Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Papers
(The median citation count of Social and Personality Psychology Compass 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Framing COVID‐19 as an existential threat predicts prejudice towards Chinese people via anxious arousal94
The perceived vulnerability to disease scale: Cross‐cultural measurement invariance and associations with fear of COVID‐19 across 16 countries78
COVID‐19‐related threat perceptions, political identity, and voting in the 2020 presidential election76
The time has come for psychology to stop treating qualitative data as an embarrassing secret58
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Behavioral extremity moderates the association between certainty in attitudes about COVID and willingness to engage in mitigation‐related behaviors35
Mindfulness research and applications in the context of neoliberalism: A narrative and critical review34
Erratum to “Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research”33
Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences32
From cooperation to conflict: The role of collective narratives in shaping group behaviour32
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Changes in loneliness and coping strategies during COVID‐1930
Challenges in the conceptualization of trait self‐control as a psychological construct29
A test of vaccine endorsement by political in‐ versus out‐group sources: Effect on vaccination likelihood and exploration of mediation through perceived bias and liking28
Psychopathy and COVID‐19: Callousness, impulsivity, and motivational reasons for engaging in prevention behavior26
Eight misconceptions about the elemental approach and aversive personality trait research: A response to Andrews and colleagues (2023)24
The dynamic socioecological model of economic inequality and psychological tendencies: A cycle of mutual constitution23
Who handles the tough talk? Supervisor sense of power and confronting difficult issues23
Effects of the coronavirus pandemic on perceived capitalization support provision and receipt22
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Denial of Mass Atrocities and How Perpetrators Group Evade Accusations: The Case of Israel20
Revisiting the charmed circle: A reflexive examination of unanswered questions in the infidelity literature20
Everyday acts of kindness predict greater well‐being during the transition to university20
Do gender and educational level predict vaccination? The mediating role of attitudes towards vaccines and fear of COVID‐1919
Distress, wellbeing, and growth amidst COVID‐19: Considering the dynamic interplay between positive and negative anticipatory emotions19
Ideology, moral reframing, and persuasion in the context of COVID‐19 vaccines19
Applying propensity score matching to assess the impact of the pandemic on intimate relationships19
Examining the trajectory of relational conflict leading up to and after an anticipated stressor18
Changes in college students' socioeconomic status aspirations during the COVID‐19 pandemic17
Does disseminating (mis)information restore social connection during a global pandemic?16
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Globalising positivity discourses and women15
Abortion, mental health and epistemologies of psychological knowledge and ignorance14
Expanding the social psychological study of educators through humanizing principles14
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Generational identities: Historical and literary perspectives13
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Individual differences in patterns of developmental opportunity and constraint during COVID‐19: Implications for longitudinal well‐being12
Conceptualizing grandiose and vulnerable narcissism as alternative status‐seeking strategies: Insights from hierometer theory12
Did COVID‐19 really change our well‐being? It's up to meaning in life: Evidence from two longitudinal studies12
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Gaps in Measurement: Highlighting Anti‐Fat Bias as an Underrepresented Construct in the Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale11
Self‐regulation in daily life: Neuroscience will accelerate theorizing and advance the field11
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Data absence and a lack of parsimony: A response to Kay and Arrow's elemental Dark Triad10
How mask gap impacts discrimination and anxiety during COVID‐19: A study on overseas Chinese during the first outbreak in 202010
Call to arms: Research directions to substantiate a unified model of attachment and personality pathology10
Institutional interactions and racial inequality in policing: How everyday encounters bridge individuals, organizations, and institutions10
Romantic relationship quality during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The longitudinal associations with relationship loneliness and depression10
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles9
Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research9
Teaching & learning guide for: The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda9
Secondhand racism: What we know and where to go regarding the relationship between vicarious racism and mental and physical health9
Qualitative research at the crossroads of open science and big data: Ethical considerations8
Safety behaviors were associated with greater anxious symptoms during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic8
Core social motives explain responses to collective action issues8
Fear of missing out and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic8
