Social Psychological and Personality Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Psychological and Personality Science is 3. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The Impact of Regulatory Fit on Experienced Autonomy74
Corrigendum to the Social Cure Properties of Groups across Cultures: Groups Provide More Support but Have Stronger Norms and Are Less Curative in Relationally Immobile Societies67
Opposing Misperceptions of Wealth: Liberals Overestimate Their Neighborhoods’ Wealth in Wealthier Neighborhoods While Conservatives Overestimate Their Neighborhoods’ Wealth in Poor Neighborhoods55
Moral Judgments Are Value-Based Decisions Driven by Culturally Stable Valuations and Culturally Variable Decision Biases47
Exposure to Immigrants Does Not Moderate the Relationship Between Disgust Sensitivity and Opposition to Immigration44
The Andrew Carnegie Effect: Legacy Motives Increase the Intergenerational Allocation of Wealth to Collective Causes40
The Associations Between Neoliberal Policies and Attributions for Poverty in 13 Countries35
Explicit Signals Enhance Social Engagement Between Strangers34
Poor Toddlers Feel Less Pain? Application of Class-Based Pain Stereotypes in Judgments of Children34
Trustworthiness of Crowds Is Gleaned in Half a Second33
How do Adults Think, Feel, and Behave Toward Teenagers? Measuring and Understanding Adults’ Attitudes Toward Teenagers31
Tweeting Others With Respect: Historicist Thinking Can Reduce Blame and Hostile Retaliation to Nasty Communications From Partisan Opponents28
“Just Because It’s a Conspiracy Theory Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Out to Get You”: Differentiating the Correlates of Judgments of Plausible Versus Implausible Conspiracy Theories28
In What Domains Does Entering a Romantic Relationship Boost Well-Being? A Longitudinal Investigation26
Are There Consequences of Expressing Intellectual Humility Toward Claims Perceived as Established or Moral Truths? Implications for Judgments of Expresser’s Competence and Warmth25
Psychological Distance Increases Conceptual Generalization23
Choosing What You Like or Liking What You Chose? Sampling’s Impact on Evaluation and the Role of Idiosyncratic Reactions to Valent Stimuli22
Should I Ask Over Zoom, Phone, Email, or In-Person? Communication Channel and Predicted Versus Actual Compliance21
Ability, Assertiveness, Morality, and Friendliness? A Retrospective Validation of the Facet Model of Social Evaluation21
Don’t Drag Me Down: Valence Asymmetry in Well-Being Co-Development in Couples21
What Happens in Initial Interactions Forecasts Relationship Development: Showcasing the Role of Social Behavior20
Lower Perceived Economic Mobility Inhibits Pro-Environmental Engagement by Increasing Cynicism19
Just Be Yourself? Effects of an Authenticity Manipulation on Expressive Accuracy in First Impressions19
Self-Other Agreement in Experience Sampling Measures19
Gender Differences in Personality Traits and Average Personality States: Using Experience Sampling to Circumvent Bias in Self-Reports18
Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success18
Fluctuations in Prejudice Do Not Track Fluctuations in Ordinary Contact in Three 5-Wave “Shortitudinal” Studies Examining Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Intervals17
No Evidence for Transactional Effects Between Religiosity and Self-Esteem in a Secular Country17
Do Victims and Perpetrators Justify Intimate Partner Violence Even While They See It Happening in Front of Their Eyes?17
Echoes of Culture: Relationships of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes With Contemporary English, Historical English, and 53 Non-English Languages17
Sexual Afterglow: How Long Does It Last and Does It Vary by the Relative Importance of Sex, Who Initiates It, or Who Rejects It?17
The Game Within the Game: The Potential Influence of Demand Characteristics and Participant Beliefs in Violent Video Game Studies16
Experience Matters: Civic Discussion Increases Self-Efficacy and Reduces Forecasted Discomfort in Future Conversations16
Highlighting Opportunities (Versus Outcomes) Increases Support for Economic Redistribution15
Needs and Well-Being Across Europe: Basic Psychological Needs Are Closely Connected With Well-Being, Meaning, and Symptoms of Depression in 27 European Countries15
Pandemic Nostalgia: Reduced Social Contact Predicts Consumption of Nostalgic Music During the COVID-19 Pandemic15
