Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Joint collective action increases support for social change and mitigates intergroup polarisation: A registered report81
Untested assumptions perpetuate stereotyping: Learning in the absence of evidence70
Feedback to video stimuli: A novel paradigm for manipulating existential isolation62
“Black-and-White” thinking: Does visual contrast polarize moral judgment? Independent replications and extension of Study 144
Hierarchy as a signal of culture and belonging: Exploring why egalitarian ideology predicts aversion to hierarchical organizations39
Incentivization very weakly improves theory of mind: A multi-sample investigation and meta-analysis37
Folk devils? Perceived lack of traditional values explains youth-related stereotypes of sexual minorities and Black men36
Choosing not to get anchored: A choice mindset reduces the anchoring bias36
Does reading an anti-free will text affect beliefs related to free will over time? — A registered report35
Self-anchoring toward groups shapes changes in intergroup attitudes during intergroup interactions35
Who are you to me?: A relational approach to examining race-gender associations34
Power as a moral magnifier: Moral outrage is amplified when the powerful transgress33
More useful to you: Believing that others find the same objects more useful30
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses30
Revisiting the folk concept of intentionality: Replications of28
What types of gratitude expressions promote prosocial behavior?: A registered report23
Using two-sided messages to facilitate misinformation correction for strongly held beliefs22
Too much information? A systematic investigation of the antecedents and consequences of ambivalence-induced information seeking behavior21
Gossip or confrontation? Sanctioning environmental norm violations and the reputation of punishers20
Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection20
The link between social categorization and spontaneous social evaluations: A matter of the evaluative implications of the situation?20
Students' daily activity and beliefs about the world before and after a campus shooting19
Effects of fear on donations to climate change mitigation19
System justification makes income gaps appear smaller19
Third-party punishment, vigilante justice, or karma? Understanding the dynamics of interpersonal and cosmic justice19
Trait inferences from the “big two” produce gendered expectations of facial features19
Multiracials' affective, behavioral and identity-specific responses to identity denial18
When do people learn likes and dislikes from co-occurrences? A dual-force perspective on evaluative conditioning18
Support for leaders who use conspiratorial rhetoric: The role of personal control and political identity17
Self-serving bias in moral character evaluations17
Group-bounded indirect reciprocity and intergroup gossip16
Playing it safe: Negotiators avoid uncertainty and reach safer, but less integrative agreements16
People believe sexual harassment and domestic violence are less harmful for women in poverty16
Power can increase but also decrease cheating depending on what thoughts are validated16
Consume humanity: Eating anthropomorphic food leads to the dehumanization of others16
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Responsibility gaps and self-interest bias: People attribute moral responsibility to AI for their own but not others' transgressions15
Work engagement and burnout in anticipation of physically returning to work: The interactive effect of imminence of return and self-affirmation14
Dynamic indirect reciprocity: The influence of personal reputation and group reputation on cooperative behavior in nested social dilemmas14
Malevolent intentions and secret coordination. Dissecting cognitive processes in conspiracy beliefs via diffusion modeling14
Humanity at first sight: Exploring the relationship between others' pupil size and ascriptions of humanity14
How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification13
Learning to distrust: One trust experience changes the expected value of trust13
The impact of uncertainty induced by the COVID-19 pandemic on intertemporal choice13
Understanding attributions to racial discrimination in diverse hiring contexts: The impact of beneficiary identity13
The authentic catch-22: Following the true self promotes decision satisfaction in moral dilemmas12
Two wrongs is what makes it more right: How retaliatory incivility receives social leniency12
Most people do not “value the struggle”: Tempted agents are judged as less virtuous than those who were never tempted12
People overshoot when choosing resource pools12
Religiosity predicts the delegation of decisions between moral and self-serving immoral outcomes12
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]12
When allies join the fight: How joint collective action shapes social change and intergroup relations11
Conflict, cooperation, and institutional choice11
You are safer with me: Presence of the self lowers risk perception for others11
What makes us “we”? The positivity bias in essentialist beliefs about group attributes11
Negative multicultural experiences can increase intergroup bias11
Does conscious perception render agents more responsible? A study of lay judgments11
Stimulus confounds in implicit and explicit measures of racial bias11
Social identity transition promotes trust toward strangers and unrelated outgroups10
Status- and foreignness-based discrimination experiences shape feelings of similarity among people of color10
Do reminders of God increase willingness to take risks?10
The role of racial shared reality in Black Americans' identity-safety during interracial interactions10
On judging the morality of suicide10
