Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Papers
(The median citation count of Social and Personality Psychology Compass 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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COVID‐19‐related threat perceptions, political identity, and voting in the 2020 presidential election151
The perceived vulnerability to disease scale: Cross‐cultural measurement invariance and associations with fear of COVID‐19 across 16 countries69
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Framing COVID‐19 as an existential threat predicts prejudice towards Chinese people via anxious arousal62
Erratum to “Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research”53
Behavioral extremity moderates the association between certainty in attitudes about COVID and willingness to engage in mitigation‐related behaviors47
Mindfulness research and applications in the context of neoliberalism: A narrative and critical review44
The time has come for psychology to stop treating qualitative data as an embarrassing secret43
Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences42
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Everyday acts of kindness predict greater well‐being during the transition to university42
Changes in loneliness and coping strategies during COVID‐1937
A test of vaccine endorsement by political in‐ versus out‐group sources: Effect on vaccination likelihood and exploration of mediation through perceived bias and liking37
Eight misconceptions about the elemental approach and aversive personality trait research: A response to Andrews and colleagues (2023)34
Effects of the coronavirus pandemic on perceived capitalization support provision and receipt34
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From Tribe to Humanity: How Ingroup Expansion Can Fuel Distant Altruism31
Who handles the tough talk? Supervisor sense of power and confronting difficult issues29
Psychopathy and COVID‐19: Callousness, impulsivity, and motivational reasons for engaging in prevention behavior29
Revisiting the charmed circle: A reflexive examination of unanswered questions in the infidelity literature27
The dynamic socioecological model of economic inequality and psychological tendencies: A cycle of mutual constitution27
Challenges in the conceptualization of trait self‐control as a psychological construct27
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Conceptualizing grandiose and vulnerable narcissism as alternative status‐seeking strategies: Insights from hierometer theory25
Globalising positivity discourses and women23
Individual differences in patterns of developmental opportunity and constraint during COVID‐19: Implications for longitudinal well‐being21
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Applying propensity score matching to assess the impact of the pandemic on intimate relationships20
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Changes in college students' socioeconomic status aspirations during the COVID‐19 pandemic18
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Do gender and educational level predict vaccination? The mediating role of attitudes towards vaccines and fear of COVID‐1917
Distress, wellbeing, and growth amidst COVID‐19: Considering the dynamic interplay between positive and negative anticipatory emotions17
Denial of Mass Atrocities and How Perpetrators Group Evade Accusations: The Case of Israel17
Self‐regulation in daily life: Neuroscience will accelerate theorizing and advance the field16
Examining the trajectory of relational conflict leading up to and after an anticipated stressor16
Data absence and a lack of parsimony: A response to Kay and Arrow's elemental Dark Triad16
Ideology, moral reframing, and persuasion in the context of COVID‐19 vaccines16
Does disseminating (mis)information restore social connection during a global pandemic?16
Did COVID‐19 really change our well‐being? It's up to meaning in life: Evidence from two longitudinal studies16
Abortion, mental health and epistemologies of psychological knowledge and ignorance16
Qualitative research at the crossroads of open science and big data: Ethical considerations16
Gaps in Measurement: Highlighting Anti‐Fat Bias as an Underrepresented Construct in the Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale15
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles15
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Teaching & learning guide for: The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda14
Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research14
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Safety behaviors were associated with greater anxious symptoms during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic13
Institutional interactions and racial inequality in policing: How everyday encounters bridge individuals, organizations, and institutions13
Romantic relationship quality during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The longitudinal associations with relationship loneliness and depression13
Enhancing Trust in Science: Current Challenges and Recommendations for Policymakers, the Scientific Community, Media, and Public13
Secondhand racism: What we know and where to go regarding the relationship between vicarious racism and mental and physical health13
Fear of missing out and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic12
Reflexivity in quantitative research: A rationale and beginner's guide12
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Impact of face masks on perceptions of black and white targets during the COVID‐19 pandemic12
How mask gap impacts discrimination and anxiety during COVID‐19: A study on overseas Chinese during the first outbreak in 202012
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How Emotional Appeals and Deliberative Thinking Relate to Perceived Effectiveness12
