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Papers

(The TQCC of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 20. 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.)

Article	Citations
Student Motivation and Associated Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis From Self-Determination Theory	303
Mental Health During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and Recommendations for Moving Forward	244
Small Effects: The Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science	215
The Empirical Status of Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Systematic Review of 44 Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials	206
The Theory Crisis in Psychology: How to Move Forward	182
The Value of Dimensional Models of Early Experience: Thinking Clearly About Concepts and Categories	176
Why Hypothesis Testers Should Spend Less Time Testing Hypotheses	153
How Computational Modeling Can Force Theory Building in Psychological Science	151
Theory Construction Methodology: A Practical Framework for Building Theories in Psychology	146
Psychological and Behavioral Predictors of Vaccine Efficacy: Considerations for COVID-19	140
Theory Before the Test: How to Build High-Verisimilitude Explanatory Theories in Psychological Science	122
What Happened to Mirror Neurons?	102
After Pierce and Sue: A Revised Racial Microaggressions Taxonomy	89
Neurodiversity and the Social Ecology of Mental Functions	84
Invisible Hands and Fine Calipers: A Call to Use Formal Theory as a Toolkit for Theory Construction	83
Ecological Validity and “Ecological Validity”	73
A Signal Detection Approach to Understanding the Identification of Fake News	67
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	65
Estimating the Prevalence of Transparency and Reproducibility-Related Research Practices in Psychology (2014–2017)	65
Nudgeability: Mapping Conditions of Susceptibility to Nudge Influence	65
On Dual- and Single-Process Models of Thinking	64
From Gaze Perception to Social Cognition: The Shared-Attention System	63
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk	62
The Practical Alternative to the p Value Is the Correctly Used p Value	62
Habits and Goals in Human Behavior: Separate but Interacting Systems	62

A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	61
Significance-Quest Theory	61
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward	61
“It’s Not in Your Head”: Gaslighting, ‘Splaining, Victim Blaming, and Other Harmful Reactions to Microaggressions	59
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 Science	55
What Makes a Champion? Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance	54
A Call to Action on Assessing and Mitigating Bias in Artificial Intelligence Applications for Mental Health	51
Reviewing Racial Microaggressions Research: Documenting Targets’ Experiences, Harmful Sequelae, and Resistance Strategies	50
Connecting Theory to Methods in Longitudinal Research	50
Sex/Gender Differences in Verbal Fluency and Verbal-Episodic Memory: A Meta-Analysis	49
Are All “Basic Emotions” Emotions? A Problem for the (Basic) Emotions Construct	49
Beyond Experiments	49
From Text to Thought: How Analyzing Language Can Advance Psychological Science	49
Outside the “Cultural Binary”: Understanding Why Latin American Collectivist Societies Foster Independent Selves	47
Moral Reasoning Enables Developmental and Societal Change	45
What Is Digital Parenting? A Systematic Review of Past Measurement and Blueprint for the Future	44
Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health	44
Psychological Science Is Not Race Neutral	44
So Useful as a Good Theory? The Practicality Crisis in (Social) Psychological Theory	43
What Do We Know About Aging and Emotion Regulation?	43
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	43
The Need for Shared Nomenclature on Racism and Related Terminology in Psychology	41
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	40
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters	40
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 Review	37
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	37
Comparisons Inform Me Who I Am: A General Comparative-Processing Model of Self-Perception	36
Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? Comparing Linear and Nonlinear Effects of Cognitive Ability on Life Outcomes	35
Arrested Theory Development: The Misguided Distinction Between Exploratory and Confirmatory Research	35
Statistical Learning and Language Impairments: Toward More Precise Theoretical Accounts	34
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge	34
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment	33
Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations	33
Racial and Language Microaggressions in the School Ecology	33
Promises and Perils of Experimentation: The Mutual-Internal-Validity Problem	31
The Benefits, Barriers, and Risks of Big-Team Science	31
Quo Vadis, Methodology? The Key Role of Manipulation Checks for Validity Control and Quality of Science	31
Kinds of Replication: Examining the Meanings of “Conceptual Replication” and “Direct Replication”	31
Adopted Utility Calculus: Origins of a Concept of Social Affiliation	30
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 Perspective	30
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive	30
Anatomy of a Psychological Theory: Integrating Construct-Validation and Computational-Modeling Methods to Advance Theorizing	29
Toward a Harm-Based Account of Microaggressions	29
Communicating What We Know and What Isn’t So: Science Communication in Psychology	29
Does Neonatal Imitation Exist? Insights From a Meta-Analysis of 336 Effect Sizes	29
Bias, Fairness, and Validity in Graduate-School Admissions: A Psychometric Perspective	29
Thinking Clearly About Biology and Childhood Adversity: Next Steps for Continued Progress	29

A Dynamical Reconceptualization of Executive-Function Development	29
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail	28
Understanding the Magnitude of Psychological Differences Between Women and Men Requires Seeing the Forest and the Trees	28
Invalid Claims About the Validity of Implicit Association Tests by Prisoners of the Implicit Social-Cognition Paradigm	27
Why and When Beliefs Change	27
A Description–Experience Framework of the Psychology of Risk	27
The Interpersonal Neuroscience of Social Learning	26
Putting the Self in Self-Correction: Findings From the Loss-of-Confidence Project	26
Women Get Worse Sex: A Confound in the Explanation of Gender Differences in Sexuality	26
Seven Clarifications on the Psychology of Dehumanization	26
How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the United States	25
Why Warmth Matters More Than Competence: A New Evolutionary Approach	25
The Number of Senders and Total Judgments Matter More Than Sample Size in Deception-Detection Experiments	25
Belief in Unconscious Repressed Memory Persists	25
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research	25
(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 Personality	25
Racial Awareness and Bias Begin Early: Developmental Entry Points, Challenges, and a Call to Action	24
Do We Report the Information That Is Necessary to Give Psychology Away? A Scoping Review of the Psychological Intervention Literature 2000–2018	24
Illusory Essences: A Bias Holding Back Theorizing in Psychological Science	23
Understanding and Addressing Older Adults’ Loneliness: The Social Relationship Expectations Framework	23
Beyond Statistical Ritual: Theory in Psychological Science	23
Computing Components of Everyday Stress Responses: Exploring Conceptual Challenges and New Opportunities	22
Contact Tracing: A Memory Task With Consequences for Public Health	22
A Psychology of Ideology: Unpacking the Psychological Structure of Ideological Thinking	22
The Effects of Editorial-Board Diversity on Race Scholars and Their Scholarship: A Field Experiment	22
The Challenges of Military Veterans in Their Transition to the Workplace: A Call for Integrating Basic and Applied Psychological Science	21
Racial Microaggressions: Critical Questions, State of the Science, and New Directions	21
Values in Psychometrics	20
The Role of Replication Studies in Theory Building	20
Why Evolutionary Psychology Should Abandon Modularity	20
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations	20