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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Corrigendum: Dissociating Representations of Time and Number in Reinforcement-Rate Learning by Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit in Mice141
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix103
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects82
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study73
Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions70
Responsible Use of Open-Access Developmental Data: The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study68
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory65
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration54
Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance49
Low Perinatal Androgens Predict Recalled Childhood Gender Nonconformity in Men46
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments44
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences43
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness38
Psychometric Curves Reveal Three Mechanisms of Vigilance Decrement36
Peripheral Visual Information Halves Attentional Choice Biases36
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes35
Deception Cues During High-Risk Situations: 911 Homicide Calls35
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets35
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases34
Who’s the “Real” Victim? How Victim Framing Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Assault34
*Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia32
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity32
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test31
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented31
Beyond the Shape of Things: Infants Can Be Taught to Generalize Nouns by Objects’ Functions30
Reducing Facial Stereotype Bias in Consequential Social Judgments: Intervention Success With White Male Faces30
Time to Pay Attention? Information Search Explains Amplified Framing Effects Under Time Pressure30
Frequency-Specific Effects in Infant Electroencephalograms Do Not Require Entrained Neural Oscillations: A Commentary on Köster et al. (2019)29
Ambivalent Sexism and Tolerance of Violence Against Women in India29
Mugs and Plants: Object Semantic Knowledge Alters Perceptual Processing With Behavioral Ramifications28
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure28
What Might Books Be Teaching Young Children About Gender?27
Radial Bias Alters Perceived Object Orientation27
Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory27
Acknowledgment26
Strength of Belief Guides Information Foraging26
Looking for Semantic Similarity: What a Vector-Space Model of Semantics Can Tell Us About Attention in Real-World Scenes26
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior25
Most Findings Obtained With Untimed Visual Illusions Are Confounded25
Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field25
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
Can Feelings “Feel” Wrong? Similarities Between Counter-Normative Emotion Reports and Perceptual Errors25
Can One Donation a Day Keep Depression Away? Three Randomized Controlled Trials of an Online Micro-Charitable Giving Intervention24
Poison Parasite Counter: Turning Duplicitous Mass Communications Into Self-Negating Memory-Retrieval Cues24
Mind-Body Practices and Self-Enhancement: Direct Replications of Gebauer et al.’s (2018) Experiments 1 and 224
Contactless Real-Time Heart Rate Predicts the Performance of Elite Athletes: Evidence From Tokyo 2020 Olympic Archery Competition23
Neural Representations of the Committed Romantic Partner in the Nucleus Accumbens23
The Cognition/Metacognition Trade-Off23
Happiness and the Propensity to Interact With Other People: Reply to Elmer (2021)23
Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones22
Regional Measures of Sexual-Orientation Bias Predict Where Same-Gender Couples Live22
The Visual Mandela Effect as Evidence for Shared and Specific False Memories Across People21
The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-Dependent Trade-Off Between External and Internal Memory21
Gaze-Triggered Communicative Intention Compresses Perceived Temporal Duration21
Coping With Health Threats: The Costs and Benefits of Managing Emotions20
Vocal-Stress Diary: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Association of Everyday Work Stressors and Human Voice Features20
From the Viscera to First Impressions: Phase-Dependent Cardio-Visual Signals Bias the Perceived Trustworthiness of Faces20
Perceptual Grouping Explains Similarities in Constellations Across Cultures20
Where the Blame Lies: Unpacking Groups Into Their Constituent Subgroups Shifts Judgments of Blame in Intergroup Conflict20
Neural and Cognitive Signatures of Guilt Predict Hypocritical Blame20
Improving Memory Search Through Model-Based Cue Selection20
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help20
