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Papers

(The median citation count of Social Cognition is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
One Fee, Two Fees; Red Fee, Blue Fee: People Use the Valence of Others’ Speech in Social Relational Judgments	18
Underappreciated Benefits of Reading Own and Others' Memories	12
Negative or Negated, Thus True? An Investigation of Concept Valence and Semantic Negation as Drivers of Framing Effects in Judgments of Truth	12
Master Narratives, Expectations of Change, and Their Effect on Temporal Appraisals	10
Desirable Biases: Self-Enhancement Is Seen as Biased and Bad, Other-Enhancement Is Seen as Biased but Good	8
Effects of Emotional Expression on Face Recognition May Be Accounted for by Image Similarity	7
What Does It Mean to Be “Utterly Content”? Semantic Prosody Impacts Nuanced Inferences Beyond Just Valence	7
Mixed Evidence for Name Priming Effects as a Measure of Implicit Self-Esteem: A Conceptual Replication of Krause Et Al. (2012)	7
Gender, Grammar, and Personification in the Marketplace: Understanding Stock Prices Through the Lens of Gender in a High-Stakes Setting	7
Author Index to Volume 40, 2022 Social Cognition	5
Social Influence and Autobiographical Recall: Shared Reality and Epistemic Trust Shape Perceptions of Autobiographical Events	5
Benevolent God Concepts and Past Kind Behaviors Induce Generosity Toward Outgroups	5
Spontaneous Content of Impressions of Naturalistic Face Photographs	4
Morality Matters in the Marketplace: The Role of Moral Metacognition in Consumer Purchasing	4
Blocking Effects in Social Inference Generalize Across Targets: Learning to Interpret a Person's Behavioral Cues Interferes With Learning About Other People's Behavior	4
Faces and Sounds Becoming One: Cross-Modal Integration of Facial and Auditory Cues in Judging Trustworthiness	4
Deformative Experience: Explaining the Effects of Adversity on Moral Evaluation	4
Are Observers Differentially Motivated to Empathize With Stigmatized Targets? An Investigation Using the Empathy Selection Task	3
(Eye-) Tracking the Other-Race Effect: Comparison of Eye Movements During Encoding and Recognition of Ingroup Faces With Proximal and Distant Outgroup Faces	3
Editorial: From Our New Editor	3
Reduced Reporting of Social Comparison Emotions and Valuation of Group-Based Morals in Autistic People	3
Inferring Goals and Traits From Behaviors: The Role of Culture, Self-Construal, and Thinking Style	3
It Is Written in the Eyes: Inferences From Pupil Size and Gaze Orientation Shape Interpersonal Liking	3
Does Emotional Expression Moderate Implicit Racial Bias? Examining Bias Following Smiling and Angry Primes	3
Does Deliberative Thinking Increase Tolerance? Political Tolerance Toward Individuals With Dual Citizenship	3

Red Enhances the Processing of Anger Facial Configurations as a Function of Target Gender	3
Accuracy and Consistency in Social Categorization Across Context, Motivation, and Time	3
When Abstract Concepts Rely on Multiple Metaphors: Metaphor Selection in the Case of Power	2
Perceiving Distances and Construing Targets Based on Communication	2
Using Biological Explanations for the Orgasm Gap to Investigate the Disproportionate Essentialization of Gender Disparities in the Sexuality Domain	2
Triangulated Racialization Index (TRI): Incremental and Predictive Validity of a Multidimensional Stereotype Measure	2
Costliness and Social Context Shape Punishment and Partner Rejection Decisions	2
Being Watched by God Versus a Third Person: Which Agent Lowers the Perceived Likelihood of Immoral Behaviors?	2
Within-Person Versus Between-Person: Social Connectedness, Target Roles, and Cultural Backgrounds Contribute to Perceived Social Obligations	2
Walk This Way: How Weight Distorts Gender Identification of Point-Light Walkers	1
The Temporal and Directional Relationship Between Group-Level Implicit and Explicit Gender Bias	1
Unwilling to Un-Blame: Whites Who Dismiss Historical Causes of Societal Disparities Also Dismiss Personal Mitigating Information for Black Offenders	1
Decoding the Silent Language of the Eyes: Occluding the Eye Region Impacts Understanding and Sharing of Emotions With Others	1
Person Memory Mechanism Underlying Approach and Avoidance Judgments of Social Targets	1
Ignorance Is Not Bliss: On Issues Measuring the Awareness of Suboptimal Stimuli	1
Implicit Attitudes Evoked by a Singular American Slur: Five Experiments on N*er and N*a in Samples of Black and White Americans	1
Gendered Perceptions of East and South Asian Men	1
An Examination of the Motivations to Maintain, Approach, and Avoid by Proximity to the Ideal State	1
The Effect of First-Hand and Second-Hand Knowledge on Perceived Group Homogeneity and Certainty About Stereotype-Based Inferences	1
The Effect of Psychological Distance on the Experience of Joy Versus Pride	1
Ambiguity Under Scrutiny: Moral Judgment of Microaggressions	1
Trans and Nonbinary Perspectives on Gender Diversity in Psychological Stimuli	1
Femininity Is Favorable: Sexually Dimorphic Facial Features Affect Assessments of White Women's Leadership Abilities	1
A Preregistered Study on Israelis' Attitude Structure Following the October 7th Massacre and During the War in Gaza	1
Inversion Reduces Sensitivity to Complex Emotions in Eye Regions	1
The Limits of Defaults: The Influence of Decision Time on Default Effects	1
Exploring the Representational Structure of Trait Knowledge Using Perceived Similarity Judgments	1
The Cognitive-Motivational Roots of Conservatives' Desire for the Past	1
Toward a More Inclusive Science of Social Cognition	1
The Negative Relationship Between Threats and Endorsement of Freedom	1
Understanding Impression Updating Through Behavior Predictions	1
Left and Right in Space and Politics	1