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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Bioweapon or a Hoax? The Link Between Distinct Conspiracy Beliefs About the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak and Pandemic Behavior346
Political Ideology Predicts Perceptions of the Threat of COVID-19 (and Susceptibility to Fake News About It)324
Conspiracy Theories and Their Societal Effects During the COVID-19 Pandemic136
How USA-Centric Is Psychology? An Archival Study of Implicit Assumptions of Generalizability of Findings to Human Nature Based on Origins of Study Samples102
Adaptive and Dark Personality in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Predicting Health-Behavior Endorsement and the Appeal of Public-Health Messages91
Measuring Realistic and Symbolic Threats of COVID-19 and Their Unique Impacts on Well-Being and Adherence to Public Health Behaviors88
A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect71
The Role of Personality in COVID-19-Related Perceptions, Evaluations, and Behaviors: Findings Across Five Samples, Nine Traits, and 17 Criteria61
Who Is Impacted? Personality Predicts Individual Differences in Psychological Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany60
Affirming Basic Psychological Needs Promotes Mental Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak58
Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Big Five Personality on Subjective and Psychological Well-Being54
The Authoritarian Dynamic During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Nationalism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment53
Predicting Behavioral Intentions to Prevent or Mitigate COVID-19: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis of Attitudes, Norms, and Perceived Behavioral Control Effects51
The Restorative Power of Nostalgia: Thwarting Loneliness by Raising Happiness During the COVID-19 Pandemic48
Evaluations of Self-Focused Versus Other-Focused Arguments for Social Distancing: An Extension of Moral Matching Effects45
Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes III:Long-Term Change in Gender Stereotypes43
The Natural Hair Bias in Job Recruitment42
Love in the Time of COVID: Perceived Partner Responsiveness Buffers People From Lower Relationship Quality Associated With COVID-Related Stressors42
Partners’ Attachment Insecurity and Stress Predict Poorer Relationship Functioning During COVID-19 Quarantines41
Science Skepticism Across 24 Countries41
Changes in Personal Values in Pandemic Times41
In a Lonely Place: Investigating Regional Differences in Loneliness38
The Construct of Subjective Economic Inequality38
Do Links Between Personality and Life Outcomes Generalize? Testing the Robustness of Trait–Outcome Associations Across Gender, Age, Ethnicity, and Analytic Approaches38
Defending the Sex/Gender Binary: The Role of Gender Identification and Need for Closure36
“Just the Way You Are”: Linking Music Listening on Spotify and Personality35
Loneliness During a Nationwide Lockdown and the Moderating Effect of Extroversion31
Intellectual Humility Predicts Scrutiny of COVID-19 Misinformation31
Social Class—Not Income Inequality—Predicts Social and Institutional Trust30
Can Psychological Traits Explain Mobility Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic?30
Mentioning the Sample’s Country in the Article’s Title Leads to Bias in Research Evaluation29
The Politics of Vaccine Hesitancy: An Ideological Dual-Process Approach29
Professors Who Signal a Fixed Mindset About Ability Undermine Women’s Performance in STEM27
The Role of Coping Strategies in Maintaining Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak in South Korea26
Women’s Intrasexual Competition Results in Beautification26
Male Allies at Work: Gender-Equality Supportive Men Reduce Negative Underrepresentation Effects Among Women25
Religious Americans Have Less Positive Attitudes Toward Science, but This Does Not Extend to Other Cultures24
The Role of Risk Preferences in Responses to Messaging About COVID-19 Vaccine Take-Up24
Racial Disparities in Police Use of Deadly Force Against Unarmed Individuals Persist After Appropriately Benchmarking Shooting Data on Violent Crime Rates24
