British Journal of Social Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of British 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cultural orientation, power, belief in conspiracy theories, and intentions to reduce the spread of COVID‐19235
Pylons ablaze: Examining the role of 5G COVID‐19 conspiracy beliefs and support for violence214
On order and disorder during the COVID‐19 pandemic98
The importance of (shared) human values for containing the COVID‐19 pandemic97
The contagion of mortality: A terror management health model for pandemics86
Inequalities and identity processes in crises: Recommendations for facilitating safe response to the COVID‐19 pandemic73
A social identity perspective on COVID‐19: Health risk is affected by shared group membership71
Collective resilience in times of crisis: Lessons from the literature for socially effective responses to the pandemic68
‘Distancers’ and ‘non‐distancers’? The potential social psychological impact of moralizing COVID‐19 mitigating practices on sustained behaviour change65
Collectively coping with coronavirus: Local community identification predicts giving support and lockdown adherence during the COVID‐19 pandemic59
Mapping public health responses with attitude networks: the emergence of opinion‐based groups in the UK’s early COVID‐19 response phase49
Neoliberalism can reduce well‐being by promoting a sense of social disconnection, competition, and loneliness49
COVID‐19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It’s probably not because of collective psychology47
The Queen Bee phenomenon in Academia 15 years after: Does it still exist, and if so, why?43
Collective resilience in the disaster recovery period: Emergent social identity and observed social support are associated with collective efficacy, well‐being, and the provision of social support39
Community identification, social support, and loneliness: The benefits of social identification for personal well‐being34
Together we can slow the spread of COVID‐19: The interactive effects of priming collectivism and mortality salience on virus‐related health behaviour intentions29
Lacking socio‐economic status reduces subjective well‐being through perceptions of meta‐dehumanization29
What predicts perceived economic inequality? The roles of actual inequality, system justification, and fairness considerations28
Mobilizing collective hatred through humour: Affective–discursive production and reception of populist rhetoric27
‘This country is OURS’: The exclusionary potential of collective psychological ownership26
Examining the role of fundamental psychological needs in the development of metadehumanization: A multi‐population approach25
Reanalysing the factor structure of the moral foundations questionnaire24
Who respects the will of the people? Support for democracy is linked to high secure national identity but low national narcissism24
From bad to worse: Avoidance coping with stress increases conspiracy beliefs23
To punish or to assist? Divergent reactions to ingroup and outgroup members disobeying social distancing22
Social psychological theory and research on the novel coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) pandemic: Introduction to the rapid response special section22
Science as collaborative knowledge generation22
‘Society thinks they are cold and/or incompetent, but I do not’: Stereotype content ratings depend on instructions and the social group's location in the stereotype content space22
Implicit racism, colour blindness, and narrow definitions of discrimination: Why some White people prefer ‘All Lives Matter’ to ‘Black Lives Matter’22
Compliance with governmental restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic: A matter of personal self‐protection or solidarity with people in risk groups?21
A multilevel analysis of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) rights support across 77 countries: The role of contact and country laws20
Why are beliefs in different conspiracy theories positively correlated across individuals? Testing monological network versus unidimensional factor model explanations20
Academics as Agentic Superheroes: Female academics’ lack of fit with the agentic stereotype of success limits their career advancement19
The Bullshitting Frequency Scale: Development and psychometric properties19
Collective psychological ownership and the rise of reactionary counter‐movements defending the status quo16
Ideology before party: Social dominance orientation and right‐wing authoritarianism temporally precede political party support16
Surrendering to social emptiness: Chronic social exclusion longitudinally predicts resignation in asylum seekers15
The effects of moral/social identity threats and affirmations on psychological defensiveness following wrongdoing15
Tweeting about sexism motivates further activism: A social identity perspective14
The antidepressant hoax: Conspiracy theories decrease health‐seeking intentions14
‘You can’t bullshit a bullshitter’ (or can you?): Bullshitting frequency predicts receptivity to various types of misleading information13
A trouble shared is a trouble halved: The role of family identification and identification with humankind in well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic13
Embrace the leadership challenge: The role of Gay men’s internalized sexual stigma on the evaluation of others’ leadership and one’s own13
Meta‐humanization enhances positive reactions to prosocial cross‐group interaction13
Battling ingroup bias with effective intergroup leadership12
The (in)compatibility of identities: Understanding gender differences in work–life conflict through the fit with leaders12
The intergenerational transmission of participation in collective action: The role of conversation and political practices in the family12
