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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Hierarchy as a signal of culture and belonging: Exploring why egalitarian ideology predicts aversion to hierarchical organizations75
Morals for the sake of movement: Locomotion and sensitivity to norms in moral dilemmas66
Does reading an anti-free will text affect beliefs related to free will over time? — A registered report57
Choosing not to get anchored: A choice mindset reduces the anchoring bias54
Joint collective action increases support for social change and mitigates intergroup polarisation: A registered report47
Folk devils? Perceived lack of traditional values explains youth-related stereotypes of sexual minorities and Black men42
Differences in faces do make a difference: Diversity perceptions and preferences in faces41
Feedback to video stimuli: A novel paradigm for manipulating existential isolation38
Revisiting dissociation hypotheses with a structural fit approach: The case of the prepared reflex framework35
“Black-and-White” thinking: Does visual contrast polarize moral judgment? Independent replications and extension of Study 133
Self-anchoring toward groups shapes changes in intergroup attitudes during intergroup interactions32
Untested assumptions perpetuate stereotyping: Learning in the absence of evidence31
Effects of aggregation on implicit bias measurement30
Who are you to me?: A relational approach to examining race-gender associations29
Power as a moral magnifier: Moral outrage is amplified when the powerful transgress26
System justification makes income gaps appear smaller25
Trait inferences from the “big two” produce gendered expectations of facial features24
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses24
Revisiting the folk concept of intentionality: Replications of22
More useful to you: Believing that others find the same objects more useful22
What types of gratitude expressions promote prosocial behavior?: A registered report21
The developmental origins and behavioral consequences of attributions for inequality20
The link between social categorization and spontaneous social evaluations: A matter of the evaluative implications of the situation?20
Too much information? A systematic investigation of the antecedents and consequences of ambivalence-induced information seeking behavior20
Using two-sided messages to facilitate misinformation correction for strongly held beliefs19
Students' daily activity and beliefs about the world before and after a campus shooting19
Third-party punishment, vigilante justice, or karma? Understanding the dynamics of interpersonal and cosmic justice19
Power can increase but also decrease cheating depending on what thoughts are validated19
Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection19
Legal descriptions of police officers affect how citizens judge them19
When do people learn likes and dislikes from co-occurrences? A dual-force perspective on evaluative conditioning18
Multiracials' affective, behavioral and identity-specific responses to identity denial18
WITHDRAWN: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups18
Group-bounded indirect reciprocity and intergroup gossip18
Effects of fear on donations to climate change mitigation17
People believe sexual harassment and domestic violence are less harmful for women in poverty17
Self-serving bias in moral character evaluations17
Consume humanity: Eating anthropomorphic food leads to the dehumanization of others17
Support for leaders who use conspiratorial rhetoric: The role of personal control and political identity17
Responsibility gaps and self-interest bias: People attribute moral responsibility to AI for their own but not others' transgressions15
Humanity at first sight: Exploring the relationship between others' pupil size and ascriptions of humanity15
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Perspective taking does not moderate the price precision effect, but indirectly affects counteroffers to asking prices15
Understanding attributions to racial discrimination in diverse hiring contexts: The impact of beneficiary identity15
Work engagement and burnout in anticipation of physically returning to work: The interactive effect of imminence of return and self-affirmation14
The impact of uncertainty induced by the COVID-19 pandemic on intertemporal choice14
Dynamic indirect reciprocity: The influence of personal reputation and group reputation on cooperative behavior in nested social dilemmas14
Religiosity predicts the delegation of decisions between moral and self-serving immoral outcomes14
The unexpected social consequences of diverting attention to our phones13
How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification13
Conflict, cooperation, and institutional choice13
Malevolent intentions and secret coordination. Dissecting cognitive processes in conspiracy beliefs via diffusion modeling13
The authentic catch-22: Following the true self promotes decision satisfaction in moral dilemmas13
Artificial intelligence and moral dilemmas: Perception of ethical decision-making in AI13
Does conscious perception render agents more responsible? A study of lay judgments12
When allies join the fight: How joint collective action shapes social change and intergroup relations12
People overshoot when choosing resource pools12
Negative multicultural experiences can increase intergroup bias12
