OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of British Journal of Social Psychology is 23. 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.)

Article	Citations
The psychology of colonial ideologies: Decoupling pro‐egalitarian and neo‐colonial sources of support for Puerto Rico statehood	54
Strategic thinking in the shadow of self‐enhancement: Benefits and costs	53
Optimistic bias in updating beliefs about climate change longitudinally predicts low pro‐environmental behaviour	42
Gender and ideological orientation moderate the influence of climate misinformation on pro‐environmental behavioural intentions	35
Rejection of the status quo: Conspiracy theories and preference for alternative political systems	35
Justifying violence and hostility through discourse: A critical discursive psychology analysis of anti‐refugee hostility on social media during disasters	35
Conspiracy believers claim to be free thinkers but (Under)Use advice like everyone else	35
Issue Information	34
Individual uniqueness in trust profiles and well‐being: Understanding the role of cultural tightness–looseness from a representation similarity perspective	33
Social psychology of context and in context: Understanding the temporal, spatial and embodied dimensions o	32
Sharing conspiracy theories and staying in power: How leaders' false theories influence leadership perception	31
Red‐pilled mama bears and enlightened power goddesses: Discursive constructions of feminine identities in a conspiracy theory space	31
The crisis we are not naming: The psychology of capitalism	30
The reciprocal relationship between social identification and social support over time: A four‐wave longitudinal study	30
Motivations to engage in collective action: A latent profile analysis of refugee supporters	28
Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio‐functional model of conspiracy beliefs	27
Editorial acknowledgement	25
National bitterness, powerlessness and greatness: Examining constructions of affect as part of argumentation in populist EU discourse in Finland	25
Cues of trait dominance elicit inferences of psychological ownership	25
‘They are lovely men’: Compassionate exclusion used to justify a protest outside asylum seeker accommodation	24
Moral trade‐offs reveal foundational representations that predict unique variance in political attitudes	24
The working memory approach of persuasion: Induced eye movements lead to more social media self‐control behaviours	24
Crowd psychology and the politics of co‐production: Social control, democratic order and the consequences of theory	24
Perceptions of anomie in society shape support for wealth redistribution	23
“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	23