Subjective Well-Being and Prosociality Around the Globe: Happy People Give More of Their Time and Money to Others24
Type I Error Is Inflated in the Two-Phase Reverse Correlation Procedure23
The Blessings of Social-Oriented Virtues: Interpersonal Character Strengths Are Linked to Increased Life Satisfaction and Academic Success Among Filipino High School Students23
Linking Self-Reported Social Distancing to Real-World Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic22
Stability and Change: The Dark Factor of Personality Shapes Dark Traits22
Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Predict Annual Increases in Generalized Prejudice22
Personal Values and Moral Foundations: Examining Relations and Joint Prediction of Moral Variables20
It’s the Situation and Your Disposition: A Test of Two Honesty Hypotheses20
Are Couples More Satisfied When They Match in Sexual Desire? New Insights From Response Surface Analyses20
Cultural Differences in the Construal of Suffering and the COVID-19 Pandemic20
The Role of Family in the Intergenerational Transmission of Collective Action20
The Origins of Religious Disbelief: A Dual Inheritance Approach20
A Psychological Network Approach to Attitudes and Preventive Behaviors During Pandemics: A COVID-19 Study in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands19
Which Facial Features Are Central in Impression Formation?18
Income Inequality Reduces Civic Honesty18
Extroversion and Conscientiousness Predict Deteriorating Job Outcomes During the COVID-19 Transition to Enforced Remote Work17
Collective Narcissism, In-Group Satisfaction, and Solidarity in the Face of COVID-1917
Effects of Cost and Benefit of Prosocial Behavior on Reputation17
Unsupported and Stigmatized? The Association Between Relationship Status and Well-Being Is Mediated by Social Support and Social Discrimination17
Security-Based Differences in Touch Behavior and Its Relational Benefits17
Identity Threats in Everyday Life: Distinguishing Belonging From Inclusion17
The Role of Gendered Entitlement in Understanding Inequality in the Bedroom16
Failure Leads Protest Movements to Support More Radical Tactics16
Singlehood and Attunement of Self-Esteem to Friendships16
Examining Associations Between Major Negative Life Events, Changes in Weekly Reports of Post-Traumatic Growth and Global Reports of Eudaimonic Well-Being15
Religion and the Development of Character: Personality Changes Before and After Religious Conversion and Deconversion15
Ugliness Judgments Alert us to Cues of Pathogen Presence15
A Diversity Ideology Intervention: Multiculturalism Reduces the Racial Achievement Gap15
The Social Ecology of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in New York City: The Role of Walkability, Wealth, and Race15
Needs and Well-Being Across Europe: Basic Psychological Needs Are Closely Connected With Well-Being, Meaning, and Symptoms of Depression in 27 European Countries15
Reducing Explicit Blatant Dehumanization by Correcting Exaggerated Meta-Perceptions15
Incivility Is Rising Among American Politicians on Twitter14
A Prospective Investigation of the Decision to Open Up a Romantic Relationship14
Updating Long-Held Assumptions About Fat Stigma: For Women, Body Shape Plays a Critical Role14
Social and Economic Political Ideology Consistently Operate as Mutual Suppressors: Implications for Personality, Social, and Political Psychology14
Subjective Economic Inequality Decreases Emotional Intelligence, Especially for People of High Social Class14
Does Using Social Media Jeopardize Well-Being? The Importance of Separating Within- From Between-Person Effects14
Blame the Pandemic: Buffering the Association Between Stress and Relationship Quality During the COVID-19 Pandemic13
Is More Always Better? Examining the Nonlinear Association of Social Contact Frequency With Physical Health and Longevity13
Suspecting Foul Play When It Is Objectively There: The Association of Political Orientation With General and Partisan Conspiracy Beliefs as a Function of Corruption Levels13
Emotion Residue in Neutral Faces: Implications for Impression Formation13
Self-Referential Processing Predicts Social Cognitive Ability13
