OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social and Personality Psychology Compass is 4. 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
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Framing COVID‐19 as an existential threat predicts prejudice towards Chinese people via anxious arousal	87
The perceived vulnerability to disease scale: Cross‐cultural measurement invariance and associations with fear of COVID‐19 across 16 countries	76
COVID‐19‐related threat perceptions, political identity, and voting in the 2020 presidential election	71
The time has come for psychology to stop treating qualitative data as an embarrassing secret	66
Issue Information	58
Behavioral extremity moderates the association between certainty in attitudes about COVID and willingness to engage in mitigation‐related behaviors	41
Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences	34
Mindfulness research and applications in the context of neoliberalism: A narrative and critical review	33
From cooperation to conflict: The role of collective narratives in shaping group behaviour	31
Erratum to “Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research”	31
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Changes in loneliness and coping strategies during COVID‐19	29
Eight misconceptions about the elemental approach and aversive personality trait research: A response to Andrews and colleagues (2023)	28
Everyday acts of kindness predict greater well‐being during the transition to university	28
Revisiting the charmed circle: A reflexive examination of unanswered questions in the infidelity literature	28
Who handles the tough talk? Supervisor sense of power and confronting difficult issues	26
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Effects of the coronavirus pandemic on perceived capitalization support provision and receipt	24
The dynamic socioecological model of economic inequality and psychological tendencies: A cycle of mutual constitution	22
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Psychopathy and COVID‐19: Callousness, impulsivity, and motivational reasons for engaging in prevention behavior	22
A test of vaccine endorsement by political in‐ versus out‐group sources: Effect on vaccination likelihood and exploration of mediation through perceived bias and liking	21
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Challenges in the conceptualization of trait self‐control as a psychological construct	20

Distress, wellbeing, and growth amidst COVID‐19: Considering the dynamic interplay between positive and negative anticipatory emotions	19
Denial of Mass Atrocities and How Perpetrators Group Evade Accusations: The Case of Israel	19
Applying propensity score matching to assess the impact of the pandemic on intimate relationships	19
Do gender and educational level predict vaccination? The mediating role of attitudes towards vaccines and fear of COVID‐19	19
Generational identities: Historical and literary perspectives	19
Examining the trajectory of relational conflict leading up to and after an anticipated stressor	18
Ideology, moral reframing, and persuasion in the context of COVID‐19 vaccines	18
Changes in college students' socioeconomic status aspirations during the COVID‐19 pandemic	17
Self‐regulation in daily life: Neuroscience will accelerate theorizing and advance the field	16
Conceptualizing grandiose and vulnerable narcissism as alternative status‐seeking strategies: Insights from hierometer theory	15
Did COVID‐19 really change our well‐being? It's up to meaning in life: Evidence from two longitudinal studies	14
Globalising positivity discourses and women	14
Individual differences in patterns of developmental opportunity and constraint during COVID‐19: Implications for longitudinal well‐being	14
Does disseminating (mis)information restore social connection during a global pandemic?	14
Issue Information	13
Expanding the social psychological study of educators through humanizing principles	13
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Abortion, mental health and epistemologies of psychological knowledge and ignorance	12
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Institutional interactions and racial inequality in policing: How everyday encounters bridge individuals, organizations, and institutions	11
Call to arms: Research directions to substantiate a unified model of attachment and personality pathology	11
Gaps in Measurement: Highlighting Anti‐Fat Bias as an Underrepresented Construct in the Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale	11
Teaching & learning guide for: The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda	10
Data absence and a lack of parsimony: A response to Kay and Arrow's elemental Dark Triad	10
Romantic relationship quality during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The longitudinal associations with relationship loneliness and depression	10
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles	10
How mask gap impacts discrimination and anxiety during COVID‐19: A study on overseas Chinese during the first outbreak in 2020	10
Issue Information	9
Secondhand racism: What we know and where to go regarding the relationship between vicarious racism and mental and physical health	9
Harnessing growth mindsets to help individuals flourish	9
Safety behaviors were associated with greater anxious symptoms during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic	9
Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research	9
An ignored minority status: Consequences for sexual minorities living in a biased society	8
Issue Information	8
What factors predict anti‐Black bias in pain perception? An internal meta‐analysis across 40 experimental studies	8
Investigation of the correspondence principle with regard to specific and general COVID‐19 behaviors	8
The role of White identity in anti‐racist allyship	8
Qualitative research at the crossroads of open science and big data: Ethical considerations	8
How people find better lifegoals: The goal breakthrough model and its neuroscientific underpinnings	8
Psychological impact of coronavirus‐related social isolation in Colombia after a year of lockdown	8
