European Journal of Social Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Social 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Empirically derived guidelines for effect size interpretation in social psychology230
A power‐challenging theory of society, or a conservative mindset? Upward and downward conspiracy theories as ideologically distinct beliefs54
A social cure in the community: A mixed‐method exploration of the role of social identity in the experiences and well‐being of community volunteers52
To what extent are conspiracy theorists concerned for self versus others? A COVID‐19 test case46
Comprehensive stereotype content dictionaries using a semi‐automated method36
Advancing research into the social psychology of sexual orientations and gender identities: Current research and future directions33
Social creativity: Reviving a social identity approach to social stability27
Are COVID‐19 conspiracies a threat to public health? Psychological characteristics and health protective behaviours of believers26
When is it wrong to eat animals? The relevance of different animal traits and behaviours24
Bisexual erasure: Perceived attraction patterns of bisexual women and men24
The role of comparative victim beliefs in predicting support for hostile versus prosocial intergroup outcomes23
Polarization in attitudes towards refugees and migrants in the Netherlands23
Multinational data show that conspiracy beliefs are associated with the perception (and reality) of poor national economic performance19
The relationship of environmental concern with public and private pro‐environmental behaviours: A pre‐registered meta‐analysis16
Women who challenge or defend the status quo: Ingroup identities as predictors of progressive and reactionary collective action16
Why do women support socio‐economic systems that favour men more? A registered test of system justification‐ and social identity‐inspired hope explanations15
Disentangling the intergroup sensitivity effect: Defending the ingroup or enforcing general norms?15
Outgroup prejudice and perceptions of prosocial intergroup behaviors14
Is patriotism helpful to fight the crisis? The role of constructive patriotism, conventional patriotism, and glorification amid the COVID‐19 pandemic14
High‐status people are more individualistic and analytic‐thinking in the west and wheat‐farming areas, but not rice‐farming areas14
Ambivalent sexism and violence toward women: A meta‐analysis14
Behind the makeup: The effects of cosmetics on women's self‐objectification, and their objectification by others13
Psychological aspects of childbirth: Evidence for a birth‐related mindset13
Does crossing a moral line justify collective means? Explaining how a perceived moral violation triggers normative and nonnormative forms of collective action12
Moral psychology of nursing robots: Exploring the role of robots in dilemmas of patient autonomy12
The habituation fallacy: Disaster victims who are repeatedly victimised are assumed to suffer less, and they are helped less12
“The liberation of LGBTQ+ will also liberate heterosexuals”: Heterosexual feminist women's participation in solidarity‐based collective action for LGBTQ+ rights12
There are higher levels of conspiracy beliefs in more corrupt countries11
Social movement strategy (nonviolent vs. violent) and the garnering of third‐party support: A meta‐analysis11
Don’t tell me about my moral failures but motivate me to improve: Increasing effectiveness of outgroup criticism by criticizing one’s competence11
Social dominance and anti‐immigrant prejudice: A cross‐national and prospective test of the mediating role of assimilation, multiculturalism, colour blindness, and interculturalism11
What should allies do? Identifying activist perspectives on the role of white allies in the struggle for racial justice in the United States10
An exploration of spiritual superiority: The paradox of self‐enhancement10
Protesting for stability or change? Definitional and conceptual issues in the study of reactionary, conservative, and progressive collective actions10
Decreasing anti‐elderly discriminatory attitudes: Conducting a ‘Stereotype Embodiment Theory’‐based intervention10
Body posture and interpersonal perception in a dyadic interaction: A Big Two analysis10
Tethered humanity: Humanizing self and others in response to interpersonal harm10
Is democracy under threat? Why belief in conspiracy theories predicts autocratic attitudes10
Partner support and goal outcomes during COVID‐19: A mixed methods study10
The effect of outcome severity on moral judgement and interpersonal goals of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders9
Do the means affect the ends? Radical tactics influence motivation and action tendencies via the perceived legitimacy and efficacy of those actions9
Understanding identity processes in support for reactionary and progressive social movements among advantaged and disadvantaged groups: The role of collective narcissism and secure ingroup identity9
Beyond comparisons: The complexity and context‐dependency of collective victim beliefs9
Empathy as a predictor of high‐quality interpersonal apologies9
“We are the victims of racism”: Victim categories in negotiating claims about racism against Black‐Africans in India9
Populist polarization in postcolonial Philippines: Sociolinguistic rifts in online drug war discourse9
Do I really want to engage in contact? Volition as a new dimension of intergroup contact9
The “gay agenda:” How the myth of gay affluence impedes the progress toward equality9
A double‐edged sword: How social diversity affects trust in representatives via perceived competence and warmth9
