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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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	144
Psychological Momentum	118
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	106
Let Me Choose: The Role of Choice in the Development of Executive Function Skills	85
The Psychology of Poverty: Current and Future Directions	83
Reconciling Loss Aversion and Gain Seeking in Judged Emotions	76
A Competitiveness-Based Theoretical Framework on the Psychology of Income Inequality	75
Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of “AI”	68
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Underlying Role of Diminished Access to Internal States	56
Models of Identity Signaling	56
Lie Detection: What Works?	55
Ten Lessons About Infants’ Everyday Experiences	53
Emotion as Information in Early Social Learning	52
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	46
The Development of Values in Middle Childhood: Five Maturation Criteria	46
Historical Psychology	45
From Objects to Unified Minds	45
The Development of Communication Across Timescales	44
How Can Deep Neural Networks Inform Theory in Psychological Science?	43
Gender Prototypes Shape Perceptions of and Responses to Sexual Harassment	42
Neuroticism and Disorders of Emotion: A New Synthesis	37
The Scams Among Us: Who Falls Prey and Why	36
Popular Psychology Through a Scientific Lens: Evaluating Love Languages From a Relationship Science Perspective	36
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	36
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	34

The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social Relationships	34
Ancestral Diversity: A Socioecological Account of Emotion Culture	32
Debunking Three Myths About Misinformation	31
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	31
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	30
Understanding Trajectories to Anxiety and Depression: Neural Responses to Errors and Rewards as Indices of Susceptibility to Stressful Life Events	29
The Role of Real-World Statistical Regularities in Visual Perception	28
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	28
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Engagement From Parent-Child Interaction in Informal Learning Environments	27
Anxiety and Mentalizing: Uncertainty as a Driver of Egocentrism	25
Moral-Exemplar Intervention: A New Paradigm for Conflict Resolution and Intergroup Reconciliation	24
Cognitive Modeling With Representations From Large-Scale Digital Data	24
Explanation Is Effective Because It Is Selective	23
Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes	23
A Grand Challenge for Psychology: Reducing the Age-Related Digital Divide	22
The Predictive Brain Must Have a Limitation in Short-Term Memory Capacity	22
Color Semantics in Human Cognition	22
Embedding Cognition: Judgment and Choice in an Interdependent and Dynamic World	21
Music, Memory, and Imagination	21
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	19
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	19
Decomposing the Motivation to Exert Mental Effort	19
Constructing Craving: Applying the Theory of Constructed Emotion to Urge States	19
Filial Piety Across Sociocultural Context and the Life Span	18
Covid-19 Pandemic as a Natural Experiment: The Case of Home Advantage in Sports	17
Self-Control at 220 Miles per Hour: Steering and Braking to Achieve Optimal Outcomes During Adolescence	17
Addressing Anti-Blackness in Education Through Psychological Approaches to Racial and Radical Healing	17
Fundamental Motives Illuminate a Broad Range of Individual and Cultural Variations in Thought and Behavior	17
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	16
Placebos and Movies: What Do They Have in Common?	16
The Nature and Nurture of Callous-Unemotional Traits	16
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	15
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	15
Influences of Caregiving on Development: A Sensitive Period for Biological Embedding of Predictability and Safety Cues	15
Chasing Unknown Bandits: Uncertainty Guidance in Learning and Decision Making	15
Ten Things You Should Know About Sign Languages	15
Personality Change Through Digital-Coaching Interventions	15
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	15
Rethinking the Diagnosis of Mental Disorders: Data-Driven Psychological Dimensions, Not Categories, as a Framework for Mental-Health Research, Treatment, and Training	15
Response Durations: A Flexible, No-Cost Tool for Psychological Science	14
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	14
Impacts of Learning One’s Own Genetic Susceptibility to Mental Disorders	14
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	14
Water From the Lake of Memory: The Regulatory Model of Nostalgia	14
Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain	14
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	14
The Inequality Cycle: How Psychology Helps Keep Economic Inequality in Place	14
