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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study168
Corrigendum: Dissociating Representations of Time and Number in Reinforcement-Rate Learning by Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit in Mice72
Low Perinatal Androgens Predict Recalled Childhood Gender Nonconformity in Men57
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration48
Doubling-Back Aversion: A Reluctance to Make Progress by Undoing It46
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix46
Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions43
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments42
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences42
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects42
Bidirectional Relationships Between Well-Being and Cognitive Function42
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory41
Peripheral Visual Information Halves Attentional Choice Biases40
Deception Cues During High-Risk Situations: 911 Homicide Calls40
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes40
Who’s the “Real” Victim? How Victim Framing Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Assault39
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets39
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases39
Invariant Recognition Memory Spaces for Real-World Objects Revealed With Signal-Detection Analysis38
*Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia36
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity35
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness34
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented34
*The Ethnic and Political Divide in the Preference for Strong Leaders34
Radial Bias Alters Perceived Object Orientation33
Mugs and Plants: Object Semantic Knowledge Alters Perceptual Processing With Behavioral Ramifications31
Time to Pay Attention? Information Search Explains Amplified Framing Effects Under Time Pressure31
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test31
Ambivalent Sexism and Tolerance of Violence Against Women in India30
What Might Books Be Teaching Young Children About Gender?30
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure28
Reducing Facial Stereotype Bias in Consequential Social Judgments: Intervention Success With White Male Faces28
Acknowledgment27
Exploring the Semantic-Inconsistency Effect in Scenes Using a Continuous Measure of Linguistic-Semantic Similarity27
Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory27
Strength of Belief Guides Information Foraging26
Unlocking the Benefits of Gender Diversity: How an Ecological-Belonging Intervention Enhances Performance in Science Classrooms25
Can Feelings “Feel” Wrong? Similarities Between Counter-Normative Emotion Reports and Perceptual Errors25
Agent Preference in Chasing Interactions in Guinea Baboons ( Papio papio ): Uncovering the Roots of Subject–Object Order in Language25
How Convincing Is a Crowd? Quantifying the Persuasiveness of a Consensus for Different Individuals and Types of Claims25
Introspective Access or Retrospective Inference? Mind-Wandering Reports Are Shaped by Performance Feedback24
Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field24
Regional Measures of Sexual-Orientation Bias Predict Where Same-Gender Couples Live24
Signal Intrusion Explains Divergent Effects of Visual Distraction on Working Memory24
Can One Donation a Day Keep Depression Away? Three Randomized Controlled Trials of an Online Micro-Charitable Giving Intervention24
Neural Representations of the Committed Romantic Partner in the Nucleus Accumbens24
Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones23
Where the Blame Lies: Unpacking Groups Into Their Constituent Subgroups Shifts Judgments of Blame in Intergroup Conflict22
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior22
The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-Dependent Trade-Off Between External and Internal Memory22
The Cognition/Metacognition Trade-Off22
Contactless Real-Time Heart Rate Predicts the Performance of Elite Athletes: Evidence From Tokyo 2020 Olympic Archery Competition22
What’s in a Badge? A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science21
Visual Perception Is Highly Flexible and Context Dependent in Young Infants: A Case of Top-Down-Modulated Motion Perception21
Early Adolescents Demonstrate Peer-Network Homophily in Political Attitudes and Values21
When and Why People Conceal Infectious Disease21
The Dispositional Essence of Proactive Social Preferences: The Dark Core of Personality vis-à-vis 58 Traits21
Gaze-Triggered Communicative Intention Compresses Perceived Temporal Duration20
From the Viscera to First Impressions: Phase-Dependent Cardio-Visual Signals Bias the Perceived Trustworthiness of Faces20
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help19
