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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention819
What Is the Test-Retest Reliability of Common Task-Functional MRI Measures? New Empirical Evidence and a Meta-Analysis394
The Emotional Path to Action: Empathy Promotes Physical Distancing and Wearing of Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic307
Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance267
Age Advantages in Emotional Experience Persist Even Under Threat From the COVID-19 Pandemic151
Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication142
Early Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Relationship Satisfaction and Attributions104
People Reject Algorithms in Uncertain Decision Domains Because They Have Diminishing Sensitivity to Forecasting Error91
Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages: A Population Study of Executive Function in 11,000 People75
Teacher Mindsets Help Explain Where a Growth-Mindset Intervention Does and Doesn’t Work74
A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect71
Changing Social Contexts to Foster Equity in College Science Courses: An Ecological-Belonging Intervention66
Universal Patterns in Color-Emotion Associations Are Further Shaped by Linguistic and Geographic Proximity65
Functional MRI Can Be Highly Reliable, but It Depends on What You Measure: A Commentary on Elliott et al. (2020)64
Polluted Psyche: Is the Effect of Air Pollution on Unethical Behavior More Physiological or Psychological?63
Comparison of Adopted and Nonadopted Individuals Reveals Gene–Environment Interplay for Education in the UK Biobank60
Gender Stereotypes in Natural Language: Word Embeddings Show Robust Consistency Across Child and Adult Language Corpora of More Than 65 Million Words59
Strong Effort Manipulations Reduce Response Caution: A Preregistered Reinvention of the Ego-Depletion Paradigm58
Artificial Intelligence and Persuasion: A Construal-Level Account55
Relational Mobility Predicts Faster Spread of COVID-19: A 39-Country Study52
The Bilingual Advantage in Children’s Executive Functioning Is Not Related to Language Status: A Meta-Analytic Review51
Behavioral Immune Trade-Offs: Interpersonal Value Relaxes Social Pathogen Avoidance50
How Accurate Are Accuracy-Nudge Interventions? A Preregistered Direct Replication of Pennycook et al. (2020)50
Revisiting the Integration Hypothesis: Correlational and Longitudinal Meta-Analyses Demonstrate the Limited Role of Acculturation for Cross-Cultural Adaptation46
Minding Your Own Business? Mindfulness Decreases Prosocial Behavior for People With Independent Self-Construals45
The Experience of Empathy in Everyday Life45
Does Happiness Improve Health? Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial43
Preverbal Infants Discover Statistical Word Patterns at Similar Rates as Adults: Evidence From Neural Entrainment43
Anxiety Impedes Adaptive Social Learning Under Uncertainty41
Children Prioritize Humans Over Animals Less Than Adults Do39
Training for Wisdom: The Distanced-Self-Reflection Diary Method37
Responsible Use of Open-Access Developmental Data: The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study36
Aging Increases Prosocial Motivation for Effort35
The Development of Intersectional Social Prototypes33
Face Pareidolia Recruits Mechanisms for Detecting Human Social Attention32
The Crowd-Emotion-Amplification Effect31
Playing With Fear: A Field Study in Recreational Horror31
The Truth Is Out There: Accuracy in Recall of Verifiable Real-World Events30
Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance30
Moral-Language Use by U.S. Political Elites28
Prosocial Influence and Opportunistic Conformity in Adolescents and Young Adults28
The Psychological Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Associated With Antisystemic Attitudes and Political Violence27
Acute Psychosocial Stress Increases Cognitive-Effort Avoidance27
Using Machine Learning to Generate Novel Hypotheses: Increasing Optimism About COVID-19 Makes People Less Willing to Justify Unethical Behaviors26
Linking Detail to Temporal Structure in Naturalistic-Event Recall26
Age-Related Changes in Spatial Navigation Are Evident by Midlife and Differ by Sex26
The Earliest Origins of Genetic Nurture: The Prenatal Environment Mediates the Association Between Maternal Genetics and Child Development25
Automatic Guidance (and Misguidance) of Visuospatial Attention by Acquired Scene Memory: Evidence From an N1pc Polarity Reversal24
Reframing Achievement Setbacks: A Motivation Intervention to Improve 8-Year Graduation Rates for Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Fields24
