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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Associations Between Neoliberal Policies and Attributions for Poverty in 13 Countries	107
Moral Diversity Fosters Cultural Looseness and Reduces Norm Policing	60
Exposure to Immigrants Does Not Moderate the Relationship Between Disgust Sensitivity and Opposition to Immigration	59
Moral Judgments Are Value-Based Decisions Driven by Culturally Stable Valuations and Culturally Variable Decision Biases	49
The Impact of Regulatory Fit on Experienced Autonomy	49
Opposing Misperceptions of Wealth: Liberals Overestimate Their Neighborhoods’ Wealth in Wealthier Neighborhoods While Conservatives Overestimate Their Neighborhoods’ Wealth in Poor Neighborhoods	46
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 Societies	35
Explicit Signals Enhance Social Engagement Between Strangers	30
“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 Theories	29
How do Adults Think, Feel, and Behave Toward Teenagers? Measuring and Understanding Adults’ Attitudes Toward Teenagers	29
The Andrew Carnegie Effect: Legacy Motives Increase the Intergenerational Allocation of Wealth to Collective Causes	28
Trustworthiness of Crowds Is Gleaned in Half a Second	26
Psychological Distance Increases Conceptual Generalization	24
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Difficult Conversations	24
Don’t Drag Me Down: Valence Asymmetry in Well-Being Co-Development in Couples	23
What Happens in Initial Interactions Forecasts Relationship Development: Showcasing the Role of Social Behavior	23
Choosing What You Like or Liking What You Chose? Sampling’s Impact on Evaluation and the Role of Idiosyncratic Reactions to Valent Stimuli	22
Lower Perceived Economic Mobility Inhibits Pro-Environmental Engagement by Increasing Cynicism	22
Just Be Yourself? Effects of an Authenticity Manipulation on Expressive Accuracy in First Impressions	21
Are There Consequences of Expressing Intellectual Humility Toward Claims Perceived as Established or Moral Truths? Implications for Judgments of Expresser’s Competence and Warmth	21
Intuitive Judgments of Strangers Are More Popular but Not More Accurate Than Deliberate Ones	19
Friends’ Personality Similarity and Its Association With Friendship Well-Being	19
Ability, Assertiveness, Morality, and Friendliness? A Retrospective Validation of the Facet Model of Social Evaluation	18
Spot-On or Stereotypical? A Social Relations Model of Life Satisfaction and Relationship Status Satisfaction Ratings Among Friends	17
What’s Accessible Is Expressible: When Advice Seekers Are More Likely to Anchor Their Advisors	17

Sexual Afterglow: How Long Does It Last and Does It Vary by the Relative Importance of Sex, Who Initiates It, or Who Rejects It?	16
In What Domains Does Entering a Romantic Relationship Boost Well-Being? A Longitudinal Investigation	16
Needs and Well-Being Across Europe: Basic Psychological Needs Are Closely Connected With Well-Being, Meaning, and Symptoms of Depression in 27 European Countries	16
Echoes of Culture: Relationships of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes With Contemporary English, Historical English, and 53 Non-English Languages	15
Gender Differences in Personality Traits and Average Personality States: Using Experience Sampling to Circumvent Bias in Self-Reports	15
No Evidence for Transactional Effects Between Religiosity and Self-Esteem in a Secular Country	15
Experience Matters: Civic Discussion Increases Self-Efficacy and Reduces Forecasted Discomfort in Future Conversations	15
The Game Within the Game: The Potential Influence of Demand Characteristics and Participant Beliefs in Violent Video Game Studies	14
Do Victims and Perpetrators Justify Intimate Partner Violence Even While They See It Happening in Front of Their Eyes?	14
Fluctuations in Prejudice Do Not Track Fluctuations in Ordinary Contact in Three 5-Wave “Shortitudinal” Studies Examining Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Intervals	13
Highlighting Opportunities (Versus Outcomes) Increases Support for Economic Redistribution	13
Sustainability Across the Status Spectrum: The S-Shaped Relationship Between Social Status and Green Consumption	13
Masculinity Perceptions and Hostile Sexism Shape Evaluations of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives	13
Expressed and Perceived Honesty Benefits Relationships Even When Couples Are Not Accurate	13
How Feeling Understood Predicts Trust and Willingness to Forgive in the Midst of Violent Intergroup Conflict: Longitudinal Evidence From Ukraine	12
Hedging First Offers Permits Assertiveness While Lowering Risk a Partner Walks	12
Do Minorities’ Friendships with Majority Culture Members and Their Emotional Fit with Majority Culture Influence Each Other Over Time?	12
Does Saying “Thanks a Lot” Make You Look Less Than? The Magnitude of Gratitude Shapes Perceptions of Relational Hierarchy	12
Passing Down the Mic Signals Trustworthy Intersectional Allyship and Promotes Organizational Identity-Safety	12