Cultural Evolutionary Mismatches in Response to Collective Threat	14
Cognition and Emotion in Extreme Political Action: Individual Differences and Dynamic Interactions	13
The Moral Psychology of Artificial Intelligence	13

Psychological Measurement in the Information Age: Machine-Learned Computational Models	13
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	13
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	13
Theories of Context Effects in Multialternative, Multiattribute Choice	12
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	12
Learning About the World by Learning About Images	12
From Semantic Vectors to Analogical Mapping	12
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	12
Intuitive Theories and the Cultural Evolution of Morality	12
Emotional Disclosure and Social Judgment	12
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	11
How Do LGBTQ+ Parents Raise Well-Adjusted, Resilient, and Thriving Children?	11
Beyond Stereotypes: Using Socioemotional Selectivity Theory to Improve Messaging to Older Adults	11
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	11
Corrigendum: Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn	11
Developmental Variability and Developmental Cascades: Lessons From Motor and Language Development in Infancy	11
Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence	11
Embodied and Embedded Learning: Child, Caregiver, and Context	10
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens	10
Why Recurrent Depression Should Be Reconceptualized and Redefined	10
Do Rating and Task Measures of Control Abilities Assess the Same Thing?	9
Corrigendum: Book Language and Its Implications for Children’s Language, Literacy, and Development	9
Identifying Objects and Remembering Images: Insights From Deep Neural Networks	9
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	9
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	8
Interdependence of Emotion: Conceptualization, Evidence, and Social Implications From Cultural Psychology	8
The Critical Role of Semantic Working Memory in Language Comprehension and Production	8
Insights Into Human and Nonhuman Primate Handedness From Measuring Both Hands	8
Brain Reward Circuits Promote Stress Resilience and Health: Implications for Reward-Based Interventions	8
Social Psychological Research on Racism and the Importance of Historical Context: Implications for Policy	8
Pivoting: Responding to the Mental Health Needs of Youth of Color With Technology	7
A Prosociality Paradox: How Miscalibrated Social Cognition Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Prosocial Action	7
Motivated Egalitarianism	7
Active Learning in Language Development	7
Forms and Functions of the Social Emotions	7
The Fetal Origins of Human Psychological Development	7
Individual Differences in the Intensity and Consistency of Attention	7
What Can Conjuring Tell Us About Cognition? The Future of the Science of Magic	7
The Slow Development of Real-Time Processing: Spoken-Word Recognition as a Crucible for New Thinking About Language Acquisition and Language Disorders	7
Translating Thoughts Into Action: Optimizing Motor Performance and Learning Through Brief Motivational and Attentional Influences	7
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	7
An Introduction to Ecological Active Learning	7
Parenting by Lying	6
Semantic Space Theory: Data-Driven Insights Into Basic Emotions	6
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	6
The Psychological Reach of Culture in Animals’ Lives	6
Fostering Executive-Function Skills and Promoting Far Transfer to Real-World Outcomes: The Importance of Life Skills and Civic Science	6
Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn	6
How Does Religion Deter Adolescent Risk Behavior?	6
Semantic Prosody: How Neutral Words With Collocational Positivity/Negativity Color Evaluative Judgments	6
Self-Derivation Through Memory Integration: A Mechanism for Building Semantic Memory	5
Pride-and-Prejudice Perspectives of Marginalization Can Advance Science and Society	5
Ovarian Hormones and Binge Eating in Adulthood: Summary of Findings and Implications for Individual Differences in Risk in Women	5
Book Language and Its Implications for Children’s Language, Literacy, and Development	5
Similarity of Computations Across Domains Does Not Imply Shared Implementation: The Case of Language Comprehension	5
The New Psychology of Secrecy	5
Three Perceptual Tools for Seeing and Understanding Visualized Data	5
Agency Through the We: Group-Based Control Theory	5
Perception, Action, and Intrinsic Motivation in Infants’ Motor-Skill Development	5
Evidence and Implications From a Natural Experiment of Prenatal Androgen Effects on Gendered Behavior	5
Rethinking Attentional Habits	5
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	5
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	5
Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and Potential	5
Effect Size Magnification: No Variable Is as Important as the One You’re Thinking About—While You’re Thinking About It	5