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Papers

(The median citation count of Self and Identity is 1. 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
The role of spirituality in identity after trauma: a scoping review of quantitative and qualitative evidence	17
Tell me you’re religious without saying you’re religious: An identity-signaling account of prejudice against atheists	15
How narcissism relates to upward-status disagreement in virtual project design teams	13
Individual differences in spontaneous self-affirmation and mental health: relationships with self-esteem, dispositional optimism and coping	13
The role of psychopathology centrality in psychopathology stability and associations with life satisfaction in adolescence	12
The cultural identity of first-generation adult immigrants: A meta-analysis	12
The effect of induced happiness versus sadness on three types of self-control tasks	11
The relationships between multiple facets of self-concept clarity and depression	10
Prospective associations among self-concept clarity, appearance comparisons, and thin-ideal internalization	9
Rejection sensitivity and sexual minority men’s social anxiety disorder: The moderating role of sexual identity strength	8
Agnosticism as a distinct type of nonbelief: the role of indecisiveness, maximization, and low self-enhancement	8
Exploring ethnic identity in early adolescence: Psychometric evaluation of the multigroup ethnic identity measure (MEIM) in an ethnically diverse population-based sample of young people in Aotearoa Ne	8
Treat yourself: both positive and negative affect can provide justifications for self-regulatory indulgence	7
From nostalgia, through communion, to psychological benefits: the moderating role of narcissism	7
The cascading effects of parent (low vs. high) self-esteem: implications for academic self-trust in stereotype-vulnerable students	7
Daily experiences of ethnic minority women at work: Moving toward ingroups and outgroups is related to identity motives fulfillment	7
Self-compassion and social stress: Links with subjective stress and cortisol responses	7
The benefits of being clear: role clarity in stepmotherhood is associated with greater overall identity clarity and well-being	6
Ideological identity: worldviews and values are self-defining	6
The spirit is noble, but the flesh is corrupt: lay beliefs about the bases of (im)moral behavior	6
United as one? Personal and social identity threats differentially predict cooperation and prejudice toward minorities	6
Should I use my brain or my heart? Brain-heart dualism and its advantages in intellectual and experiential domains	6
A new look at capturing social identity compatibility in transition: extending and applying the social identity model of identity change to student transition to university	6
The role of self-compassion in the effects of living alone and quarantine on mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study	5
Development of the selflessness/self-centeredness Inventory – trait (SSI-T)	5

Daily levels of perceived context of reception and self-esteem among U.S. Latine university students: The moderating role of normative identity styles	5
Life projects, motivational and volitional features, and field of possibilities: A theoretical model	5
The challenge of finding noncontingent, universal worth for elite U.S. college students	5
More real together: conversation predicts realness through shared reality	5
Examining heterogeneity in racial identification among Middle Eastern and North African peoples in the American Community Survey	5
The effects of conflict resolution styles on perceived relational self-concept change	5
Unpackaging the link between economic inequality and self-construal	5
The defeated self: Evidence that entrapment moderates first name priming effects on failure-thought accessibility	4
Self in relationships, nostalgically	4
Identity development across the transition from primary to secondary school: The role of personality and the social context	4
Indirect measures of social identities: implicit association tests assess self-categorization, match–mismatch paradigms distinguish identification from disidentification	4
The impact of uncertainty on future anxiety in college students: The mediating role of future self-continuity and the intervention effects of letter-writing activity	4
Global and body-related self-conscious emotions: exploring associations to positive and negative mental health	4
Chronic and contextual identity salience: Assessing dual-dimensional salience with the Identity Salience Questionnaire (ISQ)	4
Multiple social identities: a cognitive consistency model on identity integration	3
Identity formation from a cross-cultural perspective: Identity statuses and profiles among German and Zambian adolescents	3
Anti-social behavior and soccer identities: different continents, same mindset?	3
What is sexual self-concept?: a Q-methodology study	3
The iii-rg: An individual difference measure of intersectional identities integration of race and gender identities	3
Detecting biracial identity strength: Perceived phenotypicality is inaccurate	3
Me, myself, and my stereotypes: does retraining gender stereotypes change men’s self-concept?	3
Perceptions of bisexual identity, outness, and mental health among racially diverse bisexual women and men	3
Motivated self-change to protect the relational self: romantic jealousy promotes spontaneous self-change, but only when aligned with the ideal self	2
Achieve to believe: Success increases free will attributions and beliefs	2
Cultural moderation of demographic differences in narcissism	2
Measuring comfort with political disagreement in friendship	2
The content and application of the lay theory of self-esteem	2
Why is authenticity associated with being and acting extraverted? Exploring the mediating role of positive affect	2
Making America great for whom?: How Trump’s Presidency affected fit and national identity among targets of bias	2
“Who am I?”, diminished sense of self in Korsakoff’s syndrome	2
Knowing who I am depends on who I’ve become: Linking self-concept clarity and temporal self-comparison	2
“I am agnostic, not atheist”: The role of open-minded, prosocial, and believing dispositions	2
Examining the associations between endorsement of disability models and system justification within disabled and non-disabled Individuals	2
Trait self-control and beliefs about the utility of emotions and emotion regulation in self-control performance	2
Pinning down state authenticity: defining and validating a state authenticity measure	2
You’re not like us! Ethnic discrimination and national belonging in Nigeria	2
Momentary fluctuations in body image dissatisfaction among women: The role of self-concept clarity	2
I’ll take the high road: Paths to goal pursuit and identity-based interpretations of difficulty	2
The self as a representational base: my sense of ‘me’ shapes what I think ‘us’ looks like	2
How we empowers me: the availability of agentic ingroups elevates group-based control perceptions following threat	2
Practice what you preach? Exploring parental attitudes, behaviors, and teaching about lying	1
I think they believed me: examining the perceived believability of lies across age and relationship closeness	1
“Mom always liked you best!”: Concern for parental regard in sibling comparisons	1
Whatever you say: changing transference-based problem behavior with if–then plans	1
Testing the multicomponent ingroup identification model in diverse stigmatized groups: model fit, group differences, and predictors of social identification	1
Radicalized Identity Styles: Investigating Sociocultural Challenges, Identity Styles, and Extremism	1
They don’t understand us: implications of felt understanding for psychological well-being in diverse communities	1
Self-compassion and negative outgroup attitudes: The mediating role of compassion for others	1
“I am (oppressed), therefore I see”: Multiple stigmatized identities predict belief in generalized prejudice and intraminority coalition	1
“We are the 99%”: Exploring the impact of politicized wealth-based identity on the established middle-class	1

Professional and religious identity conflict: individual and organizational dynamics in ethically-charged circumstances	1
Bored and better: Interpersonal boredom results in people feeling not only superior to the boring individual, but also to others	1
The role of passion in the resilience process	1
People value the pursuit of potential-realization more than belonging, happiness, and status	1
Perfectionism, excellencism, and impostor feelings: a meta-analysis and two studies on the moderating role of research productivity in graduate students	1
Unattractive, corrupted, and culpable feared self-themes: Expanding our understanding of self-concept in relation to eating pathology	1
When “we” defines “me”: Current theory and research on relationship identification	1
Gender stereotypes, intellectual performance, and stereotype validation: The role of lay theories of intelligence	1
Hawai‘i face database: a racially and ethnically diverse set of facial stimuli	1