Expressed and Perceived Honesty Benefits Relationships Even When Couples Are Not Accurate13
Hedging First Offers Permits Assertiveness While Lowering Risk a Partner Walks13
Passing Down the Mic Signals Trustworthy Intersectional Allyship and Promotes Organizational Identity-Safety13
Does Saying “Thanks a Lot” Make You Look Less Than? The Magnitude of Gratitude Shapes Perceptions of Relational Hierarchy13
How Feeling Understood Predicts Trust and Willingness to Forgive in the Midst of Violent Intergroup Conflict: Longitudinal Evidence From Ukraine12
Sustainability Across the Status Spectrum: The S-Shaped Relationship Between Social Status and Green Consumption12
Do Minorities’ Friendships with Majority Culture Members and Their Emotional Fit with Majority Culture Influence Each Other Over Time?12
Who Are We If We Do Not Know Who Our Leader Is? Perceptions of Leaders’ Prototypicality Affects Followers’ Self-Prototypicality and Uncertainty11
An Empirical Investigation of Secondary Transfer Effects of Contact Among Five Ethnic-Cultural Minority Groups in the Netherlands11
Identity and Institutions as Foundations of Ingroup Favoritism: An Investigation Across 17 Countries11
A Registered Conceptual Replication and Extension of Carter and Weber (2010): Generalized Trust, Lie Prevalence, and Deception Detection11
Are Religious People Happy or Non-Religious People Unhappy in Religious Contexts?10
Solidarity Imbalances After Racism and Sexism: Black Americans Are Expected to Express High Solidarity but Anticipate Lower Solidarity From Racial/Ethnic Outgroups10
Absolute Certainty and Political Ideology: A Systematic Test of Curvilinearity10
The Great Divide: Neither Fairness Nor Kindness Eliminates Moral Derogation of People With Opposing Political Beliefs10
The Moderating Role of Neuroticism on Evaluative Conditioning: Evidence From Ambiguous Learning Situations10
The Effect of Moral Foundations on Intergroup Relations: The Salience of Fairness Promotes the Acceptance of Minority Groups10
A Potential Pitfall of Passion: Passion Is Associated With Performance Overconfidence10
An Eastern Look at a Western Dilemma: Cross-Cultural Differences in Action-Balanced Trolley Dilemmas9
Alternative Systems: The Interplay Between Criminal Groups’ Influence and Political Trust on Civic Honesty in the Global Context9
Actual and Perceived Partisan Bias in Judgments of Political Misinformation as Lies9
A Registered Report on Gender Bias in Interpersonal Dishonesty: Are Females and Males Cheated Differently?9
Spillover Between Daily Marital Interactions and Parenting Practices: Sensory Processing Sensitivity as Moderators9
Nostalgia Counteracts Social Anxiety and Enhances Interpersonal Competence9
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? A Comprehensive Reexamination9
Having Less Than Others is Physically Painful: Income Rank and Pain Around the World9
Cognitive Ability and Personal Values: A Large Sample Study of Schwartz's Values, HEXACO Personality, Age, and Gender8
Personality and the “Social Cure”: The Role of Ego-Resilience in the Social Identity Approach to Health8
Understanding Person-Situation Dynamics at Work: Effects of Traits, States, and Situation Characteristics on Teaching Performance8
What if Hard Work Cannot Pay Off? Perceived Low Social Mobility Increases Passive Procrastination Among Students8
Dynamic, Yet Stable: Separating Within- and Between-Person Components of Collective Action in Support of a Disadvantaged Outgroup and its Antecedents8
The Impact of Social Media Salience on the Subjective Value of Social Cues7
Personal Relative Deprivation, Not Subjective Status, Explains Support for Economic Redistribution7
Do Conspiracy Theories Shape or Rationalize Vaccination Hesitancy Over Time?7
Lonely Today, Lonely Tomorrow: Temporal Dynamics of Loneliness in Everyday Life and its Associations With Psychopathological Symptoms7
Impact of National Pandemic Lockdowns on Perceived Threat of Immigrants: A Natural Quasi-Experiment Across 23 Countries7
Mind the Gap: Perceived Economic Inequality and the Well-Being Gap around the Globe7
The Maximizing Penalty: Maximizers are Perceived as Less Warm and Receive Less Social Support7
High Self-Control Individuals Prefer Meaning Over Pleasure7
The Long-Term Stability of Affective Bonds After Romantic Separation: Do Attachments Simply Fade Away?7
Threat Rejection Fuels Political Dehumanization7
