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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Consumer Psychology is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Motivation to compete: Understanding and overcoming the demotivating effect of competing with more people	350
Bracing for the sting of disposal: Product purgatories encourage mental simulation of the disposal process	177
What moral identity and competing selves can add to moral foundations theory: Comment on Ramos, Johnson, VanEpps & Graham (2024)	89
Feedback‐induced action–outcome associations increase consumer impatience	75
When consumer decisions are moral decisions: Moral Foundations Theory and its implications for consumer psychology	68
Chatbots and mental health: Insights into the safety of generative AI	51
How construal–regulatory mode fit increases social media sharing	49
Causes and consequences of missed opportunities for prosociality: Introduction to Research Dialogue	45
“Inside” versus “outside” trends in consumer research	43
Choice freedom	40
The facilitating effect of physiological self‐tracking on organ donation	38
Neighbors as strangers or friends? How consumer's self‐construal affects the weight of neighbor information in residence decisions	35
Public perception and autonomous vehicle liability	35
How storytelling modality affects transportation and storyteller persuasion	35
Unintended effects of algorithmic transparency: The mere prospect of an explanation can foster the illusion of understanding how an algorithm works	32
Changing beliefs or changing behavior? Understanding the belief‐to‐behavior process and intervening to curb the impact of misinformation	32
The rise of chatbots: The effect of using chatbot agents on consumers' responses to request rejection	28
Perceived corruption reduces algorithm aversion	27
Impatience for negative experiences	25
Tiered discounts as multiple reference points for spending	25
From beliefs to behavior: Clarifying the roles of attitudes and context	24
The model‐sizing dilemma: The use of varied female model sizes helps the impressions of brand values but hurts shopping ease	24
Homelessness‐based impact hiring and consumers' contagion concerns	21
The affective, cognitive, and social benefits of interacting with nature	21
Better late than never? Gift givers overestimate the relationship harm from giving late gifts	21

Awe, innovation, and choice: A conceptual analysis	20
Commentaries on “Beyond statistical significance: Five principles for the new era of data analysis and reporting”	19
A meta‐analysis on the effects of just‐below versus round prices	19
Issue Information	19
When anthropomorphized brands push their gender boundaries	18
Issue Information	17
JCP: The next mile	17
How rejected recommendations shape recommenders' future product intentions	17
“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	16
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Work with me or work for me: The effect of brand roles depends on implicit theories of self‐change	15
Issue Information	15
Let's speculate about it: When and why consumers want to discuss mystery products	15
Climate action now: How to fuel a social movement	15
Style, content, and the success of ideas	15
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	15
Expressing passion for luxury enhances perceived authenticity	14
More the merrier: Effects of plural brand names on perceived entitativity and brand attitude	14
The digital frontier as a liminal space	14
Consumers prefer natural medicines more when treating psychological than physical conditions	14
Product‐facilitated conversations: When does starting a conversation by mentioning a product lead to better conversational outcomes?	13
PassivePy: A tool to automatically identify passive voice in big text data	12
On the political right, the customer is always right: Political ideology, entitlement, and complaining	12
Repentance‐driven fitness: Moral striving in a Tunisian context	12
When is sociality congruent with self‐care?	12
Three strategies for claiming research progress	11
Robert S. Wyer, Jr. 1935–2026	11
Naturalness against environment‐friendliness: The impact of shelf life on food perceptions and purchase decisions	11
Social platform use and psychological well‐being	11
The egalitarian value of counterfeit goods: Purchasing counterfeit luxury goods to address income inequality	11
Food categorization determines whether healthier food is inferred to be tastier or less tasty	10
Message framing to enhance consumer compliance with disease detection communication for prevention: The moderating role of age	10
Through rose‐tinted glasses: How inducing and resolving curiosity makes consumers less skeptical and improves their product evaluations	10
Single paper meta‐analysis is unavoidable	10
The Metaverse: A new digital frontier for consumer behavior	10
From kurtas to crop tops: A theory of postliminal self‐transformation	9
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Issue Information	9
I share, therefore I know? Sharing online content ‐ even without reading it ‐ inflates subjective knowledge	9
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The spiritual contagion scale: A measure of beliefs in the transfer of metaphysical properties	8
Unfaithful brands: How brand attachment can lead to negative responses to influencer marketing campaigns	8
Discussing proximal pasts and far futures	8
Comments on “Single paper meta‐analysis is unavoidable”	8
How duration of storage affects food waste behavior	7
Working hard for money decreases risk tolerance	7
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Effectively communicating uncertainty: The persuasive impact of different types of hedges	7
On seeing the self as a scarce resource: How time and money scarcity differentially shape consumers' self‐value and preferences	7
Consumer insights from text analysis	7

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The politics of impact: How political ideology shapes perceptions of the environmental impact of individual actions	7
The nonlinear effect of consumer embarrassment on avoidance: A meta‐analysis	7
Undersociality is unwise	7
Speedy activists: How firm response time to sociopolitical events influences consumer behavior	7
Home and psychological well‐being in global consumer mobility	6
The over‐diversification effect: Enhancement in perceived heterogeneity of multiple (vs. single)‐others' preferences	6
The situational Samaritan: How group reputation threat shapes reparatory behavior	6
To wait, or not to wait: The paradoxical effects of time metaphors on impatience	6
Customizing your way to health: How self‐customization influences food choices	6
The making of Homo Honoratus: From omission to commission	6
Issue Information	6
The effect of subjectivity and objectivity in online reviews: A convolutional neural network approach	5
The ironic impact of schadenfreude: When the joy of inflicting pain leads to increased prosocial behavior	5
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Discussing money with the one you love: How financial stress influences couples' financial communication	5
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Awe and aesthetics: Conundrums of creation and consumption	5
AI‐induced dehumanization	5
The charity capacity curse	5
Issue Information	5
How communication mediums shape the message	5
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MindMiner: Uncovering linguistic markers of mind perception as a new lens to understand consumer–smart object relationships	5
On the wisdom and utility of (under)sociality: A consumer psychology perspective	5
Already here: Metaverse in touch and sound	5
Collective consciousness and consumer behavior	5
Moral foundations theory and consumer behavior	5