Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Morals for the sake of movement: Locomotion and sensitivity to norms in moral dilemmas78
Does reading an anti-free will text affect beliefs related to free will over time? — A registered report66
Joint collective action increases support for social change and mitigates intergroup polarisation: A registered report58
Folk devils? Perceived lack of traditional values explains youth-related stereotypes of sexual minorities and Black men54
Feedback to video stimuli: A novel paradigm for manipulating existential isolation47
“Black-and-White” thinking: Does visual contrast polarize moral judgment? Independent replications and extension of Study 144
Self-anchoring toward groups shapes changes in intergroup attitudes during intergroup interactions42
Hierarchy as a signal of culture and belonging: Exploring why egalitarian ideology predicts aversion to hierarchical organizations38
Untested assumptions perpetuate stereotyping: Learning in the absence of evidence35
Effects of aggregation on implicit bias measurement34
Who are you to me?: A relational approach to examining race-gender associations33
Choosing not to get anchored: A choice mindset reduces the anchoring bias33
Power as a moral magnifier: Moral outrage is amplified when the powerful transgress31
System justification makes income gaps appear smaller30
Trait inferences from the “big two” produce gendered expectations of facial features28
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses28
Revisiting the folk concept of intentionality: Replications of24
More useful to you: Believing that others find the same objects more useful24
Third-party punishment, vigilante justice, or karma? Understanding the dynamics of interpersonal and cosmic justice22
What types of gratitude expressions promote prosocial behavior?: A registered report22
Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection21
Using two-sided messages to facilitate misinformation correction for strongly held beliefs21
Too much information? A systematic investigation of the antecedents and consequences of ambivalence-induced information seeking behavior20
The developmental origins and behavioral consequences of attributions for inequality20
Students' daily activity and beliefs about the world before and after a campus shooting20
The link between social categorization and spontaneous social evaluations: A matter of the evaluative implications of the situation?20
Multiracials' affective, behavioral and identity-specific responses to identity denial19
Legal descriptions of police officers affect how citizens judge them19
Perspective taking does not moderate the price precision effect, but indirectly affects counteroffers to asking prices19
Power can increase but also decrease cheating depending on what thoughts are validated19
Support for leaders who use conspiratorial rhetoric: The role of personal control and political identity18
When do people learn likes and dislikes from co-occurrences? A dual-force perspective on evaluative conditioning18
Self-serving bias in moral character evaluations18
People believe sexual harassment and domestic violence are less harmful for women in poverty17
WITHDRAWN: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups17
Consume humanity: Eating anthropomorphic food leads to the dehumanization of others17
Group-bounded indirect reciprocity and intergroup gossip17
Effects of fear on donations to climate change mitigation17
Responsibility gaps and self-interest bias: People attribute moral responsibility to AI for their own but not others' transgressions16
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Dynamic indirect reciprocity: The influence of personal reputation and group reputation on cooperative behavior in nested social dilemmas15
Religiosity predicts the delegation of decisions between moral and self-serving immoral outcomes15
Understanding attributions to racial discrimination in diverse hiring contexts: The impact of beneficiary identity14
Work engagement and burnout in anticipation of physically returning to work: The interactive effect of imminence of return and self-affirmation14
How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification14
Malevolent intentions and secret coordination. Dissecting cognitive processes in conspiracy beliefs via diffusion modeling14
Humanity at first sight: Exploring the relationship between others' pupil size and ascriptions of humanity14
Artificial intelligence and moral dilemmas: Perception of ethical decision-making in AI14
The impact of uncertainty induced by the COVID-19 pandemic on intertemporal choice14
The unexpected social consequences of diverting attention to our phones13
Corrigendum to “US cisgender women's psychological responses to physical femininity threats: Increased anxiety, reduced self-esteem” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 110(2024) 104547]13
The authentic catch-22: Following the true self promotes decision satisfaction in moral dilemmas13
Negative multicultural experiences can increase intergroup bias12
Conflict, cooperation, and institutional choice12
Most people do not “value the struggle”: Tempted agents are judged as less virtuous than those who were never tempted12
Does conscious perception render agents more responsible? A study of lay judgments12
