British Journal of Social Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of British 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Conspiracy believers claim to be free thinkers but (Under)Use advice like everyone else36
Testing a new indirect measure of general self‐worth: The Self‐esteem Questionnaire‐based Implicit Association Test35
Purity, politics, and polarization: Political ideology moderates threat‐induced shifts in moral purity beliefs34
Identity fusion is associated with outgroup trust and social exploration: Evidence for the fusion‐secure base hypothesis31
Equality data as immoral race politics: A case study of liberal, colour‐blind, and antiracialist opposition to equality data in Sweden31
Red‐pilled mama bears and enlightened power goddesses: Discursive constructions of feminine identities in a conspiracy theory space28
Can't see the forest for the trees: Time poverty influences construal level and the moderating role of autonomous versus controlled motivation27
Can moral convictions against gender inequality overpower system justification effects? Examining the interaction between moral conviction and system justification24
Reminders of COVID‐19 social distancing can intensify physical pain21
Why are beliefs in different conspiracy theories positively correlated across individuals? Testing monological network versus unidimensional factor model explanations21
Selective cultural adoption: The roles of warmth, competence, morality and perceived indispensability in majority‐group acculturation21
Avoidance coping explains the link between narcissism and counternormative tendencies19
Addressing workplace gender inequality: Using the evidence to avoid common pitfalls18
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The reciprocal relationship between social identification and social support over time: A four‐wave longitudinal study16
When and why does political trust predict well‐being in authoritarian contexts? Examining the role of political efficacy and collective action among opposition voters16
The fish can rot from the heart, not just the head: Exploring the detrimental impact of transgressions by leaders at multiple levels of an organization16
Dishonest collaboration in an intergroup context15
Does the union always make the force? Group status and recategorization influence the perceived physical formidability of potential coalition groups15
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Can ‘we’ share the contested territory with ‘them’? Shared territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation intentions in Kosovo14
Can’t fight seeing sadness in tears: Measuring the implicit association between tears and sadness14
Individual uniqueness in trust profiles and well‐being: Understanding the role of cultural tightness–looseness from a representation similarity perspective13
Reducing economic inequality is ‘just right’: Moral conviction predicts support for redistributive government policies13
Leadership, mobilization of risky behaviours and accountability: The Church of Greece leaders' public talk during the COVID‐19 pandemic13
Attitude stability as a moderator of the relationships between cognitive and affective attitudes and behaviour13
What are they in it for? Marginalised group members' perceptions of allies differ depending on the costs and rewards associated with their allyship12
Connecting groups and behaviours: A network analysis of identity‐infused behaviours12
The psychology of colonial ideologies: Decoupling pro‐egalitarian and neo‐colonial sources of support for Puerto Rico statehood12
The role of identity‐related beliefs in the appraisal and management of crowding: Insights from the Hajj12
Talking about the experiences of racism: A study of reporting racism in broadcast interviews12
Individual and contextual moderators of the relationship between authoritarianism and religiosity12
Dehumanization through humour and conspiracies in online hate towards Chinese people during the COVID‐19 pandemic12
Beyond normative and non‐normative: A systematic review on predictors of confrontational collective action12
Speciesism in everyday language12
Factors promoting greater preoccupation with a secret12
White Americans' blame attributions and empathy towards Black victims of police violence: How pejorative stereotypes ‘engulf the field’11
Who respects the will of the people? Support for democracy is linked to high secure national identity but low national narcissism11
How does economic inequality shape conspiracy theories? Empirical evidence from China11
Factors in workers’ dehumanization: Multiple stigmatization, social status, and workers’ sex11
Gender (in)equality at the kitchen table: A diary study on how Parents' coordination facilitates an equal task division and relationship quality11
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 pandemic11
Pandemic vulnerability, policy feedback and support for immigration: Evidence from Asia10
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver: Machiavellianism is associated with producing but not necessarily with falling for bullshit10
