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Papers

(The median citation count of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 11. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	207
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	158
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	152
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	144
Socializing While Alone: Loss of Impact and Engagement When Interacting Remotely via Technology	127
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	119
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	119
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	117
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	115
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	113
People’s Responses to Nuclear Weapons: Mapping Post-Cold War Research	112
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	110
Why It May Be Useful to Integrate the Stereotype Content Model and the Interpersonal Perspective	108
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	105
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	97
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	87
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	78
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	76
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	73
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	71
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	70
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	68
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	67
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	66
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	59

Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	54
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	53
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	53
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	49
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	48
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	48
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	47
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward	46
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology	46
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories	45
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence	45
Is Open Science Neoliberal?	45
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	44
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition	43
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict	41
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It	40
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)	40
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors	38
Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption	37
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors	36
Asking Better Questions: Strategic Questioning as a Psychologically Wise Intervention	36
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment	36
How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective	36
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk	36
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions	35
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization	34
The Myth of Normal Reading	34
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms	33
Social Psychology’s Empty-Self Metaphor and the Replication Crisis	33
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward	33
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research	33
Growing Technological Opacity and the Social Brain	32
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes	32
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia	32
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms	32
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice	32
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters	31
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine	31
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?	31
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention	31
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives	31
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza	30
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems	29
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication	29
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response	29
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces	29
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness	29
Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes	28
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health	28
Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning	28

Global Diversity of Authors, Editors, and Journal Ownership Across Subdisciplines of Psychology: Current State and Policy Implications	28
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence	28
Coping or Thriving? Reviewing Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Societal Factors Associated With Well-Being in Singlehood From a Within-Group Perspective	27
Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?	27
Metacognitive Feelings: A Predictive-Processing Perspective	27
Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise	26
Health Communication and Behavioral Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic	26
Accelerating Psychological Science With Metastudies: A Demonstration Using the Risky-Choice Framing Effect	26
Destigmatizing Borderline Personality Disorder: A Call to Action for Psychological Science	26
Presence Is Reality: Rethinking Virtual and Real-World Consciousness	26
Sliding Into Silence? We Are Speaking 300 Daily Words Fewer Every Year	25
The Costs of Polarizing a Pandemic: Antecedents, Consequences, and Lessons	25
Reframing the Performance and Ethics of Empathic AI: Wisdom of the Crowd and Placebos	25
From Voice to Self: An Integrative Framework on Self-Voice Processing	25
Toward an Integrative Approach to the Study of Positive-Affect-Related Aggression	25
Rule-ish Patterns in the Psychology of Norms	24
Toward Understanding of the Social Hysteresis: Insights From Agent-Based Modeling	24
Epistemic Oppression, Construct Validity, and Scientific Rigor: Commentary on Woo et al. (2022)	24
Building Human-Like Artificial Agents: A General Cognitive Algorithm for Emulating Human Decision-Making in Dynamic Environments	24
Multiple Memory Subsystems: Reconsidering Memory in the Mind and Brain	23
Lay Misperceptions of Culture as “Biological” and Suggestions for Reducing Them	23
Individual-Specific Animated Profiles of Mental Health	21
Diversity for Truth: Reply to Jussim, Stanovich, and Stroebe	21
Clarifying Eudaimonia and Psychological Functioning to Complement Evaluative and Experiential Well-Being: Why Basic Psychological Needs Should Be Measured in National Accounts of Well-Being	21
Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale	20
The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control	20
Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy	20
Incomparability and Incommensurability in Choice: No Common Currency of Value?	20
The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds	19
A Challenge to Orthodoxy in Psychology: Thomas Sowell and Social Justice	19
New Forms of Collaboration Between the Social and Natural Sciences Could Become Necessary for Understanding Rapid Collective Transitions in Social Systems	19
Reference-Point Theory: An Account of Individual Differences in Risk Preferences	19
Happiness Maximization Is a WEIRD Way of Living	18
Blinding to Circumvent Human Biases: Deliberate Ignorance in Humans, Institutions, and Machines	18
Advancing the Study of Resilience to Daily Stressors	18
Do COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Backfire? The Effects of Mandates, Vaccination Passports, and Financial Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination	18
A Role for Uncertainty in the Neural Distinction Between Social and Nonsocial Thought	18
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science and Ideology	18
Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic	17
Individuals, Collectives, and Individuals in Collectives: The Ineliminable Role of Dependence	17
Understanding Sensory-Motor Disorders in Autism Spectrum Disorders by Extending Hebbian Theory: Formation of a Rigid-Autonomous Phase Sequence	17
How Do Pandemic Policies and Communication Shape Intergroup Outcomes? Initial Findings From the COVID-19 Pandemic and Open Questions for Research and Policy	16
Managing Fear During Pandemics: Risks and Opportunities	16
How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact	16
Experimental Therapeutics: Opportunities and Challenges Stemming From the National Institute of Mental Health Workshop on Novel Target Discovery and Psychosocial Intervention Development	16
Why Warmth Matters More Than Competence: A New Evolutionary Approach	16
Rethinking Norm Psychology	15
Psychological AI: Designing Algorithms Informed by Human Psychology	15
Snapping Out of Autopilot: Overriding Habits in Real Time and the Role of Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex	15
How Social Media Algorithms Shape Offline Civic Participation: A Framework of Social-Psychological Processes	14
Bringing the Reading Sciences Into the Classroom: Insights for Phonics Instruction	14
Control Yourself: Broad Implications of Narrowed Attention	14
The Sins of the Parents Are to Be Laid Upon the Children: Biased Humans, Biased Data, Biased Models	14
Improving Scale Equivalence by Increasing Access to Scale-Specific Information	14
Assessing Autism in Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Youths: Interdisciplinary Teams, COVID Considerations, and Future Directions	14
The Spread of Beliefs in Partially Modularized Communities	13
(Why) Is Misinformation a Problem?	13
Human Crowds as Social Networks: Collective Dynamics of Consensus and Polarization	13
Shifting the Level of Selection in Science	13
A Network Approach to Investigate the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Beliefs: Advances and Applications of the BENDING Model	13
Gadgets Meet Artefacts: Aligning Heyes’s Cultural Evolutionary Account With the Archaeological Record	12
How Genetic-Conflict Theory Can Inform Studies of Human Nature	12
Capacity for Social Norms, or Statistical and Prescriptive Hybrid?	12
Suspicion About Suspicion Probes: Ways Forward	12
Toward a Psychology of Ideas Rather Than Demographics: Commentary on Hommel (2024)	12
Toward Precision Characterization and Treatment of Psychopathology: A Path Forward and Integrative Framework of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology and the Research Domain Criteria	12
The Psychological Science of Pandemics: Contributions to and Recommendations for Social, Educational, and Health Policy	12
The State of Cognitive Control in Language Processing	12
Putting Emotional Memories in Context: The Constructionist Model of Emotional Memory	11
Normative Processing Needs Multiple Levels of Explanation: From Algorithm to Implementation	11