OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Psychological and Personality Science is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Impact of Regulatory Fit on Experienced Autonomy	74
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	67
Opposing Misperceptions of Wealth: Liberals Overestimate Their Neighborhoods’ Wealth in Wealthier Neighborhoods While Conservatives Overestimate Their Neighborhoods’ Wealth in Poor Neighborhoods	55
Moral Judgments Are Value-Based Decisions Driven by Culturally Stable Valuations and Culturally Variable Decision Biases	47
Exposure to Immigrants Does Not Moderate the Relationship Between Disgust Sensitivity and Opposition to Immigration	44
The Andrew Carnegie Effect: Legacy Motives Increase the Intergenerational Allocation of Wealth to Collective Causes	40
The Associations Between Neoliberal Policies and Attributions for Poverty in 13 Countries	35
Explicit Signals Enhance Social Engagement Between Strangers	34
Poor Toddlers Feel Less Pain? Application of Class-Based Pain Stereotypes in Judgments of Children	34
Trustworthiness of Crowds Is Gleaned in Half a Second	33
How do Adults Think, Feel, and Behave Toward Teenagers? Measuring and Understanding Adults’ Attitudes Toward Teenagers	31
Tweeting Others With Respect: Historicist Thinking Can Reduce Blame and Hostile Retaliation to Nasty Communications From Partisan Opponents	28
“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	28
In What Domains Does Entering a Romantic Relationship Boost Well-Being? A Longitudinal Investigation	26
Are There Consequences of Expressing Intellectual Humility Toward Claims Perceived as Established or Moral Truths? Implications for Judgments of Expresser’s Competence and Warmth	25
Psychological Distance Increases Conceptual Generalization	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
Ability, Assertiveness, Morality, and Friendliness? A Retrospective Validation of the Facet Model of Social Evaluation	21
Don’t Drag Me Down: Valence Asymmetry in Well-Being Co-Development in Couples	21
Should I Ask Over Zoom, Phone, Email, or In-Person? Communication Channel and Predicted Versus Actual Compliance	21
What Happens in Initial Interactions Forecasts Relationship Development: Showcasing the Role of Social Behavior	20
Just Be Yourself? Effects of an Authenticity Manipulation on Expressive Accuracy in First Impressions	19
Self-Other Agreement in Experience Sampling Measures	19
Lower Perceived Economic Mobility Inhibits Pro-Environmental Engagement by Increasing Cynicism	19
Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success	18

Gender Differences in Personality Traits and Average Personality States: Using Experience Sampling to Circumvent Bias in Self-Reports	18
No Evidence for Transactional Effects Between Religiosity and Self-Esteem in a Secular Country	17
Do Victims and Perpetrators Justify Intimate Partner Violence Even While They See It Happening in Front of Their Eyes?	17
Echoes of Culture: Relationships of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes With Contemporary English, Historical English, and 53 Non-English Languages	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?	17
Fluctuations in Prejudice Do Not Track Fluctuations in Ordinary Contact in Three 5-Wave “Shortitudinal” Studies Examining Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Intervals	17
Experience Matters: Civic Discussion Increases Self-Efficacy and Reduces Forecasted Discomfort in Future Conversations	16
The Game Within the Game: The Potential Influence of Demand Characteristics and Participant Beliefs in Violent Video Game Studies	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	15
Pandemic Nostalgia: Reduced Social Contact Predicts Consumption of Nostalgic Music During the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Highlighting Opportunities (Versus Outcomes) Increases Support for Economic Redistribution	15
Expressed and Perceived Honesty Benefits Relationships Even When Couples Are Not Accurate	13
Hedging First Offers Permits Assertiveness While Lowering Risk a Partner Walks	13
Passing Down the Mic Signals Trustworthy Intersectional Allyship and Promotes Organizational Identity-Safety	13
Does Saying “Thanks a Lot” Make You Look Less Than? The Magnitude of Gratitude Shapes Perceptions of Relational Hierarchy	13
How Feeling Understood Predicts Trust and Willingness to Forgive in the Midst of Violent Intergroup Conflict: Longitudinal Evidence From Ukraine	12
Sustainability Across the Status Spectrum: The S-Shaped Relationship Between Social Status and Green Consumption	12
Do Minorities’ Friendships with Majority Culture Members and Their Emotional Fit with Majority Culture Influence Each Other Over Time?	12
An Empirical Investigation of Secondary Transfer Effects of Contact Among Five Ethnic-Cultural Minority Groups in the Netherlands	11
Identity and Institutions as Foundations of Ingroup Favoritism: An Investigation Across 17 Countries	11
A Registered Conceptual Replication and Extension of Carter and Weber (2010): Generalized Trust, Lie Prevalence, and Deception Detection	11
Who Are We If We Do Not Know Who Our Leader Is? Perceptions of Leaders’ Prototypicality Affects Followers’ Self-Prototypicality and Uncertainty	11
Absolute Certainty and Political Ideology: A Systematic Test of Curvilinearity	10
