British Journal of Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Psychology is 1. 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.)
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What kind of impacts can artwork have on viewers? Establishing a taxonomy for aesthetic impacts62
What ugly and beautiful photographs reveal about COVID ‐19 lockdown experiences, everyday aesthetics and photography aesthetics51
Pain in the eye of the beholder: Variations in pain visual representations as a function of face ethnicity and culture42
Real‐life outgroup exposure, self‐reported outgroup contact and the other‐race effect41
The Cambridge handbook of working memory and languageBy John W.Schwieter and Zhisheng (Edward)Wen (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Hardcover US 39
“May I present you: my disgust!” – Declared disgust sensitivity in the presence of attractive models29
Effects of relative deprivation on change in displaced aggression and the underlying motivation mechanism: A three‐wave cross‐lagged analysis29
Comparison of face‐based and voice‐based first impressions in a Chinese sample27
Temporal dynamics of cue integration for sense of agency in social comparative context24
“I got all sorts of solitude, but that solitude wasn't mine”: A mixed‐methods approach to understanding aloneness during becoming a mother24
Object space is embodied21
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the other‐‘race’ effect: An attempt at integrating different perspectives21
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Clinical and cost‐effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for treatment and prevention of post‐traumatic stress disorder in adults: A systematic review and meta‐analysis20
Unveiling the factors of aesthetic preferences with explainable AI20
Intolerance of uncertainty and novelty facilitated extinction: The impact of reinforcement schedule19
Learning in the face of failure: The benefit of autistic traits19
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Associations between sleep variables and ostensibly paranormal experiences and paranormal beliefs: A scoping review17
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Reactions to research on sex differences: Effect of sex favoured, researcher sex, and importance of sex‐difference domain16
Understanding trait impressions from faces14
Personality psychology: A new perspective By JanekMusek, Switzerland: Springer Nature AG. 2024. Ebook £96.29. ISBN 978‐3‐031‐55308‐014
Measuring the felt sense of dehumanization: A COSMIN systematic review of the psychometric properties of self‐ and meta‐dehumanization measures14
Mood induction through imitation of full‐body movements with different affective intentions14
‘Sweet poison’ and ‘mild medicine’: Different effects of collective narcissism and collective self‐esteem on ingroup versus outgroup conspiracy beliefs14
On the role of experience versus motivation in predicting the own‐race effect14
What makes us human: How minds develop through social interactions.13
Sorries seem to have the harder words12
The impact of response type on affordance and spatial compatibility effects in human and object interactions12
Caregivers' time poverty, parenting styles and children's growth mindset12
Explanation strategies in humans versus current explainable artificial intelligence: Insights from image classification12
Statistical modelling of vignette data in psychology12
Leading by example: Experimental evidence that therapist lived experience disclosures can model the path to recovery for clients11
The influence of socio‐economic status on child temperament and psychological symptom profiles10
The effects of the presence of a face and direct eye gaze on voice identity learning10
Editorial Acknowledgement10
Editorial: Introducing the British Psychological Society Journal's landmark special issue on diversity10
Emotion ensemble judgement: Cognitive training for a positive perspective10
Identifying subtypes in persons, situations and person–situation interactions: Categorical latent state–trait modelling approaches10
Moral reasoning behind the veil of ignorance: An investigation into perspective‐taking accessibility in the context of autonomous vehicles10
Are there gender differences in promotion–prevention self‐regulatory focus?9
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The sociological interpretation of dreams, by BernardLahire. Oxford, UK: Polity Press, 2020. Hardback, USD 42.82, ISBN 9781509537945.9
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Satisfied on our own, yet ready to leave together: An actor–partner interdependence mediation model on job satisfaction and turnover intentions in leader–follower dyads9
The effects of task‐irrelevant threatening stimuli on orienting‐ and executive attentional processes under cognitive load9
Longitudinal relations among perceived parental warmth, self‐esteem and social behaviours from middle childhood to early adolescence in China: Disentangling between‐ and within‐person associations9
Close encounters: Interpersonal proximity amplifies social appraisals8
Default categorization of outgroup faces and the other race effect: Commentary on the special issue8
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Better posters: Plan, design, and present an academic poster.8
Inconsistent yet unyielding: Persistence of contradictory beliefs and strategies for their reconciliation8
Automatic or controlled: How does disbelief in free will influence cognitive functioning?8
Larger comfortable interpersonal distances in adults exposed to child maltreatment: The role of depressive symptoms and social anxiety8
The meaning of masculinity for educated young Bedouins8
The state of modelling face processing in humans with deep learning7
Why moral judgements change across variations of trolley‐like problems7
Psychopathic personality traits are linked to reduced false memories for negative events7
Importance of transgender nuances in research and advocacy: Reply to Morgenroth (2025) and Tate (2025)7
How living in economically unequal societies shapes our minds and our social lives7