Opposing effects of income inequality on health: The role of perceived competitiveness and avoidance/approach motivation9
On the predicted replicability of two decades of experimental research on system justification: A Z‐curve analysis9
Tolerance of racism: A new construct that predicts failure to recognize and confront racism9
Testing the basic socio‐structural assumptions of social identity theory in the gender context: Evidence from correlational studies on women's leadership9
Putting the past into action: How historical narratives shape participation in collective action9
Team resilience emergence: Perspectives and experiences of military personnel selected for elite military training8
If they don't care, I won't share: Feeling unrelated to one's in‐group increases selfishness instead of behavior for the greater good8
A bright side of sadness: The depolarizing role of sadness in intergroup conflicts8
Low system justification is associated with support for both progressive and reactionary social change8
Attitudes and attitude certainty guiding pro‐social behaviour as a function of perceived elaboration8
Gay = STIs? Exploring gay and lesbian sexual health stereotypes and their implications for prejudice and discrimination8
Understanding a liminal condition: Comparing emerging representations of the “vegetative state”8
‘Sanna, Aren't You Ashamed?’ Affective‐discursive practices in online misogynist discourse of Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin8
The trickle‐down effect of procedural fairness on perceptions of daily discrimination: How societal actors can build social trust among minority members8
Too great to be guilty? Individuals high in collective narcissism demand closure regarding the past to attenuate collective guilt8
Perceptions of a sexual advance from gay men leads to negative affect and compensatory acts of masculinity8
It's only discrimination when they do it to us: When White men use ingroup‐serving double standards in definitional boundaries of discrimination8
Obstacles to reconciliation and forgiveness among victim groups of unacknowledged past trauma and genocide8
Migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees: Different labels for immigrants influence attitudes through perceived benefits in nine countries8
Moralization and moral trade‐offs explain (in)tolerance of Muslim minority behaviours7
The Morality‐Agency‐Communion (MAC) model of respect and liking7
The mindset of birth predicts birth outcomes: Evidence from a prospective longitudinal study7
Gender perspectives on self‐censorship in organizations: The role of management position, procedural justice and organizational climate7
Exploring LGBT+ campus climate in the UK and Philippines: How prejudice and belonging shape inclusion in higher education7
How opposing ideological groups use online interactions to justify and mobilise collective action7
Perceived unequal and unfair workplaces trigger lower job satisfaction and lower workers’ dignity via organizational dehumanization and workers’ self‐objectification7
Intergroup threat, knowledge of the outgroup, and willingness to purchase ingroup and outgroup products: The mediating role of intergroup emotions7
Testing predictors of attitude strength as determinants of attitude stability and attitude–behaviour relationships: A multi‐behaviour study7
Contact with former adversaries through mass‐media is linked to forgiveness after dyadic and multi‐ethnic conflicts6
Solidarity across group lines: Secondary transfer effect of intergroup contact, perceived moral distance, and collective action6
The impact of better‐ Versus worse‐than‐average comparisons on beliefs about how life satisfaction is unfolding over time, affect, and motivation6
Caught in a social crossfire: Exploring the social forces behind and experience of ambivalence about potential social change6
Norms and COVID‐19 health behaviours: A longitudinal investigation of group factors6
Social identity emergence in attitude interactions and the identity strengthening effects of cumulative attitude agreement6
Reflecting on research: Researcher identity in conflict studies from the perspectives of participants6
Political distrust, perceived threat, and intentions to engage in normative and violent collective action: A mixed‐methods study6
A longitudinal examination of the factors that facilitate and hinder support for conservative and progressive social movements6
The anticipated social cost of disclosing a rejection experience6
The psychology of hate: Moral concerns differentiate hate from dislike5
Structure, Content and Inter‐relationships between Self‐aspects: Integrating Findings from the Social Identity and Self Complexity Traditions5
Confrontation as an interpersonal response to ostracism5
The fit between dignity self‐construal and independent university norms: Effects on university belonging, well‐being, and academic success5
The limits of gender and regional diversity in the European Association of Social Psychology5
(Not so) powerful allies? Decision makers’ reactions to advantaged group allies in collective action5
What is agentic about the Spatial Agency Bias? How pragmatic relevance contributes to the spatial representations of actions5
Examining the between‐ and within‐person effects of relative deprivation: Results from a 7‐year longitudinal panel sample5
Self‐connection and well‐being: Development and validation of a self‐connection scale5
“Why do you think Christmas will never ever be celebrated again?” A paradoxical thinking intervention's potential to affect conflict‐related concerns, willingness to compromise, and openness towards r5