People overshoot when choosing resource pools12
Stimulus confounds in implicit and explicit measures of racial bias12
Hadza hunter-gatherers are not deontologists and do not prefer deontologists as social partners11
A (costly) penny for your thoughts? Allies cause harm by seeking marginalized group members' help when confronting prejudice11
You are safer with me: Presence of the self lowers risk perception for others11
Examining selective migration as attitudinal fit versus gay migration11
The role of racial shared reality in Black Americans' identity-safety during interracial interactions11
What makes us “we”? The positivity bias in essentialist beliefs about group attributes11
When allies join the fight: How joint collective action shapes social change and intergroup relations11
Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes11
Corrigendum to “A trust inoculation to protect public support of governmentally mandated actions to mitigate climate change” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 115 (2024) 104656]11
On judging the morality of suicide10
Love is in the soul, math is in the brain: Dualist intuitions and belief in psychological science10
Status- and foreignness-based discrimination experiences shape feelings of similarity among people of color10
Social identity transition promotes trust toward strangers and unrelated outgroups10
Dissecting cross-category recognition: A methodological test of the theory of perceptual expertise10
Playing the field or locking down a partner?: Perceptions of available romantic partners and commitment readiness10
Assessing the speed and spontaneity of racial bias in pain perception10
Do reminders of God increase willingness to take risks?10
Gender categorization and memory in transgender and cisgender people9
Ensemble perception in entitativity judgments of natural crowds9
The role of attitude features in the reliability of IAT scores9
Talk is cheap: The role of (in)sincere allyship cues from men on women's identity-safety and retention at work9
Judging the guilt of the un-guilty: The roles of “false positive” guilt and empathy in moral character perception9
Close but not quite: Exploring the role of shared discrimination in racial outgroup identity-safety cues for Black women9
“I wanna thank me”: Reputational consequences of attribution locus depend on outcome valence9
Successful groups are seen as more agentic and therefore more human— Consequences for group perception9
Vicarious kin derogation—when and why people mock the innocent family members of political leaders9
How race influences perceptions of objectivity and hiring preferences9
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Beyond the basic six, static, and WERID: Exploring the range of emotions conveyed by facial expressions8
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Desired attitudes guide actual attitude change8
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It is not only whether I approach but also why I approach: A registered report on the role of action framing in approach/avoidance training effects8
Choice availability and incentive structure determine how people cope with ostracism8
Beyond the motherhood penalty: Evidence of a (potentially race-based) parenthood boost in workplace evaluations8
Exemplar-based ingroup projection: The superordinate national category is associated more strongly with ingroup than outgroup political leaders8
The malleability of sampling's impact on evaluation: Sampling goals moderate the evaluative impact of sampling a stimulus8
Concealment stigma: The social costs of concealing8
Variability and abstraction in evaluative conditioning: Consequences for the generalization of likes and dislikes8
Effects of ancestral information on social connectedness and life meaning7
Attributions of emotion and reduced attitude openness prevent people from engaging others with opposing views7
Repeated exposure to success harshens reactions to failure7
Registered Report Stage I: Prioritizing sociability over morality: Preferring false empathic over truthful unempathic emotion communication7
Investigating the morning morality effect and its mediating and moderating factors7
Beyond belief: How social engagement motives influence the spread of conspiracy theories7
Maximizer's asymmetric memory: Amplified negativity for selected options, attenuated for foregone options7
Economic scarcity increases racial stereotyping in beliefs and face representation7
Considering the role of second-order respect in individuals' deference to dominant actors7
No evidence that priming analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories: A Registered Report of high-powered direct replications of Study 2 and Study 4 from7
Qualified support for normative vs. non-normative protest: Less invested members of advantaged groups are most supportive when the protest fits the opportunity for status improvement7
Reversing the cumulative redundancy bias to demonstrate metacognitive flexibility in cue utilization7
A threat-based hate model: How symbolic and realistic threats underlie hate and aggression7
Scientific identity and STEMM-relevant outcomes: Elaboration moderates use of identity-certainty7
Reducing paternalistic bias toward ethnic minority girls7
Making an impression: The effects of sharing conspiracy theories7