Vocal-Stress Diary: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Association of Everyday Work Stressors and Human Voice Features19
Improving Memory Search Through Model-Based Cue Selection19
Assortative Mating Is a Natural Consequence of Heritable Variation in Preferences and Preferred Traits19
The Visual Mandela Effect as Evidence for Shared and Specific False Memories Across People19
Neural and Cognitive Signatures of Guilt Predict Hypocritical Blame19
Perceptual Grouping Explains Similarities in Constellations Across Cultures18
Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration18
What You See Is What You Hear: Sounds Alter the Contents of Visual Perception18
Human Echolocators Have Better Localization Off Axis18
Do We Become More Lonely With Age? A Coordinated Data Analysis of Nine Longitudinal Studies18
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) Americans18
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions18
Self-Relevance Predicts the Aesthetic Appeal of Real and Synthetic Artworks Generated via Neural Style Transfer18
Preschoolers and Adults Learn From Novel Metaphors17
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind17
Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia17
Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical Conclusions17
Adolescents’ Perceptions of Household Chaos Predict Their Adult Mental Health: A Twin-Difference Longitudinal Cohort Study17
Cross-Modal Facilitation of Episodic Memory by Sequential Action Execution17
Gender-Ambiguous Voices and Social Disfluency17
Corrigendum: What’s in a Name? Popular Names Are Less Common on Frontiers16
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity16
Terminal Increases in Depressive Symptoms in a Multinational Twin Consortium16
A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It16
Overconfidence Persists Despite Years of Accurate, Precise, Public, and Continuous Feedback: Two Studies of Tournament Chess Players16
Exploration, Distributed Attention, and Development of Category Learning16
Detecting Prejudice From Egalitarianism: Why Black Americans Don’t Trust White Egalitarians’ Claims16
Becoming an Ostrich: The Development of Information Avoidance16
Sexual Identity Development Milestones, Latent Profiles, and Proximal Minority Stressors in Australia’s Generation Z16
Perceiving Topological Relations16
Underestimating Counterparts’ Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations16
Statistical Learning Facilitates Access to Awareness16
Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change16
Corrigendum to “Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence”16
Directing Attention Shapes Learning in Adults but Not Children15
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems15
The One That Got Away: Overestimation of Forgone Alternatives as a Hidden Source of Regret15
Sources of Interference in Memory Across Development15
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence14
Attention to Authenticity: An Essential Analogue to Focus on Rigor and Replicability14
Safe and Sound: The Effects of Experimentally Priming the Sense of Attachment Security on Pure-Tone Audiometric Thresholds Among Young and Older Adults14
Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?14
Nurturing the Mathematical Brain: Home Numeracy Practices Are Associated With Children’s Neural Responses to Arabic Numerals14
Psychological Science Stepping Up a Level14
Moral Frames Are Persuasive and Moralize Attitudes; Nonmoral Frames Are Persuasive and De-Moralize Attitudes14
Changing What You Like: Modifying Contour Properties Shifts Aesthetic Valuations of Scenes14
Proenvironmental Behavior Increases Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From an Experience-Sampling Study and a Randomized Experiment13
People Place Larger Bets When Risky Choices Provide a Postbet Option to Cash Out13
Early Impacts of College, Interrupted: Considering First-Year Students’ Narratives About COVID and Reports of Adjustment During College Shutdowns13
Shared Time Scarcity and the Pursuit of Extraordinary Experiences13
Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction13
Fluctuations in Sustained Attention Explain Moment-to-Moment Shifts in Children’s Memory Formation13
Psychological Well-Being in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Middle Adulthood: Findings From the 1958 British Birth Cohort13
The Relative Importance of Joke and Audience Characteristics in Eliciting Amusement13
A Personal Model of Trumpery: Linguistic Deception Detection in a Real-World High-Stakes Setting13
The Effect of Auditory and Visual Recommendations on Choice13
Perceptual Generalization of Alcohol-Related Value Characterizes Risky Drinkers13
Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior12
Resourceful Actors, Not Weak Victims: Reframing Refugees’ Stigmatized Identity Enhances Long-Term Academic Engagement12
