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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Effects of Editorial-Board Diversity on Race Scholars and Their Scholarship: A Field Experiment330
Person Perception, Meet People Perception: Exploring the Social Vision of Groups262
A Novel, Network-Based Approach to Assessing Romantic-Relationship Quality236
A Case for Translation From the Clinic to the Laboratory220
Polarization and the Psychology of Collectives189
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge171
“When” Versus “Whether” Gender/Sex Differences: Insights From Psychological Research on Negotiation, Risk-Taking, and Leadership109
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research100
Communities of Knowledge in Trouble90
The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds82
Learning in Individual Organisms, Genes, Machines, and Groups: A New Way of Defining and Relating Learning in Different Systems76
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms75
A Signal Detection Approach to Understanding the Identification of Fake News75
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail74
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment71
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”69
Invalid Claims About the Validity of Implicit Association Tests by Prisoners of the Implicit Social-Cognition Paradigm69
Recommendations for Investigating the Cross-Category Effect Among Hispanic and Latino Populations68
Incomparability and Incommensurability in Choice: No Common Currency of Value?68
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience67
Racial Microaggressions: Critical Questions, State of the Science, and New Directions67
A Strange Kind of Wave: Response to Payne, Vuletich, and Lundberg (2022)66
What Happens When Payments End? Fostering Long-Term Behavior Change With Financial Incentives66
The View From a Social Constructivist Framework: Comparing Explicit Conversations About Mental States and Explicit Conversations About Norms64
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment64
Be Happy: Navigating Normative Issues in Behavioral and Well-Being Public Policy63
Improving Graduate-School Admissions by Expanding Rather Than Eliminating Predictors62
Neoliberalism and the Ideological Construction of Equity Beliefs59
Arrested Theory Development: The Misguided Distinction Between Exploratory and Confirmatory Research55
Pushing Back Against the Microaggression Pushback in Academic Psychology: Reflections on a Concept-Creep Paradox54
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations54
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children53
Corrigendum: Family Matters: Rethinking the Psychology of Human Social Motivation52
A New Way to Think About Internal and External Validity52
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities52
A Systematic Review and New Analyses of the Gender-Equality Paradox52
A Description–Experience Framework of the Psychology of Risk52
New Forms of Collaboration Between the Social and Natural Sciences Could Become Necessary for Understanding Rapid Collective Transitions in Social Systems50
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding49
Applying the Science of Habit Formation to Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Mental Illness48
Wrecked by Success? Not to Worry47
Are Regional Differences in Psychological Characteristics and Their Correlates Robust? Applying Spatial-Analysis Techniques to Examine Regional Variation in Personality46
A Review of Multisite Replication Projects in Social Psychology: Is It Viable to Sustain Any Confidence in Social Psychology’s Knowledge Base?45
The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control43
Normative Expectations in Human and Nonhuman Animals42
Research-Problem Validity in Primary Research: Precision and Transparency in Characterizing Past Knowledge41
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes41
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes40
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions40
Leveraging the Strengths of Psychologists With Lived Experience of Psychopathology38
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive38
The Sweet Spot: When Children’s Developing Abilities, Brains, and Knowledge Make Them Better Learners Than Adults38
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations37
Are All “Basic Emotions” Emotions? A Problem for the (Basic) Emotions Construct37
Significance-Quest Theory36
What Is Digital Parenting? A Systematic Review of Past Measurement and Blueprint for the Future36
What Makes a Champion? Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance36
Psychological Selfishness35
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward35
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors35
“It’s Not in Your Head”: Gaslighting, ‘Splaining, Victim Blaming, and Other Harmful Reactions to Microaggressions34
The Development of Identity Fusion34
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon34
The Rise, Demise, and Reprise of the Increasingly Protracted APA Journal Article?34
Well-Being Science for Teaching and the General Public33
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect33
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms33
Personality Change Through Arts Education: A Review and Call for Further Research32
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness32
The Myth of Normal Reading32
Enriching Psychology by Zooming Out to General Mindsets and Practices in Natural Habitats32
Reference-Point Theory: An Account of Individual Differences in Risk Preferences32
Moral Judgment as Categorization (MJAC)32
