Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is 36. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Divergent effects of warmth and competence social rejection: An explanation based on the need-threat model.175
Probing connections between social connectedness, mortality risk, and brain age: A preregistered study.170
Supplemental Material for My Partner Really Gets Me: Affective Reactivity to Partner Stress Predicts Greater Relationship Quality in New Couples129
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Configural Processing on Mentalization112
Supplemental Material for Gheirat as a Complex Emotional Reaction to Relational Boundary Violations: A Mixed-Methods Investigation103
Supplemental Material for Instrumental Goal Activation Increases Online Petition Support Across Languages92
Reactions to undesired outcomes: Evidence for the opposer’s loss effect.88
Supplemental Material for Achievement Goal Perception: An Interpersonal Approach to Achievement Goals85
Editorial.77
Supplemental Material for Learning Too Much From Too Little: False Face Stereotypes Emerge From a Few Exemplars and Persist via Insufficient Sampling74
Supplemental Material for Politically Extreme Individuals Exhibit Similar Neural Processing Despite Ideological Differences64
Partisan-motivated sampling: Re-examining politically motivated reasoning across the information processing stream.63
The role of awareness and demand in evaluative learning.57
When alterations are violations: Moral outrage and punishment in response to (even minor) alterations to rituals.56
Self-control signals and affords power.56
The psychology of asymmetric zero-sum beliefs.50
You get us, so you like us: Feeling understood by an outgroup predicts more positive intergroup relations via perceived positive regard.50
Actor and partner power are distinct and have differential effects on social behavior.50
Smile pretty and watch your back: Personal safety anxiety and vigilance in objectification theory.49
Dynamics of narcissistic grandiosity and vulnerability in naturalistic and experimental settings.48
When the specter of the past haunts current groups: Psychological antecedents of historical blame.48
Fact or artifact? Demand characteristics and participants’ beliefs can moderate, but do not fully account for, the effects of facial feedback on emotional experience.46
What social lives do single people want? A person-centered approach to identifying profiles of social motives among singles.45
Asymmetric polarization: The perception that Republicans pose harm to disadvantaged groups drives Democrats’ greater dislike of Republicans in social contexts.45
Snapshots of daily life: Situations investigated through the lens of smartphone sensing.44
Supplemental Material for Behavioral Variability as a Function of People, Situations, and Their Interaction44
Lay theories of financial well-being predict political and policy message preferences.42
The articulatory in-out effect: Driven by consonant preferences?41
Physiological linkage during shared positive and shared negative emotion.39
Measuring the belief system of a person.39
Supplemental Material for The Civilian’s Dilemma: Civilians Exhibit Automatic Defensive Responses to the Police38
Supplemental Material for How Relationship Satisfaction Changes Within and Across Romantic Relationships: Evidence From a Large Longitudinal Study38
Supplemental Material for Understanding Responses to an Organizational Takeover: Introducing the Social Identity Model of Organizational Change37
Supplemental Material for Unraveling Values and Well-Being—Disentangling Within- and Between-Person Dynamics via a Psychometric Network Perspective37
Acknowledgment37
Supplemental Material for Why Is There No Negativity Bias in Evaluative Conditioning? A Cognitive-Ecological Answer37
Ideas worth spreading? When, how, and for whom information load hurts online talks’ popularity.36
Supplemental Material for Feedback Receptivity From People in Power Reduces Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Disability Bias Concerns36
Rejecting an intergroup apology attenuates perceived differences between victim and perpetrator groups in morality and power.36
Strategic uniqueness seeking: A cultural perspective.36
Values and stress: Examining the relations between values and general and domain-specific stress in two longitudinal studies.36
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