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Papers

(The median citation count of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Positive Affect Dynamics	144
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	122
Historical Psychology	86
Metacognition and Uncertainty Communication in Humans and Large Language Models	82
Music, Memory, and Imagination	79
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	72
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	58
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	57
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	55
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	55
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	50
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	48
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	41
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	34
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	33
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	33
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	33
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	31
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	31
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	30
Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Schizophrenia and the Psychosis Continuum: Integrating New Insights	30
Motivated Egalitarianism	29
Acknowledgment	29
Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as a Pathway to Social Integration	28
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	27

The New Psychology of Secrecy	27
Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions	27
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	26
An Integrated Immuno-Reward Model of Adolescent Depression: Theory, Evidence, and Implications	26
The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	26
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	26
Agency Through the We: Group-Based Control Theory	25
Parenting by Lying	24
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	24
The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context	23
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
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	21
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	21
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	21
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	20
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	20
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	20
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	20
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	20
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	20
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	20
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	19
Consequences of Bilingual Language Coactivation for Higher Order Cognition	19
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	19
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	19
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	19
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	17
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	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
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	16
Ecospirituality	15
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	15
The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology	15
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	15
Self-Derivation Through Memory Integration: A Mechanism for Building Semantic Memory	14
Dimensions of Stereotypes About Groups	14
How Does Religion Deter Adolescent Risk Behavior?	14
Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence	14
Signatures of Reinforcement Learning in Natural Behavior	14
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	14
Abnormalities in Attention and Working Memory in Schizophrenia: The Hyperfocusing Hypothesis	13
Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and Potential	12
There Are Multiple Paths to Personalized Education, and They Should Be Combined	12
Porosity Is the Heart of Religion	12
What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition?	12
Intergroup Leadership: The Challenge of Successfully Leading Fractured Groups and Societies	12
Cognitive Inertia: Cyclical Interactions Between Attention and Memory Shape Learning	12
Hidden Reward: Affect and Its Prediction Errors as Windows Into Subjective Value	12

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