European Journal of Social Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Social 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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The social amplification of illusory correlations50
Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change49
The added value of perceived values: Partner's perceived values predict own behaviour in interdependent interactions43
Strength‐is‐Weakness: The (ir)relevant relation between resources and payoffs in coalition formation41
Ideologically‐based contact avoidance during a pandemic: Blunt or selective distancing from ‘others’?37
Out‐group help in the time of Covid‐19 and intergroup reconciliation in the Western Balkans33
Loving Taxation, Hating Single Taxes: Disentangling Temporal Distance and Abstraction in the Communication of Tax Proposals33
The fear of confession? High Catholic collective narcissism and low secure identification with Catholics predict increased pedophilia myth acceptance28
Pushing too far? Negotiations of non‐compliance and resistance to the COVID‐19 cabin ban in Norway26
Testing predictors of attitude strength as determinants of attitude stability and attitude–behaviour relationships: A multi‐behaviour study25
Locational citizenship, exclusion and inclusion. The case of street children in Ethiopia21
Hypocrisy judgements are affected by target attitude strength and attitude moralization21
Moral Perceptions in Politics: Ideological Asymmetries in Perceived Moral Obligations and Stereotypical Perceptions Across Leftists and Rightists20
Perception of helper's autonomous motivation increases recipient's prosocial behaviour intentions via feelings of gratitude20
Rethinking National Well‐Being: Introducing a Measure of Wealth‐Adjusted Life Satisfaction in 116 Countries19
Perceived social mobility and system justification predict greater well‐being, but less prosocial behaviour19
Victim empowerment and satisfaction: The potential of imagery rescripting19
Alignment and Differentiation: How Language and Network Proximity Drive Opinion‐Based Group Formation Online19
Protesting for stability or change? Definitional and conceptual issues in the study of reactionary, conservative, and progressive collective actions19
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Dark Triad and the attitude toward military violence against civilians: The role of moral disengagement18
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Emotional, motivational and attitudinal consequences of autonomous prosocial behaviour18
Dialogicality and Conspiracy Theory: The Coexistence of Conspiracist and Non‐Conspiracist Beliefs17
The mindset of birth predicts birth outcomes: Evidence from a prospective longitudinal study17
Cultural group norms for harmony explain the puzzling negative association between objective status and system justification in Asia17
On the Verge of Exclusion: The Unique Psychological Profile of the Threat of Social Exclusion17
Examining beliefs about reconciliation and social integration in Kosovo: Testing effects of interethnic contact and differences in perspective among ethnic Albanians and Serbs17
Fostering Social Cohesion in Post‐Conflict Societies: The Power of Normative Apologies in Reducing Competitive Victimhood and Enhancing Reconciliation and Intergroup Negotiation17
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Continuity and change16
How do we cope when we believe we can? A systematic review and meta‐analysis of studies on coping and negative mood regulation expectancies15
The true self in reflections? Visual self‐recognition and the Big Five15
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Territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: A person‐centred approach14
A Social Psychological Perspective on How to Preserve Academic Freedom in Illiberal Political Contexts14
Does personal relative deprivation mediate the relationship between passive social media use and beliefs in conspiracy theories? Cross‐sectional correlational and experimental evidence14
So where do you see this going? The effects of commitment asymmetry and asynchrony on relationship satisfaction and break‐up14
Identifying stories of ‘us’: A mixed‐method analysis of the meaning, contents and associations of national narratives constructed by Americans14
Believing the Power of Physical Appearance: How Perceived Economic Inequality Affects Female Self‐Objectification and Job Preference14
Towards a Conceptual Integration of Collective Victimization Beliefs and Their Variation Within and Across Contexts: A Q Methodology Study in Five Communities13
The Relationship Between Social Identification and System Justification: A Meta‐Analytic Test of Relevant Moderators13
Expecting exclusion: Does bracing for the worst buffer the pain of social exclusion?13