Love is in the soul, math is in the brain: Dualist intuitions and belief in psychological science10
A (costly) penny for your thoughts? Allies cause harm by seeking marginalized group members' help when confronting prejudice10
Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes10
Ensemble perception in entitativity judgments of natural crowds9
Talk is cheap: The role of (in)sincere allyship cues from men on women's identity-safety and retention at work9
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Beyond the motherhood penalty: Evidence of a (potentially race-based) parenthood boost in workplace evaluations9
Judging the guilt of the un-guilty: The roles of “false positive” guilt and empathy in moral character perception9
Close but not quite: Exploring the role of shared discrimination in racial outgroup identity-safety cues for Black women9
Vicarious kin derogation—when and why people mock the innocent family members of political leaders9
Dissecting cross-category recognition: A methodological test of the theory of perceptual expertise9
Gender categorization and memory in transgender and cisgender people9
Successful groups are seen as more agentic and therefore more human— Consequences for group perception9
“I wanna thank me”: Reputational consequences of attribution locus depend on outcome valence9
Exemplar-based ingroup projection: The superordinate national category is associated more strongly with ingroup than outgroup political leaders8
Holiday greeting inclusivity in organizations: The more the merrier8
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Effects of ancestral information on social connectedness and life meaning8
The malleability of sampling's impact on evaluation: Sampling goals moderate the evaluative impact of sampling a stimulus8
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 effects8
A colorblind ideal and the motivation to improve intergroup relations: The role of an (in)congruent status quo8
Timing is everything: Unraveling the temporal dynamics of the cheerleader effect8
Desired attitudes guide actual attitude change8
Choice availability and incentive structure determine how people cope with ostracism8
Beyond the basic six, static, and WERID: Exploring the range of emotions conveyed by facial expressions8
How race influences perceptions of objectivity and hiring preferences8
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Variability and abstraction in evaluative conditioning: Consequences for the generalization of likes and dislikes8
Managing threatened identities across everyday situations7
Scientific identity and STEMM-relevant outcomes: Elaboration moderates use of identity-certainty7
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
Just a means to an end? Individuals support direct democracy instrumentally, irrespective of conspiracy mentality7
Economic scarcity increases racial stereotyping in beliefs and face representation7
Attributions of emotion and reduced attitude openness prevent people from engaging others with opposing views7
Narcissistic vigilance to status cues7
Time perspective and helpfulness: Are communicators more persuasive in the past, present, or future tense?7
Repeated exposure to success harshens reactions to failure7
Maximizer's asymmetric memory: Amplified negativity for selected options, attenuated for foregone options7
Mitigating welfare-related prejudice and partisanship among U.S. conservatives with moral reframing of a universal basic income policy7
Registered report stage I: Defending or defying democracy? Investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and support for democratic principles [registered report - stage I]7
Making an impression: The effects of sharing conspiracy theories7
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
He said, she said: Gender differences in the disclosure of positive and negative information7
A threat-based hate model: How symbolic and realistic threats underlie hate and aggression7
Beyond belief: How social engagement motives influence the spread of conspiracy theories7
Reversing the cumulative redundancy bias to demonstrate metacognitive flexibility in cue utilization7
AI as a companion or a tool? Nostalgia promotes embracing AI technology with a relational use7
Reducing paternalistic bias toward ethnic minority girls7
Why do some people refuse to compromise their positions on politicized practices? The role of need for closure6
Mindless furry test-tubes: Categorizing animals as lab-subjects leads to their mind denial6
Investigating the morning morality effect and its mediating and moderating factors6
Beyond killing one to save five: Sensitivity to ratio and probability in moral judgment6
Registered Report Stage I: Prioritizing sociability over morality: Preferring false empathic over truthful unempathic emotion communication6
Slippery slope thinking links religiosity to punishment6
Moral violations that target more valued victims elicit more anger, but not necessarily more disgust6
Tracking connections, not content: How working memory shapes content and social learning in online networks6
Refusing to forgive can have psychological benefits6
Corrigendum to “The dark side of meaning-making: how social exclusion leads to superstitious thinking” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 218–222]6
Organizational norms and gender identity contexts shape when pronoun-sharing is perceived as disingenuous allyship: Evidence of a normative eclipsing effect6
Does deliberation decrease belief in conspiracies?6
How people perceive dispositionally (non-) ambivalent others and why it matters5
Minority report: How minorities' awareness of power asymmetry drives strategic preparation in opinion debates5
Bless her heart: Gossip phrased with concern provides advantages in female intrasexual competition5
