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Papers

(The median citation count of Social Cognition is 0. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Using Artificial Neural Networks to Simulate Social Category Learning: A Tutorial	10
One Fee, Two Fees; Red Fee, Blue Fee: People Use the Valence of Others’ Speech in Social Relational Judgments	9
Theory of Mind in Preadolescents: Assessing the Effects of a Conversational Training	8
What Does It Mean to Be “Utterly Content”? Semantic Prosody Impacts Nuanced Inferences Beyond Just Valence	7
Gender, Grammar, and Personification in the Marketplace: Understanding Stock Prices Through the Lens of Gender in a High-Stakes Setting	7
Desirable Biases: Self-Enhancement Is Seen as Biased and Bad, Other-Enhancement Is Seen as Biased but Good	6
Effects of Emotional Expression on Face Recognition May Be Accounted for by Image Similarity	5
Benevolent God Concepts and Past Kind Behaviors Induce Generosity Toward Outgroups	5
Author Index to Volume 40, 2022 Social Cognition	5
Introduction to the Special Issue: Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition, Part 2	5
Deformative Experience: Explaining the Effects of Adversity on Moral Evaluation	5
Blocking Effects in Social Inference Generalize Across Targets: Learning to Interpret a Person's Behavioral Cues Interferes With Learning About Other People's Behavior	4
Social Influence and Autobiographical Recall: Shared Reality and Epistemic Trust Shape Perceptions of Autobiographical Events	4
Spontaneous Content of Impressions of Naturalistic Face Photographs	4
It Is Written in the Eyes: Inferences From Pupil Size and Gaze Orientation Shape Interpersonal Liking	3
Accuracy and Consistency in Social Categorization Across Context, Motivation, and Time	3
Inferring Goals and Traits From Behaviors: The Role of Culture, Self-Construal, and Thinking Style	3
Editorial: From Our New Editor	3
Does Deliberative Thinking Increase Tolerance? Political Tolerance Toward Individuals With Dual Citizenship	3
Understanding Attitude Associations by Modeling Decision Processes on the Implicit Association Test: A Tutorial on the Tug-of-War Model	3
Reduced Reporting of Social Comparison Emotions and Valuation of Group-Based Morals in Autistic People	3
Are Observers Differentially Motivated to Empathize With Stigmatized Targets? An Investigation Using the Empathy Selection Task	3
Perceiving Distances and Construing Targets Based on Communication	2
Costliness and Social Context Shape Punishment and Partner Rejection Decisions	2
The Temporal and Directional Relationship Between Group-Level Implicit and Explicit Gender Bias	2

Within-Person Versus Between-Person: Social Connectedness, Target Roles, and Cultural Backgrounds Contribute to Perceived Social Obligations	2
An Examination of the Motivations to Maintain, Approach, and Avoid by Proximity to the Ideal State	2
Unwilling to Un-Blame: Whites Who Dismiss Historical Causes of Societal Disparities Also Dismiss Personal Mitigating Information for Black Offenders	2
Using Biological Explanations for the Orgasm Gap to Investigate the Disproportionate Essentialization of Gender Disparities in the Sexuality Domain	2
Walk This Way: How Weight Distorts Gender Identification of Point-Light Walkers	2
Being Watched by God Versus a Third Person: Which Agent Lowers the Perceived Likelihood of Immoral Behaviors?	2
Hard to Face: High Rejection Sensitivity Is Associated With Preconscious Attentional Biases to Contemptuous Facial Expressions	1
Left and Right in Space and Politics	1
The Effect of Psychological Distance on the Experience of Joy Versus Pride	1
The Negative Relationship Between Threats and Endorsement of Freedom	1
Femininity Is Favorable: Sexually Dimorphic Facial Features Affect Assessments of White Women's Leadership Abilities	1
Trans and Nonbinary Perspectives on Gender Diversity in Psychological Stimuli	1
Toward a More Inclusive Science of Social Cognition	1
Agency in the Social World: Racial Bias Expectations and Perceptions of Social Identity Threat Reduce Intentional Binding	1
A Preregistered Study on Israelis' Attitude Structure Following the October 7th Massacre and During the War in Gaza	1
Gendered Perceptions of East and South Asian Men	1
Corporate Personification: A Mind/Body Metaphor Guides Blame for Organizational Wrongdoing	1
A Tutorial on Response-Time Extended Multinomial Processing Tree Models in Social Cognition	1
Decoding the Silent Language of the Eyes: Occluding the Eye Region Impacts Understanding and Sharing of Emotions With Others	1
The Cognitive-Motivational Roots of Conservatives' Desire for the Past	1
Causal Inference for Dummies: A Tutorial on Directed Acyclic Graphs and Balancing Weights	1
Exploring the Representational Structure of Trait Knowledge Using Perceived Similarity Judgments	1
Social Utility Modeling: A Tool to Gain Insight Into Social Motives	1
Inversion Reduces Sensitivity to Complex Emotions in Eye Regions	1
Implicit Attitudes Evoked by a Singular American Slur: Five Experiments on N*er and N*a in Samples of Black and White Americans	1
Understanding Impression Updating Through Behavior Predictions	1
Ignorance Is Not Bliss: On Issues Measuring the Awareness of Suboptimal Stimuli	1
The Crowd Placement Paradigm: Introducing a Novel Tool to Study Sociospatial Dynamics	1
Who Can Be Fooled? Modeling Facial Impressions of Gullibility	0
Choose Your Own Adventure: A Tutorial for Using Narrative Games to Study Social Cognitive Processes	0
Author Index to Volume 41	0
The Role of Valence Matching in the Truth-by-Repetition Effect	0
Explaining the Relationship Between Agency and Communion by Means of Lay Personality Theories and Connectionist Modeling	0
They Had It Coming: The Relationship Between Perpetrator-Blame and Victim-Blame	0
CFS-VR: Software for Studying Unconscious Cognition With a VR Headset Using Continuous Flash Suppression	0
Gender/Sex Categories and Gendered Cues in People Perception: The Influence of Gender/Sex Ratio and Gendered Appearance on Group Judgments	0
Ambiguity Under Scrutiny: Moral Judgment of Microaggressions	0
Happy = Human: A Feeling of Belonging Modulates the “Expression-to-Mind” Effect	0
Lay Preferences for and Perceptions of Intellectual Humility Across Societal Roles	0
A Tutorial on Representational Similarity Analysis for Research in Social Cognition	0
Introduction to the Special Issue: Tutorials on Novel Methods and Analyses in Social Cognition, Part 1	0
Mapping Varied Mental Representations: The case of Representing Illegalized Immigrants	0
Moral Evaluations of Humor Apply Beyond Just Those Telling the Joke	0
Attribution Impacts Implicit (And Explicit) Evaluations	0
Editorial	0
Trait Stereotypes of Scientists as Analytical and Cold Align With Perceptions of Men More Than Women on Both Implicit and Explicit Measures	0
Do People Avoid Extreme Judgments in the Beginning? Calibration and Contrast as Explanations of Serial Position Effects in Evaluations	0
Songs of Unity and Division: Can Music Influence Intergroup Attitudes in Conflict?	0
Generalized Approach/Avoidance Responses to Degraded Affective Stimuli: An Informational Account	0
Can the Illusory Transparency Bias Be Modulated? Two Ways of Reducing It	0

