Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Supplemental Material for My Partner Really Gets Me: Affective Reactivity to Partner Stress Predicts Greater Relationship Quality in New Couples245
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Configural Processing on Mentalization188
Supplemental Material for Instrumental Goal Activation Increases Online Petition Support Across Languages149
Reactions to undesired outcomes: Evidence for the opposer’s loss effect.145
Supplemental Material for Achievement Goal Perception: An Interpersonal Approach to Achievement Goals124
Supplemental Material for Learning Too Much From Too Little: False Face Stereotypes Emerge From a Few Exemplars and Persist via Insufficient Sampling115
The role of awareness and demand in evaluative learning.114
Supplemental Material for Behavioral Variability as a Function of People, Situations, and Their Interaction111
When the specter of the past haunts current groups: Psychological antecedents of historical blame.88
Supplemental Material for Politically Extreme Individuals Exhibit Similar Neural Processing Despite Ideological Differences81
Measuring the belief system of a person.71
Divergent effects of warmth and competence social rejection: An explanation based on the need-threat model.69
Self-control signals and affords power.69
Fact or artifact? Demand characteristics and participants’ beliefs can moderate, but do not fully account for, the effects of facial feedback on emotional experience.66
Partisan-motivated sampling: Re-examining politically motivated reasoning across the information processing stream.62
You get us, so you like us: Feeling understood by an outgroup predicts more positive intergroup relations via perceived positive regard.60
Supplemental Material for Social Distancing From Innocent Victims by Spatial Distality60
Probing connections between social connectedness, mortality risk, and brain age: A preregistered study.59
Face the difference: Metacontrast as an affordance to spontaneous social categorization.58
When alterations are violations: Moral outrage and punishment in response to (even minor) alterations to rituals.50
Actor and partner power are distinct and have differential effects on social behavior.50
Asymmetric polarization: The perception that Republicans pose harm to disadvantaged groups drives Democrats’ greater dislike of Republicans in social contexts.50
Dynamics of narcissistic grandiosity and vulnerability in naturalistic and experimental settings.49
The psychology of asymmetric zero-sum beliefs.49
Snapshots of daily life: Situations investigated through the lens of smartphone sensing.47
What social lives do single people want? A person-centered approach to identifying profiles of social motives among singles.47
Supplemental Material for Navigating Cultural Identity: A 20-Year Longitudinal Study of First-Generation Adult Immigrants in Germany47
Supplemental Material for The Civilian’s Dilemma: Civilians Exhibit Automatic Defensive Responses to the Police46
Supplemental Material for How Relationship Satisfaction Changes Within and Across Romantic Relationships: Evidence From a Large Longitudinal Study46
Supplemental Material for Why Is There No Negativity Bias in Evaluative Conditioning? A Cognitive-Ecological Answer45
Acknowledgment44
Supplemental Material for Unraveling Values and Well-Being—Disentangling Within- and Between-Person Dynamics via a Psychometric Network Perspective43
Values and stress: Examining the relations between values and general and domain-specific stress in two longitudinal studies.42
Knowing yourself and your partner: Accuracy of personality judgment in recently cohabiting couples.41
Pursuing safety in social connection regulates the risk-regulation, social-safety, and behavioral-immune systems.41
Supplemental Material for Feedback Receptivity From People in Power Reduces Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Disability Bias Concerns40
Rejecting an intergroup apology attenuates perceived differences between victim and perpetrator groups in morality and power.40
"Gain- but not loss-related self-perceptions of aging predict mortality over a period of 23 years: A multidimensional approach": Correction.38
Are multiracial faces perceptually distinct?38
Dual-promotion: Bragging better by promoting peers.38
Supplemental Material for Golden Gazes: Gaze Direction and Emotional Context Promote Prosocial Behavior by Increasing Attributions of Empathy and Perspective-Taking37
Deconstructing the gender-equality paradox.37
