OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Psychology is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Research priorities for the COVID‐19 pandemic and beyond: A call to action for psychological science	133
Social influence matters: We follow pandemic guidelines most when our close circle does	60
The entertainment value of conspiracy theories	51
The cultural dimension of intergroup conspiracy theories	44
A comparison of prebunking and debunking interventions for implied versus explicit misinformation	20
Understanding trait impressions from faces	20
Why the other‐race effect matters: Poor recognition of other‐race faces impacts everyday social interactions	20
Resolving the small‐pockets problem helps clarify the role of education and political ideology in shaping vaccine scepticism	18
Social attention across borders: A cross‐cultural investigation of gaze cueing elicited by same‐ and other‐ethnicity faces	17
The dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and functioning of personality: An overview of the field	16
Highly sensitive adolescents: The relationship between weekly life events and weekly socioemotional well‐being	15
Egocentric metric representations in peripersonal space: A bridge between motor resources and spatial memory	15
Retrieval effort or intention: Which is more important for participants’ classification of involuntary and voluntary memories?	14
They should have known better: The roles of negligence and outcome in moral judgements of accidental actions	14
The effects of task‐irrelevant threatening stimuli on orienting‐ and executive attentional processes under cognitive load	13
Stronger reactivity to social gaze in virtual reality compared to a classical laboratory environment	13
Is the label ‘conspiracy theory’ a cause or a consequence of disbelief in alternative narratives?	13
Schema and deviation effects in remembering repeated unfamiliar stories	13
Objects that induce face pareidolia are prioritized by the visual system	13
Misperceptions of opposite‐sex preferences for thinness and muscularity	13
The effects of a ‘pretend play‐based training’ designed to promote the development of emotion comprehension, emotion regulation, and prosocial behaviour in 5‐ to 6‐year‐old Swiss children	13
ASMR‐Experience Questionnaire (AEQ): A data‐driven step towards accurately classifying ASMR responders	13
Reactions to male‐favouring versus female‐favouring sex differences: A pre‐registered experiment and Southeast Asian replication	12
Smartphone use and daily cognitive failures: A critical examination using a daily diary approach with objective smartphone measures	12
Effect of information on reducing inappropriate expectations and requests for antibiotics	12

Unravelling the relationship between populism and belief in conspiracy theories: The role of cynicism, powerlessness and zero‐sum thinking	12
Their own worst enemy? Collective narcissists are willing to conspire against their in‐group	11
How living in economically unequal societies shapes our minds and our social lives	11
Measuring global bystander intervention and exploring its antecedents for helping refugees	10
Empathy as a buffer: How empathy moderates the emotional effects on Preschoolers’ sharing	10
The dissociable influence of social context on judgements of facial attractiveness and trustworthiness	9
Reciprocal relationships between personality traits and psychological well‐being	9
Overestimation and contraction biases of depth information stored in working memory depend on spatial configuration	9
Family socio‐economic status and children’s executive function: The moderating effects of parental subjective socio‐economic status and children’s subjective social mobility	8
When self‐prioritization crosses the senses: Crossmodal self‐prioritization demonstrated between vision and touch	8
Metacognition during unfamiliar face matching	8
Elite stigmatization of the unemployed: The association between framing and public attitudes	8
Interactive effects of social network centrality and social identification on stress	8
Ensemble coding of facial identity is not refined by experience: Evidence from other‐race and inverted faces	8
What is a face worth? Facial attractiveness biases experience‐based monetary decision‐making	8
Alternating time spent on social interactions and solitude in healthy older adults	8
Is perfectionism a killer of creative thinking? A test of the model of excellencism and perfectionism	8
The dimensions underlying first impressions of older adult faces are similar, but not identical, for young and older adult perceivers	7
Evaluating the integration hypothesis: A meta‐analysis of the ICSEY project data using two new methods	7
Does orthographic processing emerge rapidly after learning a new script?	7
An unintended consequence of social distance regulations: COVID‐19 social distancing promotes the desire for money	7
Comparing music‐ and food‐evoked autobiographical memories in young and older adults: A diary study	6
Moody and thin‐skinned? The interplay of neuroticism and momentary affect in older romantic couples	6
Personal values and academic achievement	6
Perceptual prioritization of self‐associated voices	6
Perceiving ingroup and outgroup faces within and across nations	6
What gaze adds to arrows: Changes in attentional response to gaze versus arrows in childhood and adolescence	6
Are brand names special words? Letter visual‐similarity affects the identification of brand names, but not common words	6
Statistical modelling of vignette data in psychology	6
A dot that went for a walk: People prefer lines drawn with human‐like kinematics	5
Ecological social capital does not predict geographical variance in increases in depression following the 2008 financial crisis	5
What happens to our representation of identity as familiar faces age? Evidence from priming and identity aftereffects	5
Age differences in facial trustworthiness judgement based on multiple facial cues	5
How does familiarity with a voice affect trait judgements?	5
Holistic face processing is influenced by non‐conscious visual information	5
An interaction model for the role of self‐evaluations and antagonistic pursuits in subjective well‐being	5
Being tolerated: Implications for well‐being among ethnic minorities	5
A recognition advantage for members of higher‐status racial groups	5
Attentional networks, vigilance, and distraction as a function of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in an adult community sample	5
What the Solitaire illusion tells us about perception of numerosity	5
Event‐related brain potential correlates of the other‐race effect: A review	5
Unconscious integration: Current evidence for integrative processing under subliminal conditions	5
The myth of regaining control: Ostracism increases superstitious tendencies	4
Ideological passion and violent activism: The moderating role of the significance quest	4
Reactions to research on sex differences: Effect of sex favoured, researcher sex, and importance of sex‐difference domain	4
Mapping physical characteristics in face images to social judgements	4
Gender differences in optimism, loss aversion and attitudes towards risk	4
Phonological similarity in the serial recall task hinders item recall, not just order	4
Being good to look good: Self‐reported moral character predicts moral double standards among reputation‐seeking individuals	4
Asymmetrical responding to male versus female other‐race categories in 9‐ to 12‐month‐old infants	4

Testing reward‐cue attentional salience: Attainment and dynamic changes	4
Does private education make nicer people? The influence of school type on social–emotional development	4
Impact of similarity on recognition of faces of Black and White targets	4
What kind of impacts can artwork have on viewers? Establishing a taxonomy for aesthetic impacts	4
Contrasting off‐line segmentation decisions with on‐line word segmentation during reading	4