Core social motives explain responses to collective action issues	8
Fear of missing out and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic	8
Issue Information	8
Reflexivity in quantitative research: A rationale and beginner's guide	8
Defensive pessimism and precautionary action during the COVID pandemic	7
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Associations between power, stress, and dominance in romantic relationships during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Examining curvilinear and within‐person effects	7
How lay theories of prejudice shape prejudice confrontations: Examining beliefs about prejudice prevalence, origins, and controllability	7

Impact of face masks on perceptions of black and white targets during the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Tracking depressive and anxious symptoms during the first year of COVID‐19: The search for moderators	7
Measuring and reducing implicit prejudice against Black women and people with intersectional identities	7
Internal, external, genetic, or cultural? Lay theories about racial health disparities predict perceived threat, adherence, and policy support	6
Does online social support uniquely buffer effects of stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic?: A natural experiment	6
Identity‐Based Motivation and the Motivational Consequences of Difficulty	6
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Safety first, but for whom? Shifts in risk perception for self and others following COVID‐19 vaccination	6
The motivational value of listening during intimate and difficult conversations	6
Examining approaches to encourage COVID‐19 vaccination on social media	6
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Ghosting: A Common but Unpopular Rejection Strategy	6
Advancing Insights Into Accent Diversity and Its Interplay With Multicultural Experiences	6
Comparative optimism and well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Issue Information	6
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Personality development in disruptive times: The impact of personal versus collective life events	5
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Procedural fairness facilitates cooperative behavior by enhancing cooperative expectations	5
Self‐control: An integrative framework	5
Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences	5
The Joy Is Mine: Re‐Centering the Person in the Study of Well‐Being	5
The effects of visual attention on social behavior	5
How Meditation Promotes Well‐Being: Applying a Dual‐System Theory	5
Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans	5
Conceptualizing psychological well‐being as a dynamic process: Implications for research on mobile health interventions	5
Social cohesion predicts COVID‐19 vaccination intentions and uptake	5
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The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda	5
Issue Information	5
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The Association Between Power‐Space Congruency and Positive Affect	5
Increasing Extraversion via Intervention: Lay Insights, Person‐Activity Fit, and Implications for Well‐Being and Persistence	5
Examining college students' food security coping strategies and experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Contagious or prosocial? Perceptions of mask‐wearers toward Whites and Asians: A cross‐cultural comparison during the early stage of the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Animalizing women and feminizing (vegan) men: The psychological intersections of sexism, speciesism, meat, and masculinity	4
Gratitude in Context: Proposing the Dyadic Process Model of Interpersonal Gratitude	4
Collective views of vaccination predict vaccine hesitancy and willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine	4
Creating inclusive schools to reduce health and well‐being disparities	4
Improving causal inference of mediation analysis with multiple mediators using interventional indirect effects	4
Erasing and dehumanizing Natives to protect positive national identity: The Native mascot example	4
Examining the influence of information‐related factors on vaccination intentions via confidence: Insights from adult samples in Italy and Serbia during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Integrating personality psychology and intersectionality to advance diversity in the study of persons	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
Why do U.S. conservatives take fewer COVID‐19 precautions? The role of worry, perceived risk, and governmental trust	4
Teaching & Learning guide for: An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response	4
Punishing or praising gossipers: How people interpret the motives driving negative gossip shapes its consequences	4
Does partisan media make a pawn of mistrust? Institutional trust and preventive COVID‐19 health behaviors in a polarized pandemic	4
“I'll wait for the English one”: COVID‐19 vaccine country of origin, national identity, and their effects on vaccine perceptions and uptake willingness	4
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Sense of purpose and food insecurity during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Memory lapses during a pandemic: Differential associations between COVID‐stress and daily memory lapses?	4
Interpersonal consequences of joint food consumption for connection and conflict	4
Issue Information	4
Having the will, finding the ways, and wishes for the future: A model of relational hope and well‐being	4
Interpersonal Synchrony Research in Human Groups	4
Taking an elemental approach to the conceptualization and measurement of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy	4
Understanding advantaged groups' opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies: The role of perceived threat	4
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Three methodological approaches to studying singlehood	4
Relationship between COVID‐19‐related stress and social inhibition among university students in China: The mediating role of psychological richness	4
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 Phenotypicality	4