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Papers

(The TQCC of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 24. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	308
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	151
Psychological Selfishness	127
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	122
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	115
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	102
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	95
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	95
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	95
Significance-Quest Theory	93
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	89
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	88
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	85
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	85
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	83
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	83
Why It May Be Useful to Integrate the Stereotype Content Model and the Interpersonal Perspective	78
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	76
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	68
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	64
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	63
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	62
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach	60
Toward a Psychology of Consent	60
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	59

Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	54
Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	50
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	48
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	47
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	47
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	47
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	46
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?	44
Corrigendum: Mystical and Other Alterations in Sense of Self: An Expanded Framework for Studying Nonordinary Experiences	43
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution	43
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	43
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	42
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology	41
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It	41
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict	40
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition	38
Is Open Science Neoliberal?	38
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)	38
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward	35
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories	35
How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective	35
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence	35
Asking Better Questions: Strategic Questioning as a Psychologically Wise Intervention	34
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors	33
Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption	32
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms	31
Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk	31
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness	30
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization	30
Understanding Collective Intelligence: Investigating the Role of Collective Memory, Attention, and Reasoning Processes	29
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms	29
The Myth of Normal Reading	29
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward	28
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail	28
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment	28
The Pandemic as a Portal: Reimagining Psychological Science as Truly Open and Inclusive	28
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research	28
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors	27
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions	27
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives	26
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia	26
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	25
Placebo and Nocebo Effects as Bayesian-Brain Phenomena: The Overlooked Role of Likelihood and Attention	25
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine	25
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems	25
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?	25
Global Diversity of Authors, Editors, and Journal Ownership Across Subdisciplines of Psychology: Current State and Policy Implications	25
Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice	25

Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning	24
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response	24
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness	24
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication	24
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces	24