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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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COVID‐19‐related threat perceptions, political identity, and voting in the 2020 presidential election139
The perceived vulnerability to disease scale: Cross‐cultural measurement invariance and associations with fear of COVID‐19 across 16 countries65
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Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences59
Framing COVID‐19 as an existential threat predicts prejudice towards Chinese people via anxious arousal50
Erratum to “Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research”44
Behavioral extremity moderates the association between certainty in attitudes about COVID and willingness to engage in mitigation‐related behaviors43
The time has come for psychology to stop treating qualitative data as an embarrassing secret40
Mindfulness research and applications in the context of neoliberalism: A narrative and critical review39
Everyday acts of kindness predict greater well‐being during the transition to university37
A test of vaccine endorsement by political in‐ versus out‐group sources: Effect on vaccination likelihood and exploration of mediation through perceived bias and liking34
Changes in loneliness and coping strategies during COVID‐1933
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Effects of the coronavirus pandemic on perceived capitalization support provision and receipt32
Eight misconceptions about the elemental approach and aversive personality trait research: A response to Andrews and colleagues (2023)32
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From Tribe to Humanity: How Ingroup Expansion Can Fuel Distant Altruism29
Challenges in the conceptualization of trait self‐control as a psychological construct29
Revisiting the charmed circle: A reflexive examination of unanswered questions in the infidelity literature26
Psychopathy and COVID‐19: Callousness, impulsivity, and motivational reasons for engaging in prevention behavior26
The dynamic socioecological model of economic inequality and psychological tendencies: A cycle of mutual constitution26
Who handles the tough talk? Supervisor sense of power and confronting difficult issues24
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Individual differences in patterns of developmental opportunity and constraint during COVID‐19: Implications for longitudinal well‐being22
Did COVID‐19 really change our well‐being? It's up to meaning in life: Evidence from two longitudinal studies21
Applying propensity score matching to assess the impact of the pandemic on intimate relationships18
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Globalising positivity discourses and women17
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Changes in college students' socioeconomic status aspirations during the COVID‐19 pandemic17
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Do gender and educational level predict vaccination? The mediating role of attitudes towards vaccines and fear of COVID‐1916
Self‐regulation in daily life: Neuroscience will accelerate theorizing and advance the field16
Distress, wellbeing, and growth amidst COVID‐19: Considering the dynamic interplay between positive and negative anticipatory emotions16
Denial of Mass Atrocities and How Perpetrators Group Evade Accusations: The Case of Israel16
Examining the trajectory of relational conflict leading up to and after an anticipated stressor15
Does disseminating (mis)information restore social connection during a global pandemic?15
Abortion, mental health and epistemologies of psychological knowledge and ignorance15
Conceptualizing grandiose and vulnerable narcissism as alternative status‐seeking strategies: Insights from hierometer theory14
Ideology, moral reframing, and persuasion in the context of COVID‐19 vaccines14
Qualitative research at the crossroads of open science and big data: Ethical considerations13
Gaps in Measurement: Highlighting Anti‐Fat Bias as an Underrepresented Construct in the Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale13
Safety behaviors were associated with greater anxious symptoms during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic13
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles13
Data absence and a lack of parsimony: A response to Kay and Arrow's elemental Dark Triad13
Teaching & learning guide for: The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda12
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Secondhand racism: What we know and where to go regarding the relationship between vicarious racism and mental and physical health12
Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research12
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How mask gap impacts discrimination and anxiety during COVID‐19: A study on overseas Chinese during the first outbreak in 202012
Romantic relationship quality during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The longitudinal associations with relationship loneliness and depression12
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Institutional interactions and racial inequality in policing: How everyday encounters bridge individuals, organizations, and institutions12
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Reflexivity in quantitative research: A rationale and beginner's guide11
