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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Differences in faces do make a difference: Diversity perceptions and preferences in faces110
Hierarchy as a signal of culture and belonging: Exploring why egalitarian ideology predicts aversion to hierarchical organizations107
Choosing not to get anchored: A choice mindset reduces the anchoring bias65
“Black-and-White” thinking: Does visual contrast polarize moral judgment? Independent replications and extension of Study 150
Revisiting dissociation hypotheses with a structural fit approach: The case of the prepared reflex framework48
Hierarchy profiling: How and why a job's perceived impact on inequality affects racial hiring evaluations48
Untested assumptions perpetuate stereotyping: Learning in the absence of evidence47
Morals for the sake of movement: Locomotion and sensitivity to norms in moral dilemmas47
Joint collective action increases support for social change and mitigates intergroup polarisation: A registered report44
Effects of aggregation on implicit bias measurement44
Feeling empathy for organizations: Moral consequences, mechanisms, and the power of framing35
Faster, stronger, and more obligatory?A temporal analysis of negative (versus positive) emotional reactions34
More useful to you: Believing that others find the same objects more useful30
Being a tough person in a tight world: Cultural tightness leads to a desire for muscularity30
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Who are you to me?: A relational approach to examining race-gender associations28
Third-party punishment, vigilante justice, or karma? Understanding the dynamics of interpersonal and cosmic justice28
Students' daily activity and beliefs about the world before and after a campus shooting28
Revisiting the folk concept of intentionality: Replications of27
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses27
A 2 × 2 model of sociocognitive conflict regulation26
Trait inferences from the “big two” produce gendered expectations of facial features26
Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection25
System justification makes income gaps appear smaller25
The developmental origins and behavioral consequences of attributions for inequality25
Climate change threats increase modern racism as a function of social dominance orientation and ingroup identification25
Financial self-control strategy use: Generating personal strategies reduces spending more than learning expert strategies25
Strategies for disclosing a concealable stigma: Facts and feelings?24
Legal descriptions of police officers affect how citizens judge them23
Responsibility gaps and self-interest bias: People attribute moral responsibility to AI for their own but not others' transgressions23
Support for leaders who use conspiratorial rhetoric: The role of personal control and political identity23
Power can increase but also decrease cheating depending on what thoughts are validated22
Perspective taking does not moderate the price precision effect, but indirectly affects counteroffers to asking prices21
The interplay between individual and collective efforts in the age of global threats20
How cognitive issue bracketing affects interdependent decision-making in negotiations20
People believe sexual harassment and domestic violence are less harmful for women in poverty19
WITHDRAWN: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups19
When do people learn likes and dislikes from co-occurrences? A dual-force perspective on evaluative conditioning19
Consume humanity: Eating anthropomorphic food leads to the dehumanization of others18
Self-serving bias in moral character evaluations18
Multiracials' affective, behavioral and identity-specific responses to identity denial18
Group-bounded indirect reciprocity and intergroup gossip17
Effects of fear on donations to climate change mitigation17
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Framing an altruistic action in periodic (versus aggregate) terms reduces people's moral evaluation of the act and the actor15
Religiosity predicts the delegation of decisions between moral and self-serving immoral outcomes15
Work engagement and burnout in anticipation of physically returning to work: The interactive effect of imminence of return and self-affirmation15
Dynamic indirect reciprocity: The influence of personal reputation and group reputation on cooperative behavior in nested social dilemmas14
Humanity at first sight: Exploring the relationship between others' pupil size and ascriptions of humanity14
The impact of uncertainty induced by the COVID-19 pandemic on intertemporal choice14
Misplaced trust: When trust in science fosters belief in pseudoscience and the benefits of critical evaluation14
The unexpected social consequences of diverting attention to our phones14
Malevolent intentions and secret coordination. Dissecting cognitive processes in conspiracy beliefs via diffusion modeling14
Situational materialism increases climate change scepticism in men compared to women14
Corrigendum to “US cisgender women's psychological responses to physical femininity threats: Increased anxiety, reduced self-esteem” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 110(2024) 104547]13
Artificial intelligence and moral dilemmas: Perception of ethical decision-making in AI13
Providing support is easier done than said: Support providers' perceptions of touch and verbal support provision requests13
How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification13
Yesterday's great expectations: Metamemory and retrospective subjective duration12
Hadza hunter-gatherers are not deontologists and do not prefer deontologists as social partners12
Negative multicultural experiences can increase intergroup bias12
You are safer with me: Presence of the self lowers risk perception for others12
Stimulus confounds in implicit and explicit measures of racial bias12
