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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Can ‘we’ share the contested territory with ‘them’? Shared territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation intentions in Kosovo41
Strategic thinking in the shadow of self‐enhancement: Benefits and costs37
Individual uniqueness in trust profiles and well‐being: Understanding the role of cultural tightness–looseness from a representation similarity perspective36
Red‐pilled mama bears and enlightened power goddesses: Discursive constructions of feminine identities in a conspiracy theory space35
Rejection of the status quo: Conspiracy theories and preference for alternative political systems30
The reciprocal relationship between social identification and social support over time: A four‐wave longitudinal study30
The psychology of colonial ideologies: Decoupling pro‐egalitarian and neo‐colonial sources of support for Puerto Rico statehood28
Gender and ideological orientation moderate the influence of climate misinformation on pro‐environmental behavioural intentions26
Optimistic bias in updating beliefs about climate change longitudinally predicts low pro‐environmental behaviour26
Social psychology of context and in context: Understanding the temporal, spatial and embodied dimensions of contemporary geopolitics25
Conspiracy believers claim to be free thinkers but (Under)Use advice like everyone else25
Issue Information25
Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio‐functional model of conspiracy beliefs24
Motivations to engage in collective action: A latent profile analysis of refugee supporters24
Editorial acknowledgement23
Moral trade‐offs reveal foundational representations that predict unique variance in political attitudes23
Mobilizing race and racism: Visible race and invisible racism23
Cues of trait dominance elicit inferences of psychological ownership20
Towards a social psychology of precarity19
Beyond experiential spending: Consumers report higher well‐being from purchases that satisfy intrinsic goals19
The working memory approach of persuasion: Induced eye movements lead to more social media self‐control behaviours19
Issue Information19
The humble estimate: Humility predicts higher self‐assessment accuracy19
Nostalgia encourages exploration and fosters uncertainty in response to AI technology18
“I have been hearing we are the future of tomorrow for so long now. When is tomorrow?” narratives on youth and the future in Nigeria18
Prejudice towards refugees predicts social fear of crime18
So different yet so alike? Political collective narcissism predicts blatant dehumanization of political outgroups among conservatives and liberals18
The costs of lying: Consequences of telling lies on liar's self‐esteem and affect18
Visual humanization of refugees: A visual rhetorical analysis of media discourse on the war in Ukraine17
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Egoistic value is positively associated with pro‐environmental attitude and behaviour when the environmental problems are psychologically close17
No borders on a fragile planet: Introducing four lay models of social psychological precarity to support global human identification and citizenship16
Issue Information16
Crisis geographies from above and below: Constructing globality during the COVID‐19 pandemic16
Beyond the incident: Influences on the perception of multiple instances of discrimination16
Prosocial behaviour enhances evaluation of physical beauty16
The regional big‐fish‐little‐pond effect: Evidence from national and subnational comparisons16
Space‐focused stereotypes of immigrant neighbourhoods16
Dressing up social psychology: Empirically investigating the psychological functions of clothing using the example of symbolic protection15
Green dreams are made of this: Futures consciousness and proenvironmental engagement15
Your voice pitch speaks volumes about you: How voice pitch affects mind perception of the speakers15
What is hiding behind the rainbow plot? The gender ideology and LGBTQ+ lobby conspiracies (GILC) scale15
Who you know influences where you go: Intergroup contact attenuates bias in trainee teachers' school preferences14
The values we share: A multi‐method approach to understanding how perceived outgroup values are related to attitudes towards immigrants14
Child sexual abuse and social identity loss: A qualitative analysis of survivors' public accounts14
How ingroup norms of multiculturalism (and tolerance) affect intergroup solidarity: The role of ideology13
Reductions in perceived COVID‐19 threat amid UK’s mass public vaccination programme coincide with reductions in outgroup avoidance (but not prejudice)13
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Constructing the places of young people in public space: Conflict, belonging and identity13
Yes, we can (but for different reasons): Collective narcissism is linked to different values but similar pro‐ingroup collective action tendencies among disadvantaged and advantaged ethnic groups13
On Sanders, Trump, and rhinoceroses: Quantifying subjective construals helps predict political attitudes13
Power effects on interindividual and intergroup competition12
