OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social and Personality Psychology Compass is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Psychological flexibility: What we know, what we do not know, and what we think we know	82
Social norms, social identities and the COVID‐19 pandemic: Theory and recommendations	74
Inoculation theory in the post‐truth era: Extant findings and new frontiers for contested science, misinformation, and conspiracy theories	67
Does habit weaken the relationship between intention and behaviour? Revisiting the habit‐intention interaction hypothesis	65
The affective benefits of nature exposure	52
How to foster perceived partner responsiveness: High‐quality listening is key	43
Recent advances, misconceptions, untested assumptions, and future research agenda for identity fusion theory	39
Attitude strength: Distinguishing predictors versus defining features	36
The role of individual differences in understanding and enhancing intergroup contact	35
Conspiracy beliefs and the individual, relational, and collective selves	35
The COVID‐19 pandemic and the search for structure: Social media and conspiracy theories	34
Meat‐related cognitive dissonance: The social psychology of eating animals	32
Personality computing: New frontiers in personality assessment	32
Understanding advantaged groups' opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies: The role of perceived threat	25
Interventions to change well‐anchored attitudes in the context of intergroup conflict	25
Many roads lead to Rome: Self‐regulatory strategies and their effects on self‐control	25
Gaining clarity about emotion differentiation	21
Freedom to feel: A self‐determination theory account of emotion regulation	21
Reflexivity in quantitative research: A rationale and beginner's guide	21
Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences	20
The motivational value of listening during intimate and difficult conversations	19
Reproductive justice: A radical framework for researching sexual and reproductive issues in psychology	19
A review of White‐centering practices in multiracial research in social psychology	18
Purpose in life as a guiding framework for goal engagement and motivation	18
Regulating road rage	18

Imagining better societies: A social psychological framework for the study of utopian thinking and collective action	17
Affect and emotions in placebo and nocebo effects: What do we know so far?	17
Supervised machine learning methods in psychology: A practical introduction with annotated R code	17
Lost by definition: Why boredom matters for psychology and society	17
Taking charge and stepping in: Individuals who punish are rewarded with prestige and dominance	17
Reducing prejudice in the society at large: A review of the secondary transfer effect and directions for future research	17
Dominance or prestige: A review of the effects of power poses and other body postures	16
Omission and commission in judgment and decision making: Understanding and linking action‐inaction effects using the concept of normality	16
Social class transitions: Three guiding questions for moving the study of class to a dynamic perspective	16
Egocentrism shapes moral judgements	15
Self‐esteem development and life events: A review and integrative process framework	15
Towards a new framework of personalized psychological interventions to improve intergroup relations and promote peace	15
Adult playfulness: An update on an understudied individual differences variable and its role in romantic life	14
Exploring the landscape of psychological threat: A cartography of threats and threat responses	13
Virtual reality expands the toolkit for conducting health psychology research	13
Under lying conditions of gender‐based violence—Decolonial feminism meets epistemic ignorance: Critical transnational conversations	13
Psychology's eugenic history and the invention of intellectual disability	13
Practical recommendations for considering culture, race, and ethnicity in personality psychology	12
Feeling and thought in collective action on social issues: Toward a systems perspective	11
Erasing and dehumanizing Natives to protect positive national identity: The Native mascot example	11
Perceived responsiveness across cultures: The role of cultural fit in social support use	11
Animalizing women and feminizing (vegan) men: The psychological intersections of sexism, speciesism, meat, and masculinity	11
Using psychological science to support social distancing: Tradeoffs between affiliation and disease‐avoidance motivations	10
Optimism: Enduring resource or miscalibrated perception?	10
Virtual relationships: Anthropomorphism in the digital age	10
The psychology of lay beliefs about economic mobility	10
Conversation analysis, cyberpsychology and online interaction	9
The story of “I” tracking: Psychological implications of self‐referential language use	9
The nature of attachment systems	9
An agenda for psychological distance apart from construal level	9
Live free and die: Expanding the terror management health model for pandemics to account for psychological reactance	9
Exploring the impact of COVID‐19 on mobile dating: Critical avenues for research	9
Understanding the attraction process	9
A systematic review and meta‐analysis of the association between personality and cognitive failures/complaints	9
Interculturalism as a strategy to manage diversity: Moving psychological research beyond colorblindness and multiculturalism	9
Positive psychological well‐being and cardiovascular disease: Exploring mechanistic and developmental pathways	9
Three steps to open science for qualitative research in psychology	8
Expansive and contractive communication scope: A construal level perspective on the relationship between interpersonal distance and communicative abstraction	8
Taking an elemental approach to the conceptualization and measurement of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy	8
The changing tides of attractive alternatives in romantic relationships: Recent societal changes compel new directions for future research	8
What fuels passion? An integrative review of competing theories of romantic passion	8
