OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations is 8. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 conspiracy theories	228
Gender inequalities during COVID-19	100
Science skepticism in times of COVID-19	92
Ageism in the time of COVID-19	82
Xenophobia and anti-immigrant attitudes in the time of COVID-19	79
Intergroup and intragroup dimensions of COVID-19: A social identity perspective on social fragmentation and unity	78
The dangers of distrustful complacency: Low concern and low political trust combine to undermine compliance with governmental restrictions in the emerging Covid-19 pandemic	73
The “Great Replacement” conspiracy: How the perceived ousting of Whites can evoke violent extremism and Islamophobia	54
The effects of COVID-19 on virtual working within online groups	52
National narcissism and support for voluntary vaccination policy: The mediating role of vaccination conspiracy beliefs	44
The role of race, religion, and partisanship in misperceptions about COVID-19	42
The ideological basis of antiscientific attitudes: Effects of authoritarianism, conservatism, religiosity, social dominance, and system justification	41
Leadership to defeat COVID-19	41
Identity concerns drive belief: The impact of partisan identity on the belief and dissemination of true and false news	37
The language of conspiracy: A psychological analysis of speech used by conspiracy theorists and their followers on Twitter	37
Exploring a pathway to radicalization: The effects of social exclusion and rejection sensitivity	37
Mindfulness and intergroup bias: A systematic review	35
Are misinformation, antiscientific claims, and conspiracy theories for political extremists?	34
Trust in science increases conservative support for social distancing	33
Coping with COVID-19-induced threats to self	33
Stand out of my sunlight: The mediating role of climate change conspiracy beliefs in the relationship between national collective narcissism and acceptance of climate science	32
Right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation predict rejection of science and scientists	32
Activism in the time of COVID-19	31
An ally you say? Endorsing White women as allies to encourage perceptions of allyship and organizational identity-safety among Black women	30
Ideology shapes trust in scientists and attitudes towards vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic	27

Racial bias confrontation in the United States: What (if anything) has changed in the COVID-19 era, and where do we go from here?	27
Conformity and reactions to deviance in the time of COVID-19	27
Economic inequality affects perceived normative values	26
(Un)masking threat: Racial minorities experience race-based social identity threat wearing face masks during COVID-19	24
Following the crowd in times of crisis: Descriptive norms predict physical distancing, stockpiling, and prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Social attitudes and behavior in the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence and prospects from research on group processes and intergroup relations	23
Supporting political violence: The role of ideological passion and social network	22
“Historia est magistra vitae”? The impact of historical victimhood on current conspiracy beliefs	21
“Return of the repressed”: Exposure to police violence increases protest and self-sacrifice intentions for the Yellow Vests	21
An intergroup approach to collective narcissism: Intergroup threats and hostility in four European Union countries	20
“If they believe, then so shall I”: Perceived beliefs of the in-group predict conspiracy theory belief	20
Protecting America’s borders: Christian nationalism, threat, and attitudes toward immigrants in the United States	20
Persistent beliefs: Political extremism predicts ideological stability over time	19
Lessons from developmental science to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 restrictions on social development	19
Hated but still human: Metadehumanization leads to greater hostility than metaprejudice	19
Disadvantaged group members’ evaluations and support for allies: Investigating the role of communication style and group membership	18
Coronavirus conspiracy beliefs and distrust of science predict risky public health behaviours through optimistically biased risk perceptions in Ukraine, Turkey, and Germany	18
“Sincere White people, work in conjunction with us”: Racial minorities’ perceptions of White ally sincerity and perceptions of ally efforts	17
Backlash against the #MeToo movement: How women’s voice causes men to feel victimized	17
Navigating COVID-19: Insights from research on social ostracism	16
The effect of perceived threat on human rights: A meta-analysis	16
Can ingroup love harm the ingroup? Collective narcissism and objectification of ingroup members	16
