Social Psychological and Personality Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Psychological and Personality Science 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Moral Judgments Are Value-Based Decisions Driven by Culturally Stable Valuations and Culturally Variable Decision Biases75
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 Societies67
Opposing Misperceptions of Wealth: Liberals Overestimate Their Neighborhoods’ Wealth in Wealthier Neighborhoods While Conservatives Overestimate Their Neighborhoods’ Wealth in Poor Neighborhoods62
The Impact of Regulatory Fit on Experienced Autonomy48
Exposure to Immigrants Does Not Moderate the Relationship Between Disgust Sensitivity and Opposition to Immigration45
Explicit Signals Enhance Social Engagement Between Strangers41
“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 Theories40
Poor Toddlers Feel Less Pain? Application of Class-Based Pain Stereotypes in Judgments of Children39
The Andrew Carnegie Effect: Legacy Motives Increase the Intergenerational Allocation of Wealth to Collective Causes34
Trustworthiness of Crowds Is Gleaned in Half a Second34
Tweeting Others With Respect: Historicist Thinking Can Reduce Blame and Hostile Retaliation to Nasty Communications From Partisan Opponents32
Don’t Drag Me Down: Valence Asymmetry in Well-Being Co-Development in Couples31
Lower Perceived Economic Mobility Inhibits Pro-Environmental Engagement by Increasing Cynicism30
Should I Ask Over Zoom, Phone, Email, or In-Person? Communication Channel and Predicted Versus Actual Compliance30
Self-Other Agreement in Experience Sampling Measures30
What Happens in Initial Interactions Forecasts Relationship Development: Showcasing the Role of Social Behavior29
Choosing What You Like or Liking What You Chose? Sampling’s Impact on Evaluation and the Role of Idiosyncratic Reactions to Valent Stimuli26
Psychological Distance Increases Conceptual Generalization25
Just Be Yourself? Effects of an Authenticity Manipulation on Expressive Accuracy in First Impressions24
Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success22
Are There Consequences of Expressing Intellectual Humility Toward Claims Perceived as Established or Moral Truths? Implications for Judgments of Expresser’s Competence and Warmth22
Experience Matters: Civic Discussion Increases Self-Efficacy and Reduces Forecasted Discomfort in Future Conversations21
The Game Within the Game: The Potential Influence of Demand Characteristics and Participant Beliefs in Violent Video Game Studies20
Sexual Afterglow: How Long Does It Last and Does It Vary by the Relative Importance of Sex, Who Initiates It, or Who Rejects It?19
Do Victims and Perpetrators Justify Intimate Partner Violence Even While They See It Happening in Front of Their Eyes?19
Gender Differences in Personality Traits and Average Personality States: Using Experience Sampling to Circumvent Bias in Self-Reports19
No Evidence for Transactional Effects Between Religiosity and Self-Esteem in a Secular Country19
Echoes of Culture: Relationships of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes With Contemporary English, Historical English, and 53 Non-English Languages18
Expressed and Perceived Honesty Benefits Relationships Even When Couples Are Not Accurate17
Highlighting Opportunities (Versus Outcomes) Increases Support for Economic Redistribution17
Needs and Well-Being Across Europe: Basic Psychological Needs Are Closely Connected With Well-Being, Meaning, and Symptoms of Depression in 27 European Countries17
Sustainability Across the Status Spectrum: The S-Shaped Relationship Between Social Status and Green Consumption17
Fluctuations in Prejudice Do Not Track Fluctuations in Ordinary Contact in Three 5-Wave “Shortitudinal” Studies Examining Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Intervals17
Pandemic Nostalgia: Reduced Social Contact Predicts Consumption of Nostalgic Music During the COVID-19 Pandemic17
How Feeling Understood Predicts Trust and Willingness to Forgive in the Midst of Violent Intergroup Conflict: Longitudinal Evidence From Ukraine16
Do Minorities’ Friendships with Majority Culture Members and Their Emotional Fit with Majority Culture Influence Each Other Over Time?16
Passing Down the Mic Signals Trustworthy Intersectional Allyship and Promotes Organizational Identity-Safety15
Does Saying “Thanks a Lot” Make You Look Less Than? The Magnitude of Gratitude Shapes Perceptions of Relational Hierarchy15
