OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Personality and Social Psychology Review 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning From Older Adults: An Intergoal Compatibility Account for Successful Happiness Pursuit	160
One’s Actions “Aging Poorly”: An Integrative Egocentric Framework for Understanding Impression Management Errors and the Challenge of Temporal Impression Management	117
Connecting to Community: A Social Identity Approach to Neighborhood Mental Health	97
Social Movements as Parsimonious Explanations for Implicit and Explicit Attitude Change	80
When People Do Allyship: A Typology of Allyship Action	71
The Case for Heterogeneity in Metacognitive Appraisals of Biased Beliefs	64
Distinguishing Emotion Regulation Success in Daily Life From Maladaptive Regulation and Dysregulation	63
Being as Having, Loving, and Doing: A Theory of Human Well-Being	56
Multiculturalism and Colorblindness as Threats to the Self: A Framework for Understanding Dominant and Non-Dominant Group Members’ Responses to Interethnic Ideologies	55
Sixty Years After Orne’s American Psychologist Article: A Conceptual Framework for Subjective Experiences Elicited by Demand Characteristics	55
Insight in the Conspiracist’s Mind	41
Social Psychology of and for World-Making	36
Costly Morality Theory of Honor: An Evolutionary, Culture-as-Situated-Cognition Perspective	35
Do Salient Social Norms Moderate Mortality Salience Effects? A (Challenging) Meta-Analysis of Terror Management Studies	35
Outside Roundness and Inside Squareness: A Framework for Characterizing Authenticity Through the Lens of Confucianism	34
When Social Hierarchy, Power, and Collective Autonomy Motivate Social Movement and Counter-Movement Mobilization Among Disadvantaged and Advantaged Groups	31
Mino-Bimaadiziwin and the Pursuit of Harmony	31
Dress is a Fundamental Component of Person Perception	28
Strength-Based Solidarity: Shared Strengths as a Novel Pathway Toward Holistic and Sustained Intraminority Solidarity	26
Intergenerational Storytelling and Positive Psychosocial Development: Stories as Developmental Resources for Marginalized Groups	26
“My Aim Is True”: An Attribution-Identity Model of Ally Sincerity	23
A Theoretical Framework for Studying the Phenomenon of Gaslighting	22
Framing Inequality as Advantage versus Disadvantage: A Systematic Review of Effects and a Two-Step Model to Explain Them	21
Second Thoughts About Culture and Cause: Why and How Do the Chinese and Americans Differ in Causal Attributions?	18
Forms of Psychological Bias Against Transgender Women and Men and People With Nonbinary Gender Identities	17

Power to Detect What? Considerations for Planning and Evaluating Sample Size	17
The Wisdom Researchers and the Elephant: An Integrative Model of Wise Behavior	16
Valence Asymmetry in Cognition—A Formal Account	15
Motivated Categories: Social Structures Shape the Construction of Social Categories Through Attentional Mechanisms	15
The Game of Self: Identity and Experience as Active Inference	14
In the Mind’s Eye: Exploring the Relationship Between Visual Mental Imagery and Stereotyping	13
Decolonizing Interventions for Workplace Gender Equity: An Intersectional and Latin American Lens	13
Mobilizing or Sedative Effects? A Narrative Review of the Association Between Intergroup Contact and Collective Action Among Advantaged and Disadvantaged Groups	13
Intelligent Systems, Vulnerable Minds: A Framework for Radicalization to Violence in the Age of AI	11
The Problem of Purity in Moral Psychology	9
Beyond Trolleyology: The CNI Model of Moral-Dilemma Responses	7
Self-Protection Motivation and Its Psychological Construction: A Process Model Distinguishing Two Unique Motivational Orientations	6
Contextualizing Social Psychology Through Cultural Syndromes: The Case of Brazilian Jeitinho	5
Inequality in People’s Minds: An Integrative Psychological Framework of Perceptions of Economic Inequality	5