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Papers

(The median citation count of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Music, Memory, and Imagination	192
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	116
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	99
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	95
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	71
Historical Psychology	68
Positive Affect Dynamics	68
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	66
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	63
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	63
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	60
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	59
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	50
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	50
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	50
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	47
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	43
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	41
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	41
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	36
Motivated Egalitarianism	36
The New Psychology of Secrecy	35
Acknowledgment	33
The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	31
Parenting by Lying	30

Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	28
Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as a Pathway to Social Integration	28
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	27
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	27
Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model	27
Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions	26
Agency Through the We: Group-Based Control Theory	25
Lessons for the Next Pandemic: What Children Taught Us About Navigating New Social Norms During COVID-19	24
The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context	24
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	23
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	23
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	23
Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes	23
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	22
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	22
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	20
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	20
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	20
The Development of Communication Across Timescales	19
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	19
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	19
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	19
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	19
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	18
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	18
Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution	18
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	18
Consequences of Bilingual Language Coactivation for Higher Order Cognition	17
Decomposing the Motivation to Exert Mental Effort	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
Ecospirituality	17
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	16
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	16
Influences of Caregiving on Development: A Sensitive Period for Biological Embedding of Predictability and Safety Cues	16
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	16
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	15
The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology	15
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	15
Abnormalities in Attention and Working Memory in Schizophrenia: The Hyperfocusing Hypothesis	14
Intergroup Leadership: The Challenge of Successfully Leading Fractured Groups and Societies	14
How Does Religion Deter Adolescent Risk Behavior?	14
Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence	14
Self-Derivation Through Memory Integration: A Mechanism for Building Semantic Memory	13
Hidden Reward: Affect and Its Prediction Errors as Windows Into Subjective Value	12
What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition?	12
Cognitive Inertia: Cyclical Interactions Between Attention and Memory Shape Learning	12
Toward a “Standard Model” of Early Language Learning	12
Porosity Is the Heart of Religion	12
The Impacts of Anxiety and Motivation on Spatial Performance: Implications for Gender Differences in Mental Rotation and Navigation	12

There Are Multiple Paths to Personalized Education, and They Should Be Combined	12
Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and Potential	12
Humans’ Bias Blind Spot and Its Societal Significance	11
Philosophy of Perception in the Psychologist’s Laboratory	11
Does Too Much Closeness Dampen Desire? On the Balance of Closeness and Otherness for the Maintenance of Sexual Desire in Romantic Relationships	11
Hyper-Binding: Older Adults Form Too Many Associations, Not Too Few	11
Abstract Cognitive Maps for Complex Social Systems	11
Developing Effective Interventions for Math Anxiety	11
Habits, Goals, and Effective Behavior Change	11
Secret Agents of Influence: Leveraging Social Norms for Good	11
A Scripted Sexuality: Media, Gendered Sexual Scripts, and Their Impact on Our Lives	11
The Development of Human Cortical Scene Processing	11
Parent-Focused Interventions to Support Children’s Early Math Learning	10
The Role of Phenomenological Control in Experience	10
The Role of Real-World Statistical Regularities in Visual Perception	10
Deepfakes: Vehicles for Radicalization, Not Persuasion	10
Delusions as Epistemic Hypervigilance	10
Lie Detection: What Works?	9
The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social Relationships	9
Explanation Is Effective Because It Is Selective	9
Event Segmentation Interventions Improve Memory for Naturalistic Events	9
The Predictive Brain Must Have a Limitation in Short-Term Memory Capacity	9
Intuitive Theories and the Cultural Evolution of Morality	8
Covid-19 Pandemic as a Natural Experiment: The Case of Home Advantage in Sports	8
Identifying Objects and Remembering Images: Insights From Deep Neural Networks	8
Corrigendum to “Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions”	8
Theories of Context Effects in Multialternative, Multiattribute Choice	8
Response Durations: A Flexible, No-Cost Tool for Psychological Science	8
Emotional Disclosure and Social Judgment	8
How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?	8
Fostering Executive-Function Skills and Promoting Far Transfer to Real-World Outcomes: The Importance of Life Skills and Civic Science	7
Integrating Insights About Human Movement Patterns From Digital Data Into Psychological Science	7
Origins of Face Responses in the Human Cortex: fNIRS and fMRI Evidence From Infants	7
Corrigendum: Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn	7
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions	7
Perception, Action, and Intrinsic Motivation in Infants’ Motor-Skill Development	7
The Missing Side of Acculturation: How Majority-Group Members Relate to Immigrant and Minority-Group Cultures	7
Active Learning in Language Development	7
Back to Basics: The Importance of Conceptual Clarification in Psychological Science	7
Assessing Attention in Category Learning by Animals	7
Cognitive Blame Is Socially Shaped	6
Credibility Beyond Replicability: Improving the Four Validities in Psychological Science	6
The Structure of Systematicity in the Brain	6
How Can We Characterize Human Generalization and Distinguish It From Generalization in Machines?	6
Successive Relearning: An Underexplored but Potent Technique for Obtaining and Maintaining Knowledge	6
The Psychology of Erectile Dysfunction	6
The New Reality: Non-Eyewitness Identifications in a Surveillance World	6
Population-Level Administrative Data: A Resource to Advance Psychological Science	6
Preventing the Onset of Depressive Disorders: State of the Art and Future Directions	6
Maximizing the Potential of Digital Games for Understanding Skill Acquisition	6
Casting a Wider Net: Using Automated Content Analysis to Discover New Ideas	6
Exceptional Abilities in Autism: Theories and Open Questions	5
Cultural Evolutionary Mismatches in Response to Collective Threat	5
Corrigendum: Book Language and Its Implications for Children’s Language, Literacy, and Development	5
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement From Parent-Child Interaction in Informal Learning Environments	5
Ancestral Diversity: A Socioecological Account of Emotion Culture	5
A Grand Challenge for Psychology: Reducing the Age-Related Digital Divide	5
Filial Piety Across Sociocultural Context and the Life Span	5
Gender Prototypes Shape Perceptions of and Responses to Sexual Harassment	5
Addressing Anti-Blackness in Education Through Psychological Approaches to Racial and Radical Healing	5
The Moral Psychology of Artificial Intelligence	5
Translating Thoughts Into Action: Optimizing Motor Performance and Learning Through Brief Motivational and Attentional Influences	5
Pivoting: Responding to the Mental Health Needs of Youth of Color With Technology	5
Cognitive Modeling With Representations From Large-Scale Digital Data	5
Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes	5
Models of Identity Signaling	5
Understanding Trajectories to Anxiety and Depression: Neural Responses to Errors and Rewards as Indices of Susceptibility to Stressful Life Events	5
Chasing Unknown Bandits: Uncertainty Guidance in Learning and Decision Making	5
Merging in Close Relationships	5
Insights Into Human and Nonhuman Primate Handedness From Measuring Both Hands	5
A New Frame on Emotion Regulation in Aging: The Adaptive Positive Tactic Shift	5
Neuroticism and Disorders of Emotion: A New Synthesis	5
The Emergency of Prosociality: A Developmental Perspective on Altruism and Other Prosocial Behavior in the Face of Disaster	5