Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour is 0. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Harré and the study of personality18
From ambivalence to vulnerability: Recognition and the subject17
Re‐envisioning Human Agency: A Commentary on, and Alternative to Gantt, Yanchar, and Parker's Hermeneutic‐Phenomenological Approach15
Thinking about laws in political science (and beyond)12
Getting real about nominalism again: Special forum introduction11
Eavesdropping: The craft of social inquiry11
Why and how ontology matters: A cartography of neoliberalism(s) and neoliberalization(s)10
Materiality and Change in Social Fields10
Who am I when I don't know who I am? The problem of personal identity in infants and elderly with cognitive disabilities10
Nominalist visualities and classical social theory: An examination of Durkheim and Weber9
The nature of bank money, a case study of transformation in the Czech banking sector9
The transformation of order in narrative as discordant concord: Using Paul Ricoeur to explore narrative realism as part of social morphogenesis9
Cathectic mechanisms of cosmetic surgery: Operation and recovery as a ritual‐like process8
Cognitive and social strengths of people living with dementia: Discoveries through Harré’s method7
Commensal Attraction: Eating Together as a Social Tool7
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Description‐experience gap in choice under risk: Are emotions involved?7
Realism and Complexity7
Context, Emergence and Critical Realism: A Response to Navarrete and Fryer6
RETRACTED: A critical review on the mimetic theory of René Girard: Politics, religion, and violence6
Identity, Collective Action and Inaction: The Role of Self‐Esteem and Psychological Benefits6
The development of positioning theory as a process of theoretical positioning5
Cultures of listening, dark listening and a plea for theory5
Institutionalized behavior, morality and domination: AHabitusin action model of violence5
Social cognition and the origin of concepts in Durkheim's sociology of knowledge5
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Is the social study of finance necessarily nominalist? Using realism to address shortcomings in actor‐network theory approaches to financialisation and everyday life5
Networked lives5
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Sociological limits and prospects of contemporary cultural evolutionary theory4
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The psychology of bureaucracy: A normative account inspired by Rom Harré4
Georg Simmel and the ontology of relational emergence4
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Organizing cultural dimensions within and across six frameworks: A human development perspective4
The devil is in the categories: Metaphysics and social and political thought4
Dialectical critical realism, complexity and the psychology of blame3
Social positioning theory and quantum mechanics3
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On the Uses of Phenomenology in Sociological Research: A Typology, some Criticisms and a Plea3
Relationship course theory: An interdisciplinary integrative proposition to address the complexification of interpersonal relationships3
Post‐Legitimate Society3
Contingency and Social Change: Collective Engagement in Conditions of Radical Uncertainty3
Special Issue on Realist Complexity: An Introduction3
Powerless, Stupefied, and Repressed Actors Cannot Challenge Climate Change: Real Helplessness as a Barrier Between Environmental Concern and Action3
Habit and the explanation of action3
Imagine, predict or perform? Reclaiming the future in sociology beyond scientism and catastrophism3
Everything, everywhere, but not all at once? Time, contingency and the open future3
Do Realists Predict?2
A Person Without a Past: Robert Michels and Alfred Schutz and the Sociology of the “Stranger”2
Toward a sociological theory of social pain2
Durkheim and realism2
Does social psychology need a new semiotic overarching framework for grasping social knowledge? Commentary on J. Wachelke: Semiosis, thought and codes: A theoretical framework for social knowledge2
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Personality and public performance2
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A social ontology of “maximal” persons2
Vagueness and social ontology: Implications of inquiry resistant borderline cases for social ontological theorising1
Calibrating the Conatus in Morphogenetic Régulation: Towards a Problématique of Perseverance1
Must cognitive sociology heed capitalism? Attention and marginal consciousness in political‐economic context1
Hope, habitus and social recognition: A Bourdieusian proposal1
Tolerance and political freedom: Critique of a postmodern re‐definition of tolerance1
Coordinating Behaviors: Is social interaction scripted?1
Concept and types of order position: Privilege and discrimination in an institutional conception1
A sociology of existence for a late modern world. Basic assumptions and conceptual tools1
Connecting sleep, the neurocognitive memory system, and Bourdieu's habitus concept: Is sleep a generative force of the habitus?1
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The psychology of ultimate values: A computational perspective1
Transforming everyday experience: Transformative learning, disorienting dilemmas and Honneth's theory of recognition1
Constructing the Anti‐Vaxxer: Discursive analysis of public deliberations on childhood vaccination1
Experts, naturalism, and democracy1
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Questioning Consilience and Autonomy in Self‐Determination Theory: A Critique and Hermeneutic‐Phenomenological Alternative1
A Motivational Theory of Roles, Rewards, and Institutions1
Recognizability and recognition as human—Learning from Butler and Manne1
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Neither individualism nor anti‐individualism: The coevolution of social systems and psychic systems1
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The Myth of Agreement1
What is implicit culture?1
Theoretical problems with oversimplifying autistic diversity into a single category1
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Towards the Spoken World Theory: The contribution of Rom Harré to advancing social theory1
Framing the tendency to betray one's good intentions. Akrasia as a dialogical dynamic1
The prediction of social catastrophes: Between necessity and contingency1
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The Concept of Function in Social Positioning Theory1
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Redefining emergence: Making the case for contextual emergence in critical realism0
Debating ethical nominalism in Early Enlightenment thought on China0
