OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychological Science is 11. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Age Advantages in Emotional Experience Persist Even Under Threat From the COVID-19 Pandemic	172
Early Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Relationship Satisfaction and Attributions	118
Teacher Mindsets Help Explain Where a Growth-Mindset Intervention Does and Doesn’t Work	102
A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect	88
Functional MRI Can Be Highly Reliable, but It Depends on What You Measure: A Commentary on Elliott et al. (2020)	74
Gender Stereotypes in Natural Language: Word Embeddings Show Robust Consistency Across Child and Adult Language Corpora of More Than 65 Million Words	69
How Accurate Are Accuracy-Nudge Interventions? A Preregistered Direct Replication of Pennycook et al. (2020)	63
The Experience of Empathy in Everyday Life	60
The Bilingual Advantage in Children’s Executive Functioning Is Not Related to Language Status: A Meta-Analytic Review	57
Revisiting the Integration Hypothesis: Correlational and Longitudinal Meta-Analyses Demonstrate the Limited Role of Acculturation for Cross-Cultural Adaptation	55
Minding Your Own Business? Mindfulness Decreases Prosocial Behavior for People With Independent Self-Construals	53
Training for Wisdom: The Distanced-Self-Reflection Diary Method	48
Aging Increases Prosocial Motivation for Effort	47
Children Prioritize Humans Over Animals Less Than Adults Do	45
Responsible Use of Open-Access Developmental Data: The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study	44
The Truth Is Out There: Accuracy in Recall of Verifiable Real-World Events	44
Playing With Fear: A Field Study in Recreational Horror	43
The Crowd-Emotion-Amplification Effect	36
The Attitude–Behavior Relationship Revisited	36
Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance	35
Acute Psychosocial Stress Increases Cognitive-Effort Avoidance	34
Prosocial Influence and Opportunistic Conformity in Adolescents and Young Adults	33
Linking Detail to Temporal Structure in Naturalistic-Event Recall	33
Moral-Language Use by U.S. Political Elites	33
Age-Related Changes in Spatial Navigation Are Evident by Midlife and Differ by Sex	32

How Collective-Action Failure Shapes Group Heterogeneity and Engagement in Conventional and Radical Action Over Time	30
The Psychological Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Associated With Antisystemic Attitudes and Political Violence	30
Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: IV. Change and Stability From 2007 to 2020	30
The Importance of Random Slopes in Mixed Models for Bayesian Hypothesis Testing	30
Automatic Guidance (and Misguidance) of Visuospatial Attention by Acquired Scene Memory: Evidence From an N1pc Polarity Reversal	30
The Language of Social Touch Is Intuitive and Quantifiable	28
Convergent and Discriminant Validity of Retrospective Assessments of the Quality of Childhood Parenting: Prospective Evidence From Infancy to Age 26 Years	27
Facial Impressions Are Predicted by the Structure of Group Stereotypes	27
Cultures Crossing: The Power of Habit in Delaying Gratification	27
Racial Bias in Police Traffic Stops: White Residents’ County-Level Prejudice and Stereotypes Are Related to Disproportionate Stopping of Black Drivers	25
Incel Activity on Social Media Linked to Local Mating Ecology	25
The Dramatic Impact of Explicit Instruction on Learning to Read in a New Writing System	24
Parents Fine-Tune Their Speech to Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge	24
Positive Affect Is Associated With Less Memory Decline: Evidence From a 9-Year Longitudinal Study	24
Global Variation in Subjective Well-Being Predicts Seven Forms of Altruism	24
Correlates of Hallucinatory Experiences in the General Population: An International Multisite Replication Study	24
Twin Differences in Harsh Parenting Predict Youth’s Antisocial Behavior	23
Looking for Semantic Similarity: What a Vector-Space Model of Semantics Can Tell Us About Attention in Real-World Scenes	23
Action Enhances Predicted Touch	23
Does Neuronal Recycling Result in Destructive Competition? The Influence of Learning to Read on the Recognition of Faces	23
The Unintended Consequences of the Things We Say: What Generic Statements Communicate to Children About Unmentioned Categories	23
Against Empathy Bias: The Moral Value of Equitable Empathy	23
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	22
Placebo Analgesia Reduces Costly Prosocial Helping to Lower Another Person’s Pain	22
