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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Erratum to “Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research”82
COVID‐19‐related threat perceptions, political identity, and voting in the 2020 presidential election73
The perceived vulnerability to disease scale: Cross‐cultural measurement invariance and associations with fear of COVID‐19 across 16 countries64
Framing COVID‐19 as an existential threat predicts prejudice towards Chinese people via anxious arousal64
Mindfulness research and applications in the context of neoliberalism: A narrative and critical review56
Behavioral extremity moderates the association between certainty in attitudes about COVID and willingness to engage in mitigation‐related behaviors55
Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences38
From cooperation to conflict: The role of collective narratives in shaping group behaviour31
The time has come for psychology to stop treating qualitative data as an embarrassing secret30
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Psychopathy and COVID‐19: Callousness, impulsivity, and motivational reasons for engaging in prevention behavior27
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Effects of the coronavirus pandemic on perceived capitalization support provision and receipt25
A test of vaccine endorsement by political in‐ versus out‐group sources: Effect on vaccination likelihood and exploration of mediation through perceived bias and liking23
Changes in loneliness and coping strategies during COVID‐1922
Revisiting the charmed circle: A reflexive examination of unanswered questions in the infidelity literature21
Everyday acts of kindness predict greater well‐being during the transition to university21
Who handles the tough talk? Supervisor sense of power and confronting difficult issues21
Challenges in the conceptualization of trait self‐control as a psychological construct20
The dynamic socioecological model of economic inequality and psychological tendencies: A cycle of mutual constitution20
Eight misconceptions about the elemental approach and aversive personality trait research: A response to Andrews and colleagues (2023)20
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Denial of Mass Atrocities and How Perpetrators Group Evade Accusations: The Case of Israel17
Generational identities: Historical and literary perspectives16
Applying propensity score matching to assess the impact of the pandemic on intimate relationships16
Individual differences in patterns of developmental opportunity and constraint during COVID‐19: Implications for longitudinal well‐being16
Abortion, mental health and epistemologies of psychological knowledge and ignorance16
Expanding the social psychological study of educators through humanizing principles16
Did COVID‐19 really change our well‐being? It's up to meaning in life: Evidence from two longitudinal studies15
Ideology, moral reframing, and persuasion in the context of COVID‐19 vaccines15
Changes in college students' socioeconomic status aspirations during the COVID‐19 pandemic14
Distress, wellbeing, and growth amidst COVID‐19: Considering the dynamic interplay between positive and negative anticipatory emotions13
Does disseminating (mis)information restore social connection during a global pandemic?13
Do gender and educational level predict vaccination? The mediating role of attitudes towards vaccines and fear of COVID‐1913
Globalising positivity discourses and women12
Conceptualizing grandiose and vulnerable narcissism as alternative status‐seeking strategies: Insights from hierometer theory12
Examining the trajectory of relational conflict leading up to and after an anticipated stressor12
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Self‐regulation in daily life: Neuroscience will accelerate theorizing and advance the field11
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Correction to Sociology Compass Articles11
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Institutional interactions and racial inequality in policing: How everyday encounters bridge individuals, organizations, and institutions9
Harnessing growth mindsets to help individuals flourish9
Safety behaviors were associated with greater anxious symptoms during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic9
Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research9
Secondhand racism: What we know and where to go regarding the relationship between vicarious racism and mental and physical health9
Call to arms: Research directions to substantiate a unified model of attachment and personality pathology9
Data absence and a lack of parsimony: A response to Kay and Arrow's elemental Dark Triad8
Teaching & learning guide for: The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda8
Qualitative research at the crossroads of open science and big data: Ethical considerations8
Gaps in Measurement: Highlighting Anti‐Fat Bias as an Underrepresented Construct in the Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale8
Romantic relationship quality during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The longitudinal associations with relationship loneliness and depression8
How mask gap impacts discrimination and anxiety during COVID‐19: A study on overseas Chinese during the first outbreak in 20208
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Reflexivity in quantitative research: A rationale and beginner's guide7
Core social motives explain responses to collective action issues7
How people find better lifegoals: The goal breakthrough model and its neuroscientific underpinnings7
An ignored minority status: Consequences for sexual minorities living in a biased society7
How lay theories of prejudice shape prejudice confrontations: Examining beliefs about prejudice prevalence, origins, and controllability6
Fear of missing out and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic6
Measuring and reducing implicit prejudice against Black women and people with intersectional identities6
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Ghosting: A Common but Unpopular Rejection Strategy6
What factors predict anti‐Black bias in pain perception? An internal meta‐analysis across 40 experimental studies6
Investigation of the correspondence principle with regard to specific and general COVID‐19 behaviors6
Associations between power, stress, and dominance in romantic relationships during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining curvilinear and within‐person effects6
Defensive pessimism and precautionary action during the COVID pandemic6
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Identity‐Based Motivation and the Motivational Consequences of Difficulty6
Psychological impact of coronavirus‐related social isolation in Colombia after a year of lockdown6
The role of White identity in anti‐racist allyship6
Impact of face masks on perceptions of black and white targets during the COVID‐19 pandemic6
Tracking depressive and anxious symptoms during the first year of COVID‐19: The search for moderators6
