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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Conspiracy Theories and Their Societal Effects During the COVID-19 Pandemic	149
The Role of Personality in COVID-19-Related Perceptions, Evaluations, and Behaviors: Findings Across Five Samples, Nine Traits, and 17 Criteria	66
Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Big Five Personality on Subjective and Psychological Well-Being	59
Who Is Impacted? Personality Predicts Individual Differences in Psychological Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany	58
Predicting Behavioral Intentions to Prevent or Mitigate COVID-19: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis of Attitudes, Norms, and Perceived Behavioral Control Effects	58
The Restorative Power of Nostalgia: Thwarting Loneliness by Raising Happiness During the COVID-19 Pandemic	57
Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes III:Long-Term Change in Gender Stereotypes	57
The Authoritarian Dynamic During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Nationalism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment	56
Changes in Personal Values in Pandemic Times	55
Science Skepticism Across 24 Countries	51
Love in the Time of COVID: Perceived Partner Responsiveness Buffers People From Lower Relationship Quality Associated With COVID-Related Stressors	49
The Construct of Subjective Economic Inequality	47
Partners’ Attachment Insecurity and Stress Predict Poorer Relationship Functioning During COVID-19 Quarantines	44
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	36
Intellectual Humility Predicts Scrutiny of COVID-19 Misinformation	35
Loneliness During a Nationwide Lockdown and the Moderating Effect of Extroversion	34
The Politics of Vaccine Hesitancy: An Ideological Dual-Process Approach	32
Can Psychological Traits Explain Mobility Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic?	32
Social Class—Not Income Inequality—Predicts Social and Institutional Trust	32
The Role of Coping Strategies in Maintaining Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak in South Korea	30
Male Allies at Work: Gender-Equality Supportive Men Reduce Negative Underrepresentation Effects Among Women	29
Stability and Change: The Dark Factor of Personality Shapes Dark Traits	28
Subjective Well-Being and Prosociality Around the Globe: Happy People Give More of Their Time and Money to Others	28
Incivility Is Rising Among American Politicians on Twitter	27

Collective Narcissism, In-Group Satisfaction, and Solidarity in the Face of COVID-19	26
The Role of Risk Preferences in Responses to Messaging About COVID-19 Vaccine Take-Up	26
Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Predict Annual Increases in Generalized Prejudice	25
Needs and Well-Being Across Europe: Basic Psychological Needs Are Closely Connected With Well-Being, Meaning, and Symptoms of Depression in 27 European Countries	25
The Origins of Religious Disbelief: A Dual Inheritance Approach	23
Linking Self-Reported Social Distancing to Real-World Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic	23
Extroversion and Conscientiousness Predict Deteriorating Job Outcomes During the COVID-19 Transition to Enforced Remote Work	23
A Psychological Network Approach to Attitudes and Preventive Behaviors During Pandemics: A COVID-19 Study in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands	22
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	20
Cultural Differences in the Construal of Suffering and the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
Failure Leads Protest Movements to Support More Radical Tactics	20
The Role of Gendered Entitlement in Understanding Inequality in the Bedroom	19
Which Facial Features Are Central in Impression Formation?	18
Singlehood and Attunement of Self-Esteem to Friendships	17
Social and Economic Political Ideology Consistently Operate as Mutual Suppressors: Implications for Personality, Social, and Political Psychology	17
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	16
Is More Always Better? Examining the Nonlinear Association of Social Contact Frequency With Physical Health and Longevity	16
Examining Associations Between Major Negative Life Events, Changes in Weekly Reports of Post-Traumatic Growth and Global Reports of Eudaimonic Well-Being	16
Updating Long-Held Assumptions About Fat Stigma: For Women, Body Shape Plays a Critical Role	16
Belief in School Meritocracy and the Legitimization of Social and Income Inequality	15
The Social Ecology of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in New York City: The Role of Walkability, Wealth, and Race	15
Facial Stereotype Bias Is Mitigated by Training	15
Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success	14
Blame the Pandemic: Buffering the Association Between Stress and Relationship Quality During the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
Globalization Is Associated With Lower Levels of National Narcissism: Evidence From 56 Countries	14
Empathy, Dehumanization, and Misperceptions: A Media Intervention Humanizes Migrants and Increases Empathy for Their Plight but Only if Misinformation About Migrants Is Also Corrected	14
Short-Term Training in Mindfulness Predicts Helping Behavior Toward Racial Ingroup and Outgroup Members	14
