OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social and Personality Psychology Compass 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

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COVID‐19‐related threat perceptions, political identity, and voting in the 2020 presidential election	109
Erratum to “Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research”	109
The perceived vulnerability to disease scale: Cross‐cultural measurement invariance and associations with fear of COVID‐19 across 16 countries	49
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Behavioral extremity moderates the association between certainty in attitudes about COVID and willingness to engage in mitigation‐related behaviors	44
The time has come for psychology to stop treating qualitative data as an embarrassing secret	42
From cooperation to conflict: The role of collective narratives in shaping group behaviour	36
Mindfulness research and applications in the context of neoliberalism: A narrative and critical review	36
Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences	35
Framing COVID‐19 as an existential threat predicts prejudice towards Chinese people via anxious arousal	35
A test of vaccine endorsement by political in‐ versus out‐group sources: Effect on vaccination likelihood and exploration of mediation through perceived bias and liking	34
Everyday acts of kindness predict greater well‐being during the transition to university	33
Changes in loneliness and coping strategies during COVID‐19	31
Challenges in the conceptualization of trait self‐control as a psychological construct	30
Revisiting the charmed circle: A reflexive examination of unanswered questions in the infidelity literature	26
Eight misconceptions about the elemental approach and aversive personality trait research: A response to Andrews and colleagues (2023)	26
Effects of the coronavirus pandemic on perceived capitalization support provision and receipt	26
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The dynamic socioecological model of economic inequality and psychological tendencies: A cycle of mutual constitution	23
Psychopathy and COVID‐19: Callousness, impulsivity, and motivational reasons for engaging in prevention behavior	23
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Conceptualizing grandiose and vulnerable narcissism as alternative status‐seeking strategies: Insights from hierometer theory	22
Who handles the tough talk? Supervisor sense of power and confronting difficult issues	22
Applying propensity score matching to assess the impact of the pandemic on intimate relationships	22

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Expanding the social psychological study of educators through humanizing principles	18
Changes in college students' socioeconomic status aspirations during the COVID‐19 pandemic	17
Individual differences in patterns of developmental opportunity and constraint during COVID‐19: Implications for longitudinal well‐being	16
Examining the trajectory of relational conflict leading up to and after an anticipated stressor	16
Self‐regulation in daily life: Neuroscience will accelerate theorizing and advance the field	16
Globalising positivity discourses and women	16
Do gender and educational level predict vaccination? The mediating role of attitudes towards vaccines and fear of COVID‐19	15
Distress, wellbeing, and growth amidst COVID‐19: Considering the dynamic interplay between positive and negative anticipatory emotions	15
Denial of Mass Atrocities and How Perpetrators Group Evade Accusations: The Case of Israel	14
Does disseminating (mis)information restore social connection during a global pandemic?	13
Enhancing Trust in Science: Current Challenges and Recommendations for Policymakers, the Scientific Community, Media, and Public	13
Did COVID‐19 really change our well‐being? It's up to meaning in life: Evidence from two longitudinal studies	13
Abortion, mental health and epistemologies of psychological knowledge and ignorance	13
Ideology, moral reframing, and persuasion in the context of COVID‐19 vaccines	13
Gaps in Measurement: Highlighting Anti‐Fat Bias as an Underrepresented Construct in the Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale	12
Institutional interactions and racial inequality in policing: How everyday encounters bridge individuals, organizations, and institutions	12
Teaching & learning guide for: The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda	11
How mask gap impacts discrimination and anxiety during COVID‐19: A study on overseas Chinese during the first outbreak in 2020	11
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles	11
Romantic relationship quality during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The longitudinal associations with relationship loneliness and depression	10
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Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research	10
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How lay theories of prejudice shape prejudice confrontations: Examining beliefs about prejudice prevalence, origins, and controllability	9
Impact of face masks on perceptions of black and white targets during the COVID‐19 pandemic	9
Safety behaviors were associated with greater anxious symptoms during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic	9
Reflexivity in quantitative research: A rationale and beginner's guide	9
Fear of missing out and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic	9
How people find better lifegoals: The goal breakthrough model and its neuroscientific underpinnings	9
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Qualitative research at the crossroads of open science and big data: Ethical considerations	9
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The role of White identity in anti‐racist allyship	9
Secondhand racism: What we know and where to go regarding the relationship between vicarious racism and mental and physical health	9
Data absence and a lack of parsimony: A response to Kay and Arrow's elemental Dark Triad	9
Harnessing growth mindsets to help individuals flourish	9
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Tracking depressive and anxious symptoms during the first year of COVID‐19: The search for moderators	8
Core social motives explain responses to collective action issues	8
Associations between power, stress, and dominance in romantic relationships during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining curvilinear and within‐person effects	8
Psychological impact of coronavirus‐related social isolation in Colombia after a year of lockdown	8
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Measuring and reducing implicit prejudice against Black women and people with intersectional identities	8
Investigation of the correspondence principle with regard to specific and general COVID‐19 behaviors	8

