Current Opinion in Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Psychology is 6. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Global climate change and mental health155
Social comparison on social networking sites149
Social media use and its impact on adolescent mental health: An umbrella review of the evidence139
Air pollution: A systematic review of its psychological, economic, and social effects129
A meta-analysis based modified unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (meta-UTAUT): a review of emerging literature117
Prosocial behavior and altruism: A review of concepts and definitions104
AI in mental health103
Social support, interpersonal, and community dynamics following disasters caused by natural hazards98
The dark side of social movements: social identity, non-conformity, and the lure of conspiracy theories92
Behaviour change to address climate change89
Why increases in adolescent depression may be linked to the technological environment84
Social media and body image: Recent trends and future directions82
Chronotype, circadian rhythms and mood80
Smartphone apps for the treatment of mental health conditions: status and considerations77
Social media use and well-being: What we know and what we need to know76
Customer engagement in the digital age: a review and research agenda69
Trends over time in adult cannabis use: A review of recent findings66
Voice pitch: a window into the communication of social power66
Gamification to prevent climate change: a review of games and apps for sustainability65
ADHD and sleep: recent advances and future directions64
Self-harm in the context of borderline personality disorder61
The psychology of luxury consumption61
The effects of low socioeconomic status on decision-making processes60
Engineering social change using social norms: lessons from the study of collective action60
Can positive and self-transcendent emotions promote pro-environmental behavior?59
Dominance, prestige, and the role of leveling in human social hierarchy and equality58
Advances in immersive virtual reality interventions for mental disorders: A new reality?58
Social isolation: An underappreciated determinant of physical health58
Employee green behaviour: How organizations can help the environment57
Clarifying terminologies in research on gaming disorder and other addictive behaviors: distinctions between core symptoms and underlying psychological processes57
Digital privacy in mental healthcare: current issues and recommendations for technology use56
Tearing apart the “evil” twins: A general conspiracy mentality is not the same as specific conspiracy beliefs55
The psychology of online activism and social movements: relations between online and offline collective action54
Racial and political resistance: an examination of the sociopolitical action of racially marginalized youth54
Cyberbullying via social media and well-being54
The role of conspiracy beliefs for COVID-19 health responses: A meta-analysis50
Stress and adolescence: vulnerability and opportunity during a sensitive window of development49
Sleep problems, behavior, and psychopathology in autism: inter-relationships across the lifespan49
Suspicion of institutions: How distrust and conspiracy theories deteriorate social relationships49
Insomnia and depression: clinical associations and possible mechanistic links49
A short review on susceptibility to falling for fake political news49
Digital phenotyping in psychological and medical sciences: a reflection about necessary prerequisites to reduce harm and increase benefits47
Adolescence as a pivotal period for emotion regulation development45
Prosocial vaccination45
A review of recent research in social robotics45
Psychological consequences of relational mobility45
Social identity makes group-based social connection possible: Implications for loneliness and mental health44
The effects of smartphones on well-being: theoretical integration and research agenda44
A review of recent research in problematic internet use: gender and cultural differences44
Power, approach, and inhibition: empirical advances of a theory43
Sleep in PTSD: treatment approaches and outcomes43
Understanding violent extremism in the 21st century: the (re)emerging role of relative deprivation43
Social media use, stress, and coping42
Understanding the psychological appeal of populism42
Prosocial behavior and reputation: When does doing good lead to looking good?40
Psychological ownership: implicit and explicit40
Toward a social ecology of prosociality: why, when, and where nature enhances social connection39
Implications of social isolation, separation, and loss during the COVID-19 pandemic for couples' relationships39
Prevention of internalizing disorders and suicide via adolescent sleep interventions38
The Gateway Belief Model (GBM): A review and research agenda for communicating the scientific consensus on climate change38
Depression and sleep: what has the treatment research revealed and could the HPA axis be a potential mechanism?38
Psychological distance: How to make climate change less abstract and closer to the self38
Sexting within young adults’ dating and romantic relationships37
The short-term and long-term effects of cannabis on cognition: recent advances in the field37
Online social capital: recent trends in research35
Differences in social information are critical to understanding aggressive behavior in animal dominance hierarchies35
Collective climate action: When do people turn into collective environmental agents?35
Social media use and well-being among older adults34
Prosociality in times of separation and loss33
Minority stress theory: Application, critique, and continued relevance33
Recent developments in the social identity approach to the psychology of climate change33
Rethinking Responses to Youth Rebellion: Recent Growth and Development of Restorative Practices in Schools33
Virtual reality and the psychology of climate change32
Person-specific networks in psychopathology: Past, present, and future32
Motivation and climate change: A review32
A systematic review of loneliness in bereavement: Current research and future directions32
Contest versus scramble competition: sex differences in the quest for status32