Timing is everything: Unraveling the temporal dynamics of the cheerleader effect7
Narcissistic vigilance to status cues7
A colorblind ideal and the motivation to improve intergroup relations: The role of an (in)congruent status quo7
Mitigating welfare-related prejudice and partisanship among U.S. conservatives with moral reframing of a universal basic income policy7
Mindless furry test-tubes: Categorizing animals as lab-subjects leads to their mind denial7
He said, she said: Gender differences in the disclosure of positive and negative information7
Withdrawal notice to: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups. Journal of experimental social psychology 101(2022) 1043397
Time perspective and helpfulness: Are communicators more persuasive in the past, present, or future tense?7
AI as a companion or a tool? Nostalgia promotes embracing AI technology with a relational use7
Masculinity contest cultures lead to self-group distancing in women6
How people perceive dispositionally (non-) ambivalent others and why it matters6
Social identity complexity mitigates outgroup derogation in moral judgment6
Persuading republicans and democrats to comply with mask wearing: An intervention tournament6
Does deliberation decrease belief in conspiracies?6
Refusing to forgive can have psychological benefits6
Slippery slope thinking links religiosity to punishment6
Corrigendum to “The dark side of meaning-making: how social exclusion leads to superstitious thinking” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 218–222]6
Nostalgia confers psychological wellbeing by increasing authenticity6
Smartly following others: Majority influence depends on how the majority behavior is formed6
Giving-by-proxy triggers subsequent charitable behavior6
Why do some people refuse to compromise their positions on politicized practices? The role of need for closure6
Structuring success: How issue-packaging agendas foster better joint outcomes in multi-issue negotiations6
Beyond killing one to save five: Sensitivity to ratio and probability in moral judgment6
Moral violations that target more valued victims elicit more anger, but not necessarily more disgust6
Summarized and sequential discrimination - A paradigm for research on the perception of multiple instances of discrimination5
In the pursuit of happiness: Attaining a greater number of high-status positions increases well-being but only in select groups5
Predicting that birds of a feather will flock together: Expectations of homophily for others but not the self5
The effects of fear appeals on reactance in climate change communication5
Gifts that keep on giving: Reflected appraisals from gifts and their role in identity and choice5
“If you agree with me, it must be true”: Social verification creates shared reality and consolidates impressions5
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Synchrony and mental health: Investigating the negative association between interpersonal coordination and subclinical variation in autism and social anxiety5
Face-to-face: Three facial features that may turn the scale in close electoral races5
The impact of social identity complexity on intergroup parochial and universal cooperation under different payoff structures and frames5
Who's on first? People asymmetrically attend to higher-ranked (vs. lower-ranked) competitors5
Did you hear what she did to me? Female friendship victimization disclosures offer reputational advantages5
Organizational norms and gender identity contexts shape when pronoun-sharing is perceived as disingenuous allyship: Evidence of a normative eclipsing effect5
Reframing of moral dilemmas reveals an unexpected “positivity bias” in updating and attributions5
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From critical to hypocritical: Counterfactual thinking increases partisan disagreement about media hypocrisy5
Exploring the gender-portion association in stereotypes, cognition, and treatment5
Intentions versus outcomes: Determinants of costly third-party interventions in fairness maintenance5
Psychological power increases the desire for social distance but reduces the sense of social distance5
The interpersonal costs of revealing others' secrets5
How diversity and disadvantage frames shape employee reactions to affirmative action: Social identity threat, stereotype threat, and fairness perceptions5
Bless her heart: Gossip phrased with concern provides advantages in female intrasexual competition5
Effort-based decision making in joint action: Evidence of a sense of fairness4
Construing hypotheticals: How hypotheticality affects level of abstraction4
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The effect of wearing college apparel on Black men's perceived criminality and perceived risk of being racially profiled by police4
Fragility and forgiveness: Masculinity concerns affect men's willingness to forgive4
Biased, but expert: Trade-offs in how stigmatized versus non-stigmatized advocates are perceived and consequences for persuasion4
The limits of moral framing in promoting pro-environmentalism: A preregistered replication of4
The role of gender in shaping Black and Latina women’s experiences in anticipated interracial interactions4
Do voting and election outcomes predict changes in conspiracy beliefs? Evidence from two high-profile U.S. elections4
