British Journal of Social Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Social Psychology is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Social psychology of context and in context: Understanding the temporal, spatial and embodied dimensions o43
Red‐pilled mama bears and enlightened power goddesses: Discursive constructions of feminine identities in a conspiracy theory space43
Strategic thinking in the shadow of self‐enhancement: Benefits and costs40
Individual uniqueness in trust profiles and well‐being: Understanding the role of cultural tightness–looseness from a representation similarity perspective34
The psychology of colonial ideologies: Decoupling pro‐egalitarian and neo‐colonial sources of support for Puerto Rico statehood31
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Optimistic bias in updating beliefs about climate change longitudinally predicts low pro‐environmental behaviour30
Conspiracy believers claim to be free thinkers but (Under)Use advice like everyone else29
Gender and ideological orientation moderate the influence of climate misinformation on pro‐environmental behavioural intentions29
Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio‐functional model of conspiracy beliefs29
The reciprocal relationship between social identification and social support over time: A four‐wave longitudinal study28
Motivations to engage in collective action: A latent profile analysis of refugee supporters25
Rejection of the status quo: Conspiracy theories and preference for alternative political systems25
Editorial acknowledgement24
Moral trade‐offs reveal foundational representations that predict unique variance in political attitudes23
Cues of trait dominance elicit inferences of psychological ownership22
The working memory approach of persuasion: Induced eye movements lead to more social media self‐control behaviours21
Prejudice towards refugees predicts social fear of crime21
The humble estimate: Humility predicts higher self‐assessment accuracy21
“I have been hearing we are the future of tomorrow for so long now. When is tomorrow?” narratives on youth and the future in Nigeria20
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Nostalgia encourages exploration and fosters uncertainty in response to AI technology20
So different yet so alike? Political collective narcissism predicts blatant dehumanization of political outgroups among conservatives and liberals20
The costs of lying: Consequences of telling lies on liar's self‐esteem and affect19
Towards a social psychology of precarity19
Visual humanization of refugees: A visual rhetorical analysis of media discourse on the war in Ukraine19
Egoistic value is positively associated with pro‐environmental attitude and behaviour when the environmental problems are psychologically close19
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Beyond experiential spending: Consumers report higher well‐being from purchases that satisfy intrinsic goals19
No borders on a fragile planet: Introducing four lay models of social psychological precarity to support global human identification and citizenship18
The regional big‐fish‐little‐pond effect: Evidence from national and subnational comparisons18
Crisis geographies from above and below: Constructing globality during the COVID‐19 pandemic18
Green dreams are made of this: Futures consciousness and proenvironmental engagement18
Dressing up social psychology: Empirically investigating the psychological functions of clothing using the example of symbolic protection18
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Your voice pitch speaks volumes about you: How voice pitch affects mind perception of the speakers17
The psychology of Querfront tactics: How protesters perceive and navigate conflicting ideologies to mobilise collectively17
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What is hiding behind the rainbow plot? The gender ideology and LGBTQ + lobby conspiracies ( GILC 16
Space‐focused stereotypes of immigrant neighbourhoods16
Prosocial behaviour enhances evaluation of physical beauty16
Child sexual abuse and social identity loss: A qualitative analysis of survivors' public accounts16
Beyond the incident: Influences on the perception of multiple instances of discrimination16
The values we share: A multi‐method approach to understanding how perceived outgroup values are related to attitudes towards immigrants14
How ingroup norms of multiculturalism (and tolerance) affect intergroup solidarity: The role of ideology14
Call me maybe: Risk factors of impaired social contact during the COVID ‐19 pandemic and associations with well‐being14
Who you know influences where you go: Intergroup contact attenuates bias in trainee teachers' school preferences14
Constructing the places of young people in public space: Conflict, belonging and identity14
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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 task13
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Gender stereotypes in UK children and adolescents: Changing patterns of knowledge and endorsement13
Power effects on interindividual and intergroup competition13
Reductions in perceived COVID‐19 threat amid UK’s mass public vaccination programme coincide with reductions in outgroup avoidance (but not prejudice)13
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
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 candidates13
On Sanders, Trump, and rhinoceroses: Quantifying subjective construals helps predict political attitudes13
Correction to ‘Past–future asymmetry in identity‐relevant perception of racism and inequality’13
Backfire effects of performance quantification on stress and disidentification: The role of metadehumanization in organizations, sport, and social networks13
Being close or being alone: How Social ostracism affects solitude preference13
Reasons for qualitative psychologists to share human data12
Identity fusion is associated with outgroup trust and social exploration: Evidence for the fusion‐secure base hypothesis12
Having a choice of means gears incomplete runners into more effective goal engagement: The effects of deliberative mindsets on the pursuit of identity goals12
Sowing seeds for the future: Future time perspective and climate adaptation among farmers12
Social influence and social identity: A diffusion model analysis12
Can't see the forest for the trees: Time poverty influences construal level and the moderating role of autonomous versus controlled motivation12
Examining the connection between position‐based power and social status across 70 cultures12
Leadership, mobilization of risky behaviours and accountability: The Church of Greece leaders' public talk during the COVID‐19 pandemic12
The motivations and reputational consequences of spreading conspiracy theories12
Towards sustainability by reducing speciesism: The effect of a prejudice‐based intervention on people's attitudes and behaviours towards animals11
Reducing economic inequality is ‘just right’: Moral conviction predicts support for redistributive government policies11
The likes that bind: Even novel opinion sharing can induce opinion‐based identification11
