OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social and Personality Psychology Compass is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
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COVID‐19‐related threat perceptions, political identity, and voting in the 2020 presidential election	139
The perceived vulnerability to disease scale: Cross‐cultural measurement invariance and associations with fear of COVID‐19 across 16 countries	65
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Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences	59
Framing COVID‐19 as an existential threat predicts prejudice towards Chinese people via anxious arousal	50
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 behaviors	43
The time has come for psychology to stop treating qualitative data as an embarrassing secret	40
Mindfulness research and applications in the context of neoliberalism: A narrative and critical review	39
Everyday acts of kindness predict greater well‐being during the transition to university	37
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
Changes in loneliness and coping strategies during COVID‐19	33
Eight misconceptions about the elemental approach and aversive personality trait research: A response to Andrews and colleagues (2023)	32
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Effects of the coronavirus pandemic on perceived capitalization support provision and receipt	32
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From Tribe to Humanity: How Ingroup Expansion Can Fuel Distant Altruism	29
Challenges in the conceptualization of trait self‐control as a psychological construct	29
The dynamic socioecological model of economic inequality and psychological tendencies: A cycle of mutual constitution	26
Revisiting the charmed circle: A reflexive examination of unanswered questions in the infidelity literature	26
Psychopathy and COVID‐19: Callousness, impulsivity, and motivational reasons for engaging in prevention behavior	26
Who handles the tough talk? Supervisor sense of power and confronting difficult issues	24
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Individual differences in patterns of developmental opportunity and constraint during COVID‐19: Implications for longitudinal well‐being	22

Did COVID‐19 really change our well‐being? It's up to meaning in life: Evidence from two longitudinal studies	21
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Applying propensity score matching to assess the impact of the pandemic on intimate relationships	18
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Globalising positivity discourses and women	17
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Changes in college students' socioeconomic status aspirations during the COVID‐19 pandemic	17
Distress, wellbeing, and growth amidst COVID‐19: Considering the dynamic interplay between positive and negative anticipatory emotions	16
Denial of Mass Atrocities and How Perpetrators Group Evade Accusations: The Case of Israel	16
Do gender and educational level predict vaccination? The mediating role of attitudes towards vaccines and fear of COVID‐19	16
Self‐regulation in daily life: Neuroscience will accelerate theorizing and advance the field	16
Abortion, mental health and epistemologies of psychological knowledge and ignorance	15
Examining the trajectory of relational conflict leading up to and after an anticipated stressor	15
Does disseminating (mis)information restore social connection during a global pandemic?	15
Conceptualizing grandiose and vulnerable narcissism as alternative status‐seeking strategies: Insights from hierometer theory	14
Ideology, moral reframing, and persuasion in the context of COVID‐19 vaccines	14
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles	13
Data absence and a lack of parsimony: A response to Kay and Arrow's elemental Dark Triad	13
Qualitative research at the crossroads of open science and big data: Ethical considerations	13
Gaps in Measurement: Highlighting Anti‐Fat Bias as an Underrepresented Construct in the Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale	13
Safety behaviors were associated with greater anxious symptoms during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic	13
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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	12
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Secondhand racism: What we know and where to go regarding the relationship between vicarious racism and mental and physical health	12
Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research	12
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How mask gap impacts discrimination and anxiety during COVID‐19: A study on overseas Chinese during the first outbreak in 2020	12
Romantic relationship quality during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The longitudinal associations with relationship loneliness and depression	12
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Enhancing Trust in Science: Current Challenges and Recommendations for Policymakers, the Scientific Community, Media, and Public	11
Fear of missing out and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic	11
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Reflexivity in quantitative research: A rationale and beginner's guide	11
Tracking depressive and anxious symptoms during the first year of COVID‐19: The search for moderators	10
Core social motives explain responses to collective action issues	10
Defensive pessimism and precautionary action during the COVID pandemic	10
Associations between power, stress, and dominance in romantic relationships during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining curvilinear and within‐person effects	10
Investigation of the correspondence principle with regard to specific and general COVID‐19 behaviors	10
Measuring and reducing implicit prejudice against Black women and people with intersectional identities	10
Psychological impact of coronavirus‐related social isolation in Colombia after a year of lockdown	10
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How people find better lifegoals: The goal breakthrough model and its neuroscientific underpinnings	10
How Emotional Appeals and Deliberative Thinking Relate to Perceived Effectiveness	9
What factors predict anti‐Black bias in pain perception? An internal meta‐analysis across 40 experimental studies	9
