Perspectives on Psychological Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 7. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Student Motivation and Associated Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis From Self-Determination Theory303
Mental Health During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and Recommendations for Moving Forward244
Small Effects: The Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science215
The Empirical Status of Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Systematic Review of 44 Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials206
The Theory Crisis in Psychology: How to Move Forward182
The Value of Dimensional Models of Early Experience: Thinking Clearly About Concepts and Categories176
Why Hypothesis Testers Should Spend Less Time Testing Hypotheses153
How Computational Modeling Can Force Theory Building in Psychological Science151
Theory Construction Methodology: A Practical Framework for Building Theories in Psychology146
Psychological and Behavioral Predictors of Vaccine Efficacy: Considerations for COVID-19140
Theory Before the Test: How to Build High-Verisimilitude Explanatory Theories in Psychological Science122
What Happened to Mirror Neurons?102
After Pierce and Sue: A Revised Racial Microaggressions Taxonomy89
Neurodiversity and the Social Ecology of Mental Functions84
Invisible Hands and Fine Calipers: A Call to Use Formal Theory as a Toolkit for Theory Construction83
Ecological Validity and “Ecological Validity”73
A Signal Detection Approach to Understanding the Identification of Fake News67
Reexamining Social Media and Socioemotional Well-Being Among Adolescents Through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Theoretical Review and Directions for Future Research65
Estimating the Prevalence of Transparency and Reproducibility-Related Research Practices in Psychology (2014–2017)65
Nudgeability: Mapping Conditions of Susceptibility to Nudge Influence65
On Dual- and Single-Process Models of Thinking64
From Gaze Perception to Social Cognition: The Shared-Attention System63
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk62
The Practical Alternative to the p Value Is the Correctly Used p Value62
Habits and Goals in Human Behavior: Separate but Interacting Systems62
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment61
Significance-Quest Theory61
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward61
“It’s Not in Your Head”: Gaslighting, ‘Splaining, Victim Blaming, and Other Harmful Reactions to Microaggressions59
What Do New Findings About Social Interaction in Autistic Adults Mean for Neurodevelopmental Research?57
Heterogeneity of Research Results: A New Perspective From Which to Assess and Promote Progress in Psychological Science55
What Makes a Champion? Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance54
A Call to Action on Assessing and Mitigating Bias in Artificial Intelligence Applications for Mental Health51
Reviewing Racial Microaggressions Research: Documenting Targets’ Experiences, Harmful Sequelae, and Resistance Strategies50
Connecting Theory to Methods in Longitudinal Research50
Sex/Gender Differences in Verbal Fluency and Verbal-Episodic Memory: A Meta-Analysis49
Are All “Basic Emotions” Emotions? A Problem for the (Basic) Emotions Construct49
Beyond Experiments49
From Text to Thought: How Analyzing Language Can Advance Psychological Science49
Outside the “Cultural Binary”: Understanding Why Latin American Collectivist Societies Foster Independent Selves47
Moral Reasoning Enables Developmental and Societal Change45
What Is Digital Parenting? A Systematic Review of Past Measurement and Blueprint for the Future44
Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health44
Psychological Science Is Not Race Neutral44
So Useful as a Good Theory? The Practicality Crisis in (Social) Psychological Theory43
What Do We Know About Aging and Emotion Regulation?43
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon43
The Need for Shared Nomenclature on Racism and Related Terminology in Psychology41
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases40
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters40
The Role of the Skin in Interoception: A Neglected Organ?39
Gender Nonconformity and Minority Stress Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals: A Meta-Analytic Review37
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology37
Comparisons Inform Me Who I Am: A General Comparative-Processing Model of Self-Perception36
Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? Comparing Linear and Nonlinear Effects of Cognitive Ability on Life Outcomes35
Arrested Theory Development: The Misguided Distinction Between Exploratory and Confirmatory Research35
Statistical Learning and Language Impairments: Toward More Precise Theoretical Accounts34
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge34
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment33
Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations33
Racial and Language Microaggressions in the School Ecology33
Promises and Perils of Experimentation: The Mutual-Internal-Validity Problem31
The Benefits, Barriers, and Risks of Big-Team Science31
Quo Vadis, Methodology? The Key Role of Manipulation Checks for Validity Control and Quality of Science31
Kinds of Replication: Examining the Meanings of “Conceptual Replication” and “Direct Replication”31
Adopted Utility Calculus: Origins of a Concept of Social Affiliation30
Moral Judgment as Categorization (MJAC)30
Coping or Thriving? Reviewing Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Societal Factors Associated With Well-Being in Singlehood From a Within-Group Perspective30
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive30
Anatomy of a Psychological Theory: Integrating Construct-Validation and Computational-Modeling Methods to Advance Theorizing29
Toward a Harm-Based Account of Microaggressions29
