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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Target Weight and Gender Moderate Anti-Black Bias in Pain Perception	77
Household Wealth is Associated With Perceived Trustworthiness in a Diverse Set of Countries	72
Discount Rates Vary Within Individuals Throughout Daily Life in Conjunction With Momentary Changes in Affect	72
Ease of Mind or Ties That Bind? Costs and Benefits of Disclosing Daily Hassles in Partnerships	70
Unity or Estrangement Under Crises? Perceived Resource Scarcity Moderates the Effect of a Common Threat on Intergroup Cooperation	67
Corrigendum	54
Decomposing Variance in Co-Rumination Using Dyadic Daily Diary Data	47
Opposing Misperceptions of Wealth: Liberals Overestimate Their Neighborhoods’ Wealth in Wealthier Neighborhoods While Conservatives Overestimate Their Neighborhoods’ Wealth in Poor Neighborhoods	45
Spillover Between Daily Marital Interactions and Parenting Practices: Sensory Processing Sensitivity as Moderators	43
Just Playing the Role of Good Study Participants? Evaluative Conditioning, Demand Compliance, and Agreeableness	42
Expression of Concern: “Ray of Hope: Hopelessness Increases Preferences for Brighter Lighting”	38
Sweet Revenge Feels Less Bitter: Spontaneous Affective Reactions After Revenge Taking	38
Stability and Change in Narcissism From Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Mexican-Origin Youth	35
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	34
Impatience Over Time	32
Testing Theories of Threat, Individual Difference, and Ideology: Little Evidence of Personality-Based Individual Differences in Ideological Responses to Threat	29
Personality and Lifetime Need Frustration: A Person-Centered Perspective on Interpersonal Problems and Personality Pathology	28
Worse for Women, Bad for All: A 62-Nation Study Confirms and Extends Ambivalent Sexism Principles to Reveal Greater Social Dysfunction in Sexist Nations	28
Perceptions of White Women’s Stigma-Based Solidarity Claims and Disingenuous Allyship	27
The Evolving Nature of Generalized Prejudice Toward Marginalized Groups in the United States 2004–2020	26
The Salience of Children Increases Adult Prosocial Values	25
Perceptions of Bisexual Individuals Depend on Target Gender	25
Cognitive Ability and Personal Values: A Large Sample Study of Schwartz's Values, HEXACO Personality, Age, and Gender	24
Short-Term Training in Mindfulness Predicts Helping Behavior Toward Racial Ingroup and Outgroup Members	22
What if Hard Work Cannot Pay Off? Perceived Low Social Mobility Increases Passive Procrastination Among Students	22

Supporting Satisfaction, Satisfying Support: Bidirectional Associations of Social Support and Life Satisfaction	21
Pandemics Initially Spread Among People of Higher (Not Lower) Social Status: Evidence From COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu	19
Understanding Person-Situation Dynamics at Work: Effects of Traits, States, and Situation Characteristics on Teaching Performance	19
Actual and Perceived Partisan Bias in Judgments of Political Misinformation as Lies	18
Corrigendum to Status-based Asymmetries in Relative Deprivation during the COVID-19 Pandemic	18
Global Crisis Frame Matters for Unity: Resource Threat Hampers While Safety Threat Promotes Intergroup Cooperation	18
List Length, List Content, and Gratitude List Intervention Outcomes	18
Explaining Individual Differences in Advantageous Inequity Aversion by Social-Affective Trait Dimensions and Family Environment	17
Perceived Naturalness Biases Objective Behavior in Both Trivial and Meaningful Contexts	17
A Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Perceived Partner Support From Relational and Individual Variables	17
The Impact of Regulatory Fit on Experienced Autonomy	17
Personality and the “Social Cure”: The Role of Ego-Resilience in the Social Identity Approach to Health	16
Perceived Inequality Increases Support for Structural Solutions to Climate Change	16
Sensitizing the Behavioral-Immune System: The Power of Social Pain	16
Globalization Is Associated With Lower Levels of National Narcissism: Evidence From 56 Countries	16
Exposure to Immigrants Does Not Moderate the Relationship Between Disgust Sensitivity and Opposition to Immigration	15
The Role of Personality in COVID-19-Related Perceptions, Evaluations, and Behaviors: Findings Across Five Samples, Nine Traits, and 17 Criteria	14
Marginalized and Advantaged Parents’ Perceptions of Identity-Safety Cues in K-12 Classrooms	14
Poor Toddlers Feel Less Pain? Application of Class-Based Pain Stereotypes in Judgments of Children	14
Dynamic, Yet Stable: Separating Within- and Between-Person Components of Collective Action in Support of a Disadvantaged Outgroup and its Antecedents	13
