Most cited papers in Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
What are the most cited papers in Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs?
The most cited paper in Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs is "The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations." (Theodore M. Newcomb, Fritz Heider, 1958), with 11,956 citations. Next come "Conservation of resources: A new attempt at conceptualizing stress." (8,975) and "Trends in Alternative Medicine Use in the United States, 1990-1997" (6,711).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 341 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations. Theodore M. Newcomb, Fritz Heider · American Sociological Review | Dec 1958 | 11,956 |
| 2 | Conservation of resources: A new attempt at conceptualizing stress. Stevan E. Hobfoll · American Psychologist | 1989 | 8,975 |
| 3 | Trends in Alternative Medicine Use in the United States, 1990-1997 David M. Eisenberg, Roger B. Davis, Susan L. Ettner et al. · JAMA | 11 Nov 1998 | 6,711 |
| 4 | Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion Naomi I. Eisenberger, Matthew D. Lieberman, Kipling D. Williams · Science | 10 Oct 2003 | 3,854 |
| 5 | Development, Reliability, and Validity of a Dissociation Scale Eve M. Bernstein, Frank W. Putnam · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease | Dec 1986 | 3,835 |
| 6 | Psilocybin produces substantial and sustained decreases in depression and anxiety in patients with life-threatening cancer: A randomized double-blind trial Roland R. Griffiths, Matthew W. Johnson, Michael Anthony Carducci et al. · Journal of Psychopharmacology | 30 Nov 2016 | 2,248 |
| 7 | Complementary and alternative medicine use among adults: United States, 2002 Patricia M. Barnes, Eve Powell‐Griner, Kim K. McFann et al. · Seminars in Integrative Medicine | Jun 2004 | 2,181 |
| 8 | DISCONNEXION SYNDROMES IN ANIMALS AND MAN Norman Geschwind · Brain | 1965 | 1,831 |
| 9 | An information integration theory of consciousness Giulio Tononi · BMC Neuroscience | 2 Nov 2004 | 1,749 |
| 10 | Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance Roland R. Griffiths, William A. Richards, U. McCann et al. · Psychopharmacology | 7 Jul 2006 | 1,716 |
| 11 | Knowing your own heart: Distinguishing interoceptive accuracy from interoceptive awareness Sarah N. Garfinkel, Anil K. Seth, Adam B. Barrett et al. · Biological Psychology | 20 Nov 2014 | 1,665 |
| 12 | Judged frequency of lethal events. Sarah Lichtenstein, Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff et al. · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Learning & Memory | Nov 1978 | 1,418 |
| 13 | A dual-process model of defense against conscious and unconscious death-related thoughts: An extension of terror management theory. Tom Pyszczynski, Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon H. Solomon · Psychological Review | 1999 | 1,360 |
| 14 | Effects of Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy on Major Depressive Disorder Alan K. Davis, Frederick Streeter Barrett, Darrick G. May et al. · JAMA Psychiatry | 4 Nov 2020 | 1,319 |
| 15 | The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant Andrew Gelman, Hal S. Stern · The American Statistician | 11 Oct 2006 | 1,303 |
| 16 | Social exclusion decreases prosocial behavior. Jean M. Twenge, Roy Frederick Baumeister, C. Nathan DeWall et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2007 | 1,269 |
| 17 | Psilocybin-assisted treatment for alcohol dependence: A proof-of-concept study Michael P. Bogenschutz, Alyssa A. Forcehimes, Jessica A. Pommy et al. · Journal of Psychopharmacology | 13 Jan 2015 | 1,181 |
| 18 | Deviation, rejection, and communication. Stanley Schachter · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology | Apr 1951 | 1,150 |
| 19 | Lacking Control Increases Illusory Pattern Perception Jennifer Whitson, Adam D. Galinsky · Science | 2 Oct 2008 | 1,146 |
| 20 | How low can you go? Ostracism by a computer is sufficient to lower self-reported levels of belonging, control, self-esteem, and meaningful existence Lisa Zadro, Kipling D. Williams, Rick Richardson · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | 3 Feb 2004 | 1,145 |
| 21 | Why psychologists must change the way they analyze their data: The case of psi: Comment on Bem (2011). Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers, Ruud Wetzels, Denny Borsboom et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 31 Jan 2011 | 1,029 |
| 22 | Integration of the cognitive and the psychodynamic unconscious. Seymour J. Epstein · American Psychologist | 1994 | 965 |
