Current Opinion in Psychology

Papers
(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Psychology is 16. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social media use and its impact on adolescent mental health: An umbrella review of the evidence204
Social comparison on social networking sites196
AI in mental health147
Prosocial behavior and altruism: A review of concepts and definitions147
A meta-analysis based modified unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (meta-UTAUT): a review of emerging literature135
Social media and body image: Recent trends and future directions131
Behaviour change to address climate change119
Minority stress theory: Application, critique, and continued relevance117
Social media use and well-being: What we know and what we need to know106
Gamification to prevent climate change: a review of games and apps for sustainability91
Stress and adolescence: vulnerability and opportunity during a sensitive window of development90
Smartphone apps for the treatment of mental health conditions: status and considerations89
Customer engagement in the digital age: a review and research agenda88
Social isolation: An underappreciated determinant of physical health86
Trends over time in adult cannabis use: A review of recent findings86
Cyberbullying via social media and well-being82
Can positive and self-transcendent emotions promote pro-environmental behavior?81
The psychology of luxury consumption76
Employee green behaviour: How organizations can help the environment74
Digital privacy in mental healthcare: current issues and recommendations for technology use73
Adolescence as a pivotal period for emotion regulation development73
Tearing apart the “evil” twins: A general conspiracy mentality is not the same as specific conspiracy beliefs72
Self-harm in the context of borderline personality disorder72
Suspicion of institutions: How distrust and conspiracy theories deteriorate social relationships71
Advances in immersive virtual reality interventions for mental disorders: A new reality?69
Social identity makes group-based social connection possible: Implications for loneliness and mental health67
Social media use, stress, and coping66
The role of conspiracy beliefs for COVID-19 health responses: A meta-analysis63
Clarifying terminologies in research on gaming disorder and other addictive behaviors: distinctions between core symptoms and underlying psychological processes63
Digital phenotyping in psychological and medical sciences: a reflection about necessary prerequisites to reduce harm and increase benefits57
A short review on susceptibility to falling for fake political news57
Prosocial vaccination54
Psychological distance: How to make climate change less abstract and closer to the self54
A review of recent research in problematic internet use: gender and cultural differences53
A review of recent research in social robotics52
Psychological ownership: implicit and explicit51
The effects of smartphones on well-being: theoretical integration and research agenda51
Person-specific networks in psychopathology: Past, present, and future50
Implications of social isolation, separation, and loss during the COVID-19 pandemic for couples' relationships50
Social comparison and envy on social media: A critical review48
Prosocial behavior and reputation: When does doing good lead to looking good?48
Parasocial relationships, social media, & well-being47
Collective climate action: When do people turn into collective environmental agents?47
Social media use and well-being among older adults47
The Gateway Belief Model (GBM): A review and research agenda for communicating the scientific consensus on climate change47
Recent developments in the social identity approach to the psychology of climate change46
The short-term and long-term effects of cannabis on cognition: recent advances in the field45
Virtual reality and the psychology of climate change43
Why do people follow social norms?43
Contextualizing adolescent structural brain development: Environmental determinants and mental health outcomes42
Online social capital: recent trends in research41
Prosociality in times of separation and loss41
Adolescent identity development in context41
A systematic review of loneliness in bereavement: Current research and future directions40
Sexting within young adults’ dating and romantic relationships40
Motivation and climate change: A review39
Ambulatory assessment in psychopathology research: Current achievements and future ambitions38
Impulsive and risky decision-making in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): The need for a developmental perspective38
False polarization: Cognitive mechanisms and potential solutions38
From values to climate action37
Hope and climate-change engagement from a psychological perspective37
Anthropomorphism and object attachment37
Problematic social networking site use: a brief review of recent research methods and the way forward36
Psychological foundations of emerging technologies for teaching and learning in higher education36