Subjective Economic Inequality Decreases Emotional Intelligence, Especially for People of High Social Class	14
Replication and Extension of Alicke (1985) Better-Than-Average Effect for Desirable and Controllable Traits	13
Similarity Predicts Cross-National Social Preferences	13
Autonomy Matters: Experiential and Individual Differences in Chosen and Unchosen Solitary Activities From Three Experience Sampling Studies	13
The Development of Speciesism: Age-Related Differences in the Moral View of Animals	13
Morally Homogeneous Networks and Radicalism	13
Depressive Symptoms, External Stress, and Marital Adjustment: The Buffering Effect of Partner’s Responsive Behavior	13
The Sharp Spikes of Poverty: Financial Scarcity Is Related to Higher Levels of Distress Intensity in Daily Life	13
You Must Stay at Home! The Impact of Commands on Behaviors During COVID-19	13
Does Danger Level Affect Bystander Intervention in Real-Life Conflicts? Evidence From CCTV Footage	13
Spring Break or Heart Break? Extending Valence Bias to Emotional Words	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
Belief in a Dangerous World Does Not Explain Substantial Variance in Political Attitudes, But Other World Beliefs Do	12
A Tale of Peaks and Valleys: Sinusoid Relationship Patterns Between Mountainousness and Basic Human Values	11
The Shape of Belief: Developing a Mousetracking-Based Relational Implicit Measure	11
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? A Comprehensive Reexamination	11
“We Shall Overcome”: First-Person Plural Pronouns From Search Volume Data Predict Protest Mobilization Across the United States	11
Divided Together: How Marginalization of Intercultural Relationships Is Associated With Identity Integration and Relationship Quality	11
When Does Psychological Fit Matter? The Moderating Role of Price on Self-Brand Congruity	11
Sharing Money With Humans Versus Computers: On the Role of Honesty-Humility and (Non-)Social Preferences	10
Investigating the Interplay Between Race, Work Ethic Stereotypes, and Attitudes Toward Welfare Recipients and Policies	10

Mixed Evidence for Interactive Effects of Outgroup Proportions and Intergroup Contact on Racial Bias in the United States	10
Emotion Recognition Ability as a Predictor of Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
You Mean the World to Me: The Role of Residential Mobility in Centrality of Romantic Relationships	10
Humor and Personality: Temperament and Character Have Different Roles	10
Bias in Self-Reports: An Initial Elevation Phenomenon	10
How Power Affects Emotional Communication During Relationship Conflicts: The Role of Perceived Partner Responsiveness	9
Ignorance of History and Political Differences in Perception of Racism in the United States	9
Moral Expansiveness Around the World: The Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries	9
Belief in Free Will Is Related to Internal Attribution in Self-Perception	9
Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior During COVID-19: Trajectory and Moderation by Personality	9
Collective Reactions to Epidemic Threat: Attachment and Cultural Orientations Predict Early COVID-19 Infection and Mortality Rates and Trajectories	9
The Gender-Equality Paradox and Optimal Distinctiveness: More Gender-Equal Societies Have More Gendered Names	8
Situation Perception Mediates the Link Between Narcissism and Relationship Satisfaction: Evidence From a Daily Diary Study in Romantic Couples	8
Culture, Status, and Hypocrisy: High-Status People Who Don’t Practice What They Preach Are Viewed as Worse in the United States Than China	8
Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence From 35 Cultures	8
The Salience of Children Increases Adult Prosocial Values	8
The Chicken and Egg of Pride and Social Rank	8
Implicit Ambivalence: A Driving Force to Improve Relationship Problems	8
Perceiver Effects in Person Perception Reflect Acquiescence, Positivity, and Trait-Specific Content: Evidence From a Large-Scale Replication Study	8
Socioeconomic Status and Dehumanization in India: Elaboration of the Stereotype Content Model in a Non-WEIRD Sample	7
A Cognitive Uncoupling: Masculinity Threats and the Rejection of Relationship Interdependence	7
Confusion or Clarity? Examining a Possible Tradeoff Between Self-Expansion and Self-Concept Clarity	7
Person-Culture Personality Fit: Dispositional Traits and Cultural Context Explain Country-Level Personality Profile Conformity	7
Determined Yet Dehumanized: People Higher in Self-Control Are Seen as More Robotic	7
Typical is Trustworthy - Evidence for a Generalized Heuristic	7
Going Beyond Traits: Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills Matter for Adolescents’ Success	7
Gratitude Increases Recipients’ Commitment Through Automatic Partner Evaluations, Yet Unreciprocated Gratitude Decreases Commitment Through Deliberative Evaluations	7
Happy Days: Resolving the Structure of Daily Subjective Well-Being, Between and Within Individuals	7
The Role of Personality in Shaping Pandemic Response: Systemic Sociopolitical Factors Drive Country Differences	7
The Same, Yet Different: Understanding the Perceived Acceptability of Redface and Blackface	7
Anger and Sadness as Moral Signals	7
Revisiting the Power to Forgive: A Dyadic Approach for Determining the Relations Between Power, Self-Esteem, and Forgiveness in Romantic Relationships	7