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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Divergent effects of warmth and competence social rejection: An explanation based on the need-threat model.163
Self-control signals and affords power.157
Probing connections between social connectedness, mortality risk, and brain age: A preregistered study.109
Supplemental Material for My Partner Really Gets Me: Affective Reactivity to Partner Stress Predicts Greater Relationship Quality in New Couples107
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Configural Processing on Mentalization102
Supplemental Material for Learning Too Much From Too Little: False Face Stereotypes Emerge From a Few Exemplars and Persist via Insufficient Sampling90
Supplemental Material for Instrumental Goal Activation Increases Online Petition Support Across Languages84
Supplemental Material for Gheirat as a Complex Emotional Reaction to Relational Boundary Violations: A Mixed-Methods Investigation84
Editorial.83
Supplemental Material for Why Benefiting From Discrimination Is Less Recognized as Discrimination72
Supplemental Material for Achievement Goal Perception: An Interpersonal Approach to Achievement Goals61
Asymmetric polarization: The perception that Republicans pose harm to disadvantaged groups drives Democrats’ greater dislike of Republicans in social contexts.59
Supplemental Material for Behavioral Variability as a Function of People, Situations, and Their Interaction58
The articulatory in-out effect: Driven by consonant preferences?57
What social lives do single people want? A person-centered approach to identifying profiles of social motives among singles.55
Dynamics of narcissistic grandiosity and vulnerability in naturalistic and experimental settings.52
You get us, so you like us: Feeling understood by an outgroup predicts more positive intergroup relations via perceived positive regard.49
Lay theories of financial well-being predict political and policy message preferences.49
Fact or artifact? Demand characteristics and participants’ beliefs can moderate, but do not fully account for, the effects of facial feedback on emotional experience.49
Partisan-motivated sampling: Re-examining politically motivated reasoning across the information processing stream.49
Measuring the belief system of a person.48
When alterations are violations: Moral outrage and punishment in response to (even minor) alterations to rituals.47
Actor and partner power are distinct and have differential effects on social behavior.47
Reactions to undesired outcomes: Evidence for the opposer’s loss effect.45
When the specter of the past haunts current groups: Psychological antecedents of historical blame.44
Supplemental Material for Politically Extreme Individuals Exhibit Similar Neural Processing Despite Ideological Differences44
Physiological linkage during shared positive and shared negative emotion.43
Smile pretty and watch your back: Personal safety anxiety and vigilance in objectification theory.43
Snapshots of daily life: Situations investigated through the lens of smartphone sensing.42
The role of awareness and demand in evaluative learning.41
The psychology of asymmetric zero-sum beliefs.40
Supplemental Material for How Relationship Satisfaction Changes Within and Across Romantic Relationships: Evidence From a Large Longitudinal Study40
Supplemental Material for The Civilian’s Dilemma: Civilians Exhibit Automatic Defensive Responses to the Police39
Supplemental Material for Feedback Receptivity From People in Power Reduces Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Disability Bias Concerns39
Are multiracial faces perceptually distinct?38
Deconstructing the gender-equality paradox.38
"Gain- but not loss-related self-perceptions of aging predict mortality over a period of 23 years: A multidimensional approach": Correction.37
Correction to “Tell it like it is: When politically incorrect language promotes authenticity” by Rosenblum et al. (2020).36
Most people's life satisfaction matches their personality traits: True correlations in multitrait, multirater, multisample data.35
The relationship between adult attachment and mental health: A meta-analysis.34
Acknowledgment33
Supplemental Material for Understanding Responses to an Organizational Takeover: Introducing the Social Identity Model of Organizational Change33
Who benefits from which activity? On the relations between personality traits, leisure activities, and well-being.33
Supplemental Material for Unraveling Values and Well-Being—Disentangling Within- and Between-Person Dynamics via a Psychometric Network Perspective33
Ideas worth spreading? When, how, and for whom information load hurts online talks’ popularity.32
Rejecting an intergroup apology attenuates perceived differences between victim and perpetrator groups in morality and power.32
Supplemental Material for Golden Gazes: Gaze Direction and Emotional Context Promote Prosocial Behavior by Increasing Attributions of Empathy and Perspective-Taking31
Strategic uniqueness seeking: A cultural perspective.31
Investigating the impact of structural racism explanations for discriminatory behavior on judgments of the perpetrator.31
Supplemental Material for Why Is There No Negativity Bias in Evaluative Conditioning? A Cognitive-Ecological Answer31
Managing the terror of publication bias: A systematic review of the mortality salience hypothesis.30
Unstable, indistinct, and cohesive? How group cognitions shape attitudes toward transgender and nonbinary people as a function of gender essentialism.30
Pursuing safety in social connection regulates the risk-regulation, social-safety, and behavioral-immune systems.30