One size does not fit all: Exploring how the five‐factor model facets predict disordered eating behaviours among adolescent and young adult males and females7
Comparison of outcomes across low‐intensity psychological interventions for depression and anxiety within a stepped‐care setting: A naturalistic cohort study using propensity score modelling7
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Is poor control over thoughts and emotions related to a higher tendency to delay tasks? The link between procrastination, emotional dysregulation and attentional control7
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Assessing novelty, feasibility and value of creative ideas with an unsupervised approach using GPT‐46
Perceiving visual events uses optical information that reflects dynamics rather than resembles appearance6
Protecting against misinformation: Evaluating the effectiveness of three techniques to reduce memory conformity6
Lonely individuals reveal proximal social avoidance and distal general approach motivation: Evidence from time perception in social and non‐social contexts6
Keep bright in the dark: Multimodal emotional effects on donation‐based crowdfunding performance and their empathic mechanisms6
Human populations are not biologically and genetically discrete6
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Development of a theory of mind assessment for children using multidimensional Rasch modelling6
Emotion‐driven or relationship‐driven? Longitudinal associations between insecure parent–child attachment, perceived family support and depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents6
Advice‐taking in carbon footprint assessments: How psychological and cultural factors shape reliance on experts' advice6
Scoping review on natural language processing applications in counselling and psychotherapy6
A multi‐analyses approach of inductive/deductive asymmetry in the affective priming paradigm6
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Phonological similarity in the serial recall task hinders item recall, not just order6
Decoding the language of first impressions: Comparing models of first impressions of faces derived from free‐text descriptions and trait ratings6
Autistic adults form first impressions from voices in similar ways to non‐autistic adults5
We need to move beyond rating scales, white faces and adult perceivers: Invited Commentary on Sutherland & Young (2022), understanding trait impressions from faces5
The moderating roles of resilience and social support in the relationships between bullying victimization and well‐being among Chinese adolescents: Evidence from PISA 5
Introducing the British Psychological Society Journal's Landmark Issue on digital futures5
Increases in sense of purpose predict future positive changes in personality traits5
Understanding anxiety through uncertainty quantification5
The longitudinal relationship between family socioeconomic status and students' academic achievement: The mediating roles of learning anxiety‐learning engagement profiles and the moderating role of ne5
The Status Importance Scale: Development and validation of a self‐report questionnaire for measuring how much people care about status5
Negative targets specifically enhance conscious and unconscious social attention5
Are brand names special words? Letter visual‐similarity affects the identification of brand names, but not common words5
Impact of similarity on recognition of faces of Black and White targets5
Sex differences in the association of math achievement with visual‐spatial and verbal working memory: Does the type of math test matter?5
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Family‐focused treatment for child and adolescent mental health: A new paradigm By PaulSunseri, New York, NY: Routledge. 2024. 256. £28.79. ISBN 978‐1‐003‐39736‐65
Perceiving multiple truths: Does dialectical thinking harmonize colourblind and multicultural ideals?5
Why existential threats increase conspiracy beliefs: Evidence for the mediating roles of agency detection and pattern perception4
Electrophysiological correlates of dispositional mindfulness: A quantitative and complexity EEG study4
A test of the M orality‐ A gency‐ C ommunion ( 4
The myth of regaining control: Ostracism increases superstitious tendencies4
The structure of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale: Theoretical and methodological considerations4
Gender differences in optimism, loss aversion and attitudes towards risk4
Comparing music‐ and food‐evoked autobiographical memories in young and older adults: A diary study4
Language about gender/sex should be used intentionally and flexibly4
Spatial attention based on 2D location and relative depth order modulates visual working memory in a 3D 4
Research and evaluation in education and psychology: Integrating diversity with quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodsby Donna M.Mertens, SAGE Publications. 2024. 6th edition, 528 pp. ISBN: 978‐4
Empathy and parenthood: The moderating role of maternal trait empathy on parental burnout4
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Before/after Bayes: A comparison of frequentist and Bayesian mixed‐effects models in applied psychological research4
Popcorn politics: Entertainment appraisals predict support for populist leaders3
How to support learning with multimedia instruction: Implementation intentions help even when load is high3
Alternating time spent on social interactions and solitude in healthy older adults3
Who tends to be a perfectionistic adolescent? Distinguishing perfectionism from excellencism and investigating the links with the Big Five and self‐esteem3
Red meat, reactance and political party: Defensive processing of empathy‐based meat reduction appeals3
A recognition advantage for members of higher‐status racial groups3
The social‐encoding benefit in face recognition is generalized to other‐race faces3
Independent effects of word concreteness and word valence on immediate serial recall3
First impressions from faces in the real world: Commentary on Sutherland and Young (2022)3
Predictors of online and offline activism in hybrid regime society – Serbian study3
The culture of perceptual expertise and the other‐race effect3
