OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 40. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	301
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities	130
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge	115
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	109
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	103
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	93
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	91
Psychological Selfishness	90
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	87
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	87
Significance-Quest Theory	86
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	83
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	82
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	81
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	78
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	76
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	73
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	72
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	71
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	67
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	66
Why It May Be Useful to Integrate the Stereotype Content Model and the Interpersonal Perspective	62
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	58
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	58
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	57

Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	57
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	55
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change	55
Toward a Psychology of Consent	49
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach	48
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	47
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	45
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	44
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	43
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	42
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	42
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	42
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	41
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution	41
Corrigendum: Mystical and Other Alterations in Sense of Self: An Expanded Framework for Studying Nonordinary Experiences	40