OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Interpersonal memory failure in the workplace: The effect of memory and hierarchy on employee’s affective commitment	35
Institutional trust and prosocial behavior in China: an experimental approach	28
Changes in the journal of social psychology	28
Proactive champions: how personal and organizational resources enable proactive personalities to become idea champions	23
Leveraging regulatory fit to enhance engagement: a public-sector study in South Korea	22
When and how to share? The role of inspiration	22
Does he see what she sees? The gender gap in perceptions of institutional sexism	20
Men and women who want epistemic certainty are at-risk for hostility towards women leaders	19
Stress communication, communication satisfaction, and relationship satisfaction: an actor-partner interdependence mediation model	16
Empathic choices for animals versus humans: the role of choice context and perceived cost	16
Rewarding valuable services and altruistic motives: gratitude and pay for essential workers during the Covid-19 pandemic	15
“Go eat some grass”: gender differences in the Twitter discussion about meat, vegetarianism and veganism	15
Meat and interpersonal motives: the case of self-enhancement	14
Don’t be rash: how effort, religion, and decision-type influence judgments of morality	14
The Role of Moral Concerns and Institutional Trust in Conspiratorial Thinking	13
Gender-based in-group social influence can lead women to view a hostile sexist attitude as less prejudiced and more true	13
Crying the pain away: the nature, measurement, and function of benign masochism	12
The effects of COVID-19 risk, gender, and self-compassion on the workplace cyberbullying and job satisfaction of university faculty	12
The influence of emotional salience on gaze behavior in low and high trait empathy: an exploratory eye-tracking study	12
Perpetrators’ folk explanations of their regretted and justified aggressive behaviors	12
The nature of racial superhumanization bias	11
Neighborhood ethnic composition and social identity threat: the mediating role of perceived discrimination	11
Online information sharing: how secondhand information and credibility level influence the perceived validity of information	11
Exploring schadenfreude from the perspectives of deservingness and terror management theories	10
Examining stereotypes in a dynamic social order: the stereotype content model in India	10

Empathy, friend or foe? Untangling the relationship between empathy and burnout in helping professions	9
Empathic accuracy and interpersonal coordination: behavior matching can enhance accuracy but interactional synchrony may not	9
Are proactive employees proactive performers? the moderating role of supervisor-subordinate marital status similarity	9
Correction	9
Do media objectivity and frequency of informing mediate the relationship between traditionalist social attitudes and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs?	9
Stereotypes as Bayesian prediction of social groups	8
Navigating family dynamics in the transition to a plant-forward diet: the role of social support	8
Differences among vegans, non-vegan vegetarians, pescatarians, and omnivores in perceived social disapproval and approval as a function of diet and source of treatment	8
Labeling effects for the poor: the role of labels on dehumanization of the poor and opposition to welfare policies	8
Obedience to authority as a function of the physical proximity of the student, teacher, and experimenter	7
Conspiracy beliefs explain why intolerance of uncertainty, personal control, and political uncontrollability predict willingness to get vaccinated against COVID-19	7
An event-based account of conformity: evidence from attention manipulations targeting event-file encoding and retrieval	7
Stereotypic beliefs contribute to gender disparities in the field of economics	7
Effects of explanations and precise anchors on salary offers	7
No evidence for modulation of facial mimicry by attachment tendencies in adulthood: an EMG investigation	7
Social dominance orientation, belief in a just world and intergroup contact as predictors of homeless stigmatisation	7
Fighting the beat and winning: stereotype threat and White people’s rhythmic performance	6
The influence of vehicle size on perception and behavior toward drivers	6
Methods and measures in social and personality psychology: a comparison of JPSP publications in 1982 and 2016	6
Stay hungry for morality: the inhibitory effect of high moral identity and moral elevation on moral licensing	6
Sense of safety and opinions about COVID-19 vaccinations in Polish school teachers: the role of conspiracy theories belief and fear of COVID-19	6
But I have no time to read this article! A meta-analytic review of the consequences of employee time management behaviors	6
To meme or not to meme? Political social media posts and ideologically motivated aggression in job recommendations	6
When empathy goes wrong: the perceived cost of empathy reduces empathic reactions to a friend	6
Factors impacting the experience of empathic distress in social anxiety: a path analysis approach	5
Attitudes towards favoring the fall of Tall Poppies: The role of Social Dominance Orientation, Authoritarianism, Political Ideologies, and Self-Esteem	5
Are monetary gifts negatively labeled? Material benefits and prosocial motivation evaluation	5
More familiar, more credible? Distinguishing two types of familiarity on the truth effect using the drift-diffusion model	5
From an identity process theory perspective: a daily investigation of why and when ostracism triggers ingratiation	5
Toxic leadership as a predictor of physical and psychological withdrawal behaviours in the healthcare sector	5
Perceived changes in trait attributions to others and the self	5
Direct and displaced aggression after exclusion: role of gender differences	5
The structure and evolution of social psychology: a co-citation network analysis	5
Identity fusion predicts violent pro-group behavior when it is morally justifiable	5
Intuitive thinking impedes cooperation by decreasing cooperative expectations for pro-self but not for pro-social individuals	5
