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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Framing COVID‐19 as an existential threat predicts prejudice towards Chinese people via anxious arousal87
The perceived vulnerability to disease scale: Cross‐cultural measurement invariance and associations with fear of COVID‐19 across 16 countries76
COVID‐19‐related threat perceptions, political identity, and voting in the 2020 presidential election71
The time has come for psychology to stop treating qualitative data as an embarrassing secret66
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Behavioral extremity moderates the association between certainty in attitudes about COVID and willingness to engage in mitigation‐related behaviors41
Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences34
Mindfulness research and applications in the context of neoliberalism: A narrative and critical review33
Erratum to “Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research”31
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From cooperation to conflict: The role of collective narratives in shaping group behaviour31
Changes in loneliness and coping strategies during COVID‐1929
Everyday acts of kindness predict greater well‐being during the transition to university28
Revisiting the charmed circle: A reflexive examination of unanswered questions in the infidelity literature28
Eight misconceptions about the elemental approach and aversive personality trait research: A response to Andrews and colleagues (2023)28
Who handles the tough talk? Supervisor sense of power and confronting difficult issues26
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Effects of the coronavirus pandemic on perceived capitalization support provision and receipt24
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Psychopathy and COVID‐19: Callousness, impulsivity, and motivational reasons for engaging in prevention behavior22
The dynamic socioecological model of economic inequality and psychological tendencies: A cycle of mutual constitution22
A test of vaccine endorsement by political in‐ versus out‐group sources: Effect on vaccination likelihood and exploration of mediation through perceived bias and liking21
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Challenges in the conceptualization of trait self‐control as a psychological construct20
Applying propensity score matching to assess the impact of the pandemic on intimate relationships19
Do gender and educational level predict vaccination? The mediating role of attitudes towards vaccines and fear of COVID‐1919
Generational identities: Historical and literary perspectives19
Distress, wellbeing, and growth amidst COVID‐19: Considering the dynamic interplay between positive and negative anticipatory emotions19
Denial of Mass Atrocities and How Perpetrators Group Evade Accusations: The Case of Israel19
Examining the trajectory of relational conflict leading up to and after an anticipated stressor18
Ideology, moral reframing, and persuasion in the context of COVID‐19 vaccines18
Changes in college students' socioeconomic status aspirations during the COVID‐19 pandemic17
Self‐regulation in daily life: Neuroscience will accelerate theorizing and advance the field16
Conceptualizing grandiose and vulnerable narcissism as alternative status‐seeking strategies: Insights from hierometer theory15
Globalising positivity discourses and women14
Individual differences in patterns of developmental opportunity and constraint during COVID‐19: Implications for longitudinal well‐being14
Does disseminating (mis)information restore social connection during a global pandemic?14
Did COVID‐19 really change our well‐being? It's up to meaning in life: Evidence from two longitudinal studies14
Expanding the social psychological study of educators through humanizing principles13
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Abortion, mental health and epistemologies of psychological knowledge and ignorance12
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Call to arms: Research directions to substantiate a unified model of attachment and personality pathology11
Gaps in Measurement: Highlighting Anti‐Fat Bias as an Underrepresented Construct in the Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale11
Institutional interactions and racial inequality in policing: How everyday encounters bridge individuals, organizations, and institutions11
Romantic relationship quality during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The longitudinal associations with relationship loneliness and depression10
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles10
How mask gap impacts discrimination and anxiety during COVID‐19: A study on overseas Chinese during the first outbreak in 202010
Teaching & learning guide for: The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda10
Data absence and a lack of parsimony: A response to Kay and Arrow's elemental Dark Triad10
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
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Secondhand racism: What we know and where to go regarding the relationship between vicarious racism and mental and physical health9
Investigation of the correspondence principle with regard to specific and general COVID‐19 behaviors8
The role of White identity in anti‐racist allyship8
Qualitative research at the crossroads of open science and big data: Ethical considerations8
How people find better lifegoals: The goal breakthrough model and its neuroscientific underpinnings8
Psychological impact of coronavirus‐related social isolation in Colombia after a year of lockdown8
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
An ignored minority status: Consequences for sexual minorities living in a biased society8
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What factors predict anti‐Black bias in pain perception? An internal meta‐analysis across 40 experimental studies8
Associations between power, stress, and dominance in romantic relationships during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining curvilinear and within‐person effects7
How lay theories of prejudice shape prejudice confrontations: Examining beliefs about prejudice prevalence, origins, and controllability7
Impact of face masks on perceptions of black and white targets during the COVID‐19 pandemic7
Tracking depressive and anxious symptoms during the first year of COVID‐19: The search for moderators7
Measuring and reducing implicit prejudice against Black women and people with intersectional identities7
Defensive pessimism and precautionary action during the COVID pandemic7
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Safety first, but for whom? Shifts in risk perception for self and others following COVID‐19 vaccination6
