OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 21. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Racial Inequality in Psychological Research: Trends of the Past and Recommendations for the Future	462
Mental Health During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and Recommendations for Moving Forward	220
Student Motivation and Associated Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis From Self-Determination Theory	208
Rethinking Executive Function and Its Development	179
Small Effects: The Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science	178
Rethinking Concepts and Categories for Understanding the Neurodevelopmental Effects of Childhood Adversity	169
The Empirical Status of Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Systematic Review of 44 Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials	157
The Theory Crisis in Psychology: How to Move Forward	140
The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online	136
How Computational Modeling Can Force Theory Building in Psychological Science	129
The Value of Dimensional Models of Early Experience: Thinking Clearly About Concepts and Categories	126
Why Hypothesis Testers Should Spend Less Time Testing Hypotheses	119
Theory Construction Methodology: A Practical Framework for Building Theories in Psychology	119
The Taboo Against Explicit Causal Inference in Nonexperimental Psychology	117
The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics	117
Psychological and Behavioral Predictors of Vaccine Efficacy: Considerations for COVID-19	115
The Nomological Net of the HEXACO Model of Personality: A Large-Scale Meta-Analytic Investigation	114
Theory Before the Test: How to Build High-Verisimilitude Explanatory Theories in Psychological Science	106
Big Five and HEXACO Personality Traits, Proenvironmental Attitudes, and Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis	89
The Effects of Gender Trouble: An Integrative Theoretical Framework of the Perpetuation and Disruption of the Gender/Sex Binary	78
Psychosocial Vulnerabilities to Upper Respiratory Infectious Illness: Implications for Susceptibility to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)	74
What Happened to Mirror Neurons?	70
Common Academic Experiences No One Talks About: Repeated Rejection, Impostor Syndrome, and Burnout	70
Invisible Hands and Fine Calipers: A Call to Use Formal Theory as a Toolkit for Theory Construction	69
The Emerging Science of Virtue	67

After Pierce and Sue: A Revised Racial Microaggressions Taxonomy	64
Neurodiversity and the Social Ecology of Mental Functions	63
The U Shape of Happiness Across the Life Course: Expanding the Discussion	63
Ecological Validity and “Ecological Validity”	59
Bored Into Depletion? Toward a Tentative Integration of Perceived Self-Control Exertion and Boredom as Guiding Signals for Goal-Directed Behavior	58
Habitual Behavior Is Goal-Driven	56
Better Safe Than Sorry: A Common Signature of General Vulnerability for Psychopathology	56
Estimating the Prevalence of Transparency and Reproducibility-Related Research Practices in Psychology (2014–2017)	55
Machine Learning and Psychological Research: The Unexplored Effect of Measurement	55
From Gaze Perception to Social Cognition: The Shared-Attention System	53
The Future of Women in Psychological Science	52
On Dual- and Single-Process Models of Thinking	52
Psychological Antecedents of Refugee Integration (PARI)	52
Reexamining the Findings of the American Psychological Association’s 2015 Task Force on Violent Media: A Meta-Analysis	52
The Practical Alternative to the p Value Is the Correctly Used p Value	50
When Beliefs Face Reality: An Integrative Review of Belief Updating in Mental Health and Illness	50
What Makes a Champion? Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance	47
Seven Challenges for the Dehumanization Hypothesis	46
Nudgeability: Mapping Conditions of Susceptibility to Nudge Influence	46
Training Learning Strategies to Promote Self-Regulation and Transfer: The Knowledge, Belief, Commitment, and Planning Framework	46
A Signal Detection Approach to Understanding the Identification of Fake News	44
Reexamining Social Media and Socioemotional Well-Being Among Adolescents Through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Theoretical Review and Directions for Future Research	44
What Do New Findings About Social Interaction in Autistic Adults Mean for Neurodevelopmental Research?	43
The Primacy of Gender: Gendered Cognition Underlies the Big Two Dimensions of Social Cognition	43
Habits and Goals in Human Behavior: Separate but Interacting Systems	42
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk	41
Transparency and Reproducibility of Meta-Analyses in Psychology: A Meta-Review	39
From Text to Thought: How Analyzing Language Can Advance Psychological Science	38
Reviewing Racial Microaggressions Research: Documenting Targets’ Experiences, Harmful Sequelae, and Resistance Strategies	38
So Useful as a Good Theory? The Practicality Crisis in (Social) Psychological Theory	38
How Do Scientific Views Change? Notes From an Extended Adversarial Collaboration	38
Significance-Quest Theory	38
“It’s Not in Your Head”: Gaslighting, ‘Splaining, Victim Blaming, and Other Harmful Reactions to Microaggressions	37
Heterogeneity of Research Results: A New Perspective From Which to Assess and Promote Progress in Psychological Science	37