Examining the connection between position‐based power and social status across 70 cultures12
Issue Information12
Correction to ‘Past–future asymmetry in identity‐relevant perception of racism and inequality’12
Involuntary evaluation of others' emotional expressions depends on the expresser's group membership. Further evidence for the social message account from the extrinsic affective Simon task12
Call me maybe: Risk factors of impaired social contact during the COVID‐19 pandemic and associations with well‐being12
Who values competent minds and who likes warm hearts? The role of right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation in shaping voter preferences for political candidates12
Being close or being alone: How Social ostracism affects solitude preference12
Existential isolation and the struggle for belief validation11
Sowing seeds for the future: Future time perspective and climate adaptation among farmers11
Having a choice of means gears incomplete runners into more effective goal engagement: The effects of deliberative mindsets on the pursuit of identity goals11
Reasons for qualitative psychologists to share human data11
The motivations and reputational consequences of spreading conspiracy theories11
Social influence and social identity: A diffusion model analysis11
Backfire effects of performance quantification on stress and disidentification: The role of metadehumanization in organizations, sport, and social networks11
Gender stereotypes in UK children and adolescents: Changing patterns of knowledge and endorsement11
Suspicious of AI? Perceived autonomy and interdependence predict AI‐related conspiracy beliefs11
Reducing economic inequality is ‘just right’: Moral conviction predicts support for redistributive government policies10
Leadership, mobilization of risky behaviours and accountability: The Church of Greece leaders' public talk during the COVID‐19 pandemic10
Bread and Roses: Social re‐presentations for Unconditional Basic Income in the Basque Country10
The likes that bind: Even novel opinion sharing can induce opinion‐based identification10
Towards sustainability by reducing speciesism: The effect of a prejudice‐based intervention on people's attitudes and behaviours towards animals10
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver: Machiavellianism is associated with producing but not necessarily with falling for bullshit10
Factors in workers’ dehumanization: Multiple stigmatization, social status, and workers’ sex10
Can't see the forest for the trees: Time poverty influences construal level and the moderating role of autonomous versus controlled motivation9
How compliance with behavioural measures during the initial phase of a pandemic develops over time: A longitudinal COVID‐19 study9
Stigma salience increases loneliness among ethnic minorities9
Social identity, mental health and the experience of migration9
The fish can rot from the heart, not just the head: Exploring the detrimental impact of transgressions by leaders at multiple levels of an organization9
Identity fusion is associated with outgroup trust and social exploration: Evidence for the fusion‐secure base hypothesis9
The dark side of nostalgia: Yearning for the past fosters bribe‐taking9
What are they in it for? Marginalised group members' perceptions of allies differ depending on the costs and rewards associated with their allyship9
The mediating effect of institutional trust in the relationship between precarity and conspiracy beliefs: A conceptual replication of Adam‐Troian et al. (2023)9
Prosocial advice to close versus non‐close others9
Word embeddings reveal growing moral concern for people, animals and the environment9
Perceived economic inequality inhibits pro‐environmental engagement8
Majority friendship and support for social change: Examining the role of ethnic and politicized identifications among Indigenous people in Chile8
Social network analysis in social psychological ressearch (1990–2020): A scoping review8
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Can transformative experiences bridge the gap between receiving communities and formerly incarcerated persons?8
How our ideological out‐group shapes our emotional response to our shared socio‐political reality8
Empathy expectations: Trait empathy exacerbates apologetic offenders' negative reactions to non‐forgiveness8
The role of legitimizing the social hierarchy in the impact of status on perceived assertiveness and competence8
Integration, urban citizenship, and spatial aspects of (new) mobilities: Greek migrants' constructions of integration in European cities8
Solidarity with whom? Minority perspectives on allyship in Danish queer spaces8
A social psychology of climate change: Progress and promise8
Issue Information8
Impresarios of identity: How the leaders of Czechoslovakia's ‘Candlelight Demonstration’ enabled effective collective action in a context of repression7
Political orientation, trust and discriminatory beliefs during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from the United Kingdom7
Why punish critical outgroup commenters? Social identity, general norms, and retribution7
