OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Psychological and Personality Science is 9. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A Bioweapon or a Hoax? The Link Between Distinct Conspiracy Beliefs About the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak and Pandemic Behavior	346
Political Ideology Predicts Perceptions of the Threat of COVID-19 (and Susceptibility to Fake News About It)	324
Conspiracy Theories and Their Societal Effects During the COVID-19 Pandemic	136
How USA-Centric Is Psychology? An Archival Study of Implicit Assumptions of Generalizability of Findings to Human Nature Based on Origins of Study Samples	102
Adaptive and Dark Personality in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Predicting Health-Behavior Endorsement and the Appeal of Public-Health Messages	91
Measuring Realistic and Symbolic Threats of COVID-19 and Their Unique Impacts on Well-Being and Adherence to Public Health Behaviors	88
A Multilab Replication of the Ego Depletion Effect	71
The Role of Personality in COVID-19-Related Perceptions, Evaluations, and Behaviors: Findings Across Five Samples, Nine Traits, and 17 Criteria	61
Who Is Impacted? Personality Predicts Individual Differences in Psychological Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany	60
Affirming Basic Psychological Needs Promotes Mental Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak	58
Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Big Five Personality on Subjective and Psychological Well-Being	54
The Authoritarian Dynamic During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Nationalism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment	53
Predicting Behavioral Intentions to Prevent or Mitigate COVID-19: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis of Attitudes, Norms, and Perceived Behavioral Control Effects	51
The Restorative Power of Nostalgia: Thwarting Loneliness by Raising Happiness During the COVID-19 Pandemic	48
Evaluations of Self-Focused Versus Other-Focused Arguments for Social Distancing: An Extension of Moral Matching Effects	45
Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes III:Long-Term Change in Gender Stereotypes	43
The Natural Hair Bias in Job Recruitment	42
Love in the Time of COVID: Perceived Partner Responsiveness Buffers People From Lower Relationship Quality Associated With COVID-Related Stressors	42
Science Skepticism Across 24 Countries	41
Changes in Personal Values in Pandemic Times	41
Partners’ Attachment Insecurity and Stress Predict Poorer Relationship Functioning During COVID-19 Quarantines	41
The Construct of Subjective Economic Inequality	38
Do Links Between Personality and Life Outcomes Generalize? Testing the Robustness of Trait–Outcome Associations Across Gender, Age, Ethnicity, and Analytic Approaches	38
In a Lonely Place: Investigating Regional Differences in Loneliness	38
Defending the Sex/Gender Binary: The Role of Gender Identification and Need for Closure	36

“Just the Way You Are”: Linking Music Listening on Spotify and Personality	35
Loneliness During a Nationwide Lockdown and the Moderating Effect of Extroversion	31
Intellectual Humility Predicts Scrutiny of COVID-19 Misinformation	31
Social Class—Not Income Inequality—Predicts Social and Institutional Trust	30
Can Psychological Traits Explain Mobility Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic?	30
Mentioning the Sample’s Country in the Article’s Title Leads to Bias in Research Evaluation	29
The Politics of Vaccine Hesitancy: An Ideological Dual-Process Approach	29
Professors Who Signal a Fixed Mindset About Ability Undermine Women’s Performance in STEM	27
The Role of Coping Strategies in Maintaining Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak in South Korea	26
Women’s Intrasexual Competition Results in Beautification	26
Male Allies at Work: Gender-Equality Supportive Men Reduce Negative Underrepresentation Effects Among Women	25
Religious Americans Have Less Positive Attitudes Toward Science, but This Does Not Extend to Other Cultures	24
The Role of Risk Preferences in Responses to Messaging About COVID-19 Vaccine Take-Up	24
Racial Disparities in Police Use of Deadly Force Against Unarmed Individuals Persist After Appropriately Benchmarking Shooting Data on Violent Crime Rates	24
