OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin is 6. 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
The Apple Doesn’t “Feel” Far From the Tree: Mother–Child Socialization of Intergroup Empathy	86
Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them: The Ambivalent Effects of Existential Outgroup Threat on Helping Behavior	83
More Than Meets the Eyes: Bringing Attention to the Eyes Increases First Impressions of Warmth and Competence	36
Protected by the Emotions of the Group: Perceived Emotional Fit and Disadvantaged Group Members’ Activist Burnout	35
Which Identities Are Concealable? Individual Differences in Concealability	34
The Equality Paradox: Gender Equality Intensifies Male Advantages in Adolescent Subjective Well-Being	34
On Creating Deeper Relationship Bonds: Felt Understanding Enhances Relationship Identification	32
Taking Stock and Looking Forward to the Future of Pathogen Politics in Light of New Insights and Recommendations: COVID-19 Threat Was Meaningfully Associated With Support for Liberal Policies in the U	30
Populism, Economic Distress, Cultural Backlash, and Identity Threat: Integrating Patterns and Testing Cross-National Validity	30
Is Progressive Ideology on the Test? Education and Intelligence in the Development of Nontraditional Attitudes	30
The Effects of Partner Extraversion and Agreeableness on Trust	29
Guns Are Not Faster to Enter Awareness After Seeing a Black Face: Absence of Race-Priming in a Gun/Tool Task During Continuous Flash Suppression	27
Connecting Attitude Position and Function: The Role of Self-Esteem	27
Minds of Monsters: Scary Imbalances Between Cognition and Emotion	26
Strategic Mindsets and Support for Social Change: Impact Mindset Explains Support for Black Lives Matter Across Racial Groups	26
Masculinity Threats Sequentially Arouse Public Discomfort, Anger, and Positive Attitudes Toward Sexual Violence	25
Sacrificing Animals in the Name of Scientific Authority: The Relationship Between Pro-Scientific Mindset and the Lethal Use of Animals in Biomedical Experimentation	24
Dismissing Attachment and Global and Daily Indicators of Subjective Well-Being: An Experience Sampling Approach	23
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Motives and Barriers for Sustained Collective Action Toward Social Change	22
Need Fulfillment During Intergroup Contact: Three Experience Sampling Studies	22
Corrigendum to When Interdependence Backfires: The Coronavirus Infected Three Times More People in Rice-Farming Areas During Chinese New Year	21
Does Mindfulness Improve Intergroup Bias, Internalized Bias, and Anti-Bias Outcomes?: A Meta-Analysis of the Evidence and Agenda for Future Research	21
The Empowering Function of the Belief in a Just World for the Self: Trait-Level and Experimental Tests of Its Association With Positive and Negative Affect	21
Essentializing Happiness Mitigates the Changes in Subjective Well-Being Following Negative Life Events	20
Mobilize Is a Verb: The Use of Verbs and Concrete Language Is Associated With Authors’ and Readers’ Perceptions of a Text’s Action Orientation and Persuasiveness	19

Does Religious Priming Induce Greater Prejudice? A Meta-Analytic Review	19
Science for Others or the Self? Presumed Motives for Science Shape Public Trust in Science	18
Do Demographic Increases in LGBT and Nonreligious Americans Increase Threat?	18
Defensiveness Toward IAT Feedback Predicts Willingness to Engage in Anti-Bias Behaviors	18
Estimating the Reliability and Stability of Cognitive Processes Contributing to Responses on the Implicit Association Test	17
Applying Implicit Propositional Measures to Detect Faking in Personality-Related Scales: Reliability, Discriminating Power, and Classification Accuracy	17
Perceiving a Stable Self-Concept Enables the Experience of Meaning in Life	17
My Fair Lady? Inferring Organizational Trust From the Mere Presence of Women in Leadership Roles	17
The Unintentional Nonconformist: Habits Promote Resistance to Social influence	17