Guilt Enhances the Persuasive Effects of Injunctive But Not Descriptive Social Norms13
Using Environmental Features to Maximize Prediction of Regional Intergroup Bias13
How Does Substance Use Affect Personality Development? Disentangling Between- and Within-Person Effects12
Short-Term Training in Mindfulness Predicts Helping Behavior Toward Racial Ingroup and Outgroup Members12
Replication and Extension of Alicke (1985) Better-Than-Average Effect for Desirable and Controllable Traits12
Self-Efficacy and Declines Over Time in Attachment Anxiety During the Transition to Parenthood12
The Breadth of Confrontations as a Prejudice Reduction Strategy12
The Symbolic Value of Ethnic Spaces12
Facial Stereotype Bias Is Mitigated by Training12
Cognitive Barriers to Reducing Income Inequality12
Depressive Symptoms, External Stress, and Marital Adjustment: The Buffering Effect of Partner’s Responsive Behavior12
System Justification and Perceptions of Group-Based Discrimination: Investigating the Temporal Order of the Ideologically Motivated Minimization (or Exaggeration) of Discrimination Across Low- and Hig12
The Status of Arabic Social Psychology: A Review of 21st-Century Research Articles12
Is Low Power Associated With Submission During Marital Conflict? Moderating Roles of Gender and Traditional Gender Role Beliefs11
Future-Orientation (as Trait and State) Promotes Reputation-Protective Choice in Moral Dilemmas11
Spring Break or Heart Break? Extending Valence Bias to Emotional Words11
The Development of Speciesism: Age-Related Differences in the Moral View of Animals11
The Sharp Spikes of Poverty: Financial Scarcity Is Related to Higher Levels of Distress Intensity in Daily Life11
A Tale of Peaks and Valleys: Sinusoid Relationship Patterns Between Mountainousness and Basic Human Values11
Buying Unethical Loyalty: A Behavioral Paradigm and Empirical Test11
God Values the Lives of My Out-Group More Than I Do: Evidence From Fiji and Israel11
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? A Comprehensive Reexamination10
Divided Together: How Marginalization of Intercultural Relationships Is Associated With Identity Integration and Relationship Quality10
When Does Psychological Fit Matter? The Moderating Role of Price on Self-Brand Congruity10
Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success10
Today You Care, Tomorrow You Don’t: Differential Roles of Responsiveness Variability and Average Responsiveness in Romantic Attachment10
You Must Stay at Home! The Impact of Commands on Behaviors During COVID-1910
In a Representative Sample Grit Has a Negligible Effect on Educational and Economic Success Compared to Intelligence10
Globalization Is Associated With Lower Levels of National Narcissism: Evidence From 56 Countries10
Belief in School Meritocracy and the Legitimization of Social and Income Inequality10
Similarity Predicts Cross-National Social Preferences10
Does Danger Level Affect Bystander Intervention in Real-Life Conflicts? Evidence From CCTV Footage10
Political Ideology and Executive Functioning: The Effect of Conservatism and Liberalism on Cognitive Flexibility and Working Memory Performance10
Emotion Recognition Ability as a Predictor of Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic9
Morally Homogeneous Networks and Radicalism9
Autonomy Matters: Experiential and Individual Differences in Chosen and Unchosen Solitary Activities From Three Experience Sampling Studies9
The Friends-to-Lovers Pathway to Romance: Prevalent, Preferred, and Overlooked by Science9
Humor and Personality: Temperament and Character Have Different Roles9
Gendered Self-Views Across 62 Countries: A Test of Competing Models9
Cross-Temporal Exploration of the Relationship Between Wisdom-Related Cognitive Broadening and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From a Cross-Validated National Longitudinal Study9
Belief in a Dangerous World Does Not Explain Substantial Variance in Political Attitudes, But Other World Beliefs Do9
Empathy, Dehumanization, and Misperceptions: A Media Intervention Humanizes Migrants and Increases Empathy for Their Plight but Only if Misinformation About Migrants Is Also Corrected9