Subjective Well-Being and Prosociality Around the Globe: Happy People Give More of Their Time and Money to Others	24
Type I Error Is Inflated in the Two-Phase Reverse Correlation Procedure	23
The Blessings of Social-Oriented Virtues: Interpersonal Character Strengths Are Linked to Increased Life Satisfaction and Academic Success Among Filipino High School Students	23
Linking Self-Reported Social Distancing to Real-World Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic	22
Stability and Change: The Dark Factor of Personality Shapes Dark Traits	22
Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Predict Annual Increases in Generalized Prejudice	22
Personal Values and Moral Foundations: Examining Relations and Joint Prediction of Moral Variables	20
It’s the Situation and Your Disposition: A Test of Two Honesty Hypotheses	20
Are Couples More Satisfied When They Match in Sexual Desire? New Insights From Response Surface Analyses	20
Cultural Differences in the Construal of Suffering and the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
The Role of Family in the Intergenerational Transmission of Collective Action	20
The Origins of Religious Disbelief: A Dual Inheritance Approach	20
A Psychological Network Approach to Attitudes and Preventive Behaviors During Pandemics: A COVID-19 Study in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands	19
Which Facial Features Are Central in Impression Formation?	18
Income Inequality Reduces Civic Honesty	18
Collective Narcissism, In-Group Satisfaction, and Solidarity in the Face of COVID-19	17
Effects of Cost and Benefit of Prosocial Behavior on Reputation	17
Unsupported and Stigmatized? The Association Between Relationship Status and Well-Being Is Mediated by Social Support and Social Discrimination	17
Security-Based Differences in Touch Behavior and Its Relational Benefits	17
Identity Threats in Everyday Life: Distinguishing Belonging From Inclusion	17
Extroversion and Conscientiousness Predict Deteriorating Job Outcomes During the COVID-19 Transition to Enforced Remote Work	17
The Role of Gendered Entitlement in Understanding Inequality in the Bedroom	16
Failure Leads Protest Movements to Support More Radical Tactics	16
Singlehood and Attunement of Self-Esteem to Friendships	16
Examining Associations Between Major Negative Life Events, Changes in Weekly Reports of Post-Traumatic Growth and Global Reports of Eudaimonic Well-Being	15
Religion and the Development of Character: Personality Changes Before and After Religious Conversion and Deconversion	15
Ugliness Judgments Alert us to Cues of Pathogen Presence	15
A Diversity Ideology Intervention: Multiculturalism Reduces the Racial Achievement Gap	15
The Social Ecology of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in New York City: The Role of Walkability, Wealth, and Race	15
Needs and Well-Being Across Europe: Basic Psychological Needs Are Closely Connected With Well-Being, Meaning, and Symptoms of Depression in 27 European Countries	15
Reducing Explicit Blatant Dehumanization by Correcting Exaggerated Meta-Perceptions	15
Incivility Is Rising Among American Politicians on Twitter	14
A Prospective Investigation of the Decision to Open Up a Romantic Relationship	14
Updating Long-Held Assumptions About Fat Stigma: For Women, Body Shape Plays a Critical Role	14
Social and Economic Political Ideology Consistently Operate as Mutual Suppressors: Implications for Personality, Social, and Political Psychology	14
Subjective Economic Inequality Decreases Emotional Intelligence, Especially for People of High Social Class	14

Does Using Social Media Jeopardize Well-Being? The Importance of Separating Within- From Between-Person Effects	14
Blame the Pandemic: Buffering the Association Between Stress and Relationship Quality During the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Is More Always Better? Examining the Nonlinear Association of Social Contact Frequency With Physical Health and Longevity	13
Suspecting Foul Play When It Is Objectively There: The Association of Political Orientation With General and Partisan Conspiracy Beliefs as a Function of Corruption Levels	13
Emotion Residue in Neutral Faces: Implications for Impression Formation	13
Self-Referential Processing Predicts Social Cognitive Ability	13
Guilt Enhances the Persuasive Effects of Injunctive But Not Descriptive Social Norms	13
