OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Self and Identity is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Why do people avoid talking to strangers? A mini meta-analysis of predicted fears and actual experiences talking to a stranger	36
Conversation with a future self: A letter-exchange exercise enhances student self-continuity, career planning, and academic thinking	25
Social exclusion reduces happiness by creating expectations of future rejection	19
From “love actually” to love, actually: The sociometer takes every kind of fuel	12
Kind words do not become tired words: Undervaluing the positive impact of frequent compliments	11
Behavioral and psychological consequences of social identity-based aggressive victimization in high school youth	11
Through the Eyes of Narcissus: Competitive Social Worldviews Mediate the Associations that Narcissism has with Ideological Attitudes	10
Possible selves and health behavior in adolescents: A systematic review	10
How cultural orientation and self-compassion shape objectified body consciousness for women from America, Belgium, Russia, and Thailand	9
Dual identity, bicultural identity integration and social identity complexity among Muslim minority adolescents	9
Self-compassion and social anxiety in late adolescence: Contributions of self-reflection and insight	9
The need to belong, the sociometer, and the pursuit of relational value: Unfinished business	8
Nostalgia and temporal self-appraisal: Divergent evaluations of past and present selves	8
Emotional experiences in vulnerable and grandiose narcissism: Anger and mood in neutral and anger evoking situations	8
Societal acceptance increases Muslim-Gay identity integration for highly religious individuals… but only when the ingroup status is stable	7
Narrative identity across multiple autobiographical episodes: Considering means and variability with well-being	7
Ostracized and observed: The presence of an audience affects the experience of being excluded	7
I am not the parent I should be: Cross-sectional and prospective associations between parental self-discrepancies and parental burnout	7
Navigating the ups and downs: Peer and family autonomy support during personal goals and crises on identity development	6
Reflections on the 25th anniversary of Baumeister & Leary’s seminal paper on the need to belong	6
Individual differences in spontaneous self-affirmation predict well-being	6
What does it mean to feel small? Three dimensions of the small self	6
Adaptive self-concept: Identifying the basic dimensions of self-beliefs	6
Identity integration matters: The case of parents working from home during the COVID-19 health emergency	6
There must be more to life than this: The impact of highly-accessible exemplars on self-evaluation and discontent	6

Self-compassion helps people forgive transgressors: Cognitive pathways of interpersonal transgressions	5
Incorporating physical appearance into one’s sense of self: Self-concept clarity, thin-ideal internalization, and appearance-self integration	5
Men and women’s self-objectification, objectification of women, and sexist beliefs	5
The cultural identity of first-generation immigrant children and youth: Insights from a meta-analysis	5
Self-objectification, sexual subjectivity, and identity exploration among emerging adult women	5
‘Why do I think what I think I am?’: Mothers’ and fathers’ contributions to adolescents’ self-representations	4
Development of self-concept clarity from ages 11 to 24: Latent growth models of Chinese adolescents	4
Individual differences in spontaneous self-affirmation and mental health: relationships with self-esteem, dispositional optimism and coping	4
Identity lost and found: Self-concept clarity in social network site contexts	4
Psychological pathways linking income inequality in adolescence to well-being in adulthood	4
Exploring the interactive role of narcissism and self-esteem on self-presentation	4
Free to fly the rainbow flag: the relation between collective autonomy and psychological well-being amongst LGBTQ+ individuals	4
Envisioning positive future selves: Perceptions of the future self and psychological adaptation in recent migrants	4
Reflective rumination mediates the effects of neuroticism upon the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory	4
Mechanisms of a spotless self-image: Navigating negative, self-relevant feedback	4
Longitudinal links between identity and substance use in adolescence	4
Social Class Identity Integration and Success for First-Generation College Students: Antecedents, Mechanisms, and Generalizability	4
Self-fulfilling objectification in relationships: The effects of men’s objectifying expectations on women’s self-objectification during conflict in romantic relationships	4
Self-compassion and suicidal behavior: Indirect effects of depression, anxiety, and hopelessness across increasingly vulnerable samples	4
Narcissistic personality features and contingencies of self-worth: What are the foundations of narcissistic self-esteem?	3
The upside: How people make sense of difficulty matters during a crisis	3
Describing autobiographical memories: Effects of shared reality and audience attitude valence on perceived authenticity and self-esteem	3
Playing to the gallery: investigating the normative explanation of ingroup favoritism by testing the impact of imagined audience	3
Development and initial validation of a scale to measure momentary self-concept clarity	3
Time and class: How socioeconomic status shapes conceptions of the future self	3
Dual-centric work/family identity in young adults	3
Daily self-compassion protects Asian Americans/Canadians after experiences of COVID-19 discrimination: Implications for subjective well-being and health behaviors	3
Balancing out bonding and bridging capital: Social network correlates of multicultural identity configurations among Russian migrants to Canada	3
Unveiling the relationships among adolescents’ persistent academic possible selves, academic self-concept, self-regulation, and achievement: A Longitudinal and Moderated Mediation Study	3
Self, identity, and negative youth adaptation: Introduction to the special issue	3
Exploring the contribution of racially based harassment and personality to variation in native and American identity in immigrant-origin youth	3
Egosystem and Ecosystem Goals: Implications for Concealable Stigma Disclosure	3
The function of vertical and horizontal space to social group identity	3
The intersection of social networks and individual identity in adolescent problem behavior: Pathways and ethnic differences	3
Multiple identities juggling game: types of identity integration and their outcomes	3
A leadership looking glass: How reflected appraisals of leadership shape individuals’ own perceived prototypicality and group identification	3
A Network Approach to Understanding Narcissistic Grandiosity via the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire and the Narcissistic Personality Inventory	3
Making memorable choices: Cognitive control and the self-choice effect in memory	3
The impact of poor work-life balance and unshared home responsibilities on work-gender identity integration	2
Sexual objectification in #MeToo and #WhyIDidntReport tweets: Links to sentiment and emotions	2
Under pressure: Locomotion and assessment in the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Assessing self-schema content: The relationship of psychological needs to early maladaptive schemas, rejection sensitivity, and personality traits	2
Self-monitoring, status, and balance of power in romantic relationships	2
In the office or at the gym: The impact of confronting sexism in specific contexts on support for confrontation and perceptions of others	2
What Good is Organizational Nostalgia in the Time of Pandemic? Unpacking a Pathway from COVID-Related Stress to Authenticity at Work	2
Associations between the implicit needs for affiliation and power and identity development in a sample of Zambian adolescents	2
Self-compassion, social cognition, and self-affect in adolescence: A longitudinal study	2
Majority acceptance vs. rejection of ‘being both’ facilitates immigrants’ bicultural identity blendedness and positive affect	2
“I am (oppressed), therefore I see”: Multiple stigmatized identities predict belief in generalized prejudice and intraminority coalition	2
True-self-as-guide lay theory endorsement across five countries	2

Cross-lagged associations between cognitive dispositions, identity processing styles, and identity commitments	2
Trait self-control and beliefs about the utility of emotions and emotion regulation in self-control performance	2
Detecting biracial identity strength: Perceived phenotypicality is inaccurate	2