Probing Ovulatory-Cycle Shifts in Women’s Preferences for Men’s Behaviors24
The Latent Genetic Structure of Impulsivity and Its Relation to Internalizing Psychopathology23
Reminders of Everyday Misinformation Statements Can Enhance Memory for and Beliefs in Corrections of Those Statements in the Short Term22
The Effect of Repetition on Truth Judgments Across Development22
Facial Impressions Are Predicted by the Structure of Group Stereotypes22
Correlates of Hallucinatory Experiences in the General Population: An International Multisite Replication Study21
The Negative Effect of Smartphone Use on Academic Performance May Be Overestimated: Evidence From a 2-Year Panel Study20
How Collective-Action Failure Shapes Group Heterogeneity and Engagement in Conventional and Radical Action Over Time20
General Enhancement of Spatial Hearing in Congenitally Blind People20
The Language of Social Touch Is Intuitive and Quantifiable20
Convergent and Discriminant Validity of Retrospective Assessments of the Quality of Childhood Parenting: Prospective Evidence From Infancy to Age 26 Years20
Concerns About Automation and Negative Sentiment Toward Immigration20
A Contextual Approach to the Psychological Study of Identity Concealment: Examining Direct, Interactive, and Indirect Effects of Structural Stigma on Concealment Motivation Across Proximal and Distal 20
Incel Activity on Social Media Linked to Local Mating Ecology20
The Importance of Random Slopes in Mixed Models for Bayesian Hypothesis Testing19
Cultures Crossing: The Power of Habit in Delaying Gratification19
The Unintended Consequences of the Things We Say: What Generic Statements Communicate to Children About Unmentioned Categories19
Positive Affect Is Associated With Less Memory Decline: Evidence From a 9-Year Longitudinal Study19
Affective Arousal Links Sound to Meaning19
Global Variation in Subjective Well-Being Predicts Seven Forms of Altruism19
Massive Effects of Saliency on Information Processing in Visual Working Memory19
Parents Fine-Tune Their Speech to Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge19
Truth, Lies, and Gossip18
The Dramatic Impact of Explicit Instruction on Learning to Read in a New Writing System18
Twin Differences in Harsh Parenting Predict Youth’s Antisocial Behavior18
An Emphasis on Brilliance Fosters Masculinity-Contest Cultures18
Looking for Semantic Similarity: What a Vector-Space Model of Semantics Can Tell Us About Attention in Real-World Scenes18
The Well-Being Benefits of Person-Culture Match Are Contingent on Basic Personality Traits17
Does Neuronal Recycling Result in Destructive Competition? The Influence of Learning to Read on the Recognition of Faces17
On Intersectionality: How Complex Patterns of Discrimination Can Emerge From Simple Stereotypes17
Coping With Health Threats: The Costs and Benefits of Managing Emotions17
Misogynistic Tweets Correlate With Violence Against Women17
The Attitude–Behavior Relationship Revisited17
Neighborhood Deprivation Shapes Motivational-Neurocircuit Recruitment in Children17
Against Empathy Bias: The Moral Value of Equitable Empathy17
Air Pollution, State Anxiety, and Unethical Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review16
The Psychological Appeal of Fake-News Attributions16
Delay of Gratification as Reputation Management16
Generating Options and Choosing Between Them Depend on Distinct Forms of Value Representation16
The Effect of Prediction Error on Belief Update Across the Political Spectrum16
Alertness Training Increases Visual Processing Speed in Healthy Older Adults16
Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: IV. Change and Stability From 2007 to 202016
The Lure of Counterfactual Curiosity: People Incur a Cost to Experience Regret16
Placebo Analgesia Reduces Costly Prosocial Helping to Lower Another Person’s Pain16
The Contribution of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills to Intergenerational Social Mobility16
Personality Traits and Memory: A Multilevel Analysis Across 27 Countries From the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe16
The Effects of Retirement on Sense of Purpose in Life: Crisis or Opportunity?15
Preregistered Direct Replication of “Sick Body, Vigilant Mind: The Biological Immune System Activates the Behavioral Immune System”15
Does Honesty Require Time? Two Preregistered Direct Replications of Experiment 2 of Shalvi, Eldar, and Bereby-Meyer (2012)15
Dominance-Driven Autocratic Political Orientations Predict Political Violence in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) and Non-WEIRD Samples15
