Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Papers
(The median citation count of Social and Personality Psychology Compass is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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The time has come for psychology to stop treating qualitative data as an embarrassing secret130
Behavioral extremity moderates the association between certainty in attitudes about COVID and willingness to engage in mitigation‐related behaviors106
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The perceived vulnerability to disease scale: Cross‐cultural measurement invariance and associations with fear of COVID‐19 across 16 countries77
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COVID‐19‐related threat perceptions, political identity, and voting in the 2020 presidential election64
Mindfulness research and applications in the context of neoliberalism: A narrative and critical review61
Framing COVID‐19 as an existential threat predicts prejudice towards Chinese people via anxious arousal53
Erratum to “Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research”52
Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences38
From cooperation to conflict: The role of collective narratives in shaping group behaviour32
Eight misconceptions about the elemental approach and aversive personality trait research: A response to Andrews and colleagues (2023)30
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Effects of the coronavirus pandemic on perceived capitalization support provision and receipt28
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A test of vaccine endorsement by political in‐ versus out‐group sources: Effect on vaccination likelihood and exploration of mediation through perceived bias and liking26
The dynamic socioecological model of economic inequality and psychological tendencies: A cycle of mutual constitution25
Psychopathy and COVID‐19: Callousness, impulsivity, and motivational reasons for engaging in prevention behavior25
Changes in loneliness and coping strategies during COVID‐1924
Challenges in the conceptualization of trait self‐control as a psychological construct24
Revisiting the charmed circle: A reflexive examination of unanswered questions in the infidelity literature22
Everyday acts of kindness predict greater well‐being during the transition to university21
Conceptualizing grandiose and vulnerable narcissism as alternative status‐seeking strategies: Insights from hierometer theory20
Changes in college students' socioeconomic status aspirations during the COVID‐19 pandemic20
Who handles the tough talk? Supervisor sense of power and confronting difficult issues20
Globalising positivity discourses and women19
Expanding the social psychological study of educators through humanizing principles19
Individual differences in patterns of developmental opportunity and constraint during COVID‐19: Implications for longitudinal well‐being18
Did COVID‐19 really change our well‐being? It's up to meaning in life: Evidence from two longitudinal studies18
Applying propensity score matching to assess the impact of the pandemic on intimate relationships18
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Do gender and educational level predict vaccination? The mediating role of attitudes towards vaccines and fear of COVID‐1916
Distress, wellbeing, and growth amidst COVID‐19: Considering the dynamic interplay between positive and negative anticipatory emotions16
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Examining the trajectory of relational conflict leading up to and after an anticipated stressor15
Self‐regulation in daily life: Neuroscience will accelerate theorizing and advance the field15
Ideology, moral reframing, and persuasion in the context of COVID‐19 vaccines15
Does disseminating (mis)information restore social connection during a global pandemic?13
Abortion, mental health and epistemologies of psychological knowledge and ignorance13
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Generational identities: Historical and literary perspectives13
Safety behaviors were associated with greater anxious symptoms during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic12
Denial of Mass Atrocities and How Perpetrators Group Evade Accusations: The Case of Israel12
Secondhand racism: What we know and where to go regarding the relationship between vicarious racism and mental and physical health11
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles11
Teaching & learning guide for: The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda10
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Data absence and a lack of parsimony: A response to Kay and Arrow's elemental Dark Triad10
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Romantic relationship quality during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The longitudinal associations with relationship loneliness and depression9
Call to arms: Research directions to substantiate a unified model of attachment and personality pathology9
Institutional interactions and racial inequality in policing: How everyday encounters bridge individuals, organizations, and institutions9
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Qualitative research at the crossroads of open science and big data: Ethical considerations8
How mask gap impacts discrimination and anxiety during COVID‐19: A study on overseas Chinese during the first outbreak in 20208
Reflexivity in quantitative research: A rationale and beginner's guide8