Conflict, cooperation, and institutional choice12
Does conscious perception render agents more responsible? A study of lay judgments12
Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes12
Belief system networks can be used to predict where to expect dynamic constraint12
Examining selective migration as attitudinal fit versus gay migration12
What makes us “we”? The positivity bias in essentialist beliefs about group attributes12
The authentic catch-22: Following the true self promotes decision satisfaction in moral dilemmas12
Playing the field or locking down a partner?: Perceptions of available romantic partners and commitment readiness12
Most people do not “value the struggle”: Tempted agents are judged as less virtuous than those who were never tempted12
Changing impressions in competence-oriented domains: The primacy of morality endures11
The role of racial shared reality in Black Americans' identity-safety during interracial interactions11
Understanding the role of faces in person perception: Increased reliance on facial appearance when judging sociability11
Assessing the speed and spontaneity of racial bias in pain perception11
Imagined empathy and anger intensity: Distinct emotional implications of perceiving that a close versus distant other is privy to an anger-inducing experience11
Investigating the identification-prejudice link through the lens of national narcissism: The role of defensive group beliefs11
On judging the morality of suicide11
Judging the guilt of the un-guilty: The roles of “false positive” guilt and empathy in moral character perception10
Exemplar-based ingroup projection: The superordinate national category is associated more strongly with ingroup than outgroup political leaders10
Do reminders of God increase willingness to take risks?10
Reflexive or reflective? Group bias in third-party punishment in Chinese and Western cultures10
The impact of economic inequality on conspiracy beliefs10
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 effects10
Successful groups are seen as more agentic and therefore more human— Consequences for group perception10
Close but not quite: Exploring the role of shared discrimination in racial outgroup identity-safety cues for Black women10
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Gender categorization and memory in transgender and cisgender people10
The role of attitude features in the reliability of IAT scores10
The primacy of communality in humanization10
Beyond the motherhood penalty: Evidence of a (potentially race-based) parenthood boost in workplace evaluations9
Variability and abstraction in evaluative conditioning: Consequences for the generalization of likes and dislikes9
Effects of ancestral information on social connectedness and life meaning9
The malleability of sampling's impact on evaluation: Sampling goals moderate the evaluative impact of sampling a stimulus9
Desired attitudes guide actual attitude change9
Choice availability and incentive structure determine how people cope with ostracism9
How race influences perceptions of objectivity and hiring preferences9
Concealment stigma: The social costs of concealing9
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Numbing or sensitization? Replications and extensions of Fetherstonhaugh et al. (1997)'s “Insensitivity to the Value of Human Life”8
Economic scarcity increases racial stereotyping in beliefs and face representation8
Attributions of emotion and reduced attitude openness prevent people from engaging others with opposing views8
A colorblind ideal and the motivation to improve intergroup relations: The role of an (in)congruent status quo8
Application of sentence-level text analysis: The role of emotion in an experimental learning intervention8
Timing is everything: Unraveling the temporal dynamics of the cheerleader effect8
Making an impression: The effects of sharing conspiracy theories8
AI as a companion or a tool? Nostalgia promotes embracing AI technology with a relational use8
Increasing social support for women with postpartum depression through attribution theory guided vignettes and video messages: The understudied role of effort8
Considering the role of second-order respect in individuals' deference to dominant actors8
Mitigating welfare-related prejudice and partisanship among U.S. conservatives with moral reframing of a universal basic income policy7
“We built it” in the past, but “let's build it together” in the future: The roles of temporal framing and social justice orientation in shaping attributions for personal success7
Repeated exposure to success harshens reactions to failure7
Time perspective and helpfulness: Are communicators more persuasive in the past, present, or future tense?7
Beyond belief: How social engagement motives influence the spread of conspiracy theories7
The articulatory in-out effect: Driven by articulation fluency?7
Mindless furry test-tubes: Categorizing animals as lab-subjects leads to their mind denial7
What motivates avoidance in paranoia? Three failures to find a betrayal aversion effect7
A threat-based hate model: How symbolic and realistic threats underlie hate and aggression7
No evidence that priming analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories: A Registered Report of high-powered direct replications of Study 2 and Study 4 from7
Public perceptions of prejudice research: The double-edged sword faced by marginalized group researchers7
Withdrawal notice to: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups. Journal of experimental social psychology 101(2022) 1043397
Investigating the morning morality effect and its mediating and moderating factors7
Narcissistic vigilance to status cues7
He said, she said: Gender differences in the disclosure of positive and negative information7
Scientific identity and STEMM-relevant outcomes: Elaboration moderates use of identity-certainty7
Blinded by guilt: Short-term relational focus and lying7