Conspiracy theories and social media platforms36
Social media and self-esteem35
One year on: What we have learned about the psychological effects of COVID-19 social restrictions: A meta-analysis35
Drug, demon, or donut? Theorizing the relationship between social media use, digital well-being and digital disconnection35
Social media use, social displacement, and well-being35
Social media and well-being: A methodological perspective35
Shifting consumer behavior to address climate change34
Reading emotions, reading people: Emotion perception and inferences drawn from perceived emotions34
The compatibility of theoretical frameworks with machine learning analyses in psychological research34
The development of prosocial behavior—from sympathy to strategy33
Towards a psychology of religion and the environment33
Psychotic symptoms in borderline personality disorder: developmental aspects33
Social media and online hate32
A review investigating the relationship between cannabis use and adolescent cognitive functioning32
Early warning signals and critical transitions in psychopathology: challenges and recommendations32
Minority influence in climate change mitigation32
Guidelines for immersive virtual reality in psychological research32
Climate of conspiracy: A meta-analysis of the consequences of belief in conspiracy theories about climate change32
Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories31
Social media and adolescent well-being in the Global South31
A brief psychological overview of disordered gaming31
Existential threat as a challenge for individual and collective engagement: Climate change and the motivation to act30
Borderline personality disorder: course and outcomes across the lifespan30
Building and breaking social media habits29
Objects and self-identity28
Peer network studies and interventions in adolescence28
Critical psychologies and climate change28
Psychological benefits of believing conspiracy theories28
Attachment theory and religion28
Youth marijuana use: a review of causes and consequences28
Dehumanization and the lack of social connection28
Emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder: A fronto–limbic imbalance?28
Cross-national differences in willingness to believe conspiracy theories27
Decision-making under the deep uncertainty of climate change: The psychological and political agency of narratives27
Self-regulation as a key boundary condition in the relationship between social media use and well-being27
Social Safety Theory: Understanding social stress, disease risk, resilience, and behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond27
Prosocial behavior and well-being: Shifting from the ‘chicken and egg’ to positive feedback loop27
Moving the self and others to do good: The emotional underpinnings of prosocial behavior27
Conspiracy beliefs as an adaptation to historical trauma26
Sexual prejudice, sexism, and religion26
Cause and effect: On the antecedents and consequences of conspiracy theory beliefs26
Maximizing the impact of virtual reality exposure therapy for anxiety disorders26
Too good to go? Consumers’ replacement behaviour and potential strategies for stimulating product retention26
Upward spirals of positive emotions and religious behaviors26
Social video gaming and well-being25
Prosocial development in adolescence25
Prosociality as a foundation for intergroup conflict25
Cultural religiosity: A neglected but powerful dimension of culture25
Insomnia disorder and its reciprocal relation with psychopathology25
The relation of mindfulness and prosocial behavior: What do we (not) know?25
Prosocial modeling: person role models and the media25
Intuition, reason, and conspiracy beliefs25
Towards an integration of individualistic, networked, and institutional approaches to online disclosure and privacy in a networked ecology24
The Conversational Circumplex: Identifying, prioritizing, and pursuing informational and relational motives in conversation24
Social isolation and social support in good times and bad times24
Social norm interventions as a tool for pro-climate change24
Death anxiety and religion24
Digital object attachment24
Public perceptions of geoengineering24
Bystander reactions to cyberbullying and cyberaggression: individual, contextual, and social factors24
Direct and indirect reciprocity among individuals and groups24
Interventions for cannabis use disorder24
Cannabis and driving ability24
Compulsive shopping: A review and update24
Reward, punishment, and prosocial behavior: Recent developments and implications24
The dark and bright side of video game consumption: Effects of violent and prosocial video games24
Assessment of Criterion A23
Leaving religion: deconversion23
Five failures and five challenges for prevention and early intervention for personality disorder23
Being spiritual but not religious23
Autonomy–connection tensions, stress, and attachment: The case of COVID-1923
Religiosity in adolescence23
The link between perspective-taking and prosociality — Not as universal as you might think23
