Current Opinion in Psychology

Papers
(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Psychology is 15. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The butt of the joke: Understanding the social evaluations of leader humor targets771
Cognitive dysfunction and parent-directed aggression173
Rethinking intimate partner violence risk: A Dyadic Socioecological Model of Adverse Relationship Pressures159
Social media multitasking (SMM) and well-being: Existing evidence and future directions120
Generation COVID: Coming of age amid the pandemic111
Four big problems of big five agreeableness109
Prejudice against jagged personality profiles: Rethinking bias in psychological research and clinical practice103
Alternate strategies for universal coverage: Implications for efficiency100
Cognitive-behavioral treatment of gender dysphoria in youth: Opportunities, challenges, and responsibilities97
Political challenges facing universal coverage89
How language framing shapes the perception of social norms87
Emotions and ethics: How emotions sensitize perceptions of the consequences for self and others to motivate unethical behavior86
Therapy chatbots and emotional complexity: do therapy chatbots really empathise?82
Looking back, forging ahead: Fifteen years of Strength and Vulnerability Integration (SAVI)82
The hope theory and specific learning disorders and/or attention deficit disorders (SLD/ADHD): Developmental perspectives80
Impacts of COVID-19 on the school experience of children and adolescents with special educational needs and disabilities78
Monitoring adverse effects in TMS: From controlled trials to clinical reality74
Social media use, social displacement, and well-being73
Balancing listening and action is key to supportive parenting65
Speaking your language: The psychological impact of dialect integration in artificial intelligence systems63
The Venezuelan diaspora: Migration-related experiences and mental health63
Contents61
Cognitive factors associated with intimate partner and sexual violence perpetration and victimisation: A systematic review of current research ☆60
Willful inattention: Integrating visual attention mechanisms and willful ignorance59
Bridging the gap between personality and stereotypes: A conceptual and methodological integration59
Nostalgia and acculturation57
Accumulation of violence and victimisation: Why it matters to measure broadly and account for different harm types57
Collective memories of urban spaces through mental maps55
Measuring dishonest behavior: Hidden dimensions that matter55
Processes of persuasion and social influence in conspiracy beliefs53
Self-control ≠ temporal discounting52
Attachment, loss, and related challenges in migration52
Perceived diversity in teams: Conceptualizations, effects, and new research avenues51
Children's developing understanding of social norms51
The multi-dimensional stigma of chronic pain: A narrative review51
Self-perceptions of aging: A conceptual and empirical overview50
Computational modeling of social decision-making50
Misplaced certainty in the context of conspiracy theories50
Interdependent culture and older adults’ well-being: Health and psychological happiness in Japanese communities50
Locating nostalgia among the emotions: A bridge from loss to love49
The proust effect: Scents, food, and nostalgia49
Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories49
Science communication and public trust in science through an audience-centered quality perspective48
Challenging the law of least effort48
Artificial intelligence, workers, and future of work skills48
Willful ignorance: A perspective from economics47
Bypassing as a non-confrontational influence strategy46
Contents46
Entertainment media as a source of relationship misinformation46
Leader humor across levels46
Corrigendum to “Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy” [Curr Opin Psychol 54 (2023) 101711]46
Nostalgia, and what it used to be46
Changes in Lesbian identity in the 21st century44
Can't buy me meaning? Lay theories impede people from deriving meaning and well-being from consumption44
Science and the crisis of trust44
The loss of humanness in close relationships: An interpersonal model of dehumanization44
Conversational remembering44
Meta-nudging honesty: Past, present, and future of the research frontier44
A case study of ethical and political change in the history of sexual orientation conversion efforts in cognitive behavior therapy43
Cause and effect: On the antecedents and consequences of conspiracy theory beliefs43
Meta-perception and misinformation41
Sex, gender, and pain: Evidence and knowledge gaps40
The fable of state self-control40
Economic inequality and conspiracy theories40
Humor and job satisfaction40
Sexual and romantic spectrums: Mostly straights and mostly gays/lesbians39
