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Papers

(The median citation count of Social Cognition 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
Using Artificial Neural Networks to Simulate Social Category Learning: A Tutorial	14
One Fee, Two Fees; Red Fee, Blue Fee: People Use the Valence of Others’ Speech in Social Relational Judgments	8
Desirable Biases: Self-Enhancement Is Seen as Biased and Bad, Other-Enhancement Is Seen as Biased but Good	7
Master Narratives, Expectations of Change, and Their Effect on Temporal Appraisals	7
Negative or Negated, Thus True? An Investigation of Concept Valence and Semantic Negation as Drivers of Framing Effects in Judgments of Truth	7
Social Influence and Autobiographical Recall: Shared Reality and Epistemic Trust Shape Perceptions of Autobiographical Events	5
Mixed Evidence for Name Priming Effects as a Measure of Implicit Self-Esteem: A Conceptual Replication of Krause Et Al. (2012)	5
Author Index to Volume 40, 2022 Social Cognition	5
Gender, Grammar, and Personification in the Marketplace: Understanding Stock Prices Through the Lens of Gender in a High-Stakes Setting	5
Effects of Emotional Expression on Face Recognition May Be Accounted for by Image Similarity	5
What Does It Mean to Be “Utterly Content”? Semantic Prosody Impacts Nuanced Inferences Beyond Just Valence	5
Benevolent God Concepts and Past Kind Behaviors Induce Generosity Toward Outgroups	4
Deformative Experience: Explaining the Effects of Adversity on Moral Evaluation	4
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
Spontaneous Content of Impressions of Naturalistic Face Photographs	4
Does Emotional Expression Moderate Implicit Racial Bias? Examining Bias Following Smiling and Angry Primes	3
Editorial: From Our New Editor	3
It Is Written in the Eyes: Inferences From Pupil Size and Gaze Orientation Shape Interpersonal Liking	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
Accuracy and Consistency in Social Categorization Across Context, Motivation, and Time	3
The Temporal and Directional Relationship Between Group-Level Implicit and Explicit Gender Bias	2
Inferring Goals and Traits From Behaviors: The Role of Culture, Self-Construal, and Thinking Style	2
Triangulated Racialization Index (TRI): Incremental and Predictive Validity of a Multidimensional Stereotype Measure	2
Costliness and Social Context Shape Punishment and Partner Rejection Decisions	2

Using Biological Explanations for the Orgasm Gap to Investigate the Disproportionate Essentialization of Gender Disparities in the Sexuality Domain	2
Perceiving Distances and Construing Targets Based on Communication	2
Being Watched by God Versus a Third Person: Which Agent Lowers the Perceived Likelihood of Immoral Behaviors?	2
An Examination of the Motivations to Maintain, Approach, and Avoid by Proximity to the Ideal State	2
Within-Person Versus Between-Person: Social Connectedness, Target Roles, and Cultural Backgrounds Contribute to Perceived Social Obligations	2
Does Deliberative Thinking Increase Tolerance? Political Tolerance Toward Individuals With Dual Citizenship	2
Exploring the Representational Structure of Trait Knowledge Using Perceived Similarity Judgments	1
Corporate Personification: A Mind/Body Metaphor Guides Blame for Organizational Wrongdoing	1
Inversion Reduces Sensitivity to Complex Emotions in Eye Regions	1
Agency in the Social World: Racial Bias Expectations and Perceptions of Social Identity Threat Reduce Intentional Binding	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
Trans and Nonbinary Perspectives on Gender Diversity in Psychological Stimuli	1
Ambiguity Under Scrutiny: Moral Judgment of Microaggressions	1
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
Walk This Way: How Weight Distorts Gender Identification of Point-Light Walkers	1
Gendered Perceptions of East and South Asian Men	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
Femininity Is Favorable: Sexually Dimorphic Facial Features Affect Assessments of White Women's Leadership Abilities	1
Person Memory Mechanism Underlying Approach and Avoidance Judgments of Social Targets	1
Toward a More Inclusive Science of Social Cognition	1
The Negative Relationship Between Threats and Endorsement of Freedom	1
A Preregistered Study on Israelis' Attitude Structure Following the October 7th Massacre and During the War in Gaza	1
Unwilling to Un-Blame: Whites Who Dismiss Historical Causes of Societal Disparities Also Dismiss Personal Mitigating Information for Black Offenders	1
The Limits of Defaults: The Influence of Decision Time on Default Effects	1
The Effect of Psychological Distance on the Experience of Joy Versus Pride	1
Understanding Impression Updating Through Behavior Predictions	1
Ignorance Is Not Bliss: On Issues Measuring the Awareness of Suboptimal Stimuli	1
Decoding the Silent Language of the Eyes: Occluding the Eye Region Impacts Understanding and Sharing of Emotions With Others	1
The Crowd Placement Paradigm: Introducing a Novel Tool to Study Sociospatial Dynamics	1