Mechanisms of change in dialectical behaviour therapy for people with borderline personality disorder23
Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing?23
Revealing the self in a digital world: A systematic review of adolescent online and offline self-disclosure23
The developmental roots of environmental stewardship: Childhood and the climate change crisis22
Six assumptions of contemporary integrative interpersonal theory of personality and psychopathology22
The current state of memory Specificity Training (MeST) for emotional disorders22
Ostracism and social exclusion: Implications for separation, social isolation, and loss22
Prosocial lies: Causes and consequences22
Delineating adaptive esports involvement from maladaptive gaming: a self-regulation perspective22
Social media, parenting, and well-being21
The revolting body: Self-disgust as a key factor in anorexia nervosa21
How narratives of racial progress create barriers to diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations21
Object attachment in hoarding disorder and its role in a compensatory process21
What works for adolescents with borderline personality disorder: towards a developmentally informed understanding and structured treatment model21
Aggressive video games research emerges from its replication crisis (Sort of)21
Belief in conspiracy theories and non-normative behavior21
Social media use and eudaimonic well-being21
Measuring parent–adolescent interactions in natural habitats. The potential, status, and challenges of ecological momentary assessment20
A micro-sociological theory of adjustment to loss20
How small-scale societies achieve large-scale cooperation20
The psychology of nonbelievers20
Supernatural punishment beliefs as cognitively compelling tools of social control19
Social baseline theory: State of the science and new directions19
Dimensions of religiousness and their connection to racial, ethnic, and atheist prejudices19
Non-binary gender/sex identities19
Prosociality and religion19
Motives underlying human agency: How self-efficacy versus self-enhancement affect consumer behavior19
Empathy regulation, prosociality, and moral judgment19
Online dating and psychological wellbeing: A social compensation perspective19
Identity pathology and borderline personality disorder: an empirical overview19
The p factor and dimensional structural models of youth personality pathology and psychopathology19
Conspiracy beliefs and science rejection18
Conspiracy theories as opportunistic attributions of power18
Economic inequality and conspiracy theories18
An interpretation of meta-analytical evidence for the link between collective narcissism and conspiracy theories18
General psychiatric management for adolescents (GPM-A) with borderline personality disorder18
How social identity shapes conspiratorial belief18
Materialistic value orientation and wellbeing18
Religion and delusion18
Nostalgia: An impactful social emotion18
Deconstructing moral character judgments18
Paranoia and conspiracy thinking17
Using large, publicly available data sets to study adolescent development: opportunities and challenges17
Dark social media participation and well-being17
Does recent research evidence support the hyperpersonal model of online impression management?17
Humor and power17
Disposing of the self: the role of attachment in the disposition process17
Compensatory routes to object attachment17
Cannabis use and psychosocial functioning: evidence from prospective longitudinal studies17
Truth-default theory and the psychology of lying and deception detection17
Rethinking the relationship between attachment and personality disorder17
Narcissism and conspicuous consumption17
Social media and close relationships: a puzzle of connection and disconnection17
Affect, (group-based) emotions, and climate change action17
Do religious people self-enhance?17
Does religion make people more self-controlled? A review of research from the lab and life17
Outgroup prosocial behaviour among children and adolescents in conflict settings16
Hope and well-being16
Transgender identity: Development, management and affirmation16
Relationship dissolution and psychopathology16
Is this food healthy? The impact of lay beliefs and contextual cues on food healthiness perception and consumption16
Why women choose divorce: An evolutionary perspective16
Religious radicalization: social appraisals and finding radical redemption in extreme beliefs16
A tool and a tyrant: Social media and well-being in organizational contexts16
Losses experienced by children alienated from a parent16
Comorbidity in borderline personality: understanding dynamics in development16
Impression (mis)management: When what you say is not what they hear16
Advancing our understanding of the associations between social media use and well-being16
Interpretation of ambiguity in depression16
An attachment perspective on loss and grief16
LGBTQ-parent families: Diversity, intersectionality, and social context16
Using agent-based modelling to explore behavioural dynamics affecting our climate16
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