Visual Perception Is Highly Flexible and Context Dependent in Young Infants: A Case of Top-Down-Modulated Motion Perception20
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
Cross-Modal Facilitation of Episodic Memory by Sequential Action Execution19
The Dispositional Essence of Proactive Social Preferences: The Dark Core of Personality vis-à-vis 58 Traits19
When and Why People Conceal Infectious Disease19
Personality Traits and Memory: A Multilevel Analysis Across 27 Countries From the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe19
Early Adolescents Demonstrate Peer-Network Homophily in Political Attitudes and Values19
Human Echolocators Have Better Localization Off Axis18
Idiosyncratic Tower of Babel: Individual Differences in Word-Meaning Representation Increase as Word Abstractness Increases18
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
What You See Is What You Hear: Sounds Alter the Contents of Visual Perception18
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
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
Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration17
Adolescents’ Perceptions of Household Chaos Predict Their Adult Mental Health: A Twin-Difference Longitudinal Cohort Study17
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity16
Perceiving Topological Relations16
Gender-Ambiguous Voices and Social Disfluency16
Children With More Uncertainty in Their Intuitive Theories Seek Domain-Relevant Information16
Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical Conclusions16
Corrigendum: What’s in a Name? Popular Names Are Less Common on Frontiers16
Generating Options and Choosing Between Them Depend on Distinct Forms of Value Representation16
Do We Become More Lonely With Age? A Coordinated Data Analysis of Nine Longitudinal Studies16
A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It16
Disproportionate School Punishment and Significant Life Outcomes: A Prospective Analysis of Black Youths15
Underestimating Counterparts’ Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations15
Exploration, Distributed Attention, and Development of Category Learning15
Sources of Interference in Memory Across Development15
Statistical Learning Facilitates Access to Awareness15
How Accurate Are Accuracy-Nudge Interventions? A Preregistered Direct Replication of Pennycook et al. (2020)15
Nurturing the Mathematical Brain: Home Numeracy Practices Are Associated With Children’s Neural Responses to Arabic Numerals15
Detecting Prejudice From Egalitarianism: Why Black Americans Don’t Trust White Egalitarians’ Claims15
Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change15
Moral Frames Are Persuasive and Moralize Attitudes; Nonmoral Frames Are Persuasive and De-Moralize Attitudes14
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence14
Directing Attention Shapes Learning in Adults but Not Children14
The One That Got Away: Overestimation of Forgone Alternatives as a Hidden Source of Regret14
Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?14
Search for the Unknown: Guidance of Visual Search in the Absence of an Active Template14
Corrigendum to “Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence”14
The Effect of Replications on Citation Patterns: Evidence From a Large-Scale Reproducibility Project14
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems14
Do People Prescribe Optimism, Overoptimism, or Neither?14
Shared Time Scarcity and the Pursuit of Extraordinary Experiences13
Attention to Authenticity: An Essential Analogue to Focus on Rigor and Replicability13
The Relative Importance of Joke and Audience Characteristics in Eliciting Amusement13
Asymmetric Hedonic Contrast: Pain Is More Contrast Dependent Than Pleasure13
Psychological Well-Being in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Middle Adulthood: Findings From the 1958 British Birth Cohort13
Changing What You Like: Modifying Contour Properties Shifts Aesthetic Valuations of Scenes13
Psychological Science Stepping Up a Level13
Safe and Sound: The Effects of Experimentally Priming the Sense of Attachment Security on Pure-Tone Audiometric Thresholds Among Young and Older Adults13
Compassion Fatigue as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Believing Compassion Is Limited Increases Fatigue and Decreases Compassion13
How Long Does It Take for a Voice to Become Familiar? Speech Intelligibility and Voice Recognition Are Differentially Sensitive to Voice Training13
Proenvironmental Behavior Increases Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From an Experience-Sampling Study and a Randomized Experiment13
Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction13
A Personal Model of Trumpery: Linguistic Deception Detection in a Real-World High-Stakes Setting13
Correlates of Hallucinatory Experiences in the General Population: An International Multisite Replication Study13
Just Dead, Not Alive: Reconsidering Belief in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories12
Exact Number Concepts Are Limited to the Verbal Count Range12
The Effect of Auditory and Visual Recommendations on Choice12
