases Prosocial Motivation for Effort34
Perceptual Awareness Occurs Along a Graded Continuum: No Evidence of All-or-None Failures in Continuous Reproduction Tasks34
The Psychological Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Associated With Antisystemic Attitudes and Political Violence32
Not Everybody Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia32
The Bilingual Advantage in Children’s Executive Functioning Is Not Related to Language Status: A Meta-Analytic Review32
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments31
Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance31
Perturbation of Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Makes Power Holders Less Resistant to Tempting Bribes31
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study30
Feeling Appreciated Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Unequal Division of Household Labor on Relationship Satisfaction30
Statistical Learning Within Objects30
Challenging the Link Between Early Childhood Television Exposure and Later Attention Problems: A Multiverse Approach29
Do They Look the Same Unless They Are Angry? Investigating the Other-Race Effect in the Presence of Angry Expressions28
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix28
Different Mechanisms for Supporting Mental Imagery and Perceptual Representations: Modulation Versus Excitation27
Understanding Everyday Events: Predictive-Looking Errors Drive Memory Updating27
Response Bias Reflects Individual Differences in Sensory Encoding27
Corrigendum: Dissociating Representations of Time and Number in Reinforcement-Rate Learning by Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit in Mice27
The Role of Beta Oscillations in Mental Time Travel26
Absolute Versus Relative Success: Why Overconfidence Creates an Inefficient Equilibrium26
Low Perinatal Androgens Predict Recalled Childhood Gender Nonconformity in Men25
Human Echolocators Have Better Localization Off Axis24
Neural Signatures of Evidence Accumulation Encode Subjective Perceptual Confidence Independent of Performance24
Experienced Love: An Empirical Account24
Attentional Guidance and Match Decisions Rely on Different Template Information During Visual Search24
In Which Direction Does Happiness Predict Subsequent Social Interactions? A Commentary on Quoidbach et al. (2019)23
Are Empathic People Better Adjusted? A Test of Competing Models of Empathic Accuracy and Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Facets of Adjustment Using Self- and Peer Reports23
Task Termination Triggers Spontaneous Removal of Information From Visual Working Memory23
Undetected Neurodegenerative Disease Biases Estimates of Cognitive Change in Older Adults23
Working Memory Content Is Distorted by Its Use in Perceptual Comparisons22
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind22
Two-Year-Olds’ Eye Movements Reflect Confidence in Their Understanding of Words22
Mind Wandering Impedes Response Inhibition by Affecting the Triggering of the Inhibitory Process22
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory22
What You See Is What You Hear: Sounds Alter the Contents of Visual Perception21
Parents’ Political Ideology Predicts How Their Children Punish21
A Network Analysis of Children’s Emerging Place-Value Concepts21
Cross-Modal Facilitation of Episodic Memory by Sequential Action Execution20
The Causes and Consequences of Drifting Expectations20
Corrigendum to “Spatial Distance and Mental Construal of Social Events”20
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions20
Mindful-Gratitude Practice Reduces Prejudice at High Levels of Collective Narcissism20
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration20
Generating Options and Choosing Between Them Depend on Distinct Forms of Value Representation20
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
Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration19
Pain as Social Glue: A Preregistered Direct Replication of Experiment 2 of Bastian et al. (2014)19
Physiological Responses to a Haunted-House Threat Experience: Distinct Tonic and Phasic Effects19
Idiosyncratic Tower of Babel: Individual Differences in Word-Meaning Representation Increase as Word Abstractness Increases18
Seeing Soft Materials Draped Over Objects: A Case Study of Intuitive Physics in Perception, Attention, and Memory18
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects18
Younger Than Ever? Subjective Age Is Becoming Younger and Remains More Stable in Middle-Age and Older Adults Today18
Variety Is the Spice of Life: Diverse Social Networks Are Associated With Social Cohesion and Well-Being18
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences18
Preschoolers and Adults Learn From Novel Metaphors18
The “Equal-Opportunity Jerk” Defense: Rudeness Can Obfuscate Gender Bias18
Self-Relevance Predicts the Aesthetic Appeal of Real and Synthetic Artworks Generated via Neural Style Transfer18
Underestimating Counterparts’ Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations17
Time and Punishment: Time Delays Exacerbate the Severity of Third-Party Punishment17
