Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Personality and 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Probing connections between social connectedness, mortality risk, and brain age: A preregistered study.183
Supplemental Material for My Partner Really Gets Me: Affective Reactivity to Partner Stress Predicts Greater Relationship Quality in New Couples176
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Configural Processing on Mentalization142
Supplemental Material for Gheirat as a Complex Emotional Reaction to Relational Boundary Violations: A Mixed-Methods Investigation119
Supplemental Material for Instrumental Goal Activation Increases Online Petition Support Across Languages109
Reactions to undesired outcomes: Evidence for the opposer’s loss effect.94
Supplemental Material for Achievement Goal Perception: An Interpersonal Approach to Achievement Goals93
Editorial.92
Supplemental Material for Learning Too Much From Too Little: False Face Stereotypes Emerge From a Few Exemplars and Persist via Insufficient Sampling82
Supplemental Material for Politically Extreme Individuals Exhibit Similar Neural Processing Despite Ideological Differences78
Partisan-motivated sampling: Re-examining politically motivated reasoning across the information processing stream.69
Self-control signals and affords power.67
Fact or artifact? Demand characteristics and participants’ beliefs can moderate, but do not fully account for, the effects of facial feedback on emotional experience.60
Snapshots of daily life: Situations investigated through the lens of smartphone sensing.59
The role of awareness and demand in evaluative learning.57
The articulatory in-out effect: Driven by consonant preferences?52
Divergent effects of warmth and competence social rejection: An explanation based on the need-threat model.52
Measuring the belief system of a person.51
When the specter of the past haunts current groups: Psychological antecedents of historical blame.50
When alterations are violations: Moral outrage and punishment in response to (even minor) alterations to rituals.50
You get us, so you like us: Feeling understood by an outgroup predicts more positive intergroup relations via perceived positive regard.49
Asymmetric polarization: The perception that Republicans pose harm to disadvantaged groups drives Democrats’ greater dislike of Republicans in social contexts.47
Dynamics of narcissistic grandiosity and vulnerability in naturalistic and experimental settings.47
Actor and partner power are distinct and have differential effects on social behavior.47
The psychology of asymmetric zero-sum beliefs.46
Supplemental Material for Behavioral Variability as a Function of People, Situations, and Their Interaction42
Smile pretty and watch your back: Personal safety anxiety and vigilance in objectification theory.42
What social lives do single people want? A person-centered approach to identifying profiles of social motives among singles.40
Supplemental Material for How Relationship Satisfaction Changes Within and Across Romantic Relationships: Evidence From a Large Longitudinal Study39
Supplemental Material for The Civilian’s Dilemma: Civilians Exhibit Automatic Defensive Responses to the Police39
Lay theories of financial well-being predict political and policy message preferences.39
Values and stress: Examining the relations between values and general and domain-specific stress in two longitudinal studies.38
Supplemental Material for Understanding Responses to an Organizational Takeover: Introducing the Social Identity Model of Organizational Change38
Supplemental Material for Unraveling Values and Well-Being—Disentangling Within- and Between-Person Dynamics via a Psychometric Network Perspective38
Supplemental Material for Why Is There No Negativity Bias in Evaluative Conditioning? A Cognitive-Ecological Answer38
Rejecting an intergroup apology attenuates perceived differences between victim and perpetrator groups in morality and power.38
Acknowledgment38
Are multiracial faces perceptually distinct?37
Ideas worth spreading? When, how, and for whom information load hurts online talks’ popularity.37
Supplemental Material for Feedback Receptivity From People in Power Reduces Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Disability Bias Concerns37
Strategic uniqueness seeking: A cultural perspective.37
Most people's life satisfaction matches their personality traits: True correlations in multitrait, multirater, multisample data.36
Correction to “Tell it like it is: When politically incorrect language promotes authenticity” by Rosenblum et al. (2020).36
"Gain- but not loss-related self-perceptions of aging predict mortality over a period of 23 years: A multidimensional approach": Correction.36
Investigating the impact of structural racism explanations for discriminatory behavior on judgments of the perpetrator.35
Supplemental Material for Golden Gazes: Gaze Direction and Emotional Context Promote Prosocial Behavior by Increasing Attributions of Empathy and Perspective-Taking35
Unstable, indistinct, and cohesive? How group cognitions shape attitudes toward transgender and nonbinary people as a function of gender essentialism.34
Deconstructing the gender-equality paradox.32
Me as good and me as bad: Priming the self triggers positive and negative implicit evaluations.32