“We Shall Overcome”: First-Person Plural Pronouns From Search Volume Data Predict Protest Mobilization Across the United States9
Professional Judges’ Disbelief in Free Will Does Not Decrease Punishment9
Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior During COVID-19: Trajectory and Moderation by Personality8
The Chicken and Egg of Pride and Social Rank8
Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence From 35 Cultures8
Foregone Opportunities and Choosing Not to Act: Replications of Inaction Inertia Effect8
You Mean the World to Me: The Role of Residential Mobility in Centrality of Romantic Relationships8
The Shape of Belief: Developing a Mousetracking-Based Relational Implicit Measure8
Implicit Ambivalence: A Driving Force to Improve Relationship Problems8
Belief in Free Will Is Related to Internal Attribution in Self-Perception8
Taking Stock of Reality: Biased Perceptions of the Costs of Romantic Partners’ Sacrifices8
Meaning-Making, Psychological Distress, and the Experience of Meaning in Life Following a Natural Disaster8
Mixed Evidence for Interactive Effects of Outgroup Proportions and Intergroup Contact on Racial Bias in the United States8
Gratitude Increases the Motivation to Fulfill a Partner’s Sexual Needs8
White Categorical Ambiguity: Exclusion of Middle Eastern Americans From the White Racial Category8
Perceiver Effects in Person Perception Reflect Acquiescence, Positivity, and Trait-Specific Content: Evidence From a Large-Scale Replication Study8
The Role of Personality in Shaping Pandemic Response: Systemic Sociopolitical Factors Drive Country Differences7
A Cognitive Uncoupling: Masculinity Threats and the Rejection of Relationship Interdependence7
How Power Affects Emotional Communication During Relationship Conflicts: The Role of Perceived Partner Responsiveness7
Culture, Status, and Hypocrisy: High-Status People Who Don’t Practice What They Preach Are Viewed as Worse in the United States Than China7
Explaining Individual Differences in Advantageous Inequity Aversion by Social-Affective Trait Dimensions and Family Environment7
The Gender-Equality Paradox and Optimal Distinctiveness: More Gender-Equal Societies Have More Gendered Names7
Investigating the Interplay Between Race, Work Ethic Stereotypes, and Attitudes Toward Welfare Recipients and Policies7
Moral Expansiveness Around the World: The Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries7
Do Women Need to Have Children in Order to Be Fulfilled? A System Justification Account of the Motherhood Norm7
Health Adversity and Value Change7
Collective Reactions to Epidemic Threat: Attachment and Cultural Orientations Predict Early COVID-19 Infection and Mortality Rates and Trajectories7
Revisiting the Power to Forgive: A Dyadic Approach for Determining the Relations Between Power, Self-Esteem, and Forgiveness in Romantic Relationships7
Happy Days: Resolving the Structure of Daily Subjective Well-Being, Between and Within Individuals7
Wise Reasoning About the Future Is Associated With Adaptive Interpersonal Feelings After Relational Challenges7
They Are Not Little Emperors: Only Children Are Just as Altruistic as Non-Only Children6
Happiness From Treating the Weekend Like a Vacation6
Poor Toddlers Feel Less Pain? Application of Class-Based Pain Stereotypes in Judgments of Children6
Taking Social Comparison to the Extremes: The Huge-Fish-Tiny-Pond Effect in Self-Evaluations6
Perceiving a Lack of Social Justice: Lower Class Individuals Apply Higher Moral Standards to Others6
Broadening Versus Deepening: Gender and Brokering in Social Networks6
Confusion or Clarity? Examining a Possible Tradeoff Between Self-Expansion and Self-Concept Clarity6
Changing Learner Beliefs in South African Townships: An Evaluation of a Growth Mindset Intervention6
Reconciliation Versus Justice? It Depends on the Context: The Role of Symmetric and Asymmetric Violence in Predicting Postconflict Attitudes6
Situation Perception Mediates the Link Between Narcissism and Relationship Satisfaction: Evidence From a Daily Diary Study in Romantic Couples6
Social Class and Children’s Prosociality: A Study in the Context of China’s Dual Urban–Rural Structure6
Income More Reliably Predicts Frequent Than Intense Happiness6
