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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Consumer Psychology is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Corrigendum	267
Motivation to compete: Understanding and overcoming the demotivating effect of competing with more people	86
Bracing for the sting of disposal: Product purgatories encourage mental simulation of the disposal process	81
What moral identity and competing selves can add to moral foundations theory: Comment on Ramos, Johnson, VanEpps & Graham (2024)	56
How construal–regulatory mode fit increases social media sharing	53
When consumer decisions are moral decisions: Moral Foundations Theory and its implications for consumer psychology	52
Feedback‐induced action–outcome associations increase consumer impatience	51
Chatbots and mental health: Insights into the safety of generative AI	47
Neighbors as strangers or friends? How consumer's self‐construal affects the weight of neighbor information in residence decisions	45
Residential mobility or mobile residentiality? Exploring the effects of place stability and variety in consumer psychology	44
The psychological underpinnings of false beliefs: Construction, updating, prevention, and correction	40
The facilitating effect of physiological self‐tracking on organ donation	37
Causes and consequences of missed opportunities for prosociality: Introduction to Research Dialogue	36
The rise of chatbots: The effect of using chatbot agents on consumers' responses to request rejection	28
“Inside” versus “outside” trends in consumer research	27
Public perception and autonomous vehicle liability	26
Unintended effects of algorithmic transparency: The mere prospect of an explanation can foster the illusion of understanding how an algorithm works	25
Awe, innovation, and choice: A conceptual analysis	24
Choice freedom	24
Perceived corruption reduces algorithm aversion	22
The model‐sizing dilemma: The use of varied female model sizes helps the impressions of brand values but hurts shopping ease	22
Better late than never? Gift givers overestimate the relationship harm from giving late gifts	22
Tiered discounts as multiple reference points for spending	22
A meta‐analysis on the effects of just‐below versus round prices	21
The affective, cognitive, and social benefits of interacting with nature	21

Issue Information	20
Commentaries on “Abductive Theory Construction”	20
Commentaries on “Beyond statistical significance: Five principles for the new era of data analysis and reporting”	19
JCP: The next mile	18
Let's speculate about it: When and why consumers want to discuss mystery products	18
Perceiving, Coping with, and Changing Economic Inequality in the Marketplace	18
“No time to buy”: Asking consumers to spend time to save money is perceived as fairer than asking them to spend money to save time	18
How rejected recommendations shape recommenders' future product intentions	17
Style, content, and the success of ideas	17
Economic Inequality Shapes Judgments of Consumption	17
Issue Information	16
Climate action now: How to fuel a social movement	16
When anthropomorphized brands push their gender boundaries	16
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What makes people happy? Decoupling the experiential‐material continuum	14
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But it was supposed to be healthy! How expected and actual nutritional value affect the content and linguistic characteristics of online reviews for food products	13
Parent brand susceptibility to negative feedback effects from brand extensions: A meta‐analysis of experimental consumer findings	13
Work with me or work for me: The effect of brand roles depends on implicit theories of self‐change	13
Product‐facilitated conversations: When does starting a conversation by mentioning a product lead to better conversational outcomes?	12
Expressing passion for luxury enhances perceived authenticity	12
The digital frontier as a liminal space	12
On the political right, the customer is always right: Political ideology, entitlement, and complaining	12
More the merrier: Effects of plural brand names on perceived entitativity and brand attitude	11
Consumers prefer natural medicines more when treating psychological than physical conditions	11
The egalitarian value of counterfeit goods: Purchasing counterfeit luxury goods to address income inequality	10
When is sociality congruent with self‐care?	10
PassivePy: A tool to automatically identify passive voice in big text data	10
Social platform use and psychological well‐being	10
An integrative review of gift‐giving research in consumer behavior and marketing	9
Psychological Effects of Economic Inequality	9
Through rose‐tinted glasses: How inducing and resolving curiosity makes consumers less skeptical and improves their product evaluations	9
How to overcome algorithm aversion: Learning from mistakes	9
The Metaverse: A new digital frontier for consumer behavior	9
I share, therefore I know? Sharing online content ‐ even without reading it ‐ inflates subjective knowledge	8
Message framing to enhance consumer compliance with disease detection communication for prevention: The moderating role of age	8
Unfaithful brands: How brand attachment can lead to negative responses to influencer marketing campaigns	8
Secret consumer behaviors in close relationships	8
Food categorization determines whether healthier food is inferred to be tastier or less tasty	8
Single paper meta‐analysis is unavoidable	8
Issue Information	8
Discussing proximal pasts and far futures	7
The spiritual contagion scale: A measure of beliefs in the transfer of metaphysical properties	7
On seeing the self as a scarce resource: How time and money scarcity differentially shape consumers' self‐value and preferences	7
How duration of storage affects food waste behavior	7
Comments on “Single paper meta‐analysis is unavoidable”	7
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“Ouch!” When and why food anthropomorphism negatively affects consumption	7
Issue Information	6
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Working hard for money decreases risk tolerance	6
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Abductive Theory Construction	6
Consumer insights from text analysis	6
How Economic Inequality Shapes Thought and Action	5
AI‐induced dehumanization	5
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Beautify the blurry self: Low self‐concept clarity increases appearance management	5
Customizing your way to health: How self‐customization influences food choices	5
Residential mobility and consumer psychology through a cultural lens	5
The over‐diversification effect: Enhancement in perceived heterogeneity of multiple (vs. single)‐others' preferences	5
MindMiner: Uncovering linguistic markers of mind perception as a new lens to understand consumer–smart object relationships	5
Speedy activists: How firm response time to sociopolitical events influences consumer behavior	5
The effect of subjectivity and objectivity in online reviews: A convolutional neural network approach	5
The making of Homo Honoratus: From omission to commission	5
From Anxious Spaces to Harmonious Relations? Interracial Marketplace Interactions Through the Lens of Consumer Psychology	5
Undersociality is unwise	5
Home and psychological well‐being in global consumer mobility	5
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On the wisdom and utility of (under)sociality: A consumer psychology perspective	4
How communication mediums shape the message	4
Givers eschew gifts that are inferior to their own: How social norms, regulatory focus, and concerns about offending lead givers astray	4
The charity capacity curse	4
Already here: Metaverse in touch and sound	4
The influence of event‐time (vs. clock‐time) scheduling style on satiation	4
Awe and aesthetics: Conundrums of creation and consumption	4
The ironic impact of schadenfreude: When the joy of inflicting pain leads to increased prosocial behavior	4
Collective consciousness and consumer behavior	4
Algorithms propagate gender bias in the marketplace—with consumers’ cooperation	3
Low‐fit cause‐related marketing: When and why do consumers respond positively?	3
An integrative theory of resource discrepancies	3
Cumulative impact neglect in processing sequential changes	3
How economic system justification shapes demand for peer‐to‐peer providers	3
Issue Information	3
Revisiting surprise appeals: How surprise labeling curtails consumption	3
How to calculate, use, and report variance explained effect size indices and not die trying	3
Contextual effects of color on food choices: Red ambient color induces indulgence	3
The influence of mindset abstraction on preference for mixed versus extreme approaches to multigoal pursuits	3
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Issue Information	3
Moral foundations theory and consumer behavior	3
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Issue Information	3
Obstacles and opportunities for sustainable consumption: A comprehensive conceptual model, literature review, and research agenda	3
A common‐sense commentary on religious values and consumer behavior	3
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Friendship fallout and bailout backlash: The psychology of borrowing and lending	3
Discussing money with the one you love: How financial stress influences couples' financial communication	3