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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention	837
What Is the Test-Retest Reliability of Common Task-Functional MRI Measures? New Empirical Evidence and a Meta-Analysis	399
The Emotional Path to Action: Empathy Promotes Physical Distancing and Wearing of Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic	309
Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance	274
Age Advantages in Emotional Experience Persist Even Under Threat From the COVID-19 Pandemic	153
Early Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Relationship Satisfaction and Attributions	106
People Reject Algorithms in Uncertain Decision Domains Because They Have Diminishing Sensitivity to Forecasting Error	93
Teacher Mindsets Help Explain Where a Growth-Mindset Intervention Does and Doesn’t Work	78
Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages: A Population Study of Executive Function in 11,000 People	76
A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect	71
Changing Social Contexts to Foster Equity in College Science Courses: An Ecological-Belonging Intervention	68
Universal Patterns in Color-Emotion Associations Are Further Shaped by Linguistic and Geographic Proximity	68
Functional MRI Can Be Highly Reliable, but It Depends on What You Measure: A Commentary on Elliott et al. (2020)	67
Polluted Psyche: Is the Effect of Air Pollution on Unethical Behavior More Physiological or Psychological?	64
Comparison of Adopted and Nonadopted Individuals Reveals Gene–Environment Interplay for Education in the UK Biobank	63
Gender Stereotypes in Natural Language: Word Embeddings Show Robust Consistency Across Child and Adult Language Corpora of More Than 65 Million Words	62
Strong Effort Manipulations Reduce Response Caution: A Preregistered Reinvention of the Ego-Depletion Paradigm	59
Relational Mobility Predicts Faster Spread of COVID-19: A 39-Country Study	53
How Accurate Are Accuracy-Nudge Interventions? A Preregistered Direct Replication of Pennycook et al. (2020)	52
The Bilingual Advantage in Children’s Executive Functioning Is Not Related to Language Status: A Meta-Analytic Review	52
Behavioral Immune Trade-Offs: Interpersonal Value Relaxes Social Pathogen Avoidance	51
Minding Your Own Business? Mindfulness Decreases Prosocial Behavior for People With Independent Self-Construals	48
Revisiting the Integration Hypothesis: Correlational and Longitudinal Meta-Analyses Demonstrate the Limited Role of Acculturation for Cross-Cultural Adaptation	48
The Experience of Empathy in Everyday Life	46
Preverbal Infants Discover Statistical Word Patterns at Similar Rates as Adults: Evidence From Neural Entrainment	43

Does Happiness Improve Health? Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial	43
Children Prioritize Humans Over Animals Less Than Adults Do	41
Anxiety Impedes Adaptive Social Learning Under Uncertainty	41
Training for Wisdom: The Distanced-Self-Reflection Diary Method	39
Responsible Use of Open-Access Developmental Data: The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study	37
Aging Increases Prosocial Motivation for Effort	36
The Development of Intersectional Social Prototypes	34
Playing With Fear: A Field Study in Recreational Horror	33
The Truth Is Out There: Accuracy in Recall of Verifiable Real-World Events	32
Face Pareidolia Recruits Mechanisms for Detecting Human Social Attention	32
The Crowd-Emotion-Amplification Effect	31
Theta-Rhythmic Oscillation of Working Memory Performance	30
The Psychological Burden of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Associated With Antisystemic Attitudes and Political Violence	29
Prosocial Influence and Opportunistic Conformity in Adolescents and Young Adults	29
Moral-Language Use by U.S. Political Elites	29
Acute Psychosocial Stress Increases Cognitive-Effort Avoidance	27
Using Machine Learning to Generate Novel Hypotheses: Increasing Optimism About COVID-19 Makes People Less Willing to Justify Unethical Behaviors	27
Age-Related Changes in Spatial Navigation Are Evident by Midlife and Differ by Sex	27
Linking Detail to Temporal Structure in Naturalistic-Event Recall	26
The Earliest Origins of Genetic Nurture: The Prenatal Environment Mediates the Association Between Maternal Genetics and Child Development	25
The Latent Genetic Structure of Impulsivity and Its Relation to Internalizing Psychopathology	24
Automatic Guidance (and Misguidance) of Visuospatial Attention by Acquired Scene Memory: Evidence From an N1pc Polarity Reversal	24
Reframing Achievement Setbacks: A Motivation Intervention to Improve 8-Year Graduation Rates for Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Fields	24
Reminders of Everyday Misinformation Statements Can Enhance Memory for and Beliefs in Corrections of Those Statements in the Short Term	22
The Effect of Repetition on Truth Judgments Across Development	22
