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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Social influence matters: We follow pandemic guidelines most when our close circle does	70
The entertainment value of conspiracy theories	63
A comparison of prebunking and debunking interventions for implied versus explicit misinformation	32
Understanding trait impressions from faces	30
Why the other‐race effect matters: Poor recognition of other‐race faces impacts everyday social interactions	23
Highly sensitive adolescents: The relationship between weekly life events and weekly socioemotional well‐being	21
Resolving the small‐pockets problem helps clarify the role of education and political ideology in shaping vaccine scepticism	20
Unravelling the relationship between populism and belief in conspiracy theories: The role of cynicism, powerlessness and zero‐sum thinking	19
The dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and functioning of personality: An overview of the field	19
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	18
Retrieval effort or intention: Which is more important for participants’ classification of involuntary and voluntary memories?	18
How living in economically unequal societies shapes our minds and our social lives	17
Is the label ‘conspiracy theory’ a cause or a consequence of disbelief in alternative narratives?	17
Objects that induce face pareidolia are prioritized by the visual system	16
ASMR‐Experience Questionnaire (AEQ): A data‐driven step towards accurately classifying ASMR responders	16
Smartphone use and daily cognitive failures: A critical examination using a daily diary approach with objective smartphone measures	16
Family socio‐economic status and children’s executive function: The moderating effects of parental subjective socio‐economic status and children’s subjective social mobility	15
The effects of task‐irrelevant threatening stimuli on orienting‐ and executive attentional processes under cognitive load	14
Their own worst enemy? Collective narcissists are willing to conspire against their in‐group	14
They should have known better: The roles of negligence and outcome in moral judgements of accidental actions	14
Reciprocal relationships between personality traits and psychological well‐being	14
Alternating time spent on social interactions and solitude in healthy older adults	13
Effect of information on reducing inappropriate expectations and requests for antibiotics	13
Perceiving ingroup and outgroup faces within and across nations	12
Evaluating the integration hypothesis: A meta‐analysis of the ICSEY project data using two new methods	12

Statistical modelling of vignette data in psychology	11
Is perfectionism a killer of creative thinking? A test of the model of excellencism and perfectionism	11
Gender differences in optimism, loss aversion and attitudes towards risk	11
Metacognition during unfamiliar face matching	10
What is a face worth? Facial attractiveness biases experience‐based monetary decision‐making	10
Prevalence and predictors of benevolent childhood experiences among a representative sample of young people	10
The dissociable influence of social context on judgements of facial attractiveness and trustworthiness	10
Ingroup and outgroup differences in face detection	9
Personal values and academic achievement	9
What gaze adds to arrows: Changes in attentional response to gaze versus arrows in childhood and adolescence	9
Are brand names special words? Letter visual‐similarity affects the identification of brand names, but not common words	9
When self‐prioritization crosses the senses: Crossmodal self‐prioritization demonstrated between vision and touch	8
The dimensions underlying first impressions of older adult faces are similar, but not identical, for young and older adult perceivers	8
What kind of impacts can artwork have on viewers? Establishing a taxonomy for aesthetic impacts	8
Attentional networks, vigilance, and distraction as a function of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in an adult community sample	7
Comparing music‐ and food‐evoked autobiographical memories in young and older adults: A diary study	7
What the Solitaire illusion tells us about perception of numerosity	7
Ideological passion and violent activism: The moderating role of the significance quest	7
An unintended consequence of social distance regulations: COVID‐19 social distancing promotes the desire for money	7
Event‐related brain potential correlates of the other‐race effect: A review	7
Comparison of outcomes across low‐intensity psychological interventions for depression and anxiety within a stepped‐care setting: A naturalistic cohort study using propensity score modelling	6
A dot that went for a walk: People prefer lines drawn with human‐like kinematics	6
Being tolerated: Implications for well‐being among ethnic minorities	6
The structure of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale: Theoretical and methodological considerations	6
Visual attention to own‐ versus other‐race faces: Perspectives from learning mechanisms and task demands	6
Unconscious integration: Current evidence for integrative processing under subliminal conditions	6
Before/after Bayes: A comparison of frequentist and Bayesian mixed‐effects models in applied psychological research	6
Being good to look good: Self‐reported moral character predicts moral double standards among reputation‐seeking individuals	6
Linking metaphor comprehension with analogical reasoning: Evidence from typical development and autism spectrum disorder	5
What happens to our representation of identity as familiar faces age? Evidence from priming and identity aftereffects	5
Mapping physical characteristics in face images to social judgements	5
Holistic face processing is influenced by non‐conscious visual information	5
Contrasting off‐line segmentation decisions with on‐line word segmentation during reading	5
A recognition advantage for members of higher‐status racial groups	5
The smell of cooperativeness: Do human body odours advertise cooperative behaviours?	5
A 21st century cognitive portrait of the Himba, a remote people of Namibia	5
Asymmetrical responding to male versus female other‐race categories in 9‐ to 12‐month‐old infants	5
The culture of perceptual expertise and the other‐race effect	4
Visual body‐size adaptation and estimation of tactile distance	4
Phonological similarity in the serial recall task hinders item recall, not just order	4
Risk perception, illusory superiority and personal responsibility during COVID‐19: An experimental study of attitudes to staying home	4
One size does not fit all: Exploring how the five‐factor model facets predict disordered eating behaviours among adolescent and young adult males and females	4
Testing reward‐cue attentional salience: Attainment and dynamic changes	4
A registered report survey of open research practices in psychology departments in the UK and Ireland	4
Impact of similarity on recognition of faces of Black and White targets	4
‘No Man is an Island’: Effects of social seclusion on social dream content and REM sleep	4
Comparison of face‐based and voice‐based first impressions in a Chinese sample	4
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the other‐‘race’ effect: An attempt at integrating different perspectives	4
Socio‐cognitive, expertise‐based and appearance‐based accounts of the other‐‘race’ effect in face perception: A label‐based systematic review of neuroimaging results	4
What we repeatedly do: Evaluating the determinants and consequences of habit enactment during daily goal‐pursuit	4

The myth of regaining control: Ostracism increases superstitious tendencies	4
Social contact, own‐group recognition bias and visual attention to faces	4
Reactions to research on sex differences: Effect of sex favoured, researcher sex, and importance of sex‐difference domain	4
“May I present you: my disgust!” – Declared disgust sensitivity in the presence of attractive models	4
More elaborate processing of own‐race faces and less elaborate processing of other‐race faces contribute to the other‐race effect in face memory	4
Construal level among poor children: Executive function implications	4