Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Judging the guilt of the un-guilty: The roles of “false positive” guilt and empathy in moral character perception101
“Black-and-White” thinking: Does visual contrast polarize moral judgment? Independent replications and extension of Study 195
Choosing not to see: Visual inattention as a method of information avoidance60
Equating silence with violence: When White Americans feel threatened by anti-racist messages45
The ‘me’ in meat: Does affirming the self make eating animals seem more morally wrong?44
Cue competition in mental state inference: Blocking effects in learning to interpret the behaviors of others42
Choosing not to get anchored: A choice mindset reduces the anchoring bias42
Conformity to group norms: How group-affirmation shapes collective action37
Revisiting dissociation hypotheses with a structural fit approach: The case of the prepared reflex framework35
Facial first impressions following a prison sentence: Negative shift in trait ratings but the same underlying structure34
A trust inoculation to protect public support of governmentally mandated actions to mitigate climate change33
Share the wealth: Neurophysiological and motivational mechanisms related to racial discrimination in economic decision making31
Gender categorization and memory in transgender and cisgender people28
The effect of practice on automatic evaluation: A registered replication26
The role of attitude features in the reliability of IAT scores25
Social identity threat attenuates own-race bias in face recognition under the “Asian-Caucasian” context25
The role of task similarity for ego depletion: A registered report24
Effects of aggregation on implicit bias measurement24
Untested assumptions perpetuate stereotyping: Learning in the absence of evidence23
Evidence for bidirectional causation between trait and mental state inferences22
Good deeds and hard knocks: The effect of past suffering on praise for moral behavior22
The effect of financial stress on inhibitory control and economic decisions22
Summarized and sequential discrimination - A paradigm for research on the perception of multiple instances of discrimination22
Do reminders of God increase willingness to take risks?22
Moral credentials and the 2020 democratic presidential primary: No evidence that endorsing female candidates licenses people to favor men21
The group extremity effect: Group ratings of negatively and positively evaluated groups of faces are more extreme than the average ratings of their members21
Hierarchy profiling: How and why a job's perceived impact on inequality affects racial hiring evaluations21
On judging the morality of suicide20
Attributional ambiguity reduces charitable giving by relaxing social norms20
Faster, stronger, and more obligatory?A temporal analysis of negative (versus positive) emotional reactions20
Morally questionable actors' meta-perceptions are accurate but overly positive20
Psychological power increases the desire for social distance but reduces the sense of social distance20
Clarifying the relationship between randomness dismissal and conspiracist ideation: A preregistered replication and meta-analysis19
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How morality signals, benefits, binds, and teaches18
Self-other differences in perceptions of wealth18
Who's on first? People asymmetrically attend to higher-ranked (vs. lower-ranked) competitors18
Imagined empathy and anger intensity: Distinct emotional implications of perceiving that a close versus distant other is privy to an anger-inducing experience17
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From critical to hypocritical: Counterfactual thinking increases partisan disagreement about media hypocrisy16
Morals for the sake of movement: Locomotion and sensitivity to norms in moral dilemmas16
Reframing of moral dilemmas reveals an unexpected “positivity bias” in updating and attributions16
Differences in faces do make a difference: Diversity perceptions and preferences in faces15
Registered report: Moderators of the relationship between implicit and explicit measures of evaluation and identification15
Are they giving scarce resources away?: Types of prosocial behavior modulate the prosocial effects of target social class on others14
Is the victim-perpetrator asymmetry stronger in situations where blame is being assigned?14
The effect of gender identity and gender threat on self-image14
One for me, two for you: Agency increases children's satisfaction with disadvantageous inequity14
The primacy of communality in humanization14
Close but not quite: Exploring the role of shared discrimination in racial outgroup identity-safety cues for Black women13
Successful groups are seen as more agentic and therefore more human— Consequences for group perception13
Safe here, but unsafe there? Institutional signals of identity safety also signal prejudice in the broader environment13
Acquiring favorable attitudes based on aversive affective cues: Examining the spontaneity and efficiency of propositional evaluative conditioning13
Being a tough person in a tight world: Cultural tightness leads to a desire for muscularity12
Synchrony and mental health: Investigating the negative association between interpersonal coordination and subclinical variation in autism and social anxiety12