Pandemic Nostalgia: Reduced Social Contact Predicts Consumption of Nostalgic Music During the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Living Unequal, Living Unhealthy: The Adverse Impact of Subjective Economic Inequality on Health-Promoting Behaviors	12
The Effect of Moral Foundations on Intergroup Relations: The Salience of Fairness Promotes the Acceptance of Minority Groups	11
Who Are We If We Do Not Know Who Our Leader Is? Perceptions of Leaders’ Prototypicality Affects Followers’ Self-Prototypicality and Uncertainty	11
The Great Divide: Neither Fairness Nor Kindness Eliminates Moral Derogation of People With Opposing Political Beliefs	11
An Empirical Investigation of Secondary Transfer Effects of Contact Among Five Ethnic-Cultural Minority Groups in the Netherlands	11
The Moderating Role of Neuroticism on Evaluative Conditioning: Evidence From Ambiguous Learning Situations	10
Psychological Forecasting in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Accuracy and Errors	10
Identity and Institutions as Foundations of Ingroup Favoritism: An Investigation Across 17 Countries	10
Conditional but Collaborative: Offering Offenders Voice Improves Their Engagement With the Conditions of Forgiveness	10
Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Change the Global Trend in Religiosity? An Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Survey Data from 165 Countries (2005–2024)	10
Are Free Will Believers Happier? Converging Evidence From Daily Life and Experimental Research	10
Cognitive Ability and Personal Values: A Large Sample Study of Schwartz's Values, HEXACO Personality, Age, and Gender	9
Facial Impressions Are Not Set in Stone: Voice-Driven Changes in Facial Representations Obtained via Reverse Correlation	9
Solidarity Imbalances After Racism and Sexism: Black Americans Are Expected to Express High Solidarity but Anticipate Lower Solidarity From Racial/Ethnic Outgroups	9
An Eastern Look at a Western Dilemma: Cross-Cultural Differences in Action-Balanced Trolley Dilemmas	9
Understanding Person-Situation Dynamics at Work: Effects of Traits, States, and Situation Characteristics on Teaching Performance	9
Who Should Learn About Race in School? Lay Theories About the Relevance of Lessons About Race to Students of Color and White Students	9
A Registered Report on Gender Bias in Interpersonal Dishonesty: Are Females and Males Cheated Differently?	9
Alternative Systems: The Interplay Between Criminal Groups’ Influence and Political Trust on Civic Honesty in the Global Context	9
Who Gets Involved in a Crisis? The Role of the Big Five Personality Traits and Empathy in Benevolent and Activist Engagement	9
Having Less Than Others is Physically Painful: Income Rank and Pain Around the World	9
A Registered Conceptual Replication and Extension of Carter and Weber (2010): Generalized Trust, Lie Prevalence, and Deception Detection	9
A Potential Pitfall of Passion: Passion Is Associated With Performance Overconfidence	9
Nostalgia Counteracts Social Anxiety and Enhances Interpersonal Competence	9
Spillover Between Daily Marital Interactions and Parenting Practices: Sensory Processing Sensitivity as Moderators	9
High Self-Control Individuals Prefer Meaning Over Pleasure	8
Actual and Perceived Partisan Bias in Judgments of Political Misinformation as Lies	8
Dynamic, Yet Stable: Separating Within- and Between-Person Components of Collective Action in Support of a Disadvantaged Outgroup and its Antecedents	8
Do Conspiracy Theories Shape or Rationalize Vaccination Hesitancy Over Time?	8
What if Hard Work Cannot Pay Off? Perceived Low Social Mobility Increases Passive Procrastination Among Students	8

Pro-Life Policy Preferences Partly Reflect Desires to Suppress Casual Sexual Behavior, Not Solely Sanctity of Life Concerns	8
Personal Relative Deprivation, Not Subjective Status, Explains Support for Economic Redistribution	8
Personality and the “Social Cure”: The Role of Ego-Resilience in the Social Identity Approach to Health	8
Beyond Outrage: Observers Anticipate Different Behaviors From Expressors of Anger Versus Disgust	7
Impact of National Pandemic Lockdowns on Perceived Threat of Immigrants: A Natural Quasi-Experiment Across 23 Countries	7
The Long-Term Stability of Affective Bonds After Romantic Separation: Do Attachments Simply Fade Away?	7
Mind the Gap: Perceived Economic Inequality and the Well-Being Gap around the Globe	7
Own or Other Integrity in Expected Moral Judgments? Moral Pluralism and Political Partisanship	7
Lonely Today, Lonely Tomorrow: Temporal Dynamics of Loneliness in Everyday Life and its Associations With Psychopathological Symptoms	7
The Impact of Social Media Salience on the Subjective Value of Social Cues	7
The Maximizing Penalty: Maximizers are Perceived as Less Warm and Receive Less Social Support	7
Evidence for the Effectiveness of Large-Scale Disruptive Protests in the Context of Democratic Backsliding	7
How Liberal-Conservative Friendship Diversity Could Improve Interpolitical Relations in the United States	7
Intellectual Humility and Belief Extremity: Evidence for Curvilinearity?	7