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Papers

(The H4-Index of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 42. 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
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	196
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	155
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	152
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	133
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	122
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	116
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	111
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	111
Socializing While Alone: Loss of Impact and Engagement When Interacting Remotely via Technology	110
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	110
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	105
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	102
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	102
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	98
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	94
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	90
People’s Responses to Nuclear Weapons: Mapping Post-Cold War Research	87
Why It May Be Useful to Integrate the Stereotype Content Model and the Interpersonal Perspective	76
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	76
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	71
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	68
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	66
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	64
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	64
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	62

Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	56
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	53
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	53
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	50
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	50
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	50
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	48
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	47
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	47
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology	46
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It	46
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition	45
Is Open Science Neoliberal?	45
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)	44
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence	42
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward	42
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories	42