Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Applied Social Psychology is 1. 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.)
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The moderating role of different forms of empathy on the association between performing animal euthanasia and career sustainability32
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Homegrown Heroes: Shared Group Membership Is a Basis for Recognizing Outstanding Sports Performance20
The proximal and distal effects of mortality salience on COVID‐19‐related health perceptions and intentions20
Shaping Immigration Explicit and Implicit Attitudes With Framing: The Role of Self‐Reported Political Orientation, RWA, and SDO19
Definitional boundaries of discrimination: Tools for deciding what constitutes discrimination (and what doesn't)18
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Maintaining a tolerant national identity: Divergent implications for the acceptance of minority groups16
Tertiary transfer effect (TTE) of contact with sexual minorities in a sample of Colombian heterosexual and gay participants15
Controllability is key: Goal pursuit during COVID‐19 and insights for theories of self‐regulation15
Responsibility as the door opener toward trust: How powerholders construe and express their power impacts others' willingness to trust them14
So Much More Than That: Enhancing the Rehumanization Effect of Multiple Categorization on People With Alcohol Use Disorder14
Beliefs in government benevolence can promote individuals' compliance with government‐issued guidelines: The role of positive affect and general construal level14
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Can conservatives who (de)humanize immigrants the most be able to support them? The power of imagined positive contact13
Blaming others for their illness: The influence of health‐related implicit theories on blame and social support13
Pluralistic ignorance and occupational choice: The impact of communicating norms on graduate students' career aspirations13
Loving our leaders: A triangular theory of love for political figures13
Company and perceiver characteristics influencing willingness to invest in female‐versus male‐led start‐up companies in STEM and non‐STEM fields12
Modeling levels of eco‐conscious awareness11
It all comes back to health: A three‐wave cross‐lagged study of leaders' well‐being, team performance, and transformational leadership11
Disentangling empowerment: Considering the role of employee perceptions in adaptive selling11
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Quest for Significance as a Path to Peaceful Effortful Actions: The Moderating Role of Values11
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Promoting solidarity based collective action through increasing hope using nonviolent communication intervention10
Was this part of the plan? Examining self‐control, planning, and interruptions10
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The role of group identification, self‐ and collective efficacy on secondary traumatic stress and general health in a sample of emergency medical service volunteers10
Social identification dimensions, sources of discrimination, and sexuality support as correlates of well‐being among sexual minorities10
Distinctive negative reactions to intermediate social groups9
Whether a religious group membership is shared and salient influences perceived similarity, political support, and helping intention toward refugees, but not charitable donation9
“Does this setting really fit with me?”: How support for group‐based social hierarchies predicts a higher perceived misfit in hierarchy‐attenuating settings9
Walk the Talk: The Effects of Apology and Reparation After Acts of Prejudice9
Effects of objective and subjective indicators of economic inequality on subjective well‐being: Underlying mechanisms9
Effects of fact‐checking warning labels and social endorsement cues on climate change fake news credibility and engagement on social media8
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Internet‐based cultural competence training for White undergraduate students at a predominantly White university8
Opening up new avenues for research on social power8
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Parallel lines in life, divergent lines in science: Complexity encompasses different worlds7
Examining the Effects of Different Gender Awareness‐Raising Frames on Attitudes Toward Women and Gender Equality7
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When dehumanization does (and does not) matter: Exploring the relationship between social justice motivations, avoidant behaviors, and intentions to help individuals experiencing homelessness7
Replicating What Motivates Conflicting Groups to Engage in Competitive Victimhood: The Roles of Need for Power and Need for Morality7
Editorial to Part II: Revisioning, Rethinking, Restructuring Gender at Work: Contributors to Gender‐Role Stereotyping7
Perceived sexualization of the work environment's influence on well‐being, attitudes, and behaviors: The roles of organizational dehumanization and enjoyment of sexualization7
Pessimistic assessments of ability in informal conversation6
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Issues affecting mental health at a fly‐in‐fly‐out mine site: A subjective impact ratings approach6
Do masks affect social interaction?6
Overcoming or Removing Gendered Barriers? Support for Individualistic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Interventions Among Those in Power6
Non‐Indigenous Canadians’ Attitudes Toward Renaming or Removing Statues as a Reconciliation Strategy6
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The boundaries of vision communication—The effects of vision‐task goal‐alignment on leaders' effectiveness6
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Effect of leaders' regulatory‐fit messages on followers' motivation6
Physical distancing during the COVID‐19 crisis: The roles of threat and moralization6
Global news – global identity? The relationship between media consumption, perception of identity, and ethnocentrism6
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Why Efficient Leaders Risk Appearing as Jerks: People Expect Authority Figures to Accept Organizational Sacrificial Harm, but View Doing so as Cold and Immoral6
