OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Psychological and Personality Science is 7. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Conspiracy Theories and Their Societal Effects During the COVID-19 Pandemic	158
The Role of Personality in COVID-19-Related Perceptions, Evaluations, and Behaviors: Findings Across Five Samples, Nine Traits, and 17 Criteria	68
Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes III: Long-Term Change in Gender Stereotypes	60
Predicting Behavioral Intentions to Prevent or Mitigate COVID-19: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis of Attitudes, Norms, and Perceived Behavioral Control Effects	60
The Restorative Power of Nostalgia: Thwarting Loneliness by Raising Happiness During the COVID-19 Pandemic	60
Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Big Five Personality on Subjective and Psychological Well-Being	59
Changes in Personal Values in Pandemic Times	59
The Authoritarian Dynamic During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Nationalism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment	57
Science Skepticism Across 24 Countries	53
The Construct of Subjective Economic Inequality	52
Love in the Time of COVID: Perceived Partner Responsiveness Buffers People From Lower Relationship Quality Associated With COVID-Related Stressors	50
Partners’ Attachment Insecurity and Stress Predict Poorer Relationship Functioning During COVID-19 Quarantines	44
Intellectual Humility Predicts Scrutiny of COVID-19 Misinformation	38
Mentioning the Sample’s Country in the Article’s Title Leads to Bias in Research Evaluation	38
Professors Who Signal a Fixed Mindset About Ability Undermine Women’s Performance in STEM	37
Social Class—Not Income Inequality—Predicts Social and Institutional Trust	35
Loneliness During a Nationwide Lockdown and the Moderating Effect of Extroversion	34
The Politics of Vaccine Hesitancy: An Ideological Dual-Process Approach	34
Male Allies at Work: Gender-Equality Supportive Men Reduce Negative Underrepresentation Effects Among Women	32
Incivility Is Rising Among American Politicians on Twitter	31
The Role of Coping Strategies in Maintaining Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak in South Korea	30
Needs and Well-Being Across Europe: Basic Psychological Needs Are Closely Connected With Well-Being, Meaning, and Symptoms of Depression in 27 European Countries	30
Subjective Well-Being and Prosociality Around the Globe: Happy People Give More of Their Time and Money to Others	28
Extroversion and Conscientiousness Predict Deteriorating Job Outcomes During the COVID-19 Transition to Enforced Remote Work	27
Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Predict Annual Increases in Generalized Prejudice	26

The Role of Risk Preferences in Responses to Messaging About COVID-19 Vaccine Take-Up	26
The Origins of Religious Disbelief: A Dual Inheritance Approach	25
Linking Self-Reported Social Distancing to Real-World Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic	23
A Psychological Network Approach to Attitudes and Preventive Behaviors During Pandemics: A COVID-19 Study in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands	22
The Role of Gendered Entitlement in Understanding Inequality in the Bedroom	21
Unsupported and Stigmatized? The Association Between Relationship Status and Well-Being Is Mediated by Social Support and Social Discrimination	21
Reducing Explicit Blatant Dehumanization by Correcting Exaggerated Meta-Perceptions	21
Failure Leads Protest Movements to Support More Radical Tactics	20
Suspecting Foul Play When It Is Objectively There: The Association of Political Orientation With General and Partisan Conspiracy Beliefs as a Function of Corruption Levels	18
Singlehood and Attunement of Self-Esteem to Friendships	18
Which Facial Features Are Central in Impression Formation?	18
Examining Associations Between Major Negative Life Events, Changes in Weekly Reports of Post-Traumatic Growth and Global Reports of Eudaimonic Well-Being	16
Empathy, Dehumanization, and Misperceptions: A Media Intervention Humanizes Migrants and Increases Empathy for Their Plight but Only if Misinformation About Migrants Is Also Corrected	16
Updating Long-Held Assumptions About Fat Stigma: For Women, Body Shape Plays a Critical Role	16
Globalization Is Associated With Lower Levels of National Narcissism: Evidence From 56 Countries	16
Subjective Economic Inequality Decreases Emotional Intelligence, Especially for People of High Social Class	16
Facial Stereotype Bias Is Mitigated by Training	16
Blame the Pandemic: Buffering the Association Between Stress and Relationship Quality During the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success	15
The Social Ecology of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in New York City: The Role of Walkability, Wealth, and Race	15
The Development of Speciesism: Age-Related Differences in the Moral View of Animals	15
Short-Term Training in Mindfulness Predicts Helping Behavior Toward Racial Ingroup and Outgroup Members	15
Belief in School Meritocracy and the Legitimization of Social and Income Inequality	15
Morally Homogeneous Networks and Radicalism	15
Does Danger Level Affect Bystander Intervention in Real-Life Conflicts? Evidence From CCTV Footage	14
