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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Framing COVID‐19 as an existential threat predicts prejudice towards Chinese people via anxious arousal	94
The perceived vulnerability to disease scale: Cross‐cultural measurement invariance and associations with fear of COVID‐19 across 16 countries	78
COVID‐19‐related threat perceptions, political identity, and voting in the 2020 presidential election	76
The time has come for psychology to stop treating qualitative data as an embarrassing secret	58
Issue Information	43
Behavioral extremity moderates the association between certainty in attitudes about COVID and willingness to engage in mitigation‐related behaviors	35
Mindfulness research and applications in the context of neoliberalism: A narrative and critical review	34
Erratum to “Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research”	33
Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences	32
From cooperation to conflict: The role of collective narratives in shaping group behaviour	32
Issue Information	31
Changes in loneliness and coping strategies during COVID‐19	30
Challenges in the conceptualization of trait self‐control as a psychological construct	29
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	28
Psychopathy and COVID‐19: Callousness, impulsivity, and motivational reasons for engaging in prevention behavior	26
Eight misconceptions about the elemental approach and aversive personality trait research: A response to Andrews and colleagues (2023)	24
Who handles the tough talk? Supervisor sense of power and confronting difficult issues	23
The dynamic socioecological model of economic inequality and psychological tendencies: A cycle of mutual constitution	23
Issue Information	22
Effects of the coronavirus pandemic on perceived capitalization support provision and receipt	22
Revisiting the charmed circle: A reflexive examination of unanswered questions in the infidelity literature	20
Everyday acts of kindness predict greater well‐being during the transition to university	20
Denial of Mass Atrocities and How Perpetrators Group Evade Accusations: The Case of Israel	20
Distress, wellbeing, and growth amidst COVID‐19: Considering the dynamic interplay between positive and negative anticipatory emotions	19

Ideology, moral reframing, and persuasion in the context of COVID‐19 vaccines	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
Examining the trajectory of relational conflict leading up to and after an anticipated stressor	18
Changes in college students' socioeconomic status aspirations during the COVID‐19 pandemic	17
Does disseminating (mis)information restore social connection during a global pandemic?	16
Globalising positivity discourses and women	15
Issue Information	15
Abortion, mental health and epistemologies of psychological knowledge and ignorance	14
Expanding the social psychological study of educators through humanizing principles	14
Issue Information	14
Generational identities: Historical and literary perspectives	13
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Individual differences in patterns of developmental opportunity and constraint during COVID‐19: Implications for longitudinal well‐being	12
Conceptualizing grandiose and vulnerable narcissism as alternative status‐seeking strategies: Insights from hierometer theory	12
Did COVID‐19 really change our well‐being? It's up to meaning in life: Evidence from two longitudinal studies	12
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Gaps in Measurement: Highlighting Anti‐Fat Bias as an Underrepresented Construct in the Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale	11
Self‐regulation in daily life: Neuroscience will accelerate theorizing and advance the field	11
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Issue Information	11
How mask gap impacts discrimination and anxiety during COVID‐19: A study on overseas Chinese during the first outbreak in 2020	10
Call to arms: Research directions to substantiate a unified model of attachment and personality pathology	10
Institutional interactions and racial inequality in policing: How everyday encounters bridge individuals, organizations, and institutions	10
Romantic relationship quality during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The longitudinal associations with relationship loneliness and depression	10
Data absence and a lack of parsimony: A response to Kay and Arrow's elemental Dark Triad	10
Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Gender and Negotiation Research	9
Teaching & learning guide for: The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda	9
Secondhand racism: What we know and where to go regarding the relationship between vicarious racism and mental and physical health	9
Correction to Sociology Compass Articles	9
Issue Information	8
Reflexivity in quantitative research: A rationale and beginner's guide	8
The role of White identity in anti‐racist allyship	8
Psychological impact of coronavirus‐related social isolation in Colombia after a year of lockdown	8
Issue Information	8
Harnessing growth mindsets to help individuals flourish	8
Investigation of the correspondence principle with regard to specific and general COVID‐19 behaviors	8
Defensive pessimism and precautionary action during the COVID pandemic	8