Stimulus confounds in implicit and explicit measures of racial bias12
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
Hadza hunter-gatherers are not deontologists and do not prefer deontologists as social partners12
Assessing the speed and spontaneity of racial bias in pain perception11
You are safer with me: Presence of the self lowers risk perception for others11
Most people do not “value the struggle”: Tempted agents are judged as less virtuous than those who were never tempted11
Playing the field or locking down a partner?: Perceptions of available romantic partners and commitment readiness11
What makes us “we”? The positivity bias in essentialist beliefs about group attributes11
Corrigendum to “A trust inoculation to protect public support of governmentally mandated actions to mitigate climate change” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 115 (2024) 104656]11
Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes11
Examining selective migration as attitudinal fit versus gay migration11
Belief system networks can be used to predict where to expect dynamic constraint10
Social identity transition promotes trust toward strangers and unrelated outgroups10
The role of racial shared reality in Black Americans' identity-safety during interracial interactions10
Status- and foreignness-based discrimination experiences shape feelings of similarity among people of color10
Do reminders of God increase willingness to take risks?10
Understanding the role of faces in person perception: Increased reliance on facial appearance when judging sociability10
A (costly) penny for your thoughts? Allies cause harm by seeking marginalized group members' help when confronting prejudice10
On judging the morality of suicide10
Successful groups are seen as more agentic and therefore more human— Consequences for group perception9
Love is in the soul, math is in the brain: Dualist intuitions and belief in psychological science9
Talk is cheap: The role of (in)sincere allyship cues from men on women's identity-safety and retention at work9
Dissecting cross-category recognition: A methodological test of the theory of perceptual expertise9
The role of attitude features in the reliability of IAT scores9
Gender categorization and memory in transgender and cisgender people9
Vicarious kin derogation—when and why people mock the innocent family members of political leaders9
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
Ensemble perception in entitativity judgments of natural crowds9
“I wanna thank me”: Reputational consequences of attribution locus depend on outcome valence9
Reflexive or reflective? Group bias in third-party punishment in Chinese and Western cultures9
How race influences perceptions of objectivity and hiring preferences8
The malleability of sampling's impact on evaluation: Sampling goals moderate the evaluative impact of sampling a stimulus8
Beyond the basic six, static, and WERID: Exploring the range of emotions conveyed by facial expressions8
Attributions of emotion and reduced attitude openness prevent people from engaging others with opposing views8
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
Desired attitudes guide actual attitude change8
Concealment stigma: The social costs of concealing8
Choice availability and incentive structure determine how people cope with ostracism8
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Variability and abstraction in evaluative conditioning: Consequences for the generalization of likes and dislikes8
Beyond the motherhood penalty: Evidence of a (potentially race-based) parenthood boost in workplace evaluations8
Exemplar-based ingroup projection: The superordinate national category is associated more strongly with ingroup than outgroup political leaders8
Beyond belief: How social engagement motives influence the spread of conspiracy theories7
Giving-by-proxy triggers subsequent charitable behavior7
Investigating the morning morality effect and its mediating and moderating factors7
Mindless furry test-tubes: Categorizing animals as lab-subjects leads to their mind denial7
Time perspective and helpfulness: Are communicators more persuasive in the past, present, or future tense?7
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
Narcissistic vigilance to status cues7
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Considering the role of second-order respect in individuals' deference to dominant actors7
Repeated exposure to success harshens reactions to failure7
A colorblind ideal and the motivation to improve intergroup relations: The role of an (in)congruent status quo7
Masculinity contest cultures lead to self-group distancing in women7
Mitigating welfare-related prejudice and partisanship among U.S. conservatives with moral reframing of a universal basic income policy7
Refusing to forgive can have psychological benefits7
He said, she said: Gender differences in the disclosure of positive and negative information7
Withdrawal notice to: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups. Journal of experimental social psychology 101(2022) 1043397
“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
Reducing paternalistic bias toward ethnic minority girls7
Effects of ancestral information on social connectedness and life meaning7
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AI as a companion or a tool? Nostalgia promotes embracing AI technology with a relational use7