What factors predict anti‐Black bias in pain perception? An internal meta‐analysis across 40 experimental studies	7
Safety first, but for whom? Shifts in risk perception for self and others following COVID‐19 vaccination	7
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Increasing Extraversion via Intervention: Lay Insights, Person‐Activity Fit, and Implications for Well‐Being and Persistence	7
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Defensive pessimism and precautionary action during the COVID pandemic	7
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Examining approaches to encourage COVID‐19 vaccination on social media	7
How Meditation Promotes Well‐Being: Applying a Dual‐System Theory	7
Multiple Marginalized Identities, Minority Stress, and Mental Health	7
Ghosting: A Common but Unpopular Rejection Strategy	7
Advancing Insights Into Accent Diversity and Its Interplay With Multicultural Experiences	7
Internal, external, genetic, or cultural? Lay theories about racial health disparities predict perceived threat, adherence, and policy support	7
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Examining college students' food security coping strategies and experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Self‐control: An integrative framework	6
Examining the influence of information‐related factors on vaccination intentions via confidence: Insights from adult samples in Italy and Serbia during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Support for Research on Violent Extremism Can Save Lives	6
Does online social support uniquely buffer effects of stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic?: A natural experiment	6
The motivational value of listening during intimate and difficult conversations	6
Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences	6
Social cohesion predicts COVID‐19 vaccination intentions and uptake	6
The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda	6
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The Association Between Power‐Space Congruency and Positive Affect	6
Expressive Suppression in Response to Discrimination: Examining Its Motivational Antecedents and Consequences for Black Individuals	6
Identity‐Based Motivation and the Motivational Consequences of Difficulty	6
Comparative optimism and well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans	6
Conceptualizing psychological well‐being as a dynamic process: Implications for research on mobile health interventions	6
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Understanding the Benefits and Drawbacks of Harnessing Identity‐Targeted Interventions in Health Contexts	6
The effects of visual attention on social behavior	6
Procedural fairness facilitates cooperative behavior by enhancing cooperative expectations	6
A Tripartite Framework for Understanding the U.S. Racial Hierarchy: Social Status, Culture, and Phenotypicality	5
Contagious or prosocial? Perceptions of mask‐wearers toward Whites and Asians: A cross‐cultural comparison during the early stage of the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
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Evaluative Conditioning has a Vexing Demand Problem	5
Exploring the Convergence of Curiosity Across Behavioural Tasks and Personality Trait Questionnaires	5
How does exposure to masked individuals affect White Americans' attitudes toward Asian American and Pacific Islanders?	5
Memory lapses during a pandemic: Differential associations between COVID‐stress and daily memory lapses?	5
Unraveling Why Happiness Levels Vary Across Cultures: Mechanisms Underlying East‐West Differences	5
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.	5
The Joy Is Mine: Re‐Centering the Person in the Study of Well‐Being	5
Interpersonal consequences of joint food consumption for connection and conflict	5
Sense of purpose and food insecurity during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Relationship between COVID‐19‐related stress and social inhibition among university students in China: The mediating role of psychological richness	5
Three methodological approaches to studying singlehood	5
Integrating personality psychology and intersectionality to advance diversity in the study of persons	5
Creating inclusive schools to reduce health and well‐being disparities	5
Punishing or praising gossipers: How people interpret the motives driving negative gossip shapes its consequences	4
Moderators of the big‐fish‐little‐pond effect in educational settings: A scoping review	4
Holding It, Together: Beyond Bearing Witness and Burning Out	4
Understanding advantaged groups' opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies: The role of perceived threat	4
“I'll wait for the English one”: COVID‐19 vaccine country of origin, national identity, and their effects on vaccine perceptions and uptake willingness	4
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Having the will, finding the ways, and wishes for the future: A model of relational hope and well‐being	4
Why do organizations take political stances? A review of reasons and risks	4
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Taking an elemental approach to the conceptualization and measurement of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy	4
Well‐being during the coronavirus pandemic: The effect of big five personality and COVID‐19 beliefs and behaviors	4
Why do U.S. conservatives take fewer COVID‐19 precautions? The role of worry, perceived risk, and governmental trust	4
Teaching & Learning guide for: An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response	4
How to Thrive in Times of Threat and Uncertainty	4
Behavior change after context disruption: Opportunities and pitfalls	4
Improving causal inference of mediation analysis with multiple mediators using interventional indirect effects	4
Gratitude in Context: Proposing the Dyadic Process Model of Interpersonal Gratitude	4
Psychopathy and Self‐Construal: Trait‐Specific Associations With Independent and Interdependent Self‐Construal	4
Does partisan media make a pawn of mistrust? Institutional trust and preventive COVID‐19 health behaviors in a polarized pandemic	4
Interpersonal Synchrony Research in Human Groups	4
The Role of Social Status in the Development of Racial Bias in Childhood	4
Collective views of vaccination predict vaccine hesitancy and willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine	4
Animalizing women and feminizing (vegan) men: The psychological intersections of sexism, speciesism, meat, and masculinity	4
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