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Enhancing Trust in Science: Current Challenges and Recommendations for Policymakers, the Scientific Community, Media, and Public11
Fear of missing out and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic11
Associations between power, stress, and dominance in romantic relationships during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining curvilinear and within‐person effects10
Investigation of the correspondence principle with regard to specific and general COVID‐19 behaviors10
Measuring and reducing implicit prejudice against Black women and people with intersectional identities10
Psychological impact of coronavirus‐related social isolation in Colombia after a year of lockdown10
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How people find better lifegoals: The goal breakthrough model and its neuroscientific underpinnings10
Tracking depressive and anxious symptoms during the first year of COVID‐19: The search for moderators10
Core social motives explain responses to collective action issues10
Defensive pessimism and precautionary action during the COVID pandemic10
Multiple Marginalized Identities, Minority Stress, and Mental Health9
The role of White identity in anti‐racist allyship9
How Emotional Appeals and Deliberative Thinking Relate to Perceived Effectiveness9
What factors predict anti‐Black bias in pain perception? An internal meta‐analysis across 40 experimental studies9
Impact of face masks on perceptions of black and white targets during the COVID‐19 pandemic8
Examining approaches to encourage COVID‐19 vaccination on social media8
Safety first, but for whom? Shifts in risk perception for self and others following COVID‐19 vaccination8
Identity‐Based Motivation and the Motivational Consequences of Difficulty8
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Comparative optimism and well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic8
Internal, external, genetic, or cultural? Lay theories about racial health disparities predict perceived threat, adherence, and policy support8
Increasing Extraversion via Intervention: Lay Insights, Person‐Activity Fit, and Implications for Well‐Being and Persistence8
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How Meditation Promotes Well‐Being: Applying a Dual‐System Theory8
Does online social support uniquely buffer effects of stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic?: A natural experiment8
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From Climate Emotions to Affective‐Discursive Practices: A Critical Social Psychological Approach to Climate Change Issues7
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Examining college students' food security coping strategies and experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic7
Conceptualizing psychological well‐being as a dynamic process: Implications for research on mobile health interventions7
Support for Research on Violent Extremism Can Save Lives7
Advancing Insights Into Accent Diversity and Its Interplay With Multicultural Experiences7
Understanding the Benefits and Drawbacks of Harnessing Identity‐Targeted Interventions in Health Contexts7
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The Association Between Power‐Space Congruency and Positive Affect7
Ghosting: A Common but Unpopular Rejection Strategy7
Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences7
Social cohesion predicts COVID‐19 vaccination intentions and uptake7
Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans7
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Self‐control: An integrative framework6
Expressive Suppression in Response to Discrimination: Examining Its Motivational Antecedents and Consequences for Black Individuals6
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Exploring the Convergence of Curiosity Across Behavioural Tasks and Personality Trait Questionnaires6
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
Integrating personality psychology and intersectionality to advance diversity in the study of persons6
Procedural fairness facilitates cooperative behavior by enhancing cooperative expectations6
Relationship between COVID‐19‐related stress and social inhibition among university students in China: The mediating role of psychological richness6
Examining the influence of information‐related factors on vaccination intentions via confidence: Insights from adult samples in Italy and Serbia during the COVID‐19 pandemic6
A Tripartite Framework for Understanding the U.S. Racial Hierarchy: Social Status, Culture, and Phenotypicality6
Evaluative Conditioning has a Vexing Demand Problem6
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
Sense of purpose and food insecurity during the COVID‐19 pandemic6
The effects of visual attention on social behavior6
The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda6
Contagious or prosocial? Perceptions of mask‐wearers toward Whites and Asians: A cross‐cultural comparison during the early stage of the COVID‐19 pandemic6
Interpersonal consequences of joint food consumption for connection and conflict6
Unraveling Why Happiness Levels Vary Across Cultures: Mechanisms Underlying East‐West Differences6
Behavior change after context disruption: Opportunities and pitfalls5
Improving causal inference of mediation analysis with multiple mediators using interventional indirect effects5
Punishing or praising gossipers: How people interpret the motives driving negative gossip shapes its consequences5