An investigation of politicians' responses to urban diversity and disadvantage: The case of the Danish ‘parallel societies’7
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Making sense of punishment: Transgressors' interpretation of punishment motives determines the effects of sanctions7
‘They attacked you just like that’: Negotiating racial epistemics in making claims about racism7
Rise of the alt‐White? Examining the prevalence of perceived racial and gender discrimination among White men from 2014 to 20237
Shared social identity and social norms shape risk‐taking at mass gatherings7
The role of group memberships and school identification on student well‐being7
Can we prevent social identity switches? An experimental–computational investigation7
Issue Information7
Blame it on her ‘baby brain’? Investigating the contents of social stereotypes about pregnant women's warmth and competence7
‘Like we definitely have to go greener, but…’: Analysing affective–discursive practices in populist environmental discourse7
A latent profile analysis of the nature of social group memberships and their contribution to retirement outcomes6
‘Are they just putting up with me’? How diversity approaches impact LGBTQ+ employees' sense of being tolerated at work6
Pressured to be proud? Investigating the link between perceived norms and intergroup attitudes in members of disadvantaged minority groups6
Honour, acculturation and well‐being: Evidence from the UK and Canada6
Power and resistance: Black Americans' multifaceted perceptions of ingroup strengths and their effects on collective efficacy and resistance6
The role of perspective‐taking in attenuating self‐group distancing in women managers6
Regulating liminality: Making sense of the vegetative state and defining the limits of end‐of‐life action6
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How the home features in young adults’ representations of loneliness: The impact of COVID‐196
Elaboration moderates reliance on metacognitive assessments: The case of attitude certainty6
Leadership and discursive mobilizing of collective action in the Jonestown mass killing6
Motor coordination induces social identity—A novel paradigm for the investigation of the group performance‐identity link6
My mind to your mind: Christians egocentrically estimate God's and Satan's attitudes6
“It's that feeling that you can't get away”: Motherhood, gender inequality and the stress process during extreme events5
The utility of nostalgia for unhealthy populations: A systematic review and narrative analysis5
Bystander intervention among secondary school pupils: Testing an augmented Prototype Willingness Model5
Unveiling the psychological mechanisms of mutual help groups for addiction recovery: The role of social identity factors5
Investigating cycle shifts in women's clothing style and grooming5
Within your rights: Dissociating wrongness and permissibility in moral judgement5
The effects of social exclusion on distributive fairness judgements and cooperative behaviour5
Attitudes towards refugees: Introducing a short three‐dimensional scale5
Meaningless gestures or pathway to healing and reconciliation? Comparing the perspectives on political apologies in victim and non‐victim communities in El Salvador, the Republic of Korea and the Unit5
Is helping you helping me? The assessment of helping others using event sampling methodology in a clinical and a non‐clinical sample5
The reciprocal relationship between social identity and adherence to group norms5
Constructions of difference in lay talk about diversity: Ideological dilemmas, antiracism and implications for identity5
Prec(ar)ious knowledge and the neoliberal academy: Towards re‐imagining epistemic justice and critical psychology5
Why do we never have enough time? Economic inequality fuels the perception of time poverty by aggravating status anxiety5
‘Guilty as charged’: Intersectionality and accountability in lay talk on discrimination and violence5
Using social cognition models to understand why people, such as perfectionists, struggle to respond with self‐compassion5
Past‐future asymmetry in identity‐relevant perception of racism and inequality5
Us, them and we: How national and human identifications influence adolescents' ethnic prejudice5
Climate futures: Scientists' discourses on collapse versus transformation5
Mental contrasting promotes effective self‐regulation for the benefits of groups5
On the precariousness of address: What narratives of being called White can tell us about researching and re/producing social categories in research5
Exaggerating differences back and forth: Two levels of intergroup accentuation5
Social identities and the achievement gap: Incompatibility between social class background and student identity increases student disidentification, which decreases performance and leads to higher dro4
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How the manner in which data is visualized affects and corrects (mis)perceptions of political polarization4
Our ways will not change: Future collective continuity increases present prosocial considerations4
Overcoming low status or maintaining high status? A multinational examination of the association between socioeconomic status and honour4
