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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Positive Affect Dynamics	139
Toward Complementary Intelligence: Integrating Cognitive and Machine AI	116
Facing Ambiguity: What We Do in the Space Between Stimulus and Response	101
Metacognition and Uncertainty Communication in Humans and Large Language Models	83
Music, Memory, and Imagination	68
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	62
Historical Psychology	54
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	49
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	43
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	42
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	40
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	40
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	36
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	36
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	36
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	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	34
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	32
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	31
Motivated Egalitarianism	30
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	30
Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Schizophrenia and the Psychosis Continuum: Integrating New Insights	29
Parenting by Lying	29
Crossing Boundaries: A Culture-First Approach to Studying Early Learning	29

Dyadic Decisions About Effort: How Caregivers Shape Young Children’s Persistence	29
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
An Integrated Immuno-Reward Model of Adolescent Depression: Theory, Evidence, and Implications	25
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	24
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	24
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	24
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	24
The New Psychology of Secrecy	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
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	22
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	21
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	21
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	20
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	20
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	20
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	20
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	20
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	19
Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution	19
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	18
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	18
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
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	17
Consequences of Bilingual Language Coactivation for Higher Order Cognition	16
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	15
Generative Behaviors as Key Targets for Cognitive Models	15
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	15
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	15
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	15
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	15
Ecospirituality	15
Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain	15
Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence	14
How Does Religion Deter Adolescent Risk Behavior?	14
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	14
Intergroup Leadership: The Challenge of Successfully Leading Fractured Groups and Societies	14
The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology	14
Dimensions of Stereotypes About Groups	14
Collective Memory Is More Than What We Remember: Quantifying Interconnections	13
Secret Agents of Influence: Leveraging Social Norms for Good	13
Abnormalities in Attention and Working Memory in Schizophrenia: The Hyperfocusing Hypothesis	13
Signatures of Reinforcement Learning in Natural Behavior	13
The Impacts of Anxiety and Motivation on Spatial Performance: Implications for Gender Differences in Mental Rotation and Navigation	13
Self-Derivation Through Memory Integration: A Mechanism for Building Semantic Memory	13
What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition?	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
Abstract Cognitive Maps for Complex Social Systems	12
Porosity Is the Heart of Religion	12
Hidden Reward: Affect and Its Prediction Errors as Windows Into Subjective Value	12
Does Altruism Exist? Implications of Selective Investment Theory for Solving Social Problems	12
On Evaluating Abstraction and Analogy in Humans and Machines	11
Parent-Focused Interventions to Support Children’s Early Math Learning	11
Using Artificial Intelligence to Better Understand Human Intelligence	11
Developing Effective Interventions for Math Anxiety	11
Humans’ Bias Blind Spot and Its Societal Significance	11
The Development of Human Cortical Scene Processing	11
Deepfakes: Vehicles for Radicalization, Not Persuasion	11
Habits, Goals, and Effective Behavior Change	11
Hyper-Binding: Older Adults Form Too Many Associations, Not Too Few	11
Delusions as Epistemic Hypervigilance	11
Explanation Is Effective Because It Is Selective	10
Event Segmentation Interventions Improve Memory for Naturalistic Events	10
Does Too Much Closeness Dampen Desire? On the Balance of Closeness and Otherness for the Maintenance of Sexual Desire in Romantic Relationships	10
Corrigendum to “Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions”	10
A Scripted Sexuality: Media, Gendered Sexual Scripts, and Their Impact on Our Lives	10
Philosophy of Perception in the Psychologist’s Laboratory	10
The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social Relationships	10
The Role of Real-World Statistical Regularities in Visual Perception	10
The Role of Phenomenological Control in Experience	10
Intuitive Theories and the Cultural Evolution of Morality	9
Covid-19 Pandemic as a Natural Experiment: The Case of Home Advantage in Sports	9
Emotional Disclosure and Social Judgment	9
Response Durations: A Flexible, No-Cost Tool for Psychological Science	9
How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?	9
Lie Detection: What Works?	9
Theories of Context Effects in Multialternative, Multiattribute Choice	9
From a Baby’s Point of View: How Infants’ Face Diets Shape Their Face Perception	9
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions	8
Identifying Objects and Remembering Images: Insights From Deep Neural Networks	8
Fostering Executive-Function Skills and Promoting Far Transfer to Real-World Outcomes: The Importance of Life Skills and Civic Science	8
Active Learning in Language Development	8
Origins of Face Responses in the Human Cortex: fNIRS and fMRI Evidence From Infants	8
Population-Level Administrative Data: A Resource to Advance Psychological Science	7
Casting a Wider Net: Using Automated Content Analysis to Discover New Ideas	7
How Can We Characterize Human Generalization and Distinguish It From Generalization in Machines?	7
Successive Relearning: An Underexplored but Potent Technique for Obtaining and Maintaining Knowledge	7
Exceptional Abilities in Autism: Theories and Open Questions	7
Back to Basics: The Importance of Conceptual Clarification in Psychological Science	7
The Psychology of Erectile Dysfunction	7
Preventing the Onset of Depressive Disorders: State of the Art and Future Directions	7