Polarization from the perspective of ambivalents: Feeling caught in the social crossfire of the U.S. abortion debate13
Moral judgment under uncertainty: A CNI model analysis13
Ambivalent sexism and violence toward women: A meta‐analysis13
Improving attitudes towards minority groups by thinking about the thoughts and meta‐cognitions of their members12
Playing to their strengths: Can focusing on typical in‐group strengths be detrimental to people of colour?12
Being One or the Other, Both or Neither: Self‐Categorization Theory, Social Identity Theory and the Issue of Mixed Identities12
Allies or Rivals? The Consequences of Ideological Distinctiveness and Social Recognition of Emergent Subgroups Within Social Movements12
National glorification and attachment differentially predict support for intergroup conflict resolution: Scrutinizing cross‐country generalizability12
How to React in the Case of Powerful Transgressors: Kill Them With Kindness or Punishment?12
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The experience and emergence of attitudinal consensus in conversations11
Kill or be killed: Can correcting misperceptions of out‐group hostility de‐escalate a violent inter‐group out‐break?11
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There is an ‘I’ in truth: How salient identities shape dynamic perceptions of truth10
Women's and Men's Support for Gender Equality Policies in Organizations: From Belief in Gender Discrimination to Perceived Organizational Hypocrisy10
Not in my group: Protecting group reputation by excluding stereotypical targets10
Are Stereotypes About Minorities More Negative?10
Judgements of Propaganda Near and Far: National Identity and Media Evaluations9
Tend‐and‐befriend and rally around the flag effects during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Differential longitudinal change patterns in multiple aspects of social cohesion9
Supporting men or male privilege? Women's progressive and reactionary collective action for men9
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Do the means affect the ends? Radical tactics influence motivation and action tendencies via the perceived legitimacy and efficacy of those actions9
Political Social Identity Threat Predicts Increases in Affective Polarisation Over Time, but Not Changes in Well‐Being9
Does Social Cohesion Predict Justification of Extremist Violence? Evidence From the Sahel Region in Burkina Faso9
Owning leads to valuing: Meta‐analysis of the mere ownership effect9
Low system justification is associated with support for both progressive and reactionary social change9
Perceived unequal and unfair workplaces trigger lower job satisfaction and lower workers’ dignity via organizational dehumanization and workers’ self‐objectification9
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More than a prejudice reduction effect: Positive intergroup contact reduces conspiracy theory beliefs8
Perceived Robot Threat Enhances Preference for Hierarchy8
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Introducing the brief reverse correlation: An improved tool to assess visual representations8
Individuals’ power determines how they respond to positive versus negative performance feedback8
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Doing Bad to Feel Good: Working Objectification Promotes Production Deviance Via Thwarted Perceived Control8
Conspiracy blaming in the aftermath of group relative deprivation: The moderating role of national narcissism8
Political ideology and belief change in the face of counterevidence8
Meta‐identification: Perceptions of others’ group identification shape group life8
Re‐Examining Buchel et al.’s (2021) Test of the Status Legitimacy Hypothesis8
The curse of objectivity: Choosing objectively better products hinders consumers from receiving help8
Matching your way to Success: The Influence of Motivational Frame Matching on Interaction Outcomes and Reciprocal Matching7
Does Developing a Belief in One Conspiracy Theory Lead a Person to be More Likely to Believe in Others?7
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Deciphering the Relationship Between Income Inequality and Life Satisfaction: Who, When and Where?7
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The Content, Consistency and Accuracy of Stereotypes About Recreational Users of Various Psychoactive Substances7
Social dominance and anti‐immigrant prejudice: A cross‐national and prospective test of the mediating role of assimilation, multiculturalism, colour blindness, and interculturalism7
Making Us Visible in the Cityscape: Organizers’ Reasons for Holding Ramadan Celebrations in Copenhagen's Public Space7
Ambivalence in the Context of Competing Narratives: Exploration Through a Case of the US Military Base Issue in Okinawa7
(Not so) powerful allies? Decision makers’ reactions to advantaged group allies in collective action7
