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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Music, Memory, and Imagination	168
Historical Psychology	123
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	105
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	92
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	92
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	89
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	81
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	63
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	63
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	62
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	59
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	59
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	55
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	55
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	50
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	48
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	47
Beyond Stereotypes: Using Socioemotional Selectivity Theory to Improve Messaging to Older Adults	47
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	45
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	42
Motivated Egalitarianism	41
Forms and Functions of the Social Emotions	40
Parenting by Lying	38
The New Psychology of Secrecy	37
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	35

Acknowledgment	34
The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	33
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	33
Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions	32
Agency Through the We: Group-Based Control Theory	31
Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model	30
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	29
Lessons for the Next Pandemic: What Children Taught Us About Navigating New Social Norms During COVID-19	28
The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context	27
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	25
Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes	25
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	23
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	23
The Major Health Implications of Social Connection	23
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	23
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	22
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	22
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	21
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	21
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	21
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	21
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	20
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	19
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	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
The Development of Communication Across Timescales	18
Moral-Exemplar Intervention: A New Paradigm for Conflict Resolution and Intergroup Reconciliation	18
Ecospirituality	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
Placebos and Movies: What Do They Have in Common?	17
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	17
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	17
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	17
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	16
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	16
The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology	16
Influences of Caregiving on Development: A Sensitive Period for Biological Embedding of Predictability and Safety Cues	16
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	16
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	16
Self-Derivation Through Memory Integration: A Mechanism for Building Semantic Memory	15
Abnormalities in Attention and Working Memory in Schizophrenia: The Hyperfocusing Hypothesis	15
Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence	15
Intergroup Leadership: The Challenge of Successfully Leading Fractured Groups and Societies	15
Secret Agents of Influence: Leveraging Social Norms for Good	14
The Impacts of Anxiety and Motivation on Spatial Performance: Implications for Gender Differences in Mental Rotation and Navigation	14
The Profound Heterogeneity of Substance Use Disorders: Implications for Treatment Development	14
Cognitive Inertia: Cyclical Interactions Between Attention and Memory Shape Learning	14
Porosity Is the Heart of Religion	14

Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and Potential	14
Humans’ Bias Blind Spot and Its Societal Significance	14
Toward a “Standard Model” of Early Language Learning	14
How Does Religion Deter Adolescent Risk Behavior?	14
What Can Language Models Tell Us About Human Cognition?	13
There Are Multiple Paths to Personalized Education, and They Should Be Combined	13
Deepfakes: Vehicles for Radicalization, Not Persuasion	13
Hidden Reward: Affect and Its Prediction Errors as Windows Into Subjective Value	13
The Development of Human Cortical Scene Processing	13
Philosophy of Perception in the Psychologist’s Laboratory	12
A Scripted Sexuality: Media, Gendered Sexual Scripts, and Their Impact on Our Lives	12
Developing Effective Interventions for Math Anxiety	12
Hyper-Binding: Older Adults Form Too Many Associations, Not Too Few	11
Habits, Goals, and Effective Behavior Change	11
The Role of Phenomenological Control in Experience	11
Does Too Much Closeness Dampen Desire? On the Balance of Closeness and Otherness for the Maintenance of Sexual Desire in Romantic Relationships	10
The Predictive Brain Must Have a Limitation in Short-Term Memory Capacity	10
The Role of Real-World Statistical Regularities in Visual Perception	10
The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social Relationships	10
Parent-Focused Interventions to Support Children’s Early Math Learning	10
Delusions as Epistemic Hypervigilance	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
How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?	9
Explanation Is Effective Because It Is Selective	9
Emotional Disclosure and Social Judgment	9
Theories of Context Effects in Multialternative, Multiattribute Choice	9
Lie Detection: What Works?	9
Response Durations: A Flexible, No-Cost Tool for Psychological Science	9
Origins of Face Responses in the Human Cortex: fNIRS and fMRI Evidence From Infants	8
Active Learning in Language Development	8
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions	8
Evidence and Implications From a Natural Experiment of Prenatal Androgen Effects on Gendered Behavior	8
Corrigendum: Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn	8
Assessing Attention in Category Learning by Animals	8
Developmental Variability and Developmental Cascades: Lessons From Motor and Language Development in Infancy	8
Identifying Objects and Remembering Images: Insights From Deep Neural Networks	8
Market Cognition: How Exchange Norms Alter Social Experience	7
Population-Level Administrative Data: A Resource to Advance Psychological Science	7
Integrating Insights About Human Movement Patterns From Digital Data Into Psychological Science	7
Back to Basics: The Importance of Conceptual Clarification in Psychological Science	7
Perception, Action, and Intrinsic Motivation in Infants’ Motor-Skill Development	7
Successive Relearning: An Underexplored but Potent Technique for Obtaining and Maintaining Knowledge	7
Fostering Executive-Function Skills and Promoting Far Transfer to Real-World Outcomes: The Importance of Life Skills and Civic Science	7
The Missing Side of Acculturation: How Majority-Group Members Relate to Immigrant and Minority-Group Cultures	7
Preventing the Onset of Depressive Disorders: State of the Art and Future Directions	7
The Psychology of Erectile Dysfunction	6
Cognitive Blame Is Socially Shaped	6
Children’s Reputation Management: Learning to Identify What Is Socially Valued and Acting Upon It	6
Maximizing the Potential of Digital Games for Understanding Skill Acquisition	6
Credibility Beyond Replicability: Improving the Four Validities in Psychological Science	6
The Structure of Systematicity in the Brain	5
The Emergency of Prosociality: A Developmental Perspective on Altruism and Other Prosocial Behavior in the Face of Disaster	5
Models of Identity Signaling	5
Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes	5
Chasing Unknown Bandits: Uncertainty Guidance in Learning and Decision Making	5
Cognitive Modeling With Representations From Large-Scale Digital Data	5
Neuroticism and Disorders of Emotion: A New Synthesis	5
Filial Piety Across Sociocultural Context and the Life Span	5
The New Reality: Non-Eyewitness Identifications in a Surveillance World	5
Understanding Trajectories to Anxiety and Depression: Neural Responses to Errors and Rewards as Indices of Susceptibility to Stressful Life Events	5
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement From Parent-Child Interaction in Informal Learning Environments	5
Cultural Evolutionary Mismatches in Response to Collective Threat	5
Merging in Close Relationships	5
A Grand Challenge for Psychology: Reducing the Age-Related Digital Divide	5
Casting a Wider Net: Using Automated Content Analysis to Discover New Ideas	5
The Double-Edged Sword of Loyalty	5
Ancestral Diversity: A Socioecological Account of Emotion Culture	5
Exceptional Abilities in Autism: Theories and Open Questions	5
Cognition and Emotion in Extreme Political Action: Individual Differences and Dynamic Interactions	5
Addressing Anti-Blackness in Education Through Psychological Approaches to Racial and Radical Healing	5
Gender Prototypes Shape Perceptions of and Responses to Sexual Harassment	5