How you look is who you are: The appearance reveals character lay theory increases support for facial profiling.29
Values and stress: Examining the relations between values and general and domain-specific stress in two longitudinal studies.29
Parenting orientations in young adulthood: Predicting timing of parenthood and quality of postpartum caregiving.28
Dual-promotion: Bragging better by promoting peers.28
Supplemental Material for I Think You Might Like Me: Emergence and Change of Meta-Liking in Initial Social Interactions28
Me as good and me as bad: Priming the self triggers positive and negative implicit evaluations.28
Reckless gambles and responsible ventures: Racialized prototypes of risk-taking.27
The poetry of psychological distance: Bidirectional associations between stimulus speed and its psychological distance and construal level.27
Presentation in self-posted facial images can expose sexual orientation: Implications for research and privacy.27
Supplemental Material for Linking Big Five Personality Traits to Components of Diet: A Meta-Analytic Review27
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 Goals26
Supplemental Material for “Thanks, but No Thanks”: Gratitude Expression Paradoxically Signals Distance26
Supplemental Material for Using Within-Person Change in Three Large Panel Studies to Estimate Personality Age Trajectories25
Supplemental Material for Varieties of Gratitude: Identifying Patterns of Emotional Responses to Positive Experiences Attributed to God, Karma, and Human Benefactors25
Supplemental Material for Ideas Worth Spreading? When, How, and for Whom Information Load Hurts Online Talks’ Popularity25
Supplemental Material for Probing Connections Between Social Connectedness, Mortality Risk, and Brain Age: A Preregistered Study25
Supplemental Material for U.S. Citizens’ Judgments of Moral Transgressions Against Fellow Citizens, Refugees, and Undocumented Immigrants25
Correction to “Digital traces of offline mobilization” by Smith et al. (2023).24
The role of social categorization and social dominance orientation in behavioral adaptability.24
Retraction of Gino et al. (2020).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
Clarifying the structure and nature of left-wing authoritarianism.23
Dampening affect via expectations: The case of ambivalence.23
Equality for (almost) all: Egalitarian advocacy predicts lower endorsement of sexism and racism, but not ageism.23
The development of the rank-order stability of the Big Five across the life span.23
Underwhelming pleasures: Toward a self-regulatory account of hedonic compensation and overconsumption.23
Asian = machine, Black = animal? The racial asymmetry of dehumanization.23
On the relation of boredom and sadistic aggression.23
Supplemental Material for Partisan-Motivated Sampling: Re-Examining Politically Motivated Reasoning Across the Information Processing Stream22
Supplemental Material for The Impact of Unemployment on Cognitive, Affective, and Eudaimonic Well-Being Facets: Investigating Immediate Effects and Short-Term Adaptation22
Supplemental Material for Policies and Prejudice: Integration Policies Moderate the Link Between Immigrant Presence and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice22
Supplemental Material for Not Such a Complainer Anymore: Confrontation That Signals a Growth Mindset Can Attenuate Backlash22
Supplemental Material for Revisiting Extraversion and Leadership Emergence: A Social Network Churn Perspective22
Supplemental Material for The Spatial Representation of Leadership Depends on Ecological Threat: A Replication and Extension of Menon et al. (2010)22
Supplemental Material for Testing the Bottom-Up and Top-Down Models of Self-Esteem: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies22
"On the value of modesty: How signals of status undermine cooperation”: Correction to Srna et al. (2022).21
Personality traits and traditional philanthropy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.21
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.21
Supplemental Material for A Balanced Mind: Awe Fosters Equanimity via Temporal Distancing21
Supplemental Material for It Might Become True: How Prefactual Thinking Licenses Dishonesty21
Correction to “Anger has benefits for attaining goals” by Lench et al. (2023).21
Supplemental Material for Narrative Identity in Context: How Adults in Japan, Denmark, Israel, and the United States Narrate Difficult Life Events21
Does shared positivity make life more meaningful? Perceived positivity resonance is uniquely associated with perceived meaning in life.20
Social exploration: When people deviate from options explored by others.20
Supplemental Material for People Overestimate How Harshly They Are Evaluated for Disengaging From Passion Pursuit20
Supplemental Material for Buying (Quality) Time Predicts Relationship Satisfaction20
The uniquely powerful impact of explicit, blatant dehumanization on support for intergroup violence.20
More threatening and more diagnostic: How moral comparisons differ from social comparisons.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
Within-person variability and couple synchrony in state relationship satisfaction: Testing predictors and implications.19
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
The person-environment fit of immigrants to the United States: A registered report.18
A propensity-score matched study of changes in loneliness surrounding major life events.18
The Fill-Mask Association Test (FMAT): Measuring propositions in natural language.18
Testing the bottom-up and top-down models of self-esteem: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.17
Supplemental Material for More Than a Barrier: Nostalgia Inhibits, but Also Promotes, Favorable Responses to Innovative Technology17