You Must Stay at Home! The Impact of Commands on Behaviors During COVID-19	13
The Sharp Spikes of Poverty: Financial Scarcity Is Related to Higher Levels of Distress Intensity in Daily Life	13
Depressive Symptoms, External Stress, and Marital Adjustment: The Buffering Effect of Partner’s Responsive Behavior	13
Spring Break or Heart Break? Extending Valence Bias to Emotional Words	13
Autonomy Matters: Experiential and Individual Differences in Chosen and Unchosen Solitary Activities From Three Experience Sampling Studies	13
Belief in a Dangerous World Does Not Explain Substantial Variance in Political Attitudes, But Other World Beliefs Do	12
The Shape of Belief: Developing a Mousetracking-Based Relational Implicit Measure	12
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? A Comprehensive Reexamination	12
Similarity Predicts Cross-National Social Preferences	12
The Friends-to-Lovers Pathway to Romance: Prevalent, Preferred, and Overlooked by Science	12
Gendered Self-Views Across 62 Countries: A Test of Competing Models	12
“We Shall Overcome”: First-Person Plural Pronouns From Search Volume Data Predict Protest Mobilization Across the United States	11
A Tale of Peaks and Valleys: Sinusoid Relationship Patterns Between Mountainousness and Basic Human Values	11
When Does Psychological Fit Matter? The Moderating Role of Price on Self-Brand Congruity	11
Humor and Personality: Temperament and Character Have Different Roles	11
Bias in Self-Reports: An Initial Elevation Phenomenon	11
Collective Reactions to Epidemic Threat: Attachment and Cultural Orientations Predict Early COVID-19 Infection and Mortality Rates and Trajectories	10
You Mean the World to Me: The Role of Residential Mobility in Centrality of Romantic Relationships	10
Mixed Evidence for Interactive Effects of Outgroup Proportions and Intergroup Contact on Racial Bias in the United States	10
Sharing Money With Humans Versus Computers: On the Role of Honesty-Humility and (Non-)Social Preferences	10
Ignorance of History and Political Differences in Perception of Racism in the United States	10
Moral Expansiveness Around the World: The Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries	10
Emotion Recognition Ability as a Predictor of Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Investigating the Interplay Between Race, Work Ethic Stereotypes, and Attitudes Toward Welfare Recipients and Policies	10
Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior During COVID-19: Trajectory and Moderation by Personality	10

Belief in Free Will Is Related to Internal Attribution in Self-Perception	9
Think About It! Deliberation Reduces the Negative Relation Between Conspiracy Belief and Adherence to Prosocial Norms	9
How Power Affects Emotional Communication During Relationship Conflicts: The Role of Perceived Partner Responsiveness	9
Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence From 35 Cultures	9
Culture, Status, and Hypocrisy: High-Status People Who Don’t Practice What They Preach Are Viewed as Worse in the United States Than China	9
Implicit Ambivalence: A Driving Force to Improve Relationship Problems	8
Going Beyond Traits: Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills Matter for Adolescents’ Success	8
The Chicken and Egg of Pride and Social Rank	8
The Gender-Equality Paradox and Optimal Distinctiveness: More Gender-Equal Societies Have More Gendered Names	8
Perceiver Effects in Person Perception Reflect Acquiescence, Positivity, and Trait-Specific Content: Evidence From a Large-Scale Replication Study	8
Situation Perception Mediates the Link Between Narcissism and Relationship Satisfaction: Evidence From a Daily Diary Study in Romantic Couples	8
Confusion or Clarity? Examining a Possible Tradeoff Between Self-Expansion and Self-Concept Clarity	8
The Salience of Children Increases Adult Prosocial Values	8
The Role of Personality in Shaping Pandemic Response: Systemic Sociopolitical Factors Drive Country Differences	7
“White” Self-Identification: A Source of Uniqueness Threat	7
The Same, Yet Different: Understanding the Perceived Acceptability of Redface and Blackface	7
Revisiting the Power to Forgive: A Dyadic Approach for Determining the Relations Between Power, Self-Esteem, and Forgiveness in Romantic Relationships	7
Person-Culture Personality Fit: Dispositional Traits and Cultural Context Explain Country-Level Personality Profile Conformity	7
Do Women Withhold Honest Sexual Communication When They Believe Their Partner’s Manhood is Threatened?	7
Typical is Trustworthy - Evidence for a Generalized Heuristic	7
Anger and Sadness as Moral Signals	7
Happy Days: Resolving the Structure of Daily Subjective Well-Being, Between and Within Individuals	7
Predicting Academic Performance with an Assessment of Students’ Knowledge of the Benefits of High-Level and Low-Level Construal	7
Determined Yet Dehumanized: People Higher in Self-Control Are Seen as More Robotic	7
Socioeconomic Status and Dehumanization in India: Elaboration of the Stereotype Content Model in a Non-WEIRD Sample	7
Gender Nonconformity Leads to Identity Denial for Cisgender and Transgender Individuals	7
Do Conspiracy Theories Shape or Rationalize Vaccination Hesitancy Over Time?	7
If I Could Do It, So Can They: Among the Rich, Those With Humbler Origins are Less Sensitive to the Difficulties of the Poor	7