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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward Complementary Intelligence: Integrating Cognitive and Machine AI	141
Facing Ambiguity: What We Do in the Space Between Stimulus and Response	119
Music, Memory, and Imagination	104
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	89
Historical Psychology	71
Positive Affect Dynamics	65
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	43
Metacognition and Uncertainty Communication in Humans and Large Language Models	43
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	41
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	40
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	37
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	36
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	36
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	36
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	35
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	35
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	34
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	33
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	31
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	31
Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Schizophrenia and the Psychosis Continuum: Integrating New Insights	31
Motivated Egalitarianism	31
Crossing Boundaries: A Culture-First Approach to Studying Early Learning	31
An Integrated Immuno-Reward Model of Adolescent Depression: Theory, Evidence, and Implications	29
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	29

Parenting by Lying	28
The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	27
Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as a Pathway to Social Integration	27
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	26
Dyadic Decisions About Effort: How Caregivers Shape Young Children’s Persistence	26
The New Psychology of Secrecy	25
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	25
Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions	24
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	24
Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes	23
Lessons for the Next Pandemic: What Children Taught Us About Navigating New Social Norms During COVID-19	23
The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context	23
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	22
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	21
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	21
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	21
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	21
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	21
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	20
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	20
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	20
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	19
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	19
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	19
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	18
Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution	18
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	17
Consequences of Bilingual Language Coactivation for Higher Order Cognition	17
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	17
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	16
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	15
Generative Behaviors as Key Targets for Cognitive Models	15
Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain	15
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	15
Ecospirituality	15
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	15
Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence	14
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	14
Dimensions of Stereotypes About Groups	14
The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology	13
How Does Religion Deter Adolescent Risk Behavior?	13
Does Altruism Exist? Implications of Selective Investment Theory for Solving Social Problems	13
Self-Derivation Through Memory Integration: A Mechanism for Building Semantic Memory	13
Abnormalities in Attention and Working Memory in Schizophrenia: The Hyperfocusing Hypothesis	13
Collective Memory Is More Than What We Remember: Quantifying Interconnections	13
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	13
Intergroup Leadership: The Challenge of Successfully Leading Fractured Groups and Societies	13
Signatures of Reinforcement Learning in Natural Behavior	13
Hidden Reward: Affect and Its Prediction Errors as Windows Into Subjective Value	12
On Evaluating Abstraction and Analogy in Humans and Machines	12

Abstract Cognitive Maps for Complex Social Systems	12
There Are Multiple Paths to Personalized Education, and They Should Be Combined	12
Cognitive Inertia: Cyclical Interactions Between Attention and Memory Shape Learning	12
Secret Agents of Influence: Leveraging Social Norms for Good	12
Habits, Goals, and Effective Behavior Change	11
The Role of Phenomenological Control in Experience	11
Deepfakes: Vehicles for Radicalization, Not Persuasion	11
Hyper-Binding: Older Adults Form Too Many Associations, Not Too Few	11
What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition?	11
Humans’ Bias Blind Spot and Its Societal Significance	11
Delusions as Epistemic Hypervigilance	11
Parent-Focused Interventions to Support Children’s Early Math Learning	11
The Impacts of Anxiety and Motivation on Spatial Performance: Implications for Gender Differences in Mental Rotation and Navigation	11
Using Artificial Intelligence to Better Understand Human Intelligence	11
Does Too Much Closeness Dampen Desire? On the Balance of Closeness and Otherness for the Maintenance of Sexual Desire in Romantic Relationships	11
The Development of Human Cortical Scene Processing	10
The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social Relationships	10
Philosophy of Perception in the Psychologist’s Laboratory	10
The Role of Real-World Statistical Regularities in Visual Perception	10
A Scripted Sexuality: Media, Gendered Sexual Scripts, and Their Impact on Our Lives	10
Developing Effective Interventions for Math Anxiety	10
Event Segmentation Interventions Improve Memory for Naturalistic Events	10
Response Durations: A Flexible, No-Cost Tool for Psychological Science	9
Theories of Context Effects in Multialternative, Multiattribute Choice	9
Corrigendum to “Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions”	9
Explanation Is Effective Because It Is Selective	9
Lie Detection: What Works?	9
Emotional Disclosure and Social Judgment	9
From a Baby’s Point of View: How Infants’ Face Diets Shape Their Face Perception	8
How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?	8
Intuitive Theories and the Cultural Evolution of Morality	8
Active Learning in Language Development	8
Covid-19 Pandemic as a Natural Experiment: The Case of Home Advantage in Sports	8
The Promise of Generative AI for Personalized Persuasion	7
Back to Basics: The Importance of Conceptual Clarification in Psychological Science	7
Population-Level Administrative Data: A Resource to Advance Psychological Science	7
Casting a Wider Net: Using Automated Content Analysis to Discover New Ideas	7
Origins of Face Responses in the Human Cortex: fNIRS and fMRI Evidence From Infants	7
Fostering Executive-Function Skills and Promoting Far Transfer to Real-World Outcomes: The Importance of Life Skills and Civic Science	7
Preventing the Onset of Depressive Disorders: State of the Art and Future Directions	7
Successive Relearning: An Underexplored but Potent Technique for Obtaining and Maintaining Knowledge	7
The New Reality: Non-Eyewitness Identifications in a Surveillance World	7
Identifying Objects and Remembering Images: Insights From Deep Neural Networks	7
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions	7
How Can We Characterize Human Generalization and Distinguish It From Generalization in Machines?	7
The Psychology of Erectile Dysfunction	7