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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Hierarchy as a signal of culture and belonging: Exploring why egalitarian ideology predicts aversion to hierarchical organizations72
Choosing not to get anchored: A choice mindset reduces the anchoring bias60
Morals for the sake of movement: Locomotion and sensitivity to norms in moral dilemmas58
Feedback to video stimuli: A novel paradigm for manipulating existential isolation53
Does reading an anti-free will text affect beliefs related to free will over time? — A registered report46
Joint collective action increases support for social change and mitigates intergroup polarisation: A registered report44
Self-anchoring toward groups shapes changes in intergroup attitudes during intergroup interactions39
“Black-and-White” thinking: Does visual contrast polarize moral judgment? Independent replications and extension of Study 135
Untested assumptions perpetuate stereotyping: Learning in the absence of evidence34
Revisiting dissociation hypotheses with a structural fit approach: The case of the prepared reflex framework34
Faster, stronger, and more obligatory?A temporal analysis of negative (versus positive) emotional reactions33
Differences in faces do make a difference: Diversity perceptions and preferences in faces33
Effects of aggregation on implicit bias measurement30
What types of gratitude expressions promote prosocial behavior?: A registered report29
Too much information? A systematic investigation of the antecedents and consequences of ambivalence-induced information seeking behavior28
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses27
Trait inferences from the “big two” produce gendered expectations of facial features27
System justification makes income gaps appear smaller27
A 2 × 2 model of sociocognitive conflict regulation26
Who are you to me?: A relational approach to examining race-gender associations26
More useful to you: Believing that others find the same objects more useful25
Revisiting the folk concept of intentionality: Replications of25
Using two-sided messages to facilitate misinformation correction for strongly held beliefs24
Third-party punishment, vigilante justice, or karma? Understanding the dynamics of interpersonal and cosmic justice24
Students' daily activity and beliefs about the world before and after a campus shooting21
Power as a moral magnifier: Moral outrage is amplified when the powerful transgress21
Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection20
The developmental origins and behavioral consequences of attributions for inequality19
Self-serving bias in moral character evaluations18
People believe sexual harassment and domestic violence are less harmful for women in poverty18
The interplay between individual and collective efforts in the age of global threats18
Multiracials' affective, behavioral and identity-specific responses to identity denial18
WITHDRAWN: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups18
Legal descriptions of police officers affect how citizens judge them18
Group-bounded indirect reciprocity and intergroup gossip17
How cognitive issue bracketing affects interdependent decision-making in negotiations17
Effects of fear on donations to climate change mitigation17
Support for leaders who use conspiratorial rhetoric: The role of personal control and political identity16
Consume humanity: Eating anthropomorphic food leads to the dehumanization of others16
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Power can increase but also decrease cheating depending on what thoughts are validated16
When do people learn likes and dislikes from co-occurrences? A dual-force perspective on evaluative conditioning16
Responsibility gaps and self-interest bias: People attribute moral responsibility to AI for their own but not others' transgressions16
Perspective taking does not moderate the price precision effect, but indirectly affects counteroffers to asking prices16
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
Humanity at first sight: Exploring the relationship between others' pupil size and ascriptions of humanity15
How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification15
Artificial intelligence and moral dilemmas: Perception of ethical decision-making in AI15
Work engagement and burnout in anticipation of physically returning to work: The interactive effect of imminence of return and self-affirmation15
Religiosity predicts the delegation of decisions between moral and self-serving immoral outcomes14
The authentic catch-22: Following the true self promotes decision satisfaction in moral dilemmas14
Malevolent intentions and secret coordination. Dissecting cognitive processes in conspiracy beliefs via diffusion modeling14
What makes us “we”? The positivity bias in essentialist beliefs about group attributes14
The unexpected social consequences of diverting attention to our phones14
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
Yesterday's great expectations: Metamemory and retrospective subjective duration13
Conflict, cooperation, and institutional choice13
Hadza hunter-gatherers are not deontologists and do not prefer deontologists as social partners13
When allies join the fight: How joint collective action shapes social change and intergroup relations13