Interpersonal Distance Theory of Autism and Its Implication for Cognitive Assessment, Therapy, and Daily Life31
Reconsidering the Minimum Voting Age in the United States30
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention30
Judgments of Morality in War: Commentary on Watkins (2020)29
Family Constellation Therapy in the Context of Esotericism29
Past, Present, and Future of Human Chemical Communication Research29
A Social-Identity Theory of Information-Access Regulation (SITIAR): Understanding the Psychology of Sharing and Withholding28
Bias, Fairness, and Validity in Graduate-School Admissions: A Psychometric Perspective28
Individual Differences in Structure Building: Impacts on Comprehension and Learning, Theoretical Underpinnings, and Support for Less Able Structure Builders26
Adopted Utility Calculus: Origins of a Concept of Social Affiliation26
Blinding to Circumvent Human Biases: Deliberate Ignorance in Humans, Institutions, and Machines26
Toward a Harm-Based Account of Microaggressions26
Good Theories in Need of Better Data: Combining Clinical and Social Psychological Approaches to Study the Mechanisms Linking Relationships and Health26
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science and Ideology25
Corrigendum: Can the Implicit Association Test Measure Automatic Judgment? The Validation Continues24
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science24
Advancing the Study of Resilience to Daily Stressors24
Happiness Maximization Is a WEIRD Way of Living24
The Number of Senders and Total Judgments Matter More Than Sample Size in Deception-Detection Experiments23
Insight Into the Hispanic Paradox: The Language Hypothesis23
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment23
People Think That Social Media Platforms Do (but Should Not) Amplify Divisive Content23
If Mathematical Psychology Did Not Exist We Might Need to Invent It: A Comment on Theory Building in Psychology23
Understanding the Magnitude of Psychological Differences Between Women and Men Requires Seeing the Forest and the Trees22
Psychology in an Indeterminate World22
The Myth of the Need for Diversity Among Subjects in Theory-Testing Research: Comments on “Racial Inequality in Psychological Research” by Roberts et al. (2020)22
A Challenge to Orthodoxy in Psychology: Thomas Sowell and Social Justice22
Three Challenges for AI-Assisted Decision-Making22
New Insights on Expert Opinion About Eyewitness Memory Research21
Racial Incivility in Everyday Life: A Conceptual Framework for Linking Process, Person, and Context21
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives21
How Do People Come to Judge What Is “Reasonable”? Effects of Legal and Sociological Systems on Human Psychology20
Neither Human Normativity nor Human Groupness Are in Humanity’s Genes: A Commentary on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”20
Invisible Hands and Fine Calipers: A Call to Use Formal Theory as a Toolkit for Theory Construction20
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology20
Viewing Development Through the Lens of Culture: Integrating Developmental and Cultural Psychology to Better Understand Cognition and Behavior20
The Benefits, Barriers, and Risks of Big-Team Science19
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors19
Do COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Backfire? The Effects of Mandates, Vaccination Passports, and Financial Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination19
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza18
Maintaining Transient Diversity Is a General Principle for Improving Collective Problem Solving18
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications18
Improving the Generalizability of Behavioral Science by Using Reality Checks: A Tool for Assessing Heterogeneity in Participants’ Consumership of Study Stimuli18
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification18
When and Why Do People Accept Public-Policy Interventions? An Integrative Public-Policy-Acceptance Framework18
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters17
Reframing Single- and Dual-Process Theories as Cognitive Models: Commentary on De Neys (2021)17
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”17
Why and When Beliefs Change16
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual16
Only Human: Mental-Health Difficulties Among Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology Faculty and Trainees16
Motivated Cognition in Cooperation16
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice16
Is Normative Thinking Even a Gadget?16
Gender Nonconformity and Minority Stress Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals: A Meta-Analytic Review16
Too Anecdotal to Be True? Mechanical Turk Is Not All Bots and Bad Data: Response to Webb and Tangney (2022)16
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia15
Clinical Psychologists as T-Shaped Professionals15
Struggling With Change: The Fragile Resilience of Collectives15
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine15
A Role for Uncertainty in the Neural Distinction Between Social and Nonsocial Thought15
Balancing the Freedom–Security Trade-Off During Crises and Disasters14
How Racism “Gets Under the Skin”: An Examination of the Physical- and Mental-Health Costs of Culturally Compelled Coping14
Diversity Is Diverse: Social Justice Reparations and Science14
A Dynamical Reconceptualization of Executive-Function Development14
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?14
From da Vinci’s Flying Machines to a Theory of the Creative Process14
Reckoning With Our Crisis: An Agenda for the Field of Social and Personality Psychology14