Maximizer's asymmetric memory: Amplified negativity for selected options, attenuated for foregone options7
Did you hear what she did to me? Female friendship victimization disclosures offer reputational advantages7
Registered Report Stage I: Prioritizing sociability over morality: Preferring false empathic over truthful unempathic emotion communication7
Reversing the cumulative redundancy bias to demonstrate metacognitive flexibility in cue utilization7
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
Making an impression: The effects of sharing conspiracy theories7
Economic scarcity increases racial stereotyping in beliefs and face representation7
Timing is everything: Unraveling the temporal dynamics of the cheerleader effect7
Scientific identity and STEMM-relevant outcomes: Elaboration moderates use of identity-certainty7
How people perceive dispositionally (non-) ambivalent others and why it matters6
Does deliberation decrease belief in conspiracies?6
Corrigendum to “The dark side of meaning-making: how social exclusion leads to superstitious thinking” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 218–222]6
Smartly following others: Majority influence depends on how the majority behavior is formed6
“If you agree with me, it must be true”: Social verification creates shared reality and consolidates impressions6
Slippery slope thinking links religiosity to punishment6
How diversity and disadvantage frames shape employee reactions to affirmative action: Social identity threat, stereotype threat, and fairness perceptions6
Organizational norms and gender identity contexts shape when pronoun-sharing is perceived as disingenuous allyship: Evidence of a normative eclipsing effect6
Beyond killing one to save five: Sensitivity to ratio and probability in moral judgment6
Moral violations that target more valued victims elicit more anger, but not necessarily more disgust6
The interpersonal costs of revealing others' secrets6
Why do some people refuse to compromise their positions on politicized practices? The role of need for closure6
Structuring success: How issue-packaging agendas foster better joint outcomes in multi-issue negotiations6
Social identity complexity mitigates outgroup derogation in moral judgment6
Persuading republicans and democrats to comply with mask wearing: An intervention tournament6
Gifts that keep on giving: Reflected appraisals from gifts and their role in identity and choice6
Nostalgia confers psychological wellbeing by increasing authenticity6
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Bless her heart: Gossip phrased with concern provides advantages in female intrasexual competition5
From critical to hypocritical: Counterfactual thinking increases partisan disagreement about media hypocrisy5
Exploring the gender-portion association in stereotypes, cognition, and treatment5
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Effects of temporal distance on a dynamic measure of action identification5
Reframing of moral dilemmas reveals an unexpected “positivity bias” in updating and attributions5
The effects of fear appeals on reactance in climate change communication5
Summarized and sequential discrimination - A paradigm for research on the perception of multiple instances of discrimination5
Who's on first? People asymmetrically attend to higher-ranked (vs. lower-ranked) competitors5
Not lie detection but stereotypes: Response priming reveals a gender bias in facial trustworthiness evaluations5
Fragility and forgiveness: Masculinity concerns affect men's willingness to forgive5
The impact of social identity complexity on intergroup parochial and universal cooperation under different payoff structures and frames5
Psychological power increases the desire for social distance but reduces the sense of social distance5
Synchrony and mental health: Investigating the negative association between interpersonal coordination and subclinical variation in autism and social anxiety5
Intentions versus outcomes: Determinants of costly third-party interventions in fairness maintenance5
In the pursuit of happiness: Attaining a greater number of high-status positions increases well-being but only in select groups5
Is common behavior considered moral? The role of perceived others' motives in moral norm inferences and motivation about environmental behavior5
Predicting that birds of a feather will flock together: Expectations of homophily for others but not the self5
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
Status decoded: How actors and observers shape the meaning of stealth symbols4
When are leaders blamed for bad events that never happened? Partisanship and close counterfactual catastrophes4
Face-to-face: Three facial features that may turn the scale in close electoral races4
Do individuation instructions reduce the cross-race effect? A registered replication of4
Are rules meant to be broken? When and why consistent rule-following undermines versus enhances trust4
(Not) showing you feel good, can be bad: The consequences of breaking expressivity norms for positive emotions4
The power of the Ingroup for promoting collective action: How distinctive treatment from fellow minority members motivates collective action4
Population base rates as anchors in social categorization under uncertainty4
Do voting and election outcomes predict changes in conspiracy beliefs? Evidence from two high-profile U.S. elections4
