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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Differences in faces do make a difference: Diversity perceptions and preferences in faces114
Hierarchy as a signal of culture and belonging: Exploring why egalitarian ideology predicts aversion to hierarchical organizations110
Choosing not to get anchored: A choice mindset reduces the anchoring bias66
“Black-and-White” thinking: Does visual contrast polarize moral judgment? Independent replications and extension of Study 151
Revisiting dissociation hypotheses with a structural fit approach: The case of the prepared reflex framework50
Hierarchy profiling: How and why a job's perceived impact on inequality affects racial hiring evaluations50
Morals for the sake of movement: Locomotion and sensitivity to norms in moral dilemmas48
Joint collective action increases support for social change and mitigates intergroup polarisation: A registered report47
Effects of aggregation on implicit bias measurement46
Feeling empathy for organizations: Moral consequences, mechanisms, and the power of framing45
Faster, stronger, and more obligatory?A temporal analysis of negative (versus positive) emotional reactions36
Being a tough person in a tight world: Cultural tightness leads to a desire for muscularity35
More useful to you: Believing that others find the same objects more useful32
Untested assumptions perpetuate stereotyping: Learning in the absence of evidence32
Who are you to me?: A relational approach to examining race-gender associations31
Editorial Board31
System justification makes income gaps appear smaller29
Students' daily activity and beliefs about the world before and after a campus shooting29
Third-party punishment, vigilante justice, or karma? Understanding the dynamics of interpersonal and cosmic justice29
The developmental origins and behavioral consequences of attributions for inequality28
Revisiting the folk concept of intentionality: Replications of28
Financial self-control strategy use: Generating personal strategies reduces spending more than learning expert strategies26
Trait inferences from the “big two” produce gendered expectations of facial features26
Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection26
A 2 × 2 model of sociocognitive conflict regulation26
Climate change threats increase modern racism as a function of social dominance orientation and ingroup identification26
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses25
Legal descriptions of police officers affect how citizens judge them24
Power can increase but also decrease cheating depending on what thoughts are validated24
Strategies for disclosing a concealable stigma: Facts and feelings?24
The interplay between individual and collective efforts in the age of global threats23
Perspective taking does not moderate the price precision effect, but indirectly affects counteroffers to asking prices23
How cognitive issue bracketing affects interdependent decision-making in negotiations22
WITHDRAWN: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups20
When do people learn likes and dislikes from co-occurrences? A dual-force perspective on evaluative conditioning20
Multiracials' affective, behavioral and identity-specific responses to identity denial20
Consume humanity: Eating anthropomorphic food leads to the dehumanization of others19
Self-serving bias in moral character evaluations19
Effects of fear on donations to climate change mitigation19
Group-bounded indirect reciprocity and intergroup gossip18
People believe sexual harassment and domestic violence are less harmful for women in poverty18
Responsibility gaps and self-interest bias: People attribute moral responsibility to AI for their own but not others' transgressions17
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Support for leaders who use conspiratorial rhetoric: The role of personal control and political identity17
Work engagement and burnout in anticipation of physically returning to work: The interactive effect of imminence of return and self-affirmation16
Humanity at first sight: Exploring the relationship between others' pupil size and ascriptions of humanity15
Religiosity predicts the delegation of decisions between moral and self-serving immoral outcomes15
Dynamic indirect reciprocity: The influence of personal reputation and group reputation on cooperative behavior in nested social dilemmas15
The impact of uncertainty induced by the COVID-19 pandemic on intertemporal choice15
Framing an altruistic action in periodic (versus aggregate) terms reduces people's moral evaluation of the act and the actor15
Yesterday's great expectations: Metamemory and retrospective subjective duration14
Malevolent intentions and secret coordination. Dissecting cognitive processes in conspiracy beliefs via diffusion modeling14
Providing support is easier done than said: Support providers' perceptions of touch and verbal support provision requests14
The unexpected social consequences of diverting attention to our phones14
How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification14
Artificial intelligence and moral dilemmas: Perception of ethical decision-making in AI14
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]14
The authentic catch-22: Following the true self promotes decision satisfaction in moral dilemmas14
Situational materialism increases climate change scepticism in men compared to women14
Misplaced trust: When trust in science fosters belief in pseudoscience and the benefits of critical evaluation14
Conflict, cooperation, and institutional choice13
Hadza hunter-gatherers are not deontologists and do not prefer deontologists as social partners13
What makes us “we”? The positivity bias in essentialist beliefs about group attributes13
Does conscious perception render agents more responsible? A study of lay judgments12
Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes12
Changing impressions in competence-oriented domains: The primacy of morality endures12
Playing the field or locking down a partner?: Perceptions of available romantic partners and commitment readiness12
Negative multicultural experiences can increase intergroup bias12
Most people do not “value the struggle”: Tempted agents are judged as less virtuous than those who were never tempted12
People overshoot when choosing resource pools12
Understanding the role of faces in person perception: Increased reliance on facial appearance when judging sociability12
Stimulus confounds in implicit and explicit measures of racial bias12
Examining selective migration as attitudinal fit versus gay migration12
You are safer with me: Presence of the self lowers risk perception for others12
The role of racial shared reality in Black Americans' identity-safety during interracial interactions12
Investigating the identification-prejudice link through the lens of national narcissism: The role of defensive group beliefs11
On judging the morality of suicide11
The primacy of communality in humanization11
Do reminders of God increase willingness to take risks?11
The impact of economic inequality on conspiracy beliefs11
Assessing the speed and spontaneity of racial bias in pain perception11
Talk is cheap: The role of (in)sincere allyship cues from men on women's identity-safety and retention at work11
Successful groups are seen as more agentic and therefore more human— Consequences for group perception11
Close but not quite: Exploring the role of shared discrimination in racial outgroup identity-safety cues for Black women11
Imagined empathy and anger intensity: Distinct emotional implications of perceiving that a close versus distant other is privy to an anger-inducing experience11
Reflexive or reflective? Group bias in third-party punishment in Chinese and Western cultures11
The role of attitude features in the reliability of IAT scores11
Gender categorization and memory in transgender and cisgender people11
Belief system networks can be used to predict where to expect dynamic constraint11
Exemplar-based ingroup projection: The superordinate national category is associated more strongly with ingroup than outgroup political leaders10
Vicarious kin derogation—when and why people mock the innocent family members of political leaders10
Choice availability and incentive structure determine how people cope with ostracism10
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 effects10
Judging the guilt of the un-guilty: The roles of “false positive” guilt and empathy in moral character perception10
The malleability of sampling's impact on evaluation: Sampling goals moderate the evaluative impact of sampling a stimulus10
Desired attitudes guide actual attitude change10
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Beyond the motherhood penalty: Evidence of a (potentially race-based) parenthood boost in workplace evaluations10
“I wanna thank me”: Reputational consequences of attribution locus depend on outcome valence10
How race influences perceptions of objectivity and hiring preferences9
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Numbing or sensitization? Replications and extensions of Fetherstonhaugh et al. (1997)'s “Insensitivity to the Value of Human Life”9
AI as a companion or a tool? Nostalgia promotes embracing AI technology with a relational use9
Concealment stigma: The social costs of concealing9
A colorblind ideal and the motivation to improve intergroup relations: The role of an (in)congruent status quo9
Application of sentence-level text analysis: The role of emotion in an experimental learning intervention9
Variability and abstraction in evaluative conditioning: Consequences for the generalization of likes and dislikes9
Effects of ancestral information on social connectedness and life meaning9
Increasing social support for women with postpartum depression through attribution theory guided vignettes and video messages: The understudied role of effort9
Timing is everything: Unraveling the temporal dynamics of the cheerleader effect8
Scientific identity and STEMM-relevant outcomes: Elaboration moderates use of identity-certainty8
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Making an impression: The effects of sharing conspiracy theories8
Attributions of emotion and reduced attitude openness prevent people from engaging others with opposing views8
Blinded by guilt: Short-term relational focus and lying8
Considering the role of second-order respect in individuals' deference to dominant actors8
Economic scarcity increases racial stereotyping in beliefs and face representation8
Mitigating welfare-related prejudice and partisanship among U.S. conservatives with moral reframing of a universal basic income policy7
A threat-based hate model: How symbolic and realistic threats underlie hate and aggression7
He said, she said: Gender differences in the disclosure of positive and negative information7
Time perspective and helpfulness: Are communicators more persuasive in the past, present, or future tense?7
“We built it” in the past, but “let's build it together” in the future: The roles of temporal framing and social justice orientation in shaping attributions for personal success7
The articulatory in-out effect: Driven by articulation fluency?7
Ripple effects: Can information about the collective impact of individual actions boost perceived efficacy about climate change?7
Mindless furry test-tubes: Categorizing animals as lab-subjects leads to their mind denial7
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
Narcissistic vigilance to status cues7
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
Withdrawal notice to: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups. Journal of experimental social psychology 101(2022) 1043397