Does partisan media make a pawn of mistrust? Institutional trust and preventive COVID‐19 health behaviors in a polarized pandemic5
Gratitude in Context: Proposing the Dyadic Process Model of Interpersonal Gratitude5
Creating inclusive schools to reduce health and well‐being disparities5
Why do U.S. conservatives take fewer COVID‐19 precautions? The role of worry, perceived risk, and governmental trust5
How does exposure to masked individuals affect White Americans' attitudes toward Asian American and Pacific Islanders?5
Moderators of the big‐fish‐little‐pond effect in educational settings: A scoping review5
Psychopathy and Self‐Construal: Trait‐Specific Associations With Independent and Interdependent Self‐Construal5
Interpersonal Synchrony Research in Human Groups5
How to Thrive in Times of Threat and Uncertainty5
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
The Role of Social Status in the Development of Racial Bias in Childhood5
The Joy Is Mine: Re‐Centering the Person in the Study of Well‐Being5
Persistent Patterns, Persistent Gaps: Inflammatory Pathways in the Study of Discrimination and Health5
Three methodological approaches to studying singlehood5
Teaching & Learning guide for: An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response5
Why do organizations take political stances? A review of reasons and risks5
Having the will, finding the ways, and wishes for the future: A model of relational hope and well‐being5
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
Animalizing women and feminizing (vegan) men: The psychological intersections of sexism, speciesism, meat, and masculinity5
“I'll wait for the English one”: COVID‐19 vaccine country of origin, national identity, and their effects on vaccine perceptions and uptake willingness5
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Memory lapses during a pandemic: Differential associations between COVID‐stress and daily memory lapses?5
Rice‐farming areas report more anxiety across two years of the COVID‐19 pandemic in China4
Humility as Personal Resource: A Conservation of Resources Perspective4
Seen and Not Seen: Social Visibility, Identity Signaling, and Pro‐Environmental Behavior4
Deconstructing Solitude and Its Links to Well‐Being4
Personal need for structure as a protective factor on beliefs and coping with COVID‐19: A crowd‐sourced multicultural exploration4
Obedience to authorities is not unconditional: Differential effects of COVID‐19 threat on three facets of RWA in Poland and Germany4
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The invention of race and the persistence of racial hierarchy: White privilege, White supremacy, and White colorblindness4
Harnessing Social Psychological Insights to Grow the Next Generation of American Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists and Address Real‐World Challenges Facing the Nation4
Envy, entitlement, and cutting the line: Dark personality predicted selfishness during the U.S. COVID‐19 vaccine rollout4
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Correction to Sociology Compass Articles4
Science in a World on Fire: The Impact of Donald Trump's Anti‐Climate Policies on Social Psychological Research4
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Considering Discursive Absence as Resonance4
“Keep them out to save our inside:” discourses on immigration by the Spanish far right4
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Employee psychological wellbeing in the face of pandemic: The role of belief in work priority4
Capitalizing on the potential of mobile health applications as behavioral interventions: A research agenda for calorie‐tracking and activity‐tracking applications4
The Challenges and Solutions of In‐Person Big‐Team Science4
An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on understanding and promoting well‐doing4
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Bringing critical social psychology to the study of political polarization4
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The Lost Self in Time: Objectification Disrupts Self‐Continuity3
A Model Investigating How Cultural Appropriation Increases Group‐Based Stigma Through Racialized Objectification3
Openness relates to COVID‐19 vaccination rates across 48 United States but politics trump personality3
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles3
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
The role of honour in interpersonal, intrapersonal and intergroup processes3
Individual differences in interpersonal emotion regulation: What makes some people more (or less) successful than others?3
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Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID‐19: Evidence across countries and over time3
Do face masks undermine social connection?3
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Divergent reactions to COVID‐19 exhibited in grandiose and vulnerable narcissism3
Measuring many mindsets: A systematic review of growth mindset domains, and discussion of domain relationships, with implications for growth mindset interventions3
Why Does It Feel so Fake? Overcoming Authenticity Challenges in Professional Networking3
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Studying Everyday Variability in Gender Identity and Expression: An Ambulatory Assessment Perspective3
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
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The Impact of Social Support on Thriving and Health in Sexually‐Diverse and Gender‐Diverse Populations3