Hedging First Offers Permits Assertiveness While Lowering Risk a Partner Walks15
Who Are We If We Do Not Know Who Our Leader Is? Perceptions of Leaders’ Prototypicality Affects Followers’ Self-Prototypicality and Uncertainty14
An Empirical Investigation of Secondary Transfer Effects of Contact Among Five Ethnic-Cultural Minority Groups in the Netherlands14
Persuading the Implicit Mind: Changing Negative Implicit Evaluations With an 8-Minute Podcast14
Identity and Institutions as Foundations of Ingroup Favoritism: An Investigation Across 17 Countries13
Are Religious People Happy or Non-Religious People Unhappy in Religious Contexts?12
The Moderating Role of Neuroticism on Evaluative Conditioning: Evidence From Ambiguous Learning Situations12
A Registered Conceptual Replication and Extension of Carter and Weber (2010): Generalized Trust, Lie Prevalence, and Deception Detection12
The Effect of Moral Foundations on Intergroup Relations: The Salience of Fairness Promotes the Acceptance of Minority Groups12
Absolute Certainty and Political Ideology: A Systematic Test of Curvilinearity12
Consensus Enables Accurate Social Judgments11
Rights and Responsibilities Are Substitutable Framings That Differentially Affect Judgment11
The Great Divide: Neither Fairness Nor Kindness Eliminates Moral Derogation of People With Opposing Political Beliefs11
A Registered Report on Gender Bias in Interpersonal Dishonesty: Are Females and Males Cheated Differently?11
A Potential Pitfall of Passion: Passion Is Associated With Performance Overconfidence11
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? A Comprehensive Reexamination11
Solidarity Imbalances After Racism and Sexism: Black Americans Are Expected to Express High Solidarity but Anticipate Lower Solidarity From Racial/Ethnic Outgroups10
Alternative Systems: The Interplay Between Criminal Groups’ Influence and Political Trust on Civic Honesty in the Global Context10
Nostalgia Counteracts Social Anxiety and Enhances Interpersonal Competence10
An Eastern Look at a Western Dilemma: Cross-Cultural Differences in Action-Balanced Trolley Dilemmas10
Having Less Than Others is Physically Painful: Income Rank and Pain Around the World10
Spillover Between Daily Marital Interactions and Parenting Practices: Sensory Processing Sensitivity as Moderators9
Actual and Perceived Partisan Bias in Judgments of Political Misinformation as Lies9
Dynamic, Yet Stable: Separating Within- and Between-Person Components of Collective Action in Support of a Disadvantaged Outgroup and its Antecedents9
Cognitive Ability and Personal Values: A Large Sample Study of Schwartz's Values, HEXACO Personality, Age, and Gender9
Understanding Person-Situation Dynamics at Work: Effects of Traits, States, and Situation Characteristics on Teaching Performance9
Personality and the “Social Cure”: The Role of Ego-Resilience in the Social Identity Approach to Health9
The Impact of Social Media Salience on the Subjective Value of Social Cues8
Pro-Life Policy Preferences Partly Reflect Desires to Suppress Casual Sexual Behavior, Not Solely Sanctity of Life Concerns8
Beyond Outrage: Observers Anticipate Different Behaviors From Expressors of Anger Versus Disgust8
The Maximizing Penalty: Maximizers are Perceived as Less Warm and Receive Less Social Support8
Threat Rejection Fuels Political Dehumanization8
What if Hard Work Cannot Pay Off? Perceived Low Social Mobility Increases Passive Procrastination Among Students8
Personal Relative Deprivation, Not Subjective Status, Explains Support for Economic Redistribution8
Lonely Today, Lonely Tomorrow: Temporal Dynamics of Loneliness in Everyday Life and its Associations With Psychopathological Symptoms7
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
Projecting the Current Salient Relational Situations Into the Past and Future Across Cultures7
Ignorance of History and Political Differences in Perception of Racism in the United States7
Fathers’ and Mothers’ Sexism Predict Less Responsive Parenting Behavior During Family Interactions7
The Long-Term Stability of Affective Bonds After Romantic Separation: Do Attachments Simply Fade Away?7
How Liberal-Conservative Friendship Diversity Could Improve Interpolitical Relations in the United States7
High Self-Control Individuals Prefer Meaning Over Pleasure7
Corrigendum7
Keeping One’s Distance: Mask Wearing is Implicitly Associated With Psychological Distance7
The Contradictory Nature of Anti-Transgender Rhetoric7
Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence From 35 Cultures7
