OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Psychological and Personality Science is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Moral Judgments Are Value-Based Decisions Driven by Culturally Stable Valuations and Culturally Variable Decision Biases	75
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 Societies	64
Opposing Misperceptions of Wealth: Liberals Overestimate Their Neighborhoods’ Wealth in Wealthier Neighborhoods While Conservatives Overestimate Their Neighborhoods’ Wealth in Poor Neighborhoods	61
The Impact of Regulatory Fit on Experienced Autonomy	55
Exposure to Immigrants Does Not Moderate the Relationship Between Disgust Sensitivity and Opposition to Immigration	49
The Andrew Carnegie Effect: Legacy Motives Increase the Intergenerational Allocation of Wealth to Collective Causes	46
Trustworthiness of Crowds Is Gleaned in Half a Second	45
“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 Theories	40
Poor Toddlers Feel Less Pain? Application of Class-Based Pain Stereotypes in Judgments of Children	38
Explicit Signals Enhance Social Engagement Between Strangers	35
Professors Who Signal a Fixed Mindset About Ability Undermine Women’s Performance in STEM	34
Tweeting Others With Respect: Historicist Thinking Can Reduce Blame and Hostile Retaliation to Nasty Communications From Partisan Opponents	32
Don’t Drag Me Down: Valence Asymmetry in Well-Being Co-Development in Couples	32
What Happens in Initial Interactions Forecasts Relationship Development: Showcasing the Role of Social Behavior	31
Psychological Distance Increases Conceptual Generalization	29
Just Be Yourself? Effects of an Authenticity Manipulation on Expressive Accuracy in First Impressions	29
Choosing What You Like or Liking What You Chose? Sampling’s Impact on Evaluation and the Role of Idiosyncratic Reactions to Valent Stimuli	29
Authentic First Impressions Relate to Interpersonal, Social, and Entrepreneurial Success	28
Should I Ask Over Zoom, Phone, Email, or In-Person? Communication Channel and Predicted Versus Actual Compliance	26
Self-Other Agreement in Experience Sampling Measures	26
Are There Consequences of Expressing Intellectual Humility Toward Claims Perceived as Established or Moral Truths? Implications for Judgments of Expresser’s Competence and Warmth	25
Lower Perceived Economic Mobility Inhibits Pro-Environmental Engagement by Increasing Cynicism	24
Needs and Well-Being Across Europe: Basic Psychological Needs Are Closely Connected With Well-Being, Meaning, and Symptoms of Depression in 27 European Countries	23
Experience Matters: Civic Discussion Increases Self-Efficacy and Reduces Forecasted Discomfort in Future Conversations	22
Echoes of Culture: Relationships of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes With Contemporary English, Historical English, and 53 Non-English Languages	21

The Game Within the Game: The Potential Influence of Demand Characteristics and Participant Beliefs in Violent Video Game Studies	21
Do Victims and Perpetrators Justify Intimate Partner Violence Even While They See It Happening in Front of Their Eyes?	20
Gender Differences in Personality Traits and Average Personality States: Using Experience Sampling to Circumvent Bias in Self-Reports	19
No Evidence for Transactional Effects Between Religiosity and Self-Esteem in a Secular Country	19
They Are Not Little Emperors: Only Children Are Just as Altruistic as Non-Only Children	19
Sexual Afterglow: How Long Does It Last and Does It Vary by the Relative Importance of Sex, Who Initiates It, or Who Rejects It?	18
Passing Down the Mic Signals Trustworthy Intersectional Allyship and Promotes Organizational Identity-Safety	17
Fluctuations in Prejudice Do Not Track Fluctuations in Ordinary Contact in Three 5-Wave “Shortitudinal” Studies Examining Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Intervals	17
How Feeling Understood Predicts Trust and Willingness to Forgive in the Midst of Violent Intergroup Conflict: Longitudinal Evidence From Ukraine	16
Does Saying “Thanks a Lot” Make You Look Less Than? The Magnitude of Gratitude Shapes Perceptions of Relational Hierarchy	16
Pandemic Nostalgia: Reduced Social Contact Predicts Consumption of Nostalgic Music During the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Do Minorities’ Friendships with Majority Culture Members and Their Emotional Fit with Majority Culture Influence Each Other Over Time?	16
Highlighting Opportunities (Versus Outcomes) Increases Support for Economic Redistribution	16
Hedging First Offers Permits Assertiveness While Lowering Risk a Partner Walks	15
Sustainability Across the Status Spectrum: The S-Shaped Relationship Between Social Status and Green Consumption	15
Expressed and Perceived Honesty Benefits Relationships Even When Couples Are Not Accurate	15
Persuading the Implicit Mind: Changing Negative Implicit Evaluations With an 8-Minute Podcast	14
An Empirical Investigation of Secondary Transfer Effects of Contact Among Five Ethnic-Cultural Minority Groups in the Netherlands	14
The Great Divide: Neither Fairness Nor Kindness Eliminates Moral Derogation of People With Opposing Political Beliefs	14
The Effect of Moral Foundations on Intergroup Relations: The Salience of Fairness Promotes the Acceptance of Minority Groups	13
