Perspectives on Psychological Science

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”296
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations235
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes120
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge112
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children105
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment100
Psychological Selfishness100
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience88
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations88
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities86
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect86
Significance-Quest Theory85
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon84
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding81
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual78
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”77
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications77
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification72
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science71
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review68
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment66
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors66
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology65
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science64
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change63
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations58
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach56
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means56
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls56
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings55
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions54
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity53
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases51
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace47
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond47
Toward a Psychology of Consent47
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?46
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures43
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution43
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It41
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology41
Critique of the Bias-of-Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model: Reply to Connor and Evers (2020)41
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology41
Corrigendum: Mystical and Other Alterations in Sense of Self: An Expanded Framework for Studying Nonordinary Experiences40
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)40
Is Open Science Neoliberal?39
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict39
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition39
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories38
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence38
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors37
How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective37
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward37
How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the United States35
Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption35
The Power of Odor Persuasion: The Incorporation of Olfactory Cues in Virtual Environments for Personalized Relaxation33
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization33
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk33
The Myth of Normal Reading33
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors32
Racial Microaggressions: Critical Questions, State of the Science, and New Directions32
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms32
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail31
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive31
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes31
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness31
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions30
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment30
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward29
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms29
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives28
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research28
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia27
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice27
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?27
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention27
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine26
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters26
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza26
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems25
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence25
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness25
Metacognitive Feelings: A Predictive-Processing Perspective24
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication24
Global Diversity of Authors, Editors, and Journal Ownership Across Subdisciplines of Psychology: Current State and Policy Implications24
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health24
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response23
Measuring Racial Discrimination Remotely: A Contemporary Review of Unobtrusive Measures23
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces23
Outside the “Cultural Binary”: Understanding Why Latin American Collectivist Societies Foster Independent Selves22
Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?22
Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes22
Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning22
Destigmatizing Borderline Personality Disorder: A Call to Action for Psychological Science21
Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise21
Accelerating Psychological Science With Metastudies: A Demonstration Using the Risky-Choice Framing Effect21
Coping or Thriving? Reviewing Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Societal Factors Associated With Well-Being in Singlehood From a Within-Group Perspective21
The Logic of Microaggressions Assumes a Racist Society21
White Parents’ Socialization of Racial Attitudes: A Commentary on Scott et al. (2020)21
A Behavioral-Science Framework for Understanding College Campus Sexual Assault21
Racial and Language Microaggressions in the School Ecology20
Reexamining Social Media and Socioemotional Well-Being Among Adolescents Through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Theoretical Review and Directions for Future Research20
