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Papers

(The median citation count of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 6. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	202
Positive Affect Dynamics	122
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	103
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	97
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	74
Historical Psychology	71
Music, Memory, and Imagination	65
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	64
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	62
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	52
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	50
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	50
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	47
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	44
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	44
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	43
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	36
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	36
Motivated Egalitarianism	35
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	33
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	33
Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Schizophrenia and the Psychosis Continuum: Integrating New Insights	32
Acknowledgment	28
The New Psychology of Secrecy	28
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	27

Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions	27
The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	27
Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as a Pathway to Social Integration	27
Parenting by Lying	27
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	26
Agency Through the We: Group-Based Control Theory	25
Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model	24
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	24
The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context	24
Lessons for the Next Pandemic: What Children Taught Us About Navigating New Social Norms During COVID-19	23
Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes	22
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	22
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	21
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	21
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	21
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	21
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	20
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	19
The Development of Communication Across Timescales	19
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	19
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	19
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	19
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	19
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	18
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	18
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	18
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	18
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	17
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	17
Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution	17
Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain	17
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	17
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	17
Consequences of Bilingual Language Coactivation for Higher Order Cognition	17
Ecospirituality	16
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	16
Intergroup Leadership: The Challenge of Successfully Leading Fractured Groups and Societies	15
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	15
Dimensions of Stereotypes About Groups	15
The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology	15
Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence	15
Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and Potential	14
Abnormalities in Attention and Working Memory in Schizophrenia: The Hyperfocusing Hypothesis	14
Cognitive Inertia: Cyclical Interactions Between Attention and Memory Shape Learning	14
How Does Religion Deter Adolescent Risk Behavior?	14
The Impacts of Anxiety and Motivation on Spatial Performance: Implications for Gender Differences in Mental Rotation and Navigation	14
Self-Derivation Through Memory Integration: A Mechanism for Building Semantic Memory	14
Secret Agents of Influence: Leveraging Social Norms for Good	13
Porosity Is the Heart of Religion	12
There Are Multiple Paths to Personalized Education, and They Should Be Combined	12

Humans’ Bias Blind Spot and Its Societal Significance	12
What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition?	12
Hidden Reward: Affect and Its Prediction Errors as Windows Into Subjective Value	12
Abstract Cognitive Maps for Complex Social Systems	12
Toward a “Standard Model” of Early Language Learning	12
Deepfakes: Vehicles for Radicalization, Not Persuasion	11
The Development of Human Cortical Scene Processing	11
Hyper-Binding: Older Adults Form Too Many Associations, Not Too Few	11
Developing Effective Interventions for Math Anxiety	11
Habits, Goals, and Effective Behavior Change	11
Philosophy of Perception in the Psychologist’s Laboratory	11
Delusions as Epistemic Hypervigilance	11
Does Too Much Closeness Dampen Desire? On the Balance of Closeness and Otherness for the Maintenance of Sexual Desire in Romantic Relationships	11
Event Segmentation Interventions Improve Memory for Naturalistic Events	10
The Role of Phenomenological Control in Experience	10
A Scripted Sexuality: Media, Gendered Sexual Scripts, and Their Impact on Our Lives	10
Corrigendum to “Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions”	10
Parent-Focused Interventions to Support Children’s Early Math Learning	10
The Predictive Brain Must Have a Limitation in Short-Term Memory Capacity	9
Lie Detection: What Works?	9
Explanation Is Effective Because It Is Selective	8
Intuitive Theories and the Cultural Evolution of Morality	8
How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?	8
The Role of Real-World Statistical Regularities in Visual Perception	8
Theories of Context Effects in Multialternative, Multiattribute Choice	8
Covid-19 Pandemic as a Natural Experiment: The Case of Home Advantage in Sports	8
Emotional Disclosure and Social Judgment	8
The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social Relationships	8
Response Durations: A Flexible, No-Cost Tool for Psychological Science	8
Identifying Objects and Remembering Images: Insights From Deep Neural Networks	7
Fostering Executive-Function Skills and Promoting Far Transfer to Real-World Outcomes: The Importance of Life Skills and Civic Science	7
Origins of Face Responses in the Human Cortex: fNIRS and fMRI Evidence From Infants	7
Credibility Beyond Replicability: Improving the Four Validities in Psychological Science	7
Corrigendum: Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn	7
Back to Basics: The Importance of Conceptual Clarification in Psychological Science	7
Integrating Insights About Human Movement Patterns From Digital Data Into Psychological Science	7
Assessing Attention in Category Learning by Animals	7
Active Learning in Language Development	7
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions	7
The Missing Side of Acculturation: How Majority-Group Members Relate to Immigrant and Minority-Group Cultures	7
Gender Prototypes Shape Perceptions of and Responses to Sexual Harassment	6
Exceptional Abilities in Autism: Theories and Open Questions	6
How Can We Characterize Human Generalization and Distinguish It From Generalization in Machines?	6
Preventing the Onset of Depressive Disorders: State of the Art and Future Directions	6
Casting a Wider Net: Using Automated Content Analysis to Discover New Ideas	6
The New Reality: Non-Eyewitness Identifications in a Surveillance World	6
Successive Relearning: An Underexplored but Potent Technique for Obtaining and Maintaining Knowledge	6
Maximizing the Potential of Digital Games for Understanding Skill Acquisition	6
The Psychology of Erectile Dysfunction	6
The Structure of Systematicity in the Brain	6
The Emergency of Prosociality: A Developmental Perspective on Altruism and Other Prosocial Behavior in the Face of Disaster	6
Population-Level Administrative Data: A Resource to Advance Psychological Science	6
Cognitive Blame Is Socially Shaped	6