What's in a pronoun: Exploring gender pronouns as an organizational identity-safety cue among sexual and gender minorities12
White and minority demographic shifts, intergroup threat, and right-wing extremism12
Disadvantaged group activists' attitudes toward advantaged group allies in social movements12
US cisgender women's psychological responses to physical femininity threats: Increased anxiety, reduced self-esteem12
Giving more or taking more? The dual effect of self-esteem on cooperative behavior in social dilemmas11
Corrigendum to “Does helping promote well-being in at-risk youth and ex-offender samples?” [Volume 82, Pages 307–317]11
Hierarchy as a signal of culture and belonging: Exploring why egalitarian ideology predicts aversion to hierarchical organizations11
“Anything that looks like smoking is bad”: Moral opposition and support for harm reduction policy11
Reflexive or reflective? Group bias in third-party punishment in Chinese and Western cultures11
The effects of fear appeals on reactance in climate change communication11
The impact of social identity complexity on intergroup parochial and universal cooperation under different payoff structures and frames11
Poverty and pain: Low-SES people are believed to be insensitive to pain11
The impact of economic inequality on conspiracy beliefs11
Faith and science mindsets as predictors of COVID-19 concern: A three-wave longitudinal study11
Feeling empathy for organizations: Moral consequences, mechanisms, and the power of framing11
Revisiting the moral forecasting error – A preregistered replication and extension of “Are we more moral than we think?”11
Bless her heart: Gossip phrased with concern provides advantages in female intrasexual competition11
Not lie detection but stereotypes: Response priming reveals a gender bias in facial trustworthiness evaluations10
In the pursuit of happiness: Attaining a greater number of high-status positions increases well-being but only in select groups10
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Fairness decision-making of opportunity equity in gain and loss contexts10
Understanding mechanisms behind discrimination using diffusion decision modeling10
Concealment stigma: The social costs of concealing10
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Social identity switching: How effective is it?10
Fragility and forgiveness: Masculinity concerns affect men's willingness to forgive10
The partisan trade-off bias: When political polarization meets policy trade-offs10
Who are you to me?: A relational approach to examining race-gender associations10
Trait inferences from the “big two” produce gendered expectations of facial features9
Face-to-face: Three facial features that may turn the scale in close electoral races9
Personal harm from the Covid-19 pandemic predicts advocacy for equality9
Quantification of evaluations9
Feeling known predicts relationship satisfaction9
Still too good to be true: Reply to9
The victim-perpetrator asymmetry is stronger in situations where blame is being assigned9
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More useful to you: Believing that others find the same objects more useful9
The role of gender and safety concerns in romantic rejection decisions9
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System justification makes income gaps appear smaller8
Moral elevation increases support for humanitarian policies, but not political concessions, in intractable conflict8
Revisiting the folk concept of intentionality: Replications of8
The malleability of sampling's impact on evaluation: Sampling goals moderate the evaluative impact of sampling a stimulus8
Has social psychology lost touch with reality? Exploring public perceptions of the realism and consequentiality of social psychological research8
Whispered words and organizational dynamics: The nuanced evaluation of gossipers' personality and its effect on workplace advice seeking8
A 2 × 2 model of sociocognitive conflict regulation8
Assessing implicit attitudes about androgyny8
Financial self-control strategy use: Generating personal strategies reduces spending more than learning expert strategies8
Race in the eye of the beholder: Decomposing perceiver- and target-level variation in perceived racial prototypicality8
Butt-dialing the devil: Evil agents are expected to disregard intentions behind requests8
Engaging with conspiracy theories: Causes and consequences8
Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection8
Effort-based decision making in joint action: Evidence of a sense of fairness7
When intergroup helping helps intergroup relations: The moderating role of trust in the outgroup7
The threat of powerlessness: Consequences for affect and (social) cognition7
How relationships bias moral reasoning: Neural and self-report evidence7
Is common behavior considered moral? The role of perceived others' motives in moral norm inferences and motivation about environmental behavior7
The affective consequences of threats to masculinity7
Beyond first impressions: Investigating the influence of visual attention and cue availability in discriminatory behavior7
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses7
Brilliance as gender deviance: Gender-role incongruity as another barrier to women's success in academic fields7