Mixed Evidence for Interactive Effects of Outgroup Proportions and Intergroup Contact on Racial Bias in the United States	13
Motivated Moral Outrage Among Meat-Eaters	13
Trustworthiness of Crowds Is Gleaned in Half a Second	13
Moral Judgments Are Value-Based Decisions Driven by Culturally Stable Valuations and Culturally Variable Decision Biases	12
Development and Validation of the Social Discounting Task: Short Form	12
Linking Self-Reported Social Distancing to Real-World Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
The Chicken and Egg of Pride and Social Rank	12
Transmission of Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction Between Parents and Adolescents: The Critical Role of Parental Perceptions	12
Reducing Explicit Blatant Dehumanization by Correcting Exaggerated Meta-Perceptions	12
The Andrew Carnegie Effect: Legacy Motives Increase the Intergenerational Allocation of Wealth to Collective Causes	11
Bias in Self-Reports: An Initial Elevation Phenomenon	11
Mentioning the Sample’s Country in the Article’s Title Leads to Bias in Research Evaluation	11
Think About It! Deliberation Reduces the Negative Relation Between Conspiracy Belief and Adherence to Prosocial Norms	10
Gendered Self-Views Across 62 Countries: A Test of Competing Models	10
The Impact of Culture and Social Distance on Humor Appreciation, Sharing, and Production	10
Extroversion and Conscientiousness Predict Deteriorating Job Outcomes During the COVID-19 Transition to Enforced Remote Work	10
Pro-Life Policy Preferences Partly Reflect Desires to Suppress Casual Sexual Behavior, Not Solely Sanctity of Life Concerns	10
“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	10
Professors Who Signal a Fixed Mindset About Ability Undermine Women’s Performance in STEM	10
Mental Health Contributors Among Transgender People in a Non-WEIRD Society: Evidence From China	10
Happy Days: Resolving the Structure of Daily Subjective Well-Being, Between and Within Individuals	9
A Chronic Lack of Perceived Personal Control Increases Women and Men’s Self-Reported Preference for High-Status Characteristics When Selecting Romantic Partners in Simulated Dating Situations	9
Don’t Drag Me Down: Valence Asymmetry in Well-Being Co-Development in Couples	9
Erratum to “Who Gets to Vote? Racialized Mental Images of Legitimate and Illegitimate Voters”	9
When Does Psychological Fit Matter? The Moderating Role of Price on Self-Brand Congruity	9
Autistic People Are Believed to Feel More Pain than Non-Autistic People	9
Tweeting Others With Respect: Historicist Thinking Can Reduce Blame and Hostile Retaliation to Nasty Communications From Partisan Opponents	8
Partisan Media Sentiment Toward Artificial Intelligence	8
Understanding the Links Between Perceiving Gratitude and Romantic Relationship Satisfaction Using an Accuracy and Bias Framework	8
Women’s Safety Concerns and Academia: How Safety Concerns Can Create Opportunity Gaps	8

Do We Know How Happy Strangers Are? Accuracy in Well-Being Judgments at Zero Acquaintance	8
Picturing Your Life: The Role of Imagery Perspective in Personal Photos	8
Lower Perceived Economic Mobility Inhibits Pro-Environmental Engagement by Increasing Cynicism	8
Who has secrets and who keeps them? Individual differences in disclosure and secrecy	8
“Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves”: Gender Differences in Singles’ Well-Being	8
The Maximizing Penalty: Maximizers are Perceived as Less Warm and Receive Less Social Support	7
Does It Feel Like Yesterday or Like It’s Been Forever? Subjective Time Since Sex in Romantic Relationships	7
Power Balance and Relationship Quality: An Overstated Link	7
Sexual (Double) Standards Revisited: Similarities and Differences in the Societal Evaluation of Male and Female Sexuality	7
Political Bot Bias in the Perception of Online Discourse	7
Patience Predicts Attitudes Toward Vaccination and Uptake of Vaccines	7
Internet Use and Cognitive Engagement in Older Adulthood	7
Is Narcissism Linked to Stress Reactivity Under Social-Evaluative Threat?	7
Psychological Distance Increases Conceptual Generalization	7
Self-Other Agreement in Experience Sampling Measures	7
Is There an Ideological Asymmetry in the Incumbency Effect? Evidence From U.S. Congressional Elections	7
Should I Ask Over Zoom, Phone, Email, or In-Person? Communication Channel and Predicted Versus Actual Compliance	7
Valuing Versus Having: The Contrary Roles of Valuing and Having Money and Prestige on Well-Being	7
Civic Hope and the Perceived Authenticity of Democratic Participation	7
What Happens in Initial Interactions Forecasts Relationship Development: Showcasing the Role of Social Behavior	7