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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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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‐analysis54
Real‐life outgroup exposure, self‐reported outgroup contact and the other‐race effect49
Pain in the eye of the beholder: Variations in pain visual representations as a function of face ethnicity and culture37
“May I present you: my disgust!” – Declared disgust sensitivity in the presence of attractive models35
Understanding the mechanisms underlying the other‐‘race’ effect: An attempt at integrating different perspectives33
What ugly and beautiful photographs reveal about COVID‐19 lockdown experiences, everyday aesthetics and photography aesthetics26
The Cambridge handbook of working memory and languageBy John W.Schwieter and Zhisheng (Edward)Wen (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Hardcover US $155.00. ISBN:26
What kind of impacts can artwork have on viewers? Establishing a taxonomy for aesthetic impacts24
Object space is embodied23
Effects of relative deprivation on change in displaced aggression and the underlying motivation mechanism: A three‐wave cross‐lagged analysis22
Comparison of face‐based and voice‐based first impressions in a Chinese sample22
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Reactions to research on sex differences: Effect of sex favoured, researcher sex, and importance of sex‐difference domain20
Intolerance of uncertainty and novelty facilitated extinction: The impact of reinforcement schedule20
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Learning in the face of failure: The benefit of autistic traits18
On the role of experience versus motivation in predicting the own‐race effect17
Unveiling the factors of aesthetic preferences with explainable AI16
Associations between sleep variables and ostensibly paranormal experiences and paranormal beliefs: A scoping review16
Personality psychology: A new perspective By JanekMusek, Switzerland: Springer Nature AG. 2024. Ebook £96.29. ISBN 978‐3‐031‐55308‐016
Understanding trait impressions from faces16
What makes us human: How minds develop through social interactions.15
The impact of response type on affordance and spatial compatibility effects in human and object interactions15
Mood induction through imitation of full‐body movements with different affective intentions14
Statistical modelling of vignette data in psychology13
The orgasm fantasy: Improving sex and relationships By OferGrosbardQueens, NY: International Psychoanalytic Books, 2020. USD 25.99, ISBN 978194909388912
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Measuring the felt sense of dehumanization: A COSMIN systematic review of the psychometric properties of self‐ and meta‐dehumanization measures12
Explanation strategies in humans versus current explainable artificial intelligence: Insights from image classification11
Caregivers' time poverty, parenting styles and children's growth mindset11
Editorial Acknowledgement11
Emotion ensemble judgement: Cognitive training for a positive perspective11
Moral reasoning behind the veil of ignorance: An investigation into perspective‐taking accessibility in the context of autonomous vehicles10
Leading by example: Experimental evidence that therapist lived experience disclosures can model the path to recovery for clients10
Editorial: Introducing the British Psychological Society Journal's landmark special issue on diversity10
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
Sorries seem to have the harder words9
Identifying subtypes in persons, situations and person–situation interactions: Categorical latent state–trait modelling approaches9
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Are there gender differences in promotion–prevention self‐regulatory focus?9
The sociological interpretation of dreams, by BernardLahire. Oxford, UK: Polity Press, 2020. Hardback, USD 42.82, ISBN 9781509537945.9
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Better posters: Plan, design, and present an academic poster.8
Satisfied on our own, yet ready to leave together: An actor–partner interdependence mediation model on job satisfaction and turnover intentions in leader–follower dyads8
Longitudinal relations among perceived parental warmth, self‐esteem and social behaviours from middle childhood to early adolescence in China: Disentangling between‐ and within‐person associations8
Inconsistent yet unyielding: Persistence of contradictory beliefs and strategies for their reconciliation8
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The meaning of masculinity for educated young Bedouins8
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Comparison of outcomes across low‐intensity psychological interventions for depression and anxiety within a stepped‐care setting: A naturalistic cohort study using propensity score modelling8
The effects of task‐irrelevant threatening stimuli on orienting‐ and executive attentional processes under cognitive load8
Larger comfortable interpersonal distances in adults exposed to child maltreatment: The role of depressive symptoms and social anxiety7
Default categorization of outgroup faces and the other race effect: Commentary on the special issue7