Ostracism and social exclusion: Implications for separation, social isolation, and loss39
Scholarship on well-being and social media: A sociotechnical perspective39
Fighting misinformation among the most vulnerable users38
An ‘outgroup’ public won’t trust a progressive ‘ingroup’ psychology38
Organisations that promote eco-human flourishing38
Utilizing a psychological network approach to improve insights into science attitudes37
When does moral engagement risk triggering a hypocrite penalty?37
Confirmation in personal relationships37
New directions for studying the aging social-cognitive brain36
Introducing conspiracy intuitions to better understand conspiracy beliefs36
Do institutions evolve like material technologies?35
A cognitive approach to learning, monitoring, and shifting social norms35
Compulsive shopping: A review and update34
The psychological, social, and societal relevance of nostalgia34
Confidence as a metacognitive contributor to and consequence of misinformation experiences34
Femininity in the 21st century34
Kindness in short supply: Evidence for inadequate prosocial input34
Integrating insights from implementation science and behavioral economics to strengthen suicide screening strategies for pediatric populations33
Using multi-method data for more accurate research findings33
Collective memory and mental health: Limitations, provocations, possibilities32
Editorial Board32
Editorial Board32
Ethics and honesty in organizations: Unique organizational challenges31
The mental health–migration interface among sub-Saharan African and Chinese populations30
Contents30
Corrigendum to ‘Building a collective memory: The case for collective forgetting’ [Curr Opin Psychol 23 (2018) 88–92]30
Beyond minority stress: Toward a multidimensional psychology of trans/nonbinary gender29
Internal and external forces that prevent (vs. Facilitate) healthy eating: Review and outlook within consumer Psychology29
Nostalgic intergroup contact and intergroup relations:Theoretical, empirical, and applied dimensions29
The benefits (and costs) of sexual responsiveness in romantic relationships29
Community gardens and the cultivation of social capital29
Collective memory and social representations29
Nostalgia in Tourism28
Personality and misinformation28
Hope and depression and personality disorders27
AI-induced hyper-learning in humans27
The good, bad and ugly of dispositional greed27
Global priorities for improving access to mental health services for adolescents in the post-pandemic world27
The power to harm: AI assistants pave the way to unethical behavior27
Deception, honesty, and professionalism: A persistent challenge in modern medicine27
Current biopsychosocial science on understanding kink27
The neurobiology of antisocial behavior in adolescence; current knowledge and relevance for youth forensic clinical practice26
Faking Feelings: Emotional Deception in Negotiation26
Editorial Board26
A review of current and proposed behavioral nudge strategies to improve the readiness of the United States military26
A critical review of clinician-directed nudges25
Nostalgia: A potential pathway to greater well-being25
Systems and subversion: A review of structural violence and im/migrant health25
Narratives of collective memory in intractable conflict: The Israeli case25
Honesty as a trait25
Current state of psychological therapies for children and adults with chronic pain: Where next?25
Contents25
Warning signs of future intimate partner violence24
Mnemonic asymmetries: How collective memory shapes and reflects intergroup relations24
Overcoming listener skepticism: Costly signaling in communication increases perceived honesty24
The psychological entrapment of partner abuse24
The quiet cruelty: Ostracism as intimate partner violence24
The Multicultural turn in psychotherapy: A philosophical and ethical reckoning24
Responsiveness in cultural-ecological context24
Relational cultural theory: Context in therapy24
Promoting hope in minoritized and economically disadvantaged students24
Listening and the pursuit of communal relationships23
The nexus between immigration status, policy, and proceedings, and mental health23
The effects of consumption on self-esteem23
Science literacy and the acceptance of scientific facts23
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent sleep behavior23
The vicious cycle of violent intergroup conflicts and conspiracy theories23
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent mental health across the world23
Social psychological aspects of gay identity development23
Impacts of COVID-19 quarantine and isolation on adolescent social functioning23
Collective memory and autobiographical memory: The same evolutionary basis serving group cohesion and cooperation22
Contents22
