Scientific articles with “thought experiment(s)”(2023–2025) and psychology-focused

Below is the most complete psychology-focused list I could verify (titles explicitly contain “thought experiment(s)”), limited to the last three years (2023–2025). Note that the strict “term in the title” filter makes the set small; many psychology papers use thought experiments but omit the term from titles.

Title Subject area Year URL Quality (1–5) Notes
Imagining the future self through thought experiments Cognitive psychology / cognitive neuroscience 2023 Trends in Cognitive Sciences (open access PDF). (Nicholas Shea) 5 High-impact review articulating cognitive/neural mechanisms enabling thought experiments; clear argument structure, comprehensive citations.
Integrative design for thought-experiments Behavioral & brain sciences / research methods 2024 Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Cambridge). (Cambridge University Press & Assessment) 4 Peer-reviewed BBS commentary connecting thought-experiments to integrative study design in social/behavioral sciences; concise but methodologically strong.
Schrödinger’s cat and mouse: An adapted thought experiment for the context of consciousness Behavioral neuroscience / consciousness studies 2025 Behavioural Brain Research (ScienceDirect). (ScienceDirect) 4 Conceptual/methodological adaptation of a classical TE to consciousness research; framed within an empirical journal; clear rationale and implications.
Thought experiments: Review and recommendations Organizational psychology / methods (OB) 2023 Journal of Organizational Behavior (Wiley). (Wiley Online Library) 4 Methodological guidance for planning/executing TEs in OB and adjacent applied psychology; rigorous recommendations, strong scholarly apparatus.

Scope notes

  • I confined results to psychology and closely allied cognitive/behavioral sciences. Philosophy-only venues (e.g., Synthese, Episteme) are excluded unless they directly target psychological science.
  • Several psychology papers from 2023–2025 discuss thought experiments extensively but do not include the term in the title, so they do not appear here under your strict criterion. Examples include perspective pieces in Trends in Cognitive Sciences on “learning by thinking.” (Cell)

If you’d like, I can (a) broaden beyond psychology to adjacent philosophy-of-psychology journals, or (b) drop the “phrase in title” constraint to surface a larger, thematically relevant corpus.

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