An Emphasis on Brilliance Fosters Masculinity-Contest Cultures12
Are Preschoolers’ Neurobiological Stress Systems Responsive to Culturally Relevant Contexts?12
Perceptual Generalization of Alcohol-Related Value Characterizes Risky Drinkers12
Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior12
Fluctuations in Sustained Attention Explain Moment-to-Moment Shifts in Children’s Memory Formation12
Early Impacts of College, Interrupted: Considering First-Year Students’ Narratives About COVID and Reports of Adjustment During College Shutdowns12
People Place Larger Bets When Risky Choices Provide a Postbet Option to Cash Out12
Mental Logout: Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Regulating Temptations to Use Social Media12
Globally Inaccurate Stereotypes Can Result From Locally Adaptive Exploration12
Resourceful Actors, Not Weak Victims: Reframing Refugees’ Stigmatized Identity Enhances Long-Term Academic Engagement11
Expression of Concern: Is It Light or Dark? Recalling Moral Behavior Changes Perception of Brightness11
Manipulating Prior Beliefs Causally Induces Under- and Overconfidence11
Food Is All Around: How Contexts Create Misbeliefs About the Health–Taste Relationship11
Taking a Disagreeing Perspective Improves the Accuracy of People’s Quantitative Estimates11
Sex, Drugs, and Genes: Illuminating the Moral Condemnation of Recreational Drugs11
Cutting Through the Noise: Auditory Scenes and Their Effects on Visual Object Processing11
Drawing Generalizable Conclusions From Multilevel Models: Commentary on11
The Language of Social Touch Is Intuitive and Quantifiable11
Prototypes of People With Depression11
Acting Like a Baby Boomer? Birth-Cohort Differences in Adults’ Personality Trajectories During the Last Half a Century11
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
How the Listener’s Attention Dynamically Switches Between Different Speakers During a Natural Conversation11
Lifting the Bar: A Relationship-Orienting Intervention Reduces Recidivism Among Children Reentering School From Juvenile Detention11
The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect Context-Sensitive Information Priorities11
The Effects of Group Affiliation Versus Individuating Information on Direct and Indirect Measures of the Evaluation of Novel Individual Group Members10
The Psychological Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Associated With Antisystemic Attitudes and Political Violence10
Divergent and Convergent Creativity Are Different Kinds of Foraging10
Mindful-Gratitude Practice Reduces Prejudice at High Levels of Collective Narcissism10
Feeling Appreciated Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Unequal Division of Household Labor on Relationship Satisfaction10
Are Sex Differences in Human Brain Structure Associated With Sex Differences in Behavior?10
Tips From the Top: Do the Best Performers Really Give the Best Advice?10
Physiological Responses to a Haunted-House Threat Experience: Distinct Tonic and Phasic Effects10
Gender Inequality and Well-Being: Concepts and Their Measures Are Cultural Products—A Reflection on Li et al. (2021)10
Understanding Everyday Events: Predictive-Looking Errors Drive Memory Updating10
Cross-Cultural Sex/Gender Differences in Produced Word Content Before the Age of 3 Years10
Corrigendum to “Spatial Distance and Mental Construal of Social Events”10
A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary-Drink Buying9
Different Mechanisms for Supporting Mental Imagery and Perceptual Representations: Modulation Versus Excitation9
A Practical Significance Bias in Laypeople’s Evaluation of Scientific Findings9
The Development of Spatial Cognition and Its Malleability Assessed in Mass Population via a Mobile Game9
Evaluating Benefits, Costs, and Social Value as Predictors of Gratitude9
Attention Shifts to More Complex Structures With Experience9
Is Mansplaining Gendered? The Effects of Unsolicited, Generic, and Prescriptive Advice on U.S. Women9
Charged With a Crime: The Neuronal Signature of Processing Negatively Evaluated Faces Under Different Attentional Conditions9
The Evolution of Cognitive Control in Lemurs9
The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Holds Among Young Players: A Commentary on the Vishkin (2022) Study9
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
Transfer of Learned Cognitive Flexibility to Novel Stimuli and Task Sets9
Early-Life Socioeconomic Circumstances and Physical Activity in Older Age: Women Pay the Price9
The Role of Beta Oscillations in Mental Time Travel9
Parents of Children With High Weight Are Viewed as Responsible for Child Weight and Thus Stigmatized9
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
Predictive Processing of Scene Layout Depends on Naturalistic Depth of Field8
Devaluation by Omission: Limited Identity Options Elicit Anger and Increase Identification8
Children Sustain Cooperation in a Threshold Public-Goods Game Even When Seeing Others’ Outcomes8
Queen’s Gambit Declined: The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Participation Across 160 Countries8