Unstable, indistinct, and cohesive? How group cognitions shape attitudes toward transgender and nonbinary people as a function of gender essentialism.37
Strategic uniqueness seeking: A cultural perspective.36
Who benefits from which activity? On the relations between personality traits, leisure activities, and well-being.36
Ideas worth spreading? When, how, and for whom information load hurts online talks’ popularity.35
The environment impressions model.34
Investigating the impact of structural racism explanations for discriminatory behavior on judgments of the perpetrator.34
Correction to “Tell it like it is: When politically incorrect language promotes authenticity” by Rosenblum et al. (2020).34
End of world beliefs are common, diverse, and predict how people perceive and respond to global risks.34
How you look is who you are: The appearance reveals character lay theory increases support for facial profiling.34
Most people's life satisfaction matches their personality traits: True correlations in multitrait, multirater, multisample data.33
Managing the terror of publication bias: A systematic review of the mortality salience hypothesis.33
The relationship between adult attachment and mental health: A meta-analysis.31
Supplemental Material for I Think You Might Like Me: Emergence and Change of Meta-Liking in Initial Social Interactions31
Supplemental Material for “Thanks, but No Thanks”: Gratitude Expression Paradoxically Signals Distance30
Supplemental Material for Linking Big Five Personality Traits to Components of Diet: A Meta-Analytic Review30
Supplemental Material for A Meta-Analysis of the Dark Side of the American Dream: Evidence for the Universal Wellness Costs of Prioritizing Extrinsic Over Intrinsic Goals29
Supplemental Material for Using Within-Person Change in Three Large Panel Studies to Estimate Personality Age Trajectories29
Supplemental Material for Probing Connections Between Social Connectedness, Mortality Risk, and Brain Age: A Preregistered Study28
Supplemental Material for Ideas Worth Spreading? When, How, and for Whom Information Load Hurts Online Talks’ Popularity28
Supplemental Material for Overestimating the Social Costs of Political Belief Change28
Supplemental Material for Varieties of Gratitude: Identifying Patterns of Emotional Responses to Positive Experiences Attributed to God, Karma, and Human Benefactors28
Supplemental Material for Better Together: Coexperienced Positive Emotions and Cortisol Secretion in the Daily Lives of Older Couples28
Retraction of Gino et al. (2020).27
Correction to “Digital traces of offline mobilization” by Smith et al. (2023).27
Supplemental Material for Anxious Aspirations: Attachment Anxiety Fuels Status Strivings Through Intrasexual Competition26
Supplemental Material for U.S. Citizens’ Judgments of Moral Transgressions Against Fellow Citizens, Refugees, and Undocumented Immigrants26
Racial discrimination in time investment: The intergroup time bias in different social contexts.26
The poetry of psychological distance: Bidirectional associations between stimulus speed and its psychological distance and construal level.25
Asian = machine, Black = animal? The racial asymmetry of dehumanization.24
Underwhelming pleasures: Toward a self-regulatory account of hedonic compensation and overconsumption.24
Parenting orientations in young adulthood: Predicting timing of parenthood and quality of postpartum caregiving.24
Signaling safety and fostering fairness: Exploring the psychological processes underlying (in)congruent cues among Black women.24
Supplemental Material for Reminders Undermine Impressions of Genuine Gratitude23
Supplemental Material for A Balanced Mind: Awe Fosters Equanimity via Temporal Distancing23
Equality for (almost) all: Egalitarian advocacy predicts lower endorsement of sexism and racism, but not ageism.23
Supplemental Material for Not Such a Complainer Anymore: Confrontation That Signals a Growth Mindset Can Attenuate Backlash23
Supplemental Material for Testing the Bottom-Up and Top-Down Models of Self-Esteem: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies23
Supplemental Material for Belief in a Diversity–Meritocracy Trade-Off23
Supplemental Material for Narrative Identity in Context: How Adults in Japan, Denmark, Israel, and the United States Narrate Difficult Life Events23
Supplemental Material for An Illusion of Unfairness in Random Coin Flips22
Supplemental Material for Bridging Temperament and the Big Five in Children: A Genetically Informative Study22
