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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Context, Emergence and Critical Realism: A Response to Navarrete and Fryer	54
A Response to Heikki Patomäki': On Social Mechanisms	24
Cathectic mechanisms of cosmetic surgery: Operation and recovery as a ritual‐like process	21
The nature of bank money, a case study of transformation in the Czech banking sector	19
Relationship course theory: An interdisciplinary integrative proposition to address the complexification of interpersonal relationships	18
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From ambivalence to vulnerability: Recognition and the subject	18
A Naturalistic Theory of (In)justice: How Neurophysiology and Metabolic Energy Ground the Perception of Injustice	15
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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 knowledge	13
Questioning Consilience and Autonomy in Self‐Determination Theory: A Critique and Hermeneutic‐Phenomenological Alternative	13
Coordinating Behaviors: Is social interaction scripted?	12
Recognizability and recognition as human—Learning from Butler and Manne	11
Autonomous Agency in Anti‐Dualistic Social Ontologies: A Compatibilist Notion	9
How Therborn's Theory of Ideology Enhances Bourdieus's Theory of Fields	9
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Patrimonial Imperialism: A Taxonomy of the Causes of the Russo‐Ukrainian War	7
Rules without regulation and regulation without rules	7
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Continuities Between Peircean Realism and Critical Realism: On Causation, Ontology, and Truth	7
Redefining emergence: Making the case for contextual emergence in critical realism	7
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Realism and Complexity	6
Contingency and Social Change: Collective Engagement in Conditions of Radical Uncertainty	5
Powerless, Stupefied, and Repressed Actors Cannot Challenge Climate Change: Real Helplessness as a Barrier Between Environmental Concern and Action	5

Institutional Logics Versus Norm Circles: Alternative or Complementary Approaches to the Analysis of Institutions?	5
The Bourdieusian Unconscious: The Scientific and Political Significance of the Sociological Treatment of a Psychoanalytic Concept	4
Feeling the Conspiracy—Theorising the Transformation and Collectivisation of Emotions Through Conspiracy Theories	4
What Is Grounded Simulation?	4
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Explaining with Intentional Omissions	4
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The Failure of Roy Bhaskar's Explanatory Critique	3
Should we talk of “extinction society”? A socio‐cultural reading	3
Symbolic Interaction as a Sociology of Concern: Revisiting the Theory of Reflexivity Methodologically	3
Ontological unpredictability: what can realists say about unpredictability, contingency and catastrophe?	3
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Simulated Sense‐Making or Social Knowledge? Artificial Intelligence and the Boundaries of Representation	3
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The Concept of Function in Social Positioning Theory	3
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Structure and agency between French and Morphogenetic Régulation	3
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Generalising Social Behaviour and Theory of Social Behaviour: When Is It Statistical and When Not?	2
A Person Without a Past: Robert Michels and Alfred Schutz and the Sociology of the “Stranger”	2
The Paradox of Situated Knowledge: Toward an Existential Embedment Theory of Perceptual Truth	2
Commensal Attraction: Eating Together as a Social Tool	2
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Theoretical problems with oversimplifying autistic diversity into a single category	2
Everything, everywhere, but not all at once? Time, contingency and the open future	2
The Relational Quiddity of Virtual/Digital Reality	2
Post‐Legitimate Society	2
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A sociology of existence for a late modern world. Basic assumptions and conceptual tools	2
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Praxeological Status of Unintentional Speech Acts	1
Laughter as a Part of Speech	1
Description‐experience gap in choice under risk: Are emotions involved?	1
Differentiating Regulative and Constitutive Normativity: Talcott Parsons, Harold Garfinkel and the Sticky Problem of Meaning	1
The Social Character of the Unconscious. A Cross Reading between G. H. Mead and C. G. Jung	1
Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements	1
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Materiality and Change in Social Fields	1
Why and how ontology matters: A cartography of neoliberalism(s) and neoliberalization(s)	1
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Multisituationality and Social Sensibility. Insights From Neophenomenological Sociology	1
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Complexity theory for complexity reduction? Revisiting the ontological and epistemological basis of complexity science with Critical Realism	1
Shedding Some (More) Light in Bourdieu's Habitus and Doxa: A Socio‐Phenomenological Approach	1
Retraction	1
The Governing Dynamics of Social Reality: A Unified Theory	1
Practice Theory, Leadership‐as‐Practice, and Social Action	1

Sensory experiences and social representation – Embodied multimodality of common‐sense thinking	1
Merleau‐Ponty and Nagarjuna – Ethics Within the Self of the No‐Self	1
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