British Journal of Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Psychology is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Pain in the eye of the beholder: Variations in pain visual representations as a function of face ethnicity and culture67
Object space is embodied55
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The Cambridge handbook of working memory and languageBy John W.Schwieter and Zhisheng (Edward)Wen (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Hardcover US 42
Real‐life outgroup exposure, self‐reported outgroup contact and the other‐race effect41
Attention and vigilance advantages related to formal musical training across childhood, adolescence and young adulthood35
Editorial acknowledgement33
What ugly and beautiful photographs reveal about COVID ‐19 lockdown experiences, everyday aesthetics and photography aesthetics29
Effects of relative deprivation on change in displaced aggression and the underlying motivation mechanism: A three‐wave cross‐lagged analysis28
Comparison of face‐based and voice‐based first impressions in a Chinese sample27
“I got all sorts of solitude, but that solitude wasn't mine”: A mixed‐methods approach to understanding aloneness during becoming a mother24
What kind of impacts can artwork have on viewers? Establishing a taxonomy for aesthetic impacts24
Temporal dynamics of cue integration for sense of agency in social comparative context22
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the other‐‘race’ effect: An attempt at integrating different perspectives22
Spatial memory under emotion: Effects across encoding, maintenance and retrieval21
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‐analysis19
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On the role of experience versus motivation in predicting the own‐race effect17
Learning in the face of failure: The benefit of autistic traits17
Associations between sleep variables and ostensibly paranormal experiences and paranormal beliefs: A scoping review17
Unveiling the factors of aesthetic preferences with explainable AI16
Less is more when time is scarce: How time poverty enhances minimalistic consumption through increased need for order16
The shape of time: How temporal landmarks influence shape preference16
Measuring the felt sense of dehumanization: A COSMIN systematic review of the psychometric properties of self‐ and meta‐dehumanization measures15
Personality psychology: A new perspective By JanekMusek, Switzerland: Springer Nature AG. 2024. Ebook £96.29. ISBN 978‐3‐031‐55308‐014
Mood induction through imitation of full‐body movements with different affective intentions14
The impact of response type on affordance and spatial compatibility effects in human and object interactions14
‘Sweet poison’ and ‘mild medicine’: Different effects of collective narcissism and collective self‐esteem on ingroup versus outgroup conspiracy beliefs14
Editorial: Introducing the British Psychological Society Journal's landmark special issue on diversity13
Emotion ensemble judgement: Cognitive training for a positive perspective13
Editorial Acknowledgement13
Dynamics of collectivistic language and emotional expression in China's early pandemic: A social media analysis13
The effects of the presence of a face and direct eye gaze on voice identity learning12
Manipulating posture implicitly through environmental constraints influences mood and risk‐taking behaviour12
Moral reasoning behind the veil of ignorance: An investigation into perspective‐taking accessibility in the context of autonomous vehicles12
The influence of socio‐economic status on child temperament and psychological symptom profiles12
The effects of implicit emotion regulation on impulsive choice11
Are there gender differences in promotion–prevention self‐regulatory focus?11
Explanation strategies in humans versus current explainable artificial intelligence: Insights from image classification11
Sorries seem to have the harder words11
Caregivers' time poverty, parenting styles and children's growth mindset11
The effectiveness of implementation intentions in children: A systematic review and meta‐analysis11
Issue Information10
Satisfied on our own, yet ready to leave together: An actor–partner interdependence mediation model on job satisfaction and turnover intentions in leader–follower dyads10
Identifying subtypes in persons, situations and person–situation interactions: Categorical latent state–trait modelling approaches10
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The sociological interpretation of dreams, by BernardLahire. Oxford, UK: Polity Press, 2020. Hardback, USD 42.82, ISBN 9781509537945.10
Leading by example: Experimental evidence that therapist lived experience disclosures can model the path to recovery for clients10
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Longitudinal relations among perceived parental warmth, self‐esteem and social behaviours from middle childhood to early adolescence in China: Disentangling between‐ and within‐person associations10
Big size with big heart: The effect of body size cue on perceived forgivingness10
The holistic view of compassion: A meta‐analysis on the association of self‐compassion, other‐compassion, well‐being and psychological distress9
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Importance of transgender nuances in research and advocacy: Reply to Morgenroth (2025) and Tate (2025)9
The meaning of masculinity for educated young Bedouins9