Using Environmental Features to Maximize Prediction of Regional Intergroup Bias	13
System Justification and Perceptions of Group-Based Discrimination: Investigating the Temporal Order of the Ideologically Motivated Minimization (or Exaggeration) of Discrimination Across Low- and Hig	12
The Status of Arabic Social Psychology: A Review of 21st-Century Research Articles	12
The Breadth of Confrontations as a Prejudice Reduction Strategy	12
Replication and Extension of Alicke (1985) Better-Than-Average Effect for Desirable and Controllable Traits	12
Self-Efficacy and Declines Over Time in Attachment Anxiety During the Transition to Parenthood	12
Cognitive Barriers to Reducing Income Inequality	12
Depressive Symptoms, External Stress, and Marital Adjustment: The Buffering Effect of Partner’s Responsive Behavior	12
The Symbolic Value of Ethnic Spaces	12
Facial Stereotype Bias Is Mitigated by Training	12
How Does Substance Use Affect Personality Development? Disentangling Between- and Within-Person Effects	12
Short-Term Training in Mindfulness Predicts Helping Behavior Toward Racial Ingroup and Outgroup Members	12
Buying Unethical Loyalty: A Behavioral Paradigm and Empirical Test	11
God Values the Lives of My Out-Group More Than I Do: Evidence From Fiji and Israel	11
Is Low Power Associated With Submission During Marital Conflict? Moderating Roles of Gender and Traditional Gender Role Beliefs	11
Future-Orientation (as Trait and State) Promotes Reputation-Protective Choice in Moral Dilemmas	11
Spring Break or Heart Break? Extending Valence Bias to Emotional Words	11
The Development of Speciesism: Age-Related Differences in the Moral View of Animals	11
The Sharp Spikes of Poverty: Financial Scarcity Is Related to Higher Levels of Distress Intensity in Daily Life	11
A Tale of Peaks and Valleys: Sinusoid Relationship Patterns Between Mountainousness and Basic Human Values	11
Belief in School Meritocracy and the Legitimization of Social and Income Inequality	10
Similarity Predicts Cross-National Social Preferences	10
Does Danger Level Affect Bystander Intervention in Real-Life Conflicts? Evidence From CCTV Footage	10
Political Ideology and Executive Functioning: The Effect of Conservatism and Liberalism on Cognitive Flexibility and Working Memory Performance	10
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? A Comprehensive Reexamination	10
Divided Together: How Marginalization of Intercultural Relationships Is Associated With Identity Integration and Relationship Quality	10
When Does Psychological Fit Matter? The Moderating Role of Price on Self-Brand Congruity	10
Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success	10
Today You Care, Tomorrow You Don’t: Differential Roles of Responsiveness Variability and Average Responsiveness in Romantic Attachment	10
You Must Stay at Home! The Impact of Commands on Behaviors During COVID-19	10
In a Representative Sample Grit Has a Negligible Effect on Educational and Economic Success Compared to Intelligence	10
Globalization Is Associated With Lower Levels of National Narcissism: Evidence From 56 Countries	10
Belief in a Dangerous World Does Not Explain Substantial Variance in Political Attitudes, But Other World Beliefs Do	9
Empathy, Dehumanization, and Misperceptions: A Media Intervention Humanizes Migrants and Increases Empathy for Their Plight but Only if Misinformation About Migrants Is Also Corrected	9
“We Shall Overcome”: First-Person Plural Pronouns From Search Volume Data Predict Protest Mobilization Across the United States	9
Professional Judges’ Disbelief in Free Will Does Not Decrease Punishment	9
Emotion Recognition Ability as a Predictor of Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Morally Homogeneous Networks and Radicalism	9
Autonomy Matters: Experiential and Individual Differences in Chosen and Unchosen Solitary Activities From Three Experience Sampling Studies	9
The Friends-to-Lovers Pathway to Romance: Prevalent, Preferred, and Overlooked by Science	9
Humor and Personality: Temperament and Character Have Different Roles	9
Gendered Self-Views Across 62 Countries: A Test of Competing Models	9
Cross-Temporal Exploration of the Relationship Between Wisdom-Related Cognitive Broadening and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence From a Cross-Validated National Longitudinal Study	9