OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Interpersonal memory failure in the workplace: The effect of memory and hierarchy on employee’s affective commitment	42
Changes in the journal of social psychology	30
When and how to share? The role of inspiration	29
Does he see what she sees? The gender gap in perceptions of institutional sexism	25
Proactive champions: how personal and organizational resources enable proactive personalities to become idea champions	25
Empathic choices for animals versus humans: the role of choice context and perceived cost	23
Leveraging regulatory fit to enhance engagement: a public-sector study in South Korea	19
Stress communication, communication satisfaction, and relationship satisfaction: an actor-partner interdependence mediation model	17
Institutional trust and prosocial behavior in China: an experimental approach	17
Rewarding valuable services and altruistic motives: gratitude and pay for essential workers during the Covid-19 pandemic	16
“Go eat some grass”: gender differences in the Twitter discussion about meat, vegetarianism and veganism	16
Meat and interpersonal motives: the case of self-enhancement	15
Don’t be rash: how effort, religion, and decision-type influence judgments of morality	14
The effects of COVID-19 risk, gender, and self-compassion on the workplace cyberbullying and job satisfaction of university faculty	13
Gender-based in-group social influence can lead women to view a hostile sexist attitude as less prejudiced and more true	13
The influence of emotional salience on gaze behavior in low and high trait empathy: an exploratory eye-tracking study	13
The Role of Moral Concerns and Institutional Trust in Conspiratorial Thinking	13
Perpetrators’ folk explanations of their regretted and justified aggressive behaviors	13
Crying the pain away: the nature, measurement, and function of benign masochism	12
Online information sharing: how secondhand information and credibility level influence the perceived validity of information	12
The nature of racial superhumanization bias	11
Neighborhood ethnic composition and social identity threat: the mediating role of perceived discrimination	11
Examining stereotypes in a dynamic social order: the stereotype content model in India	11
Empathy, friend or foe? Untangling the relationship between empathy and burnout in helping professions	10
Exploring schadenfreude from the perspectives of deservingness and terror management theories	10

Correction	10
Empathic accuracy and interpersonal coordination: behavior matching can enhance accuracy but interactional synchrony may not	9
Do media objectivity and frequency of informing mediate the relationship between traditionalist social attitudes and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs?	9
Are proactive employees proactive performers? the moderating role of supervisor-subordinate marital status similarity	9
Labeling effects for the poor: the role of labels on dehumanization of the poor and opposition to welfare policies	8
Effects of explanations and precise anchors on salary offers	8
Stereotypes as Bayesian prediction of social groups	8
Differences among vegans, non-vegan vegetarians, pescatarians, and omnivores in perceived social disapproval and approval as a function of diet and source of treatment	8
An event-based account of conformity: evidence from attention manipulations targeting event-file encoding and retrieval	8
No evidence for modulation of facial mimicry by attachment tendencies in adulthood: an EMG investigation	7
Conspiracy beliefs explain why intolerance of uncertainty, personal control, and political uncontrollability predict willingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19	7
Sense of safety and opinions about COVID-19 vaccinations in Polish school teachers: the role of conspiracy theories belief and fear of COVID-19	7
Stereotypic beliefs contribute to gender disparities in the field of economics	7
Stay hungry for morality: the inhibitory effect of high moral identity and moral elevation on moral licensing	7
Obedience to authority as a function of the physical proximity of the student, teacher, and experimenter	7
Social dominance orientation, belief in a just world and intergroup contact as predictors of homeless stigmatisation	7
Navigating family dynamics in the transition to a plant-forward diet: the role of social support	7
But I have no time to read this article! A meta-analytic review of the consequences of employee time management behaviors	6
To meme or not to meme? Political social media posts and ideologically motivated aggression in job recommendations	6
The influence of vehicle size on perception and behavior toward drivers	6
When empathy goes wrong: the perceived cost of empathy reduces empathic reactions to a friend	6
Methods and measures in social and personality psychology: a comparison of JPSP publications in 1982 and 2016	5
From an identity process theory perspective: a daily investigation of why and when ostracism triggers ingratiation	5
More familiar, more credible? Distinguishing two types of familiarity on the truth effect using the drift-diffusion model	5
