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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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The social amplification of illusory correlations51
Perception of helper's autonomous motivation increases recipient's prosocial behaviour intentions via feelings of gratitude50
Victim empowerment and satisfaction: The potential of imagery rescripting45
The added value of perceived values: Partner's perceived values predict own behaviour in interdependent interactions41
Locational citizenship, exclusion and inclusion. The case of street children in Ethiopia37
Moral Perceptions in Politics: Ideological Asymmetries in Perceived Moral Obligations and Stereotypical Perceptions Across Leftists and Rightists36
Ideologically‐based contact avoidance during a pandemic: Blunt or selective distancing from ‘others’?33
Hypocrisy judgements are affected by target attitude strength and attitude moralization28
Strength‐is‐Weakness: The (ir)relevant relation between resources and payoffs in coalition formation28
Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change25
Testing predictors of attitude strength as determinants of attitude stability and attitude–behaviour relationships: A multi‐behaviour study22
The fear of confession? High Catholic collective narcissism and low secure identification with Catholics predict increased pedophilia myth acceptance21
Out‐group help in the time of Covid‐19 and intergroup reconciliation in the Western Balkans21
Loving Taxation, Hating Single Taxes: Disentangling Temporal Distance and Abstraction in the Communication of Tax Proposals20
Rethinking National Well‐Being: Introducing a Measure of Wealth‐Adjusted Life Satisfaction in 116 Countries20
Pushing too far? Negotiations of non‐compliance and resistance to the COVID‐19 cabin ban in Norway19
Protesting for stability or change? Definitional and conceptual issues in the study of reactionary, conservative, and progressive collective actions19
Dark Triad and the attitude toward military violence against civilians: The role of moral disengagement19
Perceived social mobility and system justification predict greater well‐being, but less prosocial behaviour19
Emotional, motivational and attitudinal consequences of autonomous prosocial behaviour19
Alignment and Differentiation: How Language and Network Proximity Drive Opinion‐Based Group Formation Online19
On the Verge of Exclusion: The Unique Psychological Profile of the Threat of Social Exclusion18
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Examining beliefs about reconciliation and social integration in Kosovo: Testing effects of interethnic contact and differences in perspective among ethnic Albanians and Serbs17
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Fostering Social Cohesion in Post‐Conflict Societies: The Power of Normative Apologies in Reducing Competitive Victimhood and Enhancing Reconciliation and Intergroup Negotiation17
Cultural group norms for harmony explain the puzzling negative association between objective status and system justification in Asia17
The mindset of birth predicts birth outcomes: Evidence from a prospective longitudinal study17
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Dialogicality and Conspiracy Theory: The Coexistence of Conspiracist and Non‐Conspiracist Beliefs17
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Continuity and change16
The true self in reflections? Visual self‐recognition and the Big Five16
How do we cope when we believe we can? A systematic review and meta‐analysis of studies on coping and negative mood regulation expectancies15
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So where do you see this going? The effects of commitment asymmetry and asynchrony on relationship satisfaction and break‐up14
Believing the Power of Physical Appearance: How Perceived Economic Inequality Affects Female Self‐Objectification and Job Preference14
Moral judgment under uncertainty: A CNI model analysis14
A Social Psychological Perspective on How to Preserve Academic Freedom in Illiberal Political Contexts14
Territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: A person‐centred approach14
Ambivalent sexism and violence toward women: A meta‐analysis14
Identifying stories of ‘us’: A mixed‐method analysis of the meaning, contents and associations of national narratives constructed by Americans14
Towards a Conceptual Integration of Collective Victimization Beliefs and Their Variation Within and Across Contexts: A Q Methodology Study in Five Communities13
Polarization from the perspective of ambivalents: Feeling caught in the social crossfire of the U.S. abortion debate13
Does personal relative deprivation mediate the relationship between passive social media use and beliefs in conspiracy theories? Cross‐sectional correlational and experimental evidence13
How to React in the Case of Powerful Transgressors: Kill Them With Kindness or Punishment?13
Expecting exclusion: Does bracing for the worst buffer the pain of social exclusion?13
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Being One or the Other, Both or Neither: Self‐Categorization Theory, Social Identity Theory and the Issue of Mixed Identities12
The Relationship Between Social Identification and System Justification: A Meta‐Analytic Test of Relevant Moderators12
Playing to their strengths: Can focusing on typical in‐group strengths be detrimental to people of colour?12
National glorification and attachment differentially predict support for intergroup conflict resolution: Scrutinizing cross‐country generalizability12
Allies or Rivals? The Consequences of Ideological Distinctiveness and Social Recognition of Emergent Subgroups Within Social Movements12
Kill or be killed: Can correcting misperceptions of out‐group hostility de‐escalate a violent inter‐group out‐break?12