Confidence as a Priority Signal15
The Long-Term Effects of New Evidence on Implicit Impressions of Other People15
Racial Bias in Police Traffic Stops: White Residents’ County-Level Prejudice and Stereotypes Are Related to Disproportionate Stopping of Black Drivers15
Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence15
Resourceful Actors, Not Weak Victims: Reframing Refugees’ Stigmatized Identity Enhances Long-Term Academic Engagement15
Action Enhances Predicted Touch15
Harsh but Expedient: Dominant Leaders Increase Group Cooperation via Threat of Punishment14
Female Chess Players Show Typical Stereotype-Threat Effects: Commentary on Stafford (2018)14
Broken Physics: A Conjunction-Fallacy Effect in Intuitive Physical Reasoning14
Children With More Uncertainty in Their Intuitive Theories Seek Domain-Relevant Information14
Narratives Shape Cognitive Representations of Immigrants and Immigration-Policy Preferences14
Effects of Time-Varying Parent Input on Children’s Language Outcomes Differ for Vocabulary and Syntax14
Frequency-Specific Effects in Infant Electroencephalograms Do Not Require Entrained Neural Oscillations: A Commentary on Köster et al. (2019)14
The Impact of Feedback on Perceptual Decision-Making and Metacognition: Reduction in Bias but No Change in Sensitivity14
Charged With a Crime: The Neuronal Signature of Processing Negatively Evaluated Faces Under Different Attentional Conditions14
Why Is an Early Start of Training Related to Musical Skills in Adulthood? A Genetically Informative Study14
Using Body Ownership to Modulate the Motor System in Stroke Patients14
Scene Context Impairs Perception of Semantically Congruent Objects14
Niche Diversity Predicts Personality Structure Across 115 Nations14
Attentional Guidance and Match Decisions Rely on Different Template Information During Visual Search14
Effortful Control Moderates the Relation Between Electronic-Media Use and Objective Sleep Indicators in Childhood14
Preregistered Replication of “Feeling Superior Is a Bipartisan Issue: Extremity (Not Direction) of Political Views Predicts Perceived Belief Superiority”13
The Effects of Handwriting Experience on Literacy Learning13
Idiosyncratic Tower of Babel: Individual Differences in Word-Meaning Representation Increase as Word Abstractness Increases13
Keeping an Eye on Effort: A Pupillometric Investigation of Effort and Effortlessness in Visual Word Recognition13
Attitudes Based on Feelings: Fixed or Fleeting?13
Theory-of-Mind Development in Young Deaf Children With Early Hearing Provisions13
Reasoning Through the Disjunctive Syllogism in Monkeys13
Personality Traits Predict Long-Term Physical Health via Affect Reactivity to Daily Stressors13
Children’s Cognitive Reflection Predicts Conceptual Understanding in Science and Mathematics13
Exploring the Facets of Emotional Episodic Memory: Remembering “What,” “When,” and “Which”12
Acting Like a Baby Boomer? Birth-Cohort Differences in Adults’ Personality Trajectories During the Last Half a Century12
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions12
Little Between-Region and Between-Country Variance When People Form Impressions of Others12
Cheaters, Liars, or Both? A New Classification of Dishonesty Profiles12
Time to Pay Attention? Information Search Explains Amplified Framing Effects Under Time Pressure12
The Distinct Effects of Empathic Accuracy for a Romantic Partner’s Appeasement and Dominance Emotions12
The Scent of a Good Night’s Sleep: Olfactory Cues of a Romantic Partner Improve Sleep Efficiency12
Effects of Selective Attention on Mean-Size Computation: Weighted Averaging and Perceptual Enlargement12
The Effect of Replications on Citation Patterns: Evidence From a Large-Scale Reproducibility Project12
Flavor Sensing in Utero and Emerging Discriminative Behaviors in the Human Fetus12
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior11
Motivating Personal Growth by Seeking Discomfort11
Real-World Exploration Increases Across Adolescence and Relates to Affect, Risk Taking, and Social Connectivity11
Making It Harder to “See” Meaning: The More You See Something, the More Its Conceptual Representation Is Susceptible to Visual Interference11
What’s in a Badge? A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science11
What Is Time Good for in Working Memory?11
Effects of Trust and Threat Messaging on Academic Cheating: A Field Study11
Early-Life Socioeconomic Circumstances and Physical Activity in Older Age: Women Pay the Price11
Feeling Appreciated Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Unequal Division of Household Labor on Relationship Satisfaction11
