OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social and Personality Psychology Compass is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Social norms, social identities and the COVID‐19 pandemic: Theory and recommendations	96
Inoculation theory in the post‐truth era: Extant findings and new frontiers for contested science, misinformation, and conspiracy theories	81
The affective benefits of nature exposure	77
Reflexivity in quantitative research: A rationale and beginner's guide	68
Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences	58
How to foster perceived partner responsiveness: High‐quality listening is key	57
The COVID‐19 pandemic and the search for structure: Social media and conspiracy theories	53
Conspiracy beliefs and the individual, relational, and collective selves	49
Meat‐related cognitive dissonance: The social psychology of eating animals	42
Understanding advantaged groups' opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies: The role of perceived threat	39
Personality computing: New frontiers in personality assessment	38
Reproductive justice: A radical framework for researching sexual and reproductive issues in psychology	28
Gaining clarity about emotion differentiation	28
Self‐esteem development and life events: A review and integrative process framework	27
Supervised machine learning methods in psychology: A practical introduction with annotated R code	25
A review of White‐centering practices in multiracial research in social psychology	25
Feeling and thought in collective action on social issues: Toward a systems perspective	25
Affect and emotions in placebo and nocebo effects: What do we know so far?	25
Regulating road rage	25
Reducing prejudice in the society at large: A review of the secondary transfer effect and directions for future research	23
The motivational value of listening during intimate and difficult conversations	22
Virtual reality expands the toolkit for conducting health psychology research	21
Taking charge and stepping in: Individuals who punish are rewarded with prestige and dominance	21
Animalizing women and feminizing (vegan) men: The psychological intersections of sexism, speciesism, meat, and masculinity	20
Exploring the landscape of psychological threat: A cartography of threats and threat responses	19

Perceived responsiveness across cultures: The role of cultural fit in social support use	19
Adult playfulness: An update on an understudied individual differences variable and its role in romantic life	19
Optimism: Enduring resource or miscalibrated perception?	18
The psychology of lay beliefs about economic mobility	18
Practical recommendations for considering culture, race, and ethnicity in personality psychology	18
Positive psychological well‐being and cardiovascular disease: Exploring mechanistic and developmental pathways	18
Exploring the impact of COVID‐19 on mobile dating: Critical avenues for research	17
A systematic review of growth mindset intervention implementation strategies	17
Virtual relationships: Anthropomorphism in the digital age	16
The story of “I” tracking: Psychological implications of self‐referential language use	15
Self‐control: An integrative framework	15
The promises and pitfalls of functional magnetic resonance imaging hyperscanning for social interaction research	12
Three steps to open science for qualitative research in psychology	12
The role of honour in interpersonal, intrapersonal and intergroup processes	12
Erasing and dehumanizing Natives to protect positive national identity: The Native mascot example	12
When moral identity undermines moral behavior: An integrative framework	11
Measuring implicit intergroup biases	11
Barriers for women in the workplace: A social psychological perspective	11
Using psychological science to support social distancing: Tradeoffs between affiliation and disease‐avoidance motivations	11
An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response	11
25 years of psychology research on the “strong black woman”	10
Closing the empathy gap: A narrative review of the measurement and reduction of parochial empathy	10
What's wrong with rating scales? Psychology's replication and confidence crisis cannot be solved without transparency in data generation	10
The changing tides of attractive alternatives in romantic relationships: Recent societal changes compel new directions for future research	10
The elusive link between eye‐movement patterns and facial expression recognition	9
Exploring social exclusion: Where we are and where We're going	9
Activist purpose orientation: Definition and predictors	9
From cooperation to conflict: The role of collective narratives in shaping group behaviour	9
Live free and die: Expanding the terror management health model for pandemics to account for psychological reactance	9
Interculturalism as a strategy to manage diversity: Moving psychological research beyond colorblindness and multiculturalism	9
Resisting, recognizing, and returning: A three‐component model and review of persistence in episodic goals	9
Theoretical and methodological directions in mindset intervention research	9
Dyadic disruption theory	9
Narcissism dynamics	9
An ecological approach to personality: Psychological traits as drivers and consequences of active perception	9
When and how norm violators gain influence: Dominance, prestige, and the social dynamics of (counter)normative behavior	8
Personality development in disruptive times: The impact of personal versus collective life events	8
Behavioral consequences of intergroup sensitivity	8
Collective autonomy: Why groups fight for power and status	8