Inferences of Masculinity and Femininity Across Intersections of Social Class and Gender: A Social Structural Perspective	17
When Time Is the Enemy: An Initial Test of the Process Model of Patience	16
Biased Beliefs About White Releasees’ Sensitivity to Social Pain	15
Expressing Negativity Enhances Support From Romantic Partners, Even for Trivial Stressors	15
Prototypes of Victims of Workplace Harassment	15
Dispositional Religiosity Predicts Increased Incidence of Mixed Emotions: Evidence Across Five Studies Spanning Two Countries	15
Holding the Belief That Gender Roles Can Change Reduces Women’s Work–Family Conflict	14
Measured but Not Induced Perspective-taking Predicts Success in Coalition Formation	14
Interested and Instrumental: An Examination of Instrumentality Regulation With Potential Romantic Partners	14
On Cultural Differences of Heroes: Evidence From Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures	14
Perceived Relative Deprivation Across the Adult Lifespan: An Examination of Aging and Cohort Effects	14
Correlated Change Between Personality Traits and Perceived Social Support in Old Age	14
Selfie-Evaluation: A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Selfie Behaviors and Self-Evaluations	14
Big Is Bad: Stereotypes About Organizational Size, Profit-Seeking, and Corporate Ethicality	13
The Improvement Default: People Presume Improvement When Lacking Information	13
Perceiving People With Physical Disabilities as Overcoming Adversity Warps Mind Perception	13
Diversity of Group Memberships Predicts Well-Being: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence	13
Willingness for Cross-Class Contact of Different Social Classes and the Mediating Role of Negative Contact Expectations	12
Growing Together Through Our Cultural Differences: Self-Expansion in Intercultural Romantic Relationships	12
In the In-Between: Low-Income Latinx Students Sensemaking of Paradoxes of Independence and Interdependence	12
Repeating Statements Increases Source Credibility	12
Accuracy in Facial Trustworthiness Impressions: Kernel of Truth or Modern Physiognomy? A Meta-Analysis	12
People Reject Free Money and Cheap Deals Because They Infer Phantom Costs	11
How Individual Differences in Empathy Predict Moments of Empathy in Everyday Life	11
Conceal and Don’t Feel as Much? Experiential Effects of Expressive Suppression	11
Social-Environmental Constraints on the Development of a Concealable Stigmatized Identity Predict Psychological Distress	11
Don’t Go Chasing Narcissists: A Relational-Based and Multiverse Perspective on Leader Narcissism and Follower Engagement Using a Machine Learning Approach	11
Awareness and Calibration: The Role of Descriptive Norms and Social Desirability in Accurate IAT Score Predictions of Food Items vs. Social Groups	11
When a Partner Supports Your Sexual Autonomy: Perceived Partner Sexual Autonomy Support, Need Fulfillment, and Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships	11
Reflexive Activation of Monoracial Categories During Multiracial Categorization	11
Diversity Deflation: The Effect of Hierarchical Representation on Perceived Diversity, Conflict, and Attraction to Work Teams	11
From Individual Anxiety to Collective Narcissism? Adult Attachment Styles and Different Types of National Commitment	11
Reactive Risk-Taking: Anxiety Regulation Via Approach Motivation Increases Risk-Taking Behavior	11
Let the Music Play: Live Music Fosters Collective Effervescence and Leads to Lasting Positive Outcomes	11
Self-Invitation Hesitation: How and Why People Fail to Ask to Join the Plans of Others	11
How Do People Think About the Relationship Between Science and Religion? A Cross-Cultural Psychometric Investigation	11
An Assimilative Effect of Stimulus Co-Occurrence on Evaluation Despite Contrasting Relational Information	11
On the Limits of Anonymization for Promoting Diversity in Organizations	11