Supplemental Material for Buying (Quality) Time Predicts Relationship Satisfaction22
Supplemental Material for People Overestimate How Harshly They Are Evaluated for Disengaging From Passion Pursuit22
Within-person variability and couple synchrony in state relationship satisfaction: Testing predictors and implications.21
Testing the bottom-up and top-down models of self-esteem: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.21
How people (fail to) control the influence of affective stimuli on attitudes.21
"On the value of modesty: How signals of status undermine cooperation”: Correction to Srna et al. (2022).21
Correction to “Anger has benefits for attaining goals” by Lench et al. (2023).20
Supplemental Material for Self-Essentialism Underlies Social Projection to Unfamiliar Similar Others20
The person-environment fit of immigrants to the United States: A registered report.20
Differences in natural standing posture are associated with antisocial and manipulative personality traits.20
The Fill-Mask Association Test (FMAT): Measuring propositions in natural language.20
Does shared positivity make life more meaningful? Perceived positivity resonance is uniquely associated with perceived meaning in life.20
Supplemental Material for More Than a Barrier: Nostalgia Inhibits, but Also Promotes, Favorable Responses to Innovative Technology19
The uniquely powerful impact of explicit, blatant dehumanization on support for intergroup violence.19
How individuals react emotionally to others’ (mis)fortunes: A social comparison framework.19
Personality traits and traditional philanthropy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.19
People in historically rice-farming areas are less happy and socially compare more than people in wheat-farming areas.19
A prosocial value intervention in gateway STEM courses.19
Revisiting the rigidity-of-the-right hypothesis: A meta-analytic review.19
What we owe to ourselves: Investigating people’s sense of obligations to the self.19
Cheat, cheat, repeat: On the consistency of dishonest behavior in structurally comparable situations.18
Do your friends stress you out? A field study of the spread of stress through a community network.18
More done, more drained: Being further along in a mundane experience feels worse.18
The allure of consensus: People (over)seek consensus in selecting group persuasion strategies.18
Supplemental Material for Are Some People More Consistent? Examining the Stability and Underlying Processes of Personality Profile Consistency18
Supplemental Material for Signaling Safety and Fostering Fairness: Exploring the Psychological Processes Underlying (In)Congruent Cues Among Black Women18
Supplemental Material for I Love You but I Hate Your Politics: The Role of Political Dissimilarity in Romantic Relationships18
Relative power and interpersonal trust.18
What limitations are reported in short articles in social and personality psychology?18
What counts as discrimination? How principles of merit shape fairness of demographic decisions.18
Relational attributions for one’s own resilience predict compassion for others.18
Supplemental Material for Talking About What We Support Versus Oppose Affects Others’ Openness to Our Views17
Does the follow-your-passions ideology cause greater academic and occupational gender disparities than other cultural ideologies?17
Supplemental Material for Variability Across Time in Implicit Weight-Related Bias: Random Noise or Meaningful Fluctuations?17
Supplemental Material for How Watching Sports Shapes Zero-Sum Thinking: Correlational, Experimental, and Longitudinal Evidence17
Supplemental Material for Ignorance Can Be Trustworthy: The Effect of Social Self-Awareness on Trust17
Changes in psychological well-being across the transition to motherhood: Combining longitudinal and experience sampling methods.17
How and why aversive personality is expressed in political preferences.17
Supplemental Material for The Impact of the Early Stages of COVID-19 on Mental Health in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom17
Inference from social evaluation.17
Evaluations are inherently comparative, but are compared to what?16
Supplemental Material for “Just Getting Along, Together”: The Relationship Between Narratives of Interdependence and Psychological Well-Being Among American Adults With Disabilities During the First 316
Supplemental Material for The Failure Gap16
Supplemental Material for Deconstructing the Gender-Equality Paradox16
