Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Personality and 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
You get us, so you like us: Feeling understood by an outgroup predicts more positive intergroup relations via perceived positive regard.136
Divergent effects of warmth and competence social rejection: An explanation based on the need-threat model.129
Self-control signals and affords power.94
When the specter of the past haunts current groups: Psychological antecedents of historical blame.87
Snapshots of daily life: Situations investigated through the lens of smartphone sensing.86
Probing connections between social connectedness, mortality risk, and brain age: A preregistered study.82
Supplemental Material for My Partner Really Gets Me: Affective Reactivity to Partner Stress Predicts Greater Relationship Quality in New Couples73
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Configural Processing on Mentalization72
The articulatory in-out effect: Driven by consonant preferences?70
Lay theories of financial well-being predict political and policy message preferences.70
Supplemental Material for Learning Too Much From Too Little: False Face Stereotypes Emerge From a Few Exemplars and Persist via Insufficient Sampling70
Supplemental Material for Gheirat as a Complex Emotional Reaction to Relational Boundary Violations: A Mixed-Methods Investigation61
Supplemental Material for Instrumental Goal Activation Increases Online Petition Support Across Languages58
Editorial.54
Supplemental Material for Why Benefiting From Discrimination Is Less Recognized as Discrimination53
Supplemental Material for Achievement Goal Perception: An Interpersonal Approach to Achievement Goals52
The role of awareness and demand in evaluative learning.50
Reactions to undesired outcomes: Evidence for the opposer’s loss effect.48
Measuring the belief system of a person.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.47
Smile pretty and watch your back: Personal safety anxiety and vigilance in objectification theory.47
Dynamics of narcissistic grandiosity and vulnerability in naturalistic and experimental settings.45
When alterations are violations: Moral outrage and punishment in response to (even minor) alterations to rituals.44
Actor and partner power are distinct and have differential effects on social behavior.44
What social lives do single people want? A person-centered approach to identifying profiles of social motives among singles.44
Physiological linkage during shared positive and shared negative emotion.42
Supplemental Material for How Relationship Satisfaction Changes Within and Across Romantic Relationships: Evidence From a Large Longitudinal Study40
Partisan-motivated sampling: Re-examining politically motivated reasoning across the information processing stream.40
The psychology of asymmetric zero-sum beliefs.40
Managing the terror of publication bias: A systematic review of the mortality salience hypothesis.39
Supplemental Material for The Civilian’s Dilemma: Civilians Exhibit Automatic Defensive Responses to the Police39
Deconstructing the gender-equality paradox.38
Dual-promotion: Bragging better by promoting peers.38
How you look is who you are: The appearance reveals character lay theory increases support for facial profiling.37
Supplemental Material for Unraveling Values and Well-Being—Disentangling Within- and Between-Person Dynamics via a Psychometric Network Perspective37
Me as good and me as bad: Priming the self triggers positive and negative implicit evaluations.37
Acknowledgment37
Supplemental Material for Understanding Responses to an Organizational Takeover: Introducing the Social Identity Model of Organizational Change34
Supplemental Material for Rehumanizing the Self After Victimization: The Roles of Forgiveness Versus Revenge34
Pursuing safety in social connection regulates the risk-regulation, social-safety, and behavioral-immune systems.33
"Gain- but not loss-related self-perceptions of aging predict mortality over a period of 23 years: A multidimensional approach": Correction.33
Most people's life satisfaction matches their personality traits: True correlations in multitrait, multirater, multisample data.32
Rejecting an intergroup apology attenuates perceived differences between victim and perpetrator groups in morality and power.32
Ideas worth spreading? When, how, and for whom information load hurts online talks’ popularity.32
When “enemies” become close: Relationship formation among Palestinians and Jewish Israelis at a youth camp.31
Values and stress: Examining the relations between values and general and domain-specific stress in two longitudinal studies.31
Supplemental Material for Why Is There No Negativity Bias in Evaluative Conditioning? A Cognitive-Ecological Answer31
Strategic uniqueness seeking: A cultural perspective.31
Correction to “Tell it like it is: When politically incorrect language promotes authenticity” by Rosenblum et al. (2020).30
Investigating the impact of structural racism explanations for discriminatory behavior on judgments of the perpetrator.30
