OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology is 7. 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.)

Article	Citations
Judging the guilt of the un-guilty: The roles of “false positive” guilt and empathy in moral character perception	101
“Black-and-White” thinking: Does visual contrast polarize moral judgment? Independent replications and extension of Study 1	95
Choosing not to see: Visual inattention as a method of information avoidance	60
Equating silence with violence: When White Americans feel threatened by anti-racist messages	45
The ‘me’ in meat: Does affirming the self make eating animals seem more morally wrong?	44
Choosing not to get anchored: A choice mindset reduces the anchoring bias	42
Cue competition in mental state inference: Blocking effects in learning to interpret the behaviors of others	42
Conformity to group norms: How group-affirmation shapes collective action	37
Revisiting dissociation hypotheses with a structural fit approach: The case of the prepared reflex framework	35
Facial first impressions following a prison sentence: Negative shift in trait ratings but the same underlying structure	34
A trust inoculation to protect public support of governmentally mandated actions to mitigate climate change	33
Share the wealth: Neurophysiological and motivational mechanisms related to racial discrimination in economic decision making	31
Gender categorization and memory in transgender and cisgender people	28
The effect of practice on automatic evaluation: A registered replication	26
Social identity threat attenuates own-race bias in face recognition under the “Asian-Caucasian” context	25
The role of attitude features in the reliability of IAT scores	25
Effects of aggregation on implicit bias measurement	24
The role of task similarity for ego depletion: A registered report	24
Untested assumptions perpetuate stereotyping: Learning in the absence of evidence	23
Good deeds and hard knocks: The effect of past suffering on praise for moral behavior	22
The effect of financial stress on inhibitory control and economic decisions	22
Summarized and sequential discrimination - A paradigm for research on the perception of multiple instances of discrimination	22
Do reminders of God increase willingness to take risks?	22
Evidence for bidirectional causation between trait and mental state inferences	22
The group extremity effect: Group ratings of negatively and positively evaluated groups of faces are more extreme than the average ratings of their members	21

Hierarchy profiling: How and why a job's perceived impact on inequality affects racial hiring evaluations	21
Moral credentials and the 2020 democratic presidential primary: No evidence that endorsing female candidates licenses people to favor men	21
Morally questionable actors' meta-perceptions are accurate but overly positive	20
Psychological power increases the desire for social distance but reduces the sense of social distance	20
On judging the morality of suicide	20
Attributional ambiguity reduces charitable giving by relaxing social norms	20
Faster, stronger, and more obligatory?A temporal analysis of negative (versus positive) emotional reactions	20
Clarifying the relationship between randomness dismissal and conspiracist ideation: A preregistered replication and meta-analysis	19
Editorial Board	19
Who's on first? People asymmetrically attend to higher-ranked (vs. lower-ranked) competitors	18
How morality signals, benefits, binds, and teaches	18
Self-other differences in perceptions of wealth	18
Imagined empathy and anger intensity: Distinct emotional implications of perceiving that a close versus distant other is privy to an anger-inducing experience	17
Reframing of moral dilemmas reveals an unexpected “positivity bias” in updating and attributions	16
Editorial Board	16
From critical to hypocritical: Counterfactual thinking increases partisan disagreement about media hypocrisy	16
Morals for the sake of movement: Locomotion and sensitivity to norms in moral dilemmas	16
Registered report: Moderators of the relationship between implicit and explicit measures of evaluation and identification	15
Differences in faces do make a difference: Diversity perceptions and preferences in faces	15
The primacy of communality in humanization	14
Are they giving scarce resources away?: Types of prosocial behavior modulate the prosocial effects of target social class on others	14
Is the victim-perpetrator asymmetry stronger in situations where blame is being assigned?	14
The effect of gender identity and gender threat on self-image	14
One for me, two for you: Agency increases children's satisfaction with disadvantageous inequity	14
Successful groups are seen as more agentic and therefore more human— Consequences for group perception	13
Safe here, but unsafe there? Institutional signals of identity safety also signal prejudice in the broader environment	13
Acquiring favorable attitudes based on aversive affective cues: Examining the spontaneity and efficiency of propositional evaluative conditioning	13
Close but not quite: Exploring the role of shared discrimination in racial outgroup identity-safety cues for Black women	13
What's in a pronoun: Exploring gender pronouns as an organizational identity-safety cue among sexual and gender minorities	12
White and minority demographic shifts, intergroup threat, and right-wing extremism	12
Disadvantaged group activists' attitudes toward advantaged group allies in social movements	12
US cisgender women's psychological responses to physical femininity threats: Increased anxiety, reduced self-esteem	12
Being a tough person in a tight world: Cultural tightness leads to a desire for muscularity	12
Synchrony and mental health: Investigating the negative association between interpersonal coordination and subclinical variation in autism and social anxiety	12
Faith and science mindsets as predictors of COVID-19 concern: A three-wave longitudinal study	11
Feeling empathy for organizations: Moral consequences, mechanisms, and the power of framing	11
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 competition	11
Giving more or taking more? The dual effect of self-esteem on cooperative behavior in social dilemmas	11
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 organizations	11
“Anything that looks like smoking is bad”: Moral opposition and support for harm reduction policy	11
Reflexive or reflective? Group bias in third-party punishment in Chinese and Western cultures	11
The effects of fear appeals on reactance in climate change communication	11
The impact of social identity complexity on intergroup parochial and universal cooperation under different payoff structures and frames	11
Poverty and pain: Low-SES people are believed to be insensitive to pain	11
The impact of economic inequality on conspiracy beliefs	11
Social identity switching: How effective is it?	10
Fragility and forgiveness: Masculinity concerns affect men's willingness to forgive	10
The partisan trade-off bias: When political polarization meets policy trade-offs	10