| 23 | Psilocybin occasioned mystical-type experiences: immediate and persisting dose-related effects Roland R. Griffiths, Matthew W. Johnson, William A. Richards et al. · Psychopharmacology | 14 Jun 2011 | 962 |
| 24 | On the conflicts between biological and social evolution and between psychology and moral tradition. Donald T. Campbell · American Psychologist | Dec 1975 | 958 |
| 25 | Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. Daryl J. Bem · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2011 | 930 |
| 26 | Role of consciousness and accessibility of death-related thoughts in mortality salience effects. Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, Sheldon H. Solomon et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1994 | 888 |
| 27 | Consciousness: here, there and everywhere? Giulio Tononi, Christof Koch · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 31 Mar 2015 | 815 |
| 28 | Stimulating illusory own-body perceptions Olaf Blanke, Stphanie Ortigue, Théodor Landis et al. · Nature | Sep 2002 | 811 |
| 29 | The happiness hypothesis: Finding modern truth in ancient wisdom. Jonathan Haidt | 2006 | 771 |
| 30 | The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. George Alford Miller · Psychological Review | 1994 | 764 |
| 31 | Toward a Humanistic-Phenomenological Spirituality David N. Elkins, L. James Hedstrom, Lori L. Hughes et al. · Journal of Humanistic Psychology | Oct 1988 | 755 |
| 32 | Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy Frederick Baumeister et al. · Perspectives on Psychological Science | 27 Feb 2013 | 730 |
| 33 | Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness Victor S. Sierpina · EXPLORE | Jul 2005 | 687 |
| 34 | Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands Pirn van Lommel, Ruud van Wees, Vincent E. Meyers et al. · The Lancet | Dec 2001 | 684 |
| 35 | An investigation of the lumps of thought Angelika Kratzer · Linguistics and Philosophy | Oct 1989 | 675 |
| 36 | Evidence for a large-scale brain system supporting allostasis and interoception in humans Ian R. Kleckner, Jiahe Zhang, Alexandra Touroutoglou et al. · Nature Human Behaviour | 21 Apr 2017 | 667 |
| 37 | AN EXTENSION OF THE CONCEPT OF PARTITIONING HEREDITARY VARIANCE FOR ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCES AMONG RELATIVES WHEN EPISTASIS IS PRESENT C. Clark Cockerham · Genetics | Nov 1954 | 649 |
| 38 | Orchestrated reduction of quantum coherence in brain microtubules: A model for consciousness Stuart R. Hameroff, Roger Penrose · Mathematics and Computers in Simulation | Apr 1996 | 648 |
| 39 | Stress Reduction through Mindfulness Meditation John A. Astin · Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics | 18 Feb 2010 | 632 |
| 40 | Are there two qualitatively distinct forms of dissociation? A review and some clinical implications Emily Alexandra Holmes, Richard James Brown, Warren Mansell et al. · Clinical Psychology Review | 16 Dec 2004 | 623 |
| 41 | Pleasure and displeasure from the body: Perspectives from exercise Panteleimon Ekkekakis · Cognition & Emotion | 2003 | 617 |
| 42 | Are Children “Intuitive Theists”? Deborah A. Kelemen · Psychological Science | 20 Apr 2004 | 603 |
| 43 | When inclusion costs and ostracism pays, ostracism still hurts. Ilja van Beest, Kipling D. Williams · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 24 Oct 2006 | 578 |
| 44 | Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Paul Seli et al. · Cognition | 4 Apr 2012 | 573 |
| 45 | Divine intuition: Cognitive style influences belief in God. Amitai Shenhav, David Gertler Rand, Joshua D. Greene · Journal of Experimental Psychology General | 19 Sep 2011 | 564 |
| 46 | The entropic brain - revisited Robin Lester Carhart-Harris · Neuropharmacology | 18 Mar 2018 | 563 |
| 47 | Weather, mood, and helping behavior: Quasi experiments with the sunshine samaritan. Michael R. Cunningham · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Nov 1979 | 552 |
| 48 | Cyberostracism: Effects of being ignored over the Internet. Kipling D. Williams, Christopher K. T. Cheung, Wilma Choi · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2000 | 538 |
| 49 | Entrainment of the Human Circadian System by Light Jeanne F. Duffy, Kenneth P. Wright · Journal of Biological Rhythms | Aug 2005 | 529 |
| 50 | Alone but feeling no pain: Effects of social exclusion on physical pain tolerance and pain threshold, affective forecasting, and interpersonal empathy. C. Nathan DeWall, Roy Frederick Baumeister · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Jul 2006 | 527 |
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