Intentions versus outcomes: Determinants of costly third-party interventions in fairness maintenance5
How diversity and disadvantage frames shape employee reactions to affirmative action: Social identity threat, stereotype threat, and fairness perceptions5
Giving-by-proxy triggers subsequent charitable behavior5
Masculinity contest cultures lead to self-group distancing in women5
Social identity complexity mitigates outgroup derogation in moral judgment5
Not all stimuli are conditioned equal – Larger evaluative conditioning effects for fluent stimuli5
Who's on first? People asymmetrically attend to higher-ranked (vs. lower-ranked) competitors5
“If you agree with me, it must be true”: Social verification creates shared reality and consolidates impressions5
Gifts that keep on giving: Reflected appraisals from gifts and their role in identity and choice5
Structuring success: How issue-packaging agendas foster better joint outcomes in multi-issue negotiations5
The impact of social identity complexity on intergroup parochial and universal cooperation under different payoff structures and frames5
Summarized and sequential discrimination - A paradigm for research on the perception of multiple instances of discrimination5
Smartly following others: Majority influence depends on how the majority behavior is formed5
Nostalgia confers psychological wellbeing by increasing authenticity5
The interpersonal costs of revealing others' secrets5
Effort-based decision making in joint action: Evidence of a sense of fairness4
Predicting that birds of a feather will flock together: Expectations of homophily for others but not the self4
Synchrony and mental health: Investigating the negative association between interpersonal coordination and subclinical variation in autism and social anxiety4
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Smiling your way to happiness or misery? Experimental tests of competing perspectives4
Do voting and election outcomes predict changes in conspiracy beliefs? Evidence from two high-profile U.S. elections4
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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When rightness is wrong: Chronic prevention orientation predicts cardiovascular threat responses under regulatory fit4
The limits of moral framing in promoting pro-environmentalism: A preregistered replication of4
Effects of temporal distance on a dynamic measure of action identification4
In the pursuit of happiness: Attaining a greater number of high-status positions increases well-being but only in select groups4
Psychological power increases the desire for social distance but reduces the sense of social distance4
Fragility and forgiveness: Masculinity concerns affect men's willingness to forgive4
Not lie detection but stereotypes: Response priming reveals a gender bias in facial trustworthiness evaluations4
From self to ingroup reclaiming of homophobic epithets: A replication and extension of Galinsky et al.'s (2013) model of reappropriation4
Taking advantage: Predictions and moral judgments of leveraging outside options in ultimatum games4
Face-to-face: Three facial features that may turn the scale in close electoral races4
Unequal participation: How low socioeconomic status hinders political engagement4
Exploring the gender-portion association in stereotypes, cognition, and treatment4
Engaging with conspiracy theories: Causes and consequences4
Going at it alone: Zero-sum beliefs inhibit help-seeking4
The effects of fear appeals on reactance in climate change communication4
Is common behavior considered moral? The role of perceived others' motives in moral norm inferences and motivation about environmental behavior4
Construing hypotheticals: How hypotheticality affects level of abstraction4
Precarious manhood increases men's receptivity to social sexual behavior from attractive women at work4
Moral decay in investment4
Registered report stage I: Is it unpleasant to predict kindergarten teacher = man? Testing the emotional response to the anticipation of confirmation or violation of gendered stereotypes4
Beyond morality primacy: Inference of competence takes the lead in spontaneous impressions4
Status decoded: How actors and observers shape the meaning of stealth symbols4
The role of gender in shaping Black and Latina women’s experiences in anticipated interracial interactions3
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When are leaders blamed for bad events that never happened? Partisanship and close counterfactual catastrophes3
The effect of frameswitching on perceptions of decisiveness, creativity, and job fit3
Appraisal of male privilege: On the dual role of identity threat and shame in response to confrontations with male privilege3
The impact factor: The effect of actual impact information and perceived donation efficacy on donors' repeated donations3
Does ignorance love company? The social dynamics of information avoidance3
Moral fixedness: Morality seems less changeable than competence and warmth3
Ease of retrieval of role attributes predicts role clarity which, in turn, predicts outcomes among stepparents3
People judge third-party anger as a signal of moral character3
How are real artworks and reproductions judged? The role of anchoring in empirical investigations of the genuineness effect3
Are rules meant to be broken? When and why consistent rule-following undermines versus enhances trust3
(Not) showing you feel good, can be bad: The consequences of breaking expressivity norms for positive emotions3
Population base rates as anchors in social categorization under uncertainty3
The influence of dominance and prestige on children's resource allocation: What if they coexist?3
Strategically prosocial: Using acts of kindness to secure more valuable interaction partners3