The Negative Effect of Smartphone Use on Academic Performance May Be Overestimated: Evidence From a 2-Year Panel Study	22
Misogynistic Tweets Correlate With Violence Against Women	22
Resourceful Actors, Not Weak Victims: Reframing Refugees’ Stigmatized Identity Enhances Long-Term Academic Engagement	22
The Lure of Counterfactual Curiosity: People Incur a Cost to Experience Regret	22
Real-World Exploration Increases Across Adolescence and Relates to Affect, Risk Taking, and Social Connectivity	21
The Impact of Feedback on Perceptual Decision-Making and Metacognition: Reduction in Bias but No Change in Sensitivity	21
An Emphasis on Brilliance Fosters Masculinity-Contest Cultures	20
The Temporal Dynamics of Brain-to-Brain Synchrony Between Students and Teachers Predict Learning Outcomes	20
Massive Effects of Saliency on Information Processing in Visual Working Memory	20
The Effect of Replications on Citation Patterns: Evidence From a Large-Scale Reproducibility Project	20
Coping With Health Threats: The Costs and Benefits of Managing Emotions	19
Children’s Cognitive Reflection Predicts Conceptual Understanding in Science and Mathematics	19
Keeping an Eye on Effort: A Pupillometric Investigation of Effort and Effortlessness in Visual Word Recognition	19
Personality Traits Predict Long-Term Physical Health via Affect Reactivity to Daily Stressors	19
Charged With a Crime: The Neuronal Signature of Processing Negatively Evaluated Faces Under Different Attentional Conditions	19
Flavor Sensing in Utero and Emerging Discriminative Behaviors in the Human Fetus	19
Using Body Ownership to Modulate the Motor System in Stroke Patients	19
Exploring the Facets of Emotional Episodic Memory: Remembering “What,” “When,” and “Which”	18
Severe Developmental Dyscalculia Is Characterized by Core Deficits in Both Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Number Sense	18
Generating Options and Choosing Between Them Depend on Distinct Forms of Value Representation	18
Theory-of-Mind Development in Young Deaf Children With Early Hearing Provisions	18
Reasoning Through the Disjunctive Syllogism in Monkeys	18
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior	18
Adaptive Repulsion of Long-Term Memory Representations Is Triggered by Event Similarity	18
Why Is an Early Start of Training Related to Musical Skills in Adulthood? A Genetically Informative Study	18
Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence	18

Storage in Visual Working Memory Recruits a Content-Independent Pointer System	18
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions	18
Personality Traits and Memory: A Multilevel Analysis Across 27 Countries From the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe	18
Lay Beliefs About Gender and Sexual Behavior: First Evidence for a Pervasive, Robust (but Seemingly Unfounded) Stereotype	17
Stress and Stress-Induced Glucocorticoids Facilitate Empathic Accuracy in Men but Have No Effects for Women	17
Idiosyncratic Tower of Babel: Individual Differences in Word-Meaning Representation Increase as Word Abstractness Increases	17
The Long-Term Effects of New Evidence on Implicit Impressions of Other People	17
Attitudes Based on Feelings: Fixed or Fleeting?	17
Time to Pay Attention? Information Search Explains Amplified Framing Effects Under Time Pressure	17
The Effect of Prediction Error on Belief Update Across the Political Spectrum	17
Alertness Training Increases Visual Processing Speed in Healthy Older Adults	17
Personality Changes Predict Early Career Outcomes: Discovery and Replication in 12-Year Longitudinal Studies	17
Preregistered Direct Replication of “Sick Body, Vigilant Mind: The Biological Immune System Activates the Behavioral Immune System”	17
AI Hyperrealism: Why AI Faces Are Perceived as More Real Than Human Ones	16
Acting Like a Baby Boomer? Birth-Cohort Differences in Adults’ Personality Trajectories During the Last Half a Century	16
Socially Stratified Epigenetic Profiles Are Associated With Cognitive Functioning in Children and Adolescents	16
Motivating Personal Growth by Seeking Discomfort	16
Narratives Shape Cognitive Representations of Immigrants and Immigration-Policy Preferences	16
The Dispositional Essence of Proactive Social Preferences: The Dark Core of Personality vis-à-vis 58 Traits	16
Harsh but Expedient: Dominant Leaders Increase Group Cooperation via Threat of Punishment	16
The Effects of Handwriting Experience on Literacy Learning	16
Broken Physics: A Conjunction-Fallacy Effect in Intuitive Physical Reasoning	16
Attentional Guidance and Match Decisions Rely on Different Template Information During Visual Search	16