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Boosted by closure! Regulatory focus predicts motivation and task persistence in the aftermath of task‐unrelated goal closure7
Reviewing Research on Transgender and Nonbinary People in Social Psychology: Insights and Future Research Directions7
A longitudinal examination of the factors that facilitate and hinder support for conservative and progressive social movements7
Correction to ‘Examining beliefs about reconciliation and social integration in Kosovo: Testing effects of interethnic contact and differences in perspective among ethnic Albanians and Serbs’7
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Consistent Facial Cues to Social Class Across Two Different Western Contexts7
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Expecting tasks to help or hurt subsequent cognitive performance: Variability, accuracy, and bias in forecasted after‐effects6
Collective system‐supporting inaction: A conceptual framework of privilege maintenance6
By all means necessary: Closed mindedness, ingroup morality, and weapon ownership6
The Effectiveness of Interventions Addressing Conspiracy Beliefs: A Meta‐Analysis6
The role of parents in predicting gender‐stereotypic attitudes towards HEED occupations and gender‐stereotypic interest in these careers6
Leaders or Villains? The Role of Corruption in Shaping the Stereotypes of Politicians6
A wolf in sheep's clothing: The perils of exploitative leadership6
The Impact of Holistic Justice on the Long‐Term Experiences and Wellbeing of Mass Human Rights Violation Survivors: Ethnographic and Interview Evidence From Kosova, Northern Ireland and Albania6
A fair share: Effects of disparity, allocation strategy and system justification on perceptions of policy support in the education domain6
Ideological (a)Symmetry in Research Evaluations: The Case of Research on Ideological Versus Racial Group Differences6
Understanding identity processes in support for reactionary and progressive social movements among advantaged and disadvantaged groups: The role of collective narcissism and secure ingroup identity6
The secondary transfer effects of contact in facilitating peace in a frozen conflict: The case of Turkish immigrants in Cyprus6
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The role of valuing cultural diversity in children's endorsements of rights6
Change in anti‐COVID‐19 behaviour and anti‐immigrant prejudice during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from five European countries6
From social traditions to personalized routines: Maintenance goals as a resilience factor6
Self‐Discontinuity as a Barrier to Identity and Behaviour Change: Evidence From Smoking Cessation6
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The Dual Pathways to Masculinity Threats: The Roles of Social Role Incongruity and Social Connection in Masculine Identity Maintenance Among Gay and Straight Men6
On the predicted replicability of two decades of experimental research on system justification: A Z‐curve analysis5
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What should allies do? Identifying activist perspectives on the role of white allies in the struggle for racial justice in the United States5
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Measurement Invariance of Human Values Across Time and Countries—An Analysis Using 11 Rounds of the European Social Survey5
The Achilles’ heel of the truth bias? High personal stakes reduce vulnerability to false information5
The More I See It the Less I Want It: Sociotropic Corruption and (In)tolerance Towards Corruption in Contexts of Perceived Economic Crisis5
The relationships between affect dimensions and level of construal5
Identification Environment, School Identification and School Burnout: Multilevel Models5
Bystanders’ Reactions to a Woman Victim of Sextortion: Moral Outrage, Victim Blaming and Reputational Damage5
In control but uninspired: Displays of artist self‐control undermine perceptions of creativity5
Who benefits the most? Teacher expectations and their relation with students’ achievement in mathematics in primary school5
Inter‐attitude centrality does not appear to reduce persuasion for political attitudes5
Moral commitment to gender equality increases (mis)perceptions of gender bias in hiring5
‘It always seems impossible, until it is done’: Perspectives on reconciliation and its underlying processes in post‐conflict societies5
Mapping of Meaning and Pleasure on the Temporal Horizon: Long‐Term Orientation Predicts Preference for Meaningful Over Pleasurable Activities5
The Social Psychology of Corruption5
Does powerlessness motivate men and women to endorse sexism?5
How do conspiratorial explanations differ from non‐conspiratorial explanations? A content analysis of real‐world online articles5