Dual-promotion: Bragging better by promoting peers.32
Managing the terror of publication bias: A systematic review of the mortality salience hypothesis.31
How you look is who you are: The appearance reveals character lay theory increases support for facial profiling.31
Pursuing safety in social connection regulates the risk-regulation, social-safety, and behavioral-immune systems.31
Who benefits from which activity? On the relations between personality traits, leisure activities, and well-being.30
The relationship between adult attachment and mental health: A meta-analysis.30
Knowing yourself and your partner: Accuracy of personality judgment in recently cohabiting couples.30
The poetry of psychological distance: Bidirectional associations between stimulus speed and its psychological distance and construal level.29
Supplemental Material for Linking Big Five Personality Traits to Components of Diet: A Meta-Analytic Review29
Presentation in self-posted facial images can expose sexual orientation: Implications for research and privacy.29
Supplemental Material for I Think You Might Like Me: Emergence and Change of Meta-Liking in Initial Social Interactions29
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 Goals28
Supplemental Material for “Thanks, but No Thanks”: Gratitude Expression Paradoxically Signals Distance28
Supplemental Material for Varieties of Gratitude: Identifying Patterns of Emotional Responses to Positive Experiences Attributed to God, Karma, and Human Benefactors28
Supplemental Material for Using Within-Person Change in Three Large Panel Studies to Estimate Personality Age Trajectories28
Supplemental Material for Probing Connections Between Social Connectedness, Mortality Risk, and Brain Age: A Preregistered Study27
Supplemental Material for U.S. Citizens’ Judgments of Moral Transgressions Against Fellow Citizens, Refugees, and Undocumented Immigrants27
The development of the rank-order stability of the Big Five across the life span.27
Correction to “Digital traces of offline mobilization” by Smith et al. (2023).27
Supplemental Material for Ideas Worth Spreading? When, How, and for Whom Information Load Hurts Online Talks’ Popularity27
Signaling safety and fostering fairness: Exploring the psychological processes underlying (in)congruent cues among Black women.26
Parenting orientations in young adulthood: Predicting timing of parenthood and quality of postpartum caregiving.26
Underwhelming pleasures: Toward a self-regulatory account of hedonic compensation and overconsumption.26
Retraction of Gino et al. (2020).25
Reckless gambles and responsible ventures: Racialized prototypes of risk-taking.24
Equality for (almost) all: Egalitarian advocacy predicts lower endorsement of sexism and racism, but not ageism.24
Clarifying the structure and nature of left-wing authoritarianism.24
The role of social categorization and social dominance orientation in behavioral adaptability.24
Dampening affect via expectations: The case of ambivalence.24
Asian = machine, Black = animal? The racial asymmetry of dehumanization.24
Supplemental Material for Better Together: Coexperienced Positive Emotions and Cortisol Secretion in the Daily Lives of Older Couples23
Supplemental Material for Partisan-Motivated Sampling: Re-Examining Politically Motivated Reasoning Across the Information Processing Stream23
Supplemental Material for The Impact of Unemployment on Cognitive, Affective, and Eudaimonic Well-Being Facets: Investigating Immediate Effects and Short-Term Adaptation23
Supplemental Material for Reminders Undermine Impressions of Genuine Gratitude23
Supplemental Material for The Spatial Representation of Leadership Depends on Ecological Threat: A Replication and Extension of Menon et al. (2010)23
Supplemental Material for Testing the Bottom-Up and Top-Down Models of Self-Esteem: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies22
Supplemental Material for Not Such a Complainer Anymore: Confrontation That Signals a Growth Mindset Can Attenuate Backlash22
Supplemental Material for Narrative Identity in Context: How Adults in Japan, Denmark, Israel, and the United States Narrate Difficult Life Events22
Supplemental Material for Revisiting Extraversion and Leadership Emergence: A Social Network Churn Perspective21
Supplemental Material for A Balanced Mind: Awe Fosters Equanimity via Temporal Distancing21
Supplemental Material for Policies and Prejudice: Integration Policies Moderate the Link Between Immigrant Presence and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice21
Supplemental Material for It Might Become True: How Prefactual Thinking Licenses Dishonesty21
Supplemental Material for Bridging Temperament and the Big Five in Children: A Genetically Informative Study21
How people (fail to) control the influence of affective stimuli on attitudes.20
"On the value of modesty: How signals of status undermine cooperation”: Correction to Srna et al. (2022).20
Supplemental Material for Buying (Quality) Time Predicts Relationship Satisfaction20
Correction to “Anger has benefits for attaining goals” by Lench et al. (2023).20
The person-environment fit of immigrants to the United States: A registered report.19
Social exploration: When people deviate from options explored by others.19