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Reflexivity in quantitative research: A rationale and beginner's guide8
The role of White identity in anti‐racist allyship8
Psychological impact of coronavirus‐related social isolation in Colombia after a year of lockdown8
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Harnessing growth mindsets to help individuals flourish8
Investigation of the correspondence principle with regard to specific and general COVID‐19 behaviors8
Defensive pessimism and precautionary action during the COVID pandemic8
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Associations between power, stress, and dominance in romantic relationships during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining curvilinear and within‐person effects7
Impact of face masks on perceptions of black and white targets during the COVID‐19 pandemic7
Measuring and reducing implicit prejudice against Black women and people with intersectional identities7
Tracking depressive and anxious symptoms during the first year of COVID‐19: The search for moderators7
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Multiple Marginalized Identities, Minority Stress, and Mental Health6
What factors predict anti‐Black bias in pain perception? An internal meta‐analysis across 40 experimental studies6
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Comparative optimism and well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic6
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How lay theories of prejudice shape prejudice confrontations: Examining beliefs about prejudice prevalence, origins, and controllability6
Increasing Extraversion via Intervention: Lay Insights, Person‐Activity Fit, and Implications for Well‐Being and Persistence6
Safety first, but for whom? Shifts in risk perception for self and others following COVID‐19 vaccination6
Examining approaches to encourage COVID‐19 vaccination on social media6
How people find better lifegoals: The goal breakthrough model and its neuroscientific underpinnings6
How Meditation Promotes Well‐Being: Applying a Dual‐System Theory6
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Advancing Insights Into Accent Diversity and Its Interplay With Multicultural Experiences6
Does online social support uniquely buffer effects of stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic?: A natural experiment5
The motivational value of listening during intimate and difficult conversations5
The Association Between Power‐Space Congruency and Positive Affect5
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Self‐control: An integrative framework5
Procedural fairness facilitates cooperative behavior by enhancing cooperative expectations5
Identity‐Based Motivation and the Motivational Consequences of Difficulty5
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Ghosting: A Common but Unpopular Rejection Strategy5
Social cohesion predicts COVID‐19 vaccination intentions and uptake5
The effects of visual attention on social behavior5
Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans5
Internal, external, genetic, or cultural? Lay theories about racial health disparities predict perceived threat, adherence, and policy support5
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Conceptualizing psychological well‐being as a dynamic process: Implications for research on mobile health interventions5
Examining college students' food security coping strategies and experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences5
How does exposure to masked individuals affect White Americans' attitudes toward Asian American and Pacific Islanders?4
Relationship between COVID‐19‐related stress and social inhibition among university students in China: The mediating role of psychological richness4
Three methodological approaches to studying singlehood4
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Unraveling Why Happiness Levels Vary Across Cultures: Mechanisms Underlying East‐West Differences4
Contagious or prosocial? Perceptions of mask‐wearers toward Whites and Asians: A cross‐cultural comparison during the early stage of the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Sense of purpose and food insecurity during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Behavior change after context disruption: Opportunities and pitfalls4
Moderators of the big‐fish‐little‐pond effect in educational settings: A scoping review4
Taking an elemental approach to the conceptualization and measurement of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy4
Creating inclusive schools to reduce health and well‐being disparities4
Understanding advantaged groups' opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies: The role of perceived threat4
The Joy Is Mine: Re‐Centering the Person in the Study of Well‐Being4
Examining the influence of information‐related factors on vaccination intentions via confidence: Insights from adult samples in Italy and Serbia during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Integrating personality psychology and intersectionality to advance diversity in the study of persons4
Levels and facets of university students' stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from the first two academic years in Germany and the U.S.4
A Tripartite Framework for Understanding the U.S. Racial Hierarchy: Social Status, Culture, and Phenotypicality4
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Interpersonal Synchrony Research in Human Groups4
Gratitude in Context: Proposing the Dyadic Process Model of Interpersonal Gratitude4
“I'll wait for the English one”: COVID‐19 vaccine country of origin, national identity, and their effects on vaccine perceptions and uptake willingness4