Improving attitudes towards minority groups by thinking about the thoughts and meta‐cognitions of their members12
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The experience and emergence of attitudinal consensus in conversations11
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Judgements of Propaganda Near and Far: National Identity and Media Evaluations11
Tend‐and‐befriend and rally around the flag effects during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Differential longitudinal change patterns in multiple aspects of social cohesion10
Owning leads to valuing: Meta‐analysis of the mere ownership effect10
Low system justification is associated with support for both progressive and reactionary social change10
Perceived unequal and unfair workplaces trigger lower job satisfaction and lower workers’ dignity via organizational dehumanization and workers’ self‐objectification10
Do the means affect the ends? Radical tactics influence motivation and action tendencies via the perceived legitimacy and efficacy of those actions9
Women's and Men's Support for Gender Equality Policies in Organizations: From Belief in Gender Discrimination to Perceived Organizational Hypocrisy9
Are Stereotypes About Minorities More Negative?9
Individuals’ power determines how they respond to positive versus negative performance feedback9
There is an ‘I’ in truth: How salient identities shape dynamic perceptions of truth9
Supporting men or male privilege? Women's progressive and reactionary collective action for men9
Re‐Examining Buchel et al.’s (2021) Test of the Status Legitimacy Hypothesis9
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Not in my group: Protecting group reputation by excluding stereotypical targets9
Political Social Identity Threat Predicts Increases in Affective Polarisation Over Time, but Not Changes in Well‐Being9
Meta‐identification: Perceptions of others’ group identification shape group life9
Does Social Cohesion Predict Justification of Extremist Violence? Evidence From the Sahel Region in Burkina Faso9
Political ideology and belief change in the face of counterevidence8
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The curse of objectivity: Choosing objectively better products hinders consumers from receiving help8
More than a prejudice reduction effect: Positive intergroup contact reduces conspiracy theory beliefs8
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’8
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Perceived Robot Threat Enhances Preference for Hierarchy8
Ambivalence in the Context of Competing Narratives: Exploration Through a Case of the US Military Base Issue in Okinawa8
Deciphering the Relationship Between Income Inequality and Life Satisfaction: Who, When and Where?8
Conspiracy blaming in the aftermath of group relative deprivation: The moderating role of national narcissism8
Doing Bad to Feel Good: Working Objectification Promotes Production Deviance Via Thwarted Perceived Control8
Introducing the brief reverse correlation: An improved tool to assess visual representations8
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(Not so) powerful allies? Decision makers’ reactions to advantaged group allies in collective action8
Making Us Visible in the Cityscape: Organizers’ Reasons for Holding Ramadan Celebrations in Copenhagen's Public Space8
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Matching your way to Success: The Influence of Motivational Frame Matching on Interaction Outcomes and Reciprocal Matching7
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Social dominance and anti‐immigrant prejudice: A cross‐national and prospective test of the mediating role of assimilation, multiculturalism, colour blindness, and interculturalism7
Does Developing a Belief in One Conspiracy Theory Lead a Person to be More Likely to Believe in Others?7
Boosted by closure! Regulatory focus predicts motivation and task persistence in the aftermath of task‐unrelated goal closure7
Change in anti‐COVID‐19 behaviour and anti‐immigrant prejudice during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from five European countries7
A longitudinal examination of the factors that facilitate and hinder support for conservative and progressive social movements7
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Consistent Facial Cues to Social Class Across Two Different Western Contexts7
The Content, Consistency and Accuracy of Stereotypes About Recreational Users of Various Psychoactive Substances7
Expecting tasks to help or hurt subsequent cognitive performance: Variability, accuracy, and bias in forecasted after‐effects7
Reviewing Research on Transgender and Nonbinary People in Social Psychology: Insights and Future Research Directions7
From social traditions to personalized routines: Maintenance goals as a resilience factor6
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A fair share: Effects of disparity, allocation strategy and system justification on perceptions of policy support in the education domain6
The Effectiveness of Interventions Addressing Conspiracy Beliefs: A Meta‐Analysis6
A Longitudinal Comparison of the Effects of Election Outcomes on System Legitimacy in the United Kingdom and United States6
The Dual Pathways to Masculinity Threats: The Roles of Social Role Incongruity and Social Connection in Masculine Identity Maintenance Among Gay and Straight Men6
Bystanders’ Reactions to a Woman Victim of Sextortion: Moral Outrage, Victim Blaming and Reputational Damage6
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
In control but uninspired: Displays of artist self‐control undermine perceptions of creativity6
The Social Psychology of Corruption6
The role of parents in predicting gender‐stereotypic attitudes towards HEED occupations and gender‐stereotypic interest in these careers6