Some Evidence That Truth-Tellers Are More Attractive Than Liars	11
Low Self-Concept Clarity Induces Scarcity Perceptions: The Subsequent Effects on Prosocial Behavior	10
When Objective Ambivalence Predicts Subjective Ambivalence: An Affect–Cognition Matching Perspective	10

Damaged Masculinity: How Honor Endorsement Can Influence Prostate Cancer Screening Decision-Making and Prostate Cancer Mortality Rates	10
Motivational Intensity in Emotion Regulation	10
Affectionate Touch Promotes Shared Positive Activities	10
A Meta-Analytic Review of the Validity of the Tangram Help/Hurt Task	10
Emphasizing Similarities Between Politically Opposed Groups and Their Influence in Perceptions of the Political Opposition: Evidence From Five Experiments	10
Partisan Prejudice: The Role of Beliefs About the Unchanging Nature of Ideology and Partisans	10
Diversity’s Impact on the Quality of Deliberations	10
Preparing Silver Linings for a Cloudy Day: The Consequences of Preemptive Benefit Finding	10
Vicarious Dissonance: Pre-Registered Meta-Analysis	9
Collectivism Impairs Team Performance When Relational Goals Conflict With Group Goals	9
Population Migration Damages the Natural Environment: A Multilevel Investigation of the Relationship Between Residential Mobility and Pro-Environmental Behaviors	9
Perception of Socioeconomic Status: A Meta-Analysis of Manipulations	9
View From the Right: Political Orientation and the Association Between Black and Physical Threat	9
Income Is a Stronger Predictor of Subjective Social Class in More Economically Unequal Places	9
Sexual Orientation Disclosure and Strategic Navigation of Interpersonal Invisibility	9
Multiple Reputations: Selective Attention to Competence and Character	9
Choosing Money Over Meaningful Work: Examining Relative Job Preferences for High Compensation Versus Meaningful Work	9
Barriers to Biculturalism: Historical Negation and Symbolic Exclusion Predict Longitudinal Increases in Bicultural Policy Opposition	9
How Do Invested Partners Become Invested? A Prospective Investigation of Fledgling Relationship Development	8
Intergroup Competition, Group Members’ Narcissism, and Competitive Perceptions as Determinants of Group Creativity	8
Extreme Reactions to Globalization: Investigating Indirect, Longitudinal, and Experimental Effects of the Globalization–Radicalization Nexus	8
It Is Belief in Dualism, and Not Free Will, That Best Predicts Helping: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Baumeister et al. (2009)	8
Motive Attributions Shape Judgments of Whistleblowers’ Moral Characters	8
Social Class, Control, and Culture: Individuals with Low Socioeconomic Status Perceive Less Control in Relationally Immobile Societies	8
Greed: What Is It Good for?	8
Narcissism and Wellbeing: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis	8
Do Good Citizens Look to the Future? The Link Between National Identification and Future Time Perspective and Their Role in Explaining Citizens’ Reactions to Conflicts Between Short-Term and Long-Term	8
More Biased, Yet More Informed? Documenting Me-Search Stigma Primarily Linked to Researchers’ Own Group Memberships	8
Lordosis in Humans	8
More Than a Momentary Blip in the Universe? Investigating the Link Between Religiousness and Perceived Meaning in Life	8
Corrigendum	7
The Ups and Downs of Being Us: Cross-Relationship Comparisons in Daily Life	7
Studying Daily Social Interaction Quantity and Quality in Relation to Depression Change: A Multi-Phase Experience Sampling Study	7
Cheating at the Top: Trait Dominance Explains Dishonesty More Consistently Than Social Power	7
We Need Tough Brothers and Sisters in a Tight World: Cultural Tightness Leads to a Preference for Dominant and Muscular Leaders	7
“Pay Me Back”: Testing the Implications of Long-Term Changes and Partner Similarity in Exchange Orientation Within Intimate Relationships	7
The Language of Inequality: Evidence Economic Inequality Increases Wealth Category Salience	7