Harnessing growth mindsets to help individuals flourish8
Defensive pessimism and precautionary action during the COVID pandemic8
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Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research8
How people find better lifegoals: The goal breakthrough model and its neuroscientific underpinnings7
Associations between power, stress, and dominance in romantic relationships during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining curvilinear and within‐person effects7
Tracking depressive and anxious symptoms during the first year of COVID‐19: The search for moderators7
Psychological impact of coronavirus‐related social isolation in Colombia after a year of lockdown6
Impact of face masks on perceptions of black and white targets during the COVID‐19 pandemic6
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An ignored minority status: Consequences for sexual minorities living in a biased society6
How lay theories of prejudice shape prejudice confrontations: Examining beliefs about prejudice prevalence, origins, and controllability6
Measuring and reducing implicit prejudice against Black women and people with intersectional identities6
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Fear of missing out and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic6
Investigation of the correspondence principle with regard to specific and general COVID‐19 behaviors6
Core social motives explain responses to collective action issues6
Increasing Extraversion via Intervention: Lay Insights, Person‐Activity Fit, and Implications for Well‐Being and Persistence5
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Does online social support uniquely buffer effects of stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic?: A natural experiment5
Examining approaches to encourage COVID‐19 vaccination on social media5
What factors predict anti‐Black bias in pain perception? An internal meta‐analysis across 40 experimental studies5
How Meditation Promotes Well‐Being: Applying a Dual‐System Theory5
Internal, external, genetic, or cultural? Lay theories about racial health disparities predict perceived threat, adherence, and policy support5
Ghosting: A Common but Unpopular Rejection Strategy5
The role of White identity in anti‐racist allyship5
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Beyond high and low: Obstacles and opportunities associated with conceptualizing middle power and other middle‐range effects5
Examining college students' food security coping strategies and experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Social cohesion predicts COVID‐19 vaccination intentions and uptake4
The effects of visual attention on social behavior4
Self‐control: An integrative framework4
Identity‐Based Motivation and the Motivational Consequences of Difficulty4
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The Association Between Power‐Space Congruency and Positive Affect4
Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences4
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Reconsidering Paul Meehl's disciplinary legacy4
Safety first, but for whom? Shifts in risk perception for self and others following COVID‐19 vaccination4
Comparative optimism and well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans4
Procedural fairness facilitates cooperative behavior by enhancing cooperative expectations4
Conceptualizing psychological well‐being as a dynamic process: Implications for research on mobile health interventions4
Personality development in disruptive times: The impact of personal versus collective life events4
The motivational value of listening during intimate and difficult conversations4
Three methodological approaches to studying singlehood3
Virtual relationships: Anthropomorphism in the digital age3
The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda3
Teaching & Learning guide for: An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response3
Creating inclusive schools to reduce health and well‐being disparities3
How does exposure to masked individuals affect White Americans' attitudes toward Asian American and Pacific Islanders?3
Relationship between COVID‐19‐related stress and social inhibition among university students in China: The mediating role of psychological richness3
Memory lapses during a pandemic: Differential associations between COVID‐stress and daily memory lapses?3
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Contagious or prosocial? Perceptions of mask‐wearers toward Whites and Asians: A cross‐cultural comparison during the early stage of the COVID‐19 pandemic3
The Joy Is Mine: Re‐Centering the Person in the Study of Well‐Being3
Erasing and dehumanizing Natives to protect positive national identity: The Native mascot example3
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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.3
Sense of purpose and food insecurity during the COVID‐19 pandemic3
Examining the influence of information‐related factors on vaccination intentions via confidence: Insights from adult samples in Italy and Serbia during the COVID‐19 pandemic3
Integrating personality psychology and intersectionality to advance diversity in the study of persons3
Interpersonal consequences of joint food consumption for connection and conflict3
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Why do U.S. conservatives take fewer COVID‐19 precautions? The role of worry, perceived risk, and governmental trust3