Supplemental Material for Reactions to Undesired Outcomes: Evidence for the Opposer’s Loss Effect16
Supplemental Material for The Role of Positive Relationship Events in Romantic Attachment Avoidance16
Nonlinear relationships between eye gaze and recognition accuracy for ethnic ingroup and outgroup faces.16
Does hoodwinking others pay? The psychological and relational consequences of undetected negotiator deception.16
Bridging temperament and the Big Five in children: A genetically informative study.16
Do people agree on how they and others are acting? Examining the degree of target–observer and observer–observer agreement about current behavior as it changes across situations.15
Supplemental Material for Confront in Public, Validate in Private: Effective Male Allyship Responses to Sexist Remarks15
The head, heart, and soul: Lay theories of decision conflict and the role of the true self.15
Supplemental Material for The Interpersonal Consequences of Community Gatekeeping15
Buying (quality) time predicts relationship satisfaction.15
Love me, because I rely on you: Dependency-oriented help-seeking as a strategy for human mating.15
Nature nurtures authenticity: Mechanisms and consequences.15
Collective deviance: Scaling up subjective group dynamics to superordinate categories reveals a deviant ingroup protection effect.15
Differences and similarities in psychological characteristics between cultural groups circum Mediterranean.15
Supplemental Material for Dynamic Networks of Social Contact, Social Desire, and Affect Across Time Scales15
Savvy or savage? How worldviews shape appraisals of antagonistic leaders.15
Supplemental Material for When Lack of Control Leads to Uncertainty: Explaining the Effect of Anomie on Support for Authoritarianism14
Priority of racial and gender categorization of faces: A social task demand framework.14
Supplemental Material for On Being Honest About Dishonesty: The Social Costs of Taking Nuanced (but Realistic) Moral Stances14
Supplemental Material for Stress Reactivity and Sociocultural Learning: More Stress-Reactive Individuals Are Quicker at Learning Sociocultural Norms From Experiential Feedback14
What does it mean to be (seen as) human? The importance of gender in humanization.14
Supplemental Material for Because It Is Fun! Individual Differences in Effort Enjoyment Belief Relate to Behavioral and Physiological Indicators of Effort-Seeking14
Supplemental Material for N-Equality: Inequality Increases With the Number of Allocation Recipients14
Beliefs about what disadvantaged groups would do with power shape advantaged groups’ (un)willingness to relinquish it.14
Supplemental Material for Asymmetric Polarization: The Perception That Republicans Pose Harm to Disadvantaged Groups Drives Democrats’ Greater Dislike of Republicans in Social Contexts14
The importance of being unearnest: Opportunists and the making of culture.14
Supplemental Material for Changes in Psychological Well-Being Across the Transition to Motherhood: Combining Longitudinal and Experience Sampling Methods14
Needing everything (or just one thing) to go right: Myopic preferences for consolidating or spreading risks.14
The bigger the problem the littler: When the scope of a problem makes it seem less dangerous.14
Acknowledgment14
Racism behind the screen: Examining the mediating and moderating relationships between anonymity, online disinhibition, and cyber-racism.13
Saying no: The negative ramifications from invitation declines are less severe than we think.13
Regional personality differences predict variation in early COVID-19 infections and mobility patterns indicative of social distancing.13
Judging a book by its cover: Cultural differences in inference of the inner state based on the outward appearance.13
A spontaneous stereotype content model: Taxonomy, properties, and prediction.13
A critical examination and meta-analysis of the distinction between the dominance and antiegalitarianism facets of social dominance orientation.13
A coordinated analysis of bidirectional associations between life satisfaction and cognitive function.13
Age and gender differences in narcissism: A comprehensive study across eight measures and over 250,000 participants.13
Supplemental Material for Self-Control Signals and Affords Power12
Supplemental Material for ML-SPEAK: A Theory-Guided Machine Learning Method for Studying and Predicting Conversational Turn-Taking Patterns12
Confront in public, validate in private: Effective male allyship responses to sexist remarks.12