Preemptive Buffering: Attachment Figure Representations Lessen the Affective Sting of Internally Generated Threats by Increasing Positive Affect5
Does Touch Bring Us Closer? Exploring the Role of Physical Contact in Intergroup Contexts5
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Information Regarding Shared Genes Between Humans Improves Attitudes Towards World Members4
City Slicker or Country Bumpkin?—Distinguishing Urban and Rural Residents From Subtle Facial Cues4
What Could Have Been: Predicted and Actual Exclusion by Potential Romantic Partners and Platonic Friends4
When one's partner wants out: Awareness, attachment anxiety and accuracy4
Assessing the Role of Honour Culture and Image Concerns in Impeding Apologies4
On the use of gender categories and emotion categories in threat‐based person impressions4
Updating stereotypical attributions in light of new information: The attractiveness halo effect changes when attractiveness changes4
Ambition‐driven aggression in response to significance‐threatening frustration4
Self‐objectification and sexual dysfunction among women: Testing and extending objectification theory4
Why cannot reasons change your moral decisions? Because they are not persuasive enough: A comment on Stanley et al. (2018)4
How do disadvantaged groups perceive allies? Women's perceptions of men who confront sexism in an egalitarian or paternalistic way4
Beyond Collective Victimhood: How Diverse Conflict Knowledge Relates to Community Cohesion4
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Changing perceptions of people wearing masks: Two years of living in a pandemic4
Examining the Antecedents, Prevalence and Trajectories of Reactionary Collective Action Intentions Among Europeans Over Time4
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Enhancing Intellectual Humility About Political Topics: An Intervention Tournament Including Five Conceptual Replications4
Contact with former adversaries through mass‐media is linked to forgiveness after dyadic and multi‐ethnic conflicts4
The Effects of Arabic Gendered Language in Job Advertisements on Recruiters’ Evaluation of Job Applicants—A Hiring‐Simulation Experiment3
The Impact of Freedom of Speech on Conspiracy Beliefs3
Schadenfreude in the context of opposing vaccination statuses3
Religious costly signal induces more trustworthiness than secular costly signal: A study of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela3
Turning the Camera Off in Virtual Interactions Can Harm the Reputation3
Pay Your Taxes! Stay Behind the Yellow Line!: Testing the Normative Appraisal Scale3
Young, unemployed, excluded: Unemployed young adults report more ostracism3
(Mis)Matching Expectations: The Effects of Claimant Gender Identity and Harassment Form on Perceptions of Sexual Harassment Claims3
Navigating non‐normative roles: Experiences of female‐breadwinning couples in Pakistan3
Food scarcity and disease concern reduce interdependence when people eat together3
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‘You are a useful person’: Economic inequality leads people to approach others in an instrumental way3
Race‐based shifting standards of SES: Potential moderators and implications3
Support (and rejection) of meritocracy as a self‐enhancement identity strategy: A qualitative study of university students’ perceptions about meritocracy in higher education3
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When and why does economic inequality predict prosocial behaviour? Examining the role of interpersonal trust among different targets3
Beyond Income Disparities: Perceived Health and Education Inequities Drive Actions to Reduce Economic Inequality3
Engaged Onlooking: How Organisational Identification Shapes Public Condoning of Corporate Corruption3
Russians’ Attitudes Towards the War in Ukraine3
Understanding prosocial and antisocial behaviours: The roles of self‐focused and other‐focused motivational orientations3
How Do Citizens Respond to Government Measures in Times of Crisis? Narrative Meaning‐Making of Agency, Responsibility, and Compliance During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Ecuador3
Working with a sleep‐deprived or a cognitively enhanced team member compromises motivation to contribute to group performance3
Associations of orientation to promote good in challenging situations with distress and well‐being: Multi‐study evidence from three non‐Western Longitudinal samples3
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The meaning of touch: Relational and individual variables shape emotions and intentions associated with imagined social touch3
Children's bias beyond group boundaries: Perceived differences, outgroup attitudes and prosocial behaviour3
Addressing Bribery and Associated Social Norms in Healthcare: Results of a Behaviour Change Intervention in Tanzania3
Awe and Boredom: Unravelling Dual Pathways Through Meaning in Life3