Punishing or praising gossipers: How people interpret the motives driving negative gossip shapes its consequences2
Perceived responsiveness across cultures: The role of cultural fit in social support use2
Well‐being during the coronavirus pandemic: The effect of big five personality and COVID‐19 beliefs and behaviors2
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles2
Gratitude in Context: Proposing the Dyadic Process Model of Interpersonal Gratitude2
“I'll wait for the English one”: COVID‐19 vaccine country of origin, national identity, and their effects on vaccine perceptions and uptake willingness2
Implicit theories of mental health predict anxiety and depression during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China: The mediating effect of coping styles2
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Personal need for structure as a protective factor on beliefs and coping with COVID‐19: A crowd‐sourced multicultural exploration2
Taking an elemental approach to the conceptualization and measurement of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy2
Deconstructing Solitude and Its Links to Well‐Being2
Improving causal inference of mediation analysis with multiple mediators using interventional indirect effects2
Rice‐farming areas report more anxiety across two years of the COVID‐19 pandemic in China2
Having the will, finding the ways, and wishes for the future: A model of relational hope and well‐being2
Feeling and thought in collective action on social issues: Toward a systems perspective2
Why do organizations take political stances? A review of reasons and risks2
Does partisan media make a pawn of mistrust? Institutional trust and preventive COVID‐19 health behaviors in a polarized pandemic2
Understanding advantaged groups' opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies: The role of perceived threat2
Behavior change after context disruption: Opportunities and pitfalls2
“Keep them out to save our inside:” discourses on immigration by the Spanish far right2
The role of honour in interpersonal, intrapersonal and intergroup processes2
The stigmatized perceiver: Exploring the implications of social stigma for cross‐race face processing and memory2
An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on understanding and promoting well‐doing2
Employee psychological wellbeing in the face of pandemic: The role of belief in work priority2
Capitalizing on the potential of mobile health applications as behavioral interventions: A research agenda for calorie‐tracking and activity‐tracking applications2
The affective benefits of nature exposure2
Humility as Personal Resource: A Conservation of Resources Perspective2
Moderators of the big‐fish‐little‐pond effect in educational settings: A scoping review2
Bringing critical social psychology to the study of political polarization2
Holding It, Together: Beyond Bearing Witness and Burning Out2
Collective views of vaccination predict vaccine hesitancy and willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine2
Animalizing women and feminizing (vegan) men: The psychological intersections of sexism, speciesism, meat, and masculinity2
Do nonhuman animals reason about prestige‐based status?2
Spirituality and intentions to engage in Covid‐19 protective behaviours2
Obedience to authorities is not unconditional: Differential effects of COVID‐19 threat on three facets of RWA in Poland and Germany2
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Envy, entitlement, and cutting the line: Dark personality predicted selfishness during the U.S. COVID‐19 vaccine rollout2
The invention of race and the persistence of racial hierarchy: White privilege, White supremacy, and White colorblindness2
Self‐esteem development and life events: A review and integrative process framework1
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‘Baby brain’ in pregnancy: A review of social psychological explanations and future research directions1
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The promises and pitfalls of functional magnetic resonance imaging hyperscanning for social interaction research1
The effects of social comparison, emotion induction, and parent vaccination status on parental intentions for COVID‐19 vaccine uptake in children1
The comrade on the crossroads of scholarship and struggle: Troubling the exile of Frantz Fanon from social and political psychology1
Studying Everyday Variability in Gender Identity and Expression: An Ambulatory Assessment Perspective1
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Conspiracy beliefs and the individual, relational, and collective selves1
Rebalancing social & personality psychology methods: The case for naturalistic observation1
Relationship commitment regulation: Influencing a partner's commitment to achieve one's commitment goals1
Cross‐cultural dynamics of narcissism and prosocial behavior: Unveiling the role of social status pursuit and collectivism1
Perceived COVID‐induced racism and contextual predictors of fear and psychological distress among Black men1
Navigating uncertainty in human social decision‐making: Consequences and coping strategies1
Do face masks undermine social connection?1
Willingness to self‐disclose in romantic relationships only marginally predicts COVID stress but there are indirect effects of self‐esteem and relationship commitment1
How to foster perceived partner responsiveness: High‐quality listening is key1
Aggression as successful self‐control1