Human populations are not biologically and genetically discrete7
Close encounters: Interpersonal proximity amplifies social appraisals7
Automatic or controlled: How does disbelief in free will influence cognitive functioning?7
The state of modelling face processing in humans with deep learning7
A multi‐analyses approach of inductive/deductive asymmetry in the affective priming paradigm7
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
Protecting against misinformation: Evaluating the effectiveness of three techniques to reduce memory conformity6
Psychopathic personality traits are linked to reduced false memories for negative events6
Perceiving visual events uses optical information that reflects dynamics rather than resembles appearance6
Emotion‐driven or relationship‐driven? Longitudinal associations between insecure parent–child attachment, perceived family support and depressive symptoms among Chinese adolescents6
Why moral judgements change across variations of trolley‐like problems6
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Development of a theory of mind assessment for children using multidimensional Rasch modelling6
Is poor control over thoughts and emotions related to a higher tendency to delay tasks? The link between procrastination, emotional dysregulation and attentional control6
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Assessing novelty, feasibility and value of creative ideas with an unsupervised approach using GPT‐46
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Decoding the language of first impressions: Comparing models of first impressions of faces derived from free‐text descriptions and trait ratings5
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Sex differences in the association of math achievement with visual‐spatial and verbal working memory: Does the type of math test matter?5
Impact of similarity on recognition of faces of Black and White targets5
We need to move beyond rating scales, white faces and adult perceivers: Invited Commentary on Sutherland & Young (2022), understanding trait impressions from faces5
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Keep bright in the dark: Multimodal emotional effects on donation‐based crowdfunding performance and their empathic mechanisms5
Phonological similarity in the serial recall task hinders item recall, not just order5
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
Lonely individuals reveal proximal social avoidance and distal general approach motivation: Evidence from time perception in social and non‐social contexts5
Scoping review on natural language processing applications in counselling and psychotherapy5
Before/after Bayes: A comparison of frequentist and Bayesian mixed‐effects models in applied psychological research4
The culture of perceptual expertise and the other‐race effect4
Effects of phonological awareness and morphological awareness on blind students' reading comprehension4
Electrophysiological correlates of dispositional mindfulness: A quantitative and complexity EEG study4
Increases in sense of purpose predict future positive changes in personality traits4
Are brand names special words? Letter visual‐similarity affects the identification of brand names, but not common words4
Language about gender/sex should be used intentionally and flexibly4
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
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
The moderating roles of resilience and social support in the relationships between bullying victimization and well‐being among Chinese adolescents: Evidence from PISA 20184
Autistic adults form first impressions from voices in similar ways to non‐autistic adults4
Spatial attention based on 2D location and relative depth order modulates visual working memory in a 3D environment4
Empathy and parenthood: The moderating role of maternal trait empathy on parental burnout4
Understanding anxiety through uncertainty quantification4
A test of the Morality‐Agency‐Communion (MAC) model of respect and liking across positive and negative traits4
The myth of regaining control: Ostracism increases superstitious tendencies4
First impressions from faces in the real world: Commentary on Sutherland and Young (2022)4
Comparing music‐ and food‐evoked autobiographical memories in young and older adults: A diary study4
Family‐focused treatment for child and adolescent mental health: A new paradigm By PaulSunseri, New York, NY: Routledge. 2024. 256. £28.79. ISBN 978‐1‐003‐39736‐64
Perceiving multiple truths: Does dialectical thinking harmonize colourblind and multicultural ideals?4
Gender differences in optimism, loss aversion and attitudes towards risk4
The social‐encoding benefit in face recognition is generalized to other‐race faces3
Popcorn politics: Entertainment appraisals predict support for populist leaders3
Alternating time spent on social interactions and solitude in healthy older adults3
The structure of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale: Theoretical and methodological considerations3
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Predictors of online and offline activism in hybrid regime society – Serbian study3
How to support learning with multimedia instruction: Implementation intentions help even when load is high3
The necessity of motoric engagement in enhancing route memory3
