OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Social Psychology is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The social amplification of illusory correlations	50
Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change	49
The added value of perceived values: Partner's perceived values predict own behaviour in interdependent interactions	43
Strength‐is‐Weakness: The (ir)relevant relation between resources and payoffs in coalition formation	41
Ideologically‐based contact avoidance during a pandemic: Blunt or selective distancing from ‘others’?	37
Out‐group help in the time of Covid‐19 and intergroup reconciliation in the Western Balkans	33
Loving Taxation, Hating Single Taxes: Disentangling Temporal Distance and Abstraction in the Communication of Tax Proposals	33
The fear of confession? High Catholic collective narcissism and low secure identification with Catholics predict increased pedophilia myth acceptance	28
Pushing too far? Negotiations of non‐compliance and resistance to the COVID‐19 cabin ban in Norway	26
Testing predictors of attitude strength as determinants of attitude stability and attitude–behaviour relationships: A multi‐behaviour study	25
Hypocrisy judgements are affected by target attitude strength and attitude moralization	21
Locational citizenship, exclusion and inclusion. The case of street children in Ethiopia	21
Moral Perceptions in Politics: Ideological Asymmetries in Perceived Moral Obligations and Stereotypical Perceptions Across Leftists and Rightists	20
Perception of helper's autonomous motivation increases recipient's prosocial behaviour intentions via feelings of gratitude	20
Perceived social mobility and system justification predict greater well‐being, but less prosocial behaviour	19
Victim empowerment and satisfaction: The potential of imagery rescripting	19
Alignment and Differentiation: How Language and Network Proximity Drive Opinion‐Based Group Formation Online	19
Protesting for stability or change? Definitional and conceptual issues in the study of reactionary, conservative, and progressive collective actions	19
Rethinking National Well‐Being: Introducing a Measure of Wealth‐Adjusted Life Satisfaction in 116 Countries	19
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Dark Triad and the attitude toward military violence against civilians: The role of moral disengagement	18
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Emotional, motivational and attitudinal consequences of autonomous prosocial behaviour	18
Dialogicality and Conspiracy Theory: The Coexistence of Conspiracist and Non‐Conspiracist Beliefs	17
The mindset of birth predicts birth outcomes: Evidence from a prospective longitudinal study	17

Cultural group norms for harmony explain the puzzling negative association between objective status and system justification in Asia	17
On the Verge of Exclusion: The Unique Psychological Profile of the Threat of Social Exclusion	17
Examining beliefs about reconciliation and social integration in Kosovo: Testing effects of interethnic contact and differences in perspective among ethnic Albanians and Serbs	17
Fostering Social Cohesion in Post‐Conflict Societies: The Power of Normative Apologies in Reducing Competitive Victimhood and Enhancing Reconciliation and Intergroup Negotiation	17
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Continuity and change	16
How do we cope when we believe we can? A systematic review and meta‐analysis of studies on coping and negative mood regulation expectancies	15
The true self in reflections? Visual self‐recognition and the Big Five	15
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Territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: A person‐centred approach	14
A Social Psychological Perspective on How to Preserve Academic Freedom in Illiberal Political Contexts	14
Does personal relative deprivation mediate the relationship between passive social media use and beliefs in conspiracy theories? Cross‐sectional correlational and experimental evidence	14
So where do you see this going? The effects of commitment asymmetry and asynchrony on relationship satisfaction and break‐up	14
Identifying stories of ‘us’: A mixed‐method analysis of the meaning, contents and associations of national narratives constructed by Americans	14
Believing the Power of Physical Appearance: How Perceived Economic Inequality Affects Female Self‐Objectification and Job Preference	14
Expecting exclusion: Does bracing for the worst buffer the pain of social exclusion?	13
Polarization from the perspective of ambivalents: Feeling caught in the social crossfire of the U.S. abortion debate	13
Moral judgment under uncertainty: A CNI model analysis	13
Ambivalent sexism and violence toward women: A meta‐analysis	13
Towards a Conceptual Integration of Collective Victimization Beliefs and Their Variation Within and Across Contexts: A Q Methodology Study in Five Communities	13
The Relationship Between Social Identification and System Justification: A Meta‐Analytic Test of Relevant Moderators	13
Improving attitudes towards minority groups by thinking about the thoughts and meta‐cognitions of their members	12
Playing to their strengths: Can focusing on typical in‐group strengths be detrimental to people of colour?	12
Being One or the Other, Both or Neither: Self‐Categorization Theory, Social Identity Theory and the Issue of Mixed Identities	12
Allies or Rivals? The Consequences of Ideological Distinctiveness and Social Recognition of Emergent Subgroups Within Social Movements	12
National glorification and attachment differentially predict support for intergroup conflict resolution: Scrutinizing cross‐country generalizability	12
How to React in the Case of Powerful Transgressors: Kill Them With Kindness or Punishment?	12
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The experience and emergence of attitudinal consensus in conversations	11
Kill or be killed: Can correcting misperceptions of out‐group hostility de‐escalate a violent inter‐group out‐break?	11
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There is an ‘I’ in truth: How salient identities shape dynamic perceptions of truth	10
Women's and Men's Support for Gender Equality Policies in Organizations: From Belief in Gender Discrimination to Perceived Organizational Hypocrisy	10