Perceiver Effects in Person Perception Reflect Acquiescence, Positivity, and Trait-Specific Content: Evidence From a Large-Scale Replication Study7
Intellectual Humility and Belief Extremity: Evidence for Curvilinearity?7
Do Conspiracy Theories Shape or Rationalize Vaccination Hesitancy Over Time?7
Loss of Social Status and Subjective Well-Being Across the Adult Life Span: Feeling Stuck or Moving Up?7
Incivility Diminishes Interest in What Politicians Have to Say7
Persuasive Benefits of Self-Generated Arguments: Moderation and Mechanism6
Leveraging Man−Woman Romantic Relationships to Promote Men’s Awareness of Sexism and Gender Discrimination6
Individual–Community Misalignment in Partisan Identity Predicts Distancing From Norms During the COVID-19 Pandemic6
Populism Predicts Sympathy for Attacks Against Asylum Seekers Through National Pride and Moral Justification of Political Violence6
Examining the Frequency and Characteristics of Politically Diverse Friendships6
Own and Partner Attachment Insecurity Interact to Predict Marital Satisfaction and Dissolution6
Sharing Money With Humans Versus Computers: On the Role of Honesty-Humility and (Non-)Social Preferences6
The Recursive Cycle of Perceived Mindset and Psychological Distress in College6
The Role of Short-Term and Longer Term Immigration Trends on Voting for Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe6
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 Between-Person and Within-Person Effects of Intergroup Contact on Outgroup Attitudes: A Multi-Context Examination6
Loneliness During a Nationwide Lockdown and the Moderating Effect of Extroversion6
Manifold Threats to White Identity and Their Political Effects on White Partisans6
The Social Cure Properties of Groups Across Cultures: Groups Provide More Support but Have Stronger Norms and Are Less Curative in Relationally Immobile Societies6
Weight Location Moderates Weight-Based Self-Devaluation and Perceived Social Devaluation in Women6
Exposure to Motivational Messages Promotes Meritocratic Beliefs and an Individualistic Perception of Social Change6
Ingroup Projection in American Politics: An Obstacle to Bipartisanship6
Decomposing Variance in Co-Rumination Using Dyadic Daily Diary Data5
The Evolving Nature of Generalized Prejudice Toward Marginalized Groups in the United States 2004–20205
The Relation Between Updated Implicit Evaluations and the Trust Game5
Civic Hope and the Perceived Authenticity of Democratic Participation5
Impatience Over Time5
Worse for Women, Bad for All: A 62-Nation Study Confirms and Extends Ambivalent Sexism Principles to Reveal Greater Social Dysfunction in Sexist Nations5
Marginalized and Advantaged Parents’ Perceptions of Identity-Safety Cues in K-12 Classrooms5
Mental Health Contributors Among Transgender People in a Non-WEIRD Society: Evidence From China5
Vicarious Justifications for Prejudice in the Application of Democratic Values5
Corrigendum to Status-based Asymmetries in Relative Deprivation during the COVID-19 Pandemic5
Global Crisis Frame Matters for Unity: Resource Threat Hampers While Safety Threat Promotes Intergroup Cooperation5
The Impact of Culture and Social Distance on Humor Appreciation, Sharing, and Production5
The Predictive Validity of Intimate Partner Violence Warning Signs5
Person-Culture Personality Fit: Dispositional Traits and Cultural Context Explain Country-Level Personality Profile Conformity5
Confusion or Clarity? Examining a Possible Tradeoff Between Self-Expansion and Self-Concept Clarity4
Do Concepts Creep to the Left and the Right? Evidence for Ideologically Salient Concept Breadth Judgments Across the Political Spectrum4
Political Bot Bias in the Perception of Online Discourse4
Predicting Academic Performance with an Assessment of Students’ Knowledge of the Benefits of High-Level and Low-Level Construal4
Happy Days: Resolving the Structure of Daily Subjective Well-Being, Between and Within Individuals4
Partisan Media Sentiment Toward Artificial Intelligence4
When Paying Is (Even More) Painful: Personality-Based Heterogeneity in Consumption Responses to Economic Hardship4
Belief in Free Will Is Related to Internal Attribution in Self-Perception4
Climbing the Invisible Ladder: Attenuating Belief in Free Will Reduces Subjective Perceptions of Social Mobility4
Coping With Ostracism Over Time: A Time-Contingent Sampling Study of Immediate and Later Responses at Day 0, Day 3, and Day 64