Resisting, recognizing, and returning: A three‐component model and review of persistence in episodic goals	8
When moral identity undermines moral behavior: An integrative framework	7
Closing the empathy gap: A narrative review of the measurement and reduction of parochial empathy	7
The role of honour in interpersonal, intrapersonal and intergroup processes	7
Measuring implicit intergroup biases	7
Dyadic disruption theory	7
Strategies for effective patient care: Integrating quality communication with the patient‐centered approach	6
Activist purpose orientation: Definition and predictors	6
A systematic review of growth mindset intervention implementation strategies	6

How lay theories of prejudice shape prejudice confrontations: Examining beliefs about prejudice prevalence, origins, and controllability	6
Caught in two worlds: A critical review of culture and gender in the leadership literature	6
Developing the social identity theory of leadership: Leader agency in leader group prototypicality	6
The elusive link between eye‐movement patterns and facial expression recognition	6
The promises and pitfalls of functional magnetic resonance imaging hyperscanning for social interaction research	6
An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response	6
Psychological distance and the pandemic: Insights from Construal Level Theory and relationship science	6
Facilitating and motivating support: How support‐seekers can affect the support they receive in times of distress	5
An ecological approach to personality: Psychological traits as drivers and consequences of active perception	5
Personality development in disruptive times: The impact of personal versus collective life events	5
An Integrative Social Identity Model of Populist Leadership	5
Collective autonomy: Why groups fight for power and status	5
Harnessing growth mindsets to help individuals flourish	5
Racial equity in social psychological science: A guide for scholars, institutions, and the field	5
Narcissism dynamics	5
A guide for many authors: Writing manuscripts in large collaborations	5
Social support from weak ties: Insight from the literature on minimal social interactions	4
Behavior genetics research on personality: Moving beyond traits to examine characteristic adaptations	4
Towards a socially situated rumouring: Historical and critical perspectives of rumour transmission	4
Exploring social exclusion: Where we are and where We're going	4
Barriers for women in the workplace: A social psychological perspective	4
Space, time, and urban citizenship: Reconsidering migrant integration in critical social psychological research	4
The stigmatized perceiver: Exploring the implications of social stigma for cross‐race face processing and memory	4
Behavioral consequences of intergroup sensitivity	4
A multi‐motive framework for predicting variability in self‐enhancement	4
Work team diversity: Refocusing through the lens of team power and status	3
When and how norm violators gain influence: Dominance, prestige, and the social dynamics of (counter)normative behavior	3
Post‐truth politics and discursive psychology	3
Theoretical and methodological directions in mindset intervention research	3
What's wrong with rating scales? Psychology's replication and confidence crisis cannot be solved without transparency in data generation	3
Why don’t we know more about the minds of authentic people?	3
Expanding the social psychological study of educators through humanizing principles	3
From cooperation to conflict: The role of collective narratives in shaping group behaviour	3
Self‐control: An integrative framework	3
25 years of psychology research on the “strong black woman”	3
Integrating research on social class and social relationships	3
The dynamic socioecological model of economic inequality and psychological tendencies: A cycle of mutual constitution	3
Social cohesion predicts COVID‐19 vaccination intentions and uptake	3
Positioning Asian Americans in social cognition	3
Don’t miss the forest for the trees: New recommendations for exploiting guilt and shame in self‐control conflicts	2
How mask gap impacts discrimination and anxiety during COVID‐19: A study on overseas Chinese during the first outbreak in 2020	2
Data absence and a lack of parsimony: A response to Kay and Arrow's elemental Dark Triad	2
Exploring the impact of dimensional comparisons in health contexts	2
Have psychologists increased reporting of outliers in response to the reproducibility crisis?	2
What does it mean to belong? An interdisciplinary integration of theory and research on belonging	2
‘How the other half lives’?: Taking a critical approach to the social psychology of economic inequality and extreme wealth	2
A relational perspective on emotion regulation across adulthood	2
Well‐being during the coronavirus pandemic: The effect of big five personality and COVID‐19 beliefs and behaviors	2
What “you” and “we” say about me: How small shifts in language reveal and empower fundamental shifts in perspective	2
Success with a twinge of distress: Antecedents and consequences of outperformance‐related discomfort	2
Relationship between COVID‐19‐related stress and social inhibition among university students in China: The mediating role of psychological richness	2
Revenge as social interaction: Merging social psychological and interpersonal communication approaches to the study of vengeful behavior	2
Behavioral extremity moderates the association between certainty in attitudes about COVID and willingness to engage in mitigation‐related behaviors	2
Capitalizing on the potential of mobile health applications as behavioral interventions: A research agenda for calorie‐tracking and activity‐tracking applications	2
Psychological distance and imitation	2
Language and persuasion: A discursive psychological approach	2
Did COVID‐19 really change our well‐being? It's up to meaning in life: Evidence from two longitudinal studies	2
Applying propensity score matching to assess the impact of the pandemic on intimate relationships	2
Who do we trust? Differences in types of trust and beliefs in conspiracy theories between vaccinated and unvaccinated Europeans across 17 European countries	2
Challenges in the conceptualization of trait self‐control as a psychological construct	2