Working memory capacity and self‐cues: Consistent benefits in children and adults3
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Positive and negative touch differentially modulate metacognitive memory judgements for emotional stimuli3
Red meat, reactance and political party: Defensive processing of empathy‐based meat reduction appeals3
Independent effects of word concreteness and word valence on immediate serial recall3
Ingroup and outgroup differences in face detection3
Why existential threats increase conspiracy beliefs: Evidence for the mediating roles of agency detection and pattern perception3
Inter‐brain synchrony is associated with greater shared identity within naturalistic conversational pairs3
The method of loci in the context of psychological research: A systematic review and meta‐analysis3
Effects of sleep on positive, negative and neutral valenced story and image memory2
Quantitative psychology: The 88th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society By MarieWiberg, Jee‐SeonKim, HeungsunHwang, HaoWu, TracySweet (eds.), Springer proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics,2
Increase in physiological inhibitory control results in better suppression of unwanted memories2
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Involuntary remembering and ADHD: Do individuals with ADHD symptoms experience high volumes of involuntary memories in everyday life?2
Explainability increases trust resilience in intelligent agents2
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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
The alone team: How an alone mindset affects group processes2
A recognition advantage for members of higher‐status racial groups2
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
Justice perceptions and well‐being: Belief in a just world is a personal resource and a coping resource2
Social sharing of emotion during the collective crisis of COVID‐192
Musicality – Tuned to the melody of vocal emotions2
Staying in control: Characterizing the mechanisms underlying cognitive control in high and low arousal states2
Who tends to be a perfectionistic adolescent? Distinguishing perfectionism from excellencism and investigating the links with the Big Five and self‐esteem2
Not so different and not deficient: First‐ and continuing‐generation students' selves and self‐discrepancies2
Loneliness is associated with a greater self‐reference effect in episodic memory when compared against a close friend2
Editorial: Introducing the British Psychological Society journals' landmark special issue on the United Nation's Sustainability Goals2
Preparing children to cope with earthquakes: Building emotional competence2
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Editorial acknowledgement1
More elaborate processing of own‐race faces and less elaborate processing of other‐race faces contribute to the other‐race effect in face memory1
The gifted language learner: A case of nature or nurture? By Alene Moyer : Cambridge University Press, 2021. Paperback, USD 28.99, ISBN 97811087108621
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Audiovisual identity perception from naturally‐varying stimuli is driven by visual information1
They should have known better: The roles of negligence and outcome in moral judgements of accidental actions1
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What the Solitaire illusion tells us about perception of numerosity1
Attraction in every sense: How looks, voice, movement and scent draw us to future lovers and friends1
Face and voice identity matching accuracy is not improved by multimodal identity information1
Too hot to help or too cold to care? On the links between ambient temperature, volunteerism, and civic engagement1
Is the label ‘conspiracy theory’ a cause or a consequence of disbelief in alternative narratives?1
The psychology of meditation: Varieties, effects, theories and perspectives. PeterSedlmeier. Newburyport, MA: Hogrefe. 2021. Softcover US $44.80, ISBN 97808893757651
Paradoxical decrease of imitation performance with age in children1
Mapping the maze: A network analysis of social–emotional skills among children and adolescents with social–emotional difficulties1
Linking metaphor comprehension with analogical reasoning: Evidence from typical development and autism spectrum disorder1
Comparing intertemporal decision‐making models: Predictions and applications in lifespan through subjective time perception1
Mapping physical characteristics in face images to social judgements1
Shame, pride, and relational trauma: Concepts and psychotherapy By KenBenau, New York: Routledge, 2022. Softcover US $39.95. ISBN 97811383623831
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Smartphone use and daily cognitive failures: A critical examination using a daily diary approach with objective smartphone measures1
Psychology and gender: An advanced reader By Sadhana AvinashNatu (Ed.), London: Routledge India. 2024. 222 pp. ₹1295. ISBN: 97810325187321
Exploring the spatial interference effects elicited by social and non‐social targets: A conditional accuracy function approach1
Expressed emotion of caregivers to children at familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study – VIA 111
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