The motivational value of listening during intimate and difficult conversations6
Examining approaches to encourage COVID‐19 vaccination on social media6
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Ghosting: A Common but Unpopular Rejection Strategy6
Advancing Insights Into Accent Diversity and Its Interplay With Multicultural Experiences6
Comparative optimism and well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic6
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Internal, external, genetic, or cultural? Lay theories about racial health disparities predict perceived threat, adherence, and policy support6
Does online social support uniquely buffer effects of stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic?: A natural experiment6
Identity‐Based Motivation and the Motivational Consequences of Difficulty6
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The effects of visual attention on social behavior5
How Meditation Promotes Well‐Being: Applying a Dual‐System Theory5
Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans5
Conceptualizing psychological well‐being as a dynamic process: Implications for research on mobile health interventions5
Social cohesion predicts COVID‐19 vaccination intentions and uptake5
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The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda5
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The Association Between Power‐Space Congruency and Positive Affect5
Increasing Extraversion via Intervention: Lay Insights, Person‐Activity Fit, and Implications for Well‐Being and Persistence5
Examining college students' food security coping strategies and experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
Contagious or prosocial? Perceptions of mask‐wearers toward Whites and Asians: A cross‐cultural comparison during the early stage of the COVID‐19 pandemic5
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Personality development in disruptive times: The impact of personal versus collective life events5
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Procedural fairness facilitates cooperative behavior by enhancing cooperative expectations5
Self‐control: An integrative framework5
Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences5
The Joy Is Mine: Re‐Centering the Person in the Study of Well‐Being5
Punishing or praising gossipers: How people interpret the motives driving negative gossip shapes its consequences4
Does partisan media make a pawn of mistrust? Institutional trust and preventive COVID‐19 health behaviors in a polarized pandemic4
“I'll wait for the English one”: COVID‐19 vaccine country of origin, national identity, and their effects on vaccine perceptions and uptake willingness4
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Sense of purpose and food insecurity during the COVID‐19 pandemic4
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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Having the will, finding the ways, and wishes for the future: A model of relational hope and well‐being4
Interpersonal Synchrony Research in Human Groups4
Taking an elemental approach to the conceptualization and measurement of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy4
Understanding advantaged groups' opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies: The role of perceived threat4
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Three methodological approaches to studying singlehood4
Relationship between COVID‐19‐related stress and social inhibition among university students in China: The mediating role of psychological richness4
How does exposure to masked individuals affect White Americans' attitudes toward Asian American and Pacific Islanders?4
A Tripartite Framework for Understanding the U.S. Racial Hierarchy: Social Status, Culture, and Phenotypicality4
Animalizing women and feminizing (vegan) men: The psychological intersections of sexism, speciesism, meat, and masculinity4
Gratitude in Context: Proposing the Dyadic Process Model of Interpersonal Gratitude4
Collective views of vaccination predict vaccine hesitancy and willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine4
Creating inclusive schools to reduce health and well‐being disparities4
Improving causal inference of mediation analysis with multiple mediators using interventional indirect effects4
Erasing and dehumanizing Natives to protect positive national identity: The Native mascot example4
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
Why do U.S. conservatives take fewer COVID‐19 precautions? The role of worry, perceived risk, and governmental trust4
Teaching & Learning guide for: An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response4
“Keep them out to save our inside:” discourses on immigration by the Spanish far right3
Humility as Personal Resource: A Conservation of Resources Perspective3
Bringing critical social psychology to the study of political polarization3
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Employee psychological wellbeing in the face of pandemic: The role of belief in work priority3
Envy, entitlement, and cutting the line: Dark personality predicted selfishness during the U.S. COVID‐19 vaccine rollout3
Behavior change after context disruption: Opportunities and pitfalls3
Well‐being during the coronavirus pandemic: The effect of big five personality and COVID‐19 beliefs and behaviors3
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Rice‐farming areas report more anxiety across two years of the COVID‐19 pandemic in China3
Capitalizing on the potential of mobile health applications as behavioral interventions: A research agenda for calorie‐tracking and activity‐tracking applications3
Perceived responsiveness across cultures: The role of cultural fit in social support use3
Holding It, Together: Beyond Bearing Witness and Burning Out3
Moderators of the big‐fish‐little‐pond effect in educational settings: A scoping review3
Implicit theories of mental health predict anxiety and depression during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China: The mediating effect of coping styles3
Do nonhuman animals reason about prestige‐based status?3
The invention of race and the persistence of racial hierarchy: White privilege, White supremacy, and White colorblindness3
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Why do organizations take political stances? A review of reasons and risks3
An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on understanding and promoting well‐doing2
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Perceived COVID‐induced racism and contextual predictors of fear and psychological distress among Black men2