The power of cultural habits: The role of effortless control in delaying gratification22
Contents22
Conspiracy beliefs and science rejection22
Partial ignorance: Strategies for coping with inconvenient information22
Editorial Board21
The development of parent-directed aggression in childhood21
Goals in old age: What we want when we are old and why it matters21
Contents21
Corrigendum to “The Nocebo effect in psychotherapy” [Curr Opin Psychol 67 (2026) 102152]21
Editorial overview: The psychology of misinformation21
New directions in ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness development: Contextual considerations in the aftermath of COVID-1921
Antecedents and consequences of science-related conspiracy beliefs21
Rebuilding trust in CBT: Intellectual humility and multicultural competencies as responses to political criticism20
Not distinctly harmless, but No distinct harms?20
How therapist effects shape pain-related outcome improvement in psychological treatments for chronic pain20
Professions, honesty, and income20
Adverse experiences in psychological treatments: Where do we stand?19
The social-ecological framework for understanding intimate partner violence19
Measurement structures of hope: A review of single-factor and two-factor models across hope scales19
Moral values & trust in science19
Social media and adolescent well-being in the Global South19
Social media, self-harm, and suicide19
Editorial Board19
On the role of memory in misinformation corrections: Repeated exposure, correction durability, and source credibility19
The moral psychology of misinformation: Why we excuse dishonesty in a post-truth world19
Deliberate ignorance in resource allocations to others: The role of entitlement18
Personality and cognitive ability: A critical review and meta-analytic synthesis18
Lay standards for reasoning predict people's acceptance of suspect claims18
Chronic pain and comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder: Potential mechanisms, conceptualizations, and interventions18
Editorial Board18
How food overconsumption has hijacked our notions about eating as a pleasurable activity18
Listening and perceived responsiveness: Unveiling the significance and exploring crucial research endeavors18
When listening is spoken18
Uncertainty as a driver of the youth mental health crisis18
‘Pleasureful self-control’? A new perspective on old problems18
Responsive support: A matter of psychological need fulfillment18
Editorial overview: Diversity in organizations – Current insights and future directions18
Hear, hear! A review of accent discrimination at work18
Intimate partner violence perpetration in sexual and gender minoritized communities18
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Beliefs about self-control17
The unmatchable brightness of doing: Experiential consumption facilitates greater satisfaction than spending on material possessions17
Social media, parenting, and well-being17
Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing?17
Perceptions and behaviors toward first-generation, low-income individuals in organizations17
Faking on personality assessments in high-stakes settings: A critical review16
The other pandemic: Mental illness in young people from low and middle-income countries16
Evolutionary theory and personality16
College and COVID-19: The Pandemic's reverberations on adolescents and emerging adults on campus16
Self-control and behavioral public policy16
Mean rating difference scores are poor measures of discernment: The role of response criteria16
Reluctant altruism: Underlying mechanisms and global variations16
The complexities of consumer empowerment in the modern consumption environment16
Betrayal and punishment within intimate relationships16
From primary to pluralistic: A typology of intersectionality16
Motivational interviewing-based interventions with patients with comorbid anxiety and substance use disorders15
Plant behavior: Theoretical and technological advances15
Children's susceptibility to online misinformation15
The current state of sexual fluidity research15
Can self-control make you happy?15
Resisting harmful social norms change using social inoculation15
Conspiracy theories through the lens of collective memory15
Collective memory and genetic social psychology: A necessary rediscovery in times of polycrisis15
Does curiosity make us riskier? The mediating role of willful ignorance15
The Therapy Room Is Not a Classroom: Why Emotional Safety in Therapy Belongs to the Client15
Seeing the funny side: Humor in pro-environmental communication15
Contemporary perspectives into the study of interpersonal violence and maltreatment15
The influence of politics on psychological interventions for pediatric gender dysphoria15
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