OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology is 8. 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.)

Article	Citations
Differences in faces do make a difference: Diversity perceptions and preferences in faces	114
Hierarchy as a signal of culture and belonging: Exploring why egalitarian ideology predicts aversion to hierarchical organizations	110
Choosing not to get anchored: A choice mindset reduces the anchoring bias	66
“Black-and-White” thinking: Does visual contrast polarize moral judgment? Independent replications and extension of Study 1	51
Revisiting dissociation hypotheses with a structural fit approach: The case of the prepared reflex framework	50
Hierarchy profiling: How and why a job's perceived impact on inequality affects racial hiring evaluations	50
Morals for the sake of movement: Locomotion and sensitivity to norms in moral dilemmas	48
Joint collective action increases support for social change and mitigates intergroup polarisation: A registered report	47
Effects of aggregation on implicit bias measurement	46
Feeling empathy for organizations: Moral consequences, mechanisms, and the power of framing	45
Faster, stronger, and more obligatory?A temporal analysis of negative (versus positive) emotional reactions	36
Being a tough person in a tight world: Cultural tightness leads to a desire for muscularity	35
Untested assumptions perpetuate stereotyping: Learning in the absence of evidence	32
More useful to you: Believing that others find the same objects more useful	32
Editorial Board	31
Who are you to me?: A relational approach to examining race-gender associations	31
Third-party punishment, vigilante justice, or karma? Understanding the dynamics of interpersonal and cosmic justice	29
System justification makes income gaps appear smaller	29
Students' daily activity and beliefs about the world before and after a campus shooting	29
The developmental origins and behavioral consequences of attributions for inequality	28
Revisiting the folk concept of intentionality: Replications of	28
Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection	26
A 2 × 2 model of sociocognitive conflict regulation	26
Climate change threats increase modern racism as a function of social dominance orientation and ingroup identification	26
Financial self-control strategy use: Generating personal strategies reduces spending more than learning expert strategies	26

Trait inferences from the “big two” produce gendered expectations of facial features	26
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses	25
Power can increase but also decrease cheating depending on what thoughts are validated	24
Strategies for disclosing a concealable stigma: Facts and feelings?	24
Legal descriptions of police officers affect how citizens judge them	24
Perspective taking does not moderate the price precision effect, but indirectly affects counteroffers to asking prices	23
The interplay between individual and collective efforts in the age of global threats	23
How cognitive issue bracketing affects interdependent decision-making in negotiations	22
Multiracials' affective, behavioral and identity-specific responses to identity denial	20
WITHDRAWN: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups	20
When do people learn likes and dislikes from co-occurrences? A dual-force perspective on evaluative conditioning	20
Effects of fear on donations to climate change mitigation	19
Consume humanity: Eating anthropomorphic food leads to the dehumanization of others	19
Self-serving bias in moral character evaluations	19
Group-bounded indirect reciprocity and intergroup gossip	18
People believe sexual harassment and domestic violence are less harmful for women in poverty	18
Support for leaders who use conspiratorial rhetoric: The role of personal control and political identity	17
Responsibility gaps and self-interest bias: People attribute moral responsibility to AI for their own but not others' transgressions	17
Editorial Board	17
Work engagement and burnout in anticipation of physically returning to work: The interactive effect of imminence of return and self-affirmation	16
Framing an altruistic action in periodic (versus aggregate) terms reduces people's moral evaluation of the act and the actor	15
Humanity at first sight: Exploring the relationship between others' pupil size and ascriptions of humanity	15
Religiosity predicts the delegation of decisions between moral and self-serving immoral outcomes	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
How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification	14
Artificial intelligence and moral dilemmas: Perception of ethical decision-making in AI	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
The authentic catch-22: Following the true self promotes decision satisfaction in moral dilemmas	14
Situational materialism increases climate change scepticism in men compared to women	14
Misplaced trust: When trust in science fosters belief in pseudoscience and the benefits of critical evaluation	14
Yesterday's great expectations: Metamemory and retrospective subjective duration	14
Malevolent intentions and secret coordination. Dissecting cognitive processes in conspiracy beliefs via diffusion modeling	14
Providing support is easier done than said: Support providers' perceptions of touch and verbal support provision requests	14
The unexpected social consequences of diverting attention to our phones	14
Hadza hunter-gatherers are not deontologists and do not prefer deontologists as social partners	13
What makes us “we”? The positivity bias in essentialist beliefs about group attributes	13
Conflict, cooperation, and institutional choice	13
Stimulus confounds in implicit and explicit measures of racial bias	12
Examining selective migration as attitudinal fit versus gay migration	12
You are safer with me: Presence of the self lowers risk perception for others	12
The role of racial shared reality in Black Americans' identity-safety during interracial interactions	12
Does conscious perception render agents more responsible? A study of lay judgments	12
Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes	12
Changing impressions in competence-oriented domains: The primacy of morality endures	12
Playing the field or locking down a partner?: Perceptions of available romantic partners and commitment readiness	12
Negative multicultural experiences can increase intergroup bias	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
Understanding the role of faces in person perception: Increased reliance on facial appearance when judging sociability	12

