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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	131
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	111
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	109
Positive Affect Dynamics	80
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	75
Music, Memory, and Imagination	72
Historical Psychology	67
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	56
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	54
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	53
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	47
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	47
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	46
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	40
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	37
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	33
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	31
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	30
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	30
Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Schizophrenia and the Psychosis Continuum: Integrating New Insights	29
Motivated Egalitarianism	29
An Integrated Immuno-Reward Model of Adolescent Depression: Theory, Evidence, and Implications	28
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	28
The New Psychology of Secrecy	27
Acknowledgment	27

Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as a Pathway to Social Integration	26
The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	26
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	26
Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions	24
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	24
Parenting by Lying	23
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	23
Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model	23
Agency Through the We: Group-Based Control Theory	23
Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes	22
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	22
The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context	22
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	22
Lessons for the Next Pandemic: What Children Taught Us About Navigating New Social Norms During COVID-19	22
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	21
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	21
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	20
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	19
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	19
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	19
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	19
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	19
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	19
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	19
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	18
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	18
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	18
Consequences of Bilingual Language Coactivation for Higher Order Cognition	18
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	18
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
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	16
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	16
Ecospirituality	16
Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain	16
The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology	15
Dimensions of Stereotypes About Groups	15
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	15
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	15
Abnormalities in Attention and Working Memory in Schizophrenia: The Hyperfocusing Hypothesis	14
Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence	14
Self-Derivation Through Memory Integration: A Mechanism for Building Semantic Memory	13
Intergroup Leadership: The Challenge of Successfully Leading Fractured Groups and Societies	13
Humans’ Bias Blind Spot and Its Societal Significance	13
Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and Potential	13
How Does Religion Deter Adolescent Risk Behavior?	13
Signatures of Reinforcement Learning in Natural Behavior	13
Porosity Is the Heart of Religion	12
Secret Agents of Influence: Leveraging Social Norms for Good	12
Cognitive Inertia: Cyclical Interactions Between Attention and Memory Shape Learning	12

The Impacts of Anxiety and Motivation on Spatial Performance: Implications for Gender Differences in Mental Rotation and Navigation	12
Abstract Cognitive Maps for Complex Social Systems	12
Hidden Reward: Affect and Its Prediction Errors as Windows Into Subjective Value	12
What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition?	12
Toward a “Standard Model” of Early Language Learning	11
There Are Multiple Paths to Personalized Education, and They Should Be Combined	11
Deepfakes: Vehicles for Radicalization, Not Persuasion	11
Philosophy of Perception in the Psychologist’s Laboratory	11
The Development of Human Cortical Scene Processing	10
A Scripted Sexuality: Media, Gendered Sexual Scripts, and Their Impact on Our Lives	10
Does Too Much Closeness Dampen Desire? On the Balance of Closeness and Otherness for the Maintenance of Sexual Desire in Romantic Relationships	10
The Role of Phenomenological Control in Experience	10
Delusions as Epistemic Hypervigilance	10
Developing Effective Interventions for Math Anxiety	10
Parent-Focused Interventions to Support Children’s Early Math Learning	10
The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social Relationships	9
Event Segmentation Interventions Improve Memory for Naturalistic Events	9
Emotional Disclosure and Social Judgment	9
Habits, Goals, and Effective Behavior Change	9
Lie Detection: What Works?	9
Explanation Is Effective Because It Is Selective	9
Hyper-Binding: Older Adults Form Too Many Associations, Not Too Few	9
Corrigendum to “Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions”	9
The Role of Real-World Statistical Regularities in Visual Perception	9
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
Theories of Context Effects in Multialternative, Multiattribute Choice	8
Intuitive Theories and the Cultural Evolution of Morality	8
Identifying Objects and Remembering Images: Insights From Deep Neural Networks	8
How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?	8
Covid-19 Pandemic as a Natural Experiment: The Case of Home Advantage in Sports	8
Origins of Face Responses in the Human Cortex: fNIRS and fMRI Evidence From Infants	8
Corrigendum: Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn	8
Response Durations: A Flexible, No-Cost Tool for Psychological Science	8
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions	7
Integrating Insights About Human Movement Patterns From Digital Data Into Psychological Science	7
How Can We Characterize Human Generalization and Distinguish It From Generalization in Machines?	7
Population-Level Administrative Data: A Resource to Advance Psychological Science	7
Maximizing the Potential of Digital Games for Understanding Skill Acquisition	7
Back to Basics: The Importance of Conceptual Clarification in Psychological Science	7
Preventing the Onset of Depressive Disorders: State of the Art and Future Directions	7
Cognitive Blame Is Socially Shaped	7
Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes	6
Credibility Beyond Replicability: Improving the Four Validities in Psychological Science	6
Casting a Wider Net: Using Automated Content Analysis to Discover New Ideas	6
Filial Piety Across Sociocultural Context and the Life Span	6
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement From Parent-Child Interaction in Informal Learning Environments	6
A Grand Challenge for Psychology: Reducing the Age-Related Digital Divide	6
The Emergency of Prosociality: A Developmental Perspective on Altruism and Other Prosocial Behavior in the Face of Disaster	6
The Psychology of Erectile Dysfunction	6
Exceptional Abilities in Autism: Theories and Open Questions	6
A New Frame on Emotion Regulation in Aging: The Adaptive Positive Tactic Shift	6
Understanding Trajectories to Anxiety and Depression: Neural Responses to Errors and Rewards as Indices of Susceptibility to Stressful Life Events	6
Successive Relearning: An Underexplored but Potent Technique for Obtaining and Maintaining Knowledge	6
The New Reality: Non-Eyewitness Identifications in a Surveillance World	6
The Structure of Systematicity in the Brain	6
Models of Identity Signaling	6