The method of loci in the context of psychological research: A systematic review and meta‐analysis3
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The necessity of motoric engagement in enhancing route memory3
Working memory capacity and self‐cues: Consistent benefits in children and adults3
Effects of phonological awareness and morphological awareness on blind students' reading comprehension3
Ingroup and outgroup differences in face detection3
Counselling children and adolescents: Working in school and clinical mental health settings (Special Indian edition) By JolieZiomek‐Daigle, New York, NY: Routledge. 2017. UK £ 56.99. ISBN: 978036724033
Sampling and processing of climate change information and disinformation across three diverse countries3
Inter‐brain synchrony is associated with greater shared identity within naturalistic conversational pairs3
What the Solitaire illusion tells us about perception of numerosity2
The rhythm of sensory input shapes audio‐visual temporal processing2
Quantitative psychology: The 88th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society By MarieWiberg, Jee‐SeonKim, HeungsunHwang, HaoWu, TracySweet (eds.), Springer proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics,2
Explainability increases trust resilience in intelligent agents2
The alone team: How an alone mindset affects group processes2
Editorial: Introducing the British Psychological Society journals' landmark special issue on the United Nation's Sustainability Goals2
Musicality – Tuned to the melody of vocal emotions2
Preparing children to cope with earthquakes: Building emotional competence2
Loneliness is associated with a greater self‐reference effect in episodic memory when compared against a close friend2
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Increase in physiological inhibitory control results in better suppression of unwanted memories2
Involuntary remembering and ADHD : Do individuals with ADHD symptoms experience high volumes of in2
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Effects of sleep on positive, negative and neutral valenced story and image memory2
Not so different and not deficient: First‐ and continuing‐generation students' selves and self‐discrepancies2
Sex differences in reading and math test scores of children: A heterodoxical model By HobenThomas, Monographs in the psychology of education, Springer, 2023; ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐41271‐4 (print), 978‐3‐0312
Positive and negative touch differentially modulate metacognitive memory judgements for emotional stimuli2
Out of the dark – Psychological perspectives on people's fascination with true crime2
Mathematical psychology: The world of thoughts as a quantum space‐time with a gravitational core By NorbertSchwarzer, Jenny Stanford Publishing. 2024. 511 pp. ISBN: 9789815129274 (Hardcover), 978100352
Justice perceptions and well‐being : Belief in a just world is a personal resource and a coping resource2
Is the label ‘conspiracy theory’ a cause or a consequence of disbelief in alternative narratives?1
Defensive emotions and evaluative judgements: Sensitivity to anger and fear predicts moral judgements, whereas sensitivity to disgust predicts aesthetic judgements1
More elaborate processing of own‐race faces and less elaborate processing of other‐race faces contribute to the other‐race effect in face memory1
Information and affective valence influence judgments of complexity, liking and understanding1
Psychology and gender: An advanced reader By Sadhana AvinashNatu (Ed.), London: Routledge India. 2024. 222 pp. ₹1295. ISBN : 97810325187321
Anti‐social learning: The impact of language on mentalizing1
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Attraction in every sense: How looks, voice, movement and scent draw us to future lovers and friends1
Mapping the maze: A network analysis of social–emotional skills among children and adolescents with social–emotional difficulties1
Social sharing of emotion during the collective crisis of COVID ‐191
Exploring the spatial interference effects elicited by social and non‐social targets: A conditional accuracy function approach1
Comparing intertemporal decision‐making models: Predictions and applications in lifespan through subjective time perception1
Asymmetrical responding to male versus female other‐race categories in 9‐ to 12‐month‐old infants1
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Mapping physical characteristics in face images to social judgements1
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Expressed emotion of caregivers to children at familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study – VIA 1
Shame, pride, and relational trauma: Concepts and psychotherapy By KenBenau, New York: Routledge, 2022. Softcover US $39.95. ISBN 97811383623831
Paradoxical decrease of imitation performance with age in children1
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Staying in control: Characterizing the mechanisms underlying cognitive control in high and low arousal states1
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Effects of social exclusion on following the gaze of others1
Too hot to help or too cold to care? On the links between ambient temperature, volunteerism, and civic engagement1
A 21st century cognitive portrait of the Himba, a remote people of Namibia1
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The gifted language learner: A case of nature or nurture? By Alene Moyer : Cambridge University Press, 2021. Paperback, USD 28.99, ISBN 97811087108621
Editorial acknowledgement1
Face and voice identity matching accuracy is not improved by multimodal identity information1
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Linking metaphor comprehension with analogical reasoning: Evidence from typical development and autism spectrum disorder1
The psychology of meditation: Varieties, effects, theories and perspectives. PeterSedlmeier. Newburyport, MA: Hogrefe. 2021. Softcover US $44.80, ISBN 97808893757651
Smartphone use and daily cognitive failures: A critical examination using a daily diary approach with objective smartphone measures1
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