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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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Aging in an Era of Fake News	145
Seed and Soil: Psychological Affordances in Contexts Help to Explain Where Wise Interventions Succeed or Fail	131
Cognitive-Load Theory: Methods to Manage Working Memory Load in the Learning of Complex Tasks	104
Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn	85
Beyond the Core-Deficit Hypothesis in Developmental Disorders	74
The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children’s Development	73
Developmental Variability and Developmental Cascades: Lessons From Motor and Language Development in Infancy	59
Attention Control: A Cornerstone of Higher-Order Cognition	57
Collective Narcissism and Its Social Consequences: The Bad and the Ugly	56
The Major Health Implications of Social Connection	55
A Developmental-Science Perspective on Social Inequality	50
Progress in Joint-Action Research	50
Toward a Science of Effective Cognitive Training	50
Why Facts Are Not Enough: Understanding and Managing the Motivated Rejection of Science	49
Understanding Desire for Food and Drink: A Grounded-Cognition Approach	47
Back to Basics: The Importance of Conceptual Clarification in Psychological Science	46
Do We Become More Prosocial as We Age, and if So, Why?	46
The Vicious Cycle Linking Stereotypes and Social Roles	43
Pornography Use and Psychological Science: A Call for Consideration	43
Toward an Integrative Model of Sources of Personality Stability and Change	42
Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model	42
Digital Emotion Regulation	42
Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and Potential	40
Drinking Together and Drinking Alone: A Social-Contextual Framework for Examining Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder	40
The Missing Side of Acculturation: How Majority-Group Members Relate to Immigrant and Minority-Group Cultures	39

Taking Skills Seriously: Toward an Integrative Model and Agenda for Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills	38
Foraging in Mind	38
Influences of Caregiving on Development: A Sensitive Period for Biological Embedding of Predictability and Safety Cues	35
Mindfulness and Motivation: A Process View Using Self-Determination Theory	33
A Transdiagnostic Perspective on Youth Irritability	33
Children’s Language Skills Can Be Improved: Lessons From Psychological Science for Educational Policy	32
Neuroticism and Disorders of Emotion: A New Synthesis	31
ABC Training: A New Theory-Based Form of Cognitive-Bias Modification to Foster Automatization of Alternative Choices in the Treatment of Addiction and Related Disorders	30
Reduced Memory Coherence for Negative Events and Its Relationship to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	30
The Situation of Situation Research: Knowns and Unknowns	30
Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes	30
Idiographic Traits: A Return to Allportian Approaches to Personality	30
Learning by Drawing Visual Representations: Potential, Purposes, and Practical Implications	29
Vitamin S: Why Is Social Contact, Even With Strangers, So Important to Well-Being?	29
Why Empathy Is Not a Reliable Source of Information in Moral Decision Making	29
Personality Change Through Digital-Coaching Interventions	29
Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside	28
Decomposing the Motivation to Exert Mental Effort	28
Learning to Read and Dyslexia: From Theory to Intervention Through Personalized Computational Models	28
Stress Reactivity: What Pushes Us Higher, Faster, and Longer—and Why It Matters	27
Decision-Making Competence: More Than Intelligence?	27
Forms and Functions of the Social Emotions	27
From Stress to Depression: Bringing Together Cognitive and Biological Science	26
Navigating Through the Experienced Environment: Insights From Mobile Eye Tracking	26
Beyond Stereotypes: Using Socioemotional Selectivity Theory to Improve Messaging to Older Adults	25
Shared Reality: From Sharing-Is-Believing to Merging Minds	24
Concepts for Which We Need Others More: The Case of Abstract Concepts	24
The Psychology of Intolerance: Unpacking Diverse Understandings of Intolerance	23
A Value-Based Framework for Understanding Cooperation	23
Probabilistic Biases Meet the Bayesian Brain	23
Emotion Goals in Psychopathology: A New Perspective on Dysfunctional Emotion Regulation	23
A Grand Challenge for Psychology: Reducing the Age-Related Digital Divide	23
The Profound Heterogeneity of Substance Use Disorders: Implications for Treatment Development	22
Robots as Mirrors of the Human Mind	22
Credibility Beyond Replicability: Improving the Four Validities in Psychological Science	22
Formal and Informal Supports for Managing Work and Family	22
Similarity of Computations Across Domains Does Not Imply Shared Implementation: The Case of Language Comprehension	21
Moral-Exemplar Intervention: A New Paradigm for Conflict Resolution and Intergroup Reconciliation	21
Cultural Evolutionary Mismatches in Response to Collective Threat	20
Rethinking the Diagnosis of Mental Disorders: Data-Driven Psychological Dimensions, Not Categories, as a Framework for Mental-Health Research, Treatment, and Training	20
Do Rating and Task Measures of Control Abilities Assess the Same Thing?	19
Social-Structure Learning	19
Regret and Decision-Making: A Developmental Perspective	18
Mapping the Imaginative Mind: Charting New Paths Forward	18
Emotion as Information in Early Social Learning	18
Feel Good or Do Good? A Valence–Function Framework for Understanding Emotions	17
Individual Differences in the Intensity and Consistency of Attention	17
Days of Future Past: Concerns for the Group’s Future Prompt Longing for Its Past (and Ways to Reclaim It)	16