Psychological impact of coronavirus‐related social isolation in Colombia after a year of lockdown11
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Investigation of the correspondence principle with regard to specific and general COVID‐19 behaviors11
Tracking depressive and anxious symptoms during the first year of COVID‐19: The search for moderators11
Measuring and reducing implicit prejudice against Black women and people with intersectional identities11
Associations between power, stress, and dominance in romantic relationships during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining curvilinear and within‐person effects11
Defensive pessimism and precautionary action during the COVID pandemic11
Toward a Health Psychology of Fatherhood: A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Fathers10
How people find better lifegoals: The goal breakthrough model and its neuroscientific underpinnings10
The role of White identity in anti‐racist allyship10
Core social motives explain responses to collective action issues10
What factors predict anti‐Black bias in pain perception? An internal meta‐analysis across 40 experimental studies10
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Multiple Marginalized Identities, Minority Stress, and Mental Health9
Safety first, but for whom? Shifts in risk perception for self and others following COVID‐19 vaccination9
Internal, external, genetic, or cultural? Lay theories about racial health disparities predict perceived threat, adherence, and policy support9
Does online social support uniquely buffer effects of stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic?: A natural experiment9
Comparative optimism and well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic9
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Examining approaches to encourage COVID‐19 vaccination on social media9
Advancing Insights Into Accent Diversity and Its Interplay With Multicultural Experiences9
Increasing Extraversion via Intervention: Lay Insights, Person‐Activity Fit, and Implications for Well‐Being and Persistence9
Understanding the Benefits and Drawbacks of Harnessing Identity‐Targeted Interventions in Health Contexts8
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The Association Between Power‐Space Congruency and Positive Affect8
Support for Research on Violent Extremism Can Save Lives8
Ghosting: A Common but Unpopular Rejection Strategy8
Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans8
Identity‐Based Motivation and the Motivational Consequences of Difficulty8
How Meditation Promotes Well‐Being: Applying a Dual‐System Theory8
Procedural fairness facilitates cooperative behavior by enhancing cooperative expectations7
Expressive Suppression in Response to Discrimination: Examining Its Motivational Antecedents and Consequences for Black Individuals7
From Climate Emotions to Affective‐Discursive Practices: A Critical Social Psychological Approach to Climate Change Issues7
Persistent Patterns, Persistent Gaps: Inflammatory Pathways in the Study of Discrimination and Health7
Contagious or prosocial? Perceptions of mask‐wearers toward Whites and Asians: A cross‐cultural comparison during the early stage of the COVID‐19 pandemic7
Examining college students' food security coping strategies and experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic7
The effects of visual attention on social behavior7
Conceptualizing psychological well‐being as a dynamic process: Implications for research on mobile health interventions7
Examining the influence of information‐related factors on vaccination intentions via confidence: Insights from adult samples in Italy and Serbia during the COVID‐19 pandemic7
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Social cohesion predicts COVID‐19 vaccination intentions and uptake7
Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences7
Sense of purpose and food insecurity during the COVID‐19 pandemic7
Self‐control: An integrative framework7
Three methodological approaches to studying singlehood6
Levels and facets of university students' stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from the first two academic years in Germany and the U.S.6
The Joy Is Mine: Re‐Centering the Person in the Study of Well‐Being6
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The Role of Social Status in the Development of Racial Bias in Childhood6
Exploring the Convergence of Curiosity Across Behavioural Tasks and Personality Trait Questionnaires6
The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda6
Evaluative Conditioning has a Vexing Demand Problem6
Cannabis Legalization and Use in the United States: Intersections With Social and Health Psychology6
Teaching & Learning guide for: An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response6
“I'll wait for the English one”: COVID‐19 vaccine country of origin, national identity, and their effects on vaccine perceptions and uptake willingness6
Integrating personality psychology and intersectionality to advance diversity in the study of persons6
Unraveling Why Happiness Levels Vary Across Cultures: Mechanisms Underlying East‐West Differences6
Interpersonal consequences of joint food consumption for connection and conflict6
With us, For us, or Against us: How Group Relations Between Safety Personnel and the Public Impact Enjoyment, Felt Safety and Behaviour at Crowd Events6
Relationship between COVID‐19‐related stress and social inhibition among university students in China: The mediating role of psychological richness6
How does exposure to masked individuals affect White Americans' attitudes toward Asian American and Pacific Islanders?6
Memory lapses during a pandemic: Differential associations between COVID‐stress and daily memory lapses?6