Default categorization of outgroup faces and the other race effect: Commentary on the special issue9
How do visual and conceptual factors predict the object content in typical scene drawings?9
Relations among daily symptoms of depression9
Comparison of outcomes across low‐intensity psychological interventions for depression and anxiety within a stepped‐care setting: A naturalistic cohort study using propensity score modelling9
Inconsistent yet unyielding: Persistence of contradictory beliefs and strategies for their reconciliation8
How living in economically unequal societies shapes our minds and our social lives8
Psychopathic personality traits are linked to reduced false memories for negative events8
Processing visual contour contributes to the association between numerosity processing and arithmetic performance8
The state of modelling face processing in humans with deep learning8
Protecting against misinformation: Evaluating the effectiveness of three techniques to reduce memory conformity8
Close encounters: Interpersonal proximity amplifies social appraisals8
Comparability between AI and human cognition and its role in psychological research and AI ethics8
Larger comfortable interpersonal distances in adults exposed to child maltreatment: The role of depressive symptoms and social anxiety8
A multi‐analyses approach of inductive/deductive asymmetry in the affective priming paradigm8
Development of a theory of mind assessment for children using multidimensional Rasch modelling7
Assessing novelty, feasibility and value of creative ideas with an unsupervised approach using GPT‐47
Human populations are not biologically and genetically discrete7
Why moral judgements change across variations of trolley‐like problems7
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Issue Information7
A novel index to measure pre‐planning in the Tower of London task: Test–retest reliability and known‐group validity7
Time poverty and access‐based consumption: Convenience gains and risk blindness7
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Emotion‐driven or relationship‐driven? Longitudinal associations between insecure parent–child attachment, perceived family support and depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents7
Keep bright in the dark: Multimodal emotional effects on donation‐based crowdfunding performance and their empathic mechanisms7
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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
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
Perceiving visual events uses optical information that reflects dynamics rather than resembles appearance7
The Status Importance Scale: Development and validation of a self‐report questionnaire for measuring how much people care about status6
Impact of similarity on recognition of faces of Black and White targets6
Family‐focused treatment for child and adolescent mental health: A new paradigm By PaulSunseri, New York, NY: Routledge. 2024. 256. £28.79. ISBN 978‐1‐003‐39736‐66
Lonely individuals reveal proximal social avoidance and distal general approach motivation: Evidence from time perception in social and non‐social contexts6
Scoping review on natural language processing applications in counselling and psychotherapy6
The moderating roles of resilience and social support in the relationships between bullying victimization and well‐being among Chinese adolescents: Evidence from PISA 6
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 ne6
We need to move beyond rating scales, white faces and adult perceivers: Invited Commentary on Sutherland & Young (2022), understanding trait impressions from faces6
Negative targets specifically enhance conscious and unconscious social attention6
Universal threads: Shared sociopolitical roots and consequences of extrasensory perception and pseudoscientific beliefs6
Introducing the British Psychological Society Journal's Landmark Issue on digital futures6
Advice‐taking in carbon footprint assessments: How psychological and cultural factors shape reliance on experts' advice6
Comparing music‐ and food‐evoked autobiographical memories in young and older adults: A diary study6
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 adults6
Perceiving multiple truths: Does dialectical thinking harmonize colourblind and multicultural ideals?6
Understanding anxiety through uncertainty quantification5
Gender differences in optimism, loss aversion and attitudes towards risk5
The myth of regaining control: Ostracism increases superstitious tendencies5
Spatial attention based on 2D location and relative depth order modulates visual working memory in a 3D 5
Issue Information5
Increases in sense of purpose predict future positive changes in personality traits5
A test of the M orality‐ A gency‐ C ommunion ( 5
Language about gender/sex should be used intentionally and flexibly5
First impressions from faces in the real world: Commentary on Sutherland and Young (2022)5
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Electrophysiological correlates of dispositional mindfulness: A quantitative and complexity EEG study5
Empathy and parenthood: The moderating role of maternal trait empathy on parental burnout5
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: 978‐5
The culture of perceptual expertise and the other‐race effect5
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: 978036724034
Social voice judgement is dyadic: Acoustic typicality and interpersonal similarity interact4