Can moral convictions against gender inequality overpower system justification effects? Examining the interaction between moral conviction and system justification11
‘Who wants to silence us’? Perceived discrimination of conspiracy theory believers increases ‘conspiracy theorist’ identification when it comes from powerholders – But not from the general public11
Dehumanization through humour and conspiracies in online hate towards Chinese people during the COVID‐19 pandemic11
Stigmatization of ‘gay‐sounding’ voices: The role of heterosexual, lesbian, and gay individuals’ essentialist beliefs11
Precarious engagements and the politics of knowledge production: Listening to calls for reorienting hegemonic social psychology10
To be or not to be tolerant? A Terror Management perspective exploring the ideological dilemma of tolerance and prejudice10
Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio‐functional model of conspiracy beliefs10
A Kaupapa Māori conceptualization and efforts to address the needs of the growing precariat in Aotearoa New Zealand: A situated focus on Māori10
Tax the élites! The role of economic inequality and conspiracy beliefs on attitudes towards taxes and redistribution intentions10
Addressing workplace gender inequality: Using the evidence to avoid common pitfalls10
Turning the lens in the study of precarity: On experimental social psychology's acquiescence to the settler‐colonial status quo in historic Palestine10
Why punish critical outgroup commenters? Social identity, general norms, and retribution10
Who helps and why? A longitudinal exploration of volunteer role identity, between‐group closeness, and community identification as predictors of coordinated helping during the COVID‐19 pandemic10
Humanizing racialization: Social psychology in a time of unexpected transformational conjunctions9
In it together?: Exploring solidarity with frontline workers in the United Kingdom and Ireland during COVID‐199
Three strategies for doing narrative resistance: Navigating between master narratives9
The interactional production and breach of new norms in the time of COVID‐19: Achieving physical distancing in public spaces9
Using word embeddings to investigate cultural biases9
When work–family guilt becomes a women's issue: Internalized gender stereotypes predict high guilt in working mothers but low guilt in working fathers9
Majority group belonging without minority group distancing? Minority experiences of intergroup contact and inequality9
Benefits of being ambivalent: The relationship between trait ambivalence and attribution biases9
‘A police officer shot a Black man’: Racial categorization, racism, and mundane culpability in news reports of police shootings of black people in the United States of America9
‘One size doesn't fit all’: Lessons from interaction analysis on tailoring Open Science practices to qualitative research9
Video games, frustration, violence, and virtual reality: Two studies9
Fear leads to suffering: Fears of compassion predict restriction of the moral boundary8
An exchange orientation results in an instrumental approach in intimate relationships8
Racism and misrecognition8
Comparing story reading and video watching as two distinct forms of vicarious contact: An experimental intervention among elementary school children8
Personality as a moderator of immediate and delayed ostracism distress8
Rehearsing post‐Covid‐19 citizenship: Social representations of UK Covid‐19 mutual aid8
Factors promoting greater preoccupation with a secret8
Reasons for qualitative psychologists to share human data8
When open data closes the door: A critical examination of the past, present and the potential future for open data guidelines in journals8
‘calling‐out’ vs. ‘calling‐in’ prejudice: Confrontation style affects inferred motive and expected outcomes8
Attitude stability as a moderator of the relationships between cognitive and affective attitudes and behaviour8
Constructing the places of young people in public space: Conflict, belonging and identity7
More positive group memberships are associated with greater resilience in Royal Air Force (RAF) personnel7
Effects of intergroup contact on explicit and implicit outgroup attitudes: A longitudinal field study with majority and minority group members7
Mind perception and stereotype attribution of corporations and charities7
Can ‘we’ share the contested territory with ‘them’? Shared territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation intentions in Kosovo7
Everyday dehumanization: Negative contact, humiliation, and the lived experience of being treated as ‘less than human’7
How compliance with behavioural measures during the initial phase of a pandemic develops over time: A longitudinal COVID‐19 study7
Essentialism affects the perceived compatibility of minority culture maintenance and majority culture adoption preferences7
Hungarian Roma and musical talent: Minority group members’ experiences of an apparently positive stereotype7
Collective nostalgia: Triggers and consequences for collective action intentions6
Objectification limits authenticity: Exploring the relations between objectification, perceived authenticity, and subjective well‐being6
Preventive behaviours during the pandemic: The role of collective rituals, emotional synchrony, social norms and moral obligation6
Ethnic identity concealment and disclosure: Contexts and strategies6
Equality data as immoral race politics: A case study of liberal, colour‐blind, and antiracialist opposition to equality data in Sweden6
Why are people ‘Lying Flat’? Personal relative deprivation suppresses self‐improvement motivation6
What reduces prejudice in the real world? A meta‐analysis of prejudice reduction field experiments6
Identity enactment as collective accomplishment: Religious identity enactment at home and at a festival6
In a double‐bind: Time–space distanciation, socioeconomic status, and coping with financial stress in the United States6
