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Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 31. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Aging in an Era of Fake News	145
Seed and Soil: Psychological Affordances in Contexts Help to Explain Where Wise Interventions Succeed or Fail	131
Cognitive-Load Theory: Methods to Manage Working Memory Load in the Learning of Complex Tasks	104
Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn	85
Beyond the Core-Deficit Hypothesis in Developmental Disorders	74
The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children’s Development	73
Developmental Variability and Developmental Cascades: Lessons From Motor and Language Development in Infancy	59
Attention Control: A Cornerstone of Higher-Order Cognition	57
Collective Narcissism and Its Social Consequences: The Bad and the Ugly	56
The Major Health Implications of Social Connection	55
A Developmental-Science Perspective on Social Inequality	50
Progress in Joint-Action Research	50
Toward a Science of Effective Cognitive Training	50
Why Facts Are Not Enough: Understanding and Managing the Motivated Rejection of Science	49
Understanding Desire for Food and Drink: A Grounded-Cognition Approach	47
Back to Basics: The Importance of Conceptual Clarification in Psychological Science	46
Do We Become More Prosocial as We Age, and if So, Why?	46
The Vicious Cycle Linking Stereotypes and Social Roles	43
Pornography Use and Psychological Science: A Call for Consideration	43
Toward an Integrative Model of Sources of Personality Stability and Change	42
Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model	42
Digital Emotion Regulation	42
Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and Potential	40
Drinking Together and Drinking Alone: A Social-Contextual Framework for Examining Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder	40
The Missing Side of Acculturation: How Majority-Group Members Relate to Immigrant and Minority-Group Cultures	39

Taking Skills Seriously: Toward an Integrative Model and Agenda for Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills	38
Foraging in Mind	38
Influences of Caregiving on Development: A Sensitive Period for Biological Embedding of Predictability and Safety Cues	35
Mindfulness and Motivation: A Process View Using Self-Determination Theory	33
A Transdiagnostic Perspective on Youth Irritability	33
Children’s Language Skills Can Be Improved: Lessons From Psychological Science for Educational Policy	32
Neuroticism and Disorders of Emotion: A New Synthesis	31