OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Curvilinear Sexism and Its Links to Men’s Perceived Mate Value	111
Managers Can Support Employees in Working-Class Contexts by Promoting Growth Mindsets	78
Populism, Economic Distress, Cultural Backlash, and Identity Threat: Integrating Patterns and Testing Cross-National Validity	65
Relationships on a Pedestal: The Associations Between Relationship Pedestal Beliefs, Fear of Being Single, and Life Satisfaction in Single and Coupled Individuals	62
Falling Vocal Intonation Signals Speaker Confidence and Conditionally Boosts Persuasion	35
Collectivism Impairs Team Performance When Relational Goals Conflict With Group Goals	33
Let’s Enjoy an Evening on the Couch? A Daily Life Investigation of Shared Problematic Behaviors in Three Couple Studies	32
How Do Invested Partners Become Invested? A Prospective Investigation of Fledgling Relationship Development	31
Performing like a Learning Machine: The Emphasis on Performance Goals Results in Self-Objectification	29
Economic Inequality Reduces Preferences for Competent Leaders	28
The Impact of Awe on Existential Isolation: Evidence for Contrasting Pathways	27
Motivated Knowledge Acquisition: Implicit Self-Theories and the Preference for Knowledge Breadth or Depth	27
Life History Strategies, Prestige, and Dominance: An Evolutionary Developmental View of Social Hierarchy	27
Is Men’s Heterosexuality Perceived as More Precarious Than Women’s? An Intersectional, Race-by-Gender Analysis	27
Impacts of Unethical Behavior on Self-Esteem: A Contingent Dual-Process Model	25
Legacies of Hate: The Psychological Legacy of the Ku Klux Klan	24
Choice Set Size Shapes Self-Expression	24
On the Disposition to Think Analytically: Four Distinct Intuitive-Analytic Thinking Styles	23
Americans Misperceive Racial Disparities in Economic Mobility	22
Low Self-Control: A Hidden Cause of Loneliness?	22
Perceived Similarity of the Self to Animals, Creativity, and Anxiety—: A Terror Management Analysis	22
Perceived Physical Vulnerability Promotes Prosocial Behavior	22
The Role of Individual and Dyadic Planning in Couples’ Daily Goal Pursuits	21
Difficulty-as-Improvement: The Courage to Keep Going in the Face of Life’s Difficulties	20
Political Attitudes and Disease Threat: Regional Pathogen Stress Is Associated With Conservative Ideology Only for Older Individuals	19

Unconstrained Descriptions of Facebook Profile Pictures Support High-Dimensional Models of Impression Formation	19
Beyond the Dichotomy: Creation and Validation of a Continuous Statewide Index of U.S. Honor Culture	19
“Cat Ladies” and “Mama’s Boys”: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Gendered Discrimination and Stereotypes of Single Women and Single Men	19
The Spontaneous Counterfactual Inference Task: Misremembering What Might Have Been	18
Do Good Citizens Look to the Future? The Link Between National Identification and Future Time Perspective and Their Role in Explaining Citizens’ Reactions to Conflicts Between Short-Term and Long-Term	18
Home is Where the Heart is: Implications of Dyadic Acculturation for Migrant Couples’ Personal and Relational Well-Being	18
A Closer Look on the Relation Between Nostalgia and Risk-Taking	18
Online Signals of Extremist Mobilization	17
Is Progressive Ideology on the Test? Education and Intelligence in the Development of Nontraditional Attitudes	17
More Than a Momentary Blip in the Universe? Investigating the Link Between Religiousness and Perceived Meaning in Life	16
Moral Future-Thinking: Does the Moral Circle Stand the Test of Time?	16
Why Life Moves Fast: Exploring the Mechanisms Behind Autobiographical Time Perception	16
Distributing Blame Among Multiple Entities When Autonomous Technologies Cause Harm	15
More Than Meets the Eyes: Bringing Attention to the Eyes Increases First Impressions of Warmth and Competence	15
Which Identities Are Concealable? Individual Differences in Concealability	15
Volatility in Expectations While Awaiting Important News	14
The Apple Doesn’t “Feel” Far From the Tree: Mother–Child Socialization of Intergroup Empathy	14
Corrigendum to Positive Feedback as a Lever to Boost Students’ STEM Outcomes	14
Thinking About Reasons for One’s Choices Increases Sensitivity to Moral Norms in Moral-Dilemma Judgments	14
Is Discrimination Widespread or Concentrated? Evaluating the Distribution of Anti-Black Discrimination in Judicial, Hiring, and Housing Decisions	14
It Is Belief in Dualism, and Not Free Will, That Best Predicts Helping: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Baumeister et al. (2009)	14
Categorizing a Face and Facing a Category: The Constructive Impacts of Ambiguity and Uncertainty in Racial Categorization	14
Shorter Goals for the Faster Life: Childhood Unpredictability Is Associated With Shorter Motivational Time Horizons	14
Attitude Formation in More- and Less-Complex Social Environments	14