Negative multicultural experiences can increase intergroup bias13
Stimulus confounds in implicit and explicit measures of racial bias12
Examining selective migration as attitudinal fit versus gay migration12
Does conscious perception render agents more responsible? A study of lay judgments12
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
You are safer with me: Presence of the self lowers risk perception for others11
Understanding the role of faces in person perception: Increased reliance on facial appearance when judging sociability11
Changing impressions in competence-oriented domains: The primacy of morality endures11
Talk is cheap: The role of (in)sincere allyship cues from men on women's identity-safety and retention at work11
Do reminders of God increase willingness to take risks?11
Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes11
The role of racial shared reality in Black Americans' identity-safety during interracial interactions11
Status- and foreignness-based discrimination experiences shape feelings of similarity among people of color11
On judging the morality of suicide11
Investigating the identification-prejudice link through the lens of national narcissism: The role of defensive group beliefs11
Assessing the speed and spontaneity of racial bias in pain perception11
Belief system networks can be used to predict where to expect dynamic constraint11
Playing the field or locking down a partner?: Perceptions of available romantic partners and commitment readiness11
Imagined empathy and anger intensity: Distinct emotional implications of perceiving that a close versus distant other is privy to an anger-inducing experience11
The impact of economic inequality on conspiracy beliefs10
Gender categorization and memory in transgender and cisgender people10
Judging the guilt of the un-guilty: The roles of “false positive” guilt and empathy in moral character perception10
Love is in the soul, math is in the brain: Dualist intuitions and belief in psychological science10
Exemplar-based ingroup projection: The superordinate national category is associated more strongly with ingroup than outgroup political leaders10
Successful groups are seen as more agentic and therefore more human— Consequences for group perception10
Reflexive or reflective? Group bias in third-party punishment in Chinese and Western cultures10
Close but not quite: Exploring the role of shared discrimination in racial outgroup identity-safety cues for Black women10
The role of attitude features in the reliability of IAT scores10
Vicarious kin derogation—when and why people mock the innocent family members of political leaders9
Beyond the basic six, static, and WERID: Exploring the range of emotions conveyed by facial expressions9
Variability and abstraction in evaluative conditioning: Consequences for the generalization of likes and dislikes9
“I wanna thank me”: Reputational consequences of attribution locus depend on outcome valence9
Choice availability and incentive structure determine how people cope with ostracism9
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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 effects9
Concealment stigma: The social costs of concealing9
Beyond the motherhood penalty: Evidence of a (potentially race-based) parenthood boost in workplace evaluations9
Desired attitudes guide actual attitude change8
Effects of ancestral information on social connectedness and life meaning8
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How race influences perceptions of objectivity and hiring preferences8
The malleability of sampling's impact on evaluation: Sampling goals moderate the evaluative impact of sampling a stimulus8
Considering the role of second-order respect in individuals' deference to dominant actors8
A colorblind ideal and the motivation to improve intergroup relations: The role of an (in)congruent status quo8
AI as a companion or a tool? Nostalgia promotes embracing AI technology with a relational use8
Application of sentence-level text analysis: The role of emotion in an experimental learning intervention8
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
A threat-based hate model: How symbolic and realistic threats underlie hate and aggression7
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Attributions of emotion and reduced attitude openness prevent people from engaging others with opposing views7
Economic scarcity increases racial stereotyping in beliefs and face representation7
Scientific identity and STEMM-relevant outcomes: Elaboration moderates use of identity-certainty7
He said, she said: Gender differences in the disclosure of positive and negative information7
Timing is everything: Unraveling the temporal dynamics of the cheerleader effect7
Repeated exposure to success harshens reactions to failure7
Beyond belief: How social engagement motives influence the spread of conspiracy theories7
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
“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
Narcissistic vigilance to status cues7
Making an impression: The effects of sharing conspiracy theories7
Time perspective and helpfulness: Are communicators more persuasive in the past, present, or future tense?7
Corrigendum to “The dark side of meaning-making: how social exclusion leads to superstitious thinking” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 218–222]6
