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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Context, Emergence and Critical Realism: A Response to Navarrete and Fryer57
A Response to Heikki Patomäki': On Social Mechanisms24
Cathectic mechanisms of cosmetic surgery: Operation and recovery as a ritual‐like process22
Kinding Culture21
From ambivalence to vulnerability: Recognition and the subject20
The nature of bank money, a case study of transformation in the Czech banking sector19
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A Naturalistic Theory of (In)justice: How Neurophysiology and Metabolic Energy Ground the Perception of Injustice15
Relationship course theory: An interdisciplinary integrative proposition to address the complexification of interpersonal relationships15
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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 knowledge14
Questioning Consilience and Autonomy in Self‐Determination Theory: A Critique and Hermeneutic‐Phenomenological Alternative14
Recognizability and recognition as human—Learning from Butler and Manne12
Coordinating Behaviors: Is social interaction scripted?11
How Therborn's Theory of Ideology Enhances Bourdieus's Theory of Fields10
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Autonomous Agency in Anti‐Dualistic Social Ontologies: A Compatibilist Notion9
Patrimonial Imperialism: A Taxonomy of the Causes of the Russo‐Ukrainian War8
Rules without regulation and regulation without rules7
Redefining emergence: Making the case for contextual emergence in critical realism7
Continuities Between Peircean Realism and Critical Realism: On Causation, Ontology, and Truth7
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Realism and Complexity6
Institutional Logics Versus Norm Circles: Alternative or Complementary Approaches to the Analysis of Institutions?6
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Contingency and Social Change: Collective Engagement in Conditions of Radical Uncertainty6
Powerless, Stupefied, and Repressed Actors Cannot Challenge Climate Change: Real Helplessness as a Barrier Between Environmental Concern and Action5
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Ontological unpredictability: what can realists say about unpredictability, contingency and catastrophe?4
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The Bourdieusian Unconscious: The Scientific and Political Significance of the Sociological Treatment of a Psychoanalytic Concept4
Feeling the Conspiracy—Theorising the Transformation and Collectivisation of Emotions Through Conspiracy Theories4
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What Is Grounded Simulation?3
Structure and agency between French and Morphogenetic Régulation3
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Simulated Sense‐Making or Social Knowledge? Artificial Intelligence and the Boundaries of Representation3
Explaining with Intentional Omissions3
The Failure of Roy Bhaskar's Explanatory Critique3
Should we talk of “extinction society”? A socio‐cultural reading3
Human Reflexivity and Human Wellbeing: How Our Conscious Decision‐Making Processes Can Influence the Quality of Our Subjective Experiences3
The Concept of Function in Social Positioning Theory3
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Symbolic Interaction as a Sociology of Concern: Revisiting the Theory of Reflexivity Methodologically3
Commensal Attraction: Eating Together as a Social Tool3
Everything, everywhere, but not all at once? Time, contingency and the open future2
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A sociology of existence for a late modern world. Basic assumptions and conceptual tools2
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Generalising Social Behaviour and Theory of Social Behaviour: When Is It Statistical and When Not?2
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Theoretical problems with oversimplifying autistic diversity into a single category2
The Relational Quiddity of Virtual/Digital Reality2
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Post‐Legitimate Society2
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 Truth2
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Retraction1
Laughter as a Part of Speech1
Description‐experience gap in choice under risk: Are emotions involved?1
Why and how ontology matters: A cartography of neoliberalism(s) and neoliberalization(s)1
The Social Character of the Unconscious. A Cross Reading between G. H. Mead and C. G. Jung1
Complexity theory for complexity reduction? Revisiting the ontological and epistemological basis of complexity science with Critical Realism1
Merleau‐Ponty and Nagarjuna – Ethics Within the Self of the No‐Self1
Sensory experiences and social representation – Embodied multimodality of common‐sense thinking1
Differentiating Regulative and Constitutive Normativity: Talcott Parsons, Harold Garfinkel and the Sticky Problem of Meaning1
The Governing Dynamics of Social Reality: A Unified Theory1
Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements1
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Shedding Some (More) Light in Bourdieu's Habitus and Doxa: A Socio‐Phenomenological Approach1
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Praxeological Status of Unintentional Speech Acts1
Practice Theory, Leadership‐as‐Practice, and Social Action1
Materiality and Change in Social Fields1
Multisituationality and Social Sensibility. Insights From Neophenomenological Sociology1
Becoming cisgender0