Gender Inequality and Well-Being: Concepts and Their Measures Are Cultural Products—A Reflection on Li et al. (2021)17
Mnemonic Content and Hippocampal Patterns Shape Judgments of Time17
Children With More Uncertainty in Their Intuitive Theories Seek Domain-Relevant Information17
Responsible Use of Open-Access Developmental Data: The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study17
Functional MRI Can Be Highly Reliable, but It Depends on What You Measure: A Commentary on Elliott et al. (2020)17
Nonsymbolic-Magnitude Deficit in Adults With Developmental Dyscalculia: Evidence of Impaired Size Discrimination but Intact Size Constancy17
Statistical Learning Facilitates Access to Awareness16
Frequent Interpersonal Stress and Inflammatory Reactivity Predict Depressive-Symptom Increases: Two Tests of the Social-Signal-Transduction Theory of Depression16
Global Variation in Subjective Well-Being Predicts Seven Forms of Altruism16
Transfer of Learned Cognitive Flexibility to Novel Stimuli and Task Sets16
Multivariate Assessment of Inhibitory Control in Youth: Links With Psychopathology and Brain Function16
Once and Again: Repeated Viewing Affects Judgments of Spontaneity and Preparation16
Consolidation Enhances Sequential Multistep Anticipation but Diminishes Access to Perceptual Features15
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness15
Revisiting the Integration Hypothesis: Correlational and Longitudinal Meta-Analyses Demonstrate the Limited Role of Acculturation for Cross-Cultural Adaptation15
The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Holds Among Young Players: A Commentary on the Vishkin (2022) Study15
Identity Concealment May Discourage Health-Seeking Behaviors: Evidence From Sexual-Minority Men During the 2022 Global Mpox Outbreak15
Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: IV. Change and Stability From 2007 to 202015
A Practical Significance Bias in Laypeople’s Evaluation of Scientific Findings15
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity14
Expression of Concern: Effort for Payment: A Tale of Two Markets14
Concepts Are Restructured During Language Contact: The Birth of Blue and Other Color Concepts in Tsimane’-Spanish Bilinguals14
Psychological Drivers of Individual Differences in Risk Perception: A Systematic Case Study Focusing on 5G14
Erratum: The Implications of Sociosexuality for Marital Satisfaction and Dissolution14
Corrigendum: What’s in a Name? Popular Names Are Less Common on Frontiers14
Rational Simplification and Rigidity in Human Planning14
Devaluation by Omission: Limited Identity Options Elicit Anger and Increase Identification14
Internal Social Attention: Gaze Cues Stored in Working Memory Trigger Involuntary Attentional Orienting14
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets14
The Relational Wear and Tear of Everyday Racism Among African American Couples14
Lack of Belonging Predicts Depressive Symptomatology in College Students14
The Development of Spatial Cognition and Its Malleability Assessed in Mass Population via a Mobile Game14
A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary-Drink Buying14
Why Twitter Sometimes Rewards What Most People Disapprove of: The Case of Cross-Party Political Relations14
The Development of the Liking Gap: Children Older Than 5 Years Think That Partners Evaluate Them Less Positively Than They Evaluate Their Partners13
Deception Cues During High-Risk Situations: 911 Homicide Calls13
Culture Moderates the Relation Between Gender Inequality and Well-Being13
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented13
Attention Shifts to More Complex Structures With Experience13
Does Valuing Happiness Lead to Well-Being?13
Retraction Notice to “The Moral Virtue of Authenticity: How Inauthenticity Produces Feelings of Immorality and Impurity”13
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases13
Parents of Children With High Weight Are Viewed as Responsible for Child Weight and Thus Stigmatized13
Gender-Ambiguous Voices and Social Disfluency13
Inhibitory Cognitive Control Allows Automated Advice to Improve Accuracy While Minimizing Misuse13
No Evidence That Siblings’ Gender Affects Personality Across Nine Countries13
Many Roads Lead to Rome: Differential Learning Processes for the Same Perceptual Improvement13
Peripheral Visual Information Halves Attentional Choice Biases12
Spatial Representations Without Spatial Computations12
A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It12
The Impact of Feedback on Perceptual Decision-Making and Metacognition: Reduction in Bias but No Change in Sensitivity12
Against Empathy Bias: The Moral Value of Equitable Empathy12
Perceiving Topological Relations12
Do Diversity Awards Discourage Applicants From Marginalized Groups From Pursuing More Lucrative Opportunities?12
Computational Methods for Predicting and Understanding Food Judgment12
Real-World Exploration Increases Across Adolescence and Relates to Affect, Risk Taking, and Social Connectivity12
Disproportionate School Punishment and Significant Life Outcomes: A Prospective Analysis of Black Youths12
Assessing Verbal Eyewitness Confidence Statements Using Natural Language Processing12
