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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Corrigendum: Dissociating Representations of Time and Number in Reinforcement-Rate Learning by Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit in Mice158
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study125
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences68
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory67
Low Perinatal Androgens Predict Recalled Childhood Gender Nonconformity in Men49
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix48
Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions43
Doubling-Back Aversion: A Reluctance to Make Progress by Undoing It43
Bidirectional Relationships Between Well-Being and Cognitive Function42
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration40
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects40
Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance39
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments38
Deception Cues During High-Risk Situations: 911 Homicide Calls37
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes37
*Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia36
Peripheral Visual Information Halves Attentional Choice Biases36
Who’s the “Real” Victim? How Victim Framing Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Assault35
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets35
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity35
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness34
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases33
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented32
Psychometric Curves Reveal Three Mechanisms of Vigilance Decrement31
*The Ethnic and Political Divide in the Preference for Strong Leaders30
Ambivalent Sexism and Tolerance of Violence Against Women in India29
Mugs and Plants: Object Semantic Knowledge Alters Perceptual Processing With Behavioral Ramifications29
Radial Bias Alters Perceived Object Orientation29
Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory29
Reducing Facial Stereotype Bias in Consequential Social Judgments: Intervention Success With White Male Faces28
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test28
What Might Books Be Teaching Young Children About Gender?27
Time to Pay Attention? Information Search Explains Amplified Framing Effects Under Time Pressure27
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure27
Can Feelings “Feel” Wrong? Similarities Between Counter-Normative Emotion Reports and Perceptual Errors26
Acknowledgment26
Exploring the Semantic-Inconsistency Effect in Scenes Using a Continuous Measure of Linguistic-Semantic Similarity26
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
Unlocking the Benefits of Gender Diversity: How an Ecological-Belonging Intervention Enhances Performance in Science Classrooms25
Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field25
Strength of Belief Guides Information Foraging25
Poison Parasite Counter: Turning Duplicitous Mass Communications Into Self-Negating Memory-Retrieval Cues24
Neural Representations of the Committed Romantic Partner in the Nucleus Accumbens23
The Cognition/Metacognition Trade-Off23
Introspective Access or Retrospective Inference? Mind-Wandering Reports Are Shaped by Performance Feedback22
Signal Intrusion Explains Divergent Effects of Visual Distraction on Working Memory22
Regional Measures of Sexual-Orientation Bias Predict Where Same-Gender Couples Live22
Contactless Real-Time Heart Rate Predicts the Performance of Elite Athletes: Evidence From Tokyo 2020 Olympic Archery Competition22
Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones22
Can One Donation a Day Keep Depression Away? Three Randomized Controlled Trials of an Online Micro-Charitable Giving Intervention22
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior22
Perceptual Grouping Explains Similarities in Constellations Across Cultures21
Vocal-Stress Diary: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Association of Everyday Work Stressors and Human Voice Features21
The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-Dependent Trade-Off Between External and Internal Memory21
Gaze-Triggered Communicative Intention Compresses Perceived Temporal Duration21
Improving Memory Search Through Model-Based Cue Selection21
Visual Perception Is Highly Flexible and Context Dependent in Young Infants: A Case of Top-Down-Modulated Motion Perception21
Where the Blame Lies: Unpacking Groups Into Their Constituent Subgroups Shifts Judgments of Blame in Intergroup Conflict20
From the Viscera to First Impressions: Phase-Dependent Cardio-Visual Signals Bias the Perceived Trustworthiness of Faces20
Early Adolescents Demonstrate Peer-Network Homophily in Political Attitudes and Values20
When and Why People Conceal Infectious Disease20
Neural and Cognitive Signatures of Guilt Predict Hypocritical Blame20
The Dispositional Essence of Proactive Social Preferences: The Dark Core of Personality vis-à-vis 58 Traits19