Supplemental Material for Feedback Receptivity From People in Power Reduces Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Disability Bias Concerns30
Are multiracial faces perceptually distinct?29
Who benefits from which activity? On the relations between personality traits, leisure activities, and well-being.29
Supplemental Material for Golden Gazes: Gaze Direction and Emotional Context Promote Prosocial Behavior by Increasing Attributions of Empathy and Perspective-Taking29
The relationship between adult attachment and mental health: A meta-analysis.28
Supplemental Material for I Think You Might Like Me: Emergence and Change of Meta-Liking in Initial Social Interactions28
Dampening affect via expectations: The case of ambivalence.27
The poetry of psychological distance: Bidirectional associations between stimulus speed and its psychological distance and construal level.27
Supplemental Material for Linking Big Five Personality Traits to Components of Diet: A Meta-Analytic Review27
Parenting orientations in young adulthood: Predicting timing of parenthood and quality of postpartum caregiving.27
Understanding Whites’ perceptions of multicultural policies: A (non)zero-sum framework?27
The role of social categorization and social dominance orientation in behavioral adaptability.26
Asian = machine, Black = animal? The racial asymmetry of dehumanization.26
Underwhelming pleasures: Toward a self-regulatory account of hedonic compensation and overconsumption.26
Presentation in self-posted facial images can expose sexual orientation: Implications for research and privacy.25
Insufficiently complimentary?: Underestimating the positive impact of compliments creates a barrier to expressing them.25
Supplemental Material for “Thanks, but No Thanks”: Gratitude Expression Paradoxically Signals Distance25
Signaling safety and fostering fairness: Exploring the psychological processes underlying (in)congruent cues among Black women.25
Supplemental Material for Using Within-Person Change in Three Large Panel Studies to Estimate Personality Age Trajectories24
Reckless gambles and responsible ventures: Racialized prototypes of risk-taking.24
Supplemental Material for Varieties of Gratitude: Identifying Patterns of Emotional Responses to Positive Experiences Attributed to God, Karma, and Human Benefactors24
Retraction of Gino et al. (2020).24
Supplemental Material for Probing Connections Between Social Connectedness, Mortality Risk, and Brain Age: A Preregistered Study24
Supplemental Material for U.S. Citizens’ Judgments of Moral Transgressions Against Fellow Citizens, Refugees, and Undocumented Immigrants24
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 Goals24
Who influences meta-accuracy? It takes two to know the impressions we make.24
Correction to “Digital traces of offline mobilization” by Smith et al. (2023).24
The development of the rank-order stability of the Big Five across the life span.23
Supplemental Material for Ideas Worth Spreading? When, How, and for Whom Information Load Hurts Online Talks’ Popularity23
Clarifying the structure and nature of left-wing authoritarianism.23
Equality for (almost) all: Egalitarian advocacy predicts lower endorsement of sexism and racism, but not ageism.22
Social exploration: When people deviate from options explored by others.22
Correction to “Anger has benefits for attaining goals” by Lench et al. (2023).22
Supplemental Material for Reminders Undermine Impressions of Genuine Gratitude22
Differences in natural standing posture are associated with antisocial and manipulative personality traits.22
On the relation of boredom and sadistic aggression.22
More threatening and more diagnostic: How moral comparisons differ from social comparisons.22
Supplemental Material for Partisan-Motivated Sampling: Re-Examining Politically Motivated Reasoning Across the Information Processing Stream21
Supplemental Material for Testing the Bottom-Up and Top-Down Models of Self-Esteem: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies21
Supplemental Material for Policies and Prejudice: Integration Policies Moderate the Link Between Immigrant Presence and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice21
"On the value of modesty: How signals of status undermine cooperation”: Correction to Srna et al. (2022).21
Supplemental Material for The Spatial Representation of Leadership Depends on Ecological Threat: A Replication and Extension of Menon et al. (2010)21
How people (fail to) control the influence of affective stimuli on attitudes.21
Supplemental Material for Revisiting Extraversion and Leadership Emergence: A Social Network Churn Perspective21
Supplemental Material for The Impact of Unemployment on Cognitive, Affective, and Eudaimonic Well-Being Facets: Investigating Immediate Effects and Short-Term Adaptation21
Supplemental Material for Not Such a Complainer Anymore: Confrontation That Signals a Growth Mindset Can Attenuate Backlash21