Turning the lens in the study of precarity: On experimental social psychology's acquiescence to the settler‐colonial status quo in historic Palestine4
Gender (in)equality at the kitchen table: A diary study on how Parents' coordination facilitates an equal task division and relationship quality4
Efficiency or equality? The utilitarianism–egalitarianism trade‐off determines carbon allocation preference4
Selective cultural adoption: The roles of warmth, competence, morality and perceived indispensability in majority‐group acculturation4
Between east and west, between past and future: The effects of exclusive historical victimhood on geopolitical attitudes in Hungary and Serbia4
Virtually in love: The role of anthropomorphism in virtual romantic relationships4
Different power perceptions based on socially situated needs: Findings from a qualitative study among Asian Americans4
A Kaupapa Māori conceptualization and efforts to address the needs of the growing precariat in Aotearoa New Zealand: A situated focus on Māori4
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Collective nostalgia: Triggers and consequences for collective action intentions4
Cultivating multigenerational moral expansion: Interventions cultivate moral concern for future generations in boundless and zero‐sum contexts4
The identification environment matters: Students' social identification, perceived physical school environment, and anxiety – A cross‐level interaction model4
Corrigendum4
Social identity processes associated with perceived risk at pilot sporting events during COVID‐194
Biodiversity and cultural diversity are morally valued3
Corrigendum to “Is use of the general system justification scale across countries justified? Testing its measurement equivalence”3
Intellectual humility as a tool to combat false beliefs: An individual‐based approach to belief revision3
Does income inequality increase status anxiety? Not directly, the role of perceived upward and downward mobility3
Exploring the social dynamics of urban regeneration: A qualitative analysis of community members' experiences3
How prototypical are we compared to them? The role of the group relative prototypicality in explaining the path from intergroup contact to collective action3
Need satisfaction in daily well‐being: Both social and solitude contexts contribute to well‐being3
Motives for punishing powerful vs. prestigious offenders: The moderating role of group identity3
Ethnic identity concealment and disclosure: Contexts and strategies3
The psychology of income wealth threshold estimations: A registered report3
Rage donations and mobilization: Understanding the effects of advocacy on collective giving responses3
‘You can't live in fear all the time’: Affective dilemmas in Youth's discussions on climate change in Norway3
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The effect of transparency on the temporal spillover effect of default nudges3
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How positive and negative intergroup contact jointly inform minority support for social change: The role of system‐fairness beliefs3
A mixed‐methods approach to understand victimization discourses by opposing feminist sub‐groups on social media3
Unlocking collective cooperation in the midst of COVID‐19: The role of social support in predicting the social class disparity in cooperation3
Passion is key: High emotionality in diversity statements promotes organizational attractiveness3
Opportunities, challenges and tensions: Open science through a lens of qualitative social psychology3
How does ingroup identification predict forgiveness in post‐conflict societies? The role of conflict narratives3
A warrant for violence? An analysis of Donald Trump's speech before the US Capitol attack3
Why do people object to economic inequality? The role of distributive justice and social harmony concerns as predictors of support for redistribution and collective action3
Engaged followership and toxic science: Exploring the effect of prototypicality on willingness to follow harmful experimental instructions3
A social identity approach to crisis leadership3
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Collective UK nostalgia predicts a desire to leave the European Union3
Mourning and orienting to the future in a liminal occasion: (Re)defining British national identity after Queen Elizabeth II's death3
The effects of temperature on prosocial and antisocial behaviour: A review and meta‐analysis3
Seeing is more than believing: Personal experience increases climate action3
Category intersections as conceptual combinations: Combining male categories of age and sexual orientation3
Citizenship deservingness justifies exclusive national boundary making: A socio‐dynamic mixed‐methods approach to social representations of citizenship3
Beyond ‘stampedes’: Towards a new psychology of crowd crush disasters3
Responses of the public towards the government in times of crisis3
In a double‐bind: Time–space distanciation, socioeconomic status, and coping with financial stress in the United States3