Income inequality and status concerns in multiple life domains increase self-objectification for both women and men3
Testing “quarantined” metarepresentational accounts of Theory of Mind: Are we biased by others' false beliefs?3
The spread of fear: Perceptual deindividuation drives racial bias in threat generalization3
If negligence is intentionality’s cousin, recklessness is it’s sibling: Differentiating negligence and recklessness from accidents and intentional harm3
Palestinians and Israelis believe the other's God encourages intergroup benevolence: A case of positive intergroup meta-perceptions3
Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs3
Biased, but expert: Trade-offs in how stigmatized versus non-stigmatized advocates are perceived and consequences for persuasion3
The do-gooder dilemma: A self/other asymmetry in the perceived emotional costs of self-reporting good deeds3
Higher power dynamics: How meaning search and self-transcendence inspire approach motivation and magnanimity3
Decision strategy and perceived humanness: The roles of decision context and decision outcome3
Effects of awe on self-transcendence: A registered report study3
Are conspiracy theory believers drawn to conspiratorial explanations, alternatives explanations, or both?3
Do individuation instructions reduce the cross-race effect? A registered replication of3
Altering the past to shape the future: Manipulating information accessibility to influence case-based reasoning2
Weight stigma: Do we believe that everyone can enjoy healthy behaviors?2
Personal harm from the Covid-19 pandemic predicts advocacy for equality2
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Revisiting the bounded generalized reciprocity model: Ingroup favoritism and concerns about negative evaluation2
The effects of anonymity in volunteer's dilemmas2
Morally questionable actors' meta-perceptions are accurate but overly positive2
Why do people turn to smartphones during social interactions?2
Social identity threat attenuates own-race bias in face recognition under the “Asian-Caucasian” context2
The effect of practice on automatic evaluation: A registered replication2
Whispered words and organizational dynamics: The nuanced evaluation of gossipers' personality and its effect on workplace advice seeking2
Does victims' forgiveness help offenders to forgive themselves? The role of meta-perceptions of value consensus2
The cost of freedom: Creative ideation boosts both feelings of autonomy and the fear of judgment2
Evaluative conditioning with multiple unconditioned stimuli – Integration at judgment?2
Spheres of immanent justice: Sacred violations evoke expectations of cosmic punishment, irrespective of societal punishment2
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Task affordances affect partner preferences2
“You're leaving us?” Feeling ostracized when a group member leaves2
The mind's “aye”? Investigating overlap in findings produced by reverse correlation versus self-report2
Dominance through the lens of a competitive worldview: The role of relationship expectancies2
Low power warm-up effect: Understanding the effect of power on creativity over time2
"It's not an overreaction": Increasing White people's acceptance of the reality of bias and receptivity to Black people's bias concerns2
Revisiting the moral forecasting error – A preregistered replication and extension of “Are we more moral than we think?”2
Less “awe”-some art: How AI diminishes the empathic power of the arts2
Empathy for the pain of others: Sensitivity to the individual, not to the collective2
Hey Siri, I love you: People feel more attached to gendered technology2
Perceived outgroup entitativity mediates stronger effects of intergroup contact for majority than minority status groups2
Self-other differences in perceptions of wealth2
When your boss is a robot: Workers are more spiteful to robot supervisors that seem more human2
Generalization of rejection and acceptance in social networks2
When everything is at stake: Understanding support for radical collective actions and collective victimhood through anger in a post-conflict setting2
I am, I am not: Strategies to cope with negative group labels2
Algorithmic management diminishes status: An unintended consequence of using machines to perform social roles2
Trust under watch: Relational models and the context-dependent nature of monitoring2
Can identity fusion foster social harmony? Strongly fused individuals embrace familiar outgroup members unless threatened2
Giving (in) to help an identified person2
Perceiving others as responsive lessens prejudice: The mediating roles of intellectual humility and attitude ambivalence2
Lower social class, better social skills? A registered report testing diverging predictions from the rank and cultural approaches to social class2
Testing the effects of political rhetoric towards muslims as a facilitator and barrier for intergroup contact2
The ideological paradox of Technologism2
Share the wealth: Neurophysiological and motivational mechanisms related to racial discrimination in economic decision making2
Don't judge a book by its cover: The effect of perceived facial trustworthiness on advice following in the context of value-based decision-making2
Thicker-skinned but still human: People may think individuals in poverty are less vulnerable to harm even when ascribing them full humanity2
Is the automatic evaluation of individual group members inherently biased by their group membership?2
Simultaneous pairing increases evaluative conditioning: Evidence for the role of temporal overlap but not of onset synchrony2
Endorsing both sides, pleasing neither: Ambivalent individuals face unexpected social costs in political conflicts2
The invisible hand as an intuitive sociological explanation2
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