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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Doubling-Back Aversion: A Reluctance to Make Progress by Undoing It104
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments99
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix65
Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions60
The 2008 Great Recession Lowered Americans’ Class Identity55
*Social Rewards Protection Theory: Why People Morally Derogate Prosocial Actors for Undisclosed Personal Benefits52
Fidelity Versus Validity Using Anendophasia as an Example: Commentary on Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024) and Lind (2025)52
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study51
Corrigendum: Dissociating Representations of Time and Number in Reinforcement-Rate Learning by Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit in Mice51
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects51
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory50
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences48
Bidirectional Relationships Between Well-Being and Cognitive Function47
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration46
Invariant Recognition Memory Spaces for Real-World Objects Revealed With Signal-Detection Analysis43
Peripheral Visual Information Halves Attentional Choice Biases41
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity41
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness39
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets39
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes38
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases38
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented36
Motive Alignment Promotes Adolescents’ Proenvironmental Behavior: A Field Experiment in Two Cultures36
*Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia35
Deception Cues During High-Risk Situations: 911 Homicide Calls35
*The Ethnic and Political Divide in the Preference for Strong Leaders32
Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory32
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure31
Mugs and Plants: Object Semantic Knowledge Alters Perceptual Processing With Behavioral Ramifications31
Radial Bias Alters Perceived Object Orientation30
Reducing Facial Stereotype Bias in Consequential Social Judgments: Intervention Success With White Male Faces30
Ambivalent Sexism and Tolerance of Violence Against Women in India30
Does Income Inequality Predict Adolescent Depressive Symptoms?29
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test28
How Convincing Is a Crowd? Quantifying the Persuasiveness of a Consensus for Different Individuals and Types of Claims28
Agent Preference in Chasing Interactions in Guinea Baboons ( Papio papio ): Uncovering the Roots of Subject–Object Order in Language28
Exploring the Semantic-Inconsistency Effect in Scenes Using a Continuous Measure of Linguistic-Semantic Similarity27
Contactless Real-Time Heart Rate Predicts the Performance of Elite Athletes: Evidence From Tokyo 2020 Olympic Archery Competition25
Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field25
Introspective Access or Retrospective Inference? Mind-Wandering Reports Are Shaped by Performance Feedback25
Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones25
Can One Donation a Day Keep Depression Away? Three Randomized Controlled Trials of an Online Micro-Charitable Giving Intervention25
Unlocking the Benefits of Gender Diversity: How an Ecological-Belonging Intervention Enhances Performance in Science Classrooms25
Signal Intrusion Explains Divergent Effects of Visual Distraction on Working Memory24
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior24
Regional Measures of Sexual-Orientation Bias Predict Where Same-Gender Couples Live24
Associations Between Meat Consumption and Depression Are Small and Unlikely to Be Causal24
When and Why People Conceal Infectious Disease23
Gaze-Triggered Communicative Intention Compresses Perceived Temporal Duration23
Improving Memory Search Through Model-Based Cue Selection23
Visual Perception Is Highly Flexible and Context Dependent in Young Infants: A Case of Top-Down-Modulated Motion Perception23
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help22
The Dispositional Essence of Proactive Social Preferences: The Dark Core of Personality vis-à-vis 58 Traits22
The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-Dependent Trade-Off Between External and Internal Memory22
The Visual Mandela Effect as Evidence for Shared and Specific False Memories Across People22
Neural and Cognitive Signatures of Guilt Predict Hypocritical Blame21
The Rise, Impact, and Imbalances of Big-Team Psychology20
Assortative Mating Is a Natural Consequence of Heritable Variation in Preferences and Preferred Traits20
What’s in a Badge? A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science20
Perceptions of Falling Behind “Most White People”: Within-Group Status Comparisons Predict Fewer Positive Emotions and Worse Health Over Time Among White (but Not Black) Americans19
Self-Relevance Predicts the Aesthetic Appeal of Real and Synthetic Artworks Generated via Neural Style Transfer19
Adolescents’ Perceptions of Household Chaos Predict Their Adult Mental Health: A Twin-Difference Longitudinal Cohort Study19
From the Viscera to First Impressions: Phase-Dependent Cardio-Visual Signals Bias the Perceived Trustworthiness of Faces19
Do We Become More Lonely With Age? A Coordinated Data Analysis of Nine Longitudinal Studies18
Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia18
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind18
Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration18
Preschoolers and Adults Learn From Novel Metaphors18
Cross-Modal Facilitation of Episodic Memory by Sequential Action Execution18
