Social Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Psychology is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Explaining Political Polarization Over Abortion31
Bullshitting and Bullibility – Conditions and Consequences17
Exploring the Relationship Between Loneliness and Social Cognition in Older Age17
The Switch to Daylight Saving Time and the Perceived Inappropriateness of Norm Violations16
Early Adolescent Cognitive and Affective Empathy10
Correction to Windmann et al. (2021)10
Mothers’ Motivation for Group-Based Empathy in Their Children as a Function of Type and Extent of Group Identification8
Nostalgia and Spirituality7
Moneyball: Studying Effects of Ostracism on Both Targets and Voluntary Sources7
Cues of Collective Threat Increase Salience of Positive Ingroup Agency-Related Traits7
Reducing Automatic Intergroup Bias Through Perspective Taking?7
Relinquishing Control Associates With Prosociality and Provides Agency and Positive Affect in Adolescents7
“‘Cause We Are the Champions of the World”6
The Social Amplification of Distortions in Representations of Ratios6
Ambivalence and Self-Reported Adherence to Recommendations to Reduce the Spread of COVID-196
Forbid/Allow Asymmetry in Persuasion5
Keeping the Kids Home5
Laypeople’s Belief of the Influence of Thank-You Gifts on Charitable Giving5
The Materialistic Consumer5
Members of Transgressor Groups Prefer Reparations to Come From Third Parties5
The Effect of View of Time on Intertemporal Decision-Making4
Nudging for Lockdown4
Evaluating the Convergence of Dimensions Across Social Evaluation Models4
Deontological and Utilitarian Responses to Sacrificial Dilemmas Predict Disapproval of Sin Stocks4
Intersected Groups and Discriminatory Everyday Behavior4
“Understanding Others in Moments of Crisis” A Special Issue of Social Psychology4
The Relationship Between Predominant Promotion Focus and Spontaneous Mental Contrasting4
Sensitivity to Injustice of Politicians and Voters3
The AMP Reflects Gradual Differences in Attitude Extremity, Not Intensity3
List of Reviewers 20243
Hate Speech on the Map of Stereotype Content3
The Good Old Days and the Scary Future Ones3
Content, Context, and Complexity in Personality Trait Perceptions3
Visuospatial and Affective Perspective-Taking3
Biased Social Comparison in the Moment of Crisis3
Can Asymmetric Punishment Explain Norm Changes?3
Stressing the Advantages of Female Leadership Can Place Women at a Disadvantage3
The Effects of Social Distance and Gender on Moral Decisions and Judgments3
Call for Nominations: Editor-in-Chief, Social Psychology3
Highlighting the Old in the “New Normal”2
Authority Knows No Gender – Gender Effects in Exerting Obedience in Milgram’s Experiment2
Self-Determined Intention to Vote and the Mediating Role of Politicized Identification2
Face Masks Impair Basic Emotion Recognition2
Niceness Fosters Cooperativeness Through Social Connectedness2
Authoritarianism, Trust in Media, and Tolerance Among the Youth2
Traditionally Advantaged Group Members’ Affective and Physiological Responses to Social Change2
Seeing Is Believing2
Pinching Pennies or Money to Burn?2
Power, Self-Esteem, and Body Image2
Mere Ownership Effect Is Equally Pronounced in Material and Immaterial Objects2
Context Matters – Social Context Moderates the Association Between Indirect Intergroup Contact and Attitudes Toward Refugees2
The Factorial Structure of Stigma and Its Targets2
Parenting Daughters Does Not Increase Monetary Prosocial Behavior1
Reward Perception, But Not Reward Inequality Is Associated With Increased Dishonesty1
Enhancing National Identity Reduces Affective Polarization and Increases Political Tolerance1
When You Are Wrong on Facebook, Just Admit It1
German Teachers’ Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Female and Male Muslim Students and Reactions to Social Exclusion1
Correction to Ganzach and Pazy (2024)1
Socioeconomic Status and Self-Regard1
The Limits of Antiatheist Prejudice1
Populist Attitudes Predict Compliance-Related Attitudes and Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic Via Trust in Institutions1
Need for Closure, Morality, and Prejudice1
List of Reviewers 20221
Call for Social Psychology Special Issue Proposals1
Raising Awareness of the Glass Cliff1
Thinking About Distant Future Self Leads to Better Current Task Performance Through Higher Future Self-Appraisals1
Beyond the Mere Ownership and Endowment Effects1
A New Measure of the Revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory1
Integration Benefits of Intimate Intergroup Contact in an Online Language Buddy Program for Migrant Newcomers1
Not Humans, but Animals or Machines1
Refusing to Pay Taxes1
List of Reviewers 20211
Is Self-Centered a Refutation of the Ego-Quieting Hypothesis in Contemplative Practices?1
One Size Does Not Fit All1
The Link Between Income, Income Inequality, and Prosocial Behavior Around the World1
Be Daring and Cause Trouble1
Not Getting What You Want1
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