The Effects of Retirement on Sense of Purpose in Life: Crisis or Opportunity?	16
What’s in a Badge? A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science	16
Testing Deprivation and Threat: A Preregistered Network Analysis of the Dimensions of Early Adversity	16
Scene Context Impairs Perception of Semantically Congruent Objects	16
Scientific-Consensus Communication About Contested Science: A Preregistered Meta-Analysis	16
The Social Effects of an Awesome Solar Eclipse	15
Are Sex Differences in Human Brain Structure Associated With Sex Differences in Behavior?	15
Harder Than You Think: How Outside Assistance Leads to Overconfidence	15
Awe Sparks Prosociality in Children	15
Children With More Uncertainty in Their Intuitive Theories Seek Domain-Relevant Information	15
Effects of Time-Varying Parent Input on Children’s Language Outcomes Differ for Vocabulary and Syntax	15
Niche Diversity Predicts Personality Structure Across 115 Nations	15
How Long Does It Take for a Voice to Become Familiar? Speech Intelligibility and Voice Recognition Are Differentially Sensitive to Voice Training	14
Effects of Trust and Threat Messaging on Academic Cheating: A Field Study	14
Feeling Appreciated Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Unequal Division of Household Labor on Relationship Satisfaction	14
Expectancy Violation Drives Memory Boost for Stressful Events	14
Titrating the Smell of Fear: Initial Evidence for Dose-Invariant Behavioral, Physiological, and Neural Responses	14
Early-Life Socioeconomic Circumstances and Physical Activity in Older Age: Women Pay the Price	14
Never Too Much—The Benefit of Talent to Team Performance in the National Basketball Association: Comment on Swaab, Schaerer, Anicich, Ronay, and Galinsky (2014)	14
What Is Time Good for in Working Memory?	14
Frequency-Specific Effects in Infant Electroencephalograms Do Not Require Entrained Neural Oscillations: A Commentary on Köster et al. (2019)	14
Interleaving Retrieval Practice Promotes Science Learning	14
Bedtime Music, Involuntary Musical Imagery, and Sleep	14
Does Choice Cause an Illusion of Control?	13
Melting Ice With Your Mind: Representational Momentum for Physical States	13
Little Between-Region and Between-Country Variance When People Form Impressions of Others	13
Psychometric Curves Reveal Three Mechanisms of Vigilance Decrement	13
Preregistered Replication of “Feeling Superior Is a Bipartisan Issue: Extremity (Not Direction) of Political Views Predicts Perceived Belief Superiority”	13
A Salient Sugar Tax Decreases Sugary-Drink Buying	13
Identifying Long- and Short-Term Processes in Perceptual Learning	12
What Might Books Be Teaching Young Children About Gender?	12
Does Posture Influence the Stroop Effect?	12
Queen’s Gambit Declined: The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Participation Across 160 Countries	12
Lack of Belonging Predicts Depressive Symptomatology in College Students	12
Predictive Uncertainty Underlies Auditory Boundary Perception	12
Working Memory Content Is Distorted by Its Use in Perceptual Comparisons	12
Anxiety-Related Frontocortical Activity Is Associated With Dampened Stressor Reactivity in the Real World	11
Levels of Processing Affect Perceptual Features in Visual Associative Memory	11
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure	11
Racial Demographics Explain the Link Between Racial Disparities in Traffic Stops and County-Level Racial Attitudes	11
Narcissism and Leadership in Children	11
Belief in the Utility of Cross-Partisan Empathy Reduces Partisan Animosity and Facilitates Political Persuasion	11
Mind-Body Practices and Self-Enhancement: Direct Replications of Gebauer et al.’s (2018) Experiments 1 and 2	11
Walking in Her Shoes: Pretending to Be a Female Role Model Increases Young Girls’ Persistence in Science	11
Parent Contributions to the Development of Political Attitudes in Adoptive and Biological Families	11
Culture Moderates the Relation Between Gender Inequality and Well-Being	11
Too Reluctant to Reach Out: Receiving Social Support Is More Positive Than Expressers Expect	11
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help	11
Are You for Real? Perceptions of Authenticity Are Systematically Biased and Not Accurate	11
Moral Frames Are Persuasive and Moralize Attitudes; Nonmoral Frames Are Persuasive and De-Moralize Attitudes	11
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test	11
A Self-Controlled Mind Is Reflected by Stable Mental Processing	11
Physically Implied Surfaces	11
Lifting the Bar: A Relationship-Orienting Intervention Reduces Recidivism Among Children Reentering School From Juvenile Detention	11