Individual differences in three aspects of evaluation: The motives to have, learn, and express attitudes.21
The person-environment fit of immigrants to the United States: A registered report.21
Supplemental Material for A Balanced Mind: Awe Fosters Equanimity via Temporal Distancing20
Supplemental Material for It Might Become True: How Prefactual Thinking Licenses Dishonesty20
Supplemental Material for Narrative Identity in Context: How Adults in Japan, Denmark, Israel, and the United States Narrate Difficult Life Events20
Supplemental Material for Bridging Temperament and the Big Five in Children: A Genetically Informative Study20
The Fill-Mask Association Test (FMAT): Measuring propositions in natural language.19
A prosocial value intervention in gateway STEM courses.19
Supplemental Material for Buying (Quality) Time Predicts Relationship Satisfaction19
People in historically rice-farming areas are less happy and socially compare more than people in wheat-farming areas.19
A propensity-score matched study of changes in loneliness surrounding major life events.19
Supplemental Material for An Illusion of Unfairness in Random Coin Flips19
Does shared positivity make life more meaningful? Perceived positivity resonance is uniquely associated with perceived meaning in life.18
Revisiting the rigidity-of-the-right hypothesis: A meta-analytic review.18
How individuals react emotionally to others’ (mis)fortunes: A social comparison framework.18
Personality traits and traditional philanthropy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.18
Supplemental Material for More Than a Barrier: Nostalgia Inhibits, but Also Promotes, Favorable Responses to Innovative Technology18
Testing the bottom-up and top-down models of self-esteem: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.18
Supplemental Material for I Love You but I Hate Your Politics: The Role of Political Dissimilarity in Romantic Relationships17
Relational attributions for one’s own resilience predict compassion for others.17
Supplemental Material for How You Look Is Who You Are: The Appearance Reveals Character Lay Theory Increases Support for Facial Profiling17
Reminder avoidance: Why people hesitate to disclose their insecurities to friends.17
Extraversion but not depression predicts reward sensitivity: Revisiting the measurement of anhedonic phenotypes.17
Supplemental Material for Signaling Safety and Fostering Fairness: Exploring the Psychological Processes Underlying (In)Congruent Cues Among Black Women17
What counts as discrimination? How principles of merit shape fairness of demographic decisions.17
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.16
How and why aversive personality is expressed in political preferences.16
What limitations are reported in short articles in social and personality psychology?16
How trust and distrust shape perception and memory.16
The new identity theft: Perceptions of cultural appropriation in intergroup contexts.16
The allure of consensus: People (over)seek consensus in selecting group persuasion strategies.16
Supplemental Material for Ignorance Can Be Trustworthy: The Effect of Social Self-Awareness on Trust16
Gendered racial boundary maintenance: Social penalties for White women in interracial relationships.16
Inference from social evaluation.16
More done, more drained: Being further along in a mundane experience feels worse.16
Relative power and interpersonal trust.16
Does the follow-your-passions ideology cause greater academic and occupational gender disparities than other cultural ideologies?16
Do your friends stress you out? A field study of the spread of stress through a community network.16
Nonlinear relationships between eye gaze and recognition accuracy for ethnic ingroup and outgroup faces.15
Differences and similarities in psychological characteristics between cultural groups circum Mediterranean.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 The Impact of the Early Stages of COVID-19 on Mental Health in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom15
Love me, because I rely on you: Dependency-oriented help-seeking as a strategy for human mating.15
Supplemental Material for Reactions to Undesired Outcomes: Evidence for the Opposer’s Loss Effect15
Supplemental Material for Variability Across Time in Implicit Weight-Related Bias: Random Noise or Meaningful Fluctuations?15
Supplemental Material for The Role of Positive Relationship Events in Romantic Attachment Avoidance15
Supplemental Material for Deconstructing the Gender-Equality Paradox15
Evaluations are inherently comparative, but are compared to what?15
Supplemental Material for Is LGBT Progress Seen as an Attack on Christians?: Examining Christian/Sexual Orientation Zero-Sum Beliefs15
Supplemental Material for Investigating the Within-Person Structure and Correlates of Emotional Experiences in Everyday Life Using an Emotion Family Approach15
Does hoodwinking others pay? The psychological and relational consequences of undetected negotiator deception.15