Communicating What We Know and What Isn’t So: Science Communication in Psychology29
Does Neonatal Imitation Exist? Insights From a Meta-Analysis of 336 Effect Sizes29
Bias, Fairness, and Validity in Graduate-School Admissions: A Psychometric Perspective29
Thinking Clearly About Biology and Childhood Adversity: Next Steps for Continued Progress29
A Dynamical Reconceptualization of Executive-Function Development29
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail28
Understanding the Magnitude of Psychological Differences Between Women and Men Requires Seeing the Forest and the Trees28
Invalid Claims About the Validity of Implicit Association Tests by Prisoners of the Implicit Social-Cognition Paradigm27
Why and When Beliefs Change27
A Description–Experience Framework of the Psychology of Risk27
The Interpersonal Neuroscience of Social Learning26
Putting the Self in Self-Correction: Findings From the Loss-of-Confidence Project26
Women Get Worse Sex: A Confound in the Explanation of Gender Differences in Sexuality26
Seven Clarifications on the Psychology of Dehumanization26
How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the United States25
Why Warmth Matters More Than Competence: A New Evolutionary Approach25
The Number of Senders and Total Judgments Matter More Than Sample Size in Deception-Detection Experiments25
Belief in Unconscious Repressed Memory Persists25
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research25
(Why) Is Misinformation a Problem?25
Are Regional Differences in Psychological Characteristics and Their Correlates Robust? Applying Spatial-Analysis Techniques to Examine Regional Variation in Personality25
Racial Awareness and Bias Begin Early: Developmental Entry Points, Challenges, and a Call to Action24
Do We Report the Information That Is Necessary to Give Psychology Away? A Scoping Review of the Psychological Intervention Literature 2000–201824
Illusory Essences: A Bias Holding Back Theorizing in Psychological Science23
Understanding and Addressing Older Adults’ Loneliness: The Social Relationship Expectations Framework23
Beyond Statistical Ritual: Theory in Psychological Science23
A Psychology of Ideology: Unpacking the Psychological Structure of Ideological Thinking22
The Effects of Editorial-Board Diversity on Race Scholars and Their Scholarship: A Field Experiment22
Computing Components of Everyday Stress Responses: Exploring Conceptual Challenges and New Opportunities22
Contact Tracing: A Memory Task With Consequences for Public Health22
The Challenges of Military Veterans in Their Transition to the Workplace: A Call for Integrating Basic and Applied Psychological Science21
Racial Microaggressions: Critical Questions, State of the Science, and New Directions21
Values in Psychometrics20
The Role of Replication Studies in Theory Building20
Why Evolutionary Psychology Should Abandon Modularity20
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations20
Are Small Effects the Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science? A Reply to Götz et al. (2022)19
The Cooperation Databank: Machine-Readable Science Accelerates Research Synthesis19
Person Perception, Meet People Perception: Exploring the Social Vision of Groups19
Accelerating Psychological Science With Metastudies: A Demonstration Using the Risky-Choice Framing Effect19
Advancing the Study of Resilience to Daily Stressors19
The Sweet Spot: When Children’s Developing Abilities, Brains, and Knowledge Make Them Better Learners Than Adults19
Climate Change and Substance-Use Behaviors: A Risk-Pathways Framework19
If Mathematical Psychology Did Not Exist We Might Need to Invent It: A Comment on Theory Building in Psychology19
The U Shape of Happiness: A Response18
From Genome-Wide to Environment-Wide: Capturing the Environome18
Insight Into the Hispanic Paradox: The Language Hypothesis18
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition18
The Problem of Coordination and the Pursuit of Structural Constraints in Psychology18
Balancing the Freedom–Security Trade-Off During Crises and Disasters17
Be Happy: Navigating Normative Issues in Behavioral and Well-Being Public Policy17
Three Challenges for AI-Assisted Decision-Making17
Global Diversity of Authors, Editors, and Journal Ownership Across Subdisciplines of Psychology: Current State and Policy Implications17
Practical Methodological Reform Needs Good Theory17
Neoliberalism and the Ideological Construction of Equity Beliefs16
Saving Science Through Replication Studies16
An Ethics and Social-Justice Approach to Collecting and Using Demographic Data for Psychological Researchers16
Psychology in an Indeterminate World16
Pushing Back Against the Microaggression Pushback in Academic Psychology: Reflections on a Concept-Creep Paradox16
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication16
Only Human: Mental-Health Difficulties Among Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology Faculty and Trainees16
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward16
You Think Failure Is Hard? So Is Learning From It16
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention16
How Do Young Children Explain Differences in the Classroom? Implications for Achievement, Motivation, and Educational Equity15
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change15
More What Duchenne Smiles Do, Less What They Express15
Applying the Science of Habit Formation to Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Mental Illness15
Interrogating Gender-Exploratory Therapy15
Is Psychological Science Self-Correcting? Citations Before and After Successful and Failed Replications15
The Development of Identity Fusion15
Clarifying Eudaimonia and Psychological Functioning to Complement Evaluative and Experiential Well-Being: Why Basic Psychological Needs Should Be Measured in National Accounts of Well-Being14
Duchenne Smiles as Honest Signals of Chronic Positive Mood14
Self-Prioritization Reconsidered: Scrutinizing Three Claims14