Scientific-Consensus Communication About Contested Science: A Preregistered Meta-Analysis12
Shape of U: The Nonmonotonic Relationship Between Object–Location Memory and Expectedness12
Detecting Prejudice From Egalitarianism: Why Black Americans Don’t Trust White Egalitarians’ Claims11
The Well-Being Costs of Informal Caregiving11
Early-Life Socioeconomic Circumstances and Physical Activity in Older Age: Women Pay the Price11
Adaptive Repulsion of Long-Term Memory Representations Is Triggered by Event Similarity11
How Accurate Are Accuracy-Nudge Interventions? A Preregistered Direct Replication of Pennycook et al. (2020)11
Psychometric Curves Reveal Three Mechanisms of Vigilance Decrement11
Erratum to “Self-Relevance Predicts the Aesthetic Appeal of Real and Synthetic Artworks Generated Via Neural Style Transfer”11
Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical Conclusions11
Navigable Space and Traversable Edges Differentially Influence Reorientation in Sighted and Blind Mice11
Copy the In-group: Group Membership Trumps Perceived Reliability, Warmth, and Competence in a Social-Learning Task10
Shame Broadcasts Social Norms: The Positive Social Effects of Shame on Norm Acquisition and Normative Behavior10
Evaluating Benefits, Costs, and Social Value as Predictors of Gratitude10
The Interactive Effect of Incentive Salience and Prosocial Motivation on Prosocial Behavior10
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes10
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity10
Who’s the “Real” Victim? How Victim Framing Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Assault10
The Evolution of Cognitive Control in Lemurs10
Too Reluctant to Reach Out: Receiving Social Support Is More Positive Than Expressers Expect10
A Self-Controlled Mind Is Reflected by Stable Mental Processing10
Visual Distraction’s “Silver Lining”: Distractor Suppression Boosts Attention to Competing Stimuli10
Racial Demographics Explain the Link Between Racial Disparities in Traffic Stops and County-Level Racial Attitudes10
Exploration, Distributed Attention, and Development of Category Learning10
Parenting Practices May Buffer the Impact of Adversity on Epigenetic Age Acceleration Among Young Children With Developmental Delays10
Corrigendum: The Crowd-Emotion-Amplification Effect10
Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?9
Awe Sparks Prosociality in Children9
Is Mansplaining Gendered? The Effects of Unsolicited, Generic, and Prescriptive Advice on U.S. Women9
Prenatal Programming of Behavior Problems via Second-by-Second Infant Emotion Dynamics9
Experiencing a Natural Disaster Temporarily Boosts Relationship Satisfaction in Newlywed Couples9
Severe Developmental Dyscalculia Is Characterized by Core Deficits in Both Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Number Sense9
Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory9
Radial Bias Alters Perceived Object Orientation9
Predictive Processing of Scene Layout Depends on Naturalistic Depth of Field9
Toward Antifragility: Social Defeat Stress Enhances Learning and Memory in Young Mice Via Hippocampal Synaptosome Associated Protein 259
Online Interaction Turns the Congeniality Bias Into an Uncongeniality Bias9
Pupil-Linked Arousal Biases Evidence Accumulation Toward Desirable Percepts During Perceptual Decision-Making8
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test8
Parents Fine-Tune Their Speech to Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge8
Sources of Interference in Memory Across Development8
Sustained Stress Reduces the Age Advantages in Emotional Experience of Older Adults: Commentary on Carstensen et al. (2020)8
Nurturing the Mathematical Brain: Home Numeracy Practices Are Associated With Children’s Neural Responses to Arabic Numerals8
Perceived Distance Alters Memory for Scene Boundaries8
Pitfalls of Using Data Portals as Sources for Psychological Research: The Example of Cross-National Homicide Data8
On How to Be Liked in First Encounters: The Effects of Agentic and Communal Behaviors on Popularity and Unique Liking8
I Hear My Voice; Therefore I Spoke: The Sense of Agency Over Speech Is Enhanced by Hearing One’s Own Voice8
Eye Movements Predict Large-Scale Voting Decisions8
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure8
Titrating the Smell of Fear: Initial Evidence for Dose-Invariant Behavioral, Physiological, and Neural Responses8
Does Physiological Arousal Increase Social Transmission of Information? Two Replications of Berger (2011)8
How Candidates’ Age and Gender Predict Voter Preference in a Hypothetical Election8
Motivating Personal Growth by Seeking Discomfort8
Behavioral Consistency in the Digital Age8
The Costs of Paying Overt and Covert Attention Assessed With Pupillometry8
Stress and Stress-Induced Glucocorticoids Facilitate Empathic Accuracy in Men but Have No Effects for Women8
Need for Psychometric Theory in Neuroscience Research and Training: Reply to Kragel et al. (2021)8
Corrigendum to “Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence”8
The Foreground Bias: Initial Scene Representations Across the Depth Plane8
Do Open-Science Badges Increase Trust in Scientists Among Undergraduates, Scientists, and the Public?8
