OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology is 7. 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.)

Article	Citations
Hierarchy as a signal of culture and belonging: Exploring why egalitarian ideology predicts aversion to hierarchical organizations	72
Choosing not to get anchored: A choice mindset reduces the anchoring bias	60
Morals for the sake of movement: Locomotion and sensitivity to norms in moral dilemmas	58
Feedback to video stimuli: A novel paradigm for manipulating existential isolation	53
Does reading an anti-free will text affect beliefs related to free will over time? — A registered report	46
Joint collective action increases support for social change and mitigates intergroup polarisation: A registered report	44
Self-anchoring toward groups shapes changes in intergroup attitudes during intergroup interactions	39
“Black-and-White” thinking: Does visual contrast polarize moral judgment? Independent replications and extension of Study 1	35
Revisiting dissociation hypotheses with a structural fit approach: The case of the prepared reflex framework	34
Untested assumptions perpetuate stereotyping: Learning in the absence of evidence	34
Differences in faces do make a difference: Diversity perceptions and preferences in faces	33
Faster, stronger, and more obligatory?A temporal analysis of negative (versus positive) emotional reactions	33
Effects of aggregation on implicit bias measurement	30
What types of gratitude expressions promote prosocial behavior?: A registered report	29
Too much information? A systematic investigation of the antecedents and consequences of ambivalence-induced information seeking behavior	28
System justification makes income gaps appear smaller	27
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses	27
Trait inferences from the “big two” produce gendered expectations of facial features	27
Who are you to me?: A relational approach to examining race-gender associations	26
A 2 × 2 model of sociocognitive conflict regulation	26
Revisiting the folk concept of intentionality: Replications of	25
More useful to you: Believing that others find the same objects more useful	25
Third-party punishment, vigilante justice, or karma? Understanding the dynamics of interpersonal and cosmic justice	24
Using two-sided messages to facilitate misinformation correction for strongly held beliefs	24
Students' daily activity and beliefs about the world before and after a campus shooting	21

Power as a moral magnifier: Moral outrage is amplified when the powerful transgress	21
Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection	20
The developmental origins and behavioral consequences of attributions for inequality	19
The interplay between individual and collective efforts in the age of global threats	18
Multiracials' affective, behavioral and identity-specific responses to identity denial	18
WITHDRAWN: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups	18
Legal descriptions of police officers affect how citizens judge them	18
Self-serving bias in moral character evaluations	18
People believe sexual harassment and domestic violence are less harmful for women in poverty	18
How cognitive issue bracketing affects interdependent decision-making in negotiations	17
Effects of fear on donations to climate change mitigation	17
Group-bounded indirect reciprocity and intergroup gossip	17
Power can increase but also decrease cheating depending on what thoughts are validated	16
When do people learn likes and dislikes from co-occurrences? A dual-force perspective on evaluative conditioning	16
Responsibility gaps and self-interest bias: People attribute moral responsibility to AI for their own but not others' transgressions	16
Perspective taking does not moderate the price precision effect, but indirectly affects counteroffers to asking prices	16
Support for leaders who use conspiratorial rhetoric: The role of personal control and political identity	16
Consume humanity: Eating anthropomorphic food leads to the dehumanization of others	16
Editorial Board	16
Artificial intelligence and moral dilemmas: Perception of ethical decision-making in AI	15
Work engagement and burnout in anticipation of physically returning to work: The interactive effect of imminence of return and self-affirmation	15
Dynamic indirect reciprocity: The influence of personal reputation and group reputation on cooperative behavior in nested social dilemmas	15
The impact of uncertainty induced by the COVID-19 pandemic on intertemporal choice	15
Humanity at first sight: Exploring the relationship between others' pupil size and ascriptions of humanity	15
How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification	15
What makes us “we”? The positivity bias in essentialist beliefs about group attributes	14
The unexpected social consequences of diverting attention to our phones	14
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
Religiosity predicts the delegation of decisions between moral and self-serving immoral outcomes	14
The authentic catch-22: Following the true self promotes decision satisfaction in moral dilemmas	14
Malevolent intentions and secret coordination. Dissecting cognitive processes in conspiracy beliefs via diffusion modeling	14
Conflict, cooperation, and institutional choice	13
Hadza hunter-gatherers are not deontologists and do not prefer deontologists as social partners	13
When allies join the fight: How joint collective action shapes social change and intergroup relations	13
Negative multicultural experiences can increase intergroup bias	13
Yesterday's great expectations: Metamemory and retrospective subjective duration	13
Does conscious perception render agents more responsible? A study of lay judgments	12
Most people do not “value the struggle”: Tempted agents are judged as less virtuous than those who were never tempted	12
People overshoot when choosing resource pools	12
Stimulus confounds in implicit and explicit measures of racial bias	12
Examining selective migration as attitudinal fit versus gay migration	12
Status- and foreignness-based discrimination experiences shape feelings of similarity among people of color	11
On judging the morality of suicide	11
Investigating the identification-prejudice link through the lens of national narcissism: The role of defensive group beliefs	11
Assessing the speed and spontaneity of racial bias in pain perception	11
Belief system networks can be used to predict where to expect dynamic constraint	11
Playing the field or locking down a partner?: Perceptions of available romantic partners and commitment readiness	11
Imagined empathy and anger intensity: Distinct emotional implications of perceiving that a close versus distant other is privy to an anger-inducing experience	11
You are safer with me: Presence of the self lowers risk perception for others	11
Understanding the role of faces in person perception: Increased reliance on facial appearance when judging sociability	11