Multiple Marginalized Identities, Minority Stress, and Mental Health	9
The role of White identity in anti‐racist allyship	9

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How Meditation Promotes Well‐Being: Applying a Dual‐System Theory	8
Does online social support uniquely buffer effects of stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic?: A natural experiment	8
Impact of face masks on perceptions of black and white targets during the COVID‐19 pandemic	8
Examining approaches to encourage COVID‐19 vaccination on social media	8
Safety first, but for whom? Shifts in risk perception for self and others following COVID‐19 vaccination	8
Identity‐Based Motivation and the Motivational Consequences of Difficulty	8
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Comparative optimism and well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic	8
Internal, external, genetic, or cultural? Lay theories about racial health disparities predict perceived threat, adherence, and policy support	8
Increasing Extraversion via Intervention: Lay Insights, Person‐Activity Fit, and Implications for Well‐Being and Persistence	8
The Association Between Power‐Space Congruency and Positive Affect	7
Ghosting: A Common but Unpopular Rejection Strategy	7
Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences	7
Social cohesion predicts COVID‐19 vaccination intentions and uptake	7
Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans	7
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From Climate Emotions to Affective‐Discursive Practices: A Critical Social Psychological Approach to Climate Change Issues	7
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Examining college students' food security coping strategies and experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Conceptualizing psychological well‐being as a dynamic process: Implications for research on mobile health interventions	7
Support for Research on Violent Extremism Can Save Lives	7
Advancing Insights Into Accent Diversity and Its Interplay With Multicultural Experiences	7
Understanding the Benefits and Drawbacks of Harnessing Identity‐Targeted Interventions in Health Contexts	7
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Evaluative Conditioning has a Vexing Demand Problem	6
With us, For us, or Against us: How Group Relations Between Safety Personnel and the Public Impact Enjoyment, Felt Safety and Behaviour at Crowd Events	6
Sense of purpose and food insecurity during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
The effects of visual attention on social behavior	6
The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda	6
Contagious or prosocial? Perceptions of mask‐wearers toward Whites and Asians: A cross‐cultural comparison during the early stage of the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Interpersonal consequences of joint food consumption for connection and conflict	6
Unraveling Why Happiness Levels Vary Across Cultures: Mechanisms Underlying East‐West Differences	6
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Self‐control: An integrative framework	6
Expressive Suppression in Response to Discrimination: Examining Its Motivational Antecedents and Consequences for Black Individuals	6
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Exploring the Convergence of Curiosity Across Behavioural Tasks and Personality Trait Questionnaires	6
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 persons	6
Procedural fairness facilitates cooperative behavior by enhancing cooperative expectations	6
Relationship between COVID‐19‐related stress and social inhibition among university students in China: The mediating role of psychological richness	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
A Tripartite Framework for Understanding the U.S. Racial Hierarchy: Social Status, Culture, and Phenotypicality	6
Three methodological approaches to studying singlehood	5
Teaching & Learning guide for: An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response	5
Why do organizations take political stances? A review of reasons and risks	5
Having the will, finding the ways, and wishes for the future: A model of relational hope and well‐being	5
Implicit theories of mental health predict anxiety and depression during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China: The mediating effect of coping styles	5
Holding It, Together: Beyond Bearing Witness and Burning Out	5
Animalizing women and feminizing (vegan) men: The psychological intersections of sexism, speciesism, meat, and masculinity	5
“I'll wait for the English one”: COVID‐19 vaccine country of origin, national identity, and their effects on vaccine perceptions and uptake willingness	5
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Memory lapses during a pandemic: Differential associations between COVID‐stress and daily memory lapses?	5
Behavior change after context disruption: Opportunities and pitfalls	5
Improving causal inference of mediation analysis with multiple mediators using interventional indirect effects	5
Punishing or praising gossipers: How people interpret the motives driving negative gossip shapes its consequences	5
Does partisan media make a pawn of mistrust? Institutional trust and preventive COVID‐19 health behaviors in a polarized pandemic	5
Gratitude in Context: Proposing the Dyadic Process Model of Interpersonal Gratitude	5
Creating inclusive schools to reduce health and well‐being disparities	5
Why do U.S. conservatives take fewer COVID‐19 precautions? The role of worry, perceived risk, and governmental trust	5
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 review	5
Psychopathy and Self‐Construal: Trait‐Specific Associations With Independent and Interdependent Self‐Construal	5
Interpersonal Synchrony Research in Human Groups	5
How to Thrive in Times of Threat and Uncertainty	5
Well‐being during the coronavirus pandemic: The effect of big five personality and COVID‐19 beliefs and behaviors	5
Collective views of vaccination predict vaccine hesitancy and willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine	5
The Role of Social Status in the Development of Racial Bias in Childhood	5
The Joy Is Mine: Re‐Centering the Person in the Study of Well‐Being	5
Persistent Patterns, Persistent Gaps: Inflammatory Pathways in the Study of Discrimination and Health	5