Do correctional facilities correct our youth?: Effects of incarceration and court-ordered community service on personality development.14
Facet-level personality development in the transition to adolescence: Maturity, disruption, and gender differences.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
Bridging temperament and the Big Five in children: A genetically informative study.14
Collective deviance: Scaling up subjective group dynamics to superordinate categories reveals a deviant ingroup protection effect.14
The souls of Black folk (and the weight of Black ancestry) in U.S. Black Americans’ racial categorization.14
Supplemental Material for The Interpersonal Consequences of Community Gatekeeping14
How genetic and environmental variance in personality traits shift across the life span: Evidence from a cross-national twin study.13
Priority of racial and gender categorization of faces: A social task demand framework.13
The importance of being unearnest: Opportunists and the making of culture.13
Supplemental Material for Unraveling the Complex Relationship Between Work Transitions and Self-Esteem and Life Satisfaction13
Buying (quality) time predicts relationship satisfaction.13
Nature nurtures authenticity: Mechanisms and consequences.13
Needing everything (or just one thing) to go right: Myopic preferences for consolidating or spreading risks.13
Supplemental Material for Measuring the Belief System of a Person13
Top down or bottom up? Evidence from the longitudinal development of global and domain-specific self-esteem in adulthood.13
Spending reflects not only who we are but also who we are around: The joint effects of individual and geographic personality on consumption.13
Supplemental Material for On Being Honest About Dishonesty: The Social Costs of Taking Nuanced (but Realistic) Moral Stances13
A spontaneous stereotype content model: Taxonomy, properties, and prediction.12
Saying no: The negative ramifications from invitation declines are less severe than we think.12
Supplemental Material for Because It Is Fun! Individual Differences in Effort Enjoyment Belief Relate to Behavioral and Physiological Indicators of Effort-Seeking12
Age and gender differences in narcissism: A comprehensive study across eight measures and over 250,000 participants.12
Supplemental Material for Stress Reactivity and Sociocultural Learning: More Stress-Reactive Individuals Are Quicker at Learning Sociocultural Norms From Experiential Feedback12
Regional personality differences predict variation in early COVID-19 infections and mobility patterns indicative of social distancing.12
The bigger the problem the littler: When the scope of a problem makes it seem less dangerous.12
Supplemental Material for When Lack of Control Leads to Uncertainty: Explaining the Effect of Anomie on Support for Authoritarianism12
The sex premium in religiously motivated moral judgment.12
Supplemental Material for Affective Contingencies of Narcissism11
Using within-person change in three large panel studies to estimate personality age trajectories.11
Racism behind the screen: Examining the mediating and moderating relationships between anonymity, online disinhibition, and cyber-racism.11
Supplemental Material for Self-Control Signals and Affords Power11
Supplemental Material for The Minority-Groups Homogeneity Effect: Seeing Members of Different Minority Groups as More Similar to Each Other Than Members of the Majority11
From whom do people seek what type of support? A regulatory scope perspective.11
Unlocking the bitter potential of nostalgia: Covariation between and causal effects of nostalgia on envy.11
Supplemental Material for Seeing Meaning Even When None May Exist: Collectivism Increases Belief in Empty Claims11
What does it mean to be (seen as) human? The importance of gender in humanization.11
U.S. citizens’ judgments of moral transgressions against fellow citizens, refugees, and undocumented immigrants.11
Supplemental Material for The Role of Intraminority Relations in Perceptions of Cultural Appropriation11
Examining individual differences in metaperceptive accuracy using the social meta-accuracy model.11
A critical examination and meta-analysis of the distinction between the dominance and antiegalitarianism facets of social dominance orientation.11
Judging a book by its cover: Cultural differences in inference of the inner state based on the outward appearance.11
Correction to Wurm and Schäfer (2022).11
Keep talking: (Mis)understanding the hedonic trajectory of conversation.10
Communal expectations conflict with autonomy motives: The western drive for autonomy shapes women’s negative responses to positive gender stereotypes.10
Boosting college prospects among low-income students: Using self-affirmation to trigger motivation and a behavioral ladder to channel it.10
Supplemental Material for Revisiting Situational Strength: Do Strong Situations Restrict Variance in Behaviors?10
More than a barrier: Nostalgia inhibits, but also promotes, favorable responses to innovative technology.10
