Key papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Pofolia’s corpus holds 74 papers from the Experimental and Cognitive Psychology subfield (2005–2024). The list below starts with the most cited.
Most cited
Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”.
<b>lavaan</b>: An<i>R</i>Package for Structural Equation Modeling
Journal of Statistical Software · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 200.92 · 25,675 citations
The R package 'lavaan' offers a free, fully open-source, commercial-quality tool for structural equation modeling (SEM), addressing the need for accessible, advanced SEM software.
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
2023 · FWCI 3045.44 · 17,713 citations
Individuals actively manage the impressions they make on others by presenting a 'front' that implies their roles and actions should be taken seriously.
Executive Functions
Annual Review of Psychology · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 12.00 · FWCI 106.34 · 12,438 citations
Executive functions (EFs) are a set of cognitive processes enabling goal-directed behavior, including inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. This review discusses their developmental progression, measurement, and controversies surrounding their definitions and relationships with other constructs.
Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man
2017 · FWCI 146.44 · 7,305 citations
This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of sexual selection since Darwin's 1871 work, integrating modern genetic theory and behavioral observations.
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 2017 · FWCI 321.39 · 5,984 citations
This book explores the intersection of cognitive science and human experience, proposing an 'enactive' approach that views cognition as embodied action rather than symbolic computation.
<b>qgraph</b>: Network Visualizations of Relationships in Psychometric Data
Journal of Statistical Software · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 3.00 · FWCI 22.44 · 4,809 citations
The qgraph R package offers a novel way to visualize complex statistical relationships, such as correlation matrices, as networks where variables are nodes and correlations are edges.
Perception and Communication
2016 · FWCI 399.44 · 4,739 citations
This abstract is a reprint from 1966 and does not contain specific research findings or results.
Network Analysis: An Integrative Approach to the Structure of Psychopathology
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology · 2013 · Q1 · SJR 6.00 · FWCI 59.08 · 4,304 citations
Network analysis offers a new framework for understanding psychopathology, viewing disorders as causal interactions between symptoms rather than manifestations of an underlying factor.
The Nature and Organization of Individual Differences in Executive Functions
Current Directions in Psychological Science · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 109.01 · 3,763 citations
Individual differences in executive functions (EFs) exhibit both unity and diversity, meaning different EFs are correlated yet separable, according to a new theoretical framework.
A critique of the cross-lagged panel model.
Psychological Methods · 2015 · Q1 · SJR 4.00 · FWCI 73.41 · 3,718 citations
The widely used cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) may produce erroneous conclusions about causal influences because it fails to adequately account for stable, trait-like individual differences over time.
The Standard Definition of Creativity
Creativity Research Journal · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · 3,635 citations
This correction addresses critical issues and oversights in the commonly accepted definition of creativity, which is central to its research.
A network theory of mental disorders
World Psychiatry · 2017 · Q1 · SJR 20.00 · FWCI 141.29 · 3,390 citations · Open access
This paper proposes a network theory where mental disorders are conceptualized as self-sustaining states arising from direct, causally connected interactions between symptoms.
Sex Differences in Social Behavior
Psychology Press eBooks · 2013 · FWCI 108.44 · 3,319 citations
A new theory suggests gender stereotypic social behaviors stem from differing male and female role expectations, with actual sex differences aligning closely with these stereotypes.
Evaluating Effect Size in Psychological Research: Sense and Nonsense
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science · 2019 · Q1 · SJR 6.00 · FWCI 242.08 · 3,265 citations · Open access
This paper proposes a new framework for interpreting effect sizes in psychology by comparing them to concrete benchmarks and considering their practical consequences, rather than relying on arbitrary standards or common misinterpretations.
Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques
Gothic.net · 2013 · FWCI 122.28 · 3,028 citations
Practice testing and distributed practice are highly effective learning techniques, benefiting diverse learners across various tasks and educational settings.
Twelve‐month and lifetime prevalence and lifetime morbid risk of anxiety and mood disorders in the United States
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research · 2012 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 84.43 · 2,980 citations
New estimates reveal major depression (29.9% lifetime morbid risk) and specific phobia (18.4%) are the most common lifetime anxiety/mood disorders in the US, while agoraphobia (3.7%) and OCD (2.7%) are least common.
Innovation and Creativity in Organizations
Journal of Management · 2014 · Q1 · SJR 8.00 · FWCI 119.64 · 2,962 citations
This review proposes a new, integrative definition of creativity and innovation, viewing them as parts of the same process, and synthesizes research from 2002-2013.
Reality is broken: why games make us better and how they can change the world
Choice Reviews Online · 2012 · 2,934 citations
Playing games for 7-21 hours weekly, prioritizing face-to-face cooperative play with friends and family, maximizes psychological benefits and real-world positive impacts.
A tutorial on regularized partial correlation networks.
Psychological Methods · 2018 · Q1 · SJR 4.00 · FWCI 125.24 · 2,773 citations
This tutorial introduces regularized partial correlation networks, a popular method for modeling direct relationships between psychological variables, and demonstrates their estimation and interpretation.
The p Factor
Clinical Psychological Science · 2013 · Q1 · SJR 2.00 · FWCI 83.48 · 2,481 citations
A new 'p factor' dimension of general psychopathology explains mental disorder structures better than traditional models, reflecting a common underlying vulnerability.
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Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2024 · FWCI 40.34 · 2,128 citations
This updated handbook offers accessible coverage of research design in social and personality psychology, detailing contemporary methods and complex statistical analysis.
Enhancements in Immediate Speech Emotion Detection: Harnessing Prosodic and Spectral Characteristics
International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (IJISRT) · 2024 · FWCI 718.00 · 1,663 citations
A new speech emotion recognition system uses Diffusion Map for dimensionality reduction and an ensemble of Decision Trees and KNN classifiers, achieving 79.52% accuracy with Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and 70.86% with SVM, outperforming previous benchmarks.
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
2023 · FWCI 3045.44 · 17,713 citations
Individuals actively manage the impressions they make on others by presenting a 'front' that implies their roles and actions should be taken seriously.
The Social Construction of Reality
2023 · FWCI 208.66 · 1,461 citations
Everyday reality is taken for granted and apprehended as unproblematic as long as routines continue uninterrupted, with all human activity subject to habitualization into reproducible patterns.
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
2022 · FWCI 50.73 · 1,933 citations
Bertrand Russell's 1919 classic, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, offers a foundational exploration of mathematics through two distinct lenses: building complexity from simplicity (integers to complex numbers) and seeking abstract, logical principles. It delves into definitions of numbers, finitude, relations, limits, infinity, and classes, concluding with Russell's view of logic as the 'youth of mathematics'.
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