A Tripartite Framework for Understanding the U.S. Racial Hierarchy: Social Status, Culture, and Phenotypicality6
Thinking Clearly About Sampling and Representation With the Total Survey Error Framework5
Psychopathy and Self‐Construal: Trait‐Specific Associations With Independent and Interdependent Self‐Construal5
Moderators of the big‐fish‐little‐pond effect in educational settings: A scoping review5
Well‐being during the coronavirus pandemic: The effect of big five personality and COVID‐19 beliefs and behaviors5
Collective views of vaccination predict vaccine hesitancy and willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine5
Employee psychological wellbeing in the face of pandemic: The role of belief in work priority5
Humility as Personal Resource: A Conservation of Resources Perspective5
Harnessing Social Psychological Insights to Grow the Next Generation of American Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists and Address Real‐World Challenges Facing the Nation5
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Creating inclusive schools to reduce health and well‐being disparities5
Gratitude in Context: Proposing the Dyadic Process Model of Interpersonal Gratitude5
Animalizing women and feminizing (vegan) men: The psychological intersections of sexism, speciesism, meat, and masculinity5
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Why do organizations take political stances? A review of reasons and risks5
How to Thrive in Times of Threat and Uncertainty5
Envy, entitlement, and cutting the line: Dark personality predicted selfishness during the U.S. COVID‐19 vaccine rollout5
Bringing critical social psychology to the study of political polarization5
Implicit theories of mental health predict anxiety and depression during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China: The mediating effect of coping styles5
Holding It, Together: Beyond Bearing Witness and Burning Out5
Punishing or praising gossipers: How people interpret the motives driving negative gossip shapes its consequences5
Improving causal inference of mediation analysis with multiple mediators using interventional indirect effects5
Why do U.S. conservatives take fewer COVID‐19 precautions? The role of worry, perceived risk, and governmental trust5
Interpersonal Synchrony Research in Human Groups5
Does partisan media make a pawn of mistrust? Institutional trust and preventive COVID‐19 health behaviors in a polarized pandemic5
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The invention of race and the persistence of racial hierarchy: White privilege, White supremacy, and White colorblindness5
Behavior change after context disruption: Opportunities and pitfalls5
Science in a World on Fire: The Impact of Donald Trump's Anti‐Climate Policies on Social Psychological Research4
The Challenges and Solutions of In‐Person Big‐Team Science4
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“Keep them out to save our inside:” discourses on immigration by the Spanish far right4
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles4
Personal need for structure as a protective factor on beliefs and coping with COVID‐19: A crowd‐sourced multicultural exploration4
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Capitalizing on the potential of mobile health applications as behavioral interventions: A research agenda for calorie‐tracking and activity‐tracking applications4
Studying Everyday Variability in Gender Identity and Expression: An Ambulatory Assessment Perspective4
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Rice‐farming areas report more anxiety across two years of the COVID‐19 pandemic in China4
An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on understanding and promoting well‐doing4
Deconstructing Solitude and Its Links to Well‐Being4
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Measuring many mindsets: A systematic review of growth mindset domains, and discussion of domain relationships, with implications for growth mindset interventions4
Considering Discursive Absence as Resonance4
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Obedience to authorities is not unconditional: Differential effects of COVID‐19 threat on three facets of RWA in Poland and Germany4
Seen and Not Seen: Social Visibility, Identity Signaling, and Pro‐Environmental Behavior4
The role of honour in interpersonal, intrapersonal and intergroup processes4
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An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response3
Development and Evaluation of Cognitive and Behavioral Strategies to Improve Interventions in Reducing Nocebo Effects3
Loneliness and the sexual behavior of sexual minority men in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic3
Creating new resources: The impact of new group memberships on posttraumatic growth in China3
Openness relates to COVID‐19 vaccination rates across 48 United States but politics trump personality3
Do face masks undermine social connection?3
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A Model Investigating How Cultural Appropriation Increases Group‐Based Stigma Through Racialized Objectification3
Spirituality and intentions to engage in Covid‐19 protective behaviours3
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles3
The effects of social comparison, emotion induction, and parent vaccination status on parental intentions for COVID‐19 vaccine uptake in children3
Rethinking Acculturation: Placing Social Interaction at the Center of Cultural Adaptation3
Racial/Ethnic Identification and Impacts of Prejudice, Racism, and Discrimination for Communities of Arab, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Descent3
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Evaluating the Covid‐19 pandemic: The role of moral disengagement3