Qualified support for normative vs. non-normative protest: Less invested members of advantaged groups are most supportive when the protest fits the opportunity for status improvement7
Reversing the cumulative redundancy bias to demonstrate metacognitive flexibility in cue utilization7
Giving-by-proxy triggers subsequent charitable behavior6
Gifts that keep on giving: Reflected appraisals from gifts and their role in identity and choice6
The interpersonal costs of revealing others' secrets6
Synchrony and mental health: Investigating the negative association between interpersonal coordination and subclinical variation in autism and social anxiety6
The impact of social identity complexity on intergroup parochial and universal cooperation under different payoff structures and frames6
Nostalgia confers psychological wellbeing by increasing authenticity6
Ripple effects: Can information about the collective impact of individual actions boost perceived efficacy about climate change?6
Smartly following others: Majority influence depends on how the majority behavior is formed6
Did you hear what she did to me? Female friendship victimization disclosures offer reputational advantages6
Does deliberation decrease belief in conspiracies?6
Who's on first? People asymmetrically attend to higher-ranked (vs. lower-ranked) competitors6
Good deeds and hard knocks: The effect of past suffering on praise for moral behavior6
Corrigendum to “The dark side of meaning-making: how social exclusion leads to superstitious thinking” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 218–222]6
Beyond killing one to save five: Sensitivity to ratio and probability in moral judgment6
How people perceive dispositionally (non-) ambivalent others and why it matters6
Persuading republicans and democrats to comply with mask wearing: An intervention tournament6
Bless her heart: Gossip phrased with concern provides advantages in female intrasexual competition6
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Moral violations that target more valued victims elicit more anger, but not necessarily more disgust6
Face-to-face: Three facial features that may turn the scale in close electoral races5
Fragility and forgiveness: Masculinity concerns affect men's willingness to forgive5
Psychological power increases the desire for social distance but reduces the sense of social distance5
Reframing of moral dilemmas reveals an unexpected “positivity bias” in updating and attributions5
Effects of temporal distance on a dynamic measure of action identification5
Effort-based decision making in joint action: Evidence of a sense of fairness5
Construing hypotheticals: How hypotheticality affects level of abstraction5
Going at it alone: Zero-sum beliefs inhibit help-seeking5
Exploring the gender-portion association in stereotypes, cognition, and treatment5
Is common behavior considered moral? The role of perceived others' motives in moral norm inferences and motivation about environmental behavior5
In the pursuit of happiness: Attaining a greater number of high-status positions increases well-being but only in select groups5
Summarized and sequential discrimination - A paradigm for research on the perception of multiple instances of discrimination5
Engaging with conspiracy theories: Causes and consequences5
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Precarious manhood increases men's receptivity to social sexual behavior from attractive women at work5
Are rules meant to be broken? When and why consistent rule-following undermines versus enhances trust5
The affective consequences of threats to masculinity5
Fairness decision-making of opportunity equity in gain and loss contexts5
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From critical to hypocritical: Counterfactual thinking increases partisan disagreement about media hypocrisy5
Disadvantaged group activists' attitudes toward advantaged group allies in social movements5
The effects of fear appeals on reactance in climate change communication5
Not lie detection but stereotypes: Response priming reveals a gender bias in facial trustworthiness evaluations5
(Not) showing you feel good, can be bad: The consequences of breaking expressivity norms for positive emotions5
The effect of wearing college apparel on Black men's perceived criminality and perceived risk of being racially profiled by police5
The threat of a majority-minority U.S. alters white Americans' perception of race5
If negligence is intentionality’s cousin, recklessness is it’s sibling: Differentiating negligence and recklessness from accidents and intentional harm4
The influence of dominance and prestige on children's resource allocation: What if they coexist?4
Implementing planned missingness in stimulus sampling designs: Strategies for optimizing statistical power and precision while limiting participant burden4
Ease of retrieval of role attributes predicts role clarity which, in turn, predicts outcomes among stepparents4
How did it feel? Affect as a feedback system in repeated donation decisions4
Population base rates as anchors in social categorization under uncertainty4
Biased, but expert: Trade-offs in how stigmatized versus non-stigmatized advocates are perceived and consequences for persuasion4
Class attitudes and the American work ethic: Praise for the hardworking poor and derogation of the lazy rich4
Do voting and election outcomes predict changes in conspiracy beliefs? Evidence from two high-profile U.S. elections4
Dominant groups support digressive victimhood claims to counter accusations of discrimination4
Cheap talk? Follower sarcasm reduces leader overpay by increasing accountability4
Are conspiracy theory believers drawn to conspiratorial explanations, alternatives explanations, or both?4
The power of the Ingroup for promoting collective action: How distinctive treatment from fellow minority members motivates collective action4
Task affordances affect partner preferences4