The Moderating Role of Neuroticism on Evaluative Conditioning: Evidence From Ambiguous Learning Situations	13
Identity and Institutions as Foundations of Ingroup Favoritism: An Investigation Across 17 Countries	13
Who Are We If We Do Not Know Who Our Leader Is? Perceptions of Leaders’ Prototypicality Affects Followers’ Self-Prototypicality and Uncertainty	13
A Registered Conceptual Replication and Extension of Carter and Weber (2010): Generalized Trust, Lie Prevalence, and Deception Detection	12
Absolute Certainty and Political Ideology: A Systematic Test of Curvilinearity	12
Are Religious People Happy or Non-Religious People Unhappy in Religious Contexts?	12
Nostalgia Counteracts Social Anxiety and Enhances Interpersonal Competence	11
Having Less Than Others is Physically Painful: Income Rank and Pain Around the World	11
A Potential Pitfall of Passion: Passion Is Associated With Performance Overconfidence	11
Rights and Responsibilities Are Substitutable Framings That Differentially Affect Judgment	11
An Eastern Look at a Western Dilemma: Cross-Cultural Differences in Action-Balanced Trolley Dilemmas	10
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? A Comprehensive Reexamination	10
Consensus Enables Accurate Social Judgments	10
Solidarity Imbalances After Racism and Sexism: Black Americans Are Expected to Express High Solidarity but Anticipate Lower Solidarity From Racial/Ethnic Outgroups	10
Alternative Systems: The Interplay Between Criminal Groups’ Influence and Political Trust on Civic Honesty in the Global Context	10
A Registered Report on Gender Bias in Interpersonal Dishonesty: Are Females and Males Cheated Differently?	10
Dynamic, Yet Stable: Separating Within- and Between-Person Components of Collective Action in Support of a Disadvantaged Outgroup and its Antecedents	9
Spillover Between Daily Marital Interactions and Parenting Practices: Sensory Processing Sensitivity as Moderators	9
Threat Rejection Fuels Political Dehumanization	9
Cognitive Ability and Personal Values: A Large Sample Study of Schwartz's Values, HEXACO Personality, Age, and Gender	9
Actual and Perceived Partisan Bias in Judgments of Political Misinformation as Lies	9
Understanding Person-Situation Dynamics at Work: Effects of Traits, States, and Situation Characteristics on Teaching Performance	9
The Impact of Social Media Salience on the Subjective Value of Social Cues	9
Personality and the “Social Cure”: The Role of Ego-Resilience in the Social Identity Approach to Health	9
What if Hard Work Cannot Pay Off? Perceived Low Social Mobility Increases Passive Procrastination Among Students	9
Beyond Outrage: Observers Anticipate Different Behaviors From Expressors of Anger Versus Disgust	9
Pro-Life Policy Preferences Partly Reflect Desires to Suppress Casual Sexual Behavior, Not Solely Sanctity of Life Concerns	8
Intellectual Humility and Belief Extremity: Evidence for Curvilinearity?	8
Personal Relative Deprivation, Not Subjective Status, Explains Support for Economic Redistribution	8
The Maximizing Penalty: Maximizers are Perceived as Less Warm and Receive Less Social Support	8

Mind the Gap: Perceived Economic Inequality and the Well-Being Gap around the Globe	8
High Self-Control Individuals Prefer Meaning Over Pleasure	8
Do Conspiracy Theories Shape or Rationalize Vaccination Hesitancy Over Time?	8
Loss of Social Status and Subjective Well-Being Across the Adult Life Span: Feeling Stuck or Moving Up?	7
Perceiver Effects in Person Perception Reflect Acquiescence, Positivity, and Trait-Specific Content: Evidence From a Large-Scale Replication Study	7
The Contradictory Nature of Anti-Transgender Rhetoric	7
The Role of Short-Term and Longer Term Immigration Trends on Voting for Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe	7
Lonely Today, Lonely Tomorrow: Temporal Dynamics of Loneliness in Everyday Life and its Associations With Psychopathological Symptoms	7
Ignorance of History and Political Differences in Perception of Racism in the United States	7
Projecting the Current Salient Relational Situations Into the Past and Future Across Cultures	7
Incivility Diminishes Interest in What Politicians Have to Say	7
Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence From 35 Cultures	7
How Liberal-Conservative Friendship Diversity Could Improve Interpolitical Relations in the United States	7
Weight Location Moderates Weight-Based Self-Devaluation and Perceived Social Devaluation in Women	7
Corrigendum	7
Keeping One’s Distance: Mask Wearing is Implicitly Associated With Psychological Distance	7
Fathers’ and Mothers’ Sexism Predict Less Responsive Parenting Behavior During Family Interactions	7
Individual–Community Misalignment in Partisan Identity Predicts Distancing From Norms During the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
The Long-Term Stability of Affective Bonds After Romantic Separation: Do Attachments Simply Fade Away?	7
Populism Predicts Sympathy for Attacks Against Asylum Seekers Through National Pride and Moral Justification of Political Violence	7
Impact of National Pandemic Lockdowns on Perceived Threat of Immigrants: A Natural Quasi-Experiment Across 23 Countries	7