Age stereotyping of gay and heterosexual men: Why does a minority sexual orientation blur the age of old men, in particular?5
Lay theories about collective power in the context of racial oppression5
The excluded ordinary? A theory of populist radical right supporters’ position in society5
The impact of hope and hopelessness on evaluation: A meta‐cognitive approach5
More than a prejudice reduction effect: Positive intergroup contact reduces conspiracy theory beliefs5
There is an ‘I’ in truth: How salient identities shape dynamic perceptions of truth5
‘Enemy of the people’: Family identity as social cure and curse dynamics in contexts of human rights violations5
Young, unemployed, excluded: Unemployed young adults report more ostracism5
Religious costly signal induces more trustworthiness than secular costly signal: A study of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela5
Cultural group norms for harmony explain the puzzling negative association between objective status and system justification in Asia5
The effect of rank‐ordering strategy on creative idea selection performance4
The multiple meanings of the gender‐inclusive pronoun hen: Predicting attitudes and use4
The nuances of “the social cure” for people who experience psychosis4
Generalizing across behavior settings can make attitudes toward social groups more extreme in the absence of new information4
Moral relevance varies due to inter‐individual and intra‐individual differences across big data technology domains4
One foot out the door: Stay/leave ambivalence predicts day‐to‐day fluctuations in commitment and intentions to end the relationship4
Boosted by closure! Regulatory focus predicts motivation and task persistence in the aftermath of task‐unrelated goal closure4
What drives the perceived prejudice asymmetry among advantaged group members? The mediating role of social group power and moral obligations4
A longitudinal test of secondary transfer effects of negative intergroup contact and mediating processes4
A functional analysis of personal autonomy: How restricting ‘what’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ affects experienced agency and goal motivation4
The identity‐attitude nexus in the representation of energy transition in a coal region (Sulcis, Italy): An exploration through the Structural Topic Model4
Unaccompanied refugee minors and resettlement: Turning points towards integration4
Partner Support and Goal Outcomes: A Multilevel Meta‐Analysis and a Methodological Critique4
Social norms (not threat) mediate willingness to sacrifice in individuals fused with the nation: Insights from the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Footsteps I would like to follow? How gender quotas affect the acceptance of women leaders as role models and inspirations for leadership4
If you can dream it, you can do it!—The role of sexual orientation in preferences toward boys' and girls' career orientation and gendered behaviour4
Identifying important individual‐ and country‐level predictors of conspiracy theorizing: A machine learning analysis4
The help that hinders? A meta‐analysis of reactions to affirmative action4
Sexual violence and traumatic identity change: Evidence of collective post‐traumatic growth3
Understanding the setback effect in everyday self‐regulation3
Economic insecurity and compliance with the COVID‐19 restrictions3
“I hate to be a burden!”: Experiencing feelings associated with ostracism due to one's poor performance burdening the group3
A motivational framework of religion: Tying together the why and the how of religion3
Meta‐identification: Perceptions of others’ group identification shape group life3
“Communities Change When Individuals Change”: The sustainability of system‐challenging collective action3
Going beyond simplicity: Using machine learning to predict belief in conspiracy theories3
Mindfully motivated: Can a brief session of mindfulness meditation enhance motivation towards personal goals?3
To conceal or reveal: Identity‐conscious diversity ideologies facilitate sexual minority identity disclosure3
How do conspiratorial explanations differ from non‐conspiratorial explanations? A content analysis of real‐world online articles3
National glorification and attachment differentially predict support for intergroup conflict resolution: Scrutinizing cross‐country generalizability3
Playing to their strengths: Can focusing on typical in‐group strengths be detrimental to people of colour?3
Standing up or giving up? Moral foundations mediate political differences in evaluations of BLACK LIVES MATTER and other protests3
Expecting exclusion: Does bracing for the worst buffer the pain of social exclusion?3
Group‐based shame, guilt, and regret across cultures3
Consensual and idiosyncratic trustworthiness perceptions independently influence social decision‐making3
Cracks before the crisis: Polarization prior to COVID‐19 predicts increased collective angst and economic pessimism3
Are you one of us: Investigating cultural differences in determining group membership3
The fear of confession? High Catholic collective narcissism and low secure identification with Catholics predict increased pedophilia myth acceptance3
Who feels good in solitude? A qualitative analysis of the personality and mindset factors relating to well‐being when alone3
A five‐factor integrative taxonomy of strategic reasoning in dyadic games3
The epistemic bases of changes of opinion and choices: The joint effects of the need for cognitive closure, ascribed epistemic authority and quality of advice3
