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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn	123
The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children’s Development	98
The Major Health Implications of Social Connection	92
Developmental Variability and Developmental Cascades: Lessons From Motor and Language Development in Infancy	75
Attention Control: A Cornerstone of Higher-Order Cognition	67
The Vicious Cycle Linking Stereotypes and Social Roles	66
Back to Basics: The Importance of Conceptual Clarification in Psychological Science	66
A Developmental-Science Perspective on Social Inequality	64
Why Facts Are Not Enough: Understanding and Managing the Motivated Rejection of Science	61
Progress in Joint-Action Research	61
Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and Potential	60
Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model	57
Influences of Caregiving on Development: A Sensitive Period for Biological Embedding of Predictability and Safety Cues	53
Drinking Together and Drinking Alone: A Social-Contextual Framework for Examining Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder	52
Taking Skills Seriously: Toward an Integrative Model and Agenda for Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills	51
Neuroticism and Disorders of Emotion: A New Synthesis	49
Pornography Use and Psychological Science: A Call for Consideration	49
Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes	47
The Missing Side of Acculturation: How Majority-Group Members Relate to Immigrant and Minority-Group Cultures	46
Mindfulness and Motivation: A Process View Using Self-Determination Theory	43
A Transdiagnostic Perspective on Youth Irritability	41
Vitamin S: Why Is Social Contact, Even With Strangers, So Important to Well-Being?	40
Personality Change Through Digital-Coaching Interventions	40
Shared Reality: From Sharing-Is-Believing to Merging Minds	39
A Grand Challenge for Psychology: Reducing the Age-Related Digital Divide	38

Decomposing the Motivation to Exert Mental Effort	36
Learning by Drawing Visual Representations: Potential, Purposes, and Practical Implications	34
From Stress to Depression: Bringing Together Cognitive and Biological Science	33
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens	32
Forms and Functions of the Social Emotions	31
Concepts for Which We Need Others More: The Case of Abstract Concepts	31
Agency Through the We: Group-Based Control Theory	30
Robots as Mirrors of the Human Mind	30
Why Empathy Is Not a Reliable Source of Information in Moral Decision Making	30
Beyond Stereotypes: Using Socioemotional Selectivity Theory to Improve Messaging to Older Adults	29
Moral-Exemplar Intervention: A New Paradigm for Conflict Resolution and Intergroup Reconciliation	29
Credibility Beyond Replicability: Improving the Four Validities in Psychological Science	29
Mapping the Imaginative Mind: Charting New Paths Forward	28
Rethinking the Diagnosis of Mental Disorders: Data-Driven Psychological Dimensions, Not Categories, as a Framework for Mental-Health Research, Treatment, and Training	27
The Profound Heterogeneity of Substance Use Disorders: Implications for Treatment Development	27
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	26
Similarity of Computations Across Domains Does Not Imply Shared Implementation: The Case of Language Comprehension	26
Book Language and Its Implications for Children’s Language, Literacy, and Development	25
Do Rating and Task Measures of Control Abilities Assess the Same Thing?	24
Individual Differences in the Intensity and Consistency of Attention	23
Toward a Comparative Approach to Language Acquisition	23
Cultural Evolutionary Mismatches in Response to Collective Threat	22
Emotion as Information in Early Social Learning	22
Successive Relearning: An Underexplored but Potent Technique for Obtaining and Maintaining Knowledge	20
Secret Agents of Influence: Leveraging Social Norms for Good	20
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	19
When Ignoring Negative Feedback Is Functional: Presenting a Model of Motivated Feedback Disengagement	19
Field Experiments on Social Media	19
The Physical Context of Child Development	18
The Scams Among Us: Who Falls Prey and Why	17
The Slow Development of Real-Time Processing: Spoken-Word Recognition as a Crucible for New Thinking About Language Acquisition and Language Disorders	17
Understanding Trajectories to Anxiety and Depression: Neural Responses to Errors and Rewards as Indices of Susceptibility to Stressful Life Events	17
Cognition and Emotion in Extreme Political Action: Individual Differences and Dynamic Interactions	17
Guiding the Emotion in Emotional Memories: The Role of the Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex	16
A Scripted Sexuality: Media, Gendered Sexual Scripts, and Their Impact on Our Lives	15
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	15
The Privacy Mismatch: Evolved Intuitions in a Digital World	15
Water From the Lake of Memory: The Regulatory Model of Nostalgia	15
Children’s Reputation Management: Learning to Identify What Is Socially Valued and Acting Upon It	15
Ten Lessons About Infants’ Everyday Experiences	15
