OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Psychology 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Explaining Political Polarization Over Abortion	31
Bullshitting and Bullibility – Conditions and Consequences	17
Exploring the Relationship Between Loneliness and Social Cognition in Older Age	17
The Switch to Daylight Saving Time and the Perceived Inappropriateness of Norm Violations	16
Early Adolescent Cognitive and Affective Empathy	10
Correction to Windmann et al. (2021)	10
Mothers’ Motivation for Group-Based Empathy in Their Children as a Function of Type and Extent of Group Identification	8
Nostalgia and Spirituality	7
Moneyball: Studying Effects of Ostracism on Both Targets and Voluntary Sources	7
Cues of Collective Threat Increase Salience of Positive Ingroup Agency-Related Traits	7
Reducing Automatic Intergroup Bias Through Perspective Taking?	7
Relinquishing Control Associates With Prosociality and Provides Agency and Positive Affect in Adolescents	7
“‘Cause We Are the Champions of the World”	6
The Social Amplification of Distortions in Representations of Ratios	6
Ambivalence and Self-Reported Adherence to Recommendations to Reduce the Spread of COVID-19	6
Forbid/Allow Asymmetry in Persuasion	5
Keeping the Kids Home	5
Laypeople’s Belief of the Influence of Thank-You Gifts on Charitable Giving	5
The Materialistic Consumer	5
Members of Transgressor Groups Prefer Reparations to Come From Third Parties	5
Evaluating the Convergence of Dimensions Across Social Evaluation Models	4
Deontological and Utilitarian Responses to Sacrificial Dilemmas Predict Disapproval of Sin Stocks	4
Intersected Groups and Discriminatory Everyday Behavior	4
“Understanding Others in Moments of Crisis” A Special Issue of Social Psychology	4
The Relationship Between Predominant Promotion Focus and Spontaneous Mental Contrasting	4

The Effect of View of Time on Intertemporal Decision-Making	4
Nudging for Lockdown	4
List of Reviewers 2024	3
Hate Speech on the Map of Stereotype Content	3
The Good Old Days and the Scary Future Ones	3
Content, Context, and Complexity in Personality Trait Perceptions	3
Visuospatial and Affective Perspective-Taking	3
Biased Social Comparison in the Moment of Crisis	3
Can Asymmetric Punishment Explain Norm Changes?	3
Stressing the Advantages of Female Leadership Can Place Women at a Disadvantage	3
The Effects of Social Distance and Gender on Moral Decisions and Judgments	3
Call for Nominations: Editor-in-Chief, Social Psychology	3
Sensitivity to Injustice of Politicians and Voters	3
The AMP Reflects Gradual Differences in Attitude Extremity, Not Intensity	3
Highlighting the Old in the “New Normal”	2
Authority Knows No Gender – Gender Effects in Exerting Obedience in Milgram’s Experiment	2
Self-Determined Intention to Vote and the Mediating Role of Politicized Identification	2
Face Masks Impair Basic Emotion Recognition	2
Niceness Fosters Cooperativeness Through Social Connectedness	2
Authoritarianism, Trust in Media, and Tolerance Among the Youth	2
Traditionally Advantaged Group Members’ Affective and Physiological Responses to Social Change	2
Seeing Is Believing	2
Pinching Pennies or Money to Burn?	2
Power, Self-Esteem, and Body Image	2
Mere Ownership Effect Is Equally Pronounced in Material and Immaterial Objects	2
Context Matters – Social Context Moderates the Association Between Indirect Intergroup Contact and Attitudes Toward Refugees	2
The Factorial Structure of Stigma and Its Targets	2
German Teachers’ Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Female and Male Muslim Students and Reactions to Social Exclusion	1
Correction to Ganzach and Pazy (2024)	1
Socioeconomic Status and Self-Regard	1
The Limits of Antiatheist Prejudice	1
Populist Attitudes Predict Compliance-Related Attitudes and Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic Via Trust in Institutions	1
Need for Closure, Morality, and Prejudice	1
List of Reviewers 2022	1
Call for Social Psychology Special Issue Proposals	1
Raising Awareness of the Glass Cliff	1
Thinking About Distant Future Self Leads to Better Current Task Performance Through Higher Future Self-Appraisals	1
Beyond the Mere Ownership and Endowment Effects	1
A New Measure of the Revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory	1
Integration Benefits of Intimate Intergroup Contact in an Online Language Buddy Program for Migrant Newcomers	1
Not Humans, but Animals or Machines	1
Refusing to Pay Taxes	1
List of Reviewers 2021	1
Is Self-Centered a Refutation of the Ego-Quieting Hypothesis in Contemplative Practices?	1
One Size Does Not Fit All	1
The Link Between Income, Income Inequality, and Prosocial Behavior Around the World	1
Be Daring and Cause Trouble	1
Not Getting What You Want	1
Parenting Daughters Does Not Increase Monetary Prosocial Behavior	1
Reward Perception, But Not Reward Inequality Is Associated With Increased Dishonesty	1

Enhancing National Identity Reduces Affective Polarization and Increases Political Tolerance	1
When You Are Wrong on Facebook, Just Admit It	1