Social support from weak ties: Insight from the literature on minimal social interactions	8
Taking an elemental approach to the conceptualization and measurement of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy	8
Developing the social identity theory of leadership: Leader agency in leader group prototypicality	8
What fuels passion? An integrative review of competing theories of romantic passion	8
How lay theories of prejudice shape prejudice confrontations: Examining beliefs about prejudice prevalence, origins, and controllability	7
What is habit and how can it be used to change real‐world behaviour? Narrowing the theory‐reality gap	7
Positioning Asian Americans in social cognition	6
Facilitating and motivating support: How support‐seekers can affect the support they receive in times of distress	6
Psychological distance and the pandemic: Insights from Construal Level Theory and relationship science	6
Why don’t we know more about the minds of authentic people?	6
Racial equity in social psychological science: A guide for scholars, institutions, and the field	6

Harnessing growth mindsets to help individuals flourish	6
An Integrative Social Identity Model of Populist Leadership	6
The stigmatized perceiver: Exploring the implications of social stigma for cross‐race face processing and memory	5
Improving causal inference of mediation analysis with multiple mediators using interventional indirect effects	5
Applying propensity score matching to assess the impact of the pandemic on intimate relationships	5
A guide for many authors: Writing manuscripts in large collaborations	5
Language and persuasion: A discursive psychological approach	5
Loneliness and the sexual behavior of sexual minority men in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Shared understanding and social connection: Integrating approaches from social psychology, social network analysis, and neuroscience	5
Behavior genetics research on personality: Moving beyond traits to examine characteristic adaptations	5
What does it mean to belong? An interdisciplinary integration of theory and research on belonging	5
Obedience to authorities is not unconditional: Differential effects of COVID‐19 threat on three facets of RWA in Poland and Germany	4
Does remote work erode trust in organizations? A within‐person investigation in the COVID‐19 context	4
Challenges in the conceptualization of trait self‐control as a psychological construct	4
Relationship between COVID‐19‐related stress and social inhibition among university students in China: The mediating role of psychological richness	4
‘How the other half lives’?: Taking a critical approach to the social psychology of economic inequality and extreme wealth	4
A reconsideration of group differences in social psychology: Towards a critical intersectional approach	4
Work team diversity: Refocusing through the lens of team power and status	4
The dynamic socioecological model of economic inequality and psychological tendencies: A cycle of mutual constitution	4
Have psychologists increased reporting of outliers in response to the reproducibility crisis?	4
Space, time, and urban citizenship: Reconsidering migrant integration in critical social psychological research	4
Testing the bidirectional relationship between belief in COVID‐19 conspiracy theories and psychological distress: A five‐wave longitudinal study	4
The metamotivation approach: Insights into the regulation of motivation and beyond	4
Interpersonal consequences of joint food consumption for connection and conflict	4
What factors predict anti‐Black bias in pain perception? An internal meta‐analysis across 40 experimental studies	3
Dimensional comparisons: Much is known about the effects, less about the processes	3
The second wave of critical engagement with Stanley Milgram's ‘obedience to authority’ experiments: What did we learn?	3
What “you” and “we” say about me: How small shifts in language reveal and empower fundamental shifts in perspective	3
Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences	3
Getting a grip on yourself or your environment: Creating opportunities for strategic self‐control in behavioral public policy	3
Unlocking the secrets of secrets: How can we learn about experiences that cannot be recreated in the laboratory?	3
Well‐being during the coronavirus pandemic: The effect of big five personality and COVID‐19 beliefs and behaviors	3
Creating inclusive schools to reduce health and well‐being disparities	3
Expanding the social psychological study of educators through humanizing principles	3
Integrating research on social class and social relationships	3
Cues and categories: Revisiting paths to racial phenotypicality bias	3
Behavioral extremity moderates the association between certainty in attitudes about COVID and willingness to engage in mitigation‐related behaviors	3
Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination at the intersection of race and gender: An intersectional theory primer	3
Do nonhuman animals reason about prestige‐based status?	3
Did COVID‐19 really change our well‐being? It's up to meaning in life: Evidence from two longitudinal studies	3
Exploring the impact of dimensional comparisons in health contexts	3
Success with a twinge of distress: Antecedents and consequences of outperformance‐related discomfort	3
Cultural influence on COVID‐19 cognitions and growth speed: The role of collectivism	3
A meta‐analytic evaluation of diversity training outcomes across cultures	3
Social cohesion predicts COVID‐19 vaccination intentions and uptake	3
A relational perspective on emotion regulation across adulthood	3