Learning to judge a book by its cover: Rapid acquisition of facial stereotypes7
Social class predicts preference for competent politicians7
How race influences perceptions of objectivity and hiring preferences6
Black Americans' perspectives on ally confrontations of racial prejudice6
The threat of a majority-minority U.S. alters white Americans' perception of race6
It is not only whether I approach but also why I approach: A registered report on the role of action framing in approach/avoidance training effects6
Exemplar-based ingroup projection: The superordinate national category is associated more strongly with ingroup than outgroup political leaders6
Effects of temporal distance on a dynamic measure of action identification6
The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate employees attain better outcomes in part because of more preferential treatment by others6
When your boss is a robot: Workers are more spiteful to robot supervisors that seem more human6
Going at it alone: Zero-sum beliefs inhibit help-seeking6
Economic inequality and socioeconomic ranking inform attitudes toward redistribution6
Choice availability and incentive structure determine how people cope with ostracism6
Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups6
Avoidance of altruistic punishment: Testing with a situation-selective third-party punishment game6
Women exaggerate, men downplay: Gendered endorsement of emotional dramatization stereotypes contributes to gender bias in pain expectations6
Consume humanity: Eating anthropomorphic food leads to the dehumanization of others5
What does being hard on yourself communicate to others? The role of symbolic implications of self-punishment in attributions of remorse5
To whom should I turn? Intergroup social connections moderate social exclusion's short- and long-term psychological impact on immigrants5
Emotion tracking (vs. reporting) increases the persistence of positive (vs. negative) emotions5
Desired attitudes guide actual attitude change5
Christian no more: Christian Americans are threatened by their impending minority status5
Mix is different from nix: Mouse tracking differentiates ambivalence from neutrality5
Treatments approved, boosts eschewed: Moral limits of neurotechnological enhancement5
Why do people turn to smartphones during social interactions?5
The cost of freedom: Creative ideation boosts both feelings of autonomy and the fear of judgment5
Variability and abstraction in evaluative conditioning: Consequences for the generalization of likes and dislikes5
The developmental origins and behavioral consequences of attributions for inequality5
Viewing leisure as wasteful undermines enjoyment5
Stay out of our office (vs. our pub): Target personality and situational context affect ostracism intentions5
The relationship between power and secrecy5
Strategies for disclosing a concealable stigma: Facts and feelings?5
Retrospective blind spots in reputation management: Implications for perceived moral standing and trust following a transgression5
Is the automatic evaluation of individual group members inherently biased by their group membership?5
Climate change threats increase modern racism as a function of social dominance orientation and ingroup identification5
Do behavioral base rates impact associated moral judgments?5
Not all egalitarianism is created equal: Claims of nonprejudice inadvertently communicate prejudice between ingroup members4
Are rules meant to be broken? When and why consistent rule-following undermines versus enhances trust4
Support for leaders who use conspiratorial rhetoric: The role of personal control and political identity4
Spheres of immanent justice: Sacred violations evoke expectations of cosmic punishment, irrespective of societal punishment4
Revisiting the bounded generalized reciprocity model: Ingroup favoritism and concerns about negative evaluation4
Conceptual metaphors, processing fluency, and aesthetic preference4
Perspective taking does not moderate the price precision effect, but indirectly affects counteroffers to asking prices4
Do voting and election outcomes predict changes in conspiracy beliefs? Evidence from two high-profile U.S. elections4
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You versus we: How pronoun use shapes perceptions of receptiveness4
Low power warm-up effect: Understanding the effect of power on creativity over time4
Applied to video game violence, maximal positive controls is far from even a minimal demonstration: Comment on ( )4
Numbing or sensitization? Replications and extensions of Fetherstonhaugh et al. (1997)'s “Insensitivity to the Value of Human Life”4
Precarious manhood increases men's receptivity to social sexual behavior from attractive women at work4
Agency through hierarchy? A group-based account of increased approval of social hierarchies under conditions of threatened control4
Power can increase but also decrease cheating depending on what thoughts are validated4
The way they look: Phenotypic prototypicality shapes the perceived intergroup attitudes of in- and out-group members4
The effect of wearing college apparel on Black men's perceived criminality and perceived risk of being racially profiled by police4