Cross-Cultural Sex/Gender Differences in Produced Word Content Before the Age of 3 Years12
Drawing Generalizable Conclusions From Multilevel Models: Commentary on12
Just Dead, Not Alive: Reconsidering Belief in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories12
Globally Inaccurate Stereotypes Can Result From Locally Adaptive Exploration12
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
Exact Number Concepts Are Limited to the Verbal Count Range12
Compassion Fatigue as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Believing Compassion Is Limited Increases Fatigue and Decreases Compassion12
An Emphasis on Brilliance Fosters Masculinity-Contest Cultures12
Expression of Concern: Is It Light or Dark? Recalling Moral Behavior Changes Perception of Brightness12
Native Now, Equity Now: Implicit Associations Between Native Peoples and the Past Predict Reduced Support for Racial Equity12
Acting Like a Baby Boomer? Birth-Cohort Differences in Adults’ Personality Trajectories During the Last Half a Century12
Food Is All Around: How Contexts Create Misbeliefs About the Health–Taste Relationship11
Prototypes of People With Depression11
Corrigendum to “Spatial Distance and Mental Construal of Social Events”11
How the Listener’s Attention Dynamically Switches Between Different Speakers During a Natural Conversation11
The Language of Social Touch Is Intuitive and Quantifiable11
The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect Context-Sensitive Information Priorities11
Manipulating Prior Beliefs Causally Induces Under- and Overconfidence11
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”11
Taking a Disagreeing Perspective Improves the Accuracy of People’s Quantitative Estimates11
Tips From the Top: Do the Best Performers Really Give the Best Advice?11
The Effects of Group Affiliation Versus Individuating Information on Direct and Indirect Measures of the Evaluation of Novel Individual Group Members11
Divergent and Convergent Creativity Are Different Kinds of Foraging11
Different Mechanisms for Supporting Mental Imagery and Perceptual Representations: Modulation Versus Excitation10
Parents of Children With High Weight Are Viewed as Responsible for Child Weight and Thus Stigmatized10
Devaluation by Omission: Limited Identity Options Elicit Anger and Increase Identification10
Copy the In-group: Group Membership Trumps Perceived Reliability, Warmth, and Competence in a Social-Learning Task10
The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Holds Among Young Players: A Commentary on the Vishkin (2022) Study10
The Role of Beta Oscillations in Mental Time Travel10
Feeling Appreciated Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Unequal Division of Household Labor on Relationship Satisfaction10
Are There Really People With No Inner Voice? Commentary on Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024)10
Socioeconomic Status Shapes Dyadic Interactions: Examining Behavioral and Physiologic Responses10
The Development of Spatial Cognition and Its Malleability Assessed in Mass Population via a Mobile Game10
Mindful-Gratitude Practice Reduces Prejudice at High Levels of Collective Narcissism10
Physiological Responses to a Haunted-House Threat Experience: Distinct Tonic and Phasic Effects10
Understanding Everyday Events: Predictive-Looking Errors Drive Memory Updating10
A Practical Significance Bias in Laypeople’s Evaluation of Scientific Findings10
Attention Shifts to More Complex Structures With Experience10
Frequent Interpersonal Stress and Inflammatory Reactivity Predict Depressive-Symptom Increases: Two Tests of the Social-Signal-Transduction Theory of Depression9
Mnemonic Content and Hippocampal Patterns Shape Judgments of Time9
The Evolution of Cognitive Control in Lemurs9
Early-Life Socioeconomic Circumstances and Physical Activity in Older Age: Women Pay the Price9
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
Evaluating Benefits, Costs, and Social Value as Predictors of Gratitude9
The Well-Being Costs of Informal Caregiving9
Psychosocial Resilience to Inflammation-Associated Depression: A Prospective Study of Breast-Cancer Survivors9
Is Mansplaining Gendered? The Effects of Unsolicited, Generic, and Prescriptive Advice on U.S. Women9
Multivariate Assessment of Inhibitory Control in Youth: Links With Psychopathology and Brain Function9
Scene Context Impairs Perception of Semantically Congruent Objects9
The Costs of Paying Overt and Covert Attention Assessed With Pupillometry8
Predictive Processing of Scene Layout Depends on Naturalistic Depth of Field8
Do Open-Science Badges Increase Trust in Scientists Among Undergraduates, Scientists, and the Public?8
Gaze Behavior Reveals Expectations of Potential Scene Changes8
When and Why Antiegalitarianism Affects Resistance to Supporting Black-Owned Businesses8
Intelligence Polygenic Score Is More Predictive of Crystallized Measures: Evidence From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study8