Not in my group: Protecting group reputation by excluding stereotypical targets	10
Are Stereotypes About Minorities More Negative?	10
Judgements of Propaganda Near and Far: National Identity and Media Evaluations	9
Tend‐and‐befriend and rally around the flag effects during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Differential longitudinal change patterns in multiple aspects of social cohesion	9
Supporting men or male privilege? Women's progressive and reactionary collective action for men	9
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Do the means affect the ends? Radical tactics influence motivation and action tendencies via the perceived legitimacy and efficacy of those actions	9
Political Social Identity Threat Predicts Increases in Affective Polarisation Over Time, but Not Changes in Well‐Being	9
Does Social Cohesion Predict Justification of Extremist Violence? Evidence From the Sahel Region in Burkina Faso	9
Owning leads to valuing: Meta‐analysis of the mere ownership effect	9
Low system justification is associated with support for both progressive and reactionary social change	9
Perceived unequal and unfair workplaces trigger lower job satisfaction and lower workers’ dignity via organizational dehumanization and workers’ self‐objectification	9
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Introducing the brief reverse correlation: An improved tool to assess visual representations	8

Individuals’ power determines how they respond to positive versus negative performance feedback	8
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Doing Bad to Feel Good: Working Objectification Promotes Production Deviance Via Thwarted Perceived Control	8
Conspiracy blaming in the aftermath of group relative deprivation: The moderating role of national narcissism	8
Political ideology and belief change in the face of counterevidence	8
Meta‐identification: Perceptions of others’ group identification shape group life	8
Re‐Examining Buchel et al.’s (2021) Test of the Status Legitimacy Hypothesis	8
The curse of objectivity: Choosing objectively better products hinders consumers from receiving help	8
More than a prejudice reduction effect: Positive intergroup contact reduces conspiracy theory beliefs	8
Perceived Robot Threat Enhances Preference for Hierarchy	8
Does Developing a Belief in One Conspiracy Theory Lead a Person to be More Likely to Believe in Others?	7
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Deciphering the Relationship Between Income Inequality and Life Satisfaction: Who, When and Where?	7
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The Content, Consistency and Accuracy of Stereotypes About Recreational Users of Various Psychoactive Substances	7
Social dominance and anti‐immigrant prejudice: A cross‐national and prospective test of the mediating role of assimilation, multiculturalism, colour blindness, and interculturalism	7
Making Us Visible in the Cityscape: Organizers’ Reasons for Holding Ramadan Celebrations in Copenhagen's Public Space	7
Ambivalence in the Context of Competing Narratives: Exploration Through a Case of the US Military Base Issue in Okinawa	7
(Not so) powerful allies? Decision makers’ reactions to advantaged group allies in collective action	7
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Boosted by closure! Regulatory focus predicts motivation and task persistence in the aftermath of task‐unrelated goal closure	7
Reviewing Research on Transgender and Nonbinary People in Social Psychology: Insights and Future Research Directions	7
A longitudinal examination of the factors that facilitate and hinder support for conservative and progressive social movements	7
Correction to ‘Examining beliefs about reconciliation and social integration in Kosovo: Testing effects of interethnic contact and differences in perspective among ethnic Albanians and Serbs’	7
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Consistent Facial Cues to Social Class Across Two Different Western Contexts	7
Matching your way to Success: The Influence of Motivational Frame Matching on Interaction Outcomes and Reciprocal Matching	7
Expecting tasks to help or hurt subsequent cognitive performance: Variability, accuracy, and bias in forecasted after‐effects	6
Collective system‐supporting inaction: A conceptual framework of privilege maintenance	6
By all means necessary: Closed mindedness, ingroup morality, and weapon ownership	6
The Effectiveness of Interventions Addressing Conspiracy Beliefs: A Meta‐Analysis	6
The role of parents in predicting gender‐stereotypic attitudes towards HEED occupations and gender‐stereotypic interest in these careers	6
Leaders or Villains? The Role of Corruption in Shaping the Stereotypes of Politicians	6
A wolf in sheep's clothing: The perils of exploitative leadership	6
The Impact of Holistic Justice on the Long‐Term Experiences and Wellbeing of Mass Human Rights Violation Survivors: Ethnographic and Interview Evidence From Kosova, Northern Ireland and Albania	6
A fair share: Effects of disparity, allocation strategy and system justification on perceptions of policy support in the education domain	6
Ideological (a)Symmetry in Research Evaluations: The Case of Research on Ideological Versus Racial Group Differences	6
Understanding identity processes in support for reactionary and progressive social movements among advantaged and disadvantaged groups: The role of collective narcissism and secure ingroup identity	6
The secondary transfer effects of contact in facilitating peace in a frozen conflict: The case of Turkish immigrants in Cyprus	6
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The role of valuing cultural diversity in children's endorsements of rights	6
Change in anti‐COVID‐19 behaviour and anti‐immigrant prejudice during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from five European countries	6
From social traditions to personalized routines: Maintenance goals as a resilience factor	6
Self‐Discontinuity as a Barrier to Identity and Behaviour Change: Evidence From Smoking Cessation	6
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The Dual Pathways to Masculinity Threats: The Roles of Social Role Incongruity and Social Connection in Masculine Identity Maintenance Among Gay and Straight Men	6
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