OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychological Science is 14. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Doubling-Back Aversion: A Reluctance to Make Progress by Undoing It	116
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix	70
Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions	68
The 2008 Great Recession Lowered Americans’ Class Identity	58
Fidelity Versus Validity Using Anendophasia as an Example: Commentary on Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024) and Lind (2025)	56
*Social Rewards Protection Theory: Why People Morally Derogate Prosocial Actors for Undisclosed Personal Benefits	56
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects	54
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study	54
Bidirectional Relationships Between Well-Being and Cognitive Function	53
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences	52
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration	50
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory	49
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments	45
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity	43
Invariant Recognition Memory Spaces for Real-World Objects Revealed With Signal-Detection Analysis	43
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness	43
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases	42
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets	42
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented	39
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes	39
*Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia	37
Peripheral Visual Information Halves Attentional Choice Biases	37
Motive Alignment Promotes Adolescents’ Proenvironmental Behavior: A Field Experiment in Two Cultures	34
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure	32
Mugs and Plants: Object Semantic Knowledge Alters Perceptual Processing With Behavioral Ramifications	32

Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory	32
Radial Bias Alters Perceived Object Orientation	31
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test	30
Ambivalent Sexism and Tolerance of Violence Against Women in India	30
Does Income Inequality Predict Adolescent Depressive Symptoms?	30
Reducing Facial Stereotype Bias in Consequential Social Judgments: Intervention Success With White Male Faces	30
*The Ethnic and Political Divide in the Preference for Strong Leaders	29
Unlocking the Benefits of Gender Diversity: How an Ecological-Belonging Intervention Enhances Performance in Science Classrooms	29
How Convincing Is a Crowd? Quantifying the Persuasiveness of a Consensus for Different Individuals and Types of Claims	27
Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field	27
Agent Preference in Chasing Interactions in Guinea Baboons ( Papio papio ): Uncovering the Roots of Subject–Object Order in Language	27
Exploring the Semantic-Inconsistency Effect in Scenes Using a Continuous Measure of Linguistic-Semantic Similarity	27
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior	26
Good-Enough Production: Selecting Easier Words Instead of More Accurate Ones	25
Introspective Access or Retrospective Inference? Mind-Wandering Reports Are Shaped by Performance Feedback	25
Contactless Real-Time Heart Rate Predicts the Performance of Elite Athletes: Evidence From Tokyo 2020 Olympic Archery Competition	25
Can One Donation a Day Keep Depression Away? Three Randomized Controlled Trials of an Online Micro-Charitable Giving Intervention	25
Regional Measures of Sexual-Orientation Bias Predict Where Same-Gender Couples Live	25
Associations Between Meat Consumption and Depression Are Small and Unlikely to Be Causal	25
Signal Intrusion Explains Divergent Effects of Visual Distraction on Working Memory	25
The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-Dependent Trade-Off Between External and Internal Memory	24
Gaze-Triggered Communicative Intention Compresses Perceived Temporal Duration	24
Neural and Cognitive Signatures of Guilt Predict Hypocritical Blame	23
Visual Perception Is Highly Flexible and Context Dependent in Young Infants: A Case of Top-Down-Modulated Motion Perception	22
When and Why People Conceal Infectious Disease	22
Improving Memory Search Through Model-Based Cue Selection	22
Assortative Mating Is a Natural Consequence of Heritable Variation in Preferences and Preferred Traits	21
From the Viscera to First Impressions: Phase-Dependent Cardio-Visual Signals Bias the Perceived Trustworthiness of Faces	21
The Visual Mandela Effect as Evidence for Shared and Specific False Memories Across People	20
Cross-Modal Facilitation of Episodic Memory by Sequential Action Execution	19
The Rise, Impact, and Imbalances of Big-Team Psychology	19
What You See Is What You Hear: Sounds Alter the Contents of Visual Perception	19
The Dispositional Essence of Proactive Social Preferences: The Dark Core of Personality vis-à-vis 58 Traits	19
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help	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
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	19
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	18
Do We Become More Lonely With Age? A Coordinated Data Analysis of Nine Longitudinal Studies	18
No Fixed Limit for Storing Simple Visual Features: Realistic Objects Provide an Efficient Scaffold for Holding Features in Mind	18
Intervening After Trauma: Child–Parent Psychotherapy Treatment Is Associated With Lower Pediatric Epigenetic Age Acceleration	18
Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change	18
Self-Relevance Predicts the Aesthetic Appeal of Real and Synthetic Artworks Generated via Neural Style Transfer	18
Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia	18
Individual Differences in Great Ape Cognition Across Time and Domains: Stability, Structure, and Predictability	17
Perceiving Topological Relations	17
Terminal Increases in Depressive Symptoms in a Multinational Twin Consortium	17
Worse Weather Amplifies Social Media Activity	17
Rethinking the Role of Teams and Training in Geopolitical Forecasting: The Effect of Uncontrolled Method Variance on Statistical Conclusions	16

Statistical Learning Facilitates Access to Awareness	16
Overconfidence Persists Despite Years of Accurate, Precise, Public, and Continuous Feedback: Two Studies of Tournament Chess Players	15
A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It	15
Person Knowledge Is Independently Encoded by Allocentric and Egocentric Reference Frames Within Separate Brain Systems	15
Becoming an Ostrich: The Development of Information Avoidance	15
Sexual Identity Development Milestones, Latent Profiles, and Proximal Minority Stressors in Australia’s Generation Z	15
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence	15
Exploration, Distributed Attention, and Development of Category Learning	15
Gender-Ambiguous Voices and Social Disfluency	15
Underestimating Counterparts’ Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations	15
Replication of “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Precommitment”	14
Corrigendum to “Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence”	14
Attention to Authenticity: An Essential Analogue to Focus on Rigor and Replicability	14
Differences Between Lifelong Singles and Ever-Partnered Individuals in Big Five Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction	14
Perceptual Generalization of Alcohol-Related Value Characterizes Risky Drinkers	14
Are People Generous When the Financial Stakes Are High?	14
Changing What You Like: Modifying Contour Properties Shifts Aesthetic Valuations of Scenes	14
People Place Larger Bets When Risky Choices Provide a Postbet Option to Cash Out	14
Proenvironmental Behavior Increases Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From an Experience-Sampling Study and a Randomized Experiment	14
Directing Attention Shapes Learning in Adults but Not Children	14
The Relative Importance of Joke and Audience Characteristics in Eliciting Amusement	14