Moral panics on social media are fueled by signals of virality.10
Cross-cultural variation in cooperation: A meta-analysis.10
Mastery-approach goals: A large-scale cross-cultural analysis of antecedents and consequences.10
The directed nature of social stereotypes.10
The evidence for good genes ovulatory shifts in Arslan et al. (2018) is mixed and uncertain.10
Supplemental Material for The Zero-Sum Mindset10
Supplemental Material for Does Shared Positivity Make Life More Meaningful? Perceived Positivity Resonance Is Uniquely Associated With Perceived Meaning in Life10
Supplemental Material for Need Satisfaction in Intergroup Contact: A Multinational Study of Pathways Toward Social Change9
Supplemental Material for Listening to Understand: The Role of High-Quality Listening on Speakers’ Attitude Depolarization During Disagreements9
Supplemental Material for Age and Gender Differences in Narcissism: A Comprehensive Study Across Eight Measures and Over 250,000 Participants9
“I” am more concrete than “we”: Linguistic abstraction and first-person pronoun usage.9
Variability across time in implicit weight-related bias: Random noise or meaningful fluctuations?9
Supplemental Material for Moral Panics on Social Media Are Fueled by Signals of Virality9
Supplemental Material for Refining the Maturity Principle of Personality Development by Examining Facets, Close Others, and Comaturation9
Supplemental Material for Power Dynamics and the Reciprocation of Trust and Distrust9
Supplemental Material for Grammatical Gender and Anthropomorphism: “It” Depends on the Language9
Supplemental Material for Personality Traits and Health Care Use: A Coordinated Analysis of 15 International Samples9
Supplemental Material for Familial Similarity and Heritability of Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction Are Higher Than Shown in Typical Single-Method Studies9
Supplemental Material for Mutual Cooperation Gives You a Stake in Your Partner’s Welfare, Especially if They Are Irreplaceable9
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 Are There Dominant Response Tendencies for Social Reactions? Trust Trumps Mistrust—Evidence From a Dominant Behavior Measure (DBM)9
Individual differences in the forms of personality trait trajectories.9
Supplemental Material for Narcissists’ Affective Well-Being: Associations of Grandiose Narcissism With State Affect Level and Variability9
Personal echo chambers: Openness-to-experience is linked to higher levels of psychological interest diversity in large-scale behavioral data.8
Personality trait similarity in recently cohabiting couples: Partner choice, convergence, or selective breakup?8
Supplemental Material for More Done, More Drained: Being Further Along in a Mundane Experience Feels Worse8
Instrumental goal activation increases online petition support across languages.8
Are there dominant response tendencies for social reactions? Trust trumps mistrust—evidence from a Dominant Behavior Measure (DBM).8
Supplemental Material for Implicit Theories of Opportunity: When Opportunity Fails to Knock, Keep Waiting, or Start Cultivating?8
Counterfeit diversity: How strategically misrepresenting gender diversity dampens organizations’ perceived sincerity and elevates women’s identity threat concerns.8
Personality and health: Disentangling their between-person and within-person relationship in three longitudinal studies.8
Disentangling self-concept clarity and self-esteem in young adults.8
Who in the world is trying to change their personality traits? Volitional personality change among college students in six continents.8
Signaling virtuous victimhood as indicators of Dark Triad personalities.8
Mindfulness meditation reduces guilt and prosocial reparation.8
Digital traces of offline mobilization.8
A three-dimensional taxonomy of achievement emotions.8
Supplemental Material for Microinclusions: Treating Women as Respected Work Partners Increases a Sense of Fit in Technology Companies8
ǂŪsigu: A mixed-method lexical study of character description in Khoekhoegowab.8
Here one time, gone the next: Fluctuations in support received and provided predict changes in relationship satisfaction across the transition to parenthood.8
Gender differences and variability in creative ability: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the greater male variability hypothesis in creativity.8
Boosting yourself? Associations between momentary self-esteem, daily social interactions, and self-esteem development in late adolescence and late adulthood.8
Antecedents and consequences of LGBT individuals’ perceptions of straight allyship.8
Overly shallow?: Miscalibrated expectations create a barrier to deeper conversation.8
Well-being in social interactions: Examining personality-situation dynamics in face-to-face and computer-mediated communication.8
The affective harm account (AHA) of moral judgment: Reconciling cognition and affect, dyadic morality and disgust, harm and purity.8
Why benefiting from discrimination is less recognized as discrimination.8
0.050699949264526