Does accuracy matter? A review of the consequences of accurate personality impressions as a function of context and content3
The Impact of Social Support on Thriving and Health in Sexually‐Diverse and Gender‐Diverse Populations3
Perceived COVID‐induced racism and contextual predictors of fear and psychological distress among Black men3
Cultural traits or social norms? Both responsibilism and norms linked to accepting COVID‐19 vaccine3
Why Does It Feel so Fake? Overcoming Authenticity Challenges in Professional Networking3
Individual differences in interpersonal emotion regulation: What makes some people more (or less) successful than others?3
Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID‐19: Evidence across countries and over time3
Success with a twinge of distress: Antecedents and consequences of outperformance‐related discomfort3
Choosing to Re‐Experience Movies and TV Episodes: Popularity, Motivations and Benefits of Volitional Reconsumption of Entertainment Media3
Shielded perspectives: How visual attention moderates the link between social identity and biased judgments about police3
Reaching across social divides deliberately : Theoretical, political, and practical implications of intergroup contact volition for intergroup relations3
Immoral, infectious, or both? How disgust sensitivity predicts judgments of violations against COVID‐19 mitigation actions3
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Divergent reactions to COVID‐19 exhibited in grandiose and vulnerable narcissism3
The Lost Self in Time: Objectification Disrupts Self‐Continuity3
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Framing resilience linked to parental ethnic‐racial socialization as hidden: A hidden resilience conceptual framework2
The Complicit, the Invisible, and the Forgotten: Critically Integrating Intersectionality Into the Psychology of Intraminority Solidarity2
Are moderate levels of stress particularly dangerous for relationship satisfaction? A conceptual replication of Tesser and Beach (1998)2
Moral psychology and civil rights protesters: Exemplary, different, and mad2
University students' and lecturers' perceived stress and satisfaction with life during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of personality traits and self‐efficacy2
Self‐esteem development and life events: A review and integrative process framework2
Does my work matter? Reduced sense of mattering as a source of gender disparities2
Aggression as successful self‐control2
Recognizing People's Agency Amidst Disadvantage: How to Study Inequality Using a Holistic Approach That is Accurate and Non‐Stigmatizing2
Counterfactual thinking may attenuate polarization of COVID‐19 prevention behavior2
Thinking of threats: Economic threat appraisals and health threat appraisals predict differential racial attitudes during COVID‐192
The promises and pitfalls of functional magnetic resonance imaging hyperscanning for social interaction research2
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Looking our limitations in the eye: A call for more thorough and honest reporting of study limitations2
Police‐perpetrated racism and health in African American and Black communities2
Rebalancing social & personality psychology methods: The case for naturalistic observation2
Behavioral consequences of intergroup sensitivity2
Willingness to self‐disclose in romantic relationships only marginally predicts COVID stress but there are indirect effects of self‐esteem and relationship commitment2
A Credibility Revolution for Relationship Science: Where Can We Step Up Our Game?2
Identity development in the digital context2
Third‐Party Compensation as a Mild Response to Social Injustice: A Heuristic Motivation Framework2
The comrade on the crossroads of scholarship and struggle: Troubling the exile of Frantz Fanon from social and political psychology2
Barriers for women in the workplace: A social psychological perspective2
When rock bottom rocks your world: Crisis of belief as a catalyst for change2
Cross‐cultural dynamics of narcissism and prosocial behavior: Unveiling the role of social status pursuit and collectivism2
Testing the bidirectional relationship between belief in COVID‐19 conspiracy theories and psychological distress: A five‐wave longitudinal study2
Relationship commitment regulation: Influencing a partner's commitment to achieve one's commitment goals2
The Interplay of Psychological Entitlement, Age, and Gender in Meaning Making: An Experimental Study2
Worth the risk? Fear of being single and willingness to make risky health decisions in sex and dating contexts2
Blinded by trust in close others: Examining the effect of social closeness on cooperative behaviors during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
What's wrong with rating scales? Psychology's replication and confidence crisis cannot be solved without transparency in data generation2
Live in Harmony With One Another? Implications of Incorporating Religion Into Diversity‐Related Policy Decisions2
Autism × Social Psychology: A Collaboration Whose Time Has Come2
The role of mindfulness and compassion in early adults' subsequent mental health, coping and compliance with health guidelines during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A prospective longitudinal study2
Navigating uncertainty in human social decision‐making: Consequences and coping strategies2
Identity‐reframing interventions: How to effectively highlight individuals' background‐specific strengths2
A critical feminist system justification analysis of climate obstructionism on the part of conservative white men2
Information avoidance and testing for COVID‐192
Prosocial orientation and COVID‐19 vaccine willingness in the U.S.2
Introduction to Social Psychology in Action : Addressing the Critical Issues of Our Time and Implications 1
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