Collective mobilisation as a contest for influence: Leading for change or against the status quo?3
Shared disadvantage as a determinant of the relationship between White Americans’ socioeconomic status and racial/ethnic prejudice3
Offenders’ claims of taking the victims’ perspective can promote forgiveness, or backfire! The moderating role of correctly voicing the victims’ emotions in collective apologies3
Change in anti‐COVID‐19 behaviour and anti‐immigrant prejudice during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from five European countries3
A tale of two hashtags: An examination of moral content of pro‐ and anti‐government tweets in Turkey3
Humanness in times of uncertainty: On the link between perceived job insecurity, self‐objectification and well‐being3
The long hard road of reconciliation: Prefiguring cultures of peace through the transformation of representations of former combatants and identities of urban youth in Colombia3
How do disadvantaged groups perceive allies? Women's perceptions of men who confront sexism in an egalitarian or paternalistic way3
Humans tend to share food more generously than money and other objects: Preliminary evidence3
The effect of individual, group, and shared organizational identification on job satisfaction and collective actual turnover3
System‐based emotions in Turkey and support for versus opposition to the Gezi Park protests3
On the use of gender categories and emotion categories in threat‐based person impressions3
Increasing the predictive validity of identity fusion in leading to sacrifice by considering the extremity of the situation3
The virus of distrust: How one victim‐sensitive group member can affect the entire group's outcomes3
Collective victimhood and support for joint political decision‐making in conflict regions: The role of shared territorial ownership perceptions3
Meaningful outrage: Anger at injustice bolsters meaning for justice sensitive individuals3
When and why does economic inequality predict prosocial behaviour? Examining the role of interpersonal trust among different targets2
Close‐knit ties through thick and thin: Sharing social exclusion and acceptance enhances social bond2
Innocence over utilitarianism: Heightened moral standards for robots in rescue dilemmas2
Working with a sleep‐deprived or a cognitively enhanced team member compromises motivation to contribute to group performance2
Examining change in social dominance and authoritarianism during New Zealand's nationwide COVID‐19 lockdown2
Finding (dis‐)advantaged system justifiers: A bottom‐up approach to explore system justification theory2
Repeating stereotypes: Increased belief and subsequent discrimination2
An examination of diversity rationales: How instrumental and moral diversity rationales create minority spotlight2
Owning leads to valuing: Meta‐analysis of the mere ownership effect2
German desire for historical closure indirectly affects Israelis' intergroup attitudes2
The effects of perceived COVID‐19 threat on compensatory conviction, thought reliance, and attitudes2
A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping2
Territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: A person‐centred approach2
The effect of serial day on the measurement of positivity and emotional complexity in diary studies2
Collective system‐supporting inaction: A conceptual framework of privilege maintenance2
Explaining immigrant threat perceptions and pro‐immigrant collective action intentions through issue‐specific moral conviction and general need for closure: The case of the US–Mexico border wall2
What causes the Strength‐is‐Weakness effect in coalition formation: Passive adoption or active selection of self‐serving allocation rules?2
Reporting racism in broadcast interview2
Heterosexual men in Trump's America downplay compassion more for masculine (than for feminine) gay victims of hate crime: Why?2
The experience and emergence of attitudinal consensus in conversations2
Supporting men or male privilege? Women's progressive and reactionary collective action for men2
Diversity: From people to knowledge and back again2
By all means necessary: Closed mindedness, ingroup morality, and weapon ownership2
Loss context enhances preferences for generosity but reduces preferences for honesty: Evidence from a combined behavioural‐computational approach2
Moral judgment under uncertainty: A CNI model analysis2
Investigating the social embeddedness of criminal groups: Longitudinal associations between masculine honour and legitimizing attitudes towards the Camorra2
The ‘mixed bag’ of segregation—On positive and negative associations with migrants’ acculturation2
Intergroup context‐sensitive adaptation and validation of the BIAS Map for measuring stereotypes of the Roma in Slovakia: The case for an emic‐etic mixed methods approach2
‘You are a useful person’: Economic inequality leads people to approach others in an instrumental way2
Support (and rejection) of meritocracy as a self‐enhancement identity strategy: A qualitative study of university students’ perceptions about meritocracy in higher education2
The national divide: A social representations approach to US political identity2
Tend‐and‐befriend and rally around the flag effects during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Differential longitudinal change patterns in multiple aspects of social cohesion2
The impact of education about historical and current injustices, individual racism and systemic racism on anti‐Indigenous racism2
When judging purity norm violations, the perpetrator's intention matters2
