| Self-enhancement and superiority biases in social comparison V Hoorens European review of social psychology 4 (1), 113-139, 1993 | 513 | 1993 |
| Social Comparison of Health Risks: Locus of Control, the Person‐Positivity Bias, and Unrealistic Optimism V Hoorens, BP Buunk Journal of Applied Social Psychology 23 (4), 291-302, 1993 | 321 | 1993 |
| Self‐favoring biases, self‐presentation, and the self‐other asymmetry in social comparison V Hoorens Journal of Personality 63 (4), 793-817, 1995 | 320 | 1995 |
| Social support and stress: The role of social comparison and social exchange processes BP Buunk, V Hoorens British journal of clinical psychology 31 (4), 445-457, 1992 | 277 | 1992 |
| The optimal impact phenomenon: Beyond the third person effect V Hoorens, S Ruiter European Journal of Social Psychology 26 (4), 599-610, 1996 | 208 | 1996 |
| Psychometric properties and correlates of precarious manhood beliefs in 62 nations JK Bosson, P Jurek, JA Vandello, N Kosakowska-Berezecka, M Olech, ... Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 52 (3), 231-258, 2021 | 137 | 2021 |
| Unrealistic optimism in health and safety risks V Hoorens, DR Rutter, L Quine Avebury; Aldershot, 1994 | 129 | 1994 |
| Mastery pleasure versus mere ownership: A quasi‐experimental cross‐cultural and cross‐alphabetical test of the name letter effect V Hoorens, JM Nuttin Jr, IE Herman, U Pavakanun European Journal of Social Psychology 20 (3), 181-205, 1990 | 103 | 1990 |
| The hubris hypothesis: You can self‐enhance, but you'd better not show it V Hoorens, M Pandelaere, F Oldersma, C Sedikides Journal of personality 80 (5), 1237-1274, 2012 | 99 | 2012 |
| Country‐level and individual‐level predictors of men's support for gender equality in 42 countries N Kosakowska‐Berezecka, T Besta, JK Bosson, P Jurek, JA Vandello, ... European Journal of Social Psychology 50 (6), 1276-1291, 2020 | 96 | 2020 |
| Self-favoring biases for positive and negative characteristics: Independent phenomena? V Hoorens Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 15 (1), 53-67, 1996 | 96 | 1996 |
| Overvaluation of own attributes: Mere ownership or subjective frequency? V Hoorens, JM Nuttin Social Cognition 11 (2), 177-200, 1993 | 80 | 1993 |
| Distortions in reports of health behaviors: The time span effect and illusory superiority V Hoorens, P Harris Psychology and Health 13 (3), 451-466, 1998 | 71 | 1998 |
| Gendered self-views across 62 countries: A test of competing models N Kosakowska-Berezecka, JK Bosson, P Jurek, T Besta, M Olech, ... Social Psychological and Personality Science 14 (7), 808-824, 2023 | 68 | 2023 |
| Comparative optimism in the spontaneous generation of future life‐events V Hoorens, T Smits, JA Shepperd British Journal of Social Psychology 47 (3), 441-451, 2008 | 64 | 2008 |
| Why self-enhancement provokes dislike: The hubris hypothesis and the aversiveness of explicit self-superiority claims C Van Damme, V Hoorens, C Sedikides Self and Identity 15 (2), 173-190, 2016 | 63 | 2016 |
| Time is an amazingly variable amount of money: Endowment and ownership effects in the subjective value of working time V Hoorens, N Remmers, K Van De Riet Journal of Economic Psychology 20 (4), 383-405, 1999 | 63 | 1999 |
| Self-enhancing self-presentation: Interpersonal, relational, and organizational implications C Sedikides, V Hoorens, M Dufner Information Age Publishing; Charlotte, NC 5, 29-56, 2015 | 62 | 2015 |
| How probable is probably? It depends on whom you're talking about. T Smits, V Hoorens Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 18, 83-96, 2005 | 61 | 2005 |
| Positivity bias V Hoorens Encyclopedia of quality of life and well-being research, 5333-5338, 2024 | 58 | 2024 |
Constantine SedikidesProfessor of Psychology, University of SouthamptonVerified email at soton.ac.uk