Tensions between collective‐self forgiveness and political repair2
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Correction to “ Are Stereotypes About Minorities More Negative?2
Is the uncertain self good at detecting lies? The influence of personal uncertainty on deception detection2
Identifying Profiles of Colonial Ideologies: A Test of the Moral Credentialer Hypothesis2
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Organisational antecedents of employee ambassadorship on social network sites2
Non‐verbal behaviour of professional soccer players performing in the absence or presence of fans2
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Mobilization of shared victimhood in the radical right populist Finns Party supporters’ identity work: A narrative–discursive approach to populist support2
The impact of education about historical and current injustices, individual racism and systemic racism on anti‐Indigenous racism2
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Power corrupts and being sure of felt power corrupts even more: Implications for immoral decisions and cheating2
Individuals From Higher Social Classes View Charitable Giving as a Solution to Societal Issues2
Majority residents’ perceptions of ‘economic’ and ‘political’ refugees: Psychological processes underlying the flight‐reason bias2
Loss context enhances preferences for generosity but reduces preferences for honesty: Evidence from a combined behavioural‐computational approach2
Examining the between‐ and within‐person effects of relative deprivation: Results from a 7‐year longitudinal panel sample2
A longitudinal test of secondary transfer effects of negative intergroup contact and mediating processes2
‘Don't forget Tibet’: Understanding the discursive construction of Tibetan national identity through the identity entrepreneurship of the Dalai Lama2
Does Mindfulness Support the Status Quo? The Role of Neoliberal Orientation and Emotion Regulation2
Reporting racism in broadcast interview2
Political distrust, perceived threat, and intentions to engage in normative and violent collective action: A mixed‐methods study2
The habituation fallacy: Disaster victims who are repeatedly victimised are assumed to suffer less, and they are helped less2
Let's talk about this: Co‐rumination and dyadic dynamics of moral repair following wrongdoing2
How Do People Morally Judge Corruption? A Comparison Between the Netherlands and Indonesia2
It's only discrimination when they do it to us: When White men use ingroup‐serving double standards in definitional boundaries of discrimination2
A functional analysis of personal autonomy: How restricting ‘what’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ affects experienced agency and goal motivation2
Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood2
Love's a dance you learn as you go: Evidence for interpersonal complementarity during romantic conflict and its association with relationship outcomes2
Contextual Effects of National Identity on Willingness to Fight: A Multilevel Analysis Using the World Values Survey2
A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping2
Shared Identity, Shared Experience, Social Mobilisation: A Social Identity Approach to Collective Action Among War‐Affected People2
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‘Please Continue’: Implicit Communication and the Experimenter's Interventions in Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority Series2
Age of the examiner and older people's memory performances: A test of the stereotype threat theory using variations on negative age stereotypes across 18 European countries2
Thinking Beyond the Bargaining Table: Negotiators’ Perceptions, Behaviours and Outcomes in Negotiations Affecting External Parties2
Mood and fluency: The case of pronunciation ease, liking and trust2
Empathy, Perceived Injustice and Solidarity‐Based Action: Observer Responses to Civilian Suffering in Military Conflicts2
Grateful Hearts, Lighter Wallets: Gratitude Diminishes the Desire for Money Through Social Connectedness and Self‐Transcendence2
What the Press Reveals About ‘The Unemployed’: A Lexicometric Analysis of 12,996 Articles From French Written Newspapers From 2005 to 20222
Making Sense of ‘Us’: Mechanisms Linking Attachment Avoidance and Couple Identity Clarity2
When Your Co‐Worker Is a Robot: Intergroup Performance Status and Its Consequences for Workplace Attitudes2
Gender stereotypes may not influence the choice of female leaders: Experimental evidence from a crisis framed as social or economic during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
The nuances of “the social cure” for people who experience psychosis2
Acculturation of self‐construal: First evidence from immigrant minorities in Belgium and the UK2
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