OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 30. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	144
Psychological Momentum	118
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	106
Let Me Choose: The Role of Choice in the Development of Executive Function Skills	85
The Psychology of Poverty: Current and Future Directions	83
Reconciling Loss Aversion and Gain Seeking in Judged Emotions	76
A Competitiveness-Based Theoretical Framework on the Psychology of Income Inequality	75
Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of “AI”	68
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Underlying Role of Diminished Access to Internal States	56
Models of Identity Signaling	56
Lie Detection: What Works?	55
Ten Lessons About Infants’ Everyday Experiences	53
Emotion as Information in Early Social Learning	52
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	46
The Development of Values in Middle Childhood: Five Maturation Criteria	46
Historical Psychology	45
From Objects to Unified Minds	45
The Development of Communication Across Timescales	44
How Can Deep Neural Networks Inform Theory in Psychological Science?	43
Gender Prototypes Shape Perceptions of and Responses to Sexual Harassment	42
Neuroticism and Disorders of Emotion: A New Synthesis	37
The Scams Among Us: Who Falls Prey and Why	36
Popular Psychology Through a Scientific Lens: Evaluating Love Languages From a Relationship Science Perspective	36
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	36
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	34

The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social Relationships	34
Ancestral Diversity: A Socioecological Account of Emotion Culture	32
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	31
Debunking Three Myths About Misinformation	31
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	30