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Behavioral complexity theory: Seven decades and beyond6
Do masks affect social interaction?6
Ownership Feelings Toward Green and Blue Nature Spaces: Outcomes and Mechanisms6
Individuals With Upward Social Mobility Show Greater Prosocial Willingness and Behavior5
The Influence of Sense of Community on Civic Attitude: Moderating Roles of Social Environment and Motivational Behavior5
Mindsets of Parenting Ability: Coping With Challenges and Engaging in Parenting5
Testing the association of positive and negative extended contact with intergroup contact intentions in China: The mediating role of intergroup anger, empathy, and happiness5
Organizational identification and leader evaluation in a global workplace: Interaction of self‐uncertainty, self‐construal, and organizational culture5
Dragons in Action: Psychological Barriers as Mediators of the Relationship Between Environmental Value Orientation and Pro‐Environmental Behaviour5
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Deep Listening Training to Bridge Divides: Fostering Attitudinal Change through Intimacy and Self‐Insight5
Shades of support: An empirical assessment of D&I policy support in organizations5
Counter explanation and consider the opposite: Do corrective strategies reduce biased assimilation and attitude polarization in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic?5
#Stand with Ukraine: Analyzing the links between Germans' emotions and their readiness to protest in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine5
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Post‐election Gratitude Mediates the Association of Satisfaction With Election Results on Psychological Health: The 2023 Polish Parliamentary Election5
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Self‐affirmation reduces uncertainty aversion for potential gains4
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The interaction game: A reciprocity‐based minimal paradigm for the induction of social distance4
The role of group membership and culture in interpersonal distance regulation4
Behavioral complexity assessment technology: Moving toward holistic evaluations4
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Psychological bases of anti‐immigration attitudes among populist voters4
Race matters more than racial identity disclosure when evaluating applicant diversity statements4
Outgroup exclusion, identity, and collective action in the Brexit context4
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Impression formation of majority and minority applicants during resume screening—Does processing more information reduce prejudice?4
MEDTHINKER: Novel computer‐based simulation to assess technical and nontechnical skills using medical content in healthcare providers4
I hate you when I am anxious: Anxiety during the COVID‐19 epidemic and ideological hostility4
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Right‐wing authoritarianism and anti‐Asian prejudice in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United States4
Come to Your Senses: Initial Evidence That Scents but Not Pronouns Inspire Charitability4
I‐sharing across the aisle: Can shared subjective experience bridge the political divide?4
The More You Know: Knowledge‐Based Training Improves Attitudes Towards Breastfeeding Accommodations in the Workplace3
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Is Life Getting Better and Better or Worse and Worse for Oneself and Others? Investigating the Link Between Beliefs About Life Unfolding Over Time and Motivation for a Positive Future3
Neoliberal ideology and negative attitudes toward immigrants: Evidence from a survey and survey experiment in Japan3
Organizational nostalgia as a novel pathway toward greater employee well‐being3
Questioning the potential of tourism‐related imagined contact in improving interethnic relations in Türkiye3
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Party people: Differentiating the associations of partisan identification and partisan narcissism with political skill, integrity, and party dedication3
What works and why in interventions to strengthen social cohesion: A systematic review3
Not Bowing Down Thine Ear: Underestimating Observers' Impression After Seeking Help From People With Less Competence3
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Signaling hostility: The relationship between witnessing weight‐based discrimination in medical school and medical student well‐being3
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Team members' reactions to a gender‐dissimilar leader: Competence monitoring and influence3
Sexual orientation information and hiring: Can individualizing information lead to negative stereotyping of sexual minority group members?3
The Future Could be Greener: A Randomized Choice Experiment on Cognitive Alternatives and Sustainable Food Choices3
Empathy helps, dehumanization harms: Beliefs about the causes of homelessness are (in)directly related to intentions to help and harm those who are unhoused3
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‘Are they refugees or economic migrants?’ The effect of asylum seekers' motivation to migrate on intentions to help them2
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Maintaining social support while social distancing: The longitudinal benefit of basic psychological needs for symptoms of anxiety during the COVID‐19 outbreak2
General inclusive victimhood predicts willingness to engage in intergroup contact: Findings from Bosnia‐Herzegovina and the Basque Country2
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How feeling misidentified can drive negative attitudes yet increase performance: The role of appraisals2
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Real‐world implications of high‐performance competencies and strategic management simulation technology2
Does attachment anxiety accentuate the effect of perceived contract breach on counterproductive work behaviors?2
When Harry met Meghan (got married, had a baby, and “Megxited”): Intergroup anxiety, ingroup norms, and racialized categorization as predictors of receptivity to interracial romances2
