OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of British Journal of Social Psychology is 24. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The psychology of colonial ideologies: Decoupling pro‐egalitarian and neo‐colonial sources of support for Puerto Rico statehood	61
Strategic thinking in the shadow of self‐enhancement: Benefits and costs	55
Rejection of the status quo: Conspiracy theories and preference for alternative political systems	45
Justifying violence and hostility through discourse: A critical discursive psychology analysis of anti‐refugee hostility on social media during disasters	38
Gender and ideological orientation moderate the influence of climate misinformation on pro‐environmental behavioural intentions	38
Individual uniqueness in trust profiles and well‐being: Understanding the role of cultural tightness–looseness from a representation similarity perspective	37
Red‐pilled mama bears and enlightened power goddesses: Discursive constructions of feminine identities in a conspiracy theory space	37
Issue Information	37
Social psychology of context and in context: Understanding the temporal, spatial and embodied dimensions o	37
National bitterness, powerlessness and greatness: Examining constructions of affect as part of argumentation in populist EU discourse in Finland	34
Optimistic bias in updating beliefs about climate change longitudinally predicts low pro‐environmental behaviour	33
The crisis we are not naming: The psychology of capitalism	33
Conspiracy believers claim to be free thinkers but (Under)Use advice like everyone else	33
Experimental tests of the tertiary transfer effect of intergroup contact: Addressing valence, prototypicality and moderators	31
Sharing conspiracy theories and staying in power: How leaders' false theories influence leadership perception	30
Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio‐functional model of conspiracy beliefs	27
Motivations to engage in collective action: A latent profile analysis of refugee supporters	27
Editorial acknowledgement	27
Crowd psychology and the politics of co‐production: Social control, democratic order and the consequences of theory	26
‘They are lovely men’: Compassionate exclusion used to justify a protest outside asylum seeker accommodation	26
Moral trade‐offs reveal foundational representations that predict unique variance in political attitudes	26
Cues of trait dominance elicit inferences of psychological ownership	26
The working memory approach of persuasion: Induced eye movements lead to more social media self‐control behaviours	25
Perceptions of anomie in society shape support for wealth redistribution	25
So different yet so alike? Political collective narcissism predicts blatant dehumanization of political outgroups among conservatives and liberals	24

Correction to ‘Digitizing fear: Identity, threat and collective mobilization through social media posts during the 2021 election campaigns in West Bengal, India’	24
“You lose the person; they're still there but you don't recognize them”: A qualitative study examining the consequences of conspiracy beliefs for romantic partners	24