Leveraging the Strengths of Psychologists With Lived Experience of Psychopathology14
Interpersonal Chemistry: What Is It, How Does It Emerge, and How Does It Operate?14
Destigmatizing Borderline Personality Disorder: A Call to Action for Psychological Science13
Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes13
Racial Incivility in Everyday Life: A Conceptual Framework for Linking Process, Person, and Context13
Multiple Memory Subsystems: Reconsidering Memory in the Mind and Brain12
The Logic of Microaggressions Assumes a Racist Society12
Toward a New Science of Psychedelic Social Psychology: The Effects of MDMA (Ecstasy) on Social Connection12
The Power of Odor Persuasion: The Incorporation of Olfactory Cues in Virtual Environments for Personalized Relaxation12
White (but Not Black) Americans Continue to See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game; White Conservatives (but Not Moderates or Liberals) See Themselves as Losing12
Adaptive Empathy: A Model for Learning Empathic Responses in Response to Feedback12
The Impact of School Closures on Learning and Mental Health of Children: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic12
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine12
A Case for Translation From the Clinic to the Laboratory11
Falsifying the Dehumanization Hypothesis11
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?11
On the Role of Interoception in Body and Object Perception: A Multisensory-Integration Account11
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence11
Thirty Years of Psychological Wisdom Research: What We Know About the Correlates of an Ancient Concept11
Measuring the Frequency of Inner-Experience Characteristics11
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict10
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond10
A New Way to Think About Internal and External Validity10
Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy10
Rethinking Norm Psychology10
Focusing the Lens to See More Clearly: Overcoming Definitional Challenges and Identifying New Directions in Racial Microaggressions Research10
Psychological Selfishness10
Applying the Evidence We Have: Support for Having Race Conversations in White U.S. Families10
Intervention Tournaments: An Overview of Concept, Design, and Implementation10
When and Why Do People Accept Public-Policy Interventions? An Integrative Public-Policy-Acceptance Framework10
It’s Not You, It’s Me: A Review of Individual Differences in Visuospatial Perspective Taking9
The Conceptual, Cunning, and Conclusive Experiment in Psychology9
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach9
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice9
Good Theories in Need of Better Data: Combining Clinical and Social Psychological Approaches to Study the Mechanisms Linking Relationships and Health9
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors9
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)9
Dismissing “Don’t Know” Responses to Perceived Risk Survey Items Threatens the Validity of Theoretical and Empirical Behavior-Change Research9
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science9
Is Religion Special?9
Personality Change Through Arts Education: A Review and Call for Further Research9
Psychology’s Stewardship of Gender/Sex9
Complicating College-Transition Stories: Strengths and Challenges of Approaches to Diversity in Wise-Story Interventions9
Two Different Mismatches: Integrating the Developmental and the Evolutionary-Mismatch Hypothesis9
The “Golden Age” of Behavior Genetics?9
A Role for Uncertainty in the Neural Distinction Between Social and Nonsocial Thought9
A Cognitive Computational Approach to Social and Collective Decision-Making9
The Costs of Polarizing a Pandemic: Antecedents, Consequences, and Lessons8
Freedom and Constraint in Digital Environments: Implications for the Self8
Past, Present, and Future of Human Chemical Communication Research8
Information Avoidance: Past Perspectives and Future Directions8
Adjusting for Baseline Measurements of the Mediators and Outcome as a First Step Toward Eliminating Confounding Biases in Mediation Analysis8
Surprise as an Emotion: A Response to Ortony8
Viewing Development Through the Lens of Culture: Integrating Developmental and Cultural Psychology to Better Understand Cognition and Behavior8
Autistic-Like Traits and Positive Schizotypy as Diametric Specializations of the Predictive Mind8
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence8
Four Misconceptions About Nonverbal Communication8
Three Theories of Choice and Their Psychology of Losses7
How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact7
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health7
How Racism “Gets Under the Skin”: An Examination of the Physical- and Mental-Health Costs of Culturally Compelled Coping7
The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control7
Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale7
A Network Approach to Investigate the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Beliefs: Advances and Applications of the BENDING Model7
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations7
When the Numbers Do Not Add Up: The Practical Limits of Stochastologicals for Soft Psychology7
A Social-Identity Theory of Information-Access Regulation (SITIAR): Understanding the Psychology of Sharing and Withholding7
Race, Ethnicity, and the Scarr-Rowe Hypothesis: A Cautionary Example of Fringe Science Entering the Mainstream7
The Scientific Study of Consciousness Cannot and Should Not Be Morally Neutral7
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace7
Maintaining Transient Diversity Is a General Principle for Improving Collective Problem Solving7
A Review of Multisite Replication Projects in Social Psychology: Is It Viable to Sustain Any Confidence in Social Psychology’s Knowledge Base?7
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