Why do U.S. conservatives take fewer COVID‐19 precautions? The role of worry, perceived risk, and governmental trust4
Evaluative Conditioning has a Vexing Demand Problem4
The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda4
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Memory lapses during a pandemic: Differential associations between COVID‐stress and daily memory lapses?4
Interpersonal consequences of joint food consumption for connection and conflict4
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Teaching & Learning guide for: An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response4
Why do organizations take political stances? A review of reasons and risks4
Punishing or praising gossipers: How people interpret the motives driving negative gossip shapes its consequences4
Animalizing women and feminizing (vegan) men: The psychological intersections of sexism, speciesism, meat, and masculinity4
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How to Thrive in Times of Threat and Uncertainty3
Does partisan media make a pawn of mistrust? Institutional trust and preventive COVID‐19 health behaviors in a polarized pandemic3
The invention of race and the persistence of racial hierarchy: White privilege, White supremacy, and White colorblindness3
Envy, entitlement, and cutting the line: Dark personality predicted selfishness during the U.S. COVID‐19 vaccine rollout3
Implicit theories of mental health predict anxiety and depression during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China: The mediating effect of coping styles3
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Capitalizing on the potential of mobile health applications as behavioral interventions: A research agenda for calorie‐tracking and activity‐tracking applications3
Having the will, finding the ways, and wishes for the future: A model of relational hope and well‐being3
Improving causal inference of mediation analysis with multiple mediators using interventional indirect effects3
Holding It, Together: Beyond Bearing Witness and Burning Out3
Employee psychological wellbeing in the face of pandemic: The role of belief in work priority3
Humility as Personal Resource: A Conservation of Resources Perspective3
Do nonhuman animals reason about prestige‐based status?3
Rice‐farming areas report more anxiety across two years of the COVID‐19 pandemic in China3
Collective views of vaccination predict vaccine hesitancy and willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine3
Well‐being during the coronavirus pandemic: The effect of big five personality and COVID‐19 beliefs and behaviors3
“Keep them out to save our inside:” discourses on immigration by the Spanish far right3
Bringing critical social psychology to the study of political polarization3
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How to foster perceived partner responsiveness: High‐quality listening is key2
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Do face masks undermine social connection?2
Does accuracy matter? A review of the consequences of accurate personality impressions as a function of context and content2
Deconstructing Solitude and Its Links to Well‐Being2
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Spirituality and intentions to engage in Covid‐19 protective behaviours2
Personal need for structure as a protective factor on beliefs and coping with COVID‐19: A crowd‐sourced multicultural exploration2
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Studying Everyday Variability in Gender Identity and Expression: An Ambulatory Assessment Perspective2
The effects of social comparison, emotion induction, and parent vaccination status on parental intentions for COVID‐19 vaccine uptake in children2
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Openness relates to COVID‐19 vaccination rates across 48 United States but politics trump personality2
An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response2
Individual differences in interpersonal emotion regulation: What makes some people more (or less) successful than others?2
Divergent reactions to COVID‐19 exhibited in grandiose and vulnerable narcissism2
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Obedience to authorities is not unconditional: Differential effects of COVID‐19 threat on three facets of RWA in Poland and Germany2
Why Does It Feel so Fake? Overcoming Authenticity Challenges in Professional Networking2
Cultural traits or social norms? Both responsibilism and norms linked to accepting COVID‐19 vaccine2
The Impact of Social Support on Thriving and Health in Sexually‐Diverse and Gender‐Diverse Populations2
Perceived COVID‐induced racism and contextual predictors of fear and psychological distress among Black men2
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles2
Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID‐19: Evidence across countries and over time2
Measuring many mindsets: A systematic review of growth mindset domains, and discussion of domain relationships, with implications for growth mindset interventions2
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The role of honour in interpersonal, intrapersonal and intergroup processes2
The stigmatized perceiver: Exploring the implications of social stigma for cross‐race face processing and memory2
An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on understanding and promoting well‐doing2
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles2
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Identity development in the digital context1