Greater expectations or less sugar‐coating? Perceptual underpinnings of constructive patriotism2
A primer on politicization, polarization, radicalization, and activation and their implications for democracy in times of rapid technological change2
‘Depending on where I am…’ Hair, travelling and the performance of identity among Black and mixed‐race women2
Connecting groups and behaviours: A network analysis of identity‐infused behaviours2
Entrusted power enhances psychological other‐orientation and altruistic behavioural tendencies2
When and why does political trust predict well‐being in authoritarian contexts? Examining the role of political efficacy and collective action among opposition voters2
Cross‐modal impression updating: Dynamic impression updating from face to voice and the other way around2
Challenges of measuring empathic accuracy: A mentalizing versus experience‐sharing paradigm2
Precarious engagements and the politics of knowledge production: Listening to calls for reorienting hegemonic social psychology2
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‘Disabled joy is resistance’: Insights and recommendations from social psychology on reducing ableism2
Primary and secondary generalization effects from Black and gay contact: Longitudinal evidence of between‐ and within‐person effects2
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Talking about the experiences of racism: A study of reporting racism in broadcast interviews2
Where you live matters more than who you know: Context‐level contact as a stronger predictor of post‐war reconciliation than individual‐level contact2
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 peers2
Can I tolerate that kind of behaviour? Self‐esteem, expected benefits, risk perceptions and risk tolerance in romantic relationships2
Implicit association tests: Stimuli validation from participant responses2
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Pandemic vulnerability, policy feedback and support for immigration: Evidence from Asia2
Believing that social change is possible: Collective efficacy to promote engagement and mobilization of non‐Roma as allies2
How does economic inequality shape conspiracy theories? Empirical evidence from China2
A compliment’s cost: How positive responses to non‐traditional choices may paradoxically reinforce traditional gender norms2
The role of empathy in trolley problems and variants: A systematic review and meta‐analysis2
From acceptance to change: The role of acceptance in the effectiveness of the Informative Process Model for conflict resolution2
With a little help from my friends: Social support, hope and climate change engagement2
Self‐uniquenessincreases women's willingness to participate in collective action for gender justice, but not support for sex quotas2
Ableism differs by disability, gender and social context: Evidence from vignette experiments2
Tax the élites! The role of economic inequality and conspiracy beliefs on attitudes towards taxes and redistribution intentions2
Love thy (Ukrainian) neighbour: Willingness to help refugees depends on their origin and is mediated by perceptions of similarity and threat2
Building bridges with awe: Exploring underlying mechanisms and moderators of the relationship between awe and prejudice towards sexual minority group members2
A wolf in sheep's clothing? The interplay of perceived threat and social norms in hierarchy‐maintaining action tendencies towards disadvantaged groups2
Who is expected to make contact? Interpretative repertoires related to an intergroup encounter between Finnish majority mothers and immigrant mothers2
Economic bifurcations in pandemic leadership: Power in abundance or agency amid scarcity?2
Editorial Acknowledgement2
When ‘Can I help you?’ hurts: Roma experiences of everyday microaggressions in retail outlets2
Your needs or mine? The role of allies' needs and their perceptions of disadvantaged groups' needs in motivating solidarity‐based actions2
Damned if she does: The subordinate male target hypothesis and discrimination of social dominant female minority members2
“Who Islamises us?”: Does political ideology moderate the effects of exposure to different Great Replacement Conspiracy explanations on radical collective action against different targets?2
Strongly fused individuals feel viscerally responsible to self‐sacrifice2
In it together?: Exploring solidarity with frontline workers in the United Kingdom and Ireland during COVID‐192
Economic inequality breeds corrupt behaviour2
Exploring the origins of identity fusion: Shared emotional experience activates fusion with the group over time2
Watching for a snake in the grass: Objectification increases conspiracy beliefs2
Does the union always make the force? Group status and recategorization influence the perceived physical formidability of potential coalition groups2
In‐between group membership within intergroup conflicts: The case of Druze in Israel2
Measuring associations among British national identification, group norms and social distancing behaviour during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Testing a Social Identity Model of Behavioural Associ2
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