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Interdependence and reflected failure: Cultural differences in stigma by association4
Legal descriptions of police officers affect how citizens judge them4
Acting collectively against air pollution: When does control threat mobilize environmental activism? Registered report4
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How cognitive issue bracketing affects interdependent decision-making in negotiations4
Does competence or morality mainly drive self-esteem? It depends on general system justification4
"It's not an overreaction": Increasing White people's acceptance of the reality of bias and receptivity to Black people's bias concerns4
Out of sight, out of mind: The emotional determinant of “harmful inaction” intergroup conflict4
Self-serving bias in moral character evaluations4
Endorsing both sides, pleasing neither: Ambivalent individuals face unexpected social costs in political conflicts3
A normative perspective of discrimination in the minimal group paradigm: Does it apply to both Ingroup love and outgroup hate?3
Using anchor-based methods to determine the smallest effect size of interest3
Effects of ancestral information on social connectedness and life meaning3
Increasing social support for women with postpartum depression through attribution theory guided vignettes and video messages: The understudied role of effort3
Are actions better than inactions? Positivity, outcome, and intentionality biases in judgments of action and inaction3
‘Sharing in need’: How allocator and recipient's hunger shape food distributions in a dictator game3
Economic scarcity increases racial stereotyping in beliefs and face representation3
Making an impression: The effects of sharing conspiracy theories3
Wise teamwork: Collective confidence calibration predicts the effectiveness of group discussion3
Do it for others! The role of family and national group social belongingness in engaging with COVID-19 preventive health behaviors3
Moral decay in investment3
Group-bounded indirect reciprocity and intergroup gossip3
Perceiving others as responsive lessens prejudice: The mediating roles of intellectual humility and attitude ambivalence3
People believe sexual harassment and domestic violence are less harmful for women in poverty3
Giving (in) to help an identified person3
Responsibility gaps and self-interest bias: People attribute moral responsibility to AI for their own but not others' transgressions3
The social psychology of a selective national inferiority complex: Reconciling positive distinctiveness and system justification3
Egocentric projection is a rational strategy for accurate emotion prediction3
Beyond doubt in a dangerous world: The effect of existential threats on the certitude of societal discourse3
Considering the role of second-order respect in individuals' deference to dominant actors3
Construing hypotheticals: How hypotheticality affects level of abstraction3
Face masks facilitate discrimination of genuine and fake smiles – But people believe the opposite3
The protective effect of agency on victims of humiliation3
Self-control failure increases a strategic preference for submission as means to avoid future failure3
Gender representation cues labels of hard and soft sciences3
People reward others based on their willingness to exert effort3
From self to ingroup reclaiming of homophobic epithets: A replication and extension of Galinsky et al.'s (2013) model of reappropriation3
Uncertainty, expertise, and persuasion: A replication and extension of3
Multiracials' affective, behavioral and identity-specific responses to identity denial3
AI as a companion or a tool? Nostalgia promotes embracing AI technology with a relational use3
When do people learn likes and dislikes from co-occurrences? A dual-force perspective on evaluative conditioning3
WITHDRAWN: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups3
Attributions of emotion and reduced attitude openness prevent people from engaging others with opposing views3
Class attitudes and the American work ethic: Praise for the hardworking poor and derogation of the lazy rich3
Moral luck and the roles of outcome and negligence in moral judgments3
Overcoming negative reactions to prosocial intergroup behaviors in post-conflict societies: The power of intergroup apology3
Application of sentence-level text analysis: The role of emotion in an experimental learning intervention3
A colorblind ideal and the motivation to improve intergroup relations: The role of an (in)congruent status quo3
Effects of fear on donations to climate change mitigation3
Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effects of emotional crying across 41 countries3
Intergroup bias in perceived trustworthiness among few or many minimal groups3
The interplay between individual and collective efforts in the age of global threats3
Gossip, power, and advice: Gossipers are conferred less expert power3
(Not) showing you feel good, can be bad: The consequences of breaking expressivity norms for positive emotions3
Moral thin-slicing: Forming moral impressions from a brief glance3
Empathy for the pain of others: Sensitivity to the individual, not to the collective3
European Americans' intentions to confront racial bias: Considering who, what (kind), and why3
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