The Dynamic-Processing Model of Working Memory	16
When Ignoring Negative Feedback Is Functional: Presenting a Model of Motivated Feedback Disengagement	16

Why Do Narcissists Care So Much About Intelligence?	16
Cognition and Emotion in Extreme Political Action: Individual Differences and Dynamic Interactions	16
Toward a Comparative Approach to Language Acquisition	16
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens	16
Step Out of Line: Modeling Nonlinear Effects and Dynamics in Close-Relationships Research	16
The Physical Context of Child Development	15
Who Comes to Mind? Dynamic Construction of Social Networks	15
Successive Relearning: An Underexplored but Potent Technique for Obtaining and Maintaining Knowledge	15
Water From the Lake of Memory: The Regulatory Model of Nostalgia	14
The Scams Among Us: Who Falls Prey and Why	14
Fundamental Motives Illuminate a Broad Range of Individual and Cultural Variations in Thought and Behavior	14
Secret Agents of Influence: Leveraging Social Norms for Good	14
Agency Through the We: Group-Based Control Theory	14
Understanding Trajectories to Anxiety and Depression: Neural Responses to Errors and Rewards as Indices of Susceptibility to Stressful Life Events	14
Developing an Individual Profile of Attentional Control Strategy	13
What We Could Learn About Holistic Face Processing Only From Nonface Objects	13
Children’s Reputation Management: Learning to Identify What Is Socially Valued and Acting Upon It	13
Field Experiments on Social Media	13
Guiding the Emotion in Emotional Memories: The Role of the Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex	12
Translating Thoughts Into Action: Optimizing Motor Performance and Learning Through Brief Motivational and Attentional Influences	12
The Slow Development of Real-Time Processing: Spoken-Word Recognition as a Crucible for New Thinking About Language Acquisition and Language Disorders	12
Book Language and Its Implications for Children’s Language, Literacy, and Development	12
Is There Inequality in What Adolescents Can Give as Well as Receive?	12
Learning About the World by Learning About Images	12
The Privacy Mismatch: Evolved Intuitions in a Digital World	12
Examining the Role of General Cognitive Skills in Language Processing: A Window Into Complex Cognition	12
Matters of the Heart: Grief, Morbidity, and Mortality	12
The Collaboration on Attachment Transmission Synthesis (CATS): A Move to the Level of Individual-Participant-Data Meta-Analysis	12
Transdiagnostic Approaches to Sexual- and Gender-Minority Mental Health	11
COVID-19 Prevention via the Science of Habit Formation	11
Psychological Measurement in the Information Age: Machine-Learned Computational Models	11
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	11
Neuroscience and the Social Origins of Moral Behavior: How Neural Underpinnings of Social Categorization and Conformity Affect Everyday Moral and Immoral Behavior	11
From Objects to Unified Minds	11
Cultural Dynamics for Sustainability: How Can Humanity Craft Cultures of Sustainability?	11
The Development of Working Memory	11
Toward an Understanding of the Development of Skilled Remembering: The Role of Teachers’ Instructional Language	10
The Psychological Reach of Culture in Animals’ Lives	10
Toward a “Standard Model” of Early Language Learning	10
Cognitive Ability in Everyday Life: The Utility of Open-Source Measures	10
Self-Control at 220 Miles per Hour: Steering and Braking to Achieve Optimal Outcomes During Adolescence	10
How Can Cognitive-Science Research Help Improve Education? The Case of Comparing Multiple Strategies to Improve Mathematics Learning and Teaching	10
What Your Nose Knows: Affective, Cognitive, and Behavioral Responses to the Scent of Another Person	10
Ten Lessons About Infants’ Everyday Experiences	10
The Structure of Systematicity in the Brain	10
Market Cognition: How Exchange Norms Alter Social Experience	9
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	9
The Predictive Brain Must Have a Limitation in Short-Term Memory Capacity	9
Integrating Insights About Human Movement Patterns From Digital Data Into Psychological Science	9
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	9
Psychological Mechanisms Forged by Cultural Evolution	9
Life-Span Learning and Development and Its Implications for Workplace Training	9
Primate Vocal Communication and the Evolution of Speech	9
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	9
The Perceptual Magic of Binocular Rivalry	8
The Nature and Nurture of Callous-Unemotional Traits	8
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	8
Whither Inhibition?	8
Cognitive Modeling With Representations From Large-Scale Digital Data	8
Reconciling Loss Aversion and Gain Seeking in Judged Emotions	8
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	8
Insights Into Human and Nonhuman Primate Handedness From Measuring Both Hands	8
It Takes All Kinds (of Information) to Learn a Language: Investigating the Language Comprehension of Typical Children and Children With Autism	8
Does Stigma Moderate the Efficacy of Mental- and Behavioral-Health Interventions? Examining Individual and Contextual Sources of Treatment-Effect Heterogeneity	7
How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?	7
Exceptional Abilities in Autism: Theories and Open Questions	7
Learning to Like or Dislike: Revealing Similarities and Differences Between Evaluative Learning Effects	7
A Competitiveness-Based Theoretical Framework on the Psychology of Income Inequality	7
Daylong Mobile Audio Recordings Reveal Multitimescale Dynamics in Infants’ Vocal Productions and Auditory Experiences	7
A Motivational Perspective on the Development of Social Essentialism	7