Reaching across social divides deliberately: Theoretical, political, and practical implications of intergroup contact volition for intergroup relations2
Openness relates to COVID‐19 vaccination rates across 48 United States but politics trump personality2
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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
Individual differences in interpersonal emotion regulation: What makes some people more (or less) successful than others?2
Personal need for structure as a protective factor on beliefs and coping with COVID‐19: A crowd‐sourced multicultural exploration2
The role of honour in interpersonal, intrapersonal and intergroup processes2
Deconstructing Solitude and Its Links to Well‐Being2
Why Does It Feel so Fake? Overcoming Authenticity Challenges in Professional Networking2
Does accuracy matter? A review of the consequences of accurate personality impressions as a function of context and content2
An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response2
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles2
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Studying Everyday Variability in Gender Identity and Expression: An Ambulatory Assessment Perspective2
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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
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles2
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
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Do face masks undermine social connection?2
Spirituality and intentions to engage in Covid‐19 protective behaviours2
Divergent reactions to COVID‐19 exhibited in grandiose and vulnerable narcissism2
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The stigmatized perceiver: Exploring the implications of social stigma for cross‐race face processing and memory2
Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID‐19: Evidence across countries and over time1
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Rebalancing social & personality psychology methods: The case for naturalistic observation1
Testing the bidirectional relationship between belief in COVID‐19 conspiracy theories and psychological distress: A five‐wave longitudinal study1
‘Baby brain’ in pregnancy: A review of social psychological explanations and future research directions1
The Interplay of Psychological Entitlement, Age, and Gender in Meaning Making: An Experimental Study1
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
Does my work matter? Reduced sense of mattering as a source of gender disparities1
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Are moderate levels of stress particularly dangerous for relationship satisfaction? A conceptual replication of Tesser and Beach (1998)1
The protective role of social network factors during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United States1
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Developing the social identity theory of leadership: Leader agency in leader group prototypicality1
Shielded perspectives: How visual attention moderates the link between social identity and biased judgments about police1
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How to foster perceived partner responsiveness: High‐quality listening is key1
Rebellion contagion: Embodying black radical love in the westernised academy1
Creating new resources: The impact of new group memberships on posttraumatic growth in China1
Revisiting negative experiences: A sociocultural cognitive framework1
Success with a twinge of distress: Antecedents and consequences of outperformance‐related discomfort1
University students' and lecturers' perceived stress and satisfaction with life during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of personality traits and self‐efficacy1
When rock bottom rocks your world: Crisis of belief as a catalyst for change1
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
Information avoidance and testing for COVID‐191
Prosocial orientation and COVID‐19 vaccine willingness in the U.S.1
Won't you be my neighbor? Local community identification predicted decreased stress over the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Creativity: Celebrations and tensions1
A Credibility Revolution for Relationship Science: Where Can We Step Up Our Game?1
Direct and vicarious experiences of discrimination and rumination among Latinos before and during the beginning of the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Revisiting Spontaneous Trait Inferences: Questions, Challenges, and Intradisciplinary Connections1
Aggression as successful self‐control1
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
Cross‐cultural dynamics of narcissism and prosocial behavior: Unveiling the role of social status pursuit and collectivism1
Social determinants of health, prenatal maternal stress, and earlier birth during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Thinking of threats: Economic threat appraisals and health threat appraisals predict differential racial attitudes during COVID‐191
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The effects of social comparison, emotion induction, and parent vaccination status on parental intentions for COVID‐19 vaccine uptake in children1
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
Evaluating the Covid‐19 pandemic: The role of moral disengagement1
Uncertainty and risk during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A latent profile analysis1
Conspiracy beliefs and the individual, relational, and collective selves1
Looking our limitations in the eye: A call for more thorough and honest reporting of study limitations1
The comrade on the crossroads of scholarship and struggle: Troubling the exile of Frantz Fanon from social and political psychology1
Moral psychology and civil rights protesters: Exemplary, different, and mad1
Loneliness and the sexual behavior of sexual minority men in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Financial self‐regulation1
Framing resilience linked to parental ethnic‐racial socialization as hidden: A hidden resilience conceptual framework1
Relationship commitment regulation: Influencing a partner's commitment to achieve one's commitment goals1
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Navigating uncertainty in human social decision‐making: Consequences and coping strategies1
Automatic partner attitudes: Sources, implications, and future directions1
Immoral, infectious, or both? How disgust sensitivity predicts judgments of violations against COVID‐19 mitigation actions1
A systematic review of growth mindset intervention implementation strategies1
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