Taking Stock and Looking Forward to the Future of Pathogen Politics in Light of New Insights and Recommendations: COVID-19 Threat Was Meaningfully Associated With Support for Liberal Policies in the U	14
Helpful or Harmful? The Role of Personality Traits in Student Experiences of the COVID-19 Crisis and School Closure	14
Toward an Index of Adaptive Personality Regulation	13
Collaborative Cheating in Hierarchical Teams: Effects of Incentive Structure and Leader Behavior on Subordinate Behavior and Perceptions of Leaders	13
The Gap Between Us: Income Inequality Reduces Social Affiliation in Dyadic Interactions	13
What Comes First, Acculturation or Adjustment? A Longitudinal Investigation of Integration Versus Mental Resources Hypotheses	12
Two Ways to Stay at the Top: Prestige and Dominance Are Both Viable Strategies for Gaining and Maintaining Social Rank Over Time	12
The Effects of Partner Extraversion and Agreeableness on Trust	12
Is Your Accent Right for the Job? A Meta-Analysis on Accent Bias in Hiring Decisions	12
Secrecy in Everyday Life	12
Pitch as a Recipient, Channel, and Context Factor Affecting Thought Reliance and Persuasion	12
On Creating Deeper Relationship Bonds: Felt Understanding Enhances Relationship Identification	12
Speak Up! Mistaken Beliefs About How Much to Talk in Conversations	12
Social Category Modulation of the Happy Face Advantage	11
On the Defensive: Identity, Language, and Partisan Reactions to Political Scandal	11
An Examination of the Conceptual Structure of Long-Term Goal Striving	11
To Honor and Defend: State- and Individual-Level Analyses of the Relationship Between the U.S. Culture of Honor and Military Service	11
In a Class on Their Own: Investigating the Role of Social Integration in the Association Between Social Class and Mental Well-Being	11
The Equality Paradox: Gender Equality Intensifies Male Advantages in Adolescent Subjective Well-Being	11
Attitudinal Effects of Stimulus Co-occurrence and Stimulus Relations: Paradoxical Effects of Cognitive Load	11
Alluring or Alarming? The Polarizing Effect of Forbidden Knowledge in Political Discourse	11
Restoring Honor by Slapping or Disowning the Daughter	11
All You Nonconformists Are (Not) All Alike: Dissociable Social Stereotypes of Mavericks and Contrarians	10
Funny Date, Creative Mate? Unpacking the Effect of Humor on Romantic Attraction	10
Defensive Confidence and Certainty in Unchanged Attitudes: The Role of Affect–Cognition Matching	10
Stepping Outside the Echo Chamber: Is Intellectual Humility Associated With Less Political Myside Bias?	10

Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them: The Ambivalent Effects of Existential Outgroup Threat on Helping Behavior	10
Putting Oneself Ahead of the Group: The Liability of Narcissistic Leadership	10
On the Highway to Hell: Slippery Slope Perceptions in Judgments of Moral Character	10
Volitional Change in Pathological Traits: Can People Change Their Maladaptive Traits?	10
Narcissism and Wellbeing: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis	10
Mechanisms Linking Attachment Orientation to Sleep Quality in Married Couples	10
Implicit Theories of Happiness: When Happiness Is Viewed as Changeable, Happy People Are Perceived Much More Positively Than Unhappy People	9
Protected by the Emotions of the Group: Perceived Emotional Fit and Disadvantaged Group Members’ Activist Burnout	9
Half Empty and Half Full? Biased Perceptions of Compassionate Love and Effects of Dyadic Complementarity	9
Studying Daily Social Interaction Quantity and Quality in Relation to Depression Change: A Multi-Phase Experience Sampling Study	9
Parsing the Mechanisms Underlying Ingroup Facial Resemblance	9
Measuring Morality: An Examination of the Moral Foundation Questionnaire’s Factor Structure	9
Need Support and Need Thwarting: A Meta-Analysis of Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness Supportive and Thwarting Behaviors in Student Populations	9
Examining the Contribution of Physical Cues for Same- and Cross-Race Face Individuation	9
On the Varieties of Diversity: Ideological Variations in Attitudes Toward, and Understandings of Diversity	9
Rumors in Retweet: Ideological Asymmetry in the Failure to Correct Misinformation	9
Nostalgia Promotes Parents’ Tradition Transfer to Children by Strengthening Parent-Child Relationship Closeness	9
The Drunk Utilitarian Revisited: Does Alcohol Really Increase Utilitarianism in Moral Judgment?	9
Psychology and the Threat of Contagion: Feeling Vulnerable to a Disease Moderates the Link Between Xenophobic Thoughts and Support for Ingroup-Protective Actions	9
How Personality Relates to Attitudes Toward Diversity and Workplace Diversity Initiatives	9
“I Think This News Is Accurate”: Endorsing Accuracy Decreases the Sharing of Fake News and Increases the Sharing of Real News	8
Connecting Attitude Position and Function: The Role of Self-Esteem	8
A Lower-Class Advantage in Face Memory	8
Lonely and Self-Centered? A Meta-Analysis of the Link Between Prosociality and Loneliness	8