The developmental origins of social hierarchy: how infants and young children mentally represent and respond to power and status32
A socioecological psychology of racism: making structures and history more visible32
Geographical psychology32
Social comparison and envy on social media: A critical review31
Stress, cortisol, and social hierarchy31
Studying the impact of built environments on human mental health in everyday life: methodological developments, state-of-the-art and technological frontiers31
False polarization: Cognitive mechanisms and potential solutions30
Why do people follow social norms?30
Cultural diversity and its implications for intergroup relations30
Recent developments in the psychology of crowds and collective behaviour30
How hierarchy shapes our emotional lives: effects of power and status on emotional experience, expression, and responsiveness30
Emerging evidence of cultural differences linked to rice versus wheat agriculture30
Problematic social networking site use: a brief review of recent research methods and the way forward30
Acting for whom, against what? Group membership and multiple paths to engagement in social change29
The compatibility of theoretical frameworks with machine learning analyses in psychological research29
Psychotic symptoms in borderline personality disorder: developmental aspects29
Guidelines for immersive virtual reality in psychological research28
Sleep and circadian risk factors for alcohol problems: a brief overview and proposed mechanisms28
Contextualizing adolescent structural brain development: Environmental determinants and mental health outcomes28
Psychological foundations of emerging technologies for teaching and learning in higher education28
A brief psychological overview of disordered gaming28
A review investigating the relationship between cannabis use and adolescent cognitive functioning28
Relative deprivation and revolt: current and future directions27
Drug, demon, or donut? Theorizing the relationship between social media use, digital well-being and digital disconnection27
Sleep and eating disorders: current research and future directions27
What do we really know about mindfulness and sleep health?27
Minority influence in climate change mitigation27
Inequality is in the air: contextual psychosocial effects of power and social class26
Shifting consumer behavior to address climate change26
From values to climate action26
Adolescent identity development in context26
Conspiracy theories and social media platforms25
The psychology of residential mobility: a decade of progress25
Power and status across cultures25
Anthropomorphism and object attachment25
Early warning signals and critical transitions in psychopathology: challenges and recommendations25
Towards a psychology of religion and the environment25
Social media and self-esteem25
Youth marijuana use: a review of causes and consequences25
Ambulatory assessment in psychopathology research: Current achievements and future ambitions25
One year on: What we have learned about the psychological effects of COVID-19 social restrictions: A meta-analysis24
Parasocial relationships, social media, & well-being24
Social media use, social displacement, and well-being24
Sleep difficulties and suicidality in youth: current research and future directions24
Impulsive and risky decision-making in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): The need for a developmental perspective24
Wisdom is a social-ecological rather than person-centric phenomenon24
Cannabis and driving ability23
Reading emotions, reading people: Emotion perception and inferences drawn from perceived emotions23
Emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder: A fronto–limbic imbalance?23
Social media and online hate23
Insomnia disorder and its reciprocal relation with psychopathology23
The role of sleep in fear learning and memory23
Climate of conspiracy: A meta-analysis of the consequences of belief in conspiracy theories about climate change23
Borderline personality disorder: course and outcomes across the lifespan23
Peer network studies and interventions in adolescence22
Building and breaking social media habits22
Socio-ecological influences on political ideology22
Sexual prejudice, sexism, and religion22
Upward spirals of positive emotions and religious behaviors22
Personality predictors of social status attainment22
Attachment theory and religion22
The development of prosocial behavior—from sympathy to strategy22
Social media and well-being: A methodological perspective22
Social media and adolescent well-being in the Global South22
Social Safety Theory: Understanding social stress, disease risk, resilience, and behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond21
Existential threat as a challenge for individual and collective engagement: Climate change and the motivation to act21
Assessment of Criterion A21
The common denominators of sleep, obesity, and psychopathology21
Compulsive shopping: A review and update20
Dominant leaders and the political psychology of followership20
Towards an integration of individualistic, networked, and institutional approaches to online disclosure and privacy in a networked ecology20
Five failures and five challenges for prevention and early intervention for personality disorder20
Maximizing the impact of virtual reality exposure therapy for anxiety disorders20
Psychological benefits of believing conspiracy theories20
Power and negotiation: review of current evidence and future directions20
Egalitarianism: psychological and socio-ecological foundations20
The relation of mindfulness and prosocial behavior: What do we (not) know?20
Editorial overview: What is socio-ecological psychology?20
Autonomy–connection tensions, stress, and attachment: The case of COVID-1920
Power and decision making: new directions for research in the age of artificial intelligence20
Critical psychologies and climate change20
The developmental roots of environmental stewardship: Childhood and the climate change crisis20
Objects and self-identity20
Digital object attachment19
The Conversational Circumplex: Identifying, prioritizing, and pursuing informational and relational motives in conversation19