The Role of Partner Gender: How Sexual Expectations Shape the Pursuit of an Orgasm Goal for Heterosexual, Lesbian, and Bisexual Women4
Actively Participating in Live Events as an Avenue for Social Connection4
Overlapping Inequalities: Connecting Income Inequality With Health and Education Disparities Motivates Its Reduction4
You Mean the World to Me: The Role of Residential Mobility in Centrality of Romantic Relationships4
“Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves”: Gender Differences in Singles’ Well-Being4
Sexual (Double) Standards Revisited: Similarities and Differences in the Societal Evaluation of Male and Female Sexuality4
Humor and Personality: Temperament and Character Have Different Roles4
Correcting Misperceptions of Fundamental Differences Between U.S. Republicans and Democrats: Some Hope-Inspiring Effects4
Love Doesn’t Run Out: Children and Adults Do Not View Social Resources as Inherently Zero-Sum4
A Systematic Study of Ambivalence and Well-Being in Romantic Relationships4
If I Could Do It, So Can They: Among the Rich, Those With Humbler Origins are Less Sensitive to the Difficulties of the Poor4
Valuing Versus Having: The Contrary Roles of Valuing and Having Money and Prestige on Well-Being4
Autistic People Are Believed to Feel More Pain than Non-Autistic People4
Is Narcissism Linked to Stress Reactivity Under Social-Evaluative Threat?4
The Fear of Personal Death and the Willingness to Commit to Organ Donation4
“I Just Don’t Fit There!” Anticipated Cultural Mismatch and Social Disparities in Students’ Intention to Enter Higher Education4
Motivating Collective Action in Diverse Groups: Person of Color Identity, Prototypicality Perceptions, and Environmental Attitudes4
Dynamics of Social Experiences in the Context of Extended Lockdown3
Reactions to Gender Norm Violations: Individual- and Peer-Level Analyses of Gender Atypicality and Social Exclusion in Adolescence3
When Good People Break Bad: Moral Impression Violations in Everyday Life3
Adults Show Positive Moral Evaluations of Curiosity About Religion3
Do I Like You? Effects of Daily Negative Events and Implicit Self-Esteem on Daily Implicit Partner Regard3
The Development of Speciesism: Age-Related Differences in the Moral View of Animals3
How Far Into the Future Can Values Predict Behavior? It Depends on Value Importance3
Understanding the Devaluation of Female Leaders: A Cognitive-Ecological Perspective3
Preference for Consistency as a Moderator of the Low-Ball Technique3
Editorial: Goals, Formalities, and Policies3
Abstraction Allows Susceptibility to the Perspective of Others: The Case of Decreased Public Self-Awareness Due to Concrete Thinking3
Social Connectedness Promotes Robot Anthropomorphism3
Comparing Brief Antiracism Messages: Empathy-Focused Communication Is More Effective Than Social Norms, Calls to Action, and Self-Awareness3
Coronavirus-Related Searches on the Internet Predict COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in the Real World: A Behavioral Immune System Perspective3
Failure Leads Protest Movements to Support More Radical Tactics3
Black and White Americans’ Perceptions of Community Equity Efforts Diverge Following the Removal of Confederate Monuments3
Do Women Withhold Honest Sexual Communication When They Believe Their Partner’s Manhood is Threatened?3
The Association of Self-Esteem With Health and Well-Being: A Quantitative Synthesis of 40 Meta-Analyses3
The Sharp Spikes of Poverty: Financial Scarcity Is Related to Higher Levels of Distress Intensity in Daily Life3
Status-Based Asymmetries in Relative Deprivation During the COVID-19 Pandemic3
Facial Stereotyping Drives Judgments of Perceptually Ambiguous Social Groups3
Perceiving a Danger Within: Black Americans Associate Black Men With Physical Threat3
Personality Correlates of Out-Group Harm3
Does Emotion Regulation Flexibility Work? Investigating the Effectiveness of Regulatory Selection Flexibility in Managing Negative Affect3
Leftists Possess More National Consensus in Europe in One of Two Data Sets3
The Strengths of People in Low-SES Positions: An Identity-Reframing Intervention Improves Low-SES Students’ Achievement Over One Semester3
Friends as Tools: Exploring the Role of Dispositional Greed in Social Relationships3
Political-Ideological Differences in Cultural Pessimism and Nostalgia Reflect People’s Evaluation of Their Nation’s Historical Developments3
Short-Term Training in Mindfulness Predicts Helping Behavior Toward Racial Ingroup and Outgroup Members2