Willingness to self‐disclose in romantic relationships only marginally predicts COVID stress but there are indirect effects of self‐esteem and relationship commitment1
Shielded perspectives: How visual attention moderates the link between social identity and biased judgments about police1
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Navigating uncertainty in human social decision‐making: Consequences and coping strategies1
Thinking of threats: Economic threat appraisals and health threat appraisals predict differential racial attitudes during COVID‐191
The protective role of social network factors during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United States1
Uncertainty and risk during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A latent profile analysis1
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Social determinants of health, prenatal maternal stress, and earlier birth during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
A Credibility Revolution for Relationship Science: Where Can We Step Up Our Game?1
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‘Baby brain’ in pregnancy: A review of social psychological explanations and future research directions1
Disparagement humor permits unsafe COVID‐19 behaviors: A prejudiced norm perspective1
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A systematic review of growth mindset intervention implementation strategies1
Loneliness and the sexual behavior of sexual minority men in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Direct and vicarious experiences of discrimination and rumination among Latinos before and during the beginning of the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Evaluating the Covid‐19 pandemic: The role of moral disengagement1
University students' and lecturers' perceived stress and satisfaction with life during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of personality traits and self‐efficacy1
Counterfactual thinking may attenuate polarization of COVID‐19 prevention behavior1
Relationship commitment regulation: Influencing a partner's commitment to achieve one's commitment goals1
Cross‐cultural dynamics of narcissism and prosocial behavior: Unveiling the role of social status pursuit and collectivism1
Moral psychology and civil rights protesters: Exemplary, different, and mad1
Are moderate levels of stress particularly dangerous for relationship satisfaction? A conceptual replication of Tesser and Beach (1998)1
Stop the blame game: An analysis of blaming on Weibo during the early days of the COVID‐19 pandemic in rice and wheat areas in China1
Won't you be my neighbor? Local community identification predicted decreased stress over the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Revisiting negative experiences: A sociocultural cognitive framework1
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Revisiting Spontaneous Trait Inferences: Questions, Challenges, and Intradisciplinary Connections1
The comrade on the crossroads of scholarship and struggle: Troubling the exile of Frantz Fanon from social and political psychology1
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Behavioral consequences of intergroup sensitivity1
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Conspiracy beliefs and the individual, relational, and collective selves1
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Immoral, infectious, or both? How disgust sensitivity predicts judgments of violations against COVID‐19 mitigation actions1
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A critical feminist system justification analysis of climate obstructionism on the part of conservative white men1
Blinded by trust in close others: Examining the effect of social closeness on cooperative behaviors during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Information avoidance and testing for COVID‐191
Looking our limitations in the eye: A call for more thorough and honest reporting of study limitations1
Recognizing People's Agency Amidst Disadvantage: How to Study Inequality Using a Holistic Approach That is Accurate and Non‐Stigmatizing1
Creativity: Celebrations and tensions1
Freedman, G., & Powell, D. N. (2024). Ghosting: A Common but Unpopular Rejection Strategy. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(12), e70026. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.7001
Does my work matter? Reduced sense of mattering as a source of gender disparities1
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Rebellion contagion: Embodying black radical love in the westernised academy1
Testing the bidirectional relationship between belief in COVID‐19 conspiracy theories and psychological distress: A five‐wave longitudinal study1
Automatic partner attitudes: Sources, implications, and future directions1
Creating new resources: The impact of new group memberships on posttraumatic growth in China1
Keeping and sharing secrets at the interpersonal level1
Reaching across social divides deliberately: Theoretical, political, and practical implications of intergroup contact volition for intergroup relations1
The effects of social belonging and kindness on stress and well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A longitudinal experiment1
Success with a twinge of distress: Antecedents and consequences of outperformance‐related discomfort1
Developing the social identity theory of leadership: Leader agency in leader group prototypicality1
When rock bottom rocks your world: Crisis of belief as a catalyst for change1
Worth the risk? Fear of being single and willingness to make risky health decisions in sex and dating contexts1
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