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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Differences in faces do make a difference: Diversity perceptions and preferences in faces	110
Hierarchy as a signal of culture and belonging: Exploring why egalitarian ideology predicts aversion to hierarchical organizations	107
Choosing not to get anchored: A choice mindset reduces the anchoring bias	65
“Black-and-White” thinking: Does visual contrast polarize moral judgment? Independent replications and extension of Study 1	50
Revisiting dissociation hypotheses with a structural fit approach: The case of the prepared reflex framework	48
Hierarchy profiling: How and why a job's perceived impact on inequality affects racial hiring evaluations	48
Morals for the sake of movement: Locomotion and sensitivity to norms in moral dilemmas	47
Untested assumptions perpetuate stereotyping: Learning in the absence of evidence	47
Effects of aggregation on implicit bias measurement	44
Joint collective action increases support for social change and mitigates intergroup polarisation: A registered report	44
Feeling empathy for organizations: Moral consequences, mechanisms, and the power of framing	35
Faster, stronger, and more obligatory?A temporal analysis of negative (versus positive) emotional reactions	34
Being a tough person in a tight world: Cultural tightness leads to a desire for muscularity	30
More useful to you: Believing that others find the same objects more useful	30
Editorial Board	29
Students' daily activity and beliefs about the world before and after a campus shooting	28
Who are you to me?: A relational approach to examining race-gender associations	28
Third-party punishment, vigilante justice, or karma? Understanding the dynamics of interpersonal and cosmic justice	28
The effect of irrelevant pairings on evaluative responses	27
Revisiting the folk concept of intentionality: Replications of	27
Trait inferences from the “big two” produce gendered expectations of facial features	26
A 2 × 2 model of sociocognitive conflict regulation	26
The developmental origins and behavioral consequences of attributions for inequality	25
Climate change threats increase modern racism as a function of social dominance orientation and ingroup identification	25
Financial self-control strategy use: Generating personal strategies reduces spending more than learning expert strategies	25

Talking to strangers: A week-long intervention reduces psychological barriers to social connection	25
System justification makes income gaps appear smaller	25
Strategies for disclosing a concealable stigma: Facts and feelings?	24
Responsibility gaps and self-interest bias: People attribute moral responsibility to AI for their own but not others' transgressions	23
Support for leaders who use conspiratorial rhetoric: The role of personal control and political identity	23
Legal descriptions of police officers affect how citizens judge them	23
Power can increase but also decrease cheating depending on what thoughts are validated	22
Perspective taking does not moderate the price precision effect, but indirectly affects counteroffers to asking prices	21
The interplay between individual and collective efforts in the age of global threats	20
How cognitive issue bracketing affects interdependent decision-making in negotiations	20
When do people learn likes and dislikes from co-occurrences? A dual-force perspective on evaluative conditioning	19
People believe sexual harassment and domestic violence are less harmful for women in poverty	19
WITHDRAWN: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups	19
Multiracials' affective, behavioral and identity-specific responses to identity denial	18
Consume humanity: Eating anthropomorphic food leads to the dehumanization of others	18
Self-serving bias in moral character evaluations	18
Editorial Board	17
Group-bounded indirect reciprocity and intergroup gossip	17
Effects of fear on donations to climate change mitigation	17
Work engagement and burnout in anticipation of physically returning to work: The interactive effect of imminence of return and self-affirmation	15
Framing an altruistic action in periodic (versus aggregate) terms reduces people's moral evaluation of the act and the actor	15
Religiosity predicts the delegation of decisions between moral and self-serving immoral outcomes	15
The unexpected social consequences of diverting attention to our phones	14
Malevolent intentions and secret coordination. Dissecting cognitive processes in conspiracy beliefs via diffusion modeling	14
Situational materialism increases climate change scepticism in men compared to women	14
Dynamic indirect reciprocity: The influence of personal reputation and group reputation on cooperative behavior in nested social dilemmas	14
Humanity at first sight: Exploring the relationship between others' pupil size and ascriptions of humanity	14
The impact of uncertainty induced by the COVID-19 pandemic on intertemporal choice	14
Misplaced trust: When trust in science fosters belief in pseudoscience and the benefits of critical evaluation	14
Providing support is easier done than said: Support providers' perceptions of touch and verbal support provision requests	13
How pledges reduce dishonesty: The role of involvement and identification	13
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 AI	13
Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes	12
Belief system networks can be used to predict where to expect dynamic constraint	12
Examining selective migration as attitudinal fit versus gay migration	12
What makes us “we”? The positivity bias in essentialist beliefs about group attributes	12
