OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social and Personality Psychology Compass is 2. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Psychological flexibility: What we know, what we do not know, and what we think we know	93
Social norms, social identities and the COVID‐19 pandemic: Theory and recommendations	82
Inoculation theory in the post‐truth era: Extant findings and new frontiers for contested science, misinformation, and conspiracy theories	73
Does habit weaken the relationship between intention and behaviour? Revisiting the habit‐intention interaction hypothesis	68
The affective benefits of nature exposure	55
How to foster perceived partner responsiveness: High‐quality listening is key	44
The COVID‐19 pandemic and the search for structure: Social media and conspiracy theories	40
Conspiracy beliefs and the individual, relational, and collective selves	38
Attitude strength: Distinguishing predictors versus defining features	37
Meat‐related cognitive dissonance: The social psychology of eating animals	34
Personality computing: New frontiers in personality assessment	33
Understanding advantaged groups' opposition to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies: The role of perceived threat	29
Towards an understanding of performative allyship: Definition, antecedents and consequences	27
Reflexivity in quantitative research: A rationale and beginner's guide	25
Gaining clarity about emotion differentiation	24
Regulating road rage	22
A review of White‐centering practices in multiracial research in social psychology	21
Lost by definition: Why boredom matters for psychology and society	21
Freedom to feel: A self‐determination theory account of emotion regulation	21
Supervised machine learning methods in psychology: A practical introduction with annotated R code	20
Reproductive justice: A radical framework for researching sexual and reproductive issues in psychology	20
The motivational value of listening during intimate and difficult conversations	19
Taking charge and stepping in: Individuals who punish are rewarded with prestige and dominance	18
Social class transitions: Three guiding questions for moving the study of class to a dynamic perspective	18
Omission and commission in judgment and decision making: Understanding and linking action‐inaction effects using the concept of normality	18

Affect and emotions in placebo and nocebo effects: What do we know so far?	18
Purpose in life as a guiding framework for goal engagement and motivation	18
Reducing prejudice in the society at large: A review of the secondary transfer effect and directions for future research	18
Virtual reality expands the toolkit for conducting health psychology research	17
Self‐esteem development and life events: A review and integrative process framework	17
Dominance or prestige: A review of the effects of power poses and other body postures	16
Practical recommendations for considering culture, race, and ethnicity in personality psychology	16
Adult playfulness: An update on an understudied individual differences variable and its role in romantic life	15
Egocentrism shapes moral judgements	15
Perceived responsiveness across cultures: The role of cultural fit in social support use	14
Under lying conditions of gender‐based violence—Decolonial feminism meets epistemic ignorance: Critical transnational conversations	14
Psychology's eugenic history and the invention of intellectual disability	13
Feeling and thought in collective action on social issues: Toward a systems perspective	13
Exploring the landscape of psychological threat: A cartography of threats and threat responses	13
Animalizing women and feminizing (vegan) men: The psychological intersections of sexism, speciesism, meat, and masculinity	13
Positive psychological well‐being and cardiovascular disease: Exploring mechanistic and developmental pathways	13
Optimism: Enduring resource or miscalibrated perception?	12
Erasing and dehumanizing Natives to protect positive national identity: The Native mascot example	11
Virtual relationships: Anthropomorphism in the digital age	11
Using psychological science to support social distancing: Tradeoffs between affiliation and disease‐avoidance motivations	11
When moral identity undermines moral behavior: An integrative framework	10
Measuring implicit intergroup biases	10
The story of “I” tracking: Psychological implications of self‐referential language use	10
The psychology of lay beliefs about economic mobility	10
Exploring the impact of COVID‐19 on mobile dating: Critical avenues for research	10
A systematic review and meta‐analysis of the association between personality and cognitive failures/complaints	9
The nature of attachment systems	9
The role of honour in interpersonal, intrapersonal and intergroup processes	9
Three steps to open science for qualitative research in psychology	9
Interculturalism as a strategy to manage diversity: Moving psychological research beyond colorblindness and multiculturalism	9
Live free and die: Expanding the terror management health model for pandemics to account for psychological reactance	9
Closing the empathy gap: A narrative review of the measurement and reduction of parochial empathy	9
An agenda for psychological distance apart from construal level	9
The promises and pitfalls of functional magnetic resonance imaging hyperscanning for social interaction research	8
An ecological approach to personality: Psychological traits as drivers and consequences of active perception	8
A systematic review of growth mindset intervention implementation strategies	8
What fuels passion? An integrative review of competing theories of romantic passion	8
When and how norm violators gain influence: Dominance, prestige, and the social dynamics of (counter)normative behavior	8
The changing tides of attractive alternatives in romantic relationships: Recent societal changes compel new directions for future research	8
Taking an elemental approach to the conceptualization and measurement of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy	8
Resisting, recognizing, and returning: A three‐component model and review of persistence in episodic goals	8
An initial framework for the study of internalized racism and health: Internalized racism as a racism‐induced identity threat response	8
What's wrong with rating scales? Psychology's replication and confidence crisis cannot be solved without transparency in data generation	7
Developing the social identity theory of leadership: Leader agency in leader group prototypicality	7