The role of empathy in trolley problems and variants: A systematic review and meta‐analysis10
Social identity processes associated with perceived risk at pilot sporting events during COVID‐1910
Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio‐functional model of conspiracy beliefs10
The hers and his of prosociality across 10 countries10
Efficiency or equality? The utilitarianism–egalitarianism trade‐off determines carbon allocation preference9
In it together?: Exploring solidarity with frontline workers in the United Kingdom and Ireland during COVID‐199
Between east and west, between past and future: The effects of exclusive historical victimhood on geopolitical attitudes in Hungary and Serbia8
System‐justifying beliefs buffer against psychological distress during the COVID‐19 pandemic8
Social psychology of context and in context: Understanding the temporal, spatial and embodied dimensions of contemporary geopolitics8
The likes that bind: Even novel opinion sharing can induce opinion‐based identification8
Exploring the social dynamics of urban regeneration: A qualitative analysis of community members' experiences8
Rejection of the status quo: Conspiracy theories and preference for alternative political systems8
The motivations and reputational consequences of spreading conspiracy theories8
How the manner in which data is visualized affects and corrects (mis)perceptions of political polarization8
A qualitative and quantitative study of radical pro‐environmental social change as anticipated future loss and threat: A gender perspective8
Strategic thinking in the shadow of self‐enhancement: Benefits and costs8
Not revenge, but change is sweet: Experimental evidence of how offender change and punishment play independent roles in victims' sense of justice8
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Our ways will not change: Future collective continuity increases present prosocial considerations8
Psychological needs related to civil inattention: A qualitative and quantitative view on public encounters8
Your needs or mine? The role of allies' needs and their perceptions of disadvantaged groups' needs in motivating solidarity‐based actions8
Motivations to engage in collective action: A latent profile analysis of refugee supporters8
The process of becoming ‘we’ in an intergroup conflict context: How enhancing intergroup moral similarities leads to common‐ingroup identity8
The political system through a partisan lens: Within‐person changes in support for political parties precede political system attitudes8
Editorial acknowledgement7
The role of legitimizing the social hierarchy in the impact of status on perceived assertiveness and competence7
‘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 America7
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Prosocial advice to close versus non‐close others7
Throwing off the dark legacy when going down: Experience of status loss undermines reparation intentions prompted by narratives of the ingroup’s past wrongdoings7
The humble estimate: Humility predicts higher self‐assessment accuracy7
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 pandemic7
Can culture beat Covid‐19? Evidence that exposure to facemasks with cultural symbols increases solidarity7
‘Depending on where I am…’ Hair, travelling and the performance of identity among Black and mixed‐race women7
Seeking and avoiding contact with Muslims at a Hijab Stall: Evidence for multilayer, multi‐determined solidarity, courage, apathy, and moral outrage6
Economic bifurcations in pandemic leadership: Power in abundance or agency amid scarcity?6
A search for commonalities in defining the common good: Using folk theories to unlock shared conceptions6
The dark side of nostalgia: Yearning for the past fosters bribe‐taking6
The working memory approach of persuasion: Induced eye movements lead to more social media self‐control behaviours6
Call for papers: Towards a social psychology of precarity6
The social tensions felt within: Explaining felt ambivalence about polarized societal debates through perceived opinion discrepancies in the social environment6
Word embeddings reveal growing moral concern for people, animals and the environment6
Implicit association tests: Stimuli validation from participant responses6
Challenges of measuring empathic accuracy: A mentalizing versus experience‐sharing paradigm6
Editorial Acknowledgement6
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The mediating effect of institutional trust in the relationship between precarity and conspiracy beliefs: A conceptual replication of Adam‐Troian et al. (2023)6
How our ideological out‐group shapes our emotional response to our shared socio‐political reality6
Engaged followership and toxic science: Exploring the effect of prototypicality on willingness to follow harmful experimental instructions6
Mobilizing race and racism: Visible race and invisible racism5
Virtually in love: The role of anthropomorphism in virtual romantic relationships5
How compliance with behavioural measures during the initial phase of a pandemic develops over time: A longitudinal COVID‐19 study5