Complexity theory for complexity reduction? Revisiting the ontological and epistemological basis of complexity science with Critical Realism0
Positioning theory, embodiment, and the moral orders of objects in social dynamics: How positioning theory has neglected the body and artifactual knowing0
Semiosis, thought and codes: A theoretical framework for social knowledge0
Homelessness, Public Space and Civil Disobedience0
Meaning and the Commodity Form0
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Shedding Some (More) Light in Bourdieu's Habitus and Doxa: A Socio‐Phenomenological Approach0
Social media and diatopic tension: A psychosocial study with Haddad and Bolsonaro's voters in Brazil0
Becoming cisgender0
The meanings of tolerance: Discursive usage in a case of ‘identity politics’0
Rule‐free regulation: Exploring regulation ‘without rules’ and apart from ‘deontic categories’0
Coincidence: A word with two meanings for explaining and predicting the future0
Institution as mediation between social structure and agency: Toward a realist social ontology of institutions0
The power of directional predictions in psychology0
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Merleau‐Ponty and Nagarjuna – Ethics Within the Self of the No‐Self0
Explaining with Intentional Omissions0
Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements0
Is happiness independent of income? Set point theory à la Kahneman0
The construction of social reality as a process of representational naturalization. The case of the social representation of drugs0
Why study turn‐taking sequences in interspecies interactions?0
Pragmatic competence, autistic language use and the basic properties of human language0
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The taboo against contact with minorities: A folk‐anthropology approach to prejudices0
Continuities Between Peircean Realism and Critical Realism: On Causation, Ontology, and Truth0
Contending philosophy of social science perspectives: A flexible typology0
The microbiome‐gut‐brain and social behavior0
Visual essentialism & social kinds0
Why Rickert? Regarding the dogma about Heinrich Rickert's influence on Max Weber0
Fallacy of methodologism and its theoretical implication0
Rules without regulation and regulation without rules0
Should we talk of “extinction society”? A socio‐cultural reading0
The Paradox of Situated Knowledge: Toward an Existential Embedment Theory of Perceptual Truth0
Emotions, personhood and social ontology: A critical realist approach0
(When) should psychology be a science?0
Towards autistic flow theory: A non‐pathologising conceptual approach0
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Rights and obligations in Cambridge social ontology0
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The emotions behind character friendship: From other‐oriented emotions to the ‘bonding feeling’0
Doing things together: Development of cooperation through cultural participation0
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Epoch‐Making Changes in the Cultural Evolution of Communication: Communication technologies seen as organized hubs of skillful human activities0
The Social Character of the Unconscious. A Cross Reading between G. H. Mead and C. G. Jung0
De‐ideologization, liberation psychology, and the place of contradiction0
Ontological unpredictability: what can realists say about unpredictability, contingency and catastrophe?0
The Minimal Model of Argumentation: Qualitative data analysis for epistemic speech, text and policy0
Social psychology as a stable interpretative framework irrefutably committed to the scientific study of persons and society0
Peircean realism: A primer0
Structure and agency between French and Morphogenetic Régulation0
Retraction0
Recognising recognition: Self‐other dynamics in everyday encounters and experiences0
Revisiting Rom Harré in Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour0
Falling in and out of love: With and beyond Bourdieu on individual enchantment and disenchantment0
The Theory of Social Representation: Its Various Models and Their Imbrication0
Understanding and investigating relationality in the capability approach0
Foxes who want to be hedgehogs: Is ethical pluralism possible in psychology's replication crisis?0
Praxeological Status of Unintentional Speech Acts0
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Can Complexity add anything to Critical Realism and the Morphogenetic Approach?0
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Towards a re‐conceptualization of flow in social contexts0
Autonomous Agency in Anti‐Dualistic Social Ontologies: A Compatibilist Notion0
Social Representations Theory and young Africans' creative narratives about human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 1997–20140
Cultural orientations and their influence on social behaviour: Catalysation and suppression0
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Storifying routines and routinising stories: A dualistic subject positioning analysis of controversies about constraints on patient autonomy0
Two traditions of cognitive sociology: An analysis and assessment of their cognitive and methodological assumptions0
Plantness, Animalness, and Humanness: plant placement within animacy and adjacent scales0
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Heritage, the power of the past, and the politics of (mis)recognition0
The Failure of Roy Bhaskar's Explanatory Critique0
Systemic abduction: Reconstructing towards concept clarity in management studies0
Experience, Subjectivity, Selfhood: Beyond a Meadian Sociology of the Self0
Sensory experiences and social representation – Embodied multimodality of common‐sense thinking0
Rom Harré: A brief biography0
The Bourdieusian Unconscious: The Scientific and Political Significance of the Sociological Treatment of a Psychoanalytic Concept0
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Toward an integrative model of moral‐value perception0
Institutional Violations, Costs and Attitudes0
How Therborn's Theory of Ideology Enhances Bourdieus's Theory of Fields0
Generalizing across auxiliary, statistical, and inferential assumptions0
Peirce's Universal Categories and Critical Realist Ontology0
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Where does research design fall short? Mental health related‐stigma as example0
Human agency and social structure: From the evolutionary perspective0
Theory‐Refuting Findings in Psychology: How Much Should They Matter?0
Masters of suspicion: A Bayesian decision model of motivated political reasoning0
Borderline institution0
Tastes, emotions, and social cohesion: Toward a cultural theory of social exchange0
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