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The motivational value of listening during intimate and difficult conversations6
Self‐control: An integrative framework5
Comparative optimism and well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
Safety first, but for whom? Shifts in risk perception for self and others following COVID‐19 vaccination5
Personality development in disruptive times: The impact of personal versus collective life events5
The Association Between Power‐Space Congruency and Positive Affect5
Examining college students' food security coping strategies and experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
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How Meditation Promotes Well‐Being: Applying a Dual‐System Theory5
Examining approaches to encourage COVID‐19 vaccination on social media5
Advancing Insights Into Accent Diversity and Its Interplay With Multicultural Experiences5
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Procedural fairness facilitates cooperative behavior by enhancing cooperative expectations5
Does online social support uniquely buffer effects of stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic?: A natural experiment5
Internal, external, genetic, or cultural? Lay theories about racial health disparities predict perceived threat, adherence, and policy support5
Increasing Extraversion via Intervention: Lay Insights, Person‐Activity Fit, and Implications for Well‐Being and Persistence5
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Contagious or prosocial? Perceptions of mask‐wearers toward Whites and Asians: A cross‐cultural comparison during the early stage of the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Memory lapses during a pandemic: Differential associations between COVID‐stress and daily memory lapses?4
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Three methodological approaches to studying singlehood4
The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda4
Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans4
The Joy Is Mine: Re‐Centering the Person in the Study of Well‐Being4
The effects of visual attention on social behavior4
Social cohesion predicts COVID‐19 vaccination intentions and uptake4
Integrating personality psychology and intersectionality to advance diversity in the study of persons4
Teaching & Learning guide for: An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response4
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Interpersonal consequences of joint food consumption for connection and conflict4
Sense of purpose and food insecurity during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
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Conceptualizing psychological well‐being as a dynamic process: Implications for research on mobile health interventions4
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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
Animalizing women and feminizing (vegan) men: The psychological intersections of sexism, speciesism, meat, and masculinity4
How does exposure to masked individuals affect White Americans' attitudes toward Asian American and Pacific Islanders?4
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
Relationship between COVID‐19‐related stress and social inhibition among university students in China: The mediating role of psychological richness4
Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences4
Gratitude in Context: Proposing the Dyadic Process Model of Interpersonal Gratitude3
Understanding advantaged groups' opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies: The role of perceived threat3
“I'll wait for the English one”: COVID‐19 vaccine country of origin, national identity, and their effects on vaccine perceptions and uptake willingness3
Erasing and dehumanizing Natives to protect positive national identity: The Native mascot example3
Improving causal inference of mediation analysis with multiple mediators using interventional indirect effects3
Moderators of the big‐fish‐little‐pond effect in educational settings: A scoping review3
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Collective views of vaccination predict vaccine hesitancy and willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine3
The affective benefits of nature exposure3
Why do U.S. conservatives take fewer COVID‐19 precautions? The role of worry, perceived risk, and governmental trust3
Behavior change after context disruption: Opportunities and pitfalls3
Why do organizations take political stances? A review of reasons and risks3
Holding It, Together: Beyond Bearing Witness and Burning Out3
Do nonhuman animals reason about prestige‐based status?3
Having the will, finding the ways, and wishes for the future: A model of relational hope and well‐being3
Creating inclusive schools to reduce health and well‐being disparities3
Well‐being during the coronavirus pandemic: The effect of big five personality and COVID‐19 beliefs and behaviors3
Taking an elemental approach to the conceptualization and measurement of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy3
Punishing or praising gossipers: How people interpret the motives driving negative gossip shapes its consequences3
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Does partisan media make a pawn of mistrust? Institutional trust and preventive COVID‐19 health behaviors in a polarized pandemic3
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Humility as Personal Resource: A Conservation of Resources Perspective2
Implicit theories of mental health predict anxiety and depression during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China: The mediating effect of coping styles2
Capitalizing on the potential of mobile health applications as behavioral interventions: A research agenda for calorie‐tracking and activity‐tracking applications2
Deconstructing Solitude and Its Links to Well‐Being2
Does accuracy matter? A review of the consequences of accurate personality impressions as a function of context and content2
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Measuring many mindsets: A systematic review of growth mindset domains, and discussion of domain relationships, with implications for growth mindset interventions2
An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on understanding and promoting well‐doing2
Why Does It Feel so Fake? Overcoming Authenticity Challenges in Professional Networking2
Obedience to authorities is not unconditional: Differential effects of COVID‐19 threat on three facets of RWA in Poland and Germany2
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Bringing critical social psychology to the study of political polarization2
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Perceived responsiveness across cultures: The role of cultural fit in social support use2
Rice‐farming areas report more anxiety across two years of the COVID‐19 pandemic in China2
“Keep them out to save our inside:” discourses on immigration by the Spanish far right2
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Correction to Sociology Compass Articles2
