OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychological Science is 13. 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.)

Article	Citations
Corrigendum: Dissociating Representations of Time and Number in Reinforcement-Rate Learning by Deletion of the GluA1 AMPA Receptor Subunit in Mice	141
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix	103
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects	82
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study	73
Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions	70
Responsible Use of Open-Access Developmental Data: The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study	68
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory	65
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration	54
Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance	49
Low Perinatal Androgens Predict Recalled Childhood Gender Nonconformity in Men	46
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments	44
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences	43
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness	38
Peripheral Visual Information Halves Attentional Choice Biases	36
Psychometric Curves Reveal Three Mechanisms of Vigilance Decrement	36
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets	35
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes	35
Deception Cues During High-Risk Situations: 911 Homicide Calls	35
Who’s the “Real” Victim? How Victim Framing Shapes Attitudes Toward Sexual Assault	34
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases	34
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity	32
*Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia	32
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented	31
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test	31
Time to Pay Attention? Information Search Explains Amplified Framing Effects Under Time Pressure	30

Beyond the Shape of Things: Infants Can Be Taught to Generalize Nouns by Objects’ Functions	30
Reducing Facial Stereotype Bias in Consequential Social Judgments: Intervention Success With White Male Faces	30
Ambivalent Sexism and Tolerance of Violence Against Women in India	29
Frequency-Specific Effects in Infant Electroencephalograms Do Not Require Entrained Neural Oscillations: A Commentary on Köster et al. (2019)	29
Mugs and Plants: Object Semantic Knowledge Alters Perceptual Processing With Behavioral Ramifications	28
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure	28
Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory	27
What Might Books Be Teaching Young Children About Gender?	27
Radial Bias Alters Perceived Object Orientation	27
Looking for Semantic Similarity: What a Vector-Space Model of Semantics Can Tell Us About Attention in Real-World Scenes	26
Acknowledgment	26
Strength of Belief Guides Information Foraging	26
Exploring the Semantic-Inconsistency Effect in Scenes Using a Continuous Measure of Linguistic-Semantic Similarity	25
Can Feelings “Feel” Wrong? Similarities Between Counter-Normative Emotion Reports and Perceptual Errors	25
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior	25
Most Findings Obtained With Untimed Visual Illusions Are Confounded	25
Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field	25
Unlocking the Benefits of Gender Diversity: How an Ecological-Belonging Intervention Enhances Performance in Science Classrooms	25
Mind-Body Practices and Self-Enhancement: Direct Replications of Gebauer et al.’s (2018) Experiments 1 and 2	24
Can One Donation a Day Keep Depression Away? Three Randomized Controlled Trials of an Online Micro-Charitable Giving Intervention	24
Poison Parasite Counter: Turning Duplicitous Mass Communications Into Self-Negating Memory-Retrieval Cues	24
The Cognition/Metacognition Trade-Off	23
Happiness and the Propensity to Interact With Other People: Reply to Elmer (2021)	23
Contactless Real-Time Heart Rate Predicts the Performance of Elite Athletes: Evidence From Tokyo 2020 Olympic Archery Competition	23
Neural Representations of the Committed Romantic Partner in the Nucleus Accumbens	23
Regional Measures of Sexual-Orientation Bias Predict Where Same-Gender Couples Live	22
Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones	22
The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-Dependent Trade-Off Between External and Internal Memory	21
Gaze-Triggered Communicative Intention Compresses Perceived Temporal Duration	21
The Visual Mandela Effect as Evidence for Shared and Specific False Memories Across People	21
Improving Memory Search Through Model-Based Cue Selection	20
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help	20
Visual Perception Is Highly Flexible and Context Dependent in Young Infants: A Case of Top-Down-Modulated Motion Perception	20
Coping With Health Threats: The Costs and Benefits of Managing Emotions	20
Vocal-Stress Diary: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Association of Everyday Work Stressors and Human Voice Features	20
From the Viscera to First Impressions: Phase-Dependent Cardio-Visual Signals Bias the Perceived Trustworthiness of Faces	20
Perceptual Grouping Explains Similarities in Constellations Across Cultures	20
Where the Blame Lies: Unpacking Groups Into Their Constituent Subgroups Shifts Judgments of Blame in Intergroup Conflict	20
Neural and Cognitive Signatures of Guilt Predict Hypocritical Blame	20
Personality Traits and Memory: A Multilevel Analysis Across 27 Countries From the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe	19
Early Adolescents Demonstrate Peer-Network Homophily in Political Attitudes and Values	19
Preschoolers and Adults Learn From Novel Metaphors	19
What’s in a Badge? A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science	19
Cross-Modal Facilitation of Episodic Memory by Sequential Action Execution	19
The Dispositional Essence of Proactive Social Preferences: The Dark Core of Personality vis-à-vis 58 Traits	19
When and Why People Conceal Infectious Disease	19
Self-Relevance Predicts the Aesthetic Appeal of Real and Synthetic Artworks Generated via Neural Style Transfer	18
What You See Is What You Hear: Sounds Alter the Contents of Visual Perception	18
Human Echolocators Have Better Localization Off Axis	18
Idiosyncratic Tower of Babel: Individual Differences in Word-Meaning Representation Increase as Word Abstractness Increases	18