Pro-Life Policy Preferences Partly Reflect Desires to Suppress Casual Sexual Behavior, Not Solely Sanctity of Life Concerns7
Beyond Outrage: Observers Anticipate Different Behaviors From Expressors of Anger Versus Disgust7
Intellectual Humility and Belief Extremity: Evidence for Curvilinearity?7
How Liberal-Conservative Friendship Diversity Could Improve Interpolitical Relations in the United States7
The Recursive Cycle of Perceived Mindset and Psychological Distress in College6
Persuasive Benefits of Self-Generated Arguments: Moderation and Mechanism6
Fathers’ and Mothers’ Sexism Predict Less Responsive Parenting Behavior During Family Interactions6
The Contradictory Nature of Anti-Transgender Rhetoric6
Ignorance of History and Political Differences in Perception of Racism in the United States6
Individual–Community Misalignment in Partisan Identity Predicts Distancing From Norms During the COVID-19 Pandemic6
Manifold Threats to White Identity and Their Political Effects on White Partisans6
The Between-Person and Within-Person Effects of Intergroup Contact on Outgroup Attitudes: A Multi-Context Examination6
Leveraging Man−Woman Romantic Relationships to Promote Men’s Awareness of Sexism and Gender Discrimination6
Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence From 35 Cultures6
Loss of Social Status and Subjective Well-Being Across the Adult Life Span: Feeling Stuck or Moving Up?6
The Social Cure Properties of Groups Across Cultures: Groups Provide More Support but Have Stronger Norms and Are Less Curative in Relationally Immobile Societies6
Weight Location Moderates Weight-Based Self-Devaluation and Perceived Social Devaluation in Women6
Exposure to Motivational Messages Promotes Meritocratic Beliefs and an Individualistic Perception of Social Change6
Populism Predicts Sympathy for Attacks Against Asylum Seekers Through National Pride and Moral Justification of Political Violence6
Incivility Diminishes Interest in What Politicians Have to Say6
Projecting the Current Salient Relational Situations Into the Past and Future Across Cultures6
Own or Other Integrity in Expected Moral Judgments? Moral Pluralism and Political Partisanship6
Is the Effect of Trust on Risk Perceptions a Matter of Knowledge, Control, and Time? An Extension and Direct-Replication Attempt of Siegrist and Cvetkovich (2000)6
Own and Partner Attachment Insecurity Interact to Predict Marital Satisfaction and Dissolution5
Global Crisis Frame Matters for Unity: Resource Threat Hampers While Safety Threat Promotes Intergroup Cooperation5
The Evolving Nature of Generalized Prejudice Toward Marginalized Groups in the United States 2004–20205
The Relation Between Updated Implicit Evaluations and the Trust Game5
Is Narcissism Linked to Stress Reactivity Under Social-Evaluative Threat?5
Decomposing Variance in Co-Rumination Using Dyadic Daily Diary Data5
Worse for Women, Bad for All: A 62-Nation Study Confirms and Extends Ambivalent Sexism Principles to Reveal Greater Social Dysfunction in Sexist Nations5
Impatience Over Time5
Sharing Money With Humans Versus Computers: On the Role of Honesty-Humility and (Non-)Social Preferences5
Actively Participating in Live Events as an Avenue for Social Connection5
Happy Days: Resolving the Structure of Daily Subjective Well-Being, Between and Within Individuals5
Sexual (Double) Standards Revisited: Similarities and Differences in the Societal Evaluation of Male and Female Sexuality5
Examining the Frequency and Characteristics of Politically Diverse Friendships5
Corrigendum to Status-based Asymmetries in Relative Deprivation during the COVID-19 Pandemic5
Marginalized and Advantaged Parents’ Perceptions of Identity-Safety Cues in K-12 Classrooms5
The Impact of Culture and Social Distance on Humor Appreciation, Sharing, and Production5
Overlapping Inequalities: Connecting Income Inequality With Health and Education Disparities Motivates Its Reduction5
Political Bot Bias in the Perception of Online Discourse5
The Role of Partner Gender: How Sexual Expectations Shape the Pursuit of an Orgasm Goal for Heterosexual, Lesbian, and Bisexual Women4
The Predictive Validity of Intimate Partner Violence Warning Signs4
Autistic People Are Believed to Feel More Pain than Non-Autistic People4
You Mean the World to Me: The Role of Residential Mobility in Centrality of Romantic Relationships4