The Great Divide: Neither Fairness Nor Kindness Eliminates Moral Derogation of People With Opposing Political Beliefs	10
The Moderating Role of Neuroticism on Evaluative Conditioning: Evidence From Ambiguous Learning Situations	10
The Effect of Moral Foundations on Intergroup Relations: The Salience of Fairness Promotes the Acceptance of Minority Groups	10
A Potential Pitfall of Passion: Passion Is Associated With Performance Overconfidence	10
Are Religious People Happy or Non-Religious People Unhappy in Religious Contexts?	10
Solidarity Imbalances After Racism and Sexism: Black Americans Are Expected to Express High Solidarity but Anticipate Lower Solidarity From Racial/Ethnic Outgroups	10
A Registered Report on Gender Bias in Interpersonal Dishonesty: Are Females and Males Cheated Differently?	9
Spillover Between Daily Marital Interactions and Parenting Practices: Sensory Processing Sensitivity as Moderators	9
Nostalgia Counteracts Social Anxiety and Enhances Interpersonal Competence	9
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? A Comprehensive Reexamination	9
Having Less Than Others is Physically Painful: Income Rank and Pain Around the World	9
An Eastern Look at a Western Dilemma: Cross-Cultural Differences in Action-Balanced Trolley Dilemmas	9
Alternative Systems: The Interplay Between Criminal Groups’ Influence and Political Trust on Civic Honesty in the Global Context	9
Actual and Perceived Partisan Bias in Judgments of Political Misinformation as Lies	9
Understanding Person-Situation Dynamics at Work: Effects of Traits, States, and Situation Characteristics on Teaching Performance	8
What if Hard Work Cannot Pay Off? Perceived Low Social Mobility Increases Passive Procrastination Among Students	8
Dynamic, Yet Stable: Separating Within- and Between-Person Components of Collective Action in Support of a Disadvantaged Outgroup and its Antecedents	8
Cognitive Ability and Personal Values: A Large Sample Study of Schwartz's Values, HEXACO Personality, Age, and Gender	8
Personality and the “Social Cure”: The Role of Ego-Resilience in the Social Identity Approach to Health	8
Do Conspiracy Theories Shape or Rationalize Vaccination Hesitancy Over Time?	7
Lonely Today, Lonely Tomorrow: Temporal Dynamics of Loneliness in Everyday Life and its Associations With Psychopathological Symptoms	7
Impact of National Pandemic Lockdowns on Perceived Threat of Immigrants: A Natural Quasi-Experiment Across 23 Countries	7
Mind the Gap: Perceived Economic Inequality and the Well-Being Gap around the Globe	7
The Maximizing Penalty: Maximizers are Perceived as Less Warm and Receive Less Social Support	7
High Self-Control Individuals Prefer Meaning Over Pleasure	7
The Long-Term Stability of Affective Bonds After Romantic Separation: Do Attachments Simply Fade Away?	7
Threat Rejection Fuels Political Dehumanization	7

Pro-Life Policy Preferences Partly Reflect Desires to Suppress Casual Sexual Behavior, Not Solely Sanctity of Life Concerns	7
Beyond Outrage: Observers Anticipate Different Behaviors From Expressors of Anger Versus Disgust	7
Intellectual Humility and Belief Extremity: Evidence for Curvilinearity?	7
How Liberal-Conservative Friendship Diversity Could Improve Interpolitical Relations in the United States	7
The Impact of Social Media Salience on the Subjective Value of Social Cues	7
Personal Relative Deprivation, Not Subjective Status, Explains Support for Economic Redistribution	7
Leveraging Man−Woman Romantic Relationships to Promote Men’s Awareness of Sexism and Gender Discrimination	6
Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence From 35 Cultures	6
Loss of Social Status and Subjective Well-Being Across the Adult Life Span: Feeling Stuck or Moving Up?	6
The Social Cure Properties of Groups Across Cultures: Groups Provide More Support but Have Stronger Norms and Are Less Curative in Relationally Immobile Societies	6
Manifold Threats to White Identity and Their Political Effects on White Partisans	6
The Between-Person and Within-Person Effects of Intergroup Contact on Outgroup Attitudes: A Multi-Context Examination	6
Incivility Diminishes Interest in What Politicians Have to Say	6
Projecting the Current Salient Relational Situations Into the Past and Future Across Cultures	6
Own or Other Integrity in Expected Moral Judgments? Moral Pluralism and Political Partisanship	6
Weight Location Moderates Weight-Based Self-Devaluation and Perceived Social Devaluation in Women	6
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
Exposure to Motivational Messages Promotes Meritocratic Beliefs and an Individualistic Perception of Social Change	6
Populism Predicts Sympathy for Attacks Against Asylum Seekers Through National Pride and Moral Justification of Political Violence	6
Fathers’ and Mothers’ Sexism Predict Less Responsive Parenting Behavior During Family Interactions	6
The Contradictory Nature of Anti-Transgender Rhetoric	6
Ignorance of History and Political Differences in Perception of Racism in the United States	6
The Recursive Cycle of Perceived Mindset and Psychological Distress in College	6
Individual–Community Misalignment in Partisan Identity Predicts Distancing From Norms During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Persuasive Benefits of Self-Generated Arguments: Moderation and Mechanism	6