Imagined empathy and anger intensity: Distinct emotional implications of perceiving that a close versus distant other is privy to an anger-inducing experience	11
Reflexive or reflective? Group bias in third-party punishment in Chinese and Western cultures	11
The role of attitude features in the reliability of IAT scores	11
Gender categorization and memory in transgender and cisgender people	11
Belief system networks can be used to predict where to expect dynamic constraint	11
On judging the morality of suicide	11
The primacy of communality in humanization	11
Do reminders of God increase willingness to take risks?	11
The impact of economic inequality on conspiracy beliefs	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
Talk is cheap: The role of (in)sincere allyship cues from men on women's identity-safety and retention at work	11
Successful groups are seen as more agentic and therefore more human— Consequences for group perception	11
Close but not quite: Exploring the role of shared discrimination in racial outgroup identity-safety cues for Black women	11
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	10
Judging the guilt of the un-guilty: The roles of “false positive” guilt and empathy in moral character perception	10
The malleability of sampling's impact on evaluation: Sampling goals moderate the evaluative impact of sampling a stimulus	10
Desired attitudes guide actual attitude change	10
Editorial Board	10
Beyond the motherhood penalty: Evidence of a (potentially race-based) parenthood boost in workplace evaluations	10
“I wanna thank me”: Reputational consequences of attribution locus depend on outcome valence	10
Exemplar-based ingroup projection: The superordinate national category is associated more strongly with ingroup than outgroup political leaders	10
Vicarious kin derogation—when and why people mock the innocent family members of political leaders	10
Choice availability and incentive structure determine how people cope with ostracism	10
Concealment stigma: The social costs of concealing	9
A colorblind ideal and the motivation to improve intergroup relations: The role of an (in)congruent status quo	9
Application of sentence-level text analysis: The role of emotion in an experimental learning intervention	9
Variability and abstraction in evaluative conditioning: Consequences for the generalization of likes and dislikes	9
Effects of ancestral information on social connectedness and life meaning	9
Increasing social support for women with postpartum depression through attribution theory guided vignettes and video messages: The understudied role of effort	9
How race influences perceptions of objectivity and hiring preferences	9
Editorial Board	9
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 use	9
Editorial Board	8
Making an impression: The effects of sharing conspiracy theories	8
Attributions of emotion and reduced attitude openness prevent people from engaging others with opposing views	8
Blinded by guilt: Short-term relational focus and lying	8
Considering the role of second-order respect in individuals' deference to dominant actors	8
Economic scarcity increases racial stereotyping in beliefs and face representation	8
Timing is everything: Unraveling the temporal dynamics of the cheerleader effect	8
Scientific identity and STEMM-relevant outcomes: Elaboration moderates use of identity-certainty	8