Intergroup contact fosters more inclusive social identities	16
National identity exploration attenuates the identification–prejudice link	15
When White Americans see “non-Whites” as a group: Belief in minority collusion and support for White identity politics	15
Future research avenues to facilitate social connectedness and safe collective behavior at organized crowd events	15
Radicalization and violent extremism: Perspectives from research on group processes and intergroup relations	15
Group membership and radicalization: A cross-national investigation of collective self-esteem underlying extremism	15
Formation of an emergent protestor identity: Applying the EMSICA to the Gezi Park protests	14
Love thy (partisan) neighbor: Brief befriending meditation reduces affective polarization	14
Feeling out of (existential) place: Existential isolation and nonnormative group membership	14
Where’s your sense of humor? Political identity moderates evaluations of disparagement humor	14
Political ideology moderates White Americans’ reactions to racial demographic change	14
Ingroup norms shape understanding of outgroup prosocial behaviors	13
The psychological antecedents of resistance to humanitarian aid	13
No country for old gay men: Age and sexuality category intersection renders older gay men invisible	13
Intergroup attitudes between meat-eaters and meat-avoiders: The role of dietary ingroup identification	13
Social identity and support for defunding the police in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder	13
Power distance orientation as an antecedent of individuals’ intentions to engage in radical political action	12
We will rescue Italy, but we dislike the European Union: Collective narcissism and the COVID-19 threat	12
Gender/sex diversity beliefs: Scale construction, validation, and links to prejudice	12
Losing what is OURS: The intergroup consequences of collective ownership threat	12
Personal narratives to improve attitudes towards stigmatized immigrants: A parallel-serial mediation model	12
The good ol’ days: White identity, racial nostalgia, and the perpetuation of racial extremism	12
We stand in solidarity with you (if it helps our ingroup)	11
Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women across 31 nations	11
Not all inequalities are created equal: Inequality framing and privilege threat for advantaged groups	11
Who endorses group-based violence?	10
Promoting positive intergroup attitudes using persona dolls: A vicarious contact intervention program in Israeli kindergartens	10
Early perceptions of COVID-19 intensity and anti-Asian prejudice among White Americans	10

The role of national identification in explaining political and social civic engagement	10
The subtle spreading of sexist norms	10
Investigating motivations underlying collective narcissism and in-group identification	9
Threatened humanity in a tight world: Cultural tightness results in self-objectification	9
The effects of racial status threat on White Americans’ support for Donald Trump: Results of five experimental tests	9
Party over pandemic: Polarized trust in political leaders and experts explains public support for COVID-19 policies	9
Perceived discrimination and psychological distress among immigrants to Canada: The mediating role of bicultural identity orientations	9
Ritual, fusion, and conflict: The roots of agro-pastoral violence in rural Cameroon	9
Differences in attitudes toward terrorists: Type of terrorist act, terrorist ethnicity, and observer gender and cultural background	9
Can cross-group contact turn advantaged group members into allies? The role of inequality-delegitimizing contact and interpersonal connection	9
Character deprecation in fake news: Is it in supply or demand?	8
Why we can’t talk openly about race: The impact of race and partisanship on respondents’ perceptions of intergroup conversations	8
Economic inequality shapes the agency–communion content of gender stereotypes	8
It’s their fault: Partisan attribution bias and its association with voting intentions	8
“Welcome to our neighbourhood”: Collective confidence in contact facilitates successful mixing in residential settings	8
“Nudging” intergroup contact: Normative social influences on intergroup contact engagement	8
In time, we will simply disappear: Racial demographic shift undermines privileged group members’ support for marginalized social groups via collective angst	8
Cultural intelligence and social distance among undergraduate students in clinical professions	8
Ideological bases of attitudes towards meat abstention: Vegetarianism as a threat to the cultural and economic status quo	8
Sequential models of intergroup contact and social categorization: An experimental field test of integrated models	8
Culture and global societal threats: COVID-19 as a pathogen threat to humanity	8