Positive valence ≠ positive effect: impact of positive meta-stereotypes on the cognitive performance	5
A Click of Faith: How Perceived Trustworthiness Affects Online Risk-Taking in Unfamiliar Dyads	5
Observer descriptions of the empathic person: a look at the Davis IRI and Hogan empathy scales	4
The central role of social exclusion when representing ethnic minorities and its association with intergroup attitudes	4
Autonomous communication with normative information facilitates positive spillover: promoting pro-environmental behaviors in a local setting	4
Disease, death, morality, and politics: Pathogen prevalence, terror management, and conservatism as motivated social cognition	4
News media consumption and support for counter-terrorism measures: the role of hatred and fear	4
Mixed signals of status: luxury consumption shapes competence and warmth impressions through different routes	4
No need to take what you already have: perspective taking’s effect on empathic concern for low-need targets	4
Counting on you: benevolent sexism increases women’s financial risk-taking	4
Asymmetric genetic attributions for one’s own prosocial versus antisocial behavior	4
The effectiveness of animal welfare-, environmental-, and health-focused video appeals on implicit and explicit wanting of meat and intentions to reduce meat consumption	4
Home alone yet optimistic: social identity management amidst comparative pessimism	4
Are all kind acts equal? Exploring the role of prosocial act characteristics in actor’s positive affect	4
Empathy arousal and emotional reactions to victims of the gender pay gap	4

Hear me out: the role of competent and warm vocal tones in risk communication	3
Natives with a need for cognitive closure can approve of immigrants’ economic effect when they trust pro-immigrant epistemic authorities	3
Applying the volunteer process model to predict future intentions for civic and political participation: same antecedents, different experiences?	3
Preference for depth versus breadth in social relationships: Childhood socioeconomic background matters	3
The coping strategies of individuals in multiple jeopardy settings: the case of unemployed older women	3
More identified so less envious? On the links between different types of national identity and in-group envy	3
Multiracial individuals’ experiences of rejection and acceptance from different racial groups and implications for life satisfaction	3
Statement of Retraction: Color and Women Attractiveness: When Red Clothed Women Are Perceived to Have More Intense Sexual Intent	3
The role of temporal distance on forecasting the difficulty of goal pursuits	3
To reflect and learn: the emotional labor strategies of victims of workplace ostracism and the role of anger	3
Psychological dread and extreme persistent fear	3
Measuring emotional contagion as a multidimensional construct: the development and initial validation of the contagion of affective phenomena scales	3
Selecting the special or choosing the common? A high-powered conceptual replication of Kim and Markus’ (1999) pen study	3
Meat-eating justification and relationship closeness with veg*n family, friends, and romantic partners	3
A planned behavior theory-based explanatory model of protective behavior against COVID-19, with an age perspective	3
Bigger isn’t always better: an exploration of social perception bias against high levels of muscularity in women	2
Blindfolding political trust: the palliative effect of trust-based ignorance of political performance problems	2
Perceived value threats are related to fear of health impairments	2
Communicating beyond the information given can make the communicator’s attitudes toward a social group more extreme	2
Changing attitudes toward redistribution: The role of perceived economic inequality in everyday life and intolerance of inequality	2
An investigation of emotional and evaluative implicit associations with police using four versions of the Implicit Association Test	2
Democrats and independents stigmatize people with COVID-19 greater compared to Republicans	2
Perceived reputation moderates the link between honor concerns and depressive symptoms	2
Predicting online privacy protection for Facebook users with an extended theory of planned behavior	2
Factors that contribute to accurately perceiving anti-black racism and sexism overlap	2
Other-oriented emotional intelligence, OCBs, and job performance: a relational perspective	2
Perceptions of narcissism in college professors	2
Toward whom does intergroup contact reduce prejudice? Exploring national majorities’ prejudice toward ethnic and migrant minorities	2
Examining the moderating role of regulatory fit on stereotype threat among Ugandan adolescents	2
From conservatism to support for gay conversion therapy: the role of prejudice and beliefs about same-sex sexuality	2
Relationship status moderates sexual prejudice directed toward lesbian women but not gay men	2
Being tolerated as a minority group member: an experimental study with virtual teams	2
Leveraging impression management motives to increase the use of face masks	2
“Leave Britney alone!”: parasocial relationships and empathy	2
Implicit bias predicts less willingness and less frequent adoption of Black children more than explicit bias	2
The effects of listening with “time-sharing” on psychological safety and social anxiety: the moderating role of narcissism and depression	2
Power and the confrontation of sexism: the impact of measured and manipulated power on confronting behavior	2
Is intergroup discrimination triggered by vaccination status? Exploring some social aspects of vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Supervisor–subordinate fit need for autonomy and subordinate job crafting: a moderated mediation model	2
Psychological entitlement and conspiracy beliefs: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Letter labels and illusory correlation: infrequent letters bias reactions to the group	2
The stereotype content model and disabilities	2
We only know that we don’t know: attachment patterns and psychological coping during the COVID-19 pandemic – the mediation role of intolerance of uncertainty	2