The social‐encoding benefit in face recognition is generalized to other‐race faces4
Why existential threats increase conspiracy beliefs: Evidence for the mediating roles of agency detection and pattern perception4
Red meat, reactance and political party: Defensive processing of empathy‐based meat reduction appeals4
Predictors of online and offline activism in hybrid regime society – Serbian study4
Working memory capacity and self‐cues: Consistent benefits in children and adults4
How to support learning with multimedia instruction: Implementation intentions help even when load is high4
Contextual cues do not facilitate spontaneous face recognition4
Popcorn politics: Entertainment appraisals predict support for populist leaders4
Alternating time spent on social interactions and solitude in healthy older adults4
Problematic smartphone use in early adolescence: Developmental heterogeneity and bidirectional links with risk factors4
The necessity of motoric engagement in enhancing route memory4
Intrinsic potency of biological motion in guiding attention: A conflict‐based assessment across autistic traits3
Sampling and processing of climate change information and disinformation across three diverse countries3
Positive and negative touch differentially modulate metacognitive memory judgements for emotional stimuli3
Inter‐brain synchrony is associated with greater shared identity within naturalistic conversational pairs3
Increase in physiological inhibitory control results in better suppression of unwanted memories3
Issue Information3
The structure of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale: Theoretical and methodological considerations3
Quantitative psychology: The 88th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society By MarieWiberg, Jee‐SeonKim, HeungsunHwang, HaoWu, TracySweet (eds.), Springer proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics,3
Who tends to be a perfectionistic adolescent? Distinguishing perfectionism from excellencism and investigating the links with the Big Five and self‐esteem3
Loneliness is associated with a greater self‐reference effect in episodic memory when compared against a close friend3
Exploring the associations of generalized trust, climate change conspiracy beliefs and freecycling: Empirical evidence from 34 cultures3
Effects of phonological awareness and morphological awareness on blind students' reading comprehension3
A recognition advantage for members of higher‐status racial groups3
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The method of loci in the context of psychological research: A systematic review and meta‐analysis3
Not so different and not deficient: First‐ and continuing‐generation students' selves and self‐discrepancies3
Exploring the spatial interference effects elicited by social and non‐social targets: A conditional accuracy function approach2
Involuntary remembering and ADHD : Do individuals with ADHD symptoms experience high volumes of in2
Out of the dark – Psychological perspectives on people's fascination with true crime2
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
The rhythm of sensory input shapes audio‐visual temporal processing2
What the Solitaire illusion tells us about perception of numerosity2
Smartphone use and daily cognitive failures: A critical examination using a daily diary approach with objective smartphone measures2
The psychology of meditation: Varieties, effects, theories and perspectives. PeterSedlmeier. Newburyport, MA: Hogrefe. 2021. Softcover US $44.80, ISBN 97808893757652
Paradoxical decrease of imitation performance with age in children2
A nonlinear association between chronic stress and instrumental reward learning under Pavlovian conflict: Behavioural and computational evidence2
Perinatal women dominantly protect—rather than submissively cede—resources when interacting with threatening‐looking others2
Explainability increases trust resilience in intelligent agents2
Justice perceptions and well‐being : Belief in a just world is a personal resource and a coping resource2
Editorial: Introducing the British Psychological Society journals' landmark special issue on the United Nation's Sustainability Goals2
Serial dependence in time perception requires consistent motor responses, not shared memory alone2
Preparing children to cope with earthquakes: Building emotional competence2
Social sharing of emotion during the collective crisis of COVID ‐192
Editorial acknowledgement2
Psychology and gender: An advanced reader By Sadhana AvinashNatu (Ed.), London: Routledge India. 2024. 222 pp. ₹1295. ISBN : 97810325187322
Attraction in every sense: How looks, voice, movement and scent draw us to future lovers and friends2
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Musicality – Tuned to the melody of vocal emotions2
The alone team: How an alone mindset affects group processes2
Issue Information2
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
Correction to ‘Explainability increases trust resilience in intelligent agents’2
Expressive suppression strengthens coherence between arousal intensity and arousal interpretation2
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Mapping the maze: A network analysis of social–emotional skills among children and adolescents with social–emotional difficulties2
Staying in control: Characterizing the mechanisms underlying cognitive control in high and low arousal states2
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