Current Opinion in Psychology

Papers
(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Psychology is 17. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The hope theory and specific learning disorders and/or attention deficit disorders (SLD/ADHD): Developmental perspectives312
Editorial Board243
The butt of the joke: Understanding the social evaluations of leader humor targets210
The disconnected couple: intimate relationships in the context of social isolation181
Balancing listening and action is key to supportive parenting164
Direct and indirect reciprocity among individuals and groups161
Impacts of COVID-19 on the school experience of children and adolescents with special educational needs and disabilities139
Emotions and ethics: How emotions sensitize perceptions of the consequences for self and others to motivate unethical behavior131
Social media multitasking (SMM) and well-being: Existing evidence and future directions123
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 systems108
Generation COVID: Coming of age amid the pandemic106
The Venezuelan diaspora: Migration-related experiences and mental health102
How small-scale societies achieve large-scale cooperation99
Towards a psychology of religion and the environment97
Social isolation: An underappreciated determinant of physical health95
How language framing shapes the perception of social norms91
Social media use, social displacement, and well-being91
Impression (mis)management: When what you say is not what they hear89
The multi-dimensional stigma of chronic pain: A narrative review82
Attachment, loss, and related challenges in migration79
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 theories75
Processes of persuasion and social influence in conspiracy beliefs74
Nostalgia and acculturation72
Reading emotions, reading people: Emotion perception and inferences drawn from perceived emotions69
The importance of friendships in reducing brain responses to stress in adolescents exposed to childhood adversity: a preregistered systematic review66
False polarization: Cognitive mechanisms and potential solutions64
Measuring dishonest behavior: Hidden dimensions that matter63
Interdependent culture and older adults’ well-being: Health and psychological happiness in Japanese communities63
Computational modeling of social decision-making61
Self-control ≠ temporal discounting60
Perceived diversity in teams: Conceptualizations, effects, and new research avenues60
Self-perceptions of aging: A conceptual and empirical overview59
Drug, demon, or donut? Theorizing the relationship between social media use, digital well-being and digital disconnection59
Dimensions of religiousness and their connection to racial, ethnic, and atheist prejudices59
Too good to go? Consumers’ replacement behaviour and potential strategies for stimulating product retention58
The proust effect: Scents, food, and nostalgia57
Behaviour change to address climate change55
Bypassing as a non-confrontational influence strategy52
Sexual and romantic spectrums: Mostly straights and mostly gays/lesbians52
Locating nostalgia among the emotions: A bridge from loss to love48
Fighting misinformation among the most vulnerable users48
Challenging the law of least effort48
Mental distress through the prism of predictive processing theory47
Economic inequality and conspiracy theories47
The loss of humanness in close relationships: An interpersonal model of dehumanization47
Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories47
Nostalgia, and what it used to be46
Cause and effect: On the antecedents and consequences of conspiracy theory beliefs46
Peer network studies and interventions in adolescence45
Derailment within the landscape of psychopathology44
The fable of state self-control44
Social comparison and envy on social media: A critical review44
Meta-perception and misinformation44
Psychological distance: How to make climate change less abstract and closer to the self44
Leader humor across levels43
Humor and job satisfaction43
Cultural dyes: Cultural norms color person perception42
Scholarship on well-being and social media: A sociotechnical perspective42
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Entertainment media as a source of relationship misinformation41
The instigating effects of isolation on substance-related intimate partner violence: A review41
Changes in Lesbian identity in the 21st century40
Upward spirals of positive emotions and religious behaviors40
Artificial intelligence, workers, and future of work skills39
Can't buy me meaning? Lay theories impede people from deriving meaning and well-being from consumption39
Meta-nudging honesty: Past, present, and future of the research frontier38
Ostracism and social exclusion: Implications for separation, social isolation, and loss38
Social media and body image: Recent trends and future directions38
When does moral engagement risk triggering a hypocrite penalty?37
The psychological, social, and societal relevance of nostalgia37
Psychological science for a responsible sharing economy36
Femininity in the 21st century35
Introducing conspiracy intuitions to better understand conspiracy beliefs35
Kindness in short supply: Evidence for inadequate prosocial input35
A cognitive approach to learning, monitoring, and shifting social norms35
Confirmation in personal relationships35
Do institutions evolve like material technologies?35
Confidence as a metacognitive contributor to and consequence of misinformation experiences34
New directions for studying the aging social-cognitive brain34
Targeting body image in eating disorders34
Organisations that promote eco-human flourishing34
The benefits (and costs) of sexual responsiveness in romantic relationships33
Ethics and honesty in organizations: Unique organizational challenges33
Compulsive shopping: A review and update33
Integrating insights from implementation science and behavioral economics to strengthen suicide screening strategies for pediatric populations32
Editorial Board32
Nostalgic intergroup contact and intergroup relations:Theoretical, empirical, and applied dimensions32
Modeling the onset of a depressive episode: A self-regulation perspective32
The mental health–migration interface among sub-Saharan African and Chinese populations32
AI-induced hyper-learning in humans32
Editorial Board32
Internal and external forces that prevent (vs. Facilitate) healthy eating: Review and outlook within consumer Psychology31
Emotionally focused therapy: Attachment, connection, and health31
Stranger or a clone? Future self-connectedness depends on who you ask, when you ask, and what dimension you focus on31
The neurobiology of antisocial behavior in adolescence; current knowledge and relevance for youth forensic clinical practice31
Nostalgia in Tourism31
You can learn a lot about religion from food31
Global priorities for improving access to mental health services for adolescents in the post-pandemic world30
Deception, honesty, and professionalism: A persistent challenge in modern medicine30