Issue Information	8
Qualitative research at the crossroads of open science and big data: Ethical considerations	8
Safety behaviors were associated with greater anxious symptoms during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic	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	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
Impact of face masks on perceptions of black and white targets during the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Measuring and reducing implicit prejudice against Black women and people with intersectional identities	7
Tracking depressive and anxious symptoms during the first year of COVID‐19: The search for moderators	7
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Comparative optimism and well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Issue Information	6
How lay theories of prejudice shape prejudice confrontations: Examining beliefs about prejudice prevalence, origins, and controllability	6
Increasing Extraversion via Intervention: Lay Insights, Person‐Activity Fit, and Implications for Well‐Being and Persistence	6
Safety first, but for whom? Shifts in risk perception for self and others following COVID‐19 vaccination	6
Examining approaches to encourage COVID‐19 vaccination on social media	6
How people find better lifegoals: The goal breakthrough model and its neuroscientific underpinnings	6
How Meditation Promotes Well‐Being: Applying a Dual‐System Theory	6
Issue Information	6
Advancing Insights Into Accent Diversity and Its Interplay With Multicultural Experiences	6
Multiple Marginalized Identities, Minority Stress, and Mental Health	6
What factors predict anti‐Black bias in pain perception? An internal meta‐analysis across 40 experimental studies	6
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Procedural fairness facilitates cooperative behavior by enhancing cooperative expectations	5
Identity‐Based Motivation and the Motivational Consequences of Difficulty	5
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Ghosting: A Common but Unpopular Rejection Strategy	5
Social cohesion predicts COVID‐19 vaccination intentions and uptake	5
The effects of visual attention on social behavior	5
Unvaxxed and unafraid: Unvaccinated Americans perceive less disease risk than do vaccinated Americans	5
Internal, external, genetic, or cultural? Lay theories about racial health disparities predict perceived threat, adherence, and policy support	5
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Conceptualizing psychological well‐being as a dynamic process: Implications for research on mobile health interventions	5
Examining college students' food security coping strategies and experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences	5
Does online social support uniquely buffer effects of stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic?: A natural experiment	5
The motivational value of listening during intimate and difficult conversations	5
The Association Between Power‐Space Congruency and Positive Affect	5
Issue Information	5
Self‐control: An integrative framework	5
Sense of purpose and food insecurity during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Behavior change after context disruption: Opportunities and pitfalls	4
Moderators of the big‐fish‐little‐pond effect in educational settings: A scoping review	4
Taking an elemental approach to the conceptualization and measurement of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy	4
Creating inclusive schools to reduce health and well‐being disparities	4
Understanding advantaged groups' opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies: The role of perceived threat	4
The Joy Is Mine: Re‐Centering the Person in the Study of Well‐Being	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
A Tripartite Framework for Understanding the U.S. Racial Hierarchy: Social Status, Culture, and Phenotypicality	4
Issue Information	4
Interpersonal Synchrony Research in Human Groups	4
Gratitude in Context: Proposing the Dyadic Process Model of Interpersonal Gratitude	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
Why do U.S. conservatives take fewer COVID‐19 precautions? The role of worry, perceived risk, and governmental trust	4
Evaluative Conditioning has a Vexing Demand Problem	4
The construction of racial stereotypes and how they serve as racial propaganda	4
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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 conflict	4
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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 response	4
Why do organizations take political stances? A review of reasons and risks	4
Punishing or praising gossipers: How people interpret the motives driving negative gossip shapes its consequences	4
Animalizing women and feminizing (vegan) men: The psychological intersections of sexism, speciesism, meat, and masculinity	4
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 richness	4
Three methodological approaches to studying singlehood	4
Issue Information	4
Unraveling Why Happiness Levels Vary Across Cultures: Mechanisms Underlying East‐West Differences	4
Contagious or prosocial? Perceptions of mask‐wearers toward Whites and Asians: A cross‐cultural comparison during the early stage of the COVID‐19 pandemic	4