Facial Impressions Are Predicted by the Structure of Group Stereotypes	22
The Language of Social Touch Is Intuitive and Quantifiable	21
Incel Activity on Social Media Linked to Local Mating Ecology	21
Concerns About Automation and Negative Sentiment Toward Immigration	21
General Enhancement of Spatial Hearing in Congenitally Blind People	21
The Importance of Random Slopes in Mixed Models for Bayesian Hypothesis Testing	21
Correlates of Hallucinatory Experiences in the General Population: An International Multisite Replication Study	21
The Dramatic Impact of Explicit Instruction on Learning to Read in a New Writing System	20
How Collective-Action Failure Shapes Group Heterogeneity and Engagement in Conventional and Radical Action Over Time	20
The Unintended Consequences of the Things We Say: What Generic Statements Communicate to Children About Unmentioned Categories	20
The Negative Effect of Smartphone Use on Academic Performance May Be Overestimated: Evidence From a 2-Year Panel Study	20
Cultures Crossing: The Power of Habit in Delaying Gratification	20
Parents Fine-Tune Their Speech to Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge	20
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	20
Convergent and Discriminant Validity of Retrospective Assessments of the Quality of Childhood Parenting: Prospective Evidence From Infancy to Age 26 Years	20
Affective Arousal Links Sound to Meaning	20
Massive Effects of Saliency on Information Processing in Visual Working Memory	19
Against Empathy Bias: The Moral Value of Equitable Empathy	19
The Attitude–Behavior Relationship Revisited	19
Looking for Semantic Similarity: What a Vector-Space Model of Semantics Can Tell Us About Attention in Real-World Scenes	19
On Intersectionality: How Complex Patterns of Discrimination Can Emerge From Simple Stereotypes	19
Positive Affect Is Associated With Less Memory Decline: Evidence From a 9-Year Longitudinal Study	19
Global Variation in Subjective Well-Being Predicts Seven Forms of Altruism	19
Truth, Lies, and Gossip	18
Misogynistic Tweets Correlate With Violence Against Women	18

An Emphasis on Brilliance Fosters Masculinity-Contest Cultures	18
Does Neuronal Recycling Result in Destructive Competition? The Influence of Learning to Read on the Recognition of Faces	18
Twin Differences in Harsh Parenting Predict Youth’s Antisocial Behavior	18
Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: IV. Change and Stability From 2007 to 2020	18
Neighborhood Deprivation Shapes Motivational-Neurocircuit Recruitment in Children	18
The Well-Being Benefits of Person-Culture Match Are Contingent on Basic Personality Traits	17
Air Pollution, State Anxiety, and Unethical Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review	17
Resourceful Actors, Not Weak Victims: Reframing Refugees’ Stigmatized Identity Enhances Long-Term Academic Engagement	17
Personality Traits and Memory: A Multilevel Analysis Across 27 Countries From the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe	17
Coping With Health Threats: The Costs and Benefits of Managing Emotions	17
Placebo Analgesia Reduces Costly Prosocial Helping to Lower Another Person’s Pain	17
The Contribution of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills to Intergenerational Social Mobility	16
Delay of Gratification as Reputation Management	16
The Lure of Counterfactual Curiosity: People Incur a Cost to Experience Regret	16
The Effect of Prediction Error on Belief Update Across the Political Spectrum	16
The Psychological Appeal of Fake-News Attributions	16
Generating Options and Choosing Between Them Depend on Distinct Forms of Value Representation	16
Action Enhances Predicted Touch	16
Alertness Training Increases Visual Processing Speed in Healthy Older Adults	16
The Long-Term Effects of New Evidence on Implicit Impressions of Other People	15
Racial Bias in Police Traffic Stops: White Residents’ County-Level Prejudice and Stereotypes Are Related to Disproportionate Stopping of Black Drivers	15
Broken Physics: A Conjunction-Fallacy Effect in Intuitive Physical Reasoning	15
Confidence as a Priority Signal	15
Preregistered Direct Replication of “Sick Body, Vigilant Mind: The Biological Immune System Activates the Behavioral Immune System”	15
Using Body Ownership to Modulate the Motor System in Stroke Patients	15
Female Chess Players Show Typical Stereotype-Threat Effects: Commentary on Stafford (2018)	15
Growth-Mindset Intervention Delivered by Teachers Boosts Achievement in Early Adolescence	15
Harsh but Expedient: Dominant Leaders Increase Group Cooperation via Threat of Punishment	15
Dominance-Driven Autocratic Political Orientations Predict Political Violence in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) and Non-WEIRD Samples	15
Niche Diversity Predicts Personality Structure Across 115 Nations	15