Supplemental Material for I Love You but I Hate Your Politics: The Role of Political Dissimilarity in Romantic Relationships17
People in historically rice-farming areas are less happy and socially compare more than people in wheat-farming areas.17
Relational attributions for one’s own resilience predict compassion for others.17
A prosocial value intervention in gateway STEM courses.17
Supplemental Material for Are Some People More Consistent? Examining the Stability and Underlying Processes of Personality Profile Consistency17
Supplemental Material for Ignorance Can Be Trustworthy: The Effect of Social Self-Awareness on Trust16
Supplemental Material for Signaling Safety and Fostering Fairness: Exploring the Psychological Processes Underlying (In)Congruent Cues Among Black Women16
The allure of consensus: People (over)seek consensus in selecting group persuasion strategies.16
What limitations are reported in short articles in social and personality psychology?16
How and why aversive personality is expressed in political preferences.16
Supplemental Material for Variability Across Time in Implicit Weight-Related Bias: Random Noise or Meaningful Fluctuations?16
Cheat, cheat, repeat: On the consistency of dishonest behavior in structurally comparable situations.16
Gendered racial boundary maintenance: Social penalties for White women in interracial relationships.16
Relative power and interpersonal trust.16
Inference from social evaluation.16
What counts as discrimination? How principles of merit shape fairness of demographic decisions.16
Do your friends stress you out? A field study of the spread of stress through a community network.16
More done, more drained: Being further along in a mundane experience feels worse.16
Supplemental Material for How You Look Is Who You Are: The Appearance Reveals Character Lay Theory Increases Support for Facial Profiling16
Does the follow-your-passions ideology cause greater academic and occupational gender disparities than other cultural ideologies?16
Supplemental Material for Deconstructing the Gender-Equality Paradox15
Supplemental Material for The Role of Positive Relationship Events in Romantic Attachment Avoidance15
Supplemental Material for Investigating the Within-Person Structure and Correlates of Emotional Experiences in Everyday Life Using an Emotion Family Approach15
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
Evaluations are inherently comparative, but are compared to what?14
Nonlinear relationships between eye gaze and recognition accuracy for ethnic ingroup and outgroup faces.14
Buying (quality) time predicts relationship satisfaction.14
Top down or bottom up? Evidence from the longitudinal development of global and domain-specific self-esteem in adulthood.14
Do correctional facilities correct our youth?: Effects of incarceration and court-ordered community service on personality development.14
Supplemental Material for Reactions to Undesired Outcomes: Evidence for the Opposer’s Loss Effect13
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
Supplemental Material for Because It Is Fun! Individual Differences in Effort Enjoyment Belief Relate to Behavioral and Physiological Indicators of Effort-Seeking13
Bridging temperament and the Big Five in children: A genetically informative study.13
Facet-level personality development in the transition to adolescence: Maturity, disruption, and gender differences.13
Love me, because I rely on you: Dependency-oriented help-seeking as a strategy for human mating.13
Priority of racial and gender categorization of faces: A social task demand framework.13
Supplemental Material for When Lack of Control Leads to Uncertainty: Explaining the Effect of Anomie on Support for Authoritarianism13
Supplemental Material for Unraveling the Complex Relationship Between Work Transitions and Self-Esteem and Life Satisfaction13
Differences and similarities in psychological characteristics between cultural groups circum Mediterranean.13
Collective deviance: Scaling up subjective group dynamics to superordinate categories reveals a deviant ingroup protection effect.13
Supplemental Material for The Interpersonal Consequences of Community Gatekeeping13
Savvy or savage? How worldviews shape appraisals of antagonistic leaders.13
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 313
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.13
Supplemental Material for Measuring the Belief System of a Person13
How genetic and environmental variance in personality traits shift across the life span: Evidence from a cross-national twin study.13
Does hoodwinking others pay? The psychological and relational consequences of undetected negotiator deception.13
Nature nurtures authenticity: Mechanisms and consequences.13
Judging a book by its cover: Cultural differences in inference of the inner state based on the outward appearance.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
A spontaneous stereotype content model: Taxonomy, properties, and prediction.12
Supplemental Material for Asymmetric Polarization: The Perception That Republicans Pose Harm to Disadvantaged Groups Drives Democrats’ Greater Dislike of Republicans in Social Contexts12
Regional personality differences predict variation in early COVID-19 infections and mobility patterns indicative of social distancing.12
Beliefs about what disadvantaged groups would do with power shape advantaged groups’ (un)willingness to relinquish it.12
A critical examination and meta-analysis of the distinction between the dominance and antiegalitarianism facets of social dominance orientation.12
The importance of being unearnest: Opportunists and the making of culture.12