Harder Than You Think: How Outside Assistance Leads to Overconfidence11
Titrating the Smell of Fear: Initial Evidence for Dose-Invariant Behavioral, Physiological, and Neural Responses11
Personality Changes Predict Early Career Outcomes: Discovery and Replication in 12-Year Longitudinal Studies11
B or 13? Unconscious Top-Down Contextual Effects at the Categorical but Not the Lexical Level11
Blind at First Sight: The Role of Distinctively Accurate and Positive First Impressions in Romantic Interest10
Lay Beliefs About Gender and Sexual Behavior: First Evidence for a Pervasive, Robust (but Seemingly Unfounded) Stereotype10
Levels of Processing Affect Perceptual Features in Visual Associative Memory10
Psychometric Curves Reveal Three Mechanisms of Vigilance Decrement10
Aging Predicts Decline in Explicit and Implicit Memory: A Life-Span Study10
Physically Implied Surfaces10
Never Too Much—The Benefit of Talent to Team Performance in the National Basketball Association: Comment on Swaab, Schaerer, Anicich, Ronay, and Galinsky (2014)10
Expectancy Violation Drives Memory Boost for Stressful Events10
Revisiting the Suffixing Preference: Native-Language Affixation Patterns Influence Perception of Sequences10
Predictive Uncertainty Underlies Auditory Boundary Perception10
Narcissism and Leadership in Children10
Does Posture Influence the Stroop Effect?10
Bedtime Music, Involuntary Musical Imagery, and Sleep10
Do Religious Primes Increase Risk Taking? Evidence Against “Anticipating Divine Protection” in Two Preregistered Direct Replications of Kupor, Laurin, and Levav (2015)10
Does Choice Cause an Illusion of Control?10
Adaptive Repulsion of Long-Term Memory Representations Is Triggered by Event Similarity10
Incidental Attitude Formation via the Surveillance Task: A Preregistered Replication of the Olson and Fazio (2001) Study10
Interleaving Retrieval Practice Promotes Science Learning10
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help10
Lifting the Bar: A Relationship-Orienting Intervention Reduces Recidivism Among Children Reentering School From Juvenile Detention9
The Altered Course of Learning: How Alcohol Outcome Expectancies Are Shaped by First Drinking Experiences9
Finding the Pattern: On-Line Extraction of Spatial Structure During Virtual Navigation9
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure9
Learning Novel Skills From Iconic Gestures: A Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective9
Neural Representations of Procedural Knowledge9
Storage in Visual Working Memory Recruits a Content-Independent Pointer System9
How Long Does It Take for a Voice to Become Familiar? Speech Intelligibility and Voice Recognition Are Differentially Sensitive to Voice Training9
Queen’s Gambit Declined: The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Participation Across 160 Countries9
Aggressive Realism: More Efficient Processing of Anger in Physically Aggressive Individuals9
Culture Moderates the Relation Between Gender Inequality and Well-Being9
Exploring the Impact of Mindfulness on False-Memory Susceptibility9
Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones9
Asking People to Explain Complex Policies Does Not Increase Political Moderation: Three Preregistered Failures to Closely Replicate Fernbach, Rogers, Fox, and Sloman’s (2013) Findings9
Moral Choice When Harming Is Unavoidable9
Are You for Real? Perceptions of Authenticity Are Systematically Biased and Not Accurate8
What Might Books Be Teaching Young Children About Gender?8
Sustained Stress Reduces the Age Advantages in Emotional Experience of Older Adults: Commentary on Carstensen et al. (2020)8
Susceptibility to Being Lured Away by a Stranger: A Real-World Field Test of Selective Trust in Early Childhood8
Too Reluctant to Reach Out: Receiving Social Support Is More Positive Than Expressers Expect8
A Call for Greater Sensitivity in the Wake of a Publication Controversy8
Anxiety-Related Frontocortical Activity Is Associated With Dampened Stressor Reactivity in the Real World8
Boosting Understanding and Identification of Scientific Consensus Can Help to Correct False Beliefs8
Grief Symptoms Promote Inflammation During Acute Stress Among Bereaved Spouses8
Mutual Information and Categorical Perception8
Enhancing the Wisdom of the Crowd With Cognitive-Process Diversity: The Benefits of Aggregating Intuitive and Analytical Judgments8
A Self-Controlled Mind Is Reflected by Stable Mental Processing8
Weak and Variable Effects of Exogenous Testosterone on Cognitive Reflection Test Performance in Three Experiments: Commentary on Nave, Nadler, Zava, and Camerer (2017)8