Who are you to me?: A relational approach to examining race-gender associations	10
Not lie detection but stereotypes: Response priming reveals a gender bias in facial trustworthiness evaluations	10
In the pursuit of happiness: Attaining a greater number of high-status positions increases well-being but only in select groups	10
Editorial Board	10
Fairness decision-making of opportunity equity in gain and loss contexts	10
Understanding mechanisms behind discrimination using diffusion decision modeling	10
Concealment stigma: The social costs of concealing	10
Editorial Board	10
Feeling known predicts relationship satisfaction	9
Still too good to be true: Reply to	9
Quantification of evaluations	9
More useful to you: Believing that others find the same objects more useful	9
The role of gender and safety concerns in romantic rejection decisions	9
The victim-perpetrator asymmetry is stronger in situations where blame is being assigned	9
Editorial Board	9
Personal harm from the Covid-19 pandemic predicts advocacy for equality	9
Trait inferences from the “big two” produce gendered expectations of facial features	9
Face-to-face: Three facial features that may turn the scale in close electoral races	9
Has social psychology lost touch with reality? Exploring public perceptions of the realism and consequentiality of social psychological research	8
Whispered words and organizational dynamics: The nuanced evaluation of gossipers' personality and its effect on workplace advice seeking	8
A 2 × 2 model of sociocognitive conflict regulation	8
Assessing implicit attitudes about androgyny	8
Financial self-control strategy use: Generating personal strategies reduces spending more than learning expert strategies	8
Race in the eye of the beholder: Decomposing perceiver- and target-level variation in perceived racial prototypicality	8
Butt-dialing the devil: Evil agents are expected to disregard intentions behind requests	8
Engaging with conspiracy theories: Causes and consequences	8
Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection	8
Editorial Board	8
System justification makes income gaps appear smaller	8
Moral elevation increases support for humanitarian policies, but not political concessions, in intractable conflict	8
Revisiting the folk concept of intentionality: Replications of	8
The malleability of sampling's impact on evaluation: Sampling goals moderate the evaluative impact of sampling a stimulus	8
How relationships bias moral reasoning: Neural and self-report evidence	7
Is common behavior considered moral? The role of perceived others' motives in moral norm inferences and motivation about environmental behavior	7
The affective consequences of threats to masculinity	7
Beyond first impressions: Investigating the influence of visual attention and cue availability in discriminatory behavior	7
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses	7
Brilliance as gender deviance: Gender-role incongruity as another barrier to women's success in academic fields	7
Learning to judge a book by its cover: Rapid acquisition of facial stereotypes	7
Social class predicts preference for competent politicians	7
Effort-based decision making in joint action: Evidence of a sense of fairness	7
When intergroup helping helps intergroup relations: The moderating role of trust in the outgroup	7
The threat of powerlessness: Consequences for affect and (social) cognition	7