Multicultural personality and intergroup forgiveness between United States political parties2
Conspiracy Beliefs in Times of Covid‐19: How Does Right‐Wing Authoritarianism Mediate the Link Between Tolerance for Ambiguity and Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories?2
The legitimizing roles of respectful treatment and direct democracy in collective decision‐making: A school‐based study2
The effects of social and organizational connectedness on employee well‐being and remote working experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
The association between parents' ethnic socialization and positive and negative interethnic contact among majority and minority groups in China and the moderating role of essentialism2
“Why Perfectionism May Not be So Perfect”: The Roles of Goal Conflict and Cognitive Load in Choice Difficulty2
I dream of socializing, sports, and serenity: Imagining a positive future‐vaccinated self is associated with better attitudes toward COVID‐19 vaccination2
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Trust is good, control is better: The role of trust and personal control in response to threat2
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The burden of being certain: National identity certainty predicts support for COVID‐Related restrictive measures and outgroup conspiracy beliefs2
Singing foreign songs promotes shared common humanity in elementary school children2
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The role of perceived autonomy‐supportive communication for motivating prejudice reduction and avoiding defiant backlash within the police force workplace2
Stereotype content of occupational groups in Germany2
Effects of multicultural experiences on empathy: A model of the roles of positive emotion and critical thinking2
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Investigating mechanisms of political polarization: Perceivers spontaneously infer ideological categories from other people's behavior2
Rival or comrade? A systematic review and conceptual framework of when and why the powerful act prosocially or antisocially towards each other2
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Reclaim the streets: The link between positive and negative direct intergroup contact and movement support against immigration via threat perceptions1
The “modest majority and big minority” of climate change: Believers and nonbelievers are inaccurate about the extent that others agree1
Validity of the strategic management simulations to predict real‐world productivity1
Confronting sexism: Identifying dimensions and exploring impact1
Whose misbehavior is inexcusable—And which one? Job‐related discrimination against ethnic minority and majority women1
Metacognition in nurse practitioner students: How nurse educators can best serve their students1
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Reminders of an agentic ingroup buffer disease uncontrollability1
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Lack of ambition or lack of support? Diverging career experiences of men and women explain the persistence of gender bias1
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Right‐wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and attitudes toward peace and war: The role of symbolic and realistic threat1
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Predicting Water Conservation in Communities Around Mountains: Testing the Theory of Planned Behavior and Past Experience Variables1
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From roadblocks to property damage: How injustice perceptions and trust in authorities are associated with participation in nonnormative climate protest1
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Understanding the relationship between self‐compassion and body dissatisfaction1
Personal Relative Deprivation Leads to the Objectification of Social Targets: Exchange Orientation as a Mechanism1
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Which immigrants are welcome: The role of worldview conflict and immigrants' social status1
Biogeographic ancestry information facilitates genetic racial essentialism: Consequences for race‐based judgments1
Collective future orientation, group‐based emotions, and support for policy1
When Followers Do Not Emulate Their Leaders: Unraveling the Health‐Related Role Model Effect of Leaders1
Weighing interest relative to performance in hiring decisions: Important but free?1
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Violating social distancing amid the COVID‐19 pandemic: Psychological factors to improve compliance1
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The unique roles of threat perception and misinformation accuracy judgments in the relationship between political orientation and COVID‐19 health behaviors1
Energetic music is used for anger downregulation: A cross‐cultural differentiation of intensity from rhythmic arousal1
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Is classroom political discussion able to reduce anti‐immigrant attitudes in adolescents? Testing the effect of frequency, length, and topic of classroom political discussions on anti‐immigrant attitu1
Systemic sexism recognition and antisexism encourage gender equality activism: An adaptation of bystander intervention theory1
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Can group‐based strategies increase community resilience? Longitudinal predictors of sustained participation in Covid‐19 mutual aid and community support groups1
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Social Identification in Times of Crisis: How Need to Belong, Perspective Taking, and Cognitive Closure Relate to Changes in Social Identification1
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Team identification more than organizational identification predicts counterproductive work behavior and organizational citizenship behavior and mediates influences of communication climate and percei1
Extreme party animals: Effects of political identification and ideological extremity1
The privileged liberal principle‐implementation gap: How the personal behavior of privileged liberals contributes to social inequality1
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