Immoral, infectious, or both? How disgust sensitivity predicts judgments of violations against COVID‐19 mitigation actions1
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Worth the risk? Fear of being single and willingness to make risky health decisions in sex and dating contexts1
Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID‐19: Evidence across countries and over time1
Teaching & learning guide for: Virtual reality expands the toolkit for conducting health psychology research1
Measuring many mindsets: A systematic review of growth mindset domains, and discussion of domain relationships, with implications for growth mindset interventions1
A critical feminist system justification analysis of climate obstructionism on the part of conservative white men1
Cultural traits or social norms? Both responsibilism and norms linked to accepting COVID‐19 vaccine1
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Success with a twinge of distress: Antecedents and consequences of outperformance‐related discomfort1
Information avoidance and testing for COVID‐191
Loneliness and the sexual behavior of sexual minority men in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic1
When rock bottom rocks your world: Crisis of belief as a catalyst for change1
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Framing resilience linked to parental ethnic‐racial socialization as hidden: A hidden resilience conceptual framework1
Recognizing People's Agency Amidst Disadvantage: How to Study Inequality Using a Holistic Approach That is Accurate and Non‐Stigmatizing1
Reaching across social divides deliberately: Theoretical, political, and practical implications of intergroup contact volition for intergroup relations1
University students' and lecturers' perceived stress and satisfaction with life during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of personality traits and self‐efficacy1
Does accuracy matter? A review of the consequences of accurate personality impressions as a function of context and content1
Identity development in the digital context1
Evaluating the Covid‐19 pandemic: The role of moral disengagement1
Openness relates to COVID‐19 vaccination rates across 48 United States but politics trump personality1
Personality computing: New frontiers in personality assessment1
Divergent reactions to COVID‐19 exhibited in grandiose and vulnerable narcissism1
Barriers for women in the workplace: A social psychological perspective1
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Identity‐reframing interventions: How to effectively highlight individuals' background‐specific strengths1
Individual differences in interpersonal emotion regulation: What makes some people more (or less) successful than others?1
Why Does It Feel so Fake? Overcoming Authenticity Challenges in Professional Networking1
Creating new resources: The impact of new group memberships on posttraumatic growth in China1
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Shielded perspectives: How visual attention moderates the link between social identity and biased judgments about police1
Does my work matter? Reduced sense of mattering as a source of gender disparities1
Counterfactual thinking may attenuate polarization of COVID‐19 prevention behavior1
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Moral psychology and civil rights protesters: Exemplary, different, and mad1
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles1
Blinded by trust in close others: Examining the effect of social closeness on cooperative behaviors during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response1
Distinguishing sympathisers, philanthropists, rusted on activists and radicals: Using person‐centred analyses in collective action research0
25 years of psychology research on the “strong black woman”0
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Integrating Sociocultural Insights to Complement Classical Dimensions of Intergroup Contact and Enrich Understanding of Interracial Contact0
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The role of explanatory context for racial disparities in predicting sociopolitical attitudes during COVID‐190
Predictors of COVID‐19 precautionary behaviors to protect people with disabilities0
Associations between COVID‐19‐related disruptions and psychological adjustment in a sample of young adults0
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Compliance in crisis: Concern, trust and distrustful complacency in the COVID‐19 pandemic0
Organizing Social Safety: An Integration of Theoretical Approaches0
Unlocking the secrets of secrets: How can we learn about experiences that cannot be recreated in the laboratory?0
Shared understanding and social connection: Integrating approaches from social psychology, social network analysis, and neuroscience0
Emotional tears as social motivators: When and how tearing up motivates social support0
Karanga Mai te Pō: Calling on Darkness as Protection Amidst (En)light(ened) Pollution0
Interculturalism as a strategy to manage diversity: Moving psychological research beyond colorblindness and multiculturalism0
The last chapters of life: A proposed research agenda for studying narrative identity in older adulthood0
Redemptive processing of impactful COVID‐19 experiences predicts well‐being among older but not younger adults0
COVID‐19 responsibility and blame: How group identity and political ideology inform perceptions of responsibility, blame, and racial disparities0
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