Individual Differences in Great Ape Cognition Across Time and Domains: Stability, Structure, and Predictability17
What You See Is What You Hear: Sounds Alter the Contents of Visual Perception17
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions17
Human Echolocators Have Better Localization Off Axis17
Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change16
Gender-Ambiguous Voices and Social Disfluency16
Perceiving Topological Relations16
A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It16
Terminal Increases in Depressive Symptoms in a Multinational Twin Consortium16
Becoming an Ostrich: The Development of Information Avoidance16
Exploration, Distributed Attention, and Development of Category Learning15
Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical Conclusions15
Underestimating Counterparts’ Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations15
Statistical Learning Facilitates Access to Awareness15
The Relative Importance of Joke and Audience Characteristics in Eliciting Amusement14
Psychological Well-Being in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Middle Adulthood: Findings From the 1958 British Birth Cohort14
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity14
Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?14
Sources of Interference in Memory Across Development14
Changing What You Like: Modifying Contour Properties Shifts Aesthetic Valuations of Scenes14
Overconfidence Persists Despite Years of Accurate, Precise, Public, and Continuous Feedback: Two Studies of Tournament Chess Players14
Directing Attention Shapes Learning in Adults but Not Children14
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems14
Proenvironmental Behavior Increases Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From an Experience-Sampling Study and a Randomized Experiment14
Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction14
Corrigendum to “Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence”14
Sexual Identity Development Milestones, Latent Profiles, and Proximal Minority Stressors in Australia’s Generation Z14
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence14
Attention to Authenticity: An Essential Analogue to Focus on Rigor and Replicability14
Perceptual Generalization of Alcohol-Related Value Characterizes Risky Drinkers13
The Effect of Auditory and Visual Recommendations on Choice13
Cutting Through the Noise: Auditory Scenes and Their Effects on Visual Object Processing13
Fluctuations in Sustained Attention Explain Moment-to-Moment Shifts in Children’s Memory Formation13
People Place Larger Bets When Risky Choices Provide a Postbet Option to Cash Out13
Compassion Fatigue as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Believing Compassion Is Limited Increases Fatigue and Decreases Compassion13
Early Impacts of College, Interrupted: Considering First-Year Students’ Narratives About COVID and Reports of Adjustment During College Shutdowns13
Just Dead, Not Alive: Reconsidering Belief in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories13
Manipulating Prior Beliefs Causally Induces Under- and Overconfidence13
Taking a Disagreeing Perspective Improves the Accuracy of People’s Quantitative Estimates12
How the Listener’s Attention Dynamically Switches Between Different Speakers During a Natural Conversation12
Native Now, Equity Now: Implicit Associations Between Native Peoples and the Past Predict Reduced Support for Racial Equity12
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
Cross-Cultural Sex/Gender Differences in Produced Word Content Before the Age of 3 Years12
Drawing Generalizable Conclusions From Multilevel Models: Commentary on12
Food Is All Around: How Contexts Create Misbeliefs About the Health–Taste Relationship12
Prototypes of People With Depression12
The Games We Play: Prosocial Choices Under Time Pressure Reflect Context-Sensitive Information Priorities12
Representational Momentum Transcends Motion12
The Language of Social Touch Is Intuitive and Quantifiable12
Divergent and Convergent Creativity Are Different Kinds of Foraging11
Choice Set Size Neglect in Predicting Others’ Preferences11
Commentary: On the Equal-Opportunity Jerk “Defense”: Rudeness Complicates Sexism Attributions but Comes at a Cost11
The Role of Beta Oscillations in Mental Time Travel11
Mindful-Gratitude Practice Reduces Prejudice at High Levels of Collective Narcissism11
The Effects of Group Affiliation Versus Individuating Information on Direct and Indirect Measures of the Evaluation of Novel Individual Group Members11
Corrigendum to “Spatial Distance and Mental Construal of Social Events”11
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
Is Overconfidence a Trait? An Adversarial Collaboration10
Registered Report: A Replication Examining Occupational Experience and Performance on the Water-Level Task10
Multivariate Assessment of Inhibitory Control in Youth: Links With Psychopathology and Brain Function10
Different Mechanisms for Supporting Mental Imagery and Perceptual Representations: Modulation Versus Excitation10
A Practical Significance Bias in Laypeople’s Evaluation of Scientific Findings10
The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Holds Among Young Players: A Commentary on the Vishkin (2022) Study10
The Evolution of Cognitive Control in Lemurs10
Feeling Appreciated Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Unequal Division of Household Labor on Relationship Satisfaction10
Is Mansplaining Gendered? The Effects of Unsolicited, Generic, and Prescriptive Advice on U.S. Women10
Devaluation by Omission: Limited Identity Options Elicit Anger and Increase Identification10
The Well-Being Costs of Informal Caregiving10
Psychosocial Resilience to Inflammation-Associated Depression: A Prospective Study of Breast-Cancer Survivors9
Severe Developmental Dyscalculia Is Characterized by Core Deficits in Both Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Number Sense9