Refusing to forgive can have psychological benefits6
Smartly following others: Majority influence depends on how the majority behavior is formed6
Masculinity contest cultures lead to self-group distancing in women6
Social identity complexity mitigates outgroup derogation in moral judgment6
Persuading republicans and democrats to comply with mask wearing: An intervention tournament6
The interpersonal costs of revealing others' secrets6
Organizational norms and gender identity contexts shape when pronoun-sharing is perceived as disingenuous allyship: Evidence of a normative eclipsing effect6
Beyond killing one to save five: Sensitivity to ratio and probability in moral judgment6
Registered Report Stage I: Prioritizing sociability over morality: Preferring false empathic over truthful unempathic emotion communication6
Withdrawal notice to: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups. Journal of experimental social psychology 101(2022) 1043396
The articulatory in-out effect: Driven by articulation fluency?6
How people perceive dispositionally (non-) ambivalent others and why it matters6
Slippery slope thinking links religiosity to punishment6
Gifts that keep on giving: Reflected appraisals from gifts and their role in identity and choice6
Why do some people refuse to compromise their positions on politicized practices? The role of need for closure6
Did you hear what she did to me? Female friendship victimization disclosures offer reputational advantages6
Moral violations that target more valued victims elicit more anger, but not necessarily more disgust6
Mindless furry test-tubes: Categorizing animals as lab-subjects leads to their mind denial6
Reversing the cumulative redundancy bias to demonstrate metacognitive flexibility in cue utilization6
Investigating the morning morality effect and its mediating and moderating factors6
How diversity and disadvantage frames shape employee reactions to affirmative action: Social identity threat, stereotype threat, and fairness perceptions6
Does deliberation decrease belief in conspiracies?6
Nostalgia confers psychological wellbeing by increasing authenticity6
Giving-by-proxy triggers subsequent charitable behavior6
Mitigating welfare-related prejudice and partisanship among U.S. conservatives with moral reframing of a universal basic income policy6
The effects of fear appeals on reactance in climate change communication5
Intentions versus outcomes: Determinants of costly third-party interventions in fairness maintenance5
Who's on first? People asymmetrically attend to higher-ranked (vs. lower-ranked) competitors5
Predicting that birds of a feather will flock together: Expectations of homophily for others but not the self5
In the pursuit of happiness: Attaining a greater number of high-status positions increases well-being but only in select groups5
Construing hypotheticals: How hypotheticality affects level of abstraction5
Fragility and forgiveness: Masculinity concerns affect men's willingness to forgive5
Effects of temporal distance on a dynamic measure of action identification5
Exploring the gender-portion association in stereotypes, cognition, and treatment5
Disadvantaged group activists' attitudes toward advantaged group allies in social movements5
Bless her heart: Gossip phrased with concern provides advantages in female intrasexual competition5
Synchrony and mental health: Investigating the negative association between interpersonal coordination and subclinical variation in autism and social anxiety5
From critical to hypocritical: Counterfactual thinking increases partisan disagreement about media hypocrisy5
Engaging with conspiracy theories: Causes and consequences5
Not lie detection but stereotypes: Response priming reveals a gender bias in facial trustworthiness evaluations5
Effort-based decision making in joint action: Evidence of a sense of fairness5
The threat of a majority-minority U.S. alters white Americans' perception of race5
Face-to-face: Three facial features that may turn the scale in close electoral races5
Psychological power increases the desire for social distance but reduces the sense of social distance5
The impact of social identity complexity on intergroup parochial and universal cooperation under different payoff structures and frames5
Reframing of moral dilemmas reveals an unexpected “positivity bias” in updating and attributions5
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Summarized and sequential discrimination - A paradigm for research on the perception of multiple instances of discrimination5
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Fairness decision-making of opportunity equity in gain and loss contexts5
Is common behavior considered moral? The role of perceived others' motives in moral norm inferences and motivation about environmental behavior5
Going at it alone: Zero-sum beliefs inhibit help-seeking5
The effect of wearing college apparel on Black men's perceived criminality and perceived risk of being racially profiled by police4
If negligence is intentionality’s cousin, recklessness is it’s sibling: Differentiating negligence and recklessness from accidents and intentional harm4
Task affordances affect partner preferences4
Are conspiracy theory believers drawn to conspiratorial explanations, alternatives explanations, or both?4
