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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	276
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	253
Psychological Selfishness	212
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities	124
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	103
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	85
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	83
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	82
Significance-Quest Theory	81
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	81
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations	79
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	78
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	77
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge	74
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	71
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	71
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	71
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	71
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	70
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	69
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	68
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	65
The Number of Senders and Total Judgments Matter More Than Sample Size in Deception-Detection Experiments	62
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach	61
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change	60

The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	59
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	57
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	55
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	53
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	51
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	50
Toward a Psychology of Consent	48
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	48
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	47
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	45
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution	45
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	45
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	45
Critique of the Bias-of-Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model: Reply to Connor and Evers (2020)	43
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	41
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It	40