Children Show a Gender Gap in Negotiation8
Action Effects on Visual Perception of Distances: A Multilevel Bayesian Meta-Analysis8
When Not Choosing Leads to Not Liking: Choice-Induced Preference in Infancy8
Psychosocial Resilience to Inflammation-Associated Depression: A Prospective Study of Breast-Cancer Survivors8
Parent Contributions to the Development of Political Attitudes in Adoptive and Biological Families8
Experiencing a Natural Disaster Temporarily Boosts Relationship Satisfaction in Newlywed Couples8
Scientific-Consensus Communication About Contested Science: A Preregistered Meta-Analysis8
Undetected Neurodegenerative Disease Biases Estimates of Cognitive Change in Older Adults8
Working Memory Content Is Distorted by Its Use in Perceptual Comparisons8
The Temporal Dynamics of Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Between Students and Teachers Predict Learning Outcomes8
When Are Similar Individuals a Group? Early Reasoning About Similarity and In-Group Support7
Gender Gaps in Deceptive Self-Presentation on Social-Media Platforms Vary With Gender Equality: A Multinational Investigation7
Testing Deprivation and Threat: A Preregistered Network Analysis of the Dimensions of Early Adversity7
Encoding Context Determines Risky Choice7
The Social Effects of an Awesome Solar Eclipse7
Stress and Stress-Induced Glucocorticoids Facilitate Empathic Accuracy in Men but Have No Effects for Women7
The Relational Wear and Tear of Everyday Racism Among African American Couples7
Melting Ice With Your Mind: Representational Momentum for Physical States7
Belief in the Utility of Cross-Partisan Empathy Reduces Partisan Animosity and Facilitates Political Persuasion7
Mind-Body Practices and Self-Enhancement: Direct Replications of Gebauer et al.’s (2018) Experiments 1 and 27
Exact Number Concepts Are Limited to the Verbal Count Range7
Safe and Sound: The Effects of Experimentally Priming the Sense of Attachment Security on Pure-Tone Audiometric Thresholds Among Young and Older Adults7
Severe Developmental Dyscalculia Is Characterized by Core Deficits in Both Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Number Sense7
Perceived Distance Alters Memory for Scene Boundaries7
Walking in Her Shoes: Pretending to Be a Female Role Model Increases Young Girls’ Persistence in Science7
Disproportionate School Punishment and Significant Life Outcomes: A Prospective Analysis of Black Youths7
Are Sex Differences in Human Brain Structure Associated With Sex Differences in Behavior?7
Spontaneous Distractor Reactivation With Age: Evidence for Bound Target-Distractor Representations in Memory7
Face-Information Sampling in Super-Recognizers7
Can Bad Be Good? The Attraction of a Darker Self7
Can Short Psychological Interventions Affect Educational Performance? Revisiting the Effect of Self-Affirmation Interventions7
Nurturing the Mathematical Brain: Home Numeracy Practices Are Associated With Children’s Neural Responses to Arabic Numerals7
Dimensions of Perception: 3D Real-Life Objects Are More Readily Detected Than Their 2D Images7
Racial Demographics Explain the Link Between Racial Disparities in Traffic Stops and County-Level Racial Attitudes7
Greater Male Variability in Cooperation: Meta-Analytic Evidence for an Evolutionary Perspective7
Absolute Versus Relative Success: Why Overconfidence Creates an Inefficient Equilibrium7
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind6
Pupil-Linked Arousal Biases Evidence Accumulation Toward Desirable Percepts During Perceptual Decision-Making6
A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary-Drink Buying6
Transaction Frame Determines Preferences: Valuation of Labor by Employee and Contractor6
Physiological Responses to a Haunted-House Threat Experience: Distinct Tonic and Phasic Effects6
The Reflection Effect in Memory-Based Decisions6
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence6
Who’s the “Real” Victim? How Victim Framing Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Assault6
Shame Broadcasts Social Norms: The Positive Social Effects of Shame on Norm Acquisition and Normative Behavior6
In Which Direction Does Happiness Predict Subsequent Social Interactions? A Commentary on Quoidbach et al. (2019)6
Feelings of Culpability: Just Following Orders Versus Making the Decision Oneself6
Don’t Ditch the Laptop Just Yet: A Direct Replication of Mueller and Oppenheimer’s (2014) Study 1 Plus Mini Meta-Analyses Across Similar Studies6
Attention Shifts to More Complex Structures With Experience6
Patterns of Genital Sexual Arousal in Transgender Men6
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