Simulation induces durable, extensive changes to self-knowledge4
Palestinians and Israelis believe the other's God encourages intergroup benevolence: A case of positive intergroup meta-perceptions4
Biased, but expert: Trade-offs in how stigmatized versus non-stigmatized advocates are perceived and consequences for persuasion4
Moral decay in investment4
Population base rates as anchors in social categorization under uncertainty4
Precarious manhood increases men's receptivity to social sexual behavior from attractive women at work4
Are rules meant to be broken? When and why consistent rule-following undermines versus enhances trust4
Testing “quarantined” metarepresentational accounts of Theory of Mind: Are we biased by others' false beliefs?4
Valedictory editorial4
People judge third-party anger as a signal of moral character4
The impact factor: The effect of actual impact information and perceived donation efficacy on donors' repeated donations4
Higher power dynamics: How meaning search and self-transcendence inspire approach motivation and magnanimity4
Effects of awe on self-transcendence: A registered report study4
The role of gender in shaping Black and Latina women’s experiences in anticipated interracial interactions4
How are real artworks and reproductions judged? The role of anchoring in empirical investigations of the genuineness effect4
(Not) showing you feel good, can be bad: The consequences of breaking expressivity norms for positive emotions4
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Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs4
Class attitudes and the American work ethic: Praise for the hardworking poor and derogation of the lazy rich4
‘The best is yet to come’: Examining the affective and motivational implications of reflective and evaluative thinking about a brighter future life4
The influence of dominance and prestige on children's resource allocation: What if they coexist?4
Moral fixedness: Morality seems less changeable than competence and warmth4
Ease of retrieval of role attributes predicts role clarity which, in turn, predicts outcomes among stepparents4
Do individuation instructions reduce the cross-race effect? A registered replication of4
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Do voting and election outcomes predict changes in conspiracy beliefs? Evidence from two high-profile U.S. elections4
From self to ingroup reclaiming of homophobic epithets: A replication and extension of Galinsky et al.'s (2013) model of reappropriation4
Algorithmic management diminishes status: An unintended consequence of using machines to perform social roles3
Implementing planned missingness in stimulus sampling designs: Strategies for optimizing statistical power and precision while limiting participant burden3
Revisiting the moral forecasting error – A preregistered replication and extension of “Are we more moral than we think?”3
Social identity threat attenuates own-race bias in face recognition under the “Asian-Caucasian” context3
The effect of practice on automatic evaluation: A registered replication3
Is the victim-perpetrator asymmetry stronger in situations where blame is being assigned?3
Weight stigma: Do we believe that everyone can enjoy healthy behaviors?3
Moral impressions and presumed moral choices: Perceptions of how moral exemplars resolve moral dilemmas3
Evaluative conditioning with multiple unconditioned stimuli – Integration at judgment?3
The power of the Ingroup for promoting collective action: How distinctive treatment from fellow minority members motivates collective action3
Dominant groups support digressive victimhood claims to counter accusations of discrimination3
Simultaneous pairing increases evaluative conditioning: Evidence for the role of temporal overlap but not of onset synchrony3
Generalization of rejection and acceptance in social networks3
The effect of gender identity and gender threat on self-image3
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Share the wealth: Neurophysiological and motivational mechanisms related to racial discrimination in economic decision making3
Lower social class, better social skills? A registered report testing diverging predictions from the rank and cultural approaches to social class3
The invisible hand as an intuitive sociological explanation3
I am, I am not: Strategies to cope with negative group labels3
Appraisal of male privilege: On the dual role of identity threat and shame in response to confrontations with male privilege3
The do-gooder dilemma: A self/other asymmetry in the perceived emotional costs of self-reporting good deeds3
Altering the past to shape the future: Manipulating information accessibility to influence case-based reasoning3
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
Self-other differences in perceptions of wealth3
Less “awe”-some art: How AI diminishes the empathic power of the arts3
Hey Siri, I love you: People feel more attached to gendered technology3
How morality signals, benefits, binds, and teaches3
Does victims' forgiveness help offenders to forgive themselves? The role of meta-perceptions of value consensus3
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Thicker-skinned but still human: People may think individuals in poverty are less vulnerable to harm even when ascribing them full humanity3
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