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	14
15 Years of Parental Burnout Research: Systematic Review and Agenda	14
How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?	14
Whither Inhibition?	14
Translating Thoughts Into Action: Optimizing Motor Performance and Learning Through Brief Motivational and Attentional Influences	14
Fundamental Motives Illuminate a Broad Range of Individual and Cultural Variations in Thought and Behavior	14
Toward a “Standard Model” of Early Language Learning	14
The Nature and Nurture of Callous-Unemotional Traits	14
Psychological Measurement in the Information Age: Machine-Learned Computational Models	14
Life Detection From Biological Motion	13

The Critical Role of Semantic Working Memory in Language Comprehension and Production	13
The Perceptual Magic of Binocular Rivalry	13
How Can Cognitive-Science Research Help Improve Education? The Case of Comparing Multiple Strategies to Improve Mathematics Learning and Teaching	13
Learning About the World by Learning About Images	13
The Structure of Systematicity in the Brain	13
Examining the Role of General Cognitive Skills in Language Processing: A Window Into Complex Cognition	13
Self-Control at 220 Miles per Hour: Steering and Braking to Achieve Optimal Outcomes During Adolescence	13
From Objects to Unified Minds	12
COVID-19 Prevention via the Science of Habit Formation	12
Market Cognition: How Exchange Norms Alter Social Experience	12
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	12
Integrating Insights About Human Movement Patterns From Digital Data Into Psychological Science	12
Primate Vocal Communication and the Evolution of Speech	12
Transdiagnostic Approaches to Sexual- and Gender-Minority Mental Health	12
The Psychological Reach of Culture in Animals’ Lives	12
Exceptional Abilities in Autism: Theories and Open Questions	11
What Your Nose Knows: Affective, Cognitive, and Behavioral Responses to the Scent of Another Person	11
Gender Prototypes Shape Perceptions of and Responses to Sexual Harassment	11
Cognitive Modeling With Representations From Large-Scale Digital Data	11
Life-Span Learning and Development and Its Implications for Workplace Training	11
Theories of Context Effects in Multialternative, Multiattribute Choice	11
Reconciling Loss Aversion and Gain Seeking in Judged Emotions	11
The Emotional Rewards of Prosocial Spending Are Robust and Replicable in Large Samples	11
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	11
It Takes All Kinds (of Information) to Learn a Language: Investigating the Language Comprehension of Typical Children and Children With Autism	11
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	10
Historical Psychology	10
The Double-Edged Sword of Loyalty	10
The Predictive Brain Must Have a Limitation in Short-Term Memory Capacity	10
Does Stigma Moderate the Efficacy of Mental- and Behavioral-Health Interventions? Examining Individual and Contextual Sources of Treatment-Effect Heterogeneity	9
Social Psychological Research on Racism and the Importance of Historical Context: Implications for Policy	9
A Competitiveness-Based Theoretical Framework on the Psychology of Income Inequality	9
Cognitive Blame Is Socially Shaped	9
Insights Into Human and Nonhuman Primate Handedness From Measuring Both Hands	9
A Motivational Perspective on the Development of Social Essentialism	9
Daylong Mobile Audio Recordings Reveal Multitimescale Dynamics in Infants’ Vocal Productions and Auditory Experiences	9
Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence	9
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	9
Behavioral and Physiological Evidence Challenges the Automatic Acquisition of Evaluations	8
Embodied and Embedded Learning: Child, Caregiver, and Context	8
Implementing Evidence-Based Mental-Health Treatments: Attending to Training, Fidelity, Adaptation, and Context	8
The Emergency of Prosociality: A Developmental Perspective on Altruism and Other Prosocial Behavior in the Face of Disaster	8
Evidence and Implications From a Natural Experiment of Prenatal Androgen Effects on Gendered Behavior	8
Beyond Cause: The Development of Clockwork Cognition	7
Interdependence of Emotion: Conceptualization, Evidence, and Social Implications From Cultural Psychology	7
The Call of the Wild: How Extremism Happens	7
Three Perceptual Tools for Seeing and Understanding Visualized Data	7
Let Me Choose: The Role of Choice in the Development of Executive Function Skills	7
The Impacts of Anxiety and Motivation on Spatial Performance: Implications for Gender Differences in Mental Rotation and Navigation	7
The Fetal Origins of Human Psychological Development	7
Humans’ Bias Blind Spot and Its Societal Significance	6
The Psychology of Erectile Dysfunction	6
An Introduction to Ecological Active Learning	6
Maximizing the Potential of Digital Games for Understanding Skill Acquisition	6
Toward a Holistic Approach to Reducing Academic Procrastination With Classroom Interventions	6
Inhibitory Control of Information in Memory Across Domains	6
Digital Life Data in the Clinical Whitespace	6
Perception, Action, and Intrinsic Motivation in Infants’ Motor-Skill Development	6