Kicking Yourself: Going Against Your Inclinations Leads to Greater Feelings of Control and Culpability	7
A Phenomenological Divide: Reference Group Consequences for Existential Isolation	7
Stereotype Threat at Work: A Meta-Analysis	7
In it Together: Relationship Transitions and Couple Concordance in Health and Well-Being	7
Do Experimental Manipulations of Pathogen Avoidance Motivations Influence Conformity?	7
Affective Polarization and Political Belief Systems: The Role of Political Identity and the Content and Structure of Political Beliefs	7
Beliefs About Linear Social Progress	7
Setting Appropriateness and Romantic Relationship Initiation Success	7
Biological Essentialism Correlates With (But Doesn’t Cause?) Intergroup Bias	7
Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview	7
Implications of Divine Forgiveness for Conciliatory Behavior: Understanding How Feeling Forgiven by God Influences Apologies Via Self-Forgiveness, Gratitude, and Humility	7
Perceived and Ideal Inequality in University Endowments in the United States	7
Self-Regulation Via Visual Fixation: Effects of Strategic Shifting of Attentional Scope on Running Intensity	7
Bodies and Minds: Heavier Weight Targets Are De-Mentalized as Lacking in Mental Agency	7
Extraverts Reap Greater Social Rewards From Passion Because They Express Passion More Frequently and More Diversely	7
New Wine in an Old Bottle? Exposure to Bullying-Related Media and Bullying Perpetration Behavior in Daily Life Among Adolescents	7
Remembering Social Events: A Construal Level Approach	7
Autonomous Motives Foster Sustained Commitment to Action: Integrating Self-Determination Theory and the Social Identity Approach	6
Revisiting the Relation Between Steroid Hormones and Unethicality in an Exploratory, Longitudinal Study With Female Participants	6
A Comparative Investigation of the Predictive Validity of Four Indirect Measures of Bias and Prejudice	6
Morality, Social Inclusion, and In-Group Superiority: The Differential Role of Individualizing and Binding Foundations in Perceptions of the Social Identity of In-Group and Out-Group Members	6
Cultural Differences in Rumination and Psychological Correlates: The Role of Attribution	6
Discrimination and Perceived Cultural Mismatch Increase Status-Based Identity Uncertainty	6
Lifting Me Up or Tearing You Down? The Role of Prestige and Dominance in Benign Versus Malicious Envy	6
Lockdown Lives: A Longitudinal Study of Inter-Relationships Among Feelings of Loneliness, Social Contacts, and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Early 2020	6
Does Connectedness Need Satisfaction Diminish or Promote Social Goal Striving?	6
The Mismeasure of Culture: Why Measurement Invariance Is Rarely Appropriate for Comparative Research in Psychology	6
Local Legislation is Associated With Regional Transgender Attitudes	6
Fallibility Salience Increases Intellectual Humility: Implications for People’s Willingness to Investigate Political Misinformation	6
The Social Consequences of Frequent Versus Infrequent Apologizing	6
Educators’ Beliefs About Students’ Socioeconomic Backgrounds as a Pathway for Supporting Motivation	6
A Bias Toward Kindness Goals in Performance Feedback to Women (vs. Men)	6
Self-Awareness and Stereotypes: Accurate Prediction of Implicit Gender Stereotyping	6
Exploring the Link Between Identity Avoidance and Perceived Self-Knowledge	6
The Comparative Status Hypothesis: Inferences About Discrimination Vary Based on Identity Salience	6
How Elicitation Procedure Shapes Beliefs About Others’ Affective Responses to Action and Inaction	6
Balancing Stereotypically Compatible and Incompatible Identities	6
Negotiator Consistency, Counterpart Consistency, and Reciprocity in Behavior Across Partners: A Round-Robin Study	6
Domain-Specific Greed	6
Racialized Sexism: Nonverbal Displays of Power in Workplace Settings are Evaluated as More Masculine When Displayed by White (vs. Black) Women With Implications for the Expression of Ambivalent Sexism	6