The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions	18
Adolescents’ Perceptions of Household Chaos Predict Their Adult Mental Health: A Twin-Difference Longitudinal Cohort Study	17
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) Americans	17
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind	17
Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia	17
Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration	17
Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical Conclusions	16
Corrigendum: What’s in a Name? Popular Names Are Less Common on Frontiers	16
Generating Options and Choosing Between Them Depend on Distinct Forms of Value Representation	16
Do We Become More Lonely With Age? A Coordinated Data Analysis of Nine Longitudinal Studies	16
A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It	16
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity	16
Perceiving Topological Relations	16
Gender-Ambiguous Voices and Social Disfluency	16
Children With More Uncertainty in Their Intuitive Theories Seek Domain-Relevant Information	16
Statistical Learning Facilitates Access to Awareness	15
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 Numerals	15
Detecting Prejudice From Egalitarianism: Why Black Americans Don’t Trust White Egalitarians’ Claims	15
Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change	15
Disproportionate School Punishment and Significant Life Outcomes: A Prospective Analysis of Black Youths	15
Underestimating Counterparts’ Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations	15
Exploration, Distributed Attention, and Development of Category Learning	15
Sources of Interference in Memory Across Development	15
Search for the Unknown: Guidance of Visual Search in the Absence of an Active Template	14
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 Project	14
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems	14
Do People Prescribe Optimism, Overoptimism, or Neither?	14
Moral Frames Are Persuasive and Moralize Attitudes; Nonmoral Frames Are Persuasive and De-Moralize Attitudes	14
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence	14
Directing Attention Shapes Learning in Adults but Not Children	14
The One That Got Away: Overestimation of Forgone Alternatives as a Hidden Source of Regret	14
Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?	14
Proenvironmental Behavior Increases Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From an Experience-Sampling Study and a Randomized Experiment	13
Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction	13
A Personal Model of Trumpery: Linguistic Deception Detection in a Real-World High-Stakes Setting	13
Correlates of Hallucinatory Experiences in the General Population: An International Multisite Replication Study	13
Shared Time Scarcity and the Pursuit of Extraordinary Experiences	13
Attention to Authenticity: An Essential Analogue to Focus on Rigor and Replicability	13
The Relative Importance of Joke and Audience Characteristics in Eliciting Amusement	13
Asymmetric Hedonic Contrast: Pain Is More Contrast Dependent Than Pleasure	13
Psychological Well-Being in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Middle Adulthood: Findings From the 1958 British Birth Cohort	13
Changing What You Like: Modifying Contour Properties Shifts Aesthetic Valuations of Scenes	13
Psychological Science Stepping Up a Level	13
Safe and Sound: The Effects of Experimentally Priming the Sense of Attachment Security on Pure-Tone Audiometric Thresholds Among Young and Older Adults	13
Compassion Fatigue as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Believing Compassion Is Limited Increases Fatigue and Decreases Compassion	13
How Long Does It Take for a Voice to Become Familiar? Speech Intelligibility and Voice Recognition Are Differentially Sensitive to Voice Training	13