Spirituality and intentions to engage in Covid‐19 protective behaviours3
An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response2
Development and Evaluation of Cognitive and Behavioral Strategies to Improve Interventions in Reducing Nocebo Effects2
A critical feminist system justification analysis of climate obstructionism on the part of conservative white men2
The Interplay of Psychological Entitlement, Age, and Gender in Meaning Making: An Experimental Study2
Blinded by trust in close others: Examining the effect of social closeness on cooperative behaviors during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
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Cross‐cultural dynamics of narcissism and prosocial behavior: Unveiling the role of social status pursuit and collectivism2
Police‐perpetrated racism and health in African American and Black communities2
Barriers for women in the workplace: A social psychological perspective2
Does my work matter? Reduced sense of mattering as a source of gender disparities2
Information avoidance and testing for COVID‐192
Identity‐reframing interventions: How to effectively highlight individuals' background‐specific strengths2
Loneliness and the sexual behavior of sexual minority men in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Choosing to Re‐Experience Movies and TV Episodes: Popularity, Motivations and Benefits of Volitional Reconsumption of Entertainment Media2
Self‐esteem development and life events: A review and integrative process framework2
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Does accuracy matter? A review of the consequences of accurate personality impressions as a function of context and content2
Aggression as successful self‐control2
Rebalancing social & personality psychology methods: The case for naturalistic observation2
Willingness to self‐disclose in romantic relationships only marginally predicts COVID stress but there are indirect effects of self‐esteem and relationship commitment2
Thinking of threats: Economic threat appraisals and health threat appraisals predict differential racial attitudes during COVID‐192
Autism × Social Psychology: A Collaboration Whose Time Has Come2
When rock bottom rocks your world: Crisis of belief as a catalyst for change2
Third‐Party Compensation as a Mild Response to Social Injustice: A Heuristic Motivation Framework2
Counterfactual thinking may attenuate polarization of COVID‐19 prevention behavior2
Navigating uncertainty in human social decision‐making: Consequences and coping strategies2
Shielded perspectives: How visual attention moderates the link between social identity and biased judgments about police2
Identity development in the digital context2
Immoral, infectious, or both? How disgust sensitivity predicts judgments of violations against COVID‐19 mitigation actions2
Creating new resources: The impact of new group memberships on posttraumatic growth in China2
Reaching across social divides deliberately : Theoretical, political, and practical implications of intergroup contact volition for intergroup relations2
The promises and pitfalls of functional magnetic resonance imaging hyperscanning for social interaction research2
Evaluating the Covid‐19 pandemic: The role of moral disengagement2
Testing the bidirectional relationship between belief in COVID‐19 conspiracy theories and psychological distress: A five‐wave longitudinal study2
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
Prosocial orientation and COVID‐19 vaccine willingness in the U.S.2
Moral psychology and civil rights protesters: Exemplary, different, and mad2
Recognizing People's Agency Amidst Disadvantage: How to Study Inequality Using a Holistic Approach That is Accurate and Non‐Stigmatizing2
Behavioral consequences of intergroup sensitivity2
‘Baby brain’ in pregnancy: A review of social psychological explanations and future research directions2
Live in Harmony With One Another? Implications of Incorporating Religion Into Diversity‐Related Policy Decisions2
The comrade on the crossroads of scholarship and struggle: Troubling the exile of Frantz Fanon from social and political psychology2
Racial/Ethnic Identification and Impacts of Prejudice, Racism, and Discrimination for Communities of Arab, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Descent2
Looking our limitations in the eye: A call for more thorough and honest reporting of study limitations2
Success with a twinge of distress: Antecedents and consequences of outperformance‐related discomfort2
Causal inference for psychologists who think that causal inference is not for them1
Comparing you, me, and us: Social comparisons in the context of close relationships1
The metamotivation approach: Insights into the regulation of motivation and beyond1
Keeping and sharing secrets at the interpersonal level1
Social Media, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Well‐Being: Research Contributions and Policy Challenges1
A growth mindset intervention to improve mental health in adolescents during COVID‐191
Vigilance to Stigma: Past Research and Future Directions1
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Navigating multiple team membership: A review and redirection of its influence on effectiveness outcomes1
Changing the Game: Understanding the Role of Social Influence in Videogames to Generate New Ideas and Answer Old Questions1
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