Within-person variability and couple synchrony in state relationship satisfaction: Testing predictors and implications.19
Differences in natural standing posture are associated with antisocial and manipulative personality traits.19
Supplemental Material for An Illusion of Unfairness in Random Coin Flips19
People in historically rice-farming areas are less happy and socially compare more than people in wheat-farming areas.18
The uniquely powerful impact of explicit, blatant dehumanization on support for intergroup violence.18
Revisiting the rigidity-of-the-right hypothesis: A meta-analytic review.18
Testing the bottom-up and top-down models of self-esteem: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.18
The Fill-Mask Association Test (FMAT): Measuring propositions in natural language.18
Personality traits and traditional philanthropy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.18
Does shared positivity make life more meaningful? Perceived positivity resonance is uniquely associated with perceived meaning in life.18
Supplemental Material for More Than a Barrier: Nostalgia Inhibits, but Also Promotes, Favorable Responses to Innovative Technology17
Changes in psychological well-being across the transition to motherhood: Combining longitudinal and experience sampling methods.17
The allure of consensus: People (over)seek consensus in selecting group persuasion strategies.17
How individuals react emotionally to others’ (mis)fortunes: A social comparison framework.17
Supplemental Material for How You Look Is Who You Are: The Appearance Reveals Character Lay Theory Increases Support for Facial Profiling17
How and why aversive personality is expressed in political preferences.17
Supplemental Material for People Overestimate How Harshly They Are Evaluated for Disengaging From Passion Pursuit17
Supplemental Material for Are Some People More Consistent? Examining the Stability and Underlying Processes of Personality Profile Consistency17
Cheat, cheat, repeat: On the consistency of dishonest behavior in structurally comparable situations.17
A prosocial value intervention in gateway STEM courses.17
Do your friends stress you out? A field study of the spread of stress through a community network.16
Supplemental Material for I Love You but I Hate Your Politics: The Role of Political Dissimilarity in Romantic Relationships16
Does the follow-your-passions ideology cause greater academic and occupational gender disparities than other cultural ideologies?16
What limitations are reported in short articles in social and personality psychology?16
Inference from social evaluation.16
Supplemental Material for Signaling Safety and Fostering Fairness: Exploring the Psychological Processes Underlying (In)Congruent Cues Among Black Women16
More done, more drained: Being further along in a mundane experience feels worse.16
Supplemental Material for Investigating the Within-Person Structure and Correlates of Emotional Experiences in Everyday Life Using an Emotion Family Approach16
What counts as discrimination? How principles of merit shape fairness of demographic decisions.16
Relational attributions for one’s own resilience predict compassion for others.16
Relative power and interpersonal trust.16
Supplemental Material for The Impact of the Early Stages of COVID-19 on Mental Health in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom15
Evaluations are inherently comparative, but are compared to what?15
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 315
Supplemental Material for Variability Across Time in Implicit Weight-Related Bias: Random Noise or Meaningful Fluctuations?15
Supplemental Material for Ignorance Can Be Trustworthy: The Effect of Social Self-Awareness on Trust15
Top down or bottom up? Evidence from the longitudinal development of global and domain-specific self-esteem in adulthood.15
Priority of racial and gender categorization of faces: A social task demand framework.15
Supplemental Material for Is Diversity Enough? Cross-Race and Cross-Class Interactions in College Occur Less Often Than Expected, but Benefit Members of Lower Status Groups When They Occur15
Supplemental Material for Deconstructing the Gender-Equality Paradox15
Supplemental Material for Reactions to Undesired Outcomes: Evidence for the Opposer’s Loss Effect15
Buying (quality) time predicts relationship satisfaction.15
Supplemental Material for The Failure Gap14
Nonlinear relationships between eye gaze and recognition accuracy for ethnic ingroup and outgroup faces.14
Bridging temperament and the Big Five in children: A genetically informative study.14
Does hoodwinking others pay? The psychological and relational consequences of undetected negotiator deception.14
Supplemental Material for The Role of Positive Relationship Events in Romantic Attachment Avoidance14
Differences and similarities in psychological characteristics between cultural groups circum Mediterranean.14
Supplemental Material for The Interpersonal Consequences of Community Gatekeeping14
Collective deviance: Scaling up subjective group dynamics to superordinate categories reveals a deviant ingroup protection effect.14
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.14
Nature nurtures authenticity: Mechanisms and consequences.14
Love me, because I rely on you: Dependency-oriented help-seeking as a strategy for human mating.14