Registered report stage I: Is it unpleasant to predict kindergarten teacher = man? Testing the emotional response to the anticipation of confirmation or violation of gendered stereotypes4
Are rules meant to be broken? When and why consistent rule-following undermines versus enhances trust4
Not lie detection but stereotypes: Response priming reveals a gender bias in facial trustworthiness evaluations4
Do individuation instructions reduce the cross-race effect? A registered replication of4
Going at it alone: Zero-sum beliefs inhibit help-seeking4
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Is common behavior considered moral? The role of perceived others' motives in moral norm inferences and motivation about environmental behavior4
Precarious manhood increases men's receptivity to social sexual behavior from attractive women at work4
(Not) showing you feel good, can be bad: The consequences of breaking expressivity norms for positive emotions4
Status decoded: How actors and observers shape the meaning of stealth symbols4
Moral decay in investment4
From self to ingroup reclaiming of homophobic epithets: A replication and extension of Galinsky et al.'s (2013) model of reappropriation4
Effects of temporal distance on a dynamic measure of action identification4
People judge third-party anger as a signal of moral character4
Engaging with conspiracy theories: Causes and consequences4
Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs4
Taking advantage: Predictions and moral judgments of leveraging outside options in ultimatum games4
The effect of practice on automatic evaluation: A registered replication3
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Moral fixedness: Morality seems less changeable than competence and warmth3
Altering the past to shape the future: Manipulating information accessibility to influence case-based reasoning3
Are conspiracy theory believers drawn to conspiratorial explanations, alternatives explanations, or both?3
Population base rates as anchors in social categorization under uncertainty3
If negligence is intentionality’s cousin, recklessness is it’s sibling: Differentiating negligence and recklessness from accidents and intentional harm3
How are real artworks and reproductions judged? The role of anchoring in empirical investigations of the genuineness effect3
Algorithmic management diminishes status: An unintended consequence of using machines to perform social roles3
Less “awe”-some art: How AI diminishes the empathic power of the arts3
Lower social class, better social skills? A registered report testing diverging predictions from the rank and cultural approaches to social class3
Implementing planned missingness in stimulus sampling designs: Strategies for optimizing statistical power and precision while limiting participant burden3
Generalization of rejection and acceptance in social networks3
Effects of awe on self-transcendence: A registered report study3
I am, I am not: Strategies to cope with negative group labels3
Testing “quarantined” metarepresentational accounts of Theory of Mind: Are we biased by others' false beliefs?3
Evaluative conditioning with multiple unconditioned stimuli – Integration at judgment?3
The influence of dominance and prestige on children's resource allocation: What if they coexist?3
Ease of retrieval of role attributes predicts role clarity which, in turn, predicts outcomes among stepparents3
Palestinians and Israelis believe the other's God encourages intergroup benevolence: A case of positive intergroup meta-perceptions3
Higher power dynamics: How meaning search and self-transcendence inspire approach motivation and magnanimity3
Weight stigma: Do we believe that everyone can enjoy healthy behaviors?3
Share the wealth: Neurophysiological and motivational mechanisms related to racial discrimination in economic decision making3
The power of the Ingroup for promoting collective action: How distinctive treatment from fellow minority members motivates collective action3
Simultaneous pairing increases evaluative conditioning: Evidence for the role of temporal overlap but not of onset synchrony3
The invisible hand as an intuitive sociological explanation3
Income inequality and status concerns in multiple life domains increase self-objectification for both women and men3
Thicker-skinned but still human: People may think individuals in poverty are less vulnerable to harm even when ascribing them full humanity3
Appraisal of male privilege: On the dual role of identity threat and shame in response to confrontations with male privilege3
Task affordances affect partner preferences3
The do-gooder dilemma: A self/other asymmetry in the perceived emotional costs of self-reporting good deeds3
When are leaders blamed for bad events that never happened? Partisanship and close counterfactual catastrophes3
The impact factor: The effect of actual impact information and perceived donation efficacy on donors' repeated donations3
Does victims' forgiveness help offenders to forgive themselves? The role of meta-perceptions of value consensus3
Is the victim-perpetrator asymmetry stronger in situations where blame is being assigned?3
Hey Siri, I love you: People feel more attached to gendered technology3
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