Social Psychological and Personality Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Psychological and Personality Science 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Impact of Regulatory Fit on Experienced Autonomy95
Trustworthiness of Crowds Is Gleaned in Half a Second73
Corrigendum to the Social Cure Properties of Groups across Cultures: Groups Provide More Support but Have Stronger Norms and Are Less Curative in Relationally Immobile Societies56
The Andrew Carnegie Effect: Legacy Motives Increase the Intergenerational Allocation of Wealth to Collective Causes53
Opposing Misperceptions of Wealth: Liberals Overestimate Their Neighborhoods’ Wealth in Wealthier Neighborhoods While Conservatives Overestimate Their Neighborhoods’ Wealth in Poor Neighborhoods43
How do Adults Think, Feel, and Behave Toward Teenagers? Measuring and Understanding Adults’ Attitudes Toward Teenagers41
“Just Because It’s a Conspiracy Theory Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Out to Get You”: Differentiating the Correlates of Judgments of Plausible Versus Implausible Conspiracy Theories41
Exposure to Immigrants Does Not Moderate the Relationship Between Disgust Sensitivity and Opposition to Immigration40
Moral Judgments Are Value-Based Decisions Driven by Culturally Stable Valuations and Culturally Variable Decision Biases30
Moral Diversity Fosters Cultural Looseness and Reduces Norm Policing29
Explicit Signals Enhance Social Engagement Between Strangers28
The Associations Between Neoliberal Policies and Attributions for Poverty in 13 Countries28
Poor Toddlers Feel Less Pain? Application of Class-Based Pain Stereotypes in Judgments of Children27
What Happens in Initial Interactions Forecasts Relationship Development: Showcasing the Role of Social Behavior26
Ability, Assertiveness, Morality, and Friendliness? A Retrospective Validation of the Facet Model of Social Evaluation24
Don’t Drag Me Down: Valence Asymmetry in Well-Being Co-Development in Couples24
Self-Other Agreement in Experience Sampling Measures24
Psychological Distance Increases Conceptual Generalization23
Spot-On or Stereotypical? A Social Relations Model of Life Satisfaction and Relationship Status Satisfaction Ratings Among Friends22
What’s Accessible Is Expressible: When Advice Seekers Are More Likely to Anchor Their Advisors21
Tweeting Others With Respect: Historicist Thinking Can Reduce Blame and Hostile Retaliation to Nasty Communications From Partisan Opponents20
Just Be Yourself? Effects of an Authenticity Manipulation on Expressive Accuracy in First Impressions20
In What Domains Does Entering a Romantic Relationship Boost Well-Being? A Longitudinal Investigation19
Are There Consequences of Expressing Intellectual Humility Toward Claims Perceived as Established or Moral Truths? Implications for Judgments of Expresser’s Competence and Warmth19
Choosing What You Like or Liking What You Chose? Sampling’s Impact on Evaluation and the Role of Idiosyncratic Reactions to Valent Stimuli18
Lower Perceived Economic Mobility Inhibits Pro-Environmental Engagement by Increasing Cynicism18
Sexual Afterglow: How Long Does It Last and Does It Vary by the Relative Importance of Sex, Who Initiates It, or Who Rejects It?18
Do Victims and Perpetrators Justify Intimate Partner Violence Even While They See It Happening in Front of Their Eyes?16
Experience Matters: Civic Discussion Increases Self-Efficacy and Reduces Forecasted Discomfort in Future Conversations16
No Evidence for Transactional Effects Between Religiosity and Self-Esteem in a Secular Country15
Gender Differences in Personality Traits and Average Personality States: Using Experience Sampling to Circumvent Bias in Self-Reports15
The Game Within the Game: The Potential Influence of Demand Characteristics and Participant Beliefs in Violent Video Game Studies15
Fluctuations in Prejudice Do Not Track Fluctuations in Ordinary Contact in Three 5-Wave “Shortitudinal” Studies Examining Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Intervals15
Masculinity Perceptions and Hostile Sexism Shape Evaluations of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives14
Echoes of Culture: Relationships of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes With Contemporary English, Historical English, and 53 Non-English Languages14
Needs and Well-Being Across Europe: Basic Psychological Needs Are Closely Connected With Well-Being, Meaning, and Symptoms of Depression in 27 European Countries14
Does Saying “Thanks a Lot” Make You Look Less Than? The Magnitude of Gratitude Shapes Perceptions of Relational Hierarchy13
Hedging First Offers Permits Assertiveness While Lowering Risk a Partner Walks13
