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Papers

(The TQCC of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 22. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	292
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	230
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	111
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities	110
Psychological Selfishness	101
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	99
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	94
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	89
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	88
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	86
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge	83
Measurement of Intersectional Microaggressions: Conceptual Barriers and Recommendations	82
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	82
Significance-Quest Theory	80
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	78
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	74
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	73
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	71
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	71
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	66
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	65
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	65
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	61
Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	59
Redundancy and Reducibility in the Formats of Spatial Representations	58

Taking Stock and Moving Forward: A Personalized Perspective on Mixed Emotions	57
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	57
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	54
The “Effort Elephant” in the Room: What Is Effort, Anyway?	54
A Community-Embedded Implementation Model for Mental-Health Interventions: Reaching the Hardest to Reach	53
Toward a Psychology of Consent	53
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	50
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	48
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	47
Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change	47
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	46
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	45
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	44
The Limitations of Social Science as the Arbiter of Blame: An Argument for Abandoning Retribution	42
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	41
Critique of the Bias-of-Crowds Model Simply Restates the Model: Reply to Connor and Evers (2020)	41
What Was Not Said and What to Do About It	40
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories	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
Consensus Goals in the Field of Visual Metacognition	38
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict	38
Is Open Science Neoliberal?	38
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward	37
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence	37
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)	37
The Power of Odor Persuasion: The Incorporation of Olfactory Cues in Virtual Environments for Personalized Relaxation	36
How Do Expectations Modulate Pain? A Motivational Perspective	36
Challenges in Understanding Human-Algorithm Entanglement During Online Information Consumption	35
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
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors	33
The Myth of Normal Reading	32
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	31
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms	31
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness	31
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail	30
Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization	30
Stuck on Intergroup Attitudes: The Need to Shift Gears to Change Intergroup Behaviors	30
Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research	30
Discrepancies in the Definition and Measurement of Human Interoception: A Comprehensive Discussion and Suggested Ways Forward	30
Complex Racial Trauma: Evidence, Theory, Assessment, and Treatment	29
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	29
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions	29
Dealing With Diversity in Psychology: Science or Ideology?	27
Editorial for the Special Issue on Algorithms in Our Lives	27
The Idiosyncrasy Principle: A New Look at Qualia	27
What We Can Learn About Emotion by Talking With the Hadza	26

Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice	26
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
Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence	24
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Crowds to Address Global Problems	24
Global Diversity of Authors, Editors, and Journal Ownership Across Subdisciplines of Psychology: Current State and Policy Implications	24
Media-Induced War Trauma Amid Conflicts in Ukraine	24
C-H-E-A-T: Wordle Cheating Is Related to Religiosity and Cultural Tightness	24
Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning	23
Outside the “Cultural Binary”: Understanding Why Latin American Collectivist Societies Foster Independent Selves	23
Psychology’s Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health	23
Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes	23
Subjective Confidence as a Monitor of the Replicability of the Response	22
Noise in Cognition: Bug or Feature?	22
Interactionally Embedded Gestalt Principles of Multimodal Human Communication	22
Measuring Racial Discrimination Remotely: A Contemporary Review of Unobtrusive Measures	22
Metacognitive Feelings: A Predictive-Processing Perspective	22
Facecraft: Race Reification in Psychological Research With Faces	22