Class attitudes and the American work ethic: Praise for the hardworking poor and derogation of the lazy rich4
The limits of moral framing in promoting pro-environmentalism: A preregistered replication of4
Effort-based decision making in joint action: Evidence of a sense of fairness4
How are real artworks and reproductions judged? The role of anchoring in empirical investigations of the genuineness effect4
From self to ingroup reclaiming of homophobic epithets: A replication and extension of Galinsky et al.'s (2013) model of reappropriation4
People judge third-party anger as a signal of moral character4
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The role of gender in shaping Black and Latina women’s experiences in anticipated interracial interactions4
Ease of retrieval of role attributes predicts role clarity which, in turn, predicts outcomes among stepparents4
Palestinians and Israelis believe the other's God encourages intergroup benevolence: A case of positive intergroup meta-perceptions4
The effect of wearing college apparel on Black men's perceived criminality and perceived risk of being racially profiled by police4
Norm-enhanced prebunking for actively open-minded thinking indirectly improves misinformation discernment and reduces conspiracy beliefs4
Going at it alone: Zero-sum beliefs inhibit help-seeking4
Engaging with conspiracy theories: Causes and consequences4
If negligence is intentionality’s cousin, recklessness is it’s sibling: Differentiating negligence and recklessness from accidents and intentional harm4
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Biased, but expert: Trade-offs in how stigmatized versus non-stigmatized advocates are perceived and consequences for persuasion4
Precarious manhood increases men's receptivity to social sexual behavior from attractive women at work4
Taking advantage: Predictions and moral judgments of leveraging outside options in ultimatum games4
Moral decay in investment4
Construing hypotheticals: How hypotheticality affects level of abstraction4
Are conspiracy theory believers drawn to conspiratorial explanations, alternatives explanations, or both?3
Task affordances affect partner preferences3
Lower social class, better social skills? A registered report testing diverging predictions from the rank and cultural approaches to social class3
Morally questionable actors' meta-perceptions are accurate but overly positive3
The ideological paradox of Technologism3
Self-other differences in perceptions of wealth3
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Implementing planned missingness in stimulus sampling designs: Strategies for optimizing statistical power and precision while limiting participant burden3
Altering the past to shape the future: Manipulating information accessibility to influence case-based reasoning3
Weight stigma: Do we believe that everyone can enjoy healthy behaviors?3
Algorithmic management diminishes status: An unintended consequence of using machines to perform social roles3
Testing “quarantined” metarepresentational accounts of Theory of Mind: Are we biased by others' false beliefs?3
The influence of dominance and prestige on children's resource allocation: What if they coexist?3
The impact factor: The effect of actual impact information and perceived donation efficacy on donors' repeated donations3
Is the victim-perpetrator asymmetry stronger in situations where blame is being assigned?3
The effect of gender identity and gender threat on self-image3
Social identity threat attenuates own-race bias in face recognition under the “Asian-Caucasian” context3
Share the wealth: Neurophysiological and motivational mechanisms related to racial discrimination in economic decision making3
Generalization of rejection and acceptance in social networks3
I am, I am not: Strategies to cope with negative group labels3
Hey Siri, I love you: People feel more attached to gendered technology3
Does victims' forgiveness help offenders to forgive themselves? The role of meta-perceptions of value consensus3
The effect of practice on automatic evaluation: A registered replication3
The do-gooder dilemma: A self/other asymmetry in the perceived emotional costs of self-reporting good deeds3
Appraisal of male privilege: On the dual role of identity threat and shame in response to confrontations with male privilege3
Effects of awe on self-transcendence: A registered report study3
Moral fixedness: Morality seems less changeable than competence and warmth3
Evaluative conditioning with multiple unconditioned stimuli – Integration at judgment?3
Revisiting the moral forecasting error – A preregistered replication and extension of “Are we more moral than we think?”3
How morality signals, benefits, binds, and teaches3
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
Income inequality and status concerns in multiple life domains increase self-objectification for both women and men3
“You're leaving us?” Feeling ostracized when a group member leaves3
Thicker-skinned but still human: People may think individuals in poverty are less vulnerable to harm even when ascribing them full humanity3
Simultaneous pairing increases evaluative conditioning: Evidence for the role of temporal overlap but not of onset synchrony3
Higher power dynamics: How meaning search and self-transcendence inspire approach motivation and magnanimity3
The invisible hand as an intuitive sociological explanation3
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