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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	292
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	230
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	111
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities	110
Psychological Selfishness	101
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	99
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	94
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	89
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	88
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	86
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge	83
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations	82
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	82
Significance-Quest Theory	80
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	78
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	74
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	73
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	71
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	71
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	66
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	65
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	65
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	61
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	59
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	58

Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	57
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	57
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	54
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	54
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach	53
Toward a Psychology of Consent	53
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	50
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	48
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change	47
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	47
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	46
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	45
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	44
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution	42
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	41
Critique of the Bias-of-Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model: Reply to Connor and Evers (2020)	41