Aggressive video games research emerges from its replication crisis (Sort of)19
Decision-making under the deep uncertainty of climate change: The psychological and political agency of narratives19
Resistance to collective victimization and oppression19
Prosociality as a foundation for intergroup conflict19
Cultural religiosity: A neglected but powerful dimension of culture19
Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories19
Bystander reactions to cyberbullying and cyberaggression: individual, contextual, and social factors19
Religiosity in adolescence19
Social video gaming and well-being19
Power and social distance19
Leaving religion: deconversion19
Object attachment in hoarding disorder and its role in a compensatory process19
Too good to go? Consumers’ replacement behaviour and potential strategies for stimulating product retention18
Making and unmaking egalitarianism in small-scale human societies18
Self-regulation as a key boundary condition in the relationship between social media use and well-being18
Socio-ecological roots of cultures of honor18
Delineating adaptive esports involvement from maladaptive gaming: a self-regulation perspective18
Conspiracy beliefs as an adaptation to historical trauma18
The psychology of nonbelievers18
How small-scale societies achieve large-scale cooperation18
Interventions for cannabis use disorder18
Dehumanization and the lack of social connection18
The evolutionary psychology of mass mobilization: how disinformation and demagogues coordinate rather than manipulate18
Intuition, reason, and conspiracy beliefs18
The dark and bright side of video game consumption: Effects of violent and prosocial video games18
How affect shapes status: distinct emotional experiences and expressions facilitate social hierarchy navigation18
Prosocial modeling: person role models and the media18
Sleep in obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: a selective review and synthesis17
Prosocial behavior and well-being: Shifting from the ‘chicken and egg’ to positive feedback loop17
Six assumptions of contemporary integrative interpersonal theory of personality and psychopathology17
The p factor and dimensional structural models of youth personality pathology and psychopathology17
Imagination and social movements17
Being spiritual but not religious17
Public perceptions of geoengineering17
Mechanisms of change in dialectical behaviour therapy for people with borderline personality disorder17
Dimensions of religiousness and their connection to racial, ethnic, and atheist prejudices17
The revolting body: Self-disgust as a key factor in anorexia nervosa17
Dimensions of human hierarchy as determinants of health and happiness17
Sleep disturbances in schizophrenia: what we know, what still needs to be done17
Prosocial lies: Causes and consequences17
Cause and effect: On the antecedents and consequences of conspiracy theory beliefs17
Reward, punishment, and prosocial behavior: Recent developments and implications17
What works for adolescents with borderline personality disorder: towards a developmentally informed understanding and structured treatment model17
A psychology of power that is embedded in societal structures16
Measuring parent–adolescent interactions in natural habitats. The potential, status, and challenges of ecological momentary assessment16
Social media, parenting, and well-being16
How do socio-ecological factors shape culture? Understanding the process of micro–macro interactions16
Religion and delusion16
Social norm interventions as a tool for pro-climate change16
Supernatural punishment beliefs as cognitively compelling tools of social control16
Sex differences in insomnia and risk for psychopathology in adolescence16
Team status conflict15
The link between perspective-taking and prosociality — Not as universal as you might think15
How narratives of racial progress create barriers to diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations15
Identity pathology and borderline personality disorder: an empirical overview15
Social media and close relationships: a puzzle of connection and disconnection15
Cannabis use and psychosocial functioning: evidence from prospective longitudinal studies15
Evolutionary psychology meets socio-ecological psychology: the motivational psychologies of disease-avoidance and parental care15
The current state of memory Specificity Training (MeST) for emotional disorders15
Cross-national differences in willingness to believe conspiracy theories15
Using large, publicly available data sets to study adolescent development: opportunities and challenges15
Trauma-related sleep disturbance in youth15
Death anxiety and religion15
The limited importance of dehumanization in collective violence15
Humor and power15
Prosocial development in adolescence15
Narcissism and conspicuous consumption15
The ecology of infants’ perceptual-motor exploration15
Does recent research evidence support the hyperpersonal model of online impression management?14
How social identity shapes conspiratorial belief14
Social isolation and social support in good times and bad times14
Understanding crowd conflict: social context, psychology and policing14
Sleep and sleep treatments in bipolar disorder14
Hope and climate-change engagement from a psychological perspective14
Does religion make people more self-controlled? A review of research from the lab and life14
Object attachment in buying-shopping disorder14
Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing?14
Using agent-based modelling to explore behavioural dynamics affecting our climate14
Deconstructing moral character judgments14
Emotionally focused therapy: Attachment, connection, and health14
The things that make us: self and object attachment in hoarding and compulsive buying-shopping disorder14
Ostracism and social exclusion: Implications for separation, social isolation, and loss14
A trajectories based perspective on status dynamics14
Direct and indirect reciprocity among individuals and groups14
Power, status, and hierarchy: current trends and future challenges14
Drivers of desire for social rank13
The socioecology of social class13
A micro-sociological theory of adjustment to loss13
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