The Visual Mandela Effect as Evidence for Shared and Specific False Memories Across People19
Idiosyncratic Tower of Babel: Individual Differences in Word-Meaning Representation Increase as Word Abstractness Increases18
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help18
Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia18
What’s in a Badge? A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science18
Human Echolocators Have Better Localization Off Axis18
Do We Become More Lonely With Age? A Coordinated Data Analysis of Nine Longitudinal Studies17
Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration17
Generating Options and Choosing Between Them Depend on Distinct Forms of Value Representation17
Cross-Modal Facilitation of Episodic Memory by Sequential Action Execution17
Adolescents’ Perceptions of Household Chaos Predict Their Adult Mental Health: A Twin-Difference Longitudinal Cohort Study17
Self-Relevance Predicts the Aesthetic Appeal of Real and Synthetic Artworks Generated via Neural Style Transfer17
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind16
Gender-Ambiguous Voices and Social Disfluency16
Exploration, Distributed Attention, and Development of Category Learning16
What You See Is What You Hear: Sounds Alter the Contents of Visual Perception16
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) Americans16
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity16
Preschoolers and Adults Learn From Novel Metaphors16
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions16
Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical Conclusions16
Corrigendum to “Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence”15
Statistical Learning Facilitates Access to Awareness15
Terminal Increases in Depressive Symptoms in a Multinational Twin Consortium15
Detecting Prejudice From Egalitarianism: Why Black Americans Don’t Trust White Egalitarians’ Claims15
Do People Prescribe Optimism, Overoptimism, or Neither?15
Becoming an Ostrich: The Development of Information Avoidance15
Perceiving Topological Relations15
A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It15
Overconfidence Persists Despite Years of Accurate, Precise, Public, and Continuous Feedback: Two Studies of Tournament Chess Players15
Directing Attention Shapes Learning in Adults but Not Children15
Nurturing the Mathematical Brain: Home Numeracy Practices Are Associated With Children’s Neural Responses to Arabic Numerals15
Underestimating Counterparts’ Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations15
Corrigendum: What’s in a Name? Popular Names Are Less Common on Frontiers15
Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change15
The Effect of Replications on Citation Patterns: Evidence From a Large-Scale Reproducibility Project15
The One That Got Away: Overestimation of Forgone Alternatives as a Hidden Source of Regret14
Sources of Interference in Memory Across Development14
Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction14
Shared Time Scarcity and the Pursuit of Extraordinary Experiences14
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence14
Moral Frames Are Persuasive and Moralize Attitudes; Nonmoral Frames Are Persuasive and De-Moralize Attitudes14
Psychological Science Stepping Up a Level14
Proenvironmental Behavior Increases Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From an Experience-Sampling Study and a Randomized Experiment14
Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?14
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems14
The Relative Importance of Joke and Audience Characteristics in Eliciting Amusement14
Safe and Sound: The Effects of Experimentally Priming the Sense of Attachment Security on Pure-Tone Audiometric Thresholds Among Young and Older Adults14
Attention to Authenticity: An Essential Analogue to Focus on Rigor and Replicability14
A Personal Model of Trumpery: Linguistic Deception Detection in a Real-World High-Stakes Setting13
Exact Number Concepts Are Limited to the Verbal Count Range13
Early Impacts of College, Interrupted: Considering First-Year Students’ Narratives About COVID and Reports of Adjustment During College Shutdowns13
Compassion Fatigue as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Believing Compassion Is Limited Increases Fatigue and Decreases Compassion13
Perceptual Generalization of Alcohol-Related Value Characterizes Risky Drinkers13
Fluctuations in Sustained Attention Explain Moment-to-Moment Shifts in Children’s Memory Formation13
The Effect of Auditory and Visual Recommendations on Choice13
People Place Larger Bets When Risky Choices Provide a Postbet Option to Cash Out13
Changing What You Like: Modifying Contour Properties Shifts Aesthetic Valuations of Scenes13
Just Dead, Not Alive: Reconsidering Belief in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories13
Psychological Well-Being in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Middle Adulthood: Findings From the 1958 British Birth Cohort13
Resourceful Actors, Not Weak Victims: Reframing Refugees’ Stigmatized Identity Enhances Long-Term Academic Engagement12