Constructing the Anti‐Vaxxer: Discursive analysis of public deliberations on childhood vaccination0
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Climate Emergency and Different Ways to Fail? The Fermi Paradox, the Simulation Hypothesis, Agency and Hope0
Special Issue on Realist Complexity: An Introduction0
Composition Theory: A Pragmatist Specification of the Mesosocial0
Social cognition and the origin of concepts in Durkheim's sociology of knowledge0
Contending philosophy of social science perspectives: A flexible typology0
The Elementary Forms of Practical Life: A Durkheimian Genealogy of Social Practice0
Recognising recognition: Self‐other dynamics in everyday encounters and experiences0
A Motivational Theory of Roles, Rewards, and Institutions0
Durkheim and realism0
Epoch‐Making Changes in the Cultural Evolution of Communication: Communication technologies seen as organized hubs of skillful human activities0
The Primacy of Processes and the Causes of the Russo‐Ukrainian War: A Rejoinder to ‘Patrimonial Imperialism’0
Why Cognitive Science Needs Phenomenology: Rethinking the Epistemology of Consciousness Through Intuitive Dualism0
Institutional Violations, Costs and Attitudes0
Who am I when I don't know who I am? The problem of personal identity in infants and elderly with cognitive disabilities0
Borderline institution0
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On the Uses of Phenomenology in Sociological Research: A Typology, some Criticisms and a Plea0
Place Attachment and Climate Adaptation in Older Adults: A Proposed Theoretical Model0
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Pragmatic competence, autistic language use and the basic properties of human language0
Identity, Collective Action and Inaction: The Role of Self‐Esteem and Psychological Benefits0
Dialectical critical realism, complexity and the psychology of blame0
Morphogenesis in Complex Adaptive Sociocultural Systems: Before and After Archer0
The Four Pillars of Morality: On the Evolutionary Safe Bets of Right and Wrong0
Experience, Subjectivity, Selfhood: Beyond a Meadian Sociology of the Self0
What Post‐Truth Politics Does to the Belief‐Desire Model0
Heritage, the power of the past, and the politics of (mis)recognition0
Coincidence: A word with two meanings for explaining and predicting the future0
Peirce's Universal Categories and Critical Realist Ontology0
Welcome to the Dark Side: Use of Humour in Indoctrinating to Extremist Ideologies0
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The prediction of social catastrophes: Between necessity and contingency0
Groupcism as an Acceptable Type of Discrimination0
Toward a sociological theory of social pain0
Norm Circles and Critical Realism0
Language and Society: A Controversy Between Searle and Bourdieu0
Adaptive Collective Memory: Bartlett, Enactivism and Group Identity0
Towards autistic flow theory: A non‐pathologising conceptual approach0
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Immanent Idealism0
Functionaries: A Distributional Approach to Institutional Analysis0
The Evolutionary and Cultural Origins of Followers' Attraction to Leaders0
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Is happiness independent of income? Set point theory à la Kahneman0
Dissociation and Disavowal in Discursive Norm Formation0
Meaning and the Commodity Form0
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Perseverance Without Progress: Systemic Conditions of Climate Governance0
Framing the tendency to betray one's good intentions. Akrasia as a dialogical dynamic0
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Neither individualism nor anti‐individualism: The coevolution of social systems and psychic systems0
Homelessness, Public Space and Civil Disobedience0
Social positioning theory and quantum mechanics0
Plantness, Animalness, and Humanness: plant placement within animacy and adjacent scales0
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Dementism: A New Line of Inquiry in Dementia Studies From a Social Psychological Perspective0
Quantum Intra‐Active Rituals: Reinterpreting Randall Collins' Social Theory0
Semiosis, thought and codes: A theoretical framework for social knowledge0
The Myth of Agreement0
Theory‐Refuting Findings in Psychology: How Much Should They Matter?0
From Paranoia and Payback to Moral Taint: Disgust as the Proximal Affective Driver of Political and Politically Motivated Assassinations0
The Minimal Model of Argumentation: Qualitative data analysis for epistemic speech, text and policy0
Transforming everyday experience: Transformative learning, disorienting dilemmas and Honneth's theory of recognition0
Denaturalisation and Liberation Psychology: Implications for Memory and Political Imagination0
Towards a re‐conceptualization of flow in social contexts0
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Ayn Rand: Realism, Morality, Selfishness and Capitalism0
Do Realists Predict?0
Re‐envisioning Human Agency: A Commentary on, and Alternative to Gantt, Yanchar, and Parker's Hermeneutic‐Phenomenological Approach0
Imagine, predict or perform? Reclaiming the future in sociology beyond scientism and catastrophism0
Can Complexity add anything to Critical Realism and the Morphogenetic Approach?0
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Brandom Without Entitlement0
The Theory of Social Representation: Its Various Models and Their Imbrication0
Calibrating the Conatus in Morphogenetic Régulation: Towards a Problématique of Perseverance0
Reflecting on Prejudice Research: Considering Participants' Feedback0
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