Investigating the morning morality effect and its mediating and moderating factors7
Repeated exposure to success harshens reactions to failure7
What motivates avoidance in paranoia? Three failures to find a betrayal aversion effect7
Beyond belief: How social engagement motives influence the spread of conspiracy theories7
Public perceptions of prejudice research: The double-edged sword faced by marginalized group researchers7
Reversing the cumulative redundancy bias to demonstrate metacognitive flexibility in cue utilization7
Corrigendum to “The dark side of meaning-making: how social exclusion leads to superstitious thinking” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 218–222]6
Did you hear what she did to me? Female friendship victimization disclosures offer reputational advantages6
Gifts that keep on giving: Reflected appraisals from gifts and their role in identity and choice6
Moral violations that target more valued victims elicit more anger, but not necessarily more disgust6
The impact of social identity complexity on intergroup parochial and universal cooperation under different payoff structures and frames6
Synchrony and mental health: Investigating the negative association between interpersonal coordination and subclinical variation in autism and social anxiety6
Smartly following others: Majority influence depends on how the majority behavior is formed6
Does deliberation decrease belief in conspiracies?6
Organizational norms and gender identity contexts shape when pronoun-sharing is perceived as disingenuous allyship: Evidence of a normative eclipsing effect6
Nostalgia confers psychological wellbeing by increasing authenticity6
Bless her heart: Gossip phrased with concern provides advantages in female intrasexual competition6
How people perceive dispositionally (non-) ambivalent others and why it matters6
Giving-by-proxy triggers subsequent charitable behavior6
Beyond killing one to save five: Sensitivity to ratio and probability in moral judgment6
The interpersonal costs of revealing others' secrets6
Persuading republicans and democrats to comply with mask wearing: An intervention tournament6
Good deeds and hard knocks: The effect of past suffering on praise for moral behavior6
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Who's on first? People asymmetrically attend to higher-ranked (vs. lower-ranked) competitors6
Fragility and forgiveness: Masculinity concerns affect men's willingness to forgive5
Psychological power increases the desire for social distance but reduces the sense of social distance5
Disadvantaged group activists' attitudes toward advantaged group allies in social movements5
Predicting that birds of a feather will flock together: Expectations of homophily for others but not the self5
Not lie detection but stereotypes: Response priming reveals a gender bias in facial trustworthiness evaluations5
Are rules meant to be broken? When and why consistent rule-following undermines versus enhances trust5
Engaging with conspiracy theories: Causes and consequences5
Exploring the gender-portion association in stereotypes, cognition, and treatment5
In the pursuit of happiness: Attaining a greater number of high-status positions increases well-being but only in select groups5
Summarized and sequential discrimination - A paradigm for research on the perception of multiple instances of discrimination5
Reframing of moral dilemmas reveals an unexpected “positivity bias” in updating and attributions5
Effects of temporal distance on a dynamic measure of action identification5
Effort-based decision making in joint action: Evidence of a sense of fairness5
Is common behavior considered moral? The role of perceived others' motives in moral norm inferences and motivation about environmental behavior5
The affective consequences of threats to masculinity5
The effects of fear appeals on reactance in climate change communication5
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From critical to hypocritical: Counterfactual thinking increases partisan disagreement about media hypocrisy5
Face-to-face: Three facial features that may turn the scale in close electoral races5
Going at it alone: Zero-sum beliefs inhibit help-seeking5
Construing hypotheticals: How hypotheticality affects level of abstraction5
Fairness decision-making of opportunity equity in gain and loss contexts5
The threat of a majority-minority U.S. alters white Americans' perception of race5
The power of the Ingroup for promoting collective action: How distinctive treatment from fellow minority members motivates collective action4
Moral fixedness: Morality seems less changeable than competence and warmth4
Task affordances affect partner preferences4
The impact factor: The effect of actual impact information and perceived donation efficacy on donors' repeated donations4
Cheap talk? Follower sarcasm reduces leader overpay by increasing accountability4
Palestinians and Israelis believe the other's God encourages intergroup benevolence: A case of positive intergroup meta-perceptions4
Valedictory editorial4
Do voting and election outcomes predict changes in conspiracy beliefs? Evidence from two high-profile U.S. elections4
Using anchor-based methods to determine the smallest effect size of interest4
Do individuation instructions reduce the cross-race effect? A registered replication of4
The influence of dominance and prestige on children's resource allocation: What if they coexist?4
People judge third-party anger as a signal of moral character4
Appraisal of male privilege: On the dual role of identity threat and shame in response to confrontations with male privilege4
Dominant groups support digressive victimhood claims to counter accusations of discrimination4
Algorithmic management diminishes status: An unintended consequence of using machines to perform social roles4