The elusive link between eye‐movement patterns and facial expression recognition	7
Activist purpose orientation: Definition and predictors	7
Dyadic disruption theory	7
Narcissism dynamics	7
Barriers for women in the workplace: A social psychological perspective	6
Psychological distance and the pandemic: Insights from Construal Level Theory and relationship science	6

How lay theories of prejudice shape prejudice confrontations: Examining beliefs about prejudice prevalence, origins, and controllability	6
Caught in two worlds: A critical review of culture and gender in the leadership literature	6
Personality development in disruptive times: The impact of personal versus collective life events	6
Facilitating and motivating support: How support‐seekers can affect the support they receive in times of distress	6
Collective autonomy: Why groups fight for power and status	6
Strategies for effective patient care: Integrating quality communication with the patient‐centered approach	6
Positioning Asian Americans in social cognition	5
A guide for many authors: Writing manuscripts in large collaborations	5
Harnessing growth mindsets to help individuals flourish	5
Theoretical and methodological directions in mindset intervention research	5
Exploring social exclusion: Where we are and where We're going	5
25 years of psychology research on the “strong black woman”	5
Racial equity in social psychological science: A guide for scholars, institutions, and the field	5
Behavioral consequences of intergroup sensitivity	5
An Integrative Social Identity Model of Populist Leadership	5
Work team diversity: Refocusing through the lens of team power and status	4
Applying propensity score matching to assess the impact of the pandemic on intimate relationships	4
Have psychologists increased reporting of outliers in response to the reproducibility crisis?	4
Social support from weak ties: Insight from the literature on minimal social interactions	4
Why don’t we know more about the minds of authentic people?	4
A multi‐motive framework for predicting variability in self‐enhancement	4
From cooperation to conflict: The role of collective narratives in shaping group behaviour	4
The stigmatized perceiver: Exploring the implications of social stigma for cross‐race face processing and memory	4
Behavior genetics research on personality: Moving beyond traits to examine characteristic adaptations	4
The dynamic socioecological model of economic inequality and psychological tendencies: A cycle of mutual constitution	4
Space, time, and urban citizenship: Reconsidering migrant integration in critical social psychological research	4
What “you” and “we” say about me: How small shifts in language reveal and empower fundamental shifts in perspective	3
Challenges in the conceptualization of trait self‐control as a psychological construct	3
Self‐control: An integrative framework	3
Expanding the social psychological study of educators through humanizing principles	3
Post‐truth politics and discursive psychology	3
Language and persuasion: A discursive psychological approach	3
Integrating research on social class and social relationships	3
Social cohesion predicts COVID‐19 vaccination intentions and uptake	3
‘How the other half lives’?: Taking a critical approach to the social psychology of economic inequality and extreme wealth	2
Obedience to authorities is not unconditional: Differential effects of COVID‐19 threat on three facets of RWA in Poland and Germany	2
Psychological distance and imitation	2
Testing the bidirectional relationship between belief in COVID‐19 conspiracy theories and psychological distress: A five‐wave longitudinal study	2
Do nonhuman animals reason about prestige‐based status?	2
Well‐being during the coronavirus pandemic: The effect of big five personality and COVID‐19 beliefs and behaviors	2
Dimensional comparisons: Much is known about the effects, less about the processes	2
Loneliness and the sexual behavior of sexual minority men in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic	2
Relationship between COVID‐19‐related stress and social inhibition among university students in China: The mediating role of psychological richness	2
Openness relates to COVID‐19 vaccination rates across 48 United States but politics trump personality	2
Interpersonal consequences of joint food consumption for connection and conflict	2
Behavioral extremity moderates the association between certainty in attitudes about COVID and willingness to engage in mitigation‐related behaviors	2
Capitalizing on the potential of mobile health applications as behavioral interventions: A research agenda for calorie‐tracking and activity‐tracking applications	2
Don’t miss the forest for the trees: New recommendations for exploiting guilt and shame in self‐control conflicts	2
Prosocial orientation and COVID‐19 vaccine willingness in the U.S.	2
Investigation of the correspondence principle with regard to specific and general COVID‐19 behaviors	2
Improving causal inference of mediation analysis with multiple mediators using interventional indirect effects	2
Generational identities: Historical and literary perspectives	2
Exploring the impact of dimensional comparisons in health contexts	2
Revenge as social interaction: Merging social psychological and interpersonal communication approaches to the study of vengeful behavior	2
A global experience‐sampling method study of well‐being during times of crisis: The CoCo project	2
What does it mean to belong? An interdisciplinary integration of theory and research on belonging	2
A relational perspective on emotion regulation across adulthood	2
Shared understanding and social connection: Integrating approaches from social psychology, social network analysis, and neuroscience	2
Impact of face masks on perceptions of black and white targets during the COVID‐19 pandemic	2
Data absence and a lack of parsimony: A response to Kay and Arrow's elemental Dark Triad	2
How mask gap impacts discrimination and anxiety during COVID‐19: A study on overseas Chinese during the first outbreak in 2020	2
Did COVID‐19 really change our well‐being? It's up to meaning in life: Evidence from two longitudinal studies	2
Success with a twinge of distress: Antecedents and consequences of outperformance‐related discomfort	2
Who do we trust? Differences in types of trust and beliefs in conspiracy theories between vaccinated and unvaccinated Europeans across 17 European countries	2
Cultural influence on COVID‐19 cognitions and growth speed: The role of collectivism	2