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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Joint collective action increases support for social change and mitigates intergroup polarisation: A registered report	81
Untested assumptions perpetuate stereotyping: Learning in the absence of evidence	70
Feedback to video stimuli: A novel paradigm for manipulating existential isolation	62
“Black-and-White” thinking: Does visual contrast polarize moral judgment? Independent replications and extension of Study 1	44
Hierarchy as a signal of culture and belonging: Exploring why egalitarian ideology predicts aversion to hierarchical organizations	39
Incentivization very weakly improves theory of mind: A multi-sample investigation and meta-analysis	37
Folk devils? Perceived lack of traditional values explains youth-related stereotypes of sexual minorities and Black men	36
Choosing not to get anchored: A choice mindset reduces the anchoring bias	36
Self-anchoring toward groups shapes changes in intergroup attitudes during intergroup interactions	35
Does reading an anti-free will text affect beliefs related to free will over time? — A registered report	35
Who are you to me?: A relational approach to examining race-gender associations	34
Power as a moral magnifier: Moral outrage is amplified when the powerful transgress	33
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses	30
More useful to you: Believing that others find the same objects more useful	30
Revisiting the folk concept of intentionality: Replications of	28
What types of gratitude expressions promote prosocial behavior?: A registered report	23
Using two-sided messages to facilitate misinformation correction for strongly held beliefs	22
Too much information? A systematic investigation of the antecedents and consequences of ambivalence-induced information seeking behavior	21
The link between social categorization and spontaneous social evaluations: A matter of the evaluative implications of the situation?	20
Gossip or confrontation? Sanctioning environmental norm violations and the reputation of punishers	20
Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection	20
Third-party punishment, vigilante justice, or karma? Understanding the dynamics of interpersonal and cosmic justice	19
Trait inferences from the “big two” produce gendered expectations of facial features	19
Students' daily activity and beliefs about the world before and after a campus shooting	19
Effects of fear on donations to climate change mitigation	19

System justification makes income gaps appear smaller	19
When do people learn likes and dislikes from co-occurrences? A dual-force perspective on evaluative conditioning	18
Multiracials' affective, behavioral and identity-specific responses to identity denial	18
Self-serving bias in moral character evaluations	17
Support for leaders who use conspiratorial rhetoric: The role of personal control and political identity	17
People believe sexual harassment and domestic violence are less harmful for women in poverty	16
Power can increase but also decrease cheating depending on what thoughts are validated	16
Consume humanity: Eating anthropomorphic food leads to the dehumanization of others	16
Group-bounded indirect reciprocity and intergroup gossip	16
Playing it safe: Negotiators avoid uncertainty and reach safer, but less integrative agreements	16
Editorial Board	15
Responsibility gaps and self-interest bias: People attribute moral responsibility to AI for their own but not others' transgressions	15
Malevolent intentions and secret coordination. Dissecting cognitive processes in conspiracy beliefs via diffusion modeling	14
Humanity at first sight: Exploring the relationship between others' pupil size and ascriptions of humanity	14
Work engagement and burnout in anticipation of physically returning to work: The interactive effect of imminence of return and self-affirmation	14
Dynamic indirect reciprocity: The influence of personal reputation and group reputation on cooperative behavior in nested social dilemmas	14
Learning to distrust: One trust experience changes the expected value of trust	13
The impact of uncertainty induced by the COVID-19 pandemic on intertemporal choice	13
Understanding attributions to racial discrimination in diverse hiring contexts: The impact of beneficiary identity	13
How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification	13
Religiosity predicts the delegation of decisions between moral and self-serving immoral outcomes	12
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]	12
The authentic catch-22: Following the true self promotes decision satisfaction in moral dilemmas	12
Two wrongs is what makes it more right: How retaliatory incivility receives social leniency	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
Does conscious perception render agents more responsible? A study of lay judgments	11
Stimulus confounds in implicit and explicit measures of racial bias	11