Diversity for Truth: Reply to Jussim, Stanovich, and Stroebe20
Health Communication and Behavioral Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic20
Toward an Integrative Approach to the Study of Positive-Affect-Related Aggression20
Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy20
Values in Psychometrics20
The Costs of Polarizing a Pandemic: Antecedents, Consequences, and Lessons20
Building Human-Like Artificial Agents: A General Cognitive Algorithm for Emulating Human Decision-Making in Dynamic Environments19
Epistemic Oppression, Construct Validity, and Scientific Rigor: Commentary on Woo et al. (2022)19
Rule-ish Patterns in the Psychology of Norms19
Editorial: Perspectives on Psychological Science—A Key Journal to Foster the Quality of Research19
Individual-Specific Animated Profiles of Mental Health18
Toward Understanding of the Social Hysteresis: Insights From Agent-Based Modeling18
Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale18
Multiple Memory Subsystems: Reconsidering Memory in the Mind and Brain18
New Forms of Collaboration Between the Social and Natural Sciences Could Become Necessary for Understanding Rapid Collective Transitions in Social Systems18
Lay Misperceptions of Culture as “Biological” and Suggestions for Reducing Them18
Clarifying Eudaimonia and Psychological Functioning to Complement Evaluative and Experiential Well-Being: Why Basic Psychological Needs Should Be Measured in National Accounts of Well-Being18
Toward a New Science of Psychedelic Social Psychology: The Effects of MDMA (Ecstasy) on Social Connection18
A Case for Translation From the Clinic to the Laboratory17
The Rise, Demise, and Reprise of the Increasingly Protracted APA Journal Article?17
Incomparability and Incommensurability in Choice: No Common Currency of Value?17
A Strange Kind of Wave: Response to Payne, Vuletich, and Lundberg (2022)17
The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds16
Person Perception, Meet People Perception: Exploring the Social Vision of Groups16
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science and Ideology16
The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control16
A Challenge to Orthodoxy in Psychology: Thomas Sowell and Social Justice16
Individual Differences in Structure Building: Impacts on Comprehension and Learning, Theoretical Underpinnings, and Support for Less Able Structure Builders15
Do COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Backfire? The Effects of Mandates, Vaccination Passports, and Financial Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination15
Good Theories in Need of Better Data: Combining Clinical and Social Psychological Approaches to Study the Mechanisms Linking Relationships and Health15
Blinding to Circumvent Human Biases: Deliberate Ignorance in Humans, Institutions, and Machines15
Advancing the Study of Resilience to Daily Stressors15
A Role for Uncertainty in the Neural Distinction Between Social and Nonsocial Thought15
Racial Incivility in Everyday Life: A Conceptual Framework for Linking Process, Person, and Context15
Managing Fear During Pandemics: Risks and Opportunities15
Reference-Point Theory: An Account of Individual Differences in Risk Preferences15
Happiness Maximization Is a WEIRD Way of Living15
Focusing the Lens to See More Clearly: Overcoming Definitional Challenges and Identifying New Directions in Racial Microaggressions Research14
Individuals, Collectives, and Individuals in Collectives: The Ineliminable Role of Dependence14
Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic14
Experimental Therapeutics: Opportunities and Challenges Stemming From the National Institute of Mental Health Workshop on Novel Target Discovery and Psychosocial Intervention Development14
Understanding Sensory-Motor Disorders in Autism Spectrum Disorders by Extending Hebbian Theory: Formation of a Rigid-Autonomous Phase Sequence14
Kinds of Replication: Examining the Meanings of “Conceptual Replication” and “Direct Replication”13
How Do Pandemic Policies and Communication Shape Intergroup Outcomes? Initial Findings From the COVID-19 Pandemic and Open Questions for Research and Policy13
Why Warmth Matters More Than Competence: A New Evolutionary Approach13
Psychological AI: Designing Algorithms Informed by Human Psychology13
Rethinking Norm Psychology12
Control Yourself: Broad Implications of Narrowed Attention12
The Sins of the Parents Are to Be Laid Upon the Children: Biased Humans, Biased Data, Biased Models12
Snapping Out of Autopilot: Overriding Habits in Real Time and the Role of Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex12
Intervention Tournaments: An Overview of Concept, Design, and Implementation12
Shifting the Level of Selection in Science12
Toward a Psychology of Ideas Rather Than Demographics: Commentary on Hommel (2024)12
How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact12
The Spread of Beliefs in Partially Modularized Communities12
Assessing Autism in Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Youths: Interdisciplinary Teams, COVID Considerations, and Future Directions12
Toward Precision Characterization and Treatment of Psychopathology: A Path Forward and Integrative Framework of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology and the Research Domain Criteria11
Normative Processing Needs Multiple Levels of Explanation: From Algorithm to Implementation11
Applying the Evidence We Have: Support for Having Race Conversations in White U.S. Families11
How Genetic-Conflict Theory Can Inform Studies of Human Nature11
The State of Cognitive Control in Language Processing11
Dismissing “Don’t Know” Responses to Perceived Risk Survey Items Threatens the Validity of Theoretical and Empirical Behavior-Change Research11
Gadgets Meet Artefacts: Aligning Heyes’s Cultural Evolutionary Account With the Archaeological Record11
A New Chapter for Perspectives on Psychological Science11
Improving Scale Equivalence by Increasing Access to Scale-Specific Information11
How Social Media Algorithms Shape Offline Civic Participation: A Framework of Social-Psychological Processes11
Human Crowds as Social Networks: Collective Dynamics of Consensus and Polarization11
Capacity for Social Norms, or Statistical and Prescriptive Hybrid?11
(Why) Is Misinformation a Problem?11
The Psychological Science of Pandemics: Contributions to and Recommendations for Social, Educational, and Health Policy11
A Network Approach to Investigate the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Beliefs: Advances and Applications of the BENDING Model11
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