The secondary transfer effects of contact in facilitating peace in a frozen conflict: The case of Turkish immigrants in Cyprus6
By all means necessary: Closed mindedness, ingroup morality, and weapon ownership6
Self‐Discontinuity as a Barrier to Identity and Behaviour Change: Evidence From Smoking Cessation6
Leaders or Villains? The Role of Corruption in Shaping the Stereotypes of Politicians6
Collective system‐supporting inaction: A conceptual framework of privilege maintenance6
Ideological (a)Symmetry in Research Evaluations: The Case of Research on Ideological Versus Racial Group Differences6
Race‐Based Rejection Sensitivity and Intergroup Anxiety Across the Adult Lifespan: Examining Age, Cohort, and Period Effects Among Ethnic Majority and Minority Groups6
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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
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The role of valuing cultural diversity in children's endorsements of rights6
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Does powerlessness motivate men and women to endorse sexism?5
Identification Environment, School Identification and School Burnout: Multilevel Models5
Who benefits the most? Teacher expectations and their relation with students’ achievement in mathematics in primary school5
Preemptive Buffering: Attachment Figure Representations Lessen the Affective Sting of Internally Generated Threats by Increasing Positive Affect5
Moral commitment to gender equality increases (mis)perceptions of gender bias in hiring5
The Achilles’ heel of the truth bias? High personal stakes reduce vulnerability to false information5
Mapping of Meaning and Pleasure on the Temporal Horizon: Long‐Term Orientation Predicts Preference for Meaningful Over Pleasurable Activities5
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On the predicted replicability of two decades of experimental research on system justification: A Z‐curve analysis5
Assessing the Role of Honour Culture and Image Concerns in Impeding Apologies5
How do disadvantaged groups perceive allies? Women's perceptions of men who confront sexism in an egalitarian or paternalistic way5
How do conspiratorial explanations differ from non‐conspiratorial explanations? A content analysis of real‐world online articles5
What should allies do? Identifying activist perspectives on the role of white allies in the struggle for racial justice in the United States5
Measurement Invariance of Human Values Across Time and Countries—An Analysis Using 11 Rounds of the European Social Survey5
Inter‐attitude centrality does not appear to reduce persuasion for political attitudes5
Beyond Collective Victimhood: How Diverse Conflict Knowledge Relates to Community Cohesion5
Contact with former adversaries through mass‐media is linked to forgiveness after dyadic and multi‐ethnic conflicts5
What Could Have Been: Predicted and Actual Exclusion by Potential Romantic Partners and Platonic Friends4
The Impact of Freedom of Speech on Conspiracy Beliefs4
Self‐objectification and sexual dysfunction among women: Testing and extending objectification theory4
The More I See It the Less I Want It: Sociotropic Corruption and (In)tolerance Towards Corruption in Contexts of Perceived Economic Crisis4
Does Touch Bring Us Closer? Exploring the Role of Physical Contact in Intergroup Contexts4
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City Slicker or Country Bumpkin?—Distinguishing Urban and Rural Residents From Subtle Facial Cues4
Race‐based shifting standards of SES: Potential moderators and implications4
Ambition‐driven aggression in response to significance‐threatening frustration4
Passing the Torch: Reflections on 3 Years at the Helm of the EJSP4
‘It always seems impossible, until it is done’: Perspectives on reconciliation and its underlying processes in post‐conflict societies4
When one's partner wants out: Awareness, attachment anxiety and accuracy4
Why cannot reasons change your moral decisions? Because they are not persuasive enough: A comment on Stanley et al. (2018)4
Updating stereotypical attributions in light of new information: The attractiveness halo effect changes when attractiveness changes4
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 Ecuador4
Information Regarding Shared Genes Between Humans Improves Attitudes Towards World Members4
Examining the Antecedents, Prevalence and Trajectories of Reactionary Collective Action Intentions Among Europeans Over Time4
Changing perceptions of people wearing masks: Two years of living in a pandemic4
Enhancing Intellectual Humility About Political Topics: An Intervention Tournament Including Five Conceptual Replications4
The relationships between affect dimensions and level of construal4
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Schadenfreude in the context of opposing vaccination statuses4
When and why does economic inequality predict prosocial behaviour? Examining the role of interpersonal trust among different targets3
Power corrupts and being sure of felt power corrupts even more: Implications for immoral decisions and cheating3
Pay Your Taxes! Stay Behind the Yellow Line!: Testing the Normative Appraisal Scale3
Majority residents’ perceptions of ‘economic’ and ‘political’ refugees: Psychological processes underlying the flight‐reason bias3
Children's bias beyond group boundaries: Perceived differences, outgroup attitudes and prosocial behaviour3
Awe and Boredom: Unravelling Dual Pathways Through Meaning in Life3
The Effects of Arabic Gendered Language in Job Advertisements on Recruiters’ Evaluation of Job Applicants—A Hiring‐Simulation Experiment3
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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Associations of orientation to promote good in challenging situations with distress and well‐being: Multi‐study evidence from three non‐Western Longitudinal samples3