A Click of Faith: How Perceived Trustworthiness Affects Online Risk-Taking in Unfamiliar Dyads	5
Factors impacting the experience of empathic distress in social anxiety: a path analysis approach	5
Attitudes towards favoring the fall of Tall Poppies: The role of Social Dominance Orientation, Authoritarianism, Political Ideologies, and Self-Esteem	5
Toxic leadership as a predictor of physical and psychological withdrawal behaviours in the healthcare sector	5
The structure and evolution of social psychology: a co-citation network analysis	5
Intuitive thinking impedes cooperation by decreasing cooperative expectations for pro-self but not for pro-social individuals	5
Fighting the beat and winning: stereotype threat and White people’s rhythmic performance	5
Are monetary gifts negatively labeled? Material benefits and prosocial motivation evaluation	5
Positive valence ≠ positive effect: impact of positive meta-stereotypes on the cognitive performance	4
Perceived changes in trait attributions to others and the self	4
With status comes responsibility: SES attainment pathways influence observers’ endorsement of noblesse oblige	4
The effectiveness of animal welfare-, environmental-, and health-focused video appeals on implicit and explicit wanting of meat and intentions to reduce meat consumption	4
Direct and displaced aggression after exclusion: role of gender differences	4
Autonomous communication with normative information facilitates positive spillover: promoting pro-environmental behaviors in a local setting	4
Empathy arousal and emotional reactions to victims of the gender pay gap	4
Asymmetric genetic attributions for one’s own prosocial versus antisocial behavior	4
Are all kind acts equal? Exploring the role of prosocial act characteristics in actor’s positive affect	4
Disease, death, morality, and politics: Pathogen prevalence, terror management, and conservatism as motivated social cognition	4
News media consumption and support for counter-terrorism measures: the role of hatred and fear	4
Hear me out: the role of competent and warm vocal tones in risk communication	3
Psychological dread and extreme persistent fear	3
Home alone yet optimistic: social identity management amidst comparative pessimism	3
The central role of social exclusion when representing ethnic minorities and its association with intergroup attitudes	3
Meat-eating justification and relationship closeness with veg*n family, friends, and romantic partners	3
To reflect and learn: the emotional labor strategies of victims of workplace ostracism and the role of anger	3
No need to take what you already have: perspective taking’s effect on empathic concern for low-need targets	3

Multiracial individuals’ experiences of rejection and acceptance from different racial groups and implications for life satisfaction	3
Observer descriptions of the empathic person: a look at the Davis IRI and Hogan empathy scales	3
A planned behavior theory-based explanatory model of protective behavior against COVID-19, with an age perspective	3
The coping strategies of individuals in multiple jeopardy settings: the case of unemployed older women	3
A virtuous cycle: self-respect and tolerant attitudes toward dissenting others	3
Natives with a need for cognitive closure can approve of immigrants’ economic effect when they trust pro-immigrant epistemic authorities	3
Mixed signals of status: luxury consumption shapes competence and warmth impressions through different routes	3
More identified so less envious? On the links between different types of national identity and in-group envy	3
Implicit bias predicts less willingness and less frequent adoption of Black children more than explicit bias	2
Navigating social waters: exploring the impacts of trait cognitive emotion regulation and emotion recognition ability in naturalistic social situations	2
Leveraging impression management motives to increase the use of face masks	2
Selecting the special or choosing the common? A high-powered conceptual replication of Kim and Markus’ (1999) pen study	2
Statement of Retraction: Color and Women Attractiveness: When Red Clothed Women Are Perceived to Have More Intense Sexual Intent	2
Perceptions of narcissism in college professors	2
Being tolerated as a minority group member: an experimental study with virtual teams	2
Perceived value threats are related to fear of health impairments	2
The stereotype content model and disabilities	2
The effects of listening with “time-sharing” on psychological safety and social anxiety: the moderating role of narcissism and depression	2
Democrats and independents stigmatize people with COVID-19 greater compared to Republicans	2
Blindfolding political trust: the palliative effect of trust-based ignorance of political performance problems	2
An investigation of emotional and evaluative implicit associations with police using four versions of the Implicit Association Test	2
The role of temporal distance on forecasting the difficulty of goal pursuits	2
Measuring emotional contagion as a multidimensional construct: the development and initial validation of the contagion of affective phenomena scales	2
“Leave Britney alone!”: parasocial relationships and empathy	2