Supplemental Material for The Zero-Sum Mindset12
Communal expectations conflict with autonomy motives: The western drive for autonomy shapes women’s negative responses to positive gender stereotypes.12
Supplemental Material for The Minority-Groups Homogeneity Effect: Seeing Members of Different Minority Groups as More Similar to Each Other Than Members of the Majority12
Supplemental Material for The Role of Intraminority Relations in Perceptions of Cultural Appropriation12
From whom do people seek what type of support? A regulatory scope perspective.12
Moral panics on social media are fueled by signals of virality.11
Supplemental Material for Clarifying the Diploma Divide: The Growing Importance of Higher Education for Political Identity11
U.S. citizens’ judgments of moral transgressions against fellow citizens, refugees, and undocumented immigrants.11
The directed nature of social stereotypes.11
Cross-cultural variation in cooperation: A meta-analysis.11
More than a barrier: Nostalgia inhibits, but also promotes, favorable responses to innovative technology.11
Supplemental Material for Does Shared Positivity Make Life More Meaningful? Perceived Positivity Resonance Is Uniquely Associated With Perceived Meaning in Life11
He sees the forest, I see the trees: Narrative perspective shifts how abstractly people construe a text.11
Keep talking: (Mis)understanding the hedonic trajectory of conversation.11
Unlocking the bitter potential of nostalgia: Covariation between and causal effects of nostalgia on envy.11
Examining individual differences in metaperceptive accuracy using the social meta-accuracy model.11
Using within-person change in three large panel studies to estimate personality age trajectories.11
The waning willpower: A highly powered longitudinal study investigating fatigue vulnerability and its relation to personality, intelligence, and cognitive performance.11
Correction to Wurm and Schäfer (2022).11
Mastery-approach goals: A large-scale cross-cultural analysis of antecedents and consequences.11
Are the metatraits fact or artifact? Ruling out alternative explanations for the higher-order factors of the Big Five.11
Supplemental Material for Narcissists’ Affective Well-Being: Associations of Grandiose Narcissism With State Affect Level and Variability10
Supplemental Material for Personality Traits and Health Care Use: A Coordinated Analysis of 15 International Samples10
Supplemental Material for Age and Gender Differences in Narcissism: A Comprehensive Study Across Eight Measures and Over 250,000 Participants10
Supplemental Material for Familial Similarity and Heritability of Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction Are Higher Than Shown in Typical Single-Method Studies10
Supplemental Material for Moral Panics on Social Media Are Fueled by Signals of Virality10
Supplemental Material for Power Dynamics and the Reciprocation of Trust and Distrust10
Supplemental Material for More Done, More Drained: Being Further Along in a Mundane Experience Feels Worse10
Supplemental Material for Mutual Cooperation Gives You a Stake in Your Partner’s Welfare, Especially if They Are Irreplaceable10
Supplemental Material for Judging a Book by Its Cover: Cultural Differences in Inference of the Inner State Based on the Outward Appearance10
Supplemental Material for Are There Dominant Response Tendencies for Social Reactions? Trust Trumps Mistrust—Evidence From a Dominant Behavior Measure (DBM)10
Supplemental Material for Revisiting Situational Strength: Do Strong Situations Restrict Variance in Behaviors?10
Boosting yourself? Associations between momentary self-esteem, daily social interactions, and self-esteem development in late adolescence and late adulthood.10
Individual differences in the forms of personality trait trajectories.9
Antecedents and consequences of LGBT individuals’ perceptions of straight allyship.9
Gender differences and variability in creative ability: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the greater male variability hypothesis in creativity.9
Well-being in social interactions: Examining personality-situation dynamics in face-to-face and computer-mediated communication.9
Supplemental Material for Listening to Understand: The Role of High-Quality Listening on Speakers’ Attitude Depolarization During Disagreements9
The affective harm account (AHA) of moral judgment: Reconciling cognition and affect, dyadic morality and disgust, harm and purity.9
Supplemental Material for Investigating the Conditional Effects of Action Versus Inaction Decisions on Regret9