Highlighting Opportunities (Versus Outcomes) Increases Support for Economic Redistribution13
Living Unequal, Living Unhealthy: The Adverse Impact of Subjective Economic Inequality on Health-Promoting Behaviors13
Expressed and Perceived Honesty Benefits Relationships Even When Couples Are Not Accurate12
Do Minorities’ Friendships with Majority Culture Members and Their Emotional Fit with Majority Culture Influence Each Other Over Time?12
Sustainability Across the Status Spectrum: The S-Shaped Relationship Between Social Status and Green Consumption12
How Feeling Understood Predicts Trust and Willingness to Forgive in the Midst of Violent Intergroup Conflict: Longitudinal Evidence From Ukraine12
Facial Impressions Are Not Set in Stone: Voice-Driven Changes in Facial Representations Obtained via Reverse Correlation11
Passing Down the Mic Signals Trustworthy Intersectional Allyship and Promotes Organizational Identity-Safety11
A Registered Conceptual Replication and Extension of Carter and Weber (2010): Generalized Trust, Lie Prevalence, and Deception Detection11
Pandemic Nostalgia: Reduced Social Contact Predicts Consumption of Nostalgic Music During the COVID-19 Pandemic11
An Empirical Investigation of Secondary Transfer Effects of Contact Among Five Ethnic-Cultural Minority Groups in the Netherlands10
Who Should Learn About Race in School? Lay Theories About the Relevance of Lessons About Race to Students of Color and White Students10
The Moderating Role of Neuroticism on Evaluative Conditioning: Evidence From Ambiguous Learning Situations10
Conditional but Collaborative: Offering Offenders Voice Improves Their Engagement With the Conditions of Forgiveness10
The Great Divide: Neither Fairness Nor Kindness Eliminates Moral Derogation of People With Opposing Political Beliefs10
Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Change the Global Trend in Religiosity? An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Survey Data from 165 Countries (2005–2024)9
Alternative Systems: The Interplay Between Criminal Groups’ Influence and Political Trust on Civic Honesty in the Global Context9
Nostalgia Counteracts Social Anxiety and Enhances Interpersonal Competence9
Identity and Institutions as Foundations of Ingroup Favoritism: An Investigation Across 17 Countries9
Who Are We If We Do Not Know Who Our Leader Is? Perceptions of Leaders’ Prototypicality Affects Followers’ Self-Prototypicality and Uncertainty9
A Potential Pitfall of Passion: Passion Is Associated With Performance Overconfidence9
An Eastern Look at a Western Dilemma: Cross-Cultural Differences in Action-Balanced Trolley Dilemmas9
The Effect of Moral Foundations on Intergroup Relations: The Salience of Fairness Promotes the Acceptance of Minority Groups9
A Registered Report on Gender Bias in Interpersonal Dishonesty: Are Females and Males Cheated Differently?9
Having Less Than Others is Physically Painful: Income Rank and Pain Around the World9
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? A Comprehensive Reexamination9
Spillover Between Daily Marital Interactions and Parenting Practices: Sensory Processing Sensitivity as Moderators8
Understanding Person-Situation Dynamics at Work: Effects of Traits, States, and Situation Characteristics on Teaching Performance8
The Impact of Social Media Salience on the Subjective Value of Social Cues8
Evidence for the Effectiveness of Large-Scale Disruptive Protests in the Context of Democratic Backsliding8
Actual and Perceived Partisan Bias in Judgments of Political Misinformation as Lies8
Dynamic, Yet Stable: Separating Within- and Between-Person Components of Collective Action in Support of a Disadvantaged Outgroup and its Antecedents8
Personality and the “Social Cure”: The Role of Ego-Resilience in the Social Identity Approach to Health8
What if Hard Work Cannot Pay Off? Perceived Low Social Mobility Increases Passive Procrastination Among Students8
Beyond Outrage: Observers Anticipate Different Behaviors From Expressors of Anger Versus Disgust8
High Self-Control Individuals Prefer Meaning Over Pleasure8
Solidarity Imbalances After Racism and Sexism: Black Americans Are Expected to Express High Solidarity but Anticipate Lower Solidarity From Racial/Ethnic Outgroups8
Who Gets Involved in a Crisis? The Role of the Big Five Personality Traits and Empathy in Benevolent and Activist Engagement8
Cognitive Ability and Personal Values: A Large Sample Study of Schwartz's Values, HEXACO Personality, Age, and Gender8
Personal Relative Deprivation, Not Subjective Status, Explains Support for Economic Redistribution8
Pro-Life Policy Preferences Partly Reflect Desires to Suppress Casual Sexual Behavior, Not Solely Sanctity of Life Concerns8
