OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Psychology is 47. 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
The hope theory and specific learning disorders and/or attention deficit disorders (SLD/ADHD): Developmental perspectives	312
Editorial Board	243
The butt of the joke: Understanding the social evaluations of leader humor targets	210
The disconnected couple: intimate relationships in the context of social isolation	181
Balancing listening and action is key to supportive parenting	164
Direct and indirect reciprocity among individuals and groups	161
Impacts of COVID-19 on the school experience of children and adolescents with special educational needs and disabilities	139
Emotions and ethics: How emotions sensitize perceptions of the consequences for self and others to motivate unethical behavior	131
Social media multitasking (SMM) and well-being: Existing evidence and future directions	123
Looking back, forging ahead: Fifteen years of Strength and Vulnerability Integration (SAVI)	121
Speaking your language: The psychological impact of dialect integration in artificial intelligence systems	108
Generation COVID: Coming of age amid the pandemic	106
The Venezuelan diaspora: Migration-related experiences and mental health	102
How small-scale societies achieve large-scale cooperation	99
Towards a psychology of religion and the environment	97
Social isolation: An underappreciated determinant of physical health	95
How language framing shapes the perception of social norms	91
Social media use, social displacement, and well-being	91
Impression (mis)management: When what you say is not what they hear	89
The multi-dimensional stigma of chronic pain: A narrative review	82
Attachment, loss, and related challenges in migration	79
Corrigendum to “Rampage shootings: An historical, empirical, and theoretical overview” [Curr Opin Psychol 19 (2018) 28–33]	77
What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation?	76
Misplaced certainty in the context of conspiracy theories	75
Processes of persuasion and social influence in conspiracy beliefs	74

Nostalgia and acculturation	72
Reading emotions, reading people: Emotion perception and inferences drawn from perceived emotions	69
The importance of friendships in reducing brain responses to stress in adolescents exposed to childhood adversity: a preregistered systematic review	66
False polarization: Cognitive mechanisms and potential solutions	64
Measuring dishonest behavior: Hidden dimensions that matter	63
Interdependent culture and older adults’ well-being: Health and psychological happiness in Japanese communities	63
Computational modeling of social decision-making	61
Self-control ≠ temporal discounting	60
Perceived diversity in teams: Conceptualizations, effects, and new research avenues	60
Self-perceptions of aging: A conceptual and empirical overview	59
Drug, demon, or donut? Theorizing the relationship between social media use, digital well-being and digital disconnection	59
Dimensions of religiousness and their connection to racial, ethnic, and atheist prejudices	59
Too good to go? Consumers’ replacement behaviour and potential strategies for stimulating product retention	58
The proust effect: Scents, food, and nostalgia	57
Behaviour change to address climate change	55
Bypassing as a non-confrontational influence strategy	52
Sexual and romantic spectrums: Mostly straights and mostly gays/lesbians	52
Locating nostalgia among the emotions: A bridge from loss to love	48
Fighting misinformation among the most vulnerable users	48
Challenging the law of least effort	48
Mental distress through the prism of predictive processing theory	47
Economic inequality and conspiracy theories	47
The loss of humanness in close relationships: An interpersonal model of dehumanization	47
Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories	47