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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	226
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	170
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	165
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	161
Socializing While Alone: Loss of Impact and Engagement When Interacting Remotely via Technology	158
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	134
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	128
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	123
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	123
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	121
People’s Responses to Nuclear Weapons: Mapping Post-Cold War Research	118
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	114
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	113
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	93
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	85
Why It May Be Useful to Integrate the Stereotype Content Model and the Interpersonal Perspective	81
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	79
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	77
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	74
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	73
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	70
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	69
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	57
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	57
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	56

Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	55
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	54
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	52
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	50
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	49
Is Open Science Neoliberal?	49
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology	49
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	46
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence	46
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories	44
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward	44
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)	41
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict	41
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors	40
Asking Better Questions: Strategic Questioning as a Psychologically Wise Intervention	38
How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective	38
Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption	38
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization	37
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk	37
Social Psychology’s Empty-Self Metaphor and the Replication Crisis	36
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms	36
The Myth of Normal Reading	36
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors	35
Growing Technological Opacity and the Social Brain	35
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward	35
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms	34
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research	34
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes	34
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment	34
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions	34
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention	33
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives	33
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza	32
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice	32
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?	32
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine	32
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters	31
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems	31
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces	31
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health	30
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness	30
Coping or Thriving? Reviewing Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Societal Factors Associated With Well-Being in Singlehood From a Within-Group Perspective	29
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication	29
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response	29
Metacognitive Feelings: A Predictive-Processing Perspective	29
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence	29
Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?	29
Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes	29
Presence Is Reality: Rethinking Virtual and Real-World Consciousness	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
Destigmatizing Borderline Personality Disorder: A Call to Action for Psychological Science	27
Enriching Psychological Research by Exploring the Source and Nature of Noise	27
Health Communication and Behavioral Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic	26
Reframing the Performance and Ethics of Empathic AI: Wisdom of the Crowd and Placebos	25
Toward an Integrative Approach to the Study of Positive-Affect-Related Aggression	24
The Costs of Polarizing a Pandemic: Antecedents, Consequences, and Lessons	24
Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy	24
Rule-ish Patterns in the Psychology of Norms	23
From Voice to Self: An Integrative Framework on Self-Voice Processing	23
Individual-Specific Animated Profiles of Mental Health	22
Sliding Into Silence? We Are Speaking 300 Daily Words Fewer Every Year	22
Diversity for Truth: Reply to Jussim, Stanovich, and Stroebe	22
Lay Misperceptions of Culture as “Biological” and Suggestions for Reducing Them	22
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
Toward Understanding of the Social Hysteresis: Insights From Agent-Based Modeling	21
Multiple Memory Subsystems: Reconsidering Memory in the Mind and Brain	20
Crowds Can Effectively Identify Misinformation at Scale	20
Building Human-Like Artificial Agents: A General Cognitive Algorithm for Emulating Human Decision-Making in Dynamic Environments	19
The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control	19
New Forms of Collaboration Between the Social and Natural Sciences Could Become Necessary for Understanding Rapid Collective Transitions in Social Systems	19
The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds	19
Principles of Sociopolitical Competency in Psychological Practice, Research, and Teaching	19
Blinding to Circumvent Human Biases: Deliberate Ignorance in Humans, Institutions, and Machines	18
Reference-Point Theory: An Account of Individual Differences in Risk Preferences	18
Imagine No Resources: Attention Is Selection and Normalization for Choice	18
A Role for Uncertainty in the Neural Distinction Between Social and Nonsocial Thought	18
Incomparability and Incommensurability in Choice: No Common Currency of Value?	18
Do COVID-19 Vaccination Policies Backfire? The Effects of Mandates, Vaccination Passports, and Financial Incentives on COVID-19 Vaccination	17
A Challenge to Orthodoxy in Psychology: Thomas Sowell and Social Justice	17
Happiness Maximization Is a WEIRD Way of Living	16
Understanding Sensory-Motor Disorders in Autism Spectrum Disorders by Extending Hebbian Theory: Formation of a Rigid-Autonomous Phase Sequence	16
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science and Ideology	16
Managing Fear During Pandemics: Risks and Opportunities	16
Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic	16
Individuals, Collectives, and Individuals in Collectives: The Ineliminable Role of Dependence	16
Chaos Theory and Child Development: Quantifying Nonlinear Pathways of Growth	15
Experimental Therapeutics: Opportunities and Challenges Stemming From the National Institute of Mental Health Workshop on Novel Target Discovery and Psychosocial Intervention Development	15
Snapping Out of Autopilot: Overriding Habits in Real Time and the Role of Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex	15
How Effective Altruism Can Help Psychologists Maximize Their Impact	15
Psychological AI: Designing Algorithms Informed by Human Psychology	15
Rethinking Norm Psychology	15
How Do Pandemic Policies and Communication Shape Intergroup Outcomes? Initial Findings From the COVID-19 Pandemic and Open Questions for Research and Policy	15
Toward a Psychology of Ideas Rather Than Demographics: Commentary on Hommel (2024)	15
Assessing Autism in Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Youths: Interdisciplinary Teams, COVID Considerations, and Future Directions	14
The Sins of the Parents Are to Be Laid Upon the Children: Biased Humans, Biased Data, Biased Models	14
A Network Approach to Investigate the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Beliefs: Advances and Applications of the BENDING Model	14
Bringing the Reading Sciences Into the Classroom: Insights for Phonics Instruction	14
Human Crowds as Social Networks: Collective Dynamics of Consensus and Polarization	13
How Genetic-Conflict Theory Can Inform Studies of Human Nature	12
Shifting the Level of Selection in Science	12
How Social Media Algorithms Shape Offline Civic Participation: A Framework of Social-Psychological Processes	12
The Spread of Beliefs in Partially Modularized Communities	12
Improving Scale Equivalence by Increasing Access to Scale-Specific Information	11
Gadgets Meet Artefacts: Aligning Heyes’s Cultural Evolutionary Account With the Archaeological Record	11
(Why) Is Misinformation a Problem?	11
The State of Cognitive Control in Language Processing	11
Suspicion About Suspicion Probes: Ways Forward	11
The Psychological Science of Pandemics: Contributions to and Recommendations for Social, Educational, and Health Policy	11
Capacity for Social Norms, or Statistical and Prescriptive Hybrid?	11