The Effects of Retirement on Sense of Purpose in Life: Crisis or Opportunity?	15
Reasoning Through the Disjunctive Syllogism in Monkeys	14
The Effects of Handwriting Experience on Literacy Learning	14
Scene Context Impairs Perception of Semantically Congruent Objects	14
Children’s Cognitive Reflection Predicts Conceptual Understanding in Science and Mathematics	14
Narratives Shape Cognitive Representations of Immigrants and Immigration-Policy Preferences	14
Attentional Guidance and Match Decisions Rely on Different Template Information During Visual Search	14
Personality Traits Predict Long-Term Physical Health via Affect Reactivity to Daily Stressors	14
Effects of Time-Varying Parent Input on Children’s Language Outcomes Differ for Vocabulary and Syntax	14
Real-World Exploration Increases Across Adolescence and Relates to Affect, Risk Taking, and Social Connectivity	14
The Impact of Feedback on Perceptual Decision-Making and Metacognition: Reduction in Bias but No Change in Sensitivity	14
Idiosyncratic Tower of Babel: Individual Differences in Word-Meaning Representation Increase as Word Abstractness Increases	14
Children With More Uncertainty in Their Intuitive Theories Seek Domain-Relevant Information	14
Keeping an Eye on Effort: A Pupillometric Investigation of Effort and Effortlessness in Visual Word Recognition	14
Attitudes Based on Feelings: Fixed or Fleeting?	14
Frequency-Specific Effects in Infant Electroencephalograms Do Not Require Entrained Neural Oscillations: A Commentary on Köster et al. (2019)	14
Personality Changes Predict Early Career Outcomes: Discovery and Replication in 12-Year Longitudinal Studies	14
Effortful Control Moderates the Relation Between Electronic-Media Use and Objective Sleep Indicators in Childhood	14
Charged With a Crime: The Neuronal Signature of Processing Negatively Evaluated Faces Under Different Attentional Conditions	14
Why Is an Early Start of Training Related to Musical Skills in Adulthood? A Genetically Informative Study	14
Exploring the Facets of Emotional Episodic Memory: Remembering “What,” “When,” and “Which”	13
Time to Pay Attention? Information Search Explains Amplified Framing Effects Under Time Pressure	13
Preregistered Replication of “Feeling Superior Is a Bipartisan Issue: Extremity (Not Direction) of Political Views Predicts Perceived Belief Superiority”	13
Theory-of-Mind Development in Young Deaf Children With Early Hearing Provisions	13
Flavor Sensing in Utero and Emerging Discriminative Behaviors in the Human Fetus	13
Titrating the Smell of Fear: Initial Evidence for Dose-Invariant Behavioral, Physiological, and Neural Responses	12
Effects of Selective Attention on Mean-Size Computation: Weighted Averaging and Perceptual Enlargement	12
What Is Time Good for in Working Memory?	12
The Impact of Implicit-Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions	12
Little Between-Region and Between-Country Variance When People Form Impressions of Others	12
Cheaters, Liars, or Both? A New Classification of Dishonesty Profiles	12
The Effect of Replications on Citation Patterns: Evidence From a Large-Scale Reproducibility Project	12
The Distinct Effects of Empathic Accuracy for a Romantic Partner’s Appeasement and Dominance Emotions	12
What’s in a Badge? A Computational Reproducibility Investigation of the Open Data Badge Policy in One Issue of Psychological Science	12
Acting Like a Baby Boomer? Birth-Cohort Differences in Adults’ Personality Trajectories During the Last Half a Century	12
Lay Beliefs About Gender and Sexual Behavior: First Evidence for a Pervasive, Robust (but Seemingly Unfounded) Stereotype	11
Revisiting the Suffixing Preference: Native-Language Affixation Patterns Influence Perception of Sequences	11
Effects of Trust and Threat Messaging on Academic Cheating: A Field Study	11
B or 13? Unconscious Top-Down Contextual Effects at the Categorical but Not the Lexical Level	11
Feeling Appreciated Buffers Against the Negative Effects of Unequal Division of Household Labor on Relationship Satisfaction	11
Harder Than You Think: How Outside Assistance Leads to Overconfidence	11
Queen’s Gambit Declined: The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Participation Across 160 Countries	11
Early-Life Socioeconomic Circumstances and Physical Activity in Older Age: Women Pay the Price	11
Making It Harder to “See” Meaning: The More You See Something, the More Its Conceptual Representation Is Susceptible to Visual Interference	11
Blind at First Sight: The Role of Distinctively Accurate and Positive First Impressions in Romantic Interest	11
Auxiliary Scene-Context Information Provided by Anchor Objects Guides Attention and Locomotion in Natural Search Behavior	11
Motivating Personal Growth by Seeking Discomfort	11
Adaptive Repulsion of Long-Term Memory Representations Is Triggered by Event Similarity	11
Interleaving Retrieval Practice Promotes Science Learning	11