Trust and trust funds: How others’ childhood and current social class context influence trust behavior and expectations.12
The bigger the problem the littler: When the scope of a problem makes it seem less dangerous.12
Age and gender differences in narcissism: A comprehensive study across eight measures and over 250,000 participants.12
What does it mean to be (seen as) human? The importance of gender in humanization.12
The directed nature of social stereotypes.11
U.S. citizens’ judgments of moral transgressions against fellow citizens, refugees, and undocumented immigrants.11
Supplemental Material for Affective Contingencies of Narcissism11
Supplemental Material for The Zero-Sum Mindset11
Examining individual differences in metaperceptive accuracy using the social meta-accuracy model.11
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
Supplemental Material for Seeing Meaning Even When None May Exist: Collectivism Increases Belief in Empty Claims11
Boosting college prospects among low-income students: Using self-affirmation to trigger motivation and a behavioral ladder to channel it.11
Supplemental Material for Self-Control Signals and Affords Power11
Supplemental Material for The Role of Intraminority Relations in Perceptions of Cultural Appropriation11
Unlocking the bitter potential of nostalgia: Covariation between and causal effects of nostalgia on envy.11
Using within-person change in three large panel studies to estimate personality age trajectories.10
From whom do people seek what type of support? A regulatory scope perspective.10
The waning willpower: A highly powered longitudinal study investigating fatigue vulnerability and its relation to personality, intelligence, and cognitive performance.10
Variability across time in implicit weight-related bias: Random noise or meaningful fluctuations?10
Cross-cultural variation in cooperation: A meta-analysis.10
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
Mastery-approach goals: A large-scale cross-cultural analysis of antecedents and consequences.10
Moral panics on social media are fueled by signals of virality.10
More than a barrier: Nostalgia inhibits, but also promotes, favorable responses to innovative technology.10
Correction to Wurm and Schäfer (2022).10
Supplemental Material for Does Shared Positivity Make Life More Meaningful? Perceived Positivity Resonance Is Uniquely Associated With Perceived Meaning in Life10
Supplemental Material for Narcissists’ Affective Well-Being: Associations of Grandiose Narcissism With State Affect Level and Variability9
Supplemental Material for Personality Traits and Health Care Use: A Coordinated Analysis of 15 International Samples9
Here one time, gone the next: Fluctuations in support received and provided predict changes in relationship satisfaction across the transition to parenthood.9
Digital traces of offline mobilization.9
Supplemental Material for Refining the Maturity Principle of Personality Development by Examining Facets, Close Others, and Comaturation9
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
Supplemental Material for More Done, More Drained: Being Further Along in a Mundane Experience Feels Worse9
Supplemental Material for Are There Dominant Response Tendencies for Social Reactions? Trust Trumps Mistrust—Evidence From a Dominant Behavior Measure (DBM)9
Supplemental Material for Moral Panics on Social Media Are Fueled by Signals of Virality9
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 Power Dynamics and the Reciprocation of Trust and Distrust9
Supplemental Material for Grammatical Gender and Anthropomorphism: “It” Depends on the Language9
Individual differences in the forms of personality trait trajectories.9
Supplemental Material for Mutual Cooperation Gives You a Stake in Your Partner’s Welfare, Especially if They Are Irreplaceable9
Why benefiting from discrimination is less recognized as discrimination.8
ǂŪsigu: A mixed-method lexical study of character description in Khoekhoegowab.8
Supplemental Material for Revisiting Situational Strength: Do Strong Situations Restrict Variance in Behaviors?8
Personal echo chambers: Openness-to-experience is linked to higher levels of psychological interest diversity in large-scale behavioral data.8
Boosting yourself? Associations between momentary self-esteem, daily social interactions, and self-esteem development in late adolescence and late adulthood.8
A three-dimensional taxonomy of achievement emotions.8
Counterfeit diversity: How strategically misrepresenting gender diversity dampens organizations’ perceived sincerity and elevates women’s identity threat concerns.8
Are there dominant response tendencies for social reactions? Trust trumps mistrust—evidence from a Dominant Behavior Measure (DBM).8
Supplemental Material for Familial Similarity and Heritability of Personality Traits and Life Satisfaction Are Higher Than Shown in Typical Single-Method Studies8
Well-being in social interactions: Examining personality-situation dynamics in face-to-face and computer-mediated communication.8
Disentangling self-concept clarity and self-esteem in young adults.8
Low self-esteem as a risk factor for depression: A longitudinal study with continuous time modeling.8
“I” am more concrete than “we”: Linguistic abstraction and first-person pronoun usage.8
Who in the world is trying to change their personality traits? Volitional personality change among college students in six continents.8
Antecedents and consequences of LGBT individuals’ perceptions of straight allyship.8
Overly shallow?: Miscalibrated expectations create a barrier to deeper conversation.8
Personality and health: Disentangling their between-person and within-person relationship in three longitudinal studies.8
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