Awe Sparks Prosociality in Children8
Toward Antifragility: Social Defeat Stress Enhances Learning and Memory in Young Mice Via Hippocampal Synaptosome Associated Protein 258
On How to Be Liked in First Encounters: The Effects of Agentic and Communal Behaviors on Popularity and Unique Liking8
Caricaturing Shapes in Visual Memory8
The Golden Age Is Behind Us: How the Status Quo Impacts the Evaluation of Technology8
Adaptive Encoding Speed in Working Memory8
iGen or shyGen? Generational Differences in Shyness8
Queen’s Gambit Declined: The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Participation Across 160 Countries8
Severe Developmental Dyscalculia Is Characterized by Core Deficits in Both Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Number Sense8
Bridging the Gap Between Self-Report and Behavioral Laboratory Measures: A Real-Time Driving Task With Inverse Reinforcement Learning8
Experience of Playing a Musical Instrument and Lifetime Change in General Cognitive Ability: Evidence From the Lothian Birth Cohort 19368
Participating in a Digital-History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today7
Why Do Children Think Words Are Mutually Exclusive?7
Synchrony Influences Estimates of Cooperation in a Public-Goods Game7
Specific Effects of Characteristics of Enriched Environment on Innovative Problem Solving by Animals7
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
Preregistered Replication and Extension of “Moral Hypocrisy: Social Groups and the Flexibility of Virtue”7
Estranged and Unhappy? Examining the Dynamics of Personal and Relationship Well-Being Surrounding Infidelity7
Well-Being and Cognitive Resilience to Dementia-Related Neuropathology7
Fear in the Theater of the Mind: Differential Fear Conditioning With Imagined Stimuli7
Corrigendum to “Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior”7
Face-Information Sampling in Super-Recognizers7
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
Cognitive Change Before Old Age (11 to 70) Predicts Cognitive Change During Old Age (70 to 82)7
Physical Effort Exertion for Peer Feedback Reveals Evolving Social Motivations From Adolescence to Young Adulthood7
Where Do Children Look When Watching Videos With Same-Language Subtitles?7
Thinking About God Encourages Prosociality Toward Religious Outgroups: A Cross-Cultural Investigation7
Test Anxiety Does Not Predict Exam Performance When Knowledge Is Controlled For: Strong Evidence Against the Interference Hypothesis of Test Anxiety7
Effects of Voice Pitch on Social Perceptions Vary With Relational Mobility and Homicide Rate7
Flavor Sensing in Utero and Emerging Discriminative Behaviors in the Human Fetus7
Facial Impressions Are Predicted by the Structure of Group Stereotypes7
Are You for Real? Perceptions of Authenticity Are Systematically Biased and Not Accurate7
*Reluctance to Downplay: Asymmetric Sensitivity to Differences in the Severity of Moral Transgressions7
Disagreement Gets Mistaken for Bad Listening7
Perceptual and Cognitive Judgments Show Both Anchoring and Repulsion7
Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence7
The Anticipated Relational Effects of Confronting Bias (or not) in Interracial Friendships6
Racial Demographics Explain the Link Between Racial Disparities in Traffic Stops and County-Level Racial Attitudes6
Navigable Space and Traversable Edges Differentially Influence Reorientation in Sighted and Blind Mice6
Younger Than Ever? Subjective Age Is Becoming Younger and Remains More Stable in Middle-Age and Older Adults Today6
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
The Formation of Negative Attitudes Toward Novel Groups6
Thinking Beyond COVID-19: How Has the Pandemic Impacted Future Time Horizons?6
Why Twitter Sometimes Rewards What Most People Disapprove of: The Case of Cross-Party Political Relations6
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
Cognitive Abilities and Educational Attainment as Antecedents of Mental Disorders: A Total Population Study of Males6
Neural Signatures of Evidence Accumulation Encode Subjective Perceptual Confidence Independent of Performance6
Perturbation of Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Makes Power Holders Less Resistant to Tempting Bribes6
Task Termination Triggers Spontaneous Removal of Information From Visual Working Memory6
Not Everybody Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia6
Visual Distraction’s “Silver Lining”: Distractor Suppression Boosts Attention to Competing Stimuli6
The Relational Wear and Tear of Everyday Racism Among African American Couples6
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
Mind Wandering Impedes Response Inhibition by Affecting the Triggering of the Inhibitory Process6
Cognitive Maps for a Non-Euclidean Environment: Path Integration and Spatial Memory on a Sphere6
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