Do Concepts Creep to the Left and the Right? Evidence for Ideologically Salient Concept Breadth Judgments Across the Political Spectrum4
Motivating Collective Action in Diverse Groups: Person of Color Identity, Prototypicality Perceptions, and Environmental Attitudes4
When Paying Is (Even More) Painful: Personality-Based Heterogeneity in Consumption Responses to Economic Hardship4
Person-Culture Personality Fit: Dispositional Traits and Cultural Context Explain Country-Level Personality Profile Conformity4
Civic Hope and the Perceived Authenticity of Democratic Participation4
Partisan Media Sentiment Toward Artificial Intelligence4
If I Could Do It, So Can They: Among the Rich, Those With Humbler Origins are Less Sensitive to the Difficulties of the Poor4
Coping With Ostracism Over Time: A Time-Contingent Sampling Study of Immediate and Later Responses at Day 0, Day 3, and Day 64
Confusion or Clarity? Examining a Possible Tradeoff Between Self-Expansion and Self-Concept Clarity4
Love Doesn’t Run Out: Children and Adults Do Not View Social Resources as Inherently Zero-Sum4
Predicting Academic Performance with an Assessment of Students’ Knowledge of the Benefits of High-Level and Low-Level Construal4
Valuing Versus Having: The Contrary Roles of Valuing and Having Money and Prestige on Well-Being4
“Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves”: Gender Differences in Singles’ Well-Being4
A Systematic Study of Ambivalence and Well-Being in Romantic Relationships4
Belief in Free Will Is Related to Internal Attribution in Self-Perception4
The Fear of Personal Death and the Willingness to Commit to Organ Donation4
Does Emotion Regulation Flexibility Work? Investigating the Effectiveness of Regulatory Selection Flexibility in Managing Negative Affect3
Preference for Consistency as a Moderator of the Low-Ball Technique3
Dynamics of Social Experiences in the Context of Extended Lockdown3
Personality Correlates of Out-Group Harm3
When Good People Break Bad: Moral Impression Violations in Everyday Life3
Black and White Americans’ Perceptions of Community Equity Efforts Diverge Following the Removal of Confederate Monuments3
The Development of Speciesism: Age-Related Differences in the Moral View of Animals3
Correcting Misperceptions of Fundamental Differences Between U.S. Republicans and Democrats: Some Hope-Inspiring Effects3
Climbing the Invisible Ladder: Attenuating Belief in Free Will Reduces Subjective Perceptions of Social Mobility3
Friends as Tools: Exploring the Role of Dispositional Greed in Social Relationships3
Status-Based Asymmetries in Relative Deprivation During the COVID-19 Pandemic3
Abstraction Allows Susceptibility to the Perspective of Others: The Case of Decreased Public Self-Awareness Due to Concrete Thinking3
Social Connectedness Promotes Robot Anthropomorphism3
Comparing Brief Antiracism Messages: Empathy-Focused Communication Is More Effective Than Social Norms, Calls to Action, and Self-Awareness3
Do I Like You? Effects of Daily Negative Events and Implicit Self-Esteem on Daily Implicit Partner Regard3
The Strengths of People in Low-SES Positions: An Identity-Reframing Intervention Improves Low-SES Students’ Achievement Over One Semester3
How Far Into the Future Can Values Predict Behavior? It Depends on Value Importance3
Coronavirus-Related Searches on the Internet Predict COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in the Real World: A Behavioral Immune System Perspective3
Facial Stereotyping Drives Judgments of Perceptually Ambiguous Social Groups3
Editorial: Goals, Formalities, and Policies3
Reactions to Gender Norm Violations: Individual- and Peer-Level Analyses of Gender Atypicality and Social Exclusion in Adolescence3
The Association of Self-Esteem With Health and Well-Being: A Quantitative Synthesis of 40 Meta-Analyses3
Adults Show Positive Moral Evaluations of Curiosity About Religion3
Political-Ideological Differences in Cultural Pessimism and Nostalgia Reflect People’s Evaluation of Their Nation’s Historical Developments3
Do Women Withhold Honest Sexual Communication When They Believe Their Partner’s Manhood is Threatened?3
Understanding the Devaluation of Female Leaders: A Cognitive-Ecological Perspective3
“I Just Don’t Fit There!” Anticipated Cultural Mismatch and Social Disparities in Students’ Intention to Enter Higher Education3
Humor and Personality: Temperament and Character Have Different Roles3
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