Hope and depression and personality disorders30
Trends and associated risks in adolescent substance use: E-cigarette use and nitrous oxide use30
Beyond minority stress: Toward a multidimensional psychology of trans/nonbinary gender30
Machine yearning: How advances in computational methods lead to new insights about reactions to loss30
Personality and misinformation30
The current state of memory Specificity Training (MeST) for emotional disorders29
The power to harm: AI assistants pave the way to unethical behavior29
The experience of trust in everyday life29
Current biopsychosocial science on understanding kink29
The good, bad and ugly of dispositional greed29
Religion and delusion29
Honesty as a trait28
Overcoming listener skepticism: Costly signaling in communication increases perceived honesty28
The effects of consumption on self-esteem27
The vicious cycle of violent intergroup conflicts and conspiracy theories27
Friendship loss and dissolution in adulthood: A conceptual model27
Current state of psychological therapies for children and adults with chronic pain: Where next?27
The power of cultural habits: The role of effortless control in delaying gratification27
Editorial Board27
Nostalgia: A potential pathway to greater well-being27
A review of current and proposed behavioral nudge strategies to improve the readiness of the United States military27
The nexus between immigration status, policy, and proceedings, and mental health27
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Implications of social isolation, separation, and loss during the COVID-19 pandemic for couples' relationships26
Listening and the pursuit of communal relationships26
Do religious people self-enhance?26
Promoting hope in minoritized and economically disadvantaged students26
Social psychological aspects of gay identity development26
Understanding the relationship between resource scarcity and object attachment26
Responsiveness in cultural-ecological context26
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent sleep behavior25
Systems and subversion: A review of structural violence and im/migrant health25
Impacts of COVID-19 quarantine and isolation on adolescent social functioning25
A critical review of clinician-directed nudges25
Why women choose divorce: An evolutionary perspective25
Religious radicalization: social appraisals and finding radical redemption in extreme beliefs25
Conspiracy beliefs and science rejection25
A review of personality/religiousness associations25
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent mental health across the world25
Digital object attachment24
Blinded by our sight: Understanding the prominence of visual information in judgments of competence and performance24
Measurement structures of hope: A review of single-factor and two-factor models across hope scales24
Professions, honesty, and income24
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The moral psychology of misinformation: Why we excuse dishonesty in a post-truth world24
Editorial Board24
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On the role of memory in misinformation corrections: Repeated exposure, correction durability, and source credibility24
New directions in ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness development: Contextual considerations in the aftermath of COVID-1923
How therapist effects shape pain-related outcome improvement in psychological treatments for chronic pain23
Moral currencies: Explaining corrupt collaboration23
A micro-sociological theory of adjustment to loss22
Stress and adolescence: vulnerability and opportunity during a sensitive window of development22
The psychology of nonbelievers22
Social media, self-harm, and suicide22
Prosociality in science21
Social media and adolescent well-being in the Global South21
Using semantic similarity to understand the psychological constructs related to prosociality21
Insomnia disorder and its reciprocal relation with psychopathology21
Chronic pain and comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder: Potential mechanisms, conceptualizations, and interventions21
Attachment theory and religion21
How cultural learning and cognitive biases shape religious beliefs21
Listening and perceived responsiveness: Unveiling the significance and exploring crucial research endeavors21
The new trinity of religious moral character: the Cooperator, the Crusader, and the Complicit21
Goals in old age: What we want when we are old and why it matters21
Editorial Board21
How food overconsumption has hijacked our notions about eating as a pleasurable activity21
Responsive support: A matter of psychological need fulfillment21
‘Pleasureful self-control’? A new perspective on old problems20
(Mis)perceiving cooperativeness20
The unmatchable brightness of doing: Experiential consumption facilitates greater satisfaction than spending on material possessions20
Uncertainty as a driver of the youth mental health crisis20
Hear, hear! A review of accent discrimination at work20
Impulsive and risky decision-making in adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): The need for a developmental perspective20
Suspicion of institutions: How distrust and conspiracy theories deteriorate social relationships20
Why stress and hunger both increase and decrease prosocial behaviour20
Lay standards for reasoning predict people's acceptance of suspect claims20
Why do narcissists find conspiracy theories so appealing?20
The other pandemic: Mental illness in young people from low and middle-income countries19
Social media, parenting, and well-being19
Can self-control make you happy?19
When listening is spoken19
Employee green behaviour: How organizations can help the environment19
Perceptions and behaviors toward first-generation, low-income individuals in organizations19
Do people know how others view them? Two approaches for identifying the accuracy of metaperceptions19
Social media and well-being: A methodological perspective19
Can positive and self-transcendent emotions promote pro-environmental behavior?19
Motivational interviewing-based interventions with patients with comorbid anxiety and substance use disorders19
Children's susceptibility to online misinformation18
College and COVID-19: The Pandemic's reverberations on adolescents and emerging adults on campus18
Social isolation and social support in good times and bad times18
Beliefs about self-control18
The complexities of consumer empowerment in the modern consumption environment18
Seeing the funny side: Humor in pro-environmental communication18
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From primary to pluralistic: A typology of intersectionality18
Losses experienced by children alienated from a parent17
Self-control and behavioral public policy17
Mean rating difference scores are poor measures of discernment: The role of response criteria17
Prosocial vaccination17
Prosocial development in adolescence17
Psychological ownership: implicit and explicit17
Motivation and climate change: A review17
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