When allies join the fight: How joint collective action shapes social change and intergroup relations	11
Conflict, cooperation, and institutional choice	11
You are safer with me: Presence of the self lowers risk perception for others	11
What makes us “we”? The positivity bias in essentialist beliefs about group attributes	11
Negative multicultural experiences can increase intergroup bias	11
The role of racial shared reality in Black Americans' identity-safety during interracial interactions	10
On judging the morality of suicide	10
Love is in the soul, math is in the brain: Dualist intuitions and belief in psychological science	10
A (costly) penny for your thoughts? Allies cause harm by seeking marginalized group members' help when confronting prejudice	10
Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes	10
Social identity transition promotes trust toward strangers and unrelated outgroups	10
Status- and foreignness-based discrimination experiences shape feelings of similarity among people of color	10
Do reminders of God increase willingness to take risks?	10
Judging the guilt of the un-guilty: The roles of “false positive” guilt and empathy in moral character perception	9
Close but not quite: Exploring the role of shared discrimination in racial outgroup identity-safety cues for Black women	9
Vicarious kin derogation—when and why people mock the innocent family members of political leaders	9
Dissecting cross-category recognition: A methodological test of the theory of perceptual expertise	9
Gender categorization and memory in transgender and cisgender people	9
Successful groups are seen as more agentic and therefore more human— Consequences for group perception	9
“I wanna thank me”: Reputational consequences of attribution locus depend on outcome valence	9
Ensemble perception in entitativity judgments of natural crowds	9
Talk is cheap: The role of (in)sincere allyship cues from men on women's identity-safety and retention at work	9

Editorial Board	9
Beyond the motherhood penalty: Evidence of a (potentially race-based) parenthood boost in workplace evaluations	9
Variability and abstraction in evaluative conditioning: Consequences for the generalization of likes and dislikes	8
Beyond the basic six, static, and WERID: Exploring the range of emotions conveyed by facial expressions	8
How race influences perceptions of objectivity and hiring preferences	8
Editorial Board	8
The malleability of sampling's impact on evaluation: Sampling goals moderate the evaluative impact of sampling a stimulus	8
Exemplar-based ingroup projection: The superordinate national category is associated more strongly with ingroup than outgroup political leaders	8
Holiday greeting inclusivity in organizations: The more the merrier	8
Editorial Board	8
Effects of ancestral information on social connectedness and life meaning	8
Choice availability and incentive structure determine how people cope with ostracism	8
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	8
A colorblind ideal and the motivation to improve intergroup relations: The role of an (in)congruent status quo	8
Timing is everything: Unraveling the temporal dynamics of the cheerleader effect	8
Desired attitudes guide actual attitude change	8
He said, she said: Gender differences in the disclosure of positive and negative information	7
A threat-based hate model: How symbolic and realistic threats underlie hate and aggression	7
Beyond belief: How social engagement motives influence the spread of conspiracy theories	7
Reversing the cumulative redundancy bias to demonstrate metacognitive flexibility in cue utilization	7
AI as a companion or a tool? Nostalgia promotes embracing AI technology with a relational use	7
Reducing paternalistic bias toward ethnic minority girls	7
Managing threatened identities across everyday situations	7
Scientific identity and STEMM-relevant outcomes: Elaboration moderates use of identity-certainty	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
Just a means to an end? Individuals support direct democracy instrumentally, irrespective of conspiracy mentality	7
Economic scarcity increases racial stereotyping in beliefs and face representation	7
Attributions of emotion and reduced attitude openness prevent people from engaging others with opposing views	7
Narcissistic vigilance to status cues	7
Time perspective and helpfulness: Are communicators more persuasive in the past, present, or future tense?	7
Repeated exposure to success harshens reactions to failure	7
Maximizer's asymmetric memory: Amplified negativity for selected options, attenuated for foregone options	7
Mitigating welfare-related prejudice and partisanship among U.S. conservatives with moral reframing of a universal basic income policy	7
Registered report stage I: Defending or defying democracy? Investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and support for democratic principles [registered report - stage I]	7
Making an impression: The effects of sharing conspiracy theories	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