OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	276
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	253
Psychological Selfishness	212
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities	124
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	103
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	85
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	83
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	82
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	81
Significance-Quest Theory	81
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations	79
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	78
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	77
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge	74
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	71
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	71
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	71
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	71
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	70
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	69
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	68
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	65
The Number of Senders and Total Judgments Matter More Than Sample Size in Deception-Detection Experiments	62
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach	61
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change	60

The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	59
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	57
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	55
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	53
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	51
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	50
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	48
Toward a Psychology of Consent	48
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	47
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	45
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	45
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	45
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution	45
Critique of the Bias-of-Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model: Reply to Connor and Evers (2020)	43
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	41
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It	40
Corrigendum: Mystical and Other Alterations in Sense of Self: An Expanded Framework for Studying Nonordinary Experiences	39
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology	39
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict	39
Is Open Science Neoliberal?	38
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	37
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)	36
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition	36
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward	36
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence	36
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors	35
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories	35
How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective	35
Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption	35
The Power of Odor Persuasion: The Incorporation of Olfactory Cues in Virtual Environments for Personalized Relaxation	34
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk	34
How Microaggressions Reinforce and Perpetuate Systemic Racism in the United States	34
The Myth of Normal Reading	32
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization	32
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness	31
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive	31
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes	30
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms	30
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms	29
Racial Microaggressions: Critical Questions, State of the Science, and New Directions	28
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions	28
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward	28
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail	27
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research	27
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors	27
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment	27
What Makes a Champion? Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance	27
Viewing Development Through the Lens of Culture: Integrating Developmental and Cultural Psychology to Better Understand Cognition and Behavior	26
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia	26
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives	25

Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?	25
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice	25
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine	25
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention	25
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza	25
Not All Effects Are Indispensable: Psychological Science Requires Verifiable Lines of Reasoning for Whether an Effect Matters	24
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence	23
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces	23
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response	23
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness	22
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems	22
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health	21
Coping or Thriving? Reviewing Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Societal Factors Associated With Well-Being in Singlehood From a Within-Group Perspective	21
Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning	21
Measuring Racial Discrimination Remotely: A Contemporary Review of Unobtrusive Measures	21
Metacognitive Feelings: A Predictive-Processing Perspective	20
Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes	20
Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?	20
Outside the “Cultural Binary”: Understanding Why Latin American Collectivist Societies Foster Independent Selves	20