Scene Context Impairs Perception of Semantically Congruent Objects8
Psychosocial Resilience to Inflammation-Associated Depression: A Prospective Study of Breast-Cancer Survivors8
Copy the In-group: Group Membership Trumps Perceived Reliability, Warmth, and Competence in a Social-Learning Task8
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
iGen or shyGen? Generational Differences in Shyness8
Do Open-Science Badges Increase Trust in Scientists Among Undergraduates, Scientists, and the Public?8
Mnemonic Content and Hippocampal Patterns Shape Judgments of Time8
Global Variation in Subjective Well-Being Predicts Seven Forms of Altruism8
Eye Movements Predict Large-Scale Voting Decisions8
The Costs of Paying Overt and Covert Attention Assessed With Pupillometry8
Toward Antifragility: Social Defeat Stress Enhances Learning and Memory in Young Mice Via Hippocampal Synaptosome Associated Protein 258
Awe Sparks Prosociality in Children8
When and Why Antiegalitarianism Affects Resistance to Supporting Black-Owned Businesses7
Preregistered Replication and Extension of “Moral Hypocrisy: Social Groups and the Flexibility of Virtue”7
Specific Effects of Characteristics of Enriched Environment on Innovative Problem Solving by Animals7
*Reluctance to Downplay: Asymmetric Sensitivity to Differences in the Severity of Moral Transgressions7
Cognitive Change Before Old Age (11 to 70) Predicts Cognitive Change During Old Age (70 to 82)7
Experience of Playing a Musical Instrument and Lifetime Change in General Cognitive Ability: Evidence From the Lothian Birth Cohort 19367
Physical Effort Exertion for Peer Feedback Reveals Evolving Social Motivations From Adolescence to Young Adulthood7
The Golden Age Is Behind Us: How the Status Quo Impacts the Evaluation of Technology7
What Is Time Good for in Working Memory?7
Disagreement Gets Mistaken for Bad Listening7
Where Do Children Look When Watching Videos With Same-Language Subtitles?7
Facial Impressions Are Predicted by the Structure of Group Stereotypes7
Face-Information Sampling in Super-Recognizers7
Preferential Attraction Effects With Visual Stimuli: The Role of Quantitative Versus Qualitative Visual Attributes7
Adaptive Encoding Speed in Working Memory7
Bridging the Gap Between Self-Report and Behavioral Laboratory Measures: A Real-Time Driving Task With Inverse Reinforcement Learning7
Why It Is Important to Know How the Sausage Is Made: Benefits, Risks, and Responsibilities of Using Third-Party Data7
Intelligence Polygenic Score Is More Predictive of Crystallized Measures: Evidence From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study7
Are You for Real? Perceptions of Authenticity Are Systematically Biased and Not Accurate7
Aging Impairs Inhibitory Control Over Incidental Cues: A Construal-Level Perspective7
Memory Fidelity Reveals Qualitative Changes in Interactions Between Items in Visual Working Memory7
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
Synchrony Influences Estimates of Cooperation in a Public-Goods Game7
Severe Developmental Dyscalculia Is Characterized by Core Deficits in Both Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Number Sense7
Gaze Behavior Reveals Expectations of Potential Scene Changes7
Caricaturing Shapes in Visual Memory7
Socially Stratified Epigenetic Profiles Are Associated With Cognitive Functioning in Children and Adolescents7
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
Effects of Voice Pitch on Social Perceptions Vary With Relational Mobility and Homicide Rate6
The Attitude–Behavior Relationship Revisited6
Undetected Neurodegenerative Disease Biases Estimates of Cognitive Change in Older Adults6
Fear in the Theater of the Mind: Differential Fear Conditioning With Imagined Stimuli6
Participating in a Digital-History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today6
The Effects of Retirement on Sense of Purpose in Life: Crisis or Opportunity?6
Estranged and Unhappy? Examining the Dynamics of Personal and Relationship Well-Being Surrounding Infidelity6
What’s in a Name? The Hidden Historical Ideologies Embedded in the Black and African American Racial Labels6
Flavor Sensing in Utero and Emerging Discriminative Behaviors in the Human Fetus6
Acute Psychosocial Stress Increases Cognitive-Effort Avoidance6
Perceptual and Cognitive Judgments Show Both Anchoring and Repulsion6
Test Anxiety Does Not Predict Exam Performance When Knowledge Is Controlled For: Strong Evidence Against the Interference Hypothesis of Test Anxiety6
Thinking About God Encourages Prosociality Toward Religious Outgroups: A Cross-Cultural Investigation6
Why Do Children Think Words Are Mutually Exclusive?6
Well-Being and Cognitive Resilience to Dementia-Related Neuropathology6
Perturbation of Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Makes Power Holders Less Resistant to Tempting Bribes6
Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence6
The Experience of Empathy in Everyday Life6
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