How Liberal-Conservative Friendship Diversity Could Improve Interpolitical Relations in the United States7
Intellectual Humility and Belief Extremity: Evidence for Curvilinearity?7
The Maximizing Penalty: Maximizers are Perceived as Less Warm and Receive Less Social Support7
The Long-Term Stability of Affective Bonds After Romantic Separation: Do Attachments Simply Fade Away?7
Own or Other Integrity in Expected Moral Judgments? Moral Pluralism and Political Partisanship7
Mind the Gap: Perceived Economic Inequality and the Well-Being Gap around the Globe7
Impact of National Pandemic Lockdowns on Perceived Threat of Immigrants: A Natural Quasi-Experiment Across 23 Countries7
Lonely Today, Lonely Tomorrow: Temporal Dynamics of Loneliness in Everyday Life and its Associations With Psychopathological Symptoms7
Do Conspiracy Theories Shape or Rationalize Vaccination Hesitancy Over Time?7
Fathers’ and Mothers’ Sexism Predict Less Responsive Parenting Behavior During Family Interactions6
Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence From 35 Cultures6
Is the Effect of Trust on Risk Perceptions a Matter of Knowledge, Control, and Time? An Extension and Direct-Replication Attempt of Siegrist and Cvetkovich (2000)6
The Social Cure Properties of Groups Across Cultures: Groups Provide More Support but Have Stronger Norms and Are Less Curative in Relationally Immobile Societies6
Persuasive Benefits of Self-Generated Arguments: Moderation and Mechanism6
Opposing and Promoting Effects: Existing Intergroup Relations Shape the Divergent Effects of Common Threats on Intergroup Cooperation6
Projecting the Current Salient Relational Situations Into the Past and Future Across Cultures6
Loss of Social Status and Subjective Well-Being Across the Adult Life Span: Feeling Stuck or Moving Up?6
Incivility Diminishes Interest in What Politicians Have to Say6
Basic Psychological Needs Are Associated With Engagement and Hate Term Use in Extremist Chatrooms6
The Recursive Cycle of Perceived Mindset and Psychological Distress in College6
Short-Term and Long-Term Mating Strategies Show Distinct Patterns of Attraction to Dominance and Prestige6
Individual–Community Misalignment in Partisan Identity Predicts Distancing From Norms During the COVID-19 Pandemic6
The Contradictory Nature of Anti-Transgender Rhetoric6
Populism Predicts Sympathy for Attacks Against Asylum Seekers Through National Pride and Moral Justification of Political Violence6
Leveraging Man−Woman Romantic Relationships to Promote Men’s Awareness of Sexism and Gender Discrimination6
Exposure to Motivational Messages Promotes Meritocratic Beliefs and an Individualistic Perception of Social Change6
Manifold Threats to White Identity and Their Political Effects on White Partisans6
Is Narcissism Linked to Stress Reactivity Under Social-Evaluative Threat?5
Marginalized and Advantaged Parents’ Perceptions of Identity-Safety Cues in K-12 Classrooms5
Corrigendum to Status-based Asymmetries in Relative Deprivation during the COVID-19 Pandemic5
Examining the Frequency and Characteristics of Politically Diverse Friendships5
The Between-Person and Within-Person Effects of Intergroup Contact on Outgroup Attitudes: A Multi-Context Examination5
Valuing Versus Having: The Contrary Roles of Valuing and Having Money and Prestige on Well-Being5
Civic Hope and the Perceived Authenticity of Democratic Participation5
Person-Culture Personality Fit: Dispositional Traits and Cultural Context Explain Country-Level Personality Profile Conformity5
The Relation Between Updated Implicit Evaluations and the Trust Game5
Aggression’s Longitudinal Links With Forecasted (and Felt) Aggressive Pleasure5
Decomposing Variance in Co-Rumination Using Dyadic Daily Diary Data5
Couples Underestimate Positive Affective Reactions to Financial Conversations5
Anti-Egalitarians Are Lenient Toward Corporate Misconduct: Mixed Evidence for the Role of Threat and Mind Perception5
Overlapping Inequalities: Connecting Income Inequality With Health and Education Disparities Motivates Its Reduction5
Autistic People Are Believed to Feel More Pain than Non-Autistic People5
Happy Days: Resolving the Structure of Daily Subjective Well-Being, Between and Within Individuals5
The Predictive Validity of Intimate Partner Violence Warning Signs5
Predicting Academic Performance with an Assessment of Students’ Knowledge of the Benefits of High-Level and Low-Level Construal5
Worse for Women, Bad for All: A 62-Nation Study Confirms and Extends Ambivalent Sexism Principles to Reveal Greater Social Dysfunction in Sexist Nations5
Global Crisis Frame Matters for Unity: Resource Threat Hampers While Safety Threat Promotes Intergroup Cooperation5