Testing the basic socio‐structural assumptions of social identity theory in the gender context: Evidence from correlational studies on women's leadership2
‘We despair’: Examining the role of political despair for collective action and well‐being2
Improving attitudes towards minority groups by thinking about the thoughts and meta‐cognitions of their members2
Why we harm the organization for a perpetrator's actions: The roles of unforgiveness, group betrayal, and group embodiment in displaced revenge1
Do reconciliation events serve as a conciliatory signal?1
Dear old love: Effects of reflecting on nostalgic memories about ex‐partners on current romantic relationship1
Ambition‐driven aggression in response to significance‐threatening frustration1
Double standards in the COVID‐19 pandemic: The moderation of perceived threat1
Dark Triad and the attitude toward military violence against civilians: The role of moral disengagement1
From forgiveness and reconciliation to social capital and psychosocial well‐being: An evaluation of a multisite intervention in Colombia1
Self‐objectification and sexual dysfunction among women: Testing and extending objectification theory1
Morality's role in the Black Sheep Effect: When and why ingroup members are judged more harshly than outgroup members for the same transgression1
How information on sexism may increase women's perceptions of being excluded, threaten fundamental needs, and lower career motivation1
Individual attitudes towards moral costs and benefits drive responses to moral dilemmas1
Beliefs in inevitable justice curb revenge behaviours: Cultural perspectives on karma1
Do mindsets shape intentions to help those in need? Unravelling the paradoxical effects of mindsets of poverty on helping intentions1
Schadenfreude in the context of opposing vaccination statuses1
Gender stereotypes may not influence the choice of female leaders: Experimental evidence from a crisis framed as social or economic during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Kill or be killed: Can correcting misperceptions of out‐group hostility de‐escalate a violent inter‐group out‐break?1
Valuing diversity: An undervalued mediator of intergroup contact1
Different domains of identity predict different exit strategies1
Updating stereotypical attributions in light of new information: The attractiveness halo effect changes when attractiveness changes1
Love's a dance you learn as you go: Evidence for interpersonal complementarity during romantic conflict and its association with relationship outcomes1
Conflict, what conflict? Evidence that playing down “conflict” can be a weapon of choice for high‐status groups1
Polarization from the perspective of ambivalents: Feeling caught in the social crossfire of the U.S. abortion debate1
Episodic master narratives through time: Exploring the temporal dynamism of 2016 election night stories1
How the perceived cost of prosocial action inspires observers to contribute1
Institutional acknowledgement of the chosen trauma in the background of its denial: A field experiment across conflicting groups1
Children's bias beyond group boundaries: Perceived differences, outgroup attitudes and prosocial behaviour1
The best little kid in the world: Internalized sexual stigma and extrinsic contingencies of self‐worth, work values, and life aspirations among men and women1
Parent and community political orientation predicts children's health behaviours1
Intergroup relations affect depressive symptoms of Indigenous people: Longitudinal evidence1
Sexism and racism perceptions: It depends on who does it and why1
Tensions between collective‐self forgiveness and political repair1
Emotional, motivational and attitudinal consequences of autonomous prosocial behaviour1
The cognitive cost of closeness: Interpersonal closeness reduces accuracy and slows down decision‐making1
Out‐group help in the time of Covid‐19 and intergroup reconciliation in the Western Balkans1
Original sin or natural order: Dialogical construction of social knowledge of animal production1
Pushing too far? Negotiations of non‐compliance and resistance to the COVID‐19 cabin ban in Norway1
Worldview defence and self‐determination theory explain the return of racial voting: Evidence from the 2016 US election1
Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change1
The secondary transfer effects of contact in facilitating peace in a frozen conflict: The case of Turkish immigrants in Cyprus1
Can redistributive policies promote reconciliation beyond its scope? The impact of inequality reduction programs on peacebuilding in Colombia1
Diplomacy online: A case of mistaking broadcasting for dialogue1
Does personal relative deprivation mediate the relationship between passive social media use and beliefs in conspiracy theories? Cross‐sectional correlational and experimental evidence1
A wolf in sheep's clothing: The perils of exploitative leadership1
Who's a yea‐sayer? Habitual trust and affirmative response behaviour1
Examining beliefs about reconciliation and social integration in Kosovo: Testing effects of interethnic contact and differences in perspective among ethnic Albanians and Serbs1
Race‐based shifting standards of SES: Potential moderators and implications1
The shadow of war: Parental competitive victimhood and children's contact intentions in two post‐accord societies1
The role of parents in predicting gender‐stereotypic attitudes towards HEED occupations and gender‐stereotypic interest in these careers1
Does anchoring vary across cultures? Expanding the Many Labs analysis1
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