Population base rates as anchors in social categorization under uncertainty4
Higher power dynamics: How meaning search and self-transcendence inspire approach motivation and magnanimity4
Biased, but expert: Trade-offs in how stigmatized versus non-stigmatized advocates are perceived and consequences for persuasion4
If negligence is intentionality’s cousin, recklessness is it’s sibling: Differentiating negligence and recklessness from accidents and intentional harm4
From self to ingroup reclaiming of homophobic epithets: A replication and extension of Galinsky et al.'s (2013) model of reappropriation4
Precarious manhood increases men's receptivity to social sexual behavior from attractive women at work4
The effect of wearing college apparel on Black men's perceived criminality and perceived risk of being racially profiled by police4
How are real artworks and reproductions judged? The role of anchoring in empirical investigations of the genuineness effect4
Simulation induces durable, extensive changes to self-knowledge4
Ease of retrieval of role attributes predicts role clarity which, in turn, predicts outcomes among stepparents4
How did it feel? Affect as a feedback system in repeated donation decisions4
Are conspiracy theory believers drawn to conspiratorial explanations, alternatives explanations, or both?4
Class attitudes and the American work ethic: Praise for the hardworking poor and derogation of the lazy rich4
The role of gender in shaping Black and Latina women’s experiences in anticipated interracial interactions4
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Moral decay in investment4
(Not) showing you feel good, can be bad: The consequences of breaking expressivity norms for positive emotions4
‘The best is yet to come’: Examining the affective and motivational implications of reflective and evaluative thinking about a brighter future life4
The partisan trade-off bias: When political polarization meets policy trade-offs3
When everything is at stake: Understanding support for radical collective actions and collective victimhood through anger in a post-conflict setting3
Is the victim-perpetrator asymmetry stronger in situations where blame is being assigned?3
How morality signals, benefits, binds, and teaches3
Does victims' forgiveness help offenders to forgive themselves? The role of meta-perceptions of value consensus3
Don't judge a book by its cover: The effect of perceived facial trustworthiness on advice following in the context of value-based decision-making3
What's in a pronoun: Exploring gender pronouns as an organizational identity-safety cue among sexual and gender minorities3
Still too good to be true: Reply to3
The invisible hand as an intuitive sociological explanation3
Thicker-skinned but still human: People may think individuals in poverty are less vulnerable to harm even when ascribing them full humanity3
The search for predictable moral partners: Predictability and moral (character) preferences3
Morally questionable actors' meta-perceptions are accurate but overly positive3
Revisiting the bounded generalized reciprocity model: Ingroup favoritism and concerns about negative evaluation3
Endorsing both sides, pleasing neither: Ambivalent individuals face unexpected social costs in political conflicts3
Whispered words and organizational dynamics: The nuanced evaluation of gossipers' personality and its effect on workplace advice seeking3
Learning to judge a book by its cover: Rapid acquisition of facial stereotypes3
The effect of practice on automatic evaluation: A registered replication3
Share the wealth: Neurophysiological and motivational mechanisms related to racial discrimination in economic decision making3
Social identity threat attenuates own-race bias in face recognition under the “Asian-Caucasian” context3
Perceived outgroup entitativity mediates stronger effects of intergroup contact for majority than minority status groups3
Moral impressions and presumed moral choices: Perceptions of how moral exemplars resolve moral dilemmas3
Altering the past to shape the future: Manipulating information accessibility to influence case-based reasoning3
Weight stigma: Do we believe that everyone can enjoy healthy behaviors?3
Revisiting the moral forecasting error – A preregistered replication and extension of “Are we more moral than we think?”3
"It's not an overreaction": Increasing White people's acceptance of the reality of bias and receptivity to Black people's bias concerns3
Conceptual metaphors, processing fluency, and aesthetic preference3
When your boss is a robot: Workers are more spiteful to robot supervisors that seem more human3
The cost of freedom: Creative ideation boosts both feelings of autonomy and the fear of judgment3
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Personal harm from the Covid-19 pandemic predicts advocacy for equality3
Self-other differences in perceptions of wealth3
The effect of gender identity and gender threat on self-image3
I am, I am not: Strategies to cope with negative group labels3
Is the automatic evaluation of individual group members inherently biased by their group membership?3
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Simultaneous pairing increases evaluative conditioning: Evidence for the role of temporal overlap but not of onset synchrony3
Implementing planned missingness in stimulus sampling designs: Strategies for optimizing statistical power and precision while limiting participant burden3
“You're leaving us?” Feeling ostracized when a group member leaves3
Empathy for the pain of others: Sensitivity to the individual, not to the collective3
Spheres of immanent justice: Sacred violations evoke expectations of cosmic punishment, irrespective of societal punishment3
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