The Evolving Nature of Generalized Prejudice Toward Marginalized Groups in the United States 2004–20205
Own and Partner Attachment Insecurity Interact to Predict Marital Satisfaction and Dissolution5
Impatience Over Time5
Actively Participating in Live Events as an Avenue for Social Connection5
Sexual (Double) Standards Revisited: Similarities and Differences in the Societal Evaluation of Male and Female Sexuality5
Political Bot Bias in the Perception of Online Discourse5
The Relational Nature of Punishment: Responses to Close Versus Distant Others’ Moral Transgressions4
A Systematic Study of Ambivalence and Well-Being in Romantic Relationships4
The Fear of Personal Death and the Willingness to Commit to Organ Donation4
Beyond Resistance: Understanding Trait Self-Control Through Strategic Indulgence4
If I Could Do It, So Can They: Among the Rich, Those With Humbler Origins are Less Sensitive to the Difficulties of the Poor4
Does Political Trust Foster or Hinder Volunteering? A Longitudinal Investigation in the United Kingdom4
Do Concepts Creep to the Left and the Right? Evidence for Ideologically Salient Concept Breadth Judgments Across the Political Spectrum4
Partisan Media Sentiment Toward Artificial Intelligence4
Love Doesn’t Run Out: Children and Adults Do Not View Social Resources as Inherently Zero-Sum4
Rumination in Daily Life Is Linked to Poorer Psychological Health in the United States Than in Japan4
The Role of Partner Gender: How Sexual Expectations Shape the Pursuit of an Orgasm Goal for Heterosexual, Lesbian, and Bisexual Women4
When Paying Is (Even More) Painful: Personality-Based Heterogeneity in Consumption Responses to Economic Hardship4
“Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves”: Gender Differences in Singles’ Well-Being4
Volitional Personality Change in Adolescence: Understanding If, How, and Why Adolescents Want to Change Their Personality3
Does Emotion Regulation Flexibility Work? Investigating the Effectiveness of Regulatory Selection Flexibility in Managing Negative Affect3
What Causes What: Causal Directionality Moderates Evaluative Conditioning Effects3
“I Just Don’t Fit There!” Anticipated Cultural Mismatch and Social Disparities in Students’ Intention to Enter Higher Education3
Friends as Tools: Exploring the Role of Dispositional Greed in Social Relationships3
Abstraction Allows Susceptibility to the Perspective of Others: The Case of Decreased Public Self-Awareness Due to Concrete Thinking3
Editorial: Goals, Formalities, and Policies3
The Association of Self-Esteem With Health and Well-Being: A Quantitative Synthesis of 40 Meta-Analyses3
Black and White Americans’ Perceptions of Community Equity Efforts Diverge Following the Removal of Confederate Monuments3
Coronavirus-Related Searches on the Internet Predict COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in the Real World: A Behavioral Immune System Perspective3
Understanding the Devaluation of Female Leaders: A Cognitive-Ecological Perspective3
How Far Into the Future Can Values Predict Behavior? It Depends on Value Importance3
Coping With Ostracism Over Time: A Time-Contingent Sampling Study of Immediate and Later Responses at Day 0, Day 3, and Day 63
Adults Show Positive Moral Evaluations of Curiosity About Religion3
Love in the Time of COVID: Perceived Partner Responsiveness Buffers People From Lower Relationship Quality Associated With COVID-Related Stressors3
Feeling Well, Functioning Well: How Psychological Well-Being Predicts Later Self-Control, but Not the Other Way Around3
Personality Correlates of Out-Group Harm3
Dynamics of Social Experiences in the Context of Extended Lockdown3
Correcting Misperceptions of Fundamental Differences Between U.S. Republicans and Democrats: Some Hope-Inspiring Effects3
Political-Ideological Differences in Cultural Pessimism and Nostalgia Reflect People’s Evaluation of Their Nation’s Historical Developments3
Values Over Virtues: How Children Trade Off Their Moral Concern for Animals With the Importance of Human Eating Practices3
Climbing the Invisible Ladder: Attenuating Belief in Free Will Reduces Subjective Perceptions of Social Mobility3
The Strengths of People in Low-SES Positions: An Identity-Reframing Intervention Improves Low-SES Students’ Achievement Over One Semester3
Social Connectedness Promotes Robot Anthropomorphism3
Status-Based Asymmetries in Relative Deprivation During the COVID-19 Pandemic3
Reactions to Gender Norm Violations: Individual- and Peer-Level Analyses of Gender Atypicality and Social Exclusion in Adolescence3
Comparing Brief Antiracism Messages: Empathy-Focused Communication Is More Effective Than Social Norms, Calls to Action, and Self-Awareness3
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