Sex‐based and beauty‐based objectification: Metadehumanization and emotional consequences among victims6
‘You truly are the worst kind of racist!’: Argumentation and polarization in online discussions around gender and radical‐right populism6
Money and flexible generosity6
Identity‐based social support predicts mental and physical health outcomes during COVID‐196
The hers and his of prosociality across 10 countries6
Students’ understanding and support for anti‐racism in universities5
Status, relative deprivation, and moral devaluation of immigrants5
Is use of the general system justification scale across countries justified? Testing its measurement equivalence5
The first author takes it all? Solutions for crediting authors more visibly, transparently, and free of bias5
When cultures clash: Links between perceived cultural distance in values and attitudes towards migrants5
A discursive analysis of compliance, resistance and escalation to threats in sexually exploitative interactions between offenders and male children5
The deficit bias: Candidate gender differences in the relative importance of facial stereotypic qualities to leadership hiring5
A history of collective resilience and collective victimhood: Two sides of the same coin that explain Black Americans' present‐day responses to oppression5
Can culture beat Covid‐19? Evidence that exposure to facemasks with cultural symbols increases solidarity5
Speciesism in everyday language5
‘Look not at what is contrary to propriety’: A meta‐analytic exploration of the association between religiosity and sensitivity to disgust5
A social‐psychological examination of academic precarity as an organizational practice and subjective experience5
Does income inequality increase status anxiety? Not directly, the role of perceived upward and downward mobility5
Communicating group norms through election results4
The role of dialecticism in objective and subjective attitudinal ambivalence4
No borders on a fragile planet: Introducing four lay models of social psychological precarity to support global human identification and citizenship4
Thy will be done: Exploring the longitudinal rewards of religious group membership enactment during volunteering4
Towards a social psychology of precarity4
Examining the relational underpinnings and consequences of system‐justifying beliefs: Explaining the palliative effects of system justification4
Pandemic vulnerability, policy feedback and support for immigration: Evidence from Asia4
‘I’m calling in regard to my son’: Entitlement, obligation, and opportunity to seek help for others4
Brexit: The influence of motivation to respond without prejudice, willingness to disagree, and attitudes to immigration4
Gender stereotypes in UK children and adolescents: Changing patterns of knowledge and endorsement4
Reductions in perceived COVID‐19 threat amid UK’s mass public vaccination programme coincide with reductions in outgroup avoidance (but not prejudice)4
The rhetorical use of the threat of the far‐right in the UK Brexit debate4
Rage donations and mobilization: Understanding the effects of advocacy on collective giving responses4
Prototypicality at the intersection of gender and sexual orientation4
Prejudice against members of a ridiculed working‐class group4
Warmth, competence, and subtle dehumanization: Comparing clustering patterns of warmth and competence with animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization4
Social identity processes associated with perceived risk at pilot sporting events during COVID‐194
Using social cognition models to understand why people, such as perfectionists, struggle to respond with self‐compassion4
Who is expected to make contact? Interpretative repertoires related to an intergroup encounter between Finnish majority mothers and immigrant mothers4
Call me maybe: Risk factors of impaired social contact during the COVID‐19 pandemic and associations with well‐being4
What is hiding behind the rainbow plot? The gender ideology and LGBTQ+ lobby conspiracies (GILC) scale4
Connecting with strangers in the city: A mattering approach4
Disentangling national and religious identification as predictors of support for religious minority rights among Christian majority groups4
Self‐objectification in women predicts approval motivation in online self‐presentation4
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver: Machiavellianism is associated with producing but not necessarily with falling for bullshit4
Vocabularies of social influence: Managing the moral accountability of influencing another4
When is women’s benevolent sexism associated with support for other women’s agentic responses to gender‐based threat?4
Self‐enhancement and physical health: A meta‐analysis3
Truth is its own reward: Completeness of information, the feeling of truth knowing, and victims’ closure3
Existential isolation and the struggle for belief validation3
From one new law to (many) new practices? Multidisciplinary teams re‐constructing the meaning of a new disability law3
Negotiating identities and social representations through intergroup contact in a community solidarity initiative3
When looking ‘hot’ means not feeling cold: Evidence that self‐objectification inhibits feelings of being cold3
‘Depending on where I am…’ Hair, travelling and the performance of identity among Black and mixed‐race women3
The process of becoming ‘we’ in an intergroup conflict context: How enhancing intergroup moral similarities leads to common‐ingroup identity3
Factors in workers’ dehumanization: Multiple stigmatization, social status, and workers’ sex3
Bullshitting and persuasion: The persuasiveness of a disregard for the truth3
Social identities and the achievement gap: Incompatibility between social class background and student identity increases student disidentification, which decreases performance and leads to higher dro3