The impact factor: The effect of actual impact information and perceived donation efficacy on donors' repeated donations4
Do individuation instructions reduce the cross-race effect? A registered replication of4
How are real artworks and reproductions judged? The role of anchoring in empirical investigations of the genuineness effect4
Valedictory editorial4
Using anchor-based methods to determine the smallest effect size of interest4
‘The best is yet to come’: Examining the affective and motivational implications of reflective and evaluative thinking about a brighter future life4
Higher power dynamics: How meaning search and self-transcendence inspire approach motivation and magnanimity4
Algorithmic management diminishes status: An unintended consequence of using machines to perform social roles4
Weight stigma: Do we believe that everyone can enjoy healthy behaviors?4
Appraisal of male privilege: On the dual role of identity threat and shame in response to confrontations with male privilege4
Thicker-skinned but still human: People may think individuals in poverty are less vulnerable to harm even when ascribing them full humanity4
Simulation induces durable, extensive changes to self-knowledge4
The role of gender in shaping Black and Latina women’s experiences in anticipated interracial interactions4
Palestinians and Israelis believe the other's God encourages intergroup benevolence: A case of positive intergroup meta-perceptions4
From self to ingroup reclaiming of homophobic epithets: A replication and extension of Galinsky et al.'s (2013) model of reappropriation4
Moral decay in investment4
Empathy for the pain of others: Sensitivity to the individual, not to the collective3
Beyond doubt in a dangerous world: The effect of existential threats on the certitude of societal discourse3
How morality signals, benefits, binds, and teaches3
Revisiting the bounded generalized reciprocity model: Ingroup favoritism and concerns about negative evaluation3
The effect of gender identity and gender threat on self-image3
Endorsing both sides, pleasing neither: Ambivalent individuals face unexpected social costs in political conflicts3
Still too good to be true: Reply to3
Self-other differences in perceptions of wealth3
Whispered words and organizational dynamics: The nuanced evaluation of gossipers' personality and its effect on workplace advice seeking3
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The partisan trade-off bias: When political polarization meets policy trade-offs3
The search for predictable moral partners: Predictability and moral (character) preferences3
Hey Siri, I love you: People feel more attached to gendered technology3
Altering the past to shape the future: Manipulating information accessibility to influence case-based reasoning3
Don't judge a book by its cover: The effect of perceived facial trustworthiness on advice following in the context of value-based decision-making3
Giving (in) to help an identified person3
Perceiving others as responsive lessens prejudice: The mediating roles of intellectual humility and attitude ambivalence3
Out of sight, out of mind: The emotional determinant of “harmful inaction” intergroup conflict3
Revisiting the moral forecasting error – A preregistered replication and extension of “Are we more moral than we think?”3
Conceptual metaphors, processing fluency, and aesthetic preference3
What's in a pronoun: Exploring gender pronouns as an organizational identity-safety cue among sexual and gender minorities3
Spheres of immanent justice: Sacred violations evoke expectations of cosmic punishment, irrespective of societal punishment3
The cost of freedom: Creative ideation boosts both feelings of autonomy and the fear of judgment3
The effect of practice on automatic evaluation: A registered replication3
Personal harm from the Covid-19 pandemic predicts advocacy for equality3
Simultaneous pairing increases evaluative conditioning: Evidence for the role of temporal overlap but not of onset synchrony3
Does victims' forgiveness help offenders to forgive themselves? The role of meta-perceptions of value consensus3
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Morally questionable actors' meta-perceptions are accurate but overly positive3
“You're leaving us?” Feeling ostracized when a group member leaves3
"It's not an overreaction": Increasing White people's acceptance of the reality of bias and receptivity to Black people's bias concerns3
Why do people turn to smartphones during social interactions?3
Low power warm-up effect: Understanding the effect of power on creativity over time3
Share the wealth: Neurophysiological and motivational mechanisms related to racial discrimination in economic decision making3
When everything is at stake: Understanding support for radical collective actions and collective victimhood through anger in a post-conflict setting3
Is the victim-perpetrator asymmetry stronger in situations where blame is being assigned?3
Is the automatic evaluation of individual group members inherently biased by their group membership?3
Learning to judge a book by its cover: Rapid acquisition of facial stereotypes3
Social identity threat attenuates own-race bias in face recognition under the “Asian-Caucasian” context3
When your boss is a robot: Workers are more spiteful to robot supervisors that seem more human3
Lower social class, better social skills? A registered report testing diverging predictions from the rank and cultural approaches to social class3
Moral impressions and presumed moral choices: Perceptions of how moral exemplars resolve moral dilemmas3
The invisible hand as an intuitive sociological explanation3
Perceived prototypicality of Asian subgroups in the United States and the United Kingdom3
Perceived outgroup entitativity mediates stronger effects of intergroup contact for majority than minority status groups3
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