OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Research-Principles and Implications 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.)

Article	Citations
Reliance on emotion promotes belief in fake news	115
Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces	76
Senses of place: architectural design for the multisensory mind	68
Can corrections spread misinformation to new audiences? Testing for the elusive familiarity backfire effect	44
Face mask type affects audiovisual speech intelligibility and subjective listening effort in young and older adults	42
Systemic racism: individuals and interactions, institutions and society	41
The effects of repetition frequency on the illusory truth effect	40
Why does peer instruction benefit student learning?	40
Olfactory-colour crossmodal correspondences in art, science, and design	30
Situating space: using a discipline-focused lens to examine spatial thinking skills	28
Beyond the beauty of occlusion: medical masks increase facial attractiveness more than other face coverings	28
Perceived truth of statements and simulated social media postings: an experimental investigation of source credibility, repeated exposure, and presentation format	24
Inoculating against the spread of Islamophobic and radical-Islamist disinformation	23
Individual differences in susceptibility to false memories for COVID-19 fake news	23
Improving college students’ fact-checking strategies through lateral reading instruction in a general education civics course	21
Face masks disrupt holistic processing and face perception in school-age children	20
The relationship between political affiliation and beliefs about sources of “fake news”	18
How do we measure attention? Using factor analysis to establish construct validity of neuropsychological tests	17
Face masks have emotion-dependent dissociable effects on accuracy and confidence in identifying facial expressions of emotion	17
The scent of attraction and the smell of success: crossmodal influences on person perception	17
Updating our understanding of situation awareness in relation to remote operators of autonomous vehicles	17
Spatial anxiety mediates the sex difference in adult mental rotation test performance	16
Wine psychology: basic & applied	16
Communication with face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic for adults with hearing loss	16
Nevertheless, partisanship persisted: fake news warnings help briefly, but bias returns with time	15

Multisensory inclusive design with sensory substitution	15
Childhood wayfinding experience explains sex and individual differences in adult wayfinding strategy and anxiety	13
Does race impact speech perception? An account of accented speech in two different multilingual locales	13
Self-explaining roads: What does visual cognition tell us about designing safer roads?	13
Face masks impair facial emotion recognition and induce specific emotion confusions	13
Ethnoracial disparities in cognition are associated with multiple socioeconomic status-stress pathways	12
A three-factor benefits framework for understanding consumer preference for scented household products: psychological interactions and implications for future development	12
Adapting implementation science for higher education research: the systematic study of implementing evidence-based practices in college classrooms	12
The impact of predictability on dual-task performance and implications for resource-sharing accounts	12
The role of analytical reasoning and source credibility on the evaluation of real and fake full-length news articles	12
Uncertainty promotes information-seeking actions, but what information?	11
Resting-state posterior alpha power changes with prolonged exposure in a natural environment	11
More than skin deep: about the influence of self-relevant avatars on inhibitory control	11
When it all falls down: the relationship between intuitive physics and spatial cognition	11
You don’t have to tell a story! A registered report testing the effectiveness of narrative versus non-narrative misinformation corrections	11
Impact of mask use on face recognition: an eye-tracking study	10
Improving cognitive mapping by training for people with a poor sense of direction	10
Gesture during math instruction specifically benefits learners with high visuospatial working memory capacity	10
An initial accuracy focus reduces the effect of prior exposure on perceived accuracy of news headlines	10
Spatial thinking in infancy: Origins and development of mental rotation between 3 and 10 months of age	10
Correction format has a limited role when debunking misinformation	10
Cross-cultural differences in visuo-spatial processing and the culture-fairness of visuo-spatial intelligence tests: an integrative review and a model for matrices tasks	9
Face mask use in healthcare settings: effects on communication, cognition, listening effort and strategies for amelioration	9
Unattractive faces are more attractive when the bottom-half is masked, an effect that reverses when the top-half is concealed	9
Masked emotions: Do face mask patterns and colors affect the recognition of emotions?	9
Measuring the effects of misinformation exposure and beliefs on behavioural intentions: a COVID-19 vaccination study	9
Elementary teachers’ attitudes and beliefs about spatial thinking and mathematics	9
Why spatial is special in education, learning, and everyday activities	9
Visual chunking as a strategy for spatial thinking in STEM	9
Visual communication via the design of food and beverage packaging	8
PTSD is associated with impaired event processing and memory for everyday events	8
Wielding a gun increases judgments of others as holding guns: a randomized controlled trial	8
Strengthening spatial reasoning: elucidating the attentional and neural mechanisms associated with mental rotation skill development	8
Domain-general cognitive motivation: evidence from economic decision-making	7
Are estimates of faces’ ages less accurate when they wear sunglasses or face masks and do these disguises make it harder to later recognise the faces when undisguised?	7
Individual differences in cognitive offloading: a comparison of intention offloading, pattern copy, and short-term memory capacity	7
#foodie: Implications of interacting with social media for memory	7
Face masks versus sunglasses: limited effects of time and individual differences in the ability to judge facial identity and social traits	7
A new measure of group decision-making efficiency	7
Individual differences in social intelligence and perception of emotion expression of masked and unmasked faces	7
That person is now with or without a mask: how encoding context modulates identity recognition	7
Do concerns about COVID-19 impair sustained attention?	6
The effect of expertise, target usefulness and image structure on visual search	6
How the wisdom of crowds, and of the crowd within, are affected by expertise	6
Effects of widespread community use of face masks on communication, participation, and quality of life in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Where are we going and where have we been? Examining the effects of maps on spatial learning in an indoor guided navigation task	6
Improving face identification of mask-wearing individuals	6
How do face masks impact communication amongst deaf/HoH people?	6
Eye movements reflect expertise development in hybrid search	6
Collective intelligence in fingerprint analysis	6

Face masks affect emotion categorisation, age estimation, recognition, and gender classification from faces	6
Spatial activity participation in childhood and adolescence: consistency and relations to spatial thinking in adolescence	6
Exploring the effects of geographic scale on spatial learning	6
Wisdom of crowds and collective decision-making in a survival situation with complex information integration	6
Visual search behavior and performance in luggage screening: effects of time pressure, automation aid, and target expectancy	6
Typing expertise in a large student population	6
Self-reported mask-related worrying reduces relative avoidance bias toward unmasked faces in individuals with low Covid19 anxiety syndrome	6
Curiosity and the desire for agency: wait, wait … don’t tell me!	6