OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Self and Identity is 4. 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
Behavioral and psychological consequences of social identity-based aggressive victimization in high school youth	11
Kind words do not become tired words: Undervaluing the positive impact of frequent compliments	11
Possible selves and health behavior in adolescents: A systematic review	10
Through the Eyes of Narcissus: Competitive Social Worldviews Mediate the Associations that Narcissism has with Ideological Attitudes	10
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
How cultural orientation and self-compassion shape objectified body consciousness for women from America, Belgium, Russia, and Thailand	9
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
The need to belong, the sociometer, and the pursuit of relational value: Unfinished business	8
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
Societal acceptance increases Muslim-Gay identity integration for highly religious individuals… but only when the ingroup status is stable	7
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
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

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
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
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
‘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