Socioeconomic Status Shapes Dyadic Interactions: Examining Behavioral and Physiologic Responses9
The Development of Spatial Cognition and Its Malleability Assessed in Mass Population via a Mobile Game9
Predictive Processing of Scene Layout Depends on Naturalistic Depth of Field9
The Costs of Paying Overt and Covert Attention Assessed With Pupillometry9
Do Open-Science Badges Increase Trust in Scientists Among Undergraduates, Scientists, and the Public?9
Parents of Children With High Weight Are Viewed as Responsible for Child Weight and Thus Stigmatized9
Are There Really People With No Inner Voice? Commentary on Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024)9
Mnemonic Content and Hippocampal Patterns Shape Judgments of Time9
Toward Antifragility: Social Defeat Stress Enhances Learning and Memory in Young Mice Via Hippocampal Synaptosome Associated Protein 259
Awe Sparks Prosociality in Children9
On How to Be Liked in First Encounters: The Effects of Agentic and Communal Behaviors on Popularity and Unique Liking9
Transfer of Learned Cognitive Flexibility to Novel Stimuli and Task Sets9
Attention Shifts to More Complex Structures With Experience9
iGen or shy Gen? Generational Differences in Shyness9
Children Sustain Cooperation in a Threshold Public-Goods Game Even When Seeing Others’ Outcomes8
Neural-Context Reinstatement of Recurring Events8
Bridging the Gap Between Self-Report and Behavioral Laboratory Measures: A Real-Time Driving Task With Inverse Reinforcement Learning8
Caricaturing Shapes in Visual Memory8
Socially Stratified Epigenetic Profiles Are Associated With Cognitive Functioning in Children and Adolescents8
The Golden Age Is Behind Us: How the Status Quo Impacts the Evaluation of Technology8
Gaze Behavior Reveals Expectations of Potential Scene Changes8
When and Why Antiegalitarianism Affects Resistance to Supporting Black-Owned Businesses8
Physical Effort Exertion for Peer Feedback Reveals Evolving Social Motivations From Adolescence to Young Adulthood8
Intelligence Polygenic Score Is More Predictive of Crystallized Measures: Evidence From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study8
Experience of Playing a Musical Instrument and Lifetime Change in General Cognitive Ability: Evidence From the Lothian Birth Cohort 19368
Detection of Idiosyncratic Gaze-Fingerprint Signatures in Humans7
Participating in a Digital-History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today7
Perceptual and Cognitive Judgments Show Both Anchoring and Repulsion7
Adaptive Encoding Speed in Working Memory7
Disagreement Gets Mistaken for Bad Listening7
Where Do Children Look When Watching Videos With Same-Language Subtitles?7
Flavor Sensing in Utero and Emerging Discriminative Behaviors in the Human Fetus7
Do the Effects of a Preschool Language Intervention Last in the Long Run? A 4-Year Follow-Up Study7
Estranged and Unhappy? Examining the Dynamics of Personal and Relationship Well-Being Surrounding Infidelity7
Multitarget Visual Search Flexibly Switches Between Concurrent and Sequential Search Modes7
Cognitive Change Before Old Age (11 to 70) Predicts Cognitive Change During Old Age (70 to 82)7
Preferential Attraction Effects With Visual Stimuli: The Role of Quantitative Versus Qualitative Visual Attributes7
Effects of Voice Pitch on Social Perceptions Vary With Relational Mobility and Homicide Rate7
Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence7
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
*Reluctance to Downplay: Asymmetric Sensitivity to Differences in the Severity of Moral Transgressions7
Synchrony Influences Estimates of Cooperation in a Public-Goods Game7
Face-Information Sampling in Super-Recognizers7
Specific Effects of Characteristics of Enriched Environment on Innovative Problem Solving by Animals7
Well-Being and Cognitive Resilience to Dementia-Related Neuropathology6
Preregistered Replication and Extension of “Moral Hypocrisy: Social Groups and the Flexibility of Virtue”6
The Formation of Negative Attitudes Toward Novel Groups6
What Is Rationality, Whom Is It Ascribed To, and Why Does It Matter? Evidence From Internet Text for 66 Social Groups and 101 Occupations6
Neural Signatures of Evidence Accumulation Encode Subjective Perceptual Confidence Independent of Performance6
Task Termination Triggers Spontaneous Removal of Information From Visual Working Memory6
Younger Than Ever? Subjective Age Is Becoming Younger and Remains More Stable in Middle-Age and Older Adults Today6
Thinking About God Encourages Prosociality Toward Religious Outgroups: A Cross-Cultural Investigation6
Fear in the Theater of the Mind: Differential Fear Conditioning With Imagined Stimuli6
Test Anxiety Does Not Predict Exam Performance When Knowledge Is Controlled For: Strong Evidence Against the Interference Hypothesis of Test Anxiety6
Perceptual Awareness Occurs Along a Graded Continuum: No Evidence of All-or-None Failures in Continuous Reproduction Tasks6
Not Everybody Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia6
Two-Year-Olds’ Eye Movements Reflect Confidence in Their Understanding of Words6
Mind Wandering Impedes Response Inhibition by Affecting the Triggering of the Inhibitory Process6
Cognitive Abilities and Educational Attainment as Antecedents of Mental Disorders: A Total Population Study of Males6
Why Do Children Think Words Are Mutually Exclusive?6
Corrigendum to “Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior”6
Thinking Beyond COVID-19: How Has the Pandemic Impacted Future Time Horizons?6
Cognitive Maps for a Non-Euclidean Environment: Path Integration and Spatial Memory on a Sphere6
The Anticipated Relational Effects of Confronting Bias (or not) in Interracial Friendships6
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
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