The SAFE Model: State Authenticity as a Function of Three Types of Fit	8
Powerful Effects of Diagnostic Information on Automatic and Self-Reported Evaluation: The Moderating Role of Memory Recall	8
People Overestimate How Much Gossiping Encourages Listeners’ Self-Disclosure	8
Politically Contaminated Clothes, Chocolates, and Charities: Distancing From Neutral Products Liked by Out-Group or In-Group Partisans	8
Welcome to Be Like Us: Expectations of Outgroup Assimilation Shape Dominant Group Resistance to Diversity	8
Do Agency and Communion Explain the Relationship Between Perceiver and Target Effects in Interpersonal Perception? A Meta-Analysis on Generalized Reciprocity	8
Cultural Inertia: Framework of Change and Intergroup Relations	8
Extreme Reactions to Globalization: Investigating Indirect, Longitudinal, and Experimental Effects of the Globalization–Radicalization Nexus	7
Examining Automatic Stereotyping From a Propositional Perspective: Is Automatic Stereotyping Sensitive to Relational and Validity Information?	7
Love Lost in Translation: Avoidant Individuals Inaccurately Perceive Their Partners’ Positive Emotions During Love Conversations	7
Need Fulfillment During Intergroup Contact: Three Experience Sampling Studies	7
Are Members of Political Out-Groups More Morally or Physically Disgusting?	7
Praise Is for Actions That Are Neither Expected nor Required	7
The Ups and Downs of Being Us: Cross-Relationship Comparisons in Daily Life	7
Liking Predicts Judgments of Authenticity in Real-Time Interactions More Robustly Than Personality States or Affect	7
Perceived Partner Responsiveness Forecasts Behavioral Intimacy as Measured by Affectionate Touch	7
PSPB Editorial Philosophy, January 2021	7
Beliefs and Social Norms as Precursors of Environmental Support: The Joint Influence of Collectivism and Socioeconomic Status	7
Give Me a Straight Answer: Response Ambiguity Diminishes Likability	7
Thanks, but No Thanks: Unpacking the Relationship Between Relative Power and Gratitude	7
Institutional Change Affects Perceived and Personal Intergroup Attitudes	7
Shifts in Racial Inequalities and White Backlash in the 21st Century U.S.	7
What Motives Do People Most Want to Know About When Meeting Another Person? An Investigation Into Prioritization of Information About Seven Fundamental Motives	7
Is Seeing Believing? A Longitudinal Study of Vividness of the Future and Its Effects on Academic Self-Efficacy and Success in College	7
Sacrificing Animals in the Name of Scientific Authority: The Relationship Between Pro-Scientific Mindset and the Lethal Use of Animals in Biomedical Experimentation	7
Does Conceptual Abstraction Moderate Whether Past Moral Deeds Motivate Consistency or Compensatory Behavior? A Registered Replication and Extension of Conway and Peetz (2012)	7
Strategic Mindsets and Support for Social Change: Impact Mindset Explains Support for Black Lives Matter Across Racial Groups	7
Mobilize Is a Verb: The Use of Verbs and Concrete Language Is Associated With Authors’ and Readers’ Perceptions of a Text’s Action Orientation and Persuasiveness	7
Personality Trait Change Across a Major Global Stressor	6
Connection Heals Wounds: Feeling Listened to Reduces Speakers’ Loneliness Following a Social Rejection Disclosure	6
Greed: What Is It Good for?	6
Whose Words Hurt? Contextual Determinants of Offensive Speech	6
Guns Are Not Faster to Enter Awareness After Seeing a Black Face: Absence of Race-Priming in a Gun/Tool Task During Continuous Flash Suppression	6
Does Lower Psychological Need Satisfaction Foster Conspiracy Belief? Longitudinal Effects Over 3 Years in New Zealand	6
Anxiety, Cognitive Availability, and the Talisman Effect of Insurance	6
Stereotype Threat at Work: A Meta-Analysis	6
Empathic Conservatives and Moralizing Liberals: Political Intergroup Empathy Varies by Political Ideology and Is Explained by Moral Judgment	6
Misplaced Intuitions in Interventions to Reduce Attractiveness-Based Discrimination	6
Values in Context: The (Dis)connections Between Moral Foundations and Moral Conviction	6
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Motives and Barriers for Sustained Collective Action Toward Social Change	6
Sociotropic and Personal Threats and Authoritarian Reactions During COVID-19	6
Essentializing Happiness Mitigates the Changes in Subjective Well-Being Following Negative Life Events	6
When Does Competence Matter? Character as a Moderator in the Development of Trust	6
Who Do We Turn to and What Do We Get? Cultural Differences in Attachment Structure and Function Among East Asian and Western Individuals	6
Nostalgia and Health: A Longitudinal Network Analysis of Different Nostalgic Experiences	6
Do Smarter People Have More Conservative Economic Attitudes? Assessing the Relationship Between Cognitive Ability and Economic Ideology	6
Closeness Discrepancies in Couple Relationships: A Dyadic Response Surface Analysis	6