Acting Like a Baby Boomer? Birth-Cohort Differences in Adults’ Personality Trajectories During the Last Half a Century12
Sex, Drugs, and Genes: Illuminating the Moral Condemnation of Recreational Drugs12
Globally Inaccurate Stereotypes Can Result From Locally Adaptive Exploration12
Mental Logout: Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Regulating Temptations to Use Social Media12
An Emphasis on Brilliance Fosters Masculinity-Contest Cultures12
Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior12
Expression of Concern: Is It Light or Dark? Recalling Moral Behavior Changes Perception of Brightness11
Manipulating Prior Beliefs Causally Induces Under- and Overconfidence11
Prototypes of People With Depression11
Cross-Cultural Sex/Gender Differences in Produced Word Content Before the Age of 3 Years11
Divergent and Convergent Creativity Are Different Kinds of Foraging11
Lifting the Bar: A Relationship-Orienting Intervention Reduces Recidivism Among Children Reentering School From Juvenile Detention11
Native Now, Equity Now: Implicit Associations Between Native Peoples and the Past Predict Reduced Support for Racial Equity11
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 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
Drawing Generalizable Conclusions From Multilevel Models: Commentary on11
Food Is All Around: How Contexts Create Misbeliefs About the Health–Taste Relationship11
The Language of Social Touch Is Intuitive and Quantifiable11
The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect Context-Sensitive Information Priorities11
Is Mansplaining Gendered? The Effects of Unsolicited, Generic, and Prescriptive Advice on U.S. Women10
Transfer of Learned Cognitive Flexibility to Novel Stimuli and Task Sets10
The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Holds Among Young Players: A Commentary on the Vishkin (2022) Study10
How the Listener’s Attention Dynamically Switches Between Different Speakers During a Natural Conversation10
Preregistered Direct Replication and Extension of “The Wisdom to Know the Difference: Strategy-Situation Fit in Emotion Regulation in Daily Life Is Associated With Well-Being”10
Understanding Everyday Events: Predictive-Looking Errors Drive Memory Updating10
Physiological Responses to a Haunted-House Threat Experience: Distinct Tonic and Phasic Effects10
The Development of Spatial Cognition and Its Malleability Assessed in Mass Population via a Mobile Game10
Socioeconomic Status Shapes Dyadic Interactions: Examining Behavioral and Physiologic Responses10
Psychological Drivers of Individual Differences in Risk Perception: A Systematic Case Study Focusing on 5G10
Cutting Through the Noise: Auditory Scenes and Their Effects on Visual Object Processing10
Corrigendum to “Spatial Distance and Mental Construal of Social Events”10
Feeling Appreciated Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Unequal Division of Household Labor on Relationship Satisfaction10
Mindful-Gratitude Practice Reduces Prejudice at High Levels of Collective Narcissism10
The Evolution of Cognitive Control in Lemurs10
The Well-Being Costs of Informal Caregiving10
The Effects of Group Affiliation Versus Individuating Information on Direct and Indirect Measures of the Evaluation of Novel Individual Group Members10
The Role of Beta Oscillations in Mental Time Travel10
Different Mechanisms for Supporting Mental Imagery and Perceptual Representations: Modulation Versus Excitation10
Are There Really People With No Inner Voice? Commentary on Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024)9
Attention Shifts to More Complex Structures With Experience9
A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary-Drink Buying9
Children Sustain Cooperation in a Threshold Public-Goods Game Even When Seeing Others’ Outcomes9
Early-Life Socioeconomic Circumstances and Physical Activity in Older Age: Women Pay the Price9
Frequent Interpersonal Stress and Inflammatory Reactivity Predict Depressive-Symptom Increases: Two Tests of the Social-Signal-Transduction Theory of Depression9
Multivariate Assessment of Inhibitory Control in Youth: Links With Psychopathology and Brain Function9
A Practical Significance Bias in Laypeople’s Evaluation of Scientific Findings9
Psychosocial Resilience to Inflammation-Associated Depression: A Prospective Study of Breast-Cancer Survivors9
Copy the In-group: Group Membership Trumps Perceived Reliability, Warmth, and Competence in a Social-Learning Task9
Devaluation by Omission: Limited Identity Options Elicit Anger and Increase Identification9
Parents of Children With High Weight Are Viewed as Responsible for Child Weight and Thus Stigmatized9
Evaluating Benefits, Costs, and Social Value as Predictors of Gratitude9
Mnemonic Content and Hippocampal Patterns Shape Judgments of Time9
The Golden Age Is Behind Us: How the Status Quo Impacts the Evaluation of Technology8
When and Why Antiegalitarianism Affects Resistance to Supporting Black-Owned Businesses8
Severe Developmental Dyscalculia Is Characterized by Core Deficits in Both Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Number Sense8