Academic Performance: The Role of Grit Compared to Short and Comprehensive Inventories of Conscientiousness6
Lack of Intimacy Prospectively Predicts Breakup6
Investigating the Health Consequences for White Americans Who Believe White Americans Are Wealthy6
The Salience of Children Increases Adult Prosocial Values6
Rising Ethnic Diversity in the United States Accompanies Shifts Toward an Individualistic Culture6
Sharing Money With Humans Versus Computers: On the Role of Honesty-Humility and (Non-)Social Preferences6
Socioeconomic Status and Dehumanization in India: Elaboration of the Stereotype Content Model in a Non-WEIRD Sample6
The Same, Yet Different: Understanding the Perceived Acceptability of Redface and Blackface6
Early Childhood Antecedents of Dehumanization Perpetration in Adult Romantic Relationships5
Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Body Characteristics Revealed in a Large Sample of Speed Daters5
A Social-Belonging Intervention Benefits Higher Weight Students’ Weight Stability and Academic Achievement5
Anger and Sadness as Moral Signals5
Does the Association Between Illness-Related and Religious Searches on the Internet Depend on the Level of Religiosity?5
Sleep Deprivation and Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot: A Diffusion Model Analysis5
Collective Stressors Affect the Psychosocial Development of Young Adults5
Religion and Prejudice Across Cultures: A Test of the Threat-Constraint Model5
Social Hedonic Editing: People Prefer to Experience Events at the Same Time as Others5
Gratitude Increases Recipients’ Commitment Through Automatic Partner Evaluations, Yet Unreciprocated Gratitude Decreases Commitment Through Deliberative Evaluations5
Race, Ambivalent Sexism, and Perceptions of Situations When Police Shoot Black Women5
Other-Groups Bias Effects: Recognizing Majority and Minority Outgroup Faces5
Ignorance of History and Political Differences in Perception of Racism in the United States5
Lonely Today, Lonely Tomorrow: Temporal Dynamics of Loneliness in Everyday Life and its Associations With Psychopathological Symptoms5
Is There Anything Good About Atheists? Exploring Positive and Negative Stereotypes of the Religious and Nonreligious5
Is There an Ideological Asymmetry in the Incumbency Effect? Evidence From U.S. Congressional Elections5
Gender Nonconformity Leads to Identity Denial for Cisgender and Transgender Individuals4
Framing, Context, and the Misperception of Black–White Wealth Inequality4
Do Narcissists Self-Enhance? Disentangling the Associations Between Narcissism and Positive Versus Enhanced Self-Views Across Aspects of Narcissism, Content Domains, and Comparison Criteria4
Predicting Academic Performance with an Assessment of Students’ Knowledge of the Benefits of High-Level and Low-Level Construal4
If I Could Do It, So Can They: Among the Rich, Those With Humbler Origins are Less Sensitive to the Difficulties of the Poor4
Pandemics Initially Spread Among People of Higher (Not Lower) Social Status: Evidence From COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu4
Race Deficits in Pain Detection: Medical Providers and Laypeople Fail to Accurately Perceive Pain Authenticity Among Black People4
Looking for Safety in All the Right Places: When Threatening Political Reality Strengthens Family Relationship Bonds4
Typical is Trustworthy - Evidence for a Generalized Heuristic4
Reliving the Good Old Days: Nostalgia Increases Psychological Wellbeing Through Collective Effervescence4
“They should have followed the rules”: Trade-offs Between Fairness and Authority Values Predict Judgments of Social Justice Protests4
Person-Culture Personality Fit: Dispositional Traits and Cultural Context Explain Country-Level Personality Profile Conformity4
Just Be Yourself? Effects of an Authenticity Manipulation on Expressive Accuracy in First Impressions4
An Identity-Threat Perspective on Discrimination Attributions by Women of Color4
The Selective Communication of Political Information4
Economic Inequality and the Pursuit of Pleasure4
Combating Bisexual Erasure: The Correspondence of Implicit and Explicit Sexual Identity4