Changing impressions in competence-oriented domains: The primacy of morality endures	11
Talk is cheap: The role of (in)sincere allyship cues from men on women's identity-safety and retention at work	11
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 attitudes	11
The role of racial shared reality in Black Americans' identity-safety during interracial interactions	11
Gender categorization and memory in transgender and cisgender people	10
Successful groups are seen as more agentic and therefore more human— Consequences for group perception	10
Reflexive or reflective? Group bias in third-party punishment in Chinese and Western cultures	10
Close but not quite: Exploring the role of shared discrimination in racial outgroup identity-safety cues for Black women	10
The role of attitude features in the reliability of IAT scores	10
The impact of economic inequality on conspiracy beliefs	10
Judging the guilt of the un-guilty: The roles of “false positive” guilt and empathy in moral character perception	10
Love is in the soul, math is in the brain: Dualist intuitions and belief in psychological science	10
Exemplar-based ingroup projection: The superordinate national category is associated more strongly with ingroup than outgroup political leaders	10
Beyond the basic six, static, and WERID: Exploring the range of emotions conveyed by facial expressions	9
Variability and abstraction in evaluative conditioning: Consequences for the generalization of likes and dislikes	9
“I wanna thank me”: Reputational consequences of attribution locus depend on outcome valence	9
Choice availability and incentive structure determine how people cope with ostracism	9
Editorial Board	9
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 effects	9
Concealment stigma: The social costs of concealing	9
Beyond the motherhood penalty: Evidence of a (potentially race-based) parenthood boost in workplace evaluations	9
Vicarious kin derogation—when and why people mock the innocent family members of political leaders	9
How race influences perceptions of objectivity and hiring preferences	8
The malleability of sampling's impact on evaluation: Sampling goals moderate the evaluative impact of sampling a stimulus	8
Considering the role of second-order respect in individuals' deference to dominant actors	8
A colorblind ideal and the motivation to improve intergroup relations: The role of an (in)congruent status quo	8
AI as a companion or a tool? Nostalgia promotes embracing AI technology with a relational use	8
Application of sentence-level text analysis: The role of emotion in an experimental learning intervention	8
Desired attitudes guide actual attitude change	8
Effects of ancestral information on social connectedness and life meaning	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	7
Attributions of emotion and reduced attitude openness prevent people from engaging others with opposing views	7
Economic scarcity increases racial stereotyping in beliefs and face representation	7
Scientific identity and STEMM-relevant outcomes: Elaboration moderates use of identity-certainty	7
He said, she said: Gender differences in the disclosure of positive and negative information	7
Timing is everything: Unraveling the temporal dynamics of the cheerleader effect	7
Repeated exposure to success harshens reactions to failure	7
Beyond belief: How social engagement motives influence the spread of conspiracy theories	7
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 from	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 success	7
Narcissistic vigilance to status cues	7
Making an impression: The effects of sharing conspiracy theories	7
Time perspective and helpfulness: Are communicators more persuasive in the past, present, or future tense?	7
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 improvement	7
A threat-based hate model: How symbolic and realistic threats underlie hate and aggression	7