Beyond Income Disparities: Perceived Health and Education Inequities Drive Actions to Reduce Economic Inequality3
The meaning of touch: Relational and individual variables shape emotions and intentions associated with imagined social touch3
Navigating non‐normative roles: Experiences of female‐breadwinning couples in Pakistan3
Young, unemployed, excluded: Unemployed young adults report more ostracism3
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Food scarcity and disease concern reduce interdependence when people eat together3
Religious costly signal induces more trustworthiness than secular costly signal: A study of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela3
‘You are a useful person’: Economic inequality leads people to approach others in an instrumental way3
Addressing Bribery and Associated Social Norms in Healthcare: Results of a Behaviour Change Intervention in Tanzania3
Engaged Onlooking: How Organisational Identification Shapes Public Condoning of Corporate Corruption3
‘Free to Be Me?’: Gender Role Norms Constrain Career Interests Less for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People Than for Heterosexual People3
(Mis)Matching Expectations: The Effects of Claimant Gender Identity and Harassment Form on Perceptions of Sexual Harassment Claims3
Working with a sleep‐deprived or a cognitively enhanced team member compromises motivation to contribute to group performance3
Russians’ Attitudes Towards the War in Ukraine3
Understanding prosocial and antisocial behaviours: The roles of self‐focused and other‐focused motivational orientations3
Turning the Camera Off in Virtual Interactions Can Harm the Reputation3
The habituation fallacy: Disaster victims who are repeatedly victimised are assumed to suffer less, and they are helped less2
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
Grateful Hearts, Lighter Wallets: Gratitude Diminishes the Desire for Money Through Social Connectedness and Self‐Transcendence2
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Changing Minds in Times of War: An Intervention Tournament to Increase Public Support for Ending the Israel–Gaza War2
Organisational antecedents of employee ambassadorship on social network sites2
The impact of education about historical and current injustices, individual racism and systemic racism on anti‐Indigenous racism2
Examining the between‐ and within‐person effects of relative deprivation: Results from a 7‐year longitudinal panel sample2
Shared Identity, Shared Experience, Social Mobilisation: A Social Identity Approach to Collective Action Among War‐Affected People2
What the Press Reveals About ‘The Unemployed’: A Lexicometric Analysis of 12,996 Articles From French Written Newspapers From 2005 to 20222
Acculturation of self‐construal: First evidence from immigrant minorities in Belgium and the UK2
A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping2
A longitudinal test of secondary transfer effects of negative intergroup contact and mediating processes2
Making Sense of ‘Us’: Mechanisms Linking Attachment Avoidance and Couple Identity Clarity2
Identifying Profiles of Colonial Ideologies: A Test of the Moral Credentialer Hypothesis2
Does Mindfulness Support the Status Quo? The Role of Neoliberal Orientation and Emotion Regulation2
It's only discrimination when they do it to us: When White men use ingroup‐serving double standards in definitional boundaries of discrimination2
Contextual Effects of National Identity on Willingness to Fight: A Multilevel Analysis Using the World Values Survey2
Mobilization of shared victimhood in the radical right populist Finns Party supporters’ identity work: A narrative–discursive approach to populist support2
Empathy, Perceived Injustice and Solidarity‐Based Action: Observer Responses to Civilian Suffering in Military Conflicts2
The nuances of “the social cure” for people who experience psychosis2
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
‘Please Continue’: Implicit Communication and the Experimenter's Interventions in Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority Series2
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Loss context enhances preferences for generosity but reduces preferences for honesty: Evidence from a combined behavioural‐computational approach2
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Non‐verbal behaviour of professional soccer players performing in the absence or presence of fans2
Correction to “ Are Stereotypes About Minorities More Negative?2
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
Reporting racism in broadcast interview2
A functional analysis of personal autonomy: How restricting ‘what’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ affects experienced agency and goal motivation2
When Your Co‐Worker Is a Robot: Intergroup Performance Status and Its Consequences for Workplace Attitudes2
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Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood2
Political distrust, perceived threat, and intentions to engage in normative and violent collective action: A mixed‐methods study2
How Do People Morally Judge Corruption? A Comparison Between the Netherlands and Indonesia2
Let's talk about this: Co‐rumination and dyadic dynamics of moral repair following wrongdoing2
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Love's a dance you learn as you go: Evidence for interpersonal complementarity during romantic conflict and its association with relationship outcomes2
Tensions between collective‐self forgiveness and political repair2
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Individuals From Higher Social Classes View Charitable Giving as a Solution to Societal Issues2
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