Love in the Time of COVID: Perceived Partner Responsiveness Buffers People From Lower Relationship Quality Associated With COVID-Related Stressors2
The Development of Shyness from Late Childhood to Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study of Mexican-Origin Youth2
Lay Beliefs About Who Can Bridge the Black–White Racial Gap During Interracial Exchanges2
Shifts in Facial Impression Structures Across Group Boundaries2
Meaningful Peer Social Interactions and Momentary Well-Being in Context2
Transition to Parenthood: The Association Between Expectations and Family-Life Satisfaction2
Feeling Pushed and Feeling Pulled: A Panel Study on the Temporal Dynamics of Meat-Related Ambivalence, Morality, and Behavioral Consequences2
Political Ideology and Attitudinal Ambivalence: Investigating the Role of Ideological Extremity2
Moral Expansiveness Around the World: The Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries2
The Injustice–Efficacy Tradeoff: Counteracting Indirect Effects of Goal Proximity on Collective Action2
Ease of Mind or Ties That Bind? Costs and Benefits of Disclosing Daily Hassles in Partnerships2
The Association Between Using People for Attachment-Related Functions and Subjective Well-Being2
Unity or Estrangement Under Crises? Perceived Resource Scarcity Moderates the Effect of a Common Threat on Intergroup Cooperation2
The Ego’s Bodyguard: The Role of Personality in Self-Protective Reactions2
Transmission of Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction Between Parents and Adolescents: The Critical Role of Parental Perceptions2
Taking Stock of the Evidence for the Gender-Equality Paradox in Gendered Names: A Reply to Berggren (2023) with New Data2
Personality and Lifetime Need Frustration: A Person-Centered Perspective on Interpersonal Problems and Personality Pathology2
Broadened Concepts of Harm Appear Less Serious2
The Politics of Vaccine Hesitancy: An Ideological Dual-Process Approach2
The Computer-Mediated Online Round Robin (CMORR): An Online Method for Studying Impressions and Social Interactions2
White People Problems? White Privilege Beliefs Predict Attitudes Toward Confederate Symbols2
Partisan Communities and Affective Polarization2
Does the First Step of the Induced-Hypocrisy Paradigm Really Matter? An Initial Investigation Using a Meta-Analytic Approach2
Power Balance and Relationship Quality: An Overstated Link2
Women’s Experiences of Benevolent Sexism in Intimate Relationships With Men Are Associated With Costs and Benefits for Personal and Relationship Wellbeing2
Gendered Self-Views Across 62 Countries: A Test of Competing Models2
Increases in Intellectual Humility From Guided Conversations Are Greater When People Perceive Affiliation With Conversation Partners2
Reducing Explicit Blatant Dehumanization by Correcting Exaggerated Meta-Perceptions2
List Length, List Content, and Gratitude List Intervention Outcomes2
Pandemics Initially Spread Among People of Higher (Not Lower) Social Status: Evidence From COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu2
Household Wealth is Associated With Perceived Trustworthiness in a Diverse Set of Countries2
How Are Provided and Received Social Support Related to Relationship Satisfaction and Self-Esteem? A Comprehensive Test of Competing Hypotheses2
Does Culture Moderate Gender Stereotypes? Individualism Predicts Communal (but Not Agentic) Prescriptions for Men Across 62 Nations2
Greater Bias Toward Transgender People Compared to Gay Men and Lesbian Women Is WEIRD2
Why Being Social and Active Boosts Psychological Wellbeing: A Mediating Role of Momentary Positive Emotions2
Do We Know How Happy Strangers Are? Accuracy in Well-Being Judgments at Zero Acquaintance2
In Similarity We Trust: Like-Mindedness, Rather Than Just the Type of Moral Judgment, Drives Inferences of Trustworthiness2
Does Collective Action Feel Meaningful? An Experience Sampling Investigation of Naturally Occurring and Sustained Collective Action2
Feeling the Future? Mixed Empirical Evidence for a Link Between Processing Fluency and Judgments About Future Probability2
Subjective Well-Being and Prosociality Around the Globe: Happy People Give More of Their Time and Money to Others2
Three Dimensions of American Conservative Political Orientation Differentially Predict Negativity Bias and Satisfaction With Life2
Development and Validation of the Social Discounting Task: Short Form2
Globalization Is Associated With Lower Levels of National Narcissism: Evidence From 56 Countries2
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