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Psychological and Educational Research Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Rania Abdelghani
Université de Bordeaux
2
Anastasia Kozyreva
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
3
Ed Donnellan
University of Reading
4
Francesco Poli
University of Cambridge
5
Alexandr Ten
Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique
6
Davy Tsz Kit Ng
Chinese University of Hong Kong
7
Toni Honicke
Deakin University
8
Braedon Leslie
Brigham Young University
9
Coltan Scrivner
University of Chicago
10
Sofia Forss
University of Zurich

Rising Stars Papers

1
Empowering student self‐regulated learning and science education through <scp>ChatGPT</scp> : A pioneering pilot study
British Journal of Educational Technology|2024
266 cit.
2
Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation
Nature Human Behaviour|2024
160 cit.
3
Understanding K–12 teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge readiness and attitudes toward artificial intelligence education
Education and Information Technologies|2024
143 cit.
4
Opportunities, challenges and school strategies for integrating generative AI in education
Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence|2025
102 cit.
5
Fostering students' <scp>AI</scp> literacy development through educational games: <scp>AI</scp> knowledge, affective and cognitive engagement
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning|2024
77 cit.
6
A transdisciplinary view on curiosity beyond linguistic humans: animals, infants, and artificial intelligence
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society|2024
16 cit.
7
Sudowrite: Co-Writing Creative Stories with Artificial Intelligence
RELC Journal|2024
10 cit.
8
Toddlers strategically adapt their information search
Nature Communications|2024
10 cit.
9
Exploration in 4-year-old children is guided by learning progress and novelty
Child Development|2024
10 cit.
10
Urbanization does not increase “object curiosity” in vervet monkeys, but semi-urban individuals selectively explore food-related anthropogenic items
Current Zoology|2024
8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Stacy J. Priniski
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2
Deborah DiazGranados
Virginia Commonwealth University
3
Rachel C. Lazarus
AARP
4
Michiko Sakaki
Institute of Education Sciences
5
Jesse D. Pipes
Walker (United States)
6
Cara A. Singh
McGill University
7
Kristina Loderer
University of Augsburg
8
Jensen T. Mecca
Shaker Heights Public Library
9
Matthias J. Gruber
University of California, Davis
10
Viktória Kulcsár
Babeș-Bolyai University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Summary-statistics-based power analysis: A new and practical method to determine sample size for mixed-effects modeling.
Psychological Methods|2022
150 cit.
2
Developmental trajectories of achievement emotions in mathematics during adolescence
Child Development|2023
22 cit.
3
Curiosity and mesolimbic functional connectivity drive information seeking in real life
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience|2022
19 cit.
4
An integrated model of socially shared regulation of learning: The role of metacognition, affect, and motivation
Educational Psychologist|2024
16 cit.
5
Motivated for near impossibility: How task type and reward modulate task enjoyment and the striatal activation for extremely difficult task
Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience|2022
14 cit.
6
Uncertainty drives exploration of negative information across younger and older adults
Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience|2023
14 cit.
7
Curiosity shapes spatial exploration and cognitive map formation in humans
Communications Psychology|2024
12 cit.
8
Now you see it, now you don’t: Relevance of threat enhances social anxiety-linked attentional bias to angry faces, but relevance of neutral information attenuates it
PLoS ONE|2022
10 cit.
9
Resting-state functional connectivity does not predict individual differences in the effects of emotion on memory
Scientific Reports|2022
9 cit.
10
Role of Metacognitive Confidence Judgments in Curiosity: Different Effects of Confidence on Curiosity Across Epistemic and Perceptual Domains
Cognitive Science|2024
9 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
David Dunning
Cornell University
2
K. Ann Renninger
Swarthmore College
3
Robert A. Cummins
Deakin University
4
Markus Maier
Stony Brook University
5
John Sweller
UNSW Sydney
6
Judith M. Harackiewicz
University of Wisconsin–Madison
7
Shelly L. Gable
University of California, Santa Barbara
8
Michael F. Steger
Colorado State University
9
Verena V. Hafner
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
10
Henk G. Schmidt
Erasmus MC

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Cognitive Load During Problem Solving: Effects on Learning
Cognitive Science|1988
8.4k cit.
2
Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1999
6.9k cit.
3
Cognitive Architecture and Instructional Design
Educational Psychology Review|1998
5.6k cit.
4
The meaning in life questionnaire: Assessing the presence of and search for meaning in life.
Journal of Counseling Psychology|2006
4.7k cit.
5
The Four-Phase Model of Interest Development
Educational Psychologist|2006
4.5k cit.
6
Cognitive load theory, learning difficulty, and instructional design
Learning and Instruction|1994
3.6k cit.
7
Cognitive Load Theory and Instructional Design: Recent Developments
Educational Psychologist|2003
2.8k cit.
8
Cognitive Load Theory and the Format of Instruction
Cognition and Instruction|1991
2.8k cit.
9
Approach and avoidance achievement goals and intrinsic motivation: A mediational analysis.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1996
2.4k cit.
10
The open-field test: A critical review.
Psychological Bulletin|1976
2.4k cit.

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