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Individual differences in interpersonal emotion regulation: What makes some people more (or less) successful than others?2
Spirituality and intentions to engage in Covid‐19 protective behaviours2
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Cultural traits or social norms? Both responsibilism and norms linked to accepting COVID‐19 vaccine2
Personal need for structure as a protective factor on beliefs and coping with COVID‐19: A crowd‐sourced multicultural exploration2
Employee psychological wellbeing in the face of pandemic: The role of belief in work priority2
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The invention of race and the persistence of racial hierarchy: White privilege, White supremacy, and White colorblindness2
Envy, entitlement, and cutting the line: Dark personality predicted selfishness during the U.S. COVID‐19 vaccine rollout2
The role of honour in interpersonal, intrapersonal and intergroup processes2
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Studying Everyday Variability in Gender Identity and Expression: An Ambulatory Assessment Perspective2
The stigmatized perceiver: Exploring the implications of social stigma for cross‐race face processing and memory2
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The comrade on the crossroads of scholarship and struggle: Troubling the exile of Frantz Fanon from social and political psychology1
Won't you be my neighbor? Local community identification predicted decreased stress over the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Barriers for women in the workplace: A social psychological perspective1
Rebalancing social & personality psychology methods: The case for naturalistic observation1
Information avoidance and testing for COVID‐191
Navigating uncertainty in human social decision‐making: Consequences and coping strategies1
Conspiracy beliefs and the individual, relational, and collective selves1
A Credibility Revolution for Relationship Science: Where Can We Step Up Our Game?1
Personality computing: New frontiers in personality assessment1
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Immoral, infectious, or both? How disgust sensitivity predicts judgments of violations against COVID‐19 mitigation actions1
The promises and pitfalls of functional magnetic resonance imaging hyperscanning for social interaction research1
Testing the bidirectional relationship between belief in COVID‐19 conspiracy theories and psychological distress: A five‐wave longitudinal study1
Reaching across social divides deliberately: Theoretical, political, and practical implications of intergroup contact volition for intergroup relations1
Thinking of threats: Economic threat appraisals and health threat appraisals predict differential racial attitudes during COVID‐191
Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID‐19: Evidence across countries and over time1
What's wrong with rating scales? Psychology's replication and confidence crisis cannot be solved without transparency in data generation1
The effects of social comparison, emotion induction, and parent vaccination status on parental intentions for COVID‐19 vaccine uptake in children1
Identity‐reframing interventions: How to effectively highlight individuals' background‐specific strengths1
Teaching & learning guide for: Virtual reality expands the toolkit for conducting health psychology research1
Are moderate levels of stress particularly dangerous for relationship satisfaction? A conceptual replication of Tesser and Beach (1998)1
When rock bottom rocks your world: Crisis of belief as a catalyst for change1
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
Aggression as successful self‐control1
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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
A critical feminist system justification analysis of climate obstructionism on the part of conservative white men1
Police‐perpetrated racism and health in African American and Black communities1
Loneliness and the sexual behavior of sexual minority men in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Looking our limitations in the eye: A call for more thorough and honest reporting of study limitations1
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Autism × Social Psychology: A Collaboration Whose Time Has Come1
Blinded by trust in close others: Examining the effect of social closeness on cooperative behaviors during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response1
Willingness to self‐disclose in romantic relationships only marginally predicts COVID stress but there are indirect effects of self‐esteem and relationship commitment1
Perceived COVID‐induced racism and contextual predictors of fear and psychological distress among Black men1
University students' and lecturers' perceived stress and satisfaction with life during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of personality traits and self‐efficacy1
Openness relates to COVID‐19 vaccination rates across 48 United States but politics trump personality1
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‘Baby brain’ in pregnancy: A review of social psychological explanations and future research directions1
Uncertainty and risk during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A latent profile analysis1
Counterfactual thinking may attenuate polarization of COVID‐19 prevention behavior1
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Shielded perspectives: How visual attention moderates the link between social identity and biased judgments about police1
Behavioral consequences of intergroup sensitivity1
Recognizing People's Agency Amidst Disadvantage: How to Study Inequality Using a Holistic Approach That is Accurate and Non‐Stigmatizing1
Does my work matter? Reduced sense of mattering as a source of gender disparities1
Creating new resources: The impact of new group memberships on posttraumatic growth in China1
Relationship commitment regulation: Influencing a partner's commitment to achieve one's commitment goals1
Success with a twinge of distress: Antecedents and consequences of outperformance‐related discomfort1
Framing resilience linked to parental ethnic‐racial socialization as hidden: A hidden resilience conceptual framework1
How to foster perceived partner responsiveness: High‐quality listening is key1
Prosocial orientation and COVID‐19 vaccine willingness in the U.S.1
Worth the risk? Fear of being single and willingness to make risky health decisions in sex and dating contexts1
Divergent reactions to COVID‐19 exhibited in grandiose and vulnerable narcissism1
Financial self‐regulation1
Do face masks undermine social connection?1
The role of mindfulness and compassion in early adults' subsequent mental health, coping and compliance with health guidelines during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A prospective longitudinal study1
Evaluating the Covid‐19 pandemic: The role of moral disengagement1
Self‐esteem development and life events: A review and integrative process framework1
Identity development in the digital context1
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