When cultures clash: Links between perceived cultural distance in values and attitudes towards migrants5
Integration, urban citizenship, and spatial aspects of (new) mobilities: Greek migrants' constructions of integration in European cities5
Self‐objectification in women predicts approval motivation in online self‐presentation5
Implicit racism, colour blindness, and narrow definitions of discrimination: Why some White people prefer ‘All Lives Matter’ to ‘Black Lives Matter’5
The identification environment matters: Students' social identification, perceived physical school environment, and anxiety – A cross‐level interaction model5
Warmth, competence, and subtle dehumanization: Comparing clustering patterns of warmth and competence with animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization5
Toleration, discrimination, or acceptance? How majorities interpret and legitimize minority toleration depends on outgroup threat5
The effect of transparency on the temporal spillover effect of default nudges5
Intellectual humility as a tool to combat false beliefs: An individual‐based approach to belief revision5
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The effect of apparent Police power at demonstrations against right‐wing populism on Protestors' resistance using a virtual reality experiment5
Reduced loneliness mediates the effects of multiple group identifications on well‐being5
Attitude networks as intergroup realities: Using network‐modelling to research attitude‐identity relationships in polarized political contexts5
The Perceived Economic Scarcity Scale: A valid tool with greater predictive utility than income5
A social identity approach to crisis leadership5
Perceived economic inequality inhibits pro‐environmental engagement4
Context as politicised psycho‐geographies: The psychological relationship between individual, politics, and country4
Exploring the ecological relationship between temperature and prosocial behaviour: A geographical and temporal analysis4
Cues of trait dominance elicit inferences of psychological ownership4
The sustainable challenge: Where does social psychology stand in achieving the sustainable development goals?4
Using word embeddings to investigate cultural biases4
Gendered attitudes towards pro‐environmental change: The role of hegemonic masculinity endorsement, dominance and threat4
Perceptions of the present shape imagined futures: Unravelling the interplay between perceived anomie, collective future thinking and collective action in the French context4
Overcoming low status or maintaining high status? A multinational examination of the association between socioeconomic status and honour4
Show me your friends, I'll tell you your emotions: Emotional fit of immigrant‐origin minority youth in cross‐cultural friendship networks4
Students’ understanding and support for anti‐racism in universities4
Moral trade‐offs reveal foundational representations that predict unique variance in political attitudes4
Social network analysis in social psychological ressearch (1990–2020): A scoping review4
Solidarity with whom? Minority perspectives on allyship in Danish queer spaces4
Global perceptions of state apologies for human rights violations4
Political orientation, trust and discriminatory beliefs during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from the United Kingdom3
The subjective and objective side of helplessness: Navigating between reassurance and risk management when people seek help for suicidal others3
A social psychology of climate change: Progress and promise3
System circumvention: Dishonest‐illegal transgressions are perceived as justified in non‐meritocratic societies3
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The psychology of income wealth threshold estimations: A registered report3
Opposite effects of RWA and SDO on war support: Chinese public opinion toward Russia's war in Ukraine3
An investigation of politicians' responses to urban diversity and disadvantage: The case of the Danish ‘parallel societies’3
Editorial acknowledgement3
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‘Not a party to this crime’: The reciprocal constitution of identity and morality by signatories of the Academics for Peace petition in Turkey3
Stigma salience increases loneliness among ethnic minorities3
Social identity, mental health and the experience of migration3
Does income inequality increase status anxiety? Not directly, the role of perceived upward and downward mobility3
Making sense of punishment: Transgressors' interpretation of punishment motives determines the effects of sanctions3
Ethnic identity concealment and disclosure: Contexts and strategies3
The sound of silence: The importance of bystander support for confronters in the prevention of norm erosion3
How positive and negative intergroup contact jointly inform minority support for social change: The role of system‐fairness beliefs3
Spontaneous public response to a marauding knife attack on the London underground: Sociality, coordination and a repertoire of actions evidenced by CCTV footage3
Racism and misrecognition3