A three-dimensional taxonomy of achievement emotions.9
“I” am more concrete than “we”: Linguistic abstraction and first-person pronoun usage.9
Low self-esteem as a risk factor for depression: A longitudinal study with continuous time modeling.9
Here one time, gone the next: Fluctuations in support received and provided predict changes in relationship satisfaction across the transition to parenthood.9
Disentangling self-concept clarity and self-esteem in young adults.9
Are there dominant response tendencies for social reactions? Trust trumps mistrust—evidence from a Dominant Behavior Measure (DBM).9
Digital traces of offline mobilization.9
Instrumental goal activation increases online petition support across languages.9
Supplemental Material for From Charm to Conflict: Simulating Narcissistic Interpersonal Dynamics With Agent-Based Modeling9
Variability across time in implicit weight-related bias: Random noise or meaningful fluctuations?9
Mindfulness meditation reduces guilt and prosocial reparation.9
Supplemental Material for Implicit Theories of Opportunity: When Opportunity Fails to Knock, Keep Waiting, or Start Cultivating?8
The consequences of heroization for exploitation.8
Overestimating the social costs of political belief change.8
The bright side of secrecy: The energizing effect of positive secrets.8
Supplemental Material for Punitive but Discerning: Reputation Can Fuel Ambiguously Deserved Punishment, but Does Not Erode Sensitivity to Nuance8
Supplemental Material for Frontal Alpha Asymmetry as a Marker of Approach Motivation? Insights From a Cooperative Forking Path Analysis8
Supplemental Material for “Mostly White, Heterosexual Couples”: Examining Demographic Diversity and Reporting Practices in Relationship Science Research Samples8
Supplemental Material for Unnecessarily Divided: Civil Conversations Reduce Attitude Polarization More Than People Expect8
Revisiting extraversion and leadership emergence: A social network churn perspective.8
Supplemental Material for Collective Transcendence Beliefs Shape the Sacredness of Objects: The Case of Art8
Personality trait similarity in recently cohabiting couples: Partner choice, convergence, or selective breakup?8
Supplemental Material for Microinclusions: Treating Women as Respected Work Partners Increases a Sense of Fit in Technology Companies8
Golden gazes: Gaze direction and emotional context promote prosocial behavior by increasing attributions of empathy and perspective-taking.8
Attitude moralization in the context of collective action: How participation in collective action may foster moralization over time.8
Conversations about boring topics are more interesting than we think.8
Inaugural editorial.7
Extraversion, social interactions, and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Did extraverts really suffer more than introverts?7
Supplemental Material for Examining Individual Differences in Metaperceptive Accuracy Using the Social Meta-Accuracy Model7
Supplemental Material for The Roles of Social–Emotional Skills in Students’ Academic and Life Success: A Multi-Informant and Multicohort Perspective7
Supplemental Material for The Uniquely Powerful Impact of Explicit, Blatant Dehumanization on Support for Intergroup Violence7
When do personal mindsets predict interest in a culture of growth versus genius? A mindset strength perspective.7
Supplemental Material for Patterns and Sources of Life Satisfaction Stability and Change at Different Developmental Stages7
How loneliness undermines close relationships and persists over time: The role of perceived regard and care.7
Supplemental Material for The Political Is Personal: The Costs of Daily Politics7
Supplemental Material for Why We Do What We Do Matters for How We Feel: Links Among Autonomous Goal Regulation, Need Fulfillment, and Well-Being in Daily Life7
Supplemental Material for Development of Life Satisfaction in Immigrant Youth: The Role of Transition Decisions and Cultural Identification7
Expressing equivalence of responsibility and victimhood: How message directionality affects perception of speakers’ willingness to reconcile.7
Correction to Elnakouri et al. (2023).7
Supplemental Material for Digital Traces of Offline Mobilization7
The timing of help: Receiving help toward the end (vs. beginning) undermines psychological ownership and subjective well-being.7
Ending on a familiar note: Perceived endings motivate repeat consumption.7
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