The Face of Social Networks: Naive Observers’ Accurate Assessment of Others’ Social Network Positions From Faces4
The Location of Maximum Emotion in Deceptive and Truthful Texts4
Three Dimensions of American Conservative Political Orientation Differentially Predict Negativity Bias and Satisfaction With Life4
The Beautiful Complexity of Human Prosociality: On the Interplay of Honesty-Humility, Intuition, and a Reward System4
The Impact of Culture and Social Distance on Humor Appreciation, Sharing, and Production4
Think About It! Deliberation Reduces the Negative Relation Between Conspiracy Belief and Adherence to Prosocial Norms4
Mnemic Neglect for Behaviors Enacted by Members of One’s Nationality Group4
Consensus Enables Accurate Social Judgments4
Pupillometry and Hindsight Bias: Physiological Arousal Predicts Compensatory Behavior3
From Brexit to Biden: What Responses to National Outcomes Tell Us About the Nature of Relief3
Shifts in Facial Impression Structures Across Group Boundaries3
Kant be Compared: People High in Social Comparison Orientation Make Fewer—Not More—Deontological Decisions in Sacrificial Dilemmas3
Perceiver Effects in First Impressions Reflect Generalized Stereotypes: Evidence of Consistency Across Time, Groups, and Contexts3
Religious Overclaiming and Support for Religious Aggression3
Should I Ask Over Zoom, Phone, Email, or In-Person? Communication Channel and Predicted Versus Actual Compliance3
Women’s Intrasexual Competitiveness and Jealousy Across the Ovulatory Cycle: A Hormone-Based Study3
Sensitizing the Behavioral-Immune System: The Power of Social Pain3
When Rose-Colored Glasses Turn Cloudy: Stressful Life Circumstances and Perceptions of Partner Behavior in Newlywed Marriage3
How Body Size Cues Judgments on Person Perception Dimensions3
Following Your Group or Your Morals? The In-Group Promotes Immoral Behavior While the Out-Group Buffers Against It3
The Cost of Being “True to Yourself” for Mixed Selves: Frame Switching Leads to Perceived Inauthenticity and Downstream Social Consequences for Biculturals3
The “Next” Effect: When a Better Future Worsens the Present3
Loss of Social Status and Subjective Well-Being Across the Adult Life Span: Feeling Stuck or Moving Up?3
Disgust and Moral Judgment: Distinguishing Between Elicitors and Feelings Matters3
Reaping More Than What They Sow: A Critical Race Perspective on Environmental Microaggressions Toward Latinx Farmworkers3
When the Future “Spills Under”: General Self-Efficacy Moderates the Influence of Expected Exercise on Present Intellectual Performance3
Liberals Report Lower Levels of Attitudinal Ambivalence Than Conservatives3
Dynamic, Yet Stable: Separating Within- and Between-Person Components of Collective Action in Support of a Disadvantaged Outgroup and its Antecedents3
Perceiving a Danger Within: Black Americans Associate Black Men With Physical Threat3
Perceptions of Bisexual Individuals Depend on Target Gender3
Ingroup Projection in American Politics: An Obstacle to Bipartisanship3
Do Women Withhold Honest Sexual Communication When They Believe Their Partner’s Manhood is Threatened?3
Hegemonic Masculinity Predicts Support for U.S. Political Figures Accused of Sexual Assault3
“White” Self-Identification: A Source of Uniqueness Threat3
Urban–Rural Residential Mobility Associated With Political Party Affiliation: The U.S. National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth and Young Adults3
Sex Differences in Fearful Personality Traits Are Mediated by Physical Strength3
Intrapersonal Behavioral Coordination and Expressive Accuracy During First Impressions3
A Systematic Study of Ambivalence and Well-Being in Romantic Relationships3
Civic Hope and the Perceived Authenticity of Democratic Participation3
When and for Whom Implicit Partner Evaluations Predict Forgiveness3
The Effects of Needs for Security and Certainty on Economic Beliefs: The Role of Political Engagement and the Welfare State Model3
Creativity for the Group: Distinctive Feminists Engage in Divergent Thinking When Acting on Behalf of Women3
Sensory Processing Sensitivity and Reactivity to Daily Events3
Absolute Certainty and Political Ideology: A Systematic Test of Curvilinearity3
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