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Can we prevent social identity switches? An experimental–computational investigation3
Unethical prosocial behaviour and self‐dehumanization: The roles of social connectedness and perceived morality3
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The first author takes it all? Solutions for crediting authors more visibly, transparently, and free of bias3
Having, making and feeling home as a European immigrant in the United Kingdom post‐Brexit referendum: An interpretative phenomenological study3
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Towards a social psychology of precarity3
Not all ballots should be considered equal: How education‐based dehumanization undermines the democratic social contract3
The costs of lying: Consequences of telling lies on liar's self‐esteem and affect3
In a double‐bind: Time–space distanciation, socioeconomic status, and coping with financial stress in the United States3
When looking ‘hot’ means not feeling cold: Evidence that self‐objectification inhibits feelings of being cold2
Why punish critical outgroup commenters? Social identity, general norms, and retribution2
Disentangling national and religious identification as predictors of support for religious minority rights among Christian majority groups2
‘All of a sudden for no reason they've been displaced’: Constructing the ‘contingent refugee’ in early media reports on the Ukrainian refugees2
Collective UK nostalgia predicts a desire to leave the European Union2
Nostalgia encourages exploration and fosters uncertainty in response to AI technology2
Beyond ‘stampedes’: Towards a new psychology of crowd crush disasters2
Responses of the public towards the government in times of crisis2
A warrant for violence? An analysis of Donald Trump's speech before the US Capitol attack2
Prototypicality at the intersection of gender and sexual orientation2
Unpacking the effects of materialism on interpersonal relationships: A cognitive approach2
Corrigendum to “Is use of the general system justification scale across countries justified? Testing its measurement equivalence”2
Having the right face for the job: The effect of facial width‐to‐height ratio on job selection preferences2
Beyond experiential spending: Consumers report higher well‐being from purchases that satisfy intrinsic goals2
Perceived respect from the adversary group can improve intergroup attitudes in a context of intractable conflict2
So different yet so alike? Political collective narcissism predicts blatant dehumanization of political outgroups among conservatives and liberals2
Canadian politicians' rhetoric on Twitter/X: Analysing prejudice and inclusion towards Muslims using structural topic modelling and rhetorical analysis2
Identity‐based social support predicts mental and physical health outcomes during COVID‐192
Opportunities, challenges and tensions: Open science through a lens of qualitative social psychology2
Visual humanization of refugees: A visual rhetorical analysis of media discourse on the war in Ukraine2
Humanizing racialization: Social psychology in a time of unexpected transformational conjunctions2
Citizenship deservingness justifies exclusive national boundary making: A socio‐dynamic mixed‐methods approach to social representations of citizenship2
How does ingroup identification predict forgiveness in post‐conflict societies? The role of conflict narratives2
Blame it on her ‘baby brain’? Investigating the contents of social stereotypes about pregnant women's warmth and competence2
The distinct associations of ingroup attachment and glorification with responses to the coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from a multilevel investigation in 21 countries2
With or without you? Perceived indispensability and opposition to separatist movements2
Thy will be done: Exploring the longitudinal rewards of religious group membership enactment during volunteering2
Collectively coping with coronavirus: Local community identification predicts giving support and lockdown adherence during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Coping strategies and belief in COVID‐19 conspiracy theories2
Meta‐humanization enhances positive reactions to prosocial cross‐group interaction2
A history of collective resilience and collective victimhood: Two sides of the same coin that explain Black Americans' present‐day responses to oppression2
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Is contact among social class groups associated with legitimation of inequality? An examination across 28 countries1
Unlocking collective cooperation in the midst of COVID‐19: The role of social support in predicting the social class disparity in cooperation1
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On the spurious effect of intergroup friendship on outgroup attitudes in schools: The role of social influence and the positive impact of exposure to outgroup peers1
Severity and deservedness determine signalled trustworthiness in third party punishment1
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Why trust? A mixed‐method investigation of the origins and meaning of trust during the COVID‐19 lockdown in Denmark1