The authentic catch-22: Following the true self promotes decision satisfaction in moral dilemmas	12
Playing the field or locking down a partner?: Perceptions of available romantic partners and commitment readiness	12
Most people do not “value the struggle”: Tempted agents are judged as less virtuous than those who were never tempted	12
Yesterday's great expectations: Metamemory and retrospective subjective duration	12
Hadza hunter-gatherers are not deontologists and do not prefer deontologists as social partners	12
Negative multicultural experiences can increase intergroup bias	12
You are safer with me: Presence of the self lowers risk perception for others	12
Stimulus confounds in implicit and explicit measures of racial bias	12
Conflict, cooperation, and institutional choice	12
Does conscious perception render agents more responsible? A study of lay judgments	12
Investigating the identification-prejudice link through the lens of national narcissism: The role of defensive group beliefs	11
On judging the morality of suicide	11
Changing impressions in competence-oriented domains: The primacy of morality endures	11

The role of racial shared reality in Black Americans' identity-safety during interracial interactions	11
Understanding the role of faces in person perception: Increased reliance on facial appearance when judging sociability	11
Assessing the speed and spontaneity of racial bias in pain perception	11
Imagined empathy and anger intensity: Distinct emotional implications of perceiving that a close versus distant other is privy to an anger-inducing experience	11
Do reminders of God increase willingness to take risks?	10
Close but not quite: Exploring the role of shared discrimination in racial outgroup identity-safety cues for Black women	10
Editorial Board	10
Gender categorization and memory in transgender and cisgender people	10
Successful groups are seen as more agentic and therefore more human— Consequences for group perception	10
The primacy of communality in humanization	10
Judging the guilt of the un-guilty: The roles of “false positive” guilt and empathy in moral character perception	10
Exemplar-based ingroup projection: The superordinate national category is associated more strongly with ingroup than outgroup political leaders	10
The role of attitude features in the reliability of IAT scores	10
Reflexive or reflective? Group bias in third-party punishment in Chinese and Western cultures	10
The impact of economic inequality on conspiracy beliefs	10
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 effects	10
Variability and abstraction in evaluative conditioning: Consequences for the generalization of likes and dislikes	9
Effects of ancestral information on social connectedness and life meaning	9
The malleability of sampling's impact on evaluation: Sampling goals moderate the evaluative impact of sampling a stimulus	9
Desired attitudes guide actual attitude change	9
Choice availability and incentive structure determine how people cope with ostracism	9
How race influences perceptions of objectivity and hiring preferences	9
Concealment stigma: The social costs of concealing	9
Beyond the motherhood penalty: Evidence of a (potentially race-based) parenthood boost in workplace evaluations	9
A colorblind ideal and the motivation to improve intergroup relations: The role of an (in)congruent status quo	8
Application of sentence-level text analysis: The role of emotion in an experimental learning intervention	8
Timing is everything: Unraveling the temporal dynamics of the cheerleader effect	8
Making an impression: The effects of sharing conspiracy theories	8
AI as a companion or a tool? Nostalgia promotes embracing AI technology with a relational use	8
Increasing social support for women with postpartum depression through attribution theory guided vignettes and video messages: The understudied role of effort	8
Considering the role of second-order respect in individuals' deference to dominant actors	8
Editorial Board	8
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 representation	8
Attributions of emotion and reduced attitude openness prevent people from engaging others with opposing views	8
“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 success	7
Repeated exposure to success harshens reactions to failure	7
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 theories	7
The articulatory in-out effect: Driven by articulation fluency?	7
Mindless furry test-tubes: Categorizing animals as lab-subjects leads to their mind denial	7
What motivates avoidance in paranoia? Three failures to find a betrayal aversion effect	7
A threat-based hate model: How symbolic and realistic threats underlie hate and aggression	7
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 from	7
Public perceptions of prejudice research: The double-edged sword faced by marginalized group researchers	7
Withdrawal notice to: Helping the ingroup versus harming the outgroup: Evidence from morality-based groups. Journal of experimental social psychology 101(2022) 104339	7
Investigating the morning morality effect and its mediating and moderating factors	7
Narcissistic vigilance to status cues	7
He said, she said: Gender differences in the disclosure of positive and negative information	7
Scientific identity and STEMM-relevant outcomes: Elaboration moderates use of identity-certainty	7
Blinded by guilt: Short-term relational focus and lying	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 improvement	7
Reversing the cumulative redundancy bias to demonstrate metacognitive flexibility in cue utilization	7
Mitigating welfare-related prejudice and partisanship among U.S. conservatives with moral reframing of a universal basic income policy	7