Intersectional Person Perception: A Scoping Review of Studies Investigating the Roles of Category Relationships and Cognitive Processes	0
The Influence of Social Status on Memory: No Evidence for Effects of Social Status on Event Element Binding	0
Beyond Accessibility: The Impact of Priming and Prevalence on Gender Representations	0
Cognitive Processes Underlying the Weapon Identification Task: A Comparison of Models Accounting for Both Response Frequencies and Response Times	0
Facial Stereotypes of Competence (Not Trustworthiness or Dominance) Most Resemble Facial Stereotypes of Group Membership	0
Assessing the Point at Which Averages Are Stable: A Tutorial in the Context of Impression Formation	0
Diversifying Social Cognition Through Participatory Action Research Methods for Stimulus Development and Validation	0
Popular Saying and Moral Judgment: The Influence of Proverbs on Moral Intuition	0
Sticky Frames and What's in a Name: Frames Stick to Particular Objects	0
From Data to Discovery: Unsupervised Machine Learning's Role in Social Cognition	0
Too Much Information! The Interplay of Argument Quality and Subjective Difficulty in Attitude Judgment	0
Witnessing Meaningful Interpersonal Encounters Facilitates the Perception of Social Emotions	0
Punching Down: People Justify More Police Force Against Lower-Than Higher-SES Male Civilians	0
Behavioral Addictions and Stress Reactivity as Predictors of Social Cognition in University Students	0
Tugging at Their Heartstrings: Partner's Knowledge of Affective Meta-Bases Predicts Use of Emotional Advocacies in Close Relationships	0
Editorial	0
Preconscious Attentional Bias to Rejection Facilitates Social Distancing for White Women in STEM Contexts	0
Extending Perspective Taking to Nonhuman Animals and Artificial Entities	0
Anchoring in a Social Context: How the Possibility of Being Misinformed by Others Impacts One's Judgment	0
Motivational Priorities Reflect Beliefs About God's Attributes	0
Author Index to Volume 43, 2025	0
Genetic Risk Information Influences Risk-Taking Behavior	0
Debunking Misinformation About a Causal Link Between Vaccines and Autism: Two Preregistered Tests of Dual-Process Versus Single-Process Predictions (With Conflicting Results)	0
Author Index to Volume 42, 2024 Social Cognition	0
Streetscapes at Scale: Mapping Platform APIs as a Tool to Sample Space	0
Stimulus-Stimulus Versus Stimulus-Valence Learning in Evaluative Conditioning: Insights on the Ecological Conditions of Unconditioned Stimulus Revaluation Effects	0
Asymmetric Causal Attributions to Environmental Influences for Prosocial Versus Antisocial Behavior	0
Automated Algorithmic Data Analysis for Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Invariance Assessment: A Tutorial for ACAMIA	0
Examining the Link Between Neutral and Ambivalent Attitudes: Their Association and their Co-Occurrence	0
Implicit Biases Toward Aging-Related Stimuli Correspond With Anxiety About Aging and Ageism: Evidence From a Crowdsourced Go/No-Go Association Task	0
Discrimination Without Intoxication: The Role of Controlled Processes in the Promotion of Racial Bias After Viewing Alcohol-Related Cues	0
Shared Reality Effects of Tuning Messages to Multiple Audiences	0