Crisis geographies from above and below: Constructing globality during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
How the home features in young adults’ representations of loneliness: The impact of COVID‐191
‘One of the greatest injustices of our time’: The impact of social representations of modern slavery in the UK—A mixed methods approach1
Prosocial behaviour enhances evaluation of physical beauty1
‘They are conspiring against us’: How outgroup conspiracy theories stimulate environmental neglect in intergroup resource dilemmas1
The effects of temperature on prosocial and antisocial behaviour: A review and meta‐analysis1
‘They attacked you just like that’: Negotiating racial epistemics in making claims about racism1
From pity to numbness: Social exclusion moderates the relationship between trait empathy and bystanders’ aggressive tendencies in cyberbullying1
State responsiveness, collective efficacy and threat perception: Catalyst and complacency effects in opposition to crime across eight countries1
Impresarios of identity: How the leaders of Czechoslovakia's ‘Candlelight Demonstration’ enabled effective collective action in a context of repression1
The regional big‐fish‐little‐pond effect: Evidence from national and subnational comparisons1
The role of group memberships and school identification on student well‐being1
The interactional production and breach of new norms in the time of COVID‐19: Achieving physical distancing in public spaces1
A latent profile analysis of the nature of social group memberships and their contribution to retirement outcomes1
Preventive behaviours during the pandemic: The role of collective rituals, emotional synchrony, social norms and moral obligation1
Motives for punishing powerful vs. prestigious offenders: The moderating role of group identity1
Rage donations and mobilization: Understanding the effects of advocacy on collective giving responses1
The deficit bias: Candidate gender differences in the relative importance of facial stereotypic qualities to leadership hiring1
Policy as normative influence? On the relationship between parental leave policy and social norms in gender division of childcare across 48 countries1
What is hiding behind the rainbow plot? The gender ideology and LGBTQ+ lobby conspiracies (GILC) scale1
Everybody hurts (sometimes): The role of victim category accessibility in prosocial responses towards victimized outgroups1
Seeing is more than believing: Personal experience increases climate action1
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The role of interdependent self‐construal in mitigating the effect of conspiratorial beliefs on vaccine acceptance1
Team identification relates to lower burnoutEmotional and instrumental support as two different social cure mechanisms1
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Why do people gossip? Reputation promotes honest reputational information sharing1
Mourning and orienting to the future in a liminal occasion: (Re)defining British national identity after Queen Elizabeth II's death1
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Diluting perceived immigration threat: When and how intersectional identities shape views of North African immigrants1
Your voice pitch speaks volumes about you: How voice pitch affects mind perception of the speakers1
Tax the élites! The role of economic inequality and conspiracy beliefs on attitudes towards taxes and redistribution intentions1
Rehearsing post‐Covid‐19 citizenship: Social representations of UK Covid‐19 mutual aid1
Identity enactment as a social accomplishment: Shared identity and the provision of mutual support amongst pilgrims undertaking the Hajj1
‘Like we definitely have to go greener, but…’: Analysing affective–discursive practices in populist environmental discourse1
How transgressor's moral identity leads to high‐quality apologies: The positive effects of guilt1
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What reduces prejudice in the real world? A meta‐analysis of prejudice reduction field experiments1
‘You don't compare horrors, you just don't do that’: Examining assumptions and extending the scope of comparative victim beliefs1
Money and flexible generosity1
Egoistic value is positively associated with pro‐environmental attitude and behaviour when the environmental problems are psychologically close1
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On the Measurement of Episodic Empowerment1
‘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 public1
Threat to control promotes utilitarian moral judgement: The role of judgement type and length of control deprivation1
Am I being dehumanized? Development and validation of the experience of dehumanization measurement1
Biodiversity and cultural diversity are morally valued1
No borders on a fragile planet: Introducing four lay models of social psychological precarity to support global human identification and citizenship1
Is use of the general system justification scale across countries justified? Testing its measurement equivalence1
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