Construct Validation of Experimental Manipulations in Social Psychology: Current Practices and Recommendations for the Future	36
The Need for Shared Nomenclature on Racism and Related Terminology in Psychology	36
Ironic Effects of Thought Suppression: A Meta-Analysis	36
Moral Reasoning Enables Developmental and Societal Change	36
Psychological Science Is Not Race Neutral	35
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	35
Protective Gun Ownership as a Coping Mechanism	35
Beyond Experiments	35
Connecting Theory to Methods in Longitudinal Research	34
Outside the “Cultural Binary”: Understanding Why Latin American Collectivist Societies Foster Independent Selves	34
Are All “Basic Emotions” Emotions? A Problem for the (Basic) Emotions Construct	34
The Multiverse of Methods: Extending the Multiverse Analysis to Address Data-Collection Decisions	33
How Can Intranasal Oxytocin Research Be Trusted? A Systematic Review of the Interactive Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin on Psychosocial Outcomes	33
Gender Nonconformity and Minority Stress Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals: A Meta-Analytic Review	33
What Do We Know About Aging and Emotion Regulation?	32
The Bias of Individuals (in Crowds): Why Implicit Bias Is Probably a Noisily Measured Individual-Level Construct	32

Can the Implicit Association Test Serve as a Valid Measure of Automatic Cognition? A Response to Schimmack (2021)	32
Sex/Gender Differences in Verbal Fluency and Verbal-Episodic Memory: A Meta-Analysis	31
Self-Regulation Without Force: Can Awareness Leverage Reward to Drive Behavior Change?	31
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward	30
Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations	30
Statistical Learning and Language Impairments: Toward More Precise Theoretical Accounts	30
Putting the Nonsocial Into Social Neuroscience: A Role for Domain-General Priority Maps During Social Interactions	30
Comparisons Inform Me Who I Am: A General Comparative-Processing Model of Self-Perception	30
Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? Comparing Linear and Nonlinear Effects of Cognitive Ability on Life Outcomes	29
Arrested Theory Development: The Misguided Distinction Between Exploratory and Confirmatory Research	29
Bittersweet: The Neuroscience of Ambivalent Affect	29
A Call for Greater Attention to Culture in the Study of Brain and Development	29
Technition: When Tools Come Out of the Closet	28
Recovering the Relational Starting Point of Compassion Training: A Foundation for Sustainable and Inclusive Care	26
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters	26
What Is Digital Parenting? A Systematic Review of Past Measurement and Blueprint for the Future	26
The Eight Steps of Data Analysis: A Graphical Framework to Promote Sound Statistical Analysis	26
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	26
Invalid Claims About the Validity of Implicit Association Tests by Prisoners of the Implicit Social-Cognition Paradigm	26
Does Neonatal Imitation Exist? Insights From a Meta-Analysis of 336 Effect Sizes	26
Racial and Language Microaggressions in the School Ecology	25
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	25
Expansive and Contractive Postures and Movement: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Motor Displays on Affective and Behavioral Responses	25
Quo Vadis, Methodology? The Key Role of Manipulation Checks for Validity Control and Quality of Science	25
Communicating What We Know and What Isn’t So: Science Communication in Psychology	25
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive	25
Promises and Perils of Experimentation: The Mutual-Internal-Validity Problem	24
Moral Judgment as Categorization (MJAC)	24
Anatomy of a Psychological Theory: Integrating Construct-Validation and Computational-Modeling Methods to Advance Theorizing	24
A Dynamical Reconceptualization of Executive-Function Development	24
Effortful Emotion Regulation as a Unique Form of Cybernetic Control	23
Putting the Self in Self-Correction: Findings From the Loss-of-Confidence Project	23
Thinking Clearly About Biology and Childhood Adversity: Next Steps for Continued Progress	23
Are Regional Differences in Psychological Characteristics and Their Correlates Robust? Applying Spatial-Analysis Techniques to Examine Regional Variation in Personality	23
Meditation and the Wandering Mind: A Theoretical Framework of Underlying Neurocognitive Mechanisms	22
The Benefits, Barriers, and Risks of Big-Team Science	22
The Role of the Skin in Interoception: A Neglected Organ?	22
Seven Clarifications on the Psychology of Dehumanization	22
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge	22
Kinds of Replication: Examining the Meanings of “Conceptual Replication” and “Direct Replication”	22
Adopted Utility Calculus: Origins of a Concept of Social Affiliation	22
Beyond Statistical Ritual: Theory in Psychological Science	21
Toward a Harm-Based Account of Microaggressions	21
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail	21
Regulatory Scope and Its Mental and Social Supports	21
The Number of Senders and Total Judgments Matter More Than Sample Size in Deception-Detection Experiments	21
Do We Report the Information That Is Necessary to Give Psychology Away? A Scoping Review of the Psychological Intervention Literature 2000–2018	21
Understanding the Magnitude of Psychological Differences Between Women and Men Requires Seeing the Forest and the Trees	21