Needing everything (or just one thing) to go right: Myopic preferences for consolidating or spreading risks.13
Supplemental Material for On Being Honest About Dishonesty: The Social Costs of Taking Nuanced (but Realistic) Moral Stances13
The bigger the problem the littler: When the scope of a problem makes it seem less dangerous.13
Trust and trust funds: How others’ childhood and current social class context influence trust behavior and expectations.13
Savvy or savage? How worldviews shape appraisals of antagonistic leaders.13
Supplemental Material for When Lack of Control Leads to Uncertainty: Explaining the Effect of Anomie on Support for Authoritarianism13
Supplemental Material for Measuring the Belief System of a Person13
Supplemental Material for Because It Is Fun! Individual Differences in Effort Enjoyment Belief Relate to Behavioral and Physiological Indicators of Effort-Seeking13
The head, heart, and soul: Lay theories of decision conflict and the role of the true self.13
Supplemental Material for Unraveling the Complex Relationship Between Work Transitions and Self-Esteem and Life Satisfaction13
Beliefs about what disadvantaged groups would do with power shape advantaged groups’ (un)willingness to relinquish it.13
Supplemental Material for Asymmetric Polarization: The Perception That Republicans Pose Harm to Disadvantaged Groups Drives Democrats’ Greater Dislike of Republicans in Social Contexts13
Regional personality differences predict variation in early COVID-19 infections and mobility patterns indicative of social distancing.12
Supplemental Material for Stress Reactivity and Sociocultural Learning: More Stress-Reactive Individuals Are Quicker at Learning Sociocultural Norms From Experiential Feedback12
Racism behind the screen: Examining the mediating and moderating relationships between anonymity, online disinhibition, and cyber-racism.12
Saying no: The negative ramifications from invitation declines are less severe than we think.12
Supplemental Material for N-Equality: Inequality Increases With the Number of Allocation Recipients12
Judging a book by its cover: Cultural differences in inference of the inner state based on the outward appearance.12
A spontaneous stereotype content model: Taxonomy, properties, and prediction.12
Supplemental Material for Changes in Psychological Well-Being Across the Transition to Motherhood: Combining Longitudinal and Experience Sampling Methods12
The importance of being unearnest: Opportunists and the making of culture.12
Age and gender differences in narcissism: A comprehensive study across eight measures and over 250,000 participants.12
Boosting college prospects among low-income students: Using self-affirmation to trigger motivation and a behavioral ladder to channel it.11
Acknowledgment11
Supplemental Material for Self-Control Signals and Affords Power11
Keep talking: (Mis)understanding the hedonic trajectory of conversation.11
Correction to Wurm and Schäfer (2022).11
What does it mean to be (seen as) human? The importance of gender in humanization.11
Supplemental Material for The Zero-Sum Mindset11
Examining individual differences in metaperceptive accuracy using the social meta-accuracy model.11
Supplemental Material for The Role of Intraminority Relations in Perceptions of Cultural Appropriation11
A critical examination and meta-analysis of the distinction between the dominance and antiegalitarianism facets of social dominance orientation.11
U.S. citizens’ judgments of moral transgressions against fellow citizens, refugees, and undocumented immigrants.11
Supplemental Material for Affective Contingencies of Narcissism11
From whom do people seek what type of support? A regulatory scope perspective.10
Using within-person change in three large panel studies to estimate personality age trajectories.10
The directed nature of social stereotypes.10
More than a barrier: Nostalgia inhibits, but also promotes, favorable responses to innovative technology.10
Supplemental Material for The Minority-Groups Homogeneity Effect: Seeing Members of Different Minority Groups as More Similar to Each Other Than Members of the Majority10
Moral panics on social media are fueled by signals of virality.10
Communal expectations conflict with autonomy motives: The western drive for autonomy shapes women’s negative responses to positive gender stereotypes.10
Mastery-approach goals: A large-scale cross-cultural analysis of antecedents and consequences.10
Unlocking the bitter potential of nostalgia: Covariation between and causal effects of nostalgia on envy.10
He sees the forest, I see the trees: Narrative perspective shifts how abstractly people construe a text.10
The waning willpower: A highly powered longitudinal study investigating fatigue vulnerability and its relation to personality, intelligence, and cognitive performance.10
Cross-cultural variation in cooperation: A meta-analysis.10
Supplemental Material for ML-SPEAK: A Theory-Guided Machine Learning Method for Studying and Predicting Conversational Turn-Taking Patterns10
Are there dominant response tendencies for social reactions? Trust trumps mistrust—evidence from a Dominant Behavior Measure (DBM).9
Supplemental Material for More Done, More Drained: Being Further Along in a Mundane Experience Feels Worse9
