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Papers

(The H4-Index of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 41. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	279
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	262
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	220
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	128
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	104
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities	94
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	88
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	88
Psychological Selfishness	84
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge	83
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	81
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations	81
Significance-Quest Theory	80
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	77
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	75
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	75
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	74
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	74
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	73
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	73
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	69
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	67
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change	65
The Number of Senders and Total Judgments Matter More Than Sample Size in Deception-Detection Experiments	65
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	64

Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	63
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	59
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	59
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	56
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	55
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	51
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	50
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	50
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	49
Toward a Psychology of Consent	49
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	47
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution	46
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach	46
Critique of the Bias-of-Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model: Reply to Connor and Evers (2020)	45
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	43
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It	42
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology	41