Do Open-Science Badges Increase Trust in Scientists Among Undergraduates, Scientists, and the Public?8
Toward Antifragility: Social Defeat Stress Enhances Learning and Memory in Young Mice Via Hippocampal Synaptosome Associated Protein 258
Predictive Processing of Scene Layout Depends on Naturalistic Depth of Field8
Awe Sparks Prosociality in Children8
Gaze Behavior Reveals Expectations of Potential Scene Changes8
iGen or shyGen? Generational Differences in Shyness8
Queen’s Gambit Declined: The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Participation Across 160 Countries8
Scene Context Impairs Perception of Semantically Congruent Objects8
Bridging the Gap Between Self-Report and Behavioral Laboratory Measures: A Real-Time Driving Task With Inverse Reinforcement Learning8
Physical Effort Exertion for Peer Feedback Reveals Evolving Social Motivations From Adolescence to Young Adulthood8
On How to Be Liked in First Encounters: The Effects of Agentic and Communal Behaviors on Popularity and Unique Liking8
The Costs of Paying Overt and Covert Attention Assessed With Pupillometry8
Adaptive Encoding Speed in Working Memory7
Caricaturing Shapes in Visual Memory7
Socially Stratified Epigenetic Profiles Are Associated With Cognitive Functioning in Children and Adolescents7
Where Do Children Look When Watching Videos With Same-Language Subtitles?7
Corrigendum to “Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior”7
Are You for Real? Perceptions of Authenticity Are Systematically Biased and Not Accurate7
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
Intelligence Polygenic Score Is More Predictive of Crystallized Measures: Evidence From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study7
Preferential Attraction Effects With Visual Stimuli: The Role of Quantitative Versus Qualitative Visual Attributes7
*Reluctance to Downplay: Asymmetric Sensitivity to Differences in the Severity of Moral Transgressions7
Preregistered Replication and Extension of “Moral Hypocrisy: Social Groups and the Flexibility of Virtue”7
Disagreement Gets Mistaken for Bad Listening7
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
Facial Impressions Are Predicted by the Structure of Group Stereotypes7
Synchrony Influences Estimates of Cooperation in a Public-Goods Game7
Face-Information Sampling in Super-Recognizers7
The Effects of Retirement on Sense of Purpose in Life: Crisis or Opportunity?7
Flavor Sensing in Utero and Emerging Discriminative Behaviors in the Human Fetus7
Specific Effects of Characteristics of Enriched Environment on Innovative Problem Solving by Animals7
The Formation of Negative Attitudes Toward Novel Groups6
Thinking Beyond COVID-19: How Has the Pandemic Impacted Future Time Horizons?6
Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence6
Test Anxiety Does Not Predict Exam Performance When Knowledge Is Controlled For: Strong Evidence Against the Interference Hypothesis of Test Anxiety6
Well-Being and Cognitive Resilience to Dementia-Related Neuropathology6
What’s in a Name? The Hidden Historical Ideologies Embedded in the Black and African American Racial Labels6
Thinking About God Encourages Prosociality Toward Religious Outgroups: A Cross-Cultural Investigation6
Mind Wandering Impedes Response Inhibition by Affecting the Triggering of the Inhibitory Process6
Task Termination Triggers Spontaneous Removal of Information From Visual Working Memory6
Cognitive Abilities and Educational Attainment as Antecedents of Mental Disorders: A Total Population Study of Males6
Younger Than Ever? Subjective Age Is Becoming Younger and Remains More Stable in Middle-Age and Older Adults Today6
A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect6
Participating in a Digital-History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today6
Fear in the Theater of the Mind: Differential Fear Conditioning With Imagined Stimuli6
Perceptual and Cognitive Judgments Show Both Anchoring and Repulsion6
Cognitive Maps for a Non-Euclidean Environment: Path Integration and Spatial Memory on a Sphere6
Perceptual Awareness Occurs Along a Graded Continuum: No Evidence of All-or-None Failures in Continuous Reproduction Tasks6
Two-Year-Olds’ Eye Movements Reflect Confidence in Their Understanding of Words6
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
Not Everybody Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia6
Effects of Voice Pitch on Social Perceptions Vary With Relational Mobility and Homicide Rate6
Estranged and Unhappy? Examining the Dynamics of Personal and Relationship Well-Being Surrounding Infidelity6
Why Do Children Think Words Are Mutually Exclusive?6
Perturbation of Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Makes Power Holders Less Resistant to Tempting Bribes6
Human Vision Reconstructs Time to Satisfy Causal Constraints6
Neural Signatures of Evidence Accumulation Encode Subjective Perceptual Confidence Independent of Performance6
What Is Rationality, Whom Is It Ascribed To, and Why Does It Matter? Evidence From Internet Text for 66 Social Groups and 101 Occupations6
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