Supplemental Material for Age and Gender Differences in Narcissism: A Comprehensive Study Across Eight Measures and Over 250,000 Participants9
Supplemental Material for Power Dynamics and the Reciprocation of Trust and Distrust9
Supplemental Material for Moral Panics on Social Media Are Fueled by Signals of Virality9
Supplemental Material for Personality Traits and Health Care Use: A Coordinated Analysis of 15 International Samples9
Supplemental Material for Grammatical Gender and Anthropomorphism: “It” Depends on the Language9
ǂŪsigu: A mixed-method lexical study of character description in Khoekhoegowab.9
Supplemental Material for Does Shared Positivity Make Life More Meaningful? Perceived Positivity Resonance Is Uniquely Associated With Perceived Meaning in Life9
Supplemental Material for Refining the Maturity Principle of Personality Development by Examining Facets, Close Others, and Comaturation9
Supplemental Material for Are There Dominant Response Tendencies for Social Reactions? Trust Trumps Mistrust—Evidence From a Dominant Behavior Measure (DBM)9
Variability across time in implicit weight-related bias: Random noise or meaningful fluctuations?9
Instrumental goal activation increases online petition support across languages.9
Supplemental Material for Narcissists’ Affective Well-Being: Associations of Grandiose Narcissism With State Affect Level and Variability9
Supplemental Material for Judging a Book by Its Cover: Cultural Differences in Inference of the Inner State Based on the Outward Appearance9
Supplemental Material for Familial Similarity and Heritability of Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction Are Higher Than Shown in Typical Single-Method Studies8
Personality and health: Disentangling their between-person and within-person relationship in three longitudinal studies.8
Counterfeit diversity: How strategically misrepresenting gender diversity dampens organizations’ perceived sincerity and elevates women’s identity threat concerns.8
Boosting yourself? Associations between momentary self-esteem, daily social interactions, and self-esteem development in late adolescence and late adulthood.8
Individual differences in the forms of personality trait trajectories.8
The affective harm account (AHA) of moral judgment: Reconciling cognition and affect, dyadic morality and disgust, harm and purity.8
Antecedents and consequences of LGBT individuals’ perceptions of straight allyship.8
Why benefiting from discrimination is less recognized as discrimination.8
Supplemental Material for Revisiting Situational Strength: Do Strong Situations Restrict Variance in Behaviors?8
Here one time, gone the next: Fluctuations in support received and provided predict changes in relationship satisfaction across the transition to parenthood.8
Personality trait similarity in recently cohabiting couples: Partner choice, convergence, or selective breakup?8
Disentangling self-concept clarity and self-esteem in young adults.8
“I” am more concrete than “we”: Linguistic abstraction and first-person pronoun usage.8
Supplemental Material for Implicit Theories of Opportunity: When Opportunity Fails to Knock, Keep Waiting, or Start Cultivating?7
Supplemental Material for The Uniquely Powerful Impact of Explicit, Blatant Dehumanization on Support for Intergroup Violence7
Golden gazes: Gaze direction and emotional context promote prosocial behavior by increasing attributions of empathy and perspective-taking.7
The consequences of heroization for exploitation.7
Low self-esteem as a risk factor for depression: A longitudinal study with continuous time modeling.7
Overly shallow?: Miscalibrated expectations create a barrier to deeper conversation.7
A three-dimensional taxonomy of achievement emotions.7
Mindfulness meditation reduces guilt and prosocial reparation.7
Supplemental Material for “Mostly White, Heterosexual Couples”: Examining Demographic Diversity and Reporting Practices in Relationship Science Research Samples7
Supplemental Material for Punitive but Discerning: Reputation Can Fuel Ambiguously Deserved Punishment, but Does Not Erode Sensitivity to Nuance7
Supplemental Material for Frontal Alpha Asymmetry as a Marker of Approach Motivation? Insights From a Cooperative Forking Path Analysis7
Personal echo chambers: Openness-to-experience is linked to higher levels of psychological interest diversity in large-scale behavioral data.7
Digital traces of offline mobilization.7
Supplemental Material for Mutual Cooperation Gives You a Stake in Your Partner’s Welfare, Especially if They Are Irreplaceable7
Supplemental Material for Microinclusions: Treating Women as Respected Work Partners Increases a Sense of Fit in Technology Companies7
Supplemental Material for Collective Transcendence Beliefs Shape the Sacredness of Objects: The Case of Art7
The bright side of secrecy: The energizing effect of positive secrets.7
Gender differences and variability in creative ability: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the greater male variability hypothesis in creativity.7
Well-being in social interactions: Examining personality-situation dynamics in face-to-face and computer-mediated communication.7
Supplemental Material for Listening to Understand: The Role of High-Quality Listening on Speakers’ Attitude Depolarization During Disagreements7
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