Predicting online privacy protection for Facebook users with an extended theory of planned behavior	2
Perceived reputation moderates the link between honor concerns and depressive symptoms	2
Changing attitudes toward redistribution: The role of perceived economic inequality in everyday life and intolerance of inequality	2
Other-oriented emotional intelligence, OCBs, and job performance: a relational perspective	2
Relationship status moderates sexual prejudice directed toward lesbian women but not gay men	2
Power and the confrontation of sexism: the impact of measured and manipulated power on confronting behavior	2
We only know that we don’t know: attachment patterns and psychological coping during the COVID-19 pandemic – the mediation role of intolerance of uncertainty	2
Preference for depth versus breadth in social relationships: Childhood socioeconomic background matters	2
Factors that contribute to accurately perceiving anti-black racism and sexism overlap	2
Toward whom does intergroup contact reduce prejudice? Exploring national majorities’ prejudice toward ethnic and migrant minorities	2
Examining the moderating role of regulatory fit on stereotype threat among Ugandan adolescents	2
Is intergroup discrimination triggered by vaccination status? Exploring some social aspects of vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Romantic attachment and support adequacy in new mothers	1
Psychological entitlement and conspiracy beliefs: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Incumbency and self-uncertainty: when prototypical leaders lose their advantage	1
Letter labels and illusory correlation: infrequent letters bias reactions to the group	1
Dehumanization of stigmatized targets of ostracism	1
Could directly shifting self-doubt mind-set reduce the negative effects of chronic self-doubt?	1
The name’s bond. parasocial bond: imagined interactions and state-level empathy	1
The moderating role of narcissism on the impact of leader learning goal orientation on follower adaptivity through follower goal orientation: a social cognitive theory perspective	1
Navigating race in a racially diverse environment: An experience sampling study on the daily use of race in conversations within Hawaii	1
Will I speak up or remain silent? Workplace ostracism and employee performance based on self-control perspective	1
The traditional vegetarians – improving attitudes toward vegetarians through emphasizing similarities between vegetarianism and traditional fasting	1
The guilt that guides me: religiosity, sex guilt, and the demonization of sex workers	1
Symbolic show of strength: a predictor of risk perception and belief in misinformation	1
Workplace ostracism and organizational deviance: A self-regulatory perspective	1
Perceptions of women who confront hostile and benevolent sexism	1
Let’s just do it: sexual arousal’s effects on attitudes regarding sexual consent	1
How anxiety relates to blood donation intention of non-donors: the roles of moral disengagement and mindfulness	1
Communicating beyond the information given can make the communicator’s attitudes toward a social group more extreme	1
How epidemic information and policy information impact anti-infection behaviors: a cross-cultural study under social influence framing	1
Compulsive religious practices in the workplace: through the looking glass and back in search of authenticity among Iranian women	1
An intervention approach to reducing threat appraisal and avoidance associated with intergroup interactions	1
Identity processes and food choice: predictors of dietary lapses among ethical and health vegans	1
Conspiracy beliefs and majority influence	1
When ostracism is mandated: COVID-19, social distancing, and psychological needs	1
What black people value when white people confront prejudice	1
A person-centered approach to situational stress: the role of cognitive resources in appraisals of interracial contact	1
The shame of implicit racial bias	1
Predictive effects of daily sleep on social motivation and social activity	1
Supervisor–subordinate fit need for autonomy and subordinate job crafting: a moderated mediation model	1
Similarity-attraction across ethnic, religious, and political groups: does celebrating differences or similarities make a difference?	1
Individualistic powerfulness and collectivistic powerlessness corrupts: how power and cultural orientation influence corruption	1
Bidirectional embodied association between debt and physical burden	1
Facilitator or barrier? The double-edged effects of leader perfectionism on employee innovation behavior	1
Does diversity foster individualism? The relation of racial-ethnic diversity to individualism-collectivism across the 50 American States	1
Time for you and for me: compassionate goals predict greater psychological well-being via the perception of time as nonzero-sum resources	1
I, Too, Am America: displaying national symbols on clothing increases the perceived ethnic and civic nationalism of Latinx Americans	1
“Meating halfway”: Exploring the attitudes of meat eaters, veg*ns, and occasional meat eaters toward those who eat meat and those who do not eat meat	1
The effect of the judge’s condition on the judgment of others’ well-being	1