The Affect Misattribution Procedure Revisited: An Informational Account8
When Forecasting Mutually Supportive Matches Will Be Practically Impossible8
We Are Still Here: Omission and Perceived Discrimination Galvanized Civic Engagement Among Native Americans7
Surviving Racism and Sexism: What Votes in the Television Program Survivor Reveal About Discrimination7
Effects of Trust and Threat Messaging on Academic Cheating: A Field Study7
Misplaced Divides? Discussing Political Disagreement With Strangers Can Be Unexpectedly Positive7
Niche Diversity Predicts Personality Structure Across 115 Nations7
Queen’s Gambit Declined: The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Participation Across 160 Countries7
Predictive Uncertainty Underlies Auditory Boundary Perception7
Mutual Information and Categorical Perception7
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence7
Time to Pay Attention? Information Search Explains Amplified Framing Effects Under Time Pressure7
Predictors of Listening-Related Fatigue Across the Adult Life Span7
Reducing Facial Stereotype Bias in Consequential Social Judgments: Intervention Success With White Male Faces7
Risky-Choice Framing Effects Result Partly From Mismatched Option Descriptions in Gains and Losses7
Looking for Semantic Similarity: What a Vector-Space Model of Semantics Can Tell Us About Attention in Real-World Scenes7
Beyond the Shape of Things: Infants Can Be Taught to Generalize Nouns by Objects’ Functions7
Directing Attention Shapes Learning in Adults but Not Children7
iGen or shyGen? Generational Differences in Shyness7
Parent Contributions to the Development of Political Attitudes in Adoptive and Biological Families7
Ambivalent Sexism and Tolerance of Violence Against Women in India7
Psychosocial Resilience to Inflammation-Associated Depression: A Prospective Study of Breast-Cancer Survivors7
Scene Context Impairs Perception of Semantically Congruent Objects7
The One That Got Away: Overestimation of Forgone Alternatives as a Hidden Source of Regret7
Frequency-Specific Effects in Infant Electroencephalograms Do Not Require Entrained Neural Oscillations: A Commentary on Köster et al. (2019)7
Do People Prescribe Optimism, Overoptimism, or Neither?7
The Role of Conjunctive Representations in Stopping Actions6
Children Sustain Cooperation in a Threshold Public-Goods Game Even When Seeing Others’ Outcomes6
What Might Books Be Teaching Young Children About Gender?6
From Pictures to the People in Them: Averaging Within-Person Variability Leads to Face Familiarization6
Sensitivity to the Instrumental Value of Choice Increases Across Development6
Explaining the Spatial Patterning of Racial Disparities in Traffic Stops Requires a Structural Perspective: Further Reflections on Stelter et al. (2022) and Ekstrom et al. (2022)6
Little Support for Discrete Item Limits in Visual Working Memory6
The Social Effects of an Awesome Solar Eclipse6
Walking in Her Shoes: Pretending to Be a Female Role Model Increases Young Girls’ Persistence in Science6
Reason Defaults: Presenting Defaults With Reasons for Choosing Each Option Helps Decision-Makers With Minority Interests6
The Effect of Replications on Citation Patterns: Evidence From a Large-Scale Reproducibility Project6
The Language of (Non)Replicable Social Science6
The Impact of Relocation Patterns on Psychological Stress6
Reward Rapidly Enhances Visual Perception6
Losing Sight of Piecemeal Progress: People Lump and Dismiss Improvement Efforts That Fall Short of Categorical Change—Despite Improving6
When Do Observers Deprioritize Due Process for the Perpetrator and Prioritize Safety for the Victim in Response to Information-Poor Allegations of Harm?6
Distinct Constellations of Common Risk Factors Differentially Relate to Executive-Function Ability in Children6
The Fallacy of an Airtight Alibi: Understanding Human Memory for “Where” Using Experience Sampling6
Racism, Relationship Quality, and Health: Further Reflections on Ong et al. (2022)6
Oscillatory Coupling Between Neural and Cardiac Rhythms6
Seek and Ye Shall Be Fine: Attitudes Toward Political-Perspective Seekers6
Encoding Context Determines Risky Choice6
Corrigendum to “Detecting Prejudice From Egalitarianism: Why Black Americans Don’t Trust White Egalitarians’ Claims”6
Ready to Learn: Incidental Exposure Fosters Category Learning6
The Gender-Equality Paradox in Intraindividual Academic Strengths: A Cross-Temporal Analysis6
Racial Prejudice Predicts Police Militarization6
Learning From Aggregated Opinion6
Why It Is Important to Know How the Sausage Is Made: Benefits, Risks, and Responsibilities of Using Third-Party Data5
On the Unequal Burden of Obesity: Obesity’s Adverse Consequences Are Contingent on Regional Obesity Prevalence5
Asking People to Explain Complex Policies Does Not Increase Political Moderation: Three Preregistered Failures to Closely Replicate Fernbach, Rogers, Fox, and Sloman’s (2013) Findings5
Psychological Science Stepping Up a Level5
Changing What You Like: Modifying Contour Properties Shifts Aesthetic Valuations of Scenes5
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