On the precariousness of address: What narratives of being called White can tell us about researching and re/producing social categories in research3
The values we share: A multi‐method approach to understanding how perceived outgroup values are related to attitudes towards immigrants3
Team identification relates to lower burnoutEmotional and instrumental support as two different social cure mechanisms3
How does ingroup identification predict forgiveness in post‐conflict societies? The role of conflict narratives3
Responses of the public towards the government in times of crisis3
Seeking and avoiding contact with Muslims at a Hijab Stall: Evidence for multilayer, multi‐determined solidarity, courage, apathy, and moral outrage3
Can’t fight seeing sadness in tears: Measuring the implicit association between tears and sadness3
The reciprocal relationship between social identification and social support over time: A four‐wave longitudinal study3
The reciprocal relationship between social identity and adherence to group norms3
Identity and action: Help‐seeking requests in calls to a victim support service3
‘Guilty as charged’: Intersectionality and accountability in lay talk on discrimination and violence3
Prec(ar)ious knowledge and the neoliberal academy: Towards re‐imagining epistemic justice and critical psychology3
How the home features in young adults’ representations of loneliness: The impact of COVID‐193
‘They’re discriminated against, but so are we’: White Australian‐born perceptions of ingroup and immigrant discrimination over time are not zero sum3
Beyond ‘stampedes’: Towards a new psychology of crowd crush disasters3
Engaged followership and toxic science: Exploring the effect of prototypicality on willingness to follow harmful experimental instructions3
Leadership, mobilization of risky behaviours and accountability: The Church of Greece leaders' public talk during the COVID‐19 pandemic3
The breaking bad effect: Priming with an antihero increases sensation seeking3
Motives for punishing powerful vs. prestigious offenders: The moderating role of group identity2
The political system through a partisan lens: Within‐person changes in support for political parties precede political system attitudes2
The social tensions felt within: Explaining felt ambivalence about polarized societal debates through perceived opinion discrepancies in the social environment2
The humble estimate: Humility predicts higher self‐assessment accuracy2
Reminders of COVID‐19 social distancing can intensify physical pain2
Bystander intervention among secondary school pupils: Testing an augmented Prototype Willingness Model2
The malleability of collective memories: One year after the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan2
Social identity enactment in a pandemic: Scottish Muslims' experiences of restricted access to communal spaces2
On Sanders, Trump, and rhinoceroses: Quantifying subjective construals helps predict political attitudes2
Am I being dehumanized? Development and validation of the experience of dehumanization measurement2
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The effects of temperature on prosocial and antisocial behaviour: A review and meta‐analysis2
Iron fists and velvet gloves: Investigating the associations between the stringency of governments’ responses to COVID‐19, stress, and compliance in the early stages of the pandemic2
The dark side of nostalgia: Yearning for the past fosters bribe‐taking2
Exploring the social dynamics of urban regeneration: A qualitative analysis of community members' experiences2
Testing a new indirect measure of general self‐worth: The Self‐esteem Questionnaire‐based Implicit Association Test2
What triggers depressive symptoms among gay and bisexual men? A sequential mediation model of sexual minority‐related stigma and self‐criticism2
Authority, conformity and obedience: Applying Friedrich’s theory of authority to the classics2
Looking for your cross‐group friends after the breakout? Children's intergroup contact behaviours before and after the onset of COVID‐192
Love is heterosexual‐by‐default: Cultural heterosexism in default prototypes of romantic love2
Shake it off! Adaptive coping with stress reduces national narcissism2
The regional big‐fish‐little‐pond effect: Evidence from national and subnational comparisons2
‘You don't compare horrors, you just don't do that’: Examining assumptions and extending the scope of comparative victim beliefs2
Opportunities, challenges and tensions: Open science through a lens of qualitative social psychology2
Mobilizing race and racism: Visible race and invisible racism2
Attitude networks as intergroup realities: Using network‐modelling to research attitude‐identity relationships in polarized political contexts2
Conspiracy believers claim to be free thinkers but (Under)Use advice like everyone else2
Individual uniqueness in trust profiles and well‐being: Understanding the role of cultural tightness–looseness from a representation similarity perspective2
Cross‐modal impression updating: Dynamic impression updating from face to voice and the other way around2
A compliment’s cost: How positive responses to non‐traditional choices may paradoxically reinforce traditional gender norms2
Economic inequality breeds corrupt behaviour2
Greater expectations or less sugar‐coating? Perceptual underpinnings of constructive patriotism2
On the lowest rung of the ladder: How social exclusion, perceived economic inequality and stigma increase homeless people's resignation2
Why do people gossip? Reputation promotes honest reputational information sharing2
When and why does political trust predict well‐being in authoritarian contexts? Examining the role of political efficacy and collective action among opposition voters2
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