From Text to Thought: How Analyzing Language Can Advance Psychological Science13
Duchenne Smiles as Honest Signals of Chronic Positive Mood13
Cooperation in the Time of COVID13
The Role of Subjective Expectations for Exhaustion and Recovery: The Sample Case of Work and Leisure13
The Effect of Income and Wealth on Behavioral Strategies, Personality Traits, and Preferences13
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls13
Understanding Sensory-Motor Disorders in Autism Spectrum Disorders by Extending Hebbian Theory: Formation of a Rigid-Autonomous Phase Sequence13
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces12
The WEIRD Microcosm of Microaggression Research: Toward a Cultural-Psychological Approach12
The Evolution of Developmental Theories Since Piaget: A Metaview12
Metacognitive Feelings: A Predictive-Processing Perspective12
Illusory Essences: A Bias Holding Back Theorizing in Psychological Science12
You Think Failure Is Hard? So Is Learning From It11
The Field of Evolutionary Neuroscience: A Commentary on “Rethinking Norm Psychology” by Cecilia Heyes11
Does Neonatal Imitation Exist? Insights From a Meta-Analysis of 336 Effect Sizes11
Does Electrophysiological Maturation Shape Language Acquisition?11
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases11
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means11
Small Effects: The Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science11
Experimental Therapeutics: Opportunities and Challenges Stemming From the National Institute of Mental Health Workshop on Novel Target Discovery and Psychosocial Intervention Development11
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond11
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?11
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems11
On Dual- and Single-Process Models of Thinking11
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence10
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change10
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response10
Coping or Thriving? Reviewing Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Societal Factors Associated With Well-Being in Singlehood From a Within-Group Perspective10
Music in the Middle: A Culture-Cognition-Mediator Model of Musical Functionality10
Analytic Engagement and the Perils of Reframing the Dual- and Single-Process Models Debate10
What Happened to Mirror Neurons?10
Global Diversity of Authors, Editors, and Journal Ownership Across Subdisciplines of Psychology: Current State and Policy Implications10
An Ethics and Social-Justice Approach to Collecting and Using Demographic Data for Psychological Researchers10
Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning9
Affect Is at the Heart of Norm Psychology: Commentary on Heyes, “Rethinking Norm Psychology”9
Truth and Advocacy: Reducing Bias in Policy-Related Research9
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness9
Is It the Judge, the Sender, or Just the Individual Message? Disentangling Person and Message Effects on Variation in Lie-Detection Judgments9
Individuals, Collectives, and Individuals in Collectives: The Ineliminable Role of Dependence9
Theory Construction Methodology: A Practical Framework for Building Theories in Psychology9
Is Religion Special?9
Neurodiversity and the Social Ecology of Mental Functions9
Why Warmth Matters More Than Competence: A New Evolutionary Approach9
Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic9
Beyond Experiments9
A Normative Framework for Assessing the Information Curation Algorithms of the Internet8
The Cooperation Databank: Machine-Readable Science Accelerates Research Synthesis8
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations8
Toward a Psychology of Consent8
The “Golden Age” of Behavior Genetics?8
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication8
Do We Report the Information That Is Necessary to Give Psychology Away? A Scoping Review of the Psychological Intervention Literature 2000–20188
Putting the Self in Self-Correction: Findings From the Loss-of-Confidence Project8
Outside the “Cultural Binary”: Understanding Why Latin American Collectivist Societies Foster Independent Selves8
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings8
The U Shape of Happiness: A Response8
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions8
Focusing the Lens to See More Clearly: Overcoming Definitional Challenges and Identifying New Directions in Racial Microaggressions Research7
Contemplative Psychology: History, Key Assumptions, and Future Directions7
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity7
Acknowledgment7
Comparisons Inform Me Who I Am: A General Comparative-Processing Model of Self-Perception7
Two Different Mismatches: Integrating the Developmental and the Evolutionary-Mismatch Hypothesis7
Homo temporus: Seasonal Cycles as a Fundamental Source of Variation in Human Psychology7
Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes7
What Do We Know About Aging and Emotion Regulation?7
Is Psychological Science Self-Correcting? Citations Before and After Successful and Failed Replications7
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach7
Flexible Cultural Learning Through Action Coordination7
Measuring Racial Discrimination Remotely: A Contemporary Review of Unobtrusive Measures7
Managing Fear During Pandemics: Risks and Opportunities7
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science7
The Value of Dimensional Models of Early Experience: Thinking Clearly About Concepts and Categories7
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health7
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace7
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