The fish can rot from the heart, not just the head: Exploring the detrimental impact of transgressions by leaders at multiple levels of an organization11
Bread and Roses: Social re‐presentations for Unconditional Basic Income in the Basque Country11
Suspicious of AI ? Perceived autonomy and interdependence predict AI ‐related conspiracy beliefs11
Factors in workers’ dehumanization: Multiple stigmatization, social status, and workers’ sex11
What are they in it for? Marginalised group members' perceptions of allies differ depending on the costs and rewards associated with their allyship11
Word embeddings reveal growing moral concern for people, animals and the environment10
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver: Machiavellianism is associated with producing but not necessarily with falling for bullshit10
Prosocial advice to close versus non‐close others10
Stigma salience increases loneliness among ethnic minorities10
The role of legitimizing the social hierarchy in the impact of status on perceived assertiveness and competence10
How our ideological out‐group shapes our emotional response to our shared socio‐political reality10
Social identity, mental health and the experience of migration10
Social network analysis in social psychological ressearch (1990–2020): A scoping review10
Majority friendship and support for social change: Examining the role of ethnic and politicized identifications among Indigenous people in Chile9
How compliance with behavioural measures during the initial phase of a pandemic develops over time: A longitudinal COVID ‐19 study9
A social psychology of climate change: Progress and promise9
Why punish critical outgroup commenters? Social identity, general norms, and retribution9
Solidarity with whom? Minority perspectives on allyship in Danish queer spaces9
Can transformative experiences bridge the gap between receiving communities and formerly incarcerated persons?9
The dark side of nostalgia: Yearning for the past fosters bribe‐taking9
An investigation of politicians' responses to urban diversity and disadvantage: The case of the Danish ‘parallel societies’9
Empathy expectations: Trait empathy exacerbates apologetic offenders' negative reactions to non‐forgiveness9
The mediating effect of institutional trust in the relationship between precarity and conspiracy beliefs: A conceptual replication of Adam‐Troian et al. (2023)9
Integration, urban citizenship, and spatial aspects of (new) mobilities: Greek migrants' constructions of integration in European cities9
Perceived economic inequality inhibits pro‐environmental engagement9
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Rise of the alt‐White? Examining the prevalence of perceived racial and gender discrimination among White men from 2014 to 20238
Political orientation, trust and discriminatory beliefs during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from the United Kingdom8
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Can we prevent social identity switches? An experimental–computational investigation8
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Blame it on her ‘baby brain’? Investigating the contents of social stereotypes about pregnant women's warmth and competence8
‘They attacked you just like that’: Negotiating racial epistemics in making claims about racism8
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Power and resistance: Black Americans' multifaceted perceptions of ingroup strengths and their effects on collective efficacy and resistance7
My mind to your mind: Christians egocentrically estimate God's and Satan's attitudes7
Moral evaluations of reporting transgressors are more favourable than people expect7
A latent profile analysis of the nature of social group memberships and their contribution to retirement outcomes7
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Climate futures: Scientists' discourses on collapse versus transformation7
How the home features in young adults’ representations of loneliness: The impact of COVID‐197
The role of perspective‐taking in attenuating self‐group distancing in women managers7
Pressured to be proud? Investigating the link between perceived norms and intergroup attitudes in members of disadvantaged minority groups7
Leadership and discursive mobilizing of collective action in the Jonestown mass killing7
Regulating liminality: Making sense of the vegetative state and defining the limits of end‐of‐life action7
‘Like we definitely have to go greener, but…’: Analysing affective–discursive practices in populist environmental discourse7
Elaboration moderates reliance on metacognitive assessments: The case of attitude certainty7
Making sense of punishment: Transgressors' interpretation of punishment motives determines the effects of sanctions7
The role of group memberships and school identification on student well‐being7
Impresarios of identity: How the leaders of Czechoslovakia's ‘Candlelight Demonstration’ enabled effective collective action in a context of repression7
Shared social identity and social norms shape risk‐taking at mass gatherings7
‘Are they just putting up with me’? How diversity approaches impact LGBTQ + employees' sense of being tolerated at work7
The effects of social exclusion on distributive fairness judgements and cooperative behaviour6
Constructions of difference in lay talk about diversity: Ideological dilemmas, antiracism and implications for identity6
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“It's that feeling that you can't get away”: Motherhood, gender inequality and the stress process during extreme events6
Prec(ar)ious knowledge and the neoliberal academy: Towards re‐imagining epistemic justice and critical psychology6
Within your rights: Dissociating wrongness and permissibility in moral judgement6
Motor coordination induces social identity—A novel paradigm for the investigation of the group performance‐identity link6
Investigating cycle shifts in women's clothing style and grooming6
Mental contrasting promotes effective self‐regulation for the benefits of groups6
Honour, acculturation and well‐being: Evidence from the UK and Canada6
A Kaupapa Māori conceptualization and efforts to address the needs of the growing precariat in Aotearoa New Zealand: A situated focus on Māori5
Why do we never have enough time? Economic inequality fuels the perception of time poverty by aggravating status anxiety5
Is helping you helping me? The assessment of helping others using event sampling methodology in a clinical and a non‐clinical sample5
‘Guilty as charged’: Intersectionality and accountability in lay talk on discrimination and violence5
Past‐future asymmetry in identity‐relevant perception of racism and inequality5
Social identity processes associated with perceived risk at pilot sporting events during COVID‐195
How the manner in which data is visualized affects and corrects (mis)perceptions of political polarization5
Collective nostalgia: Triggers and consequences for collective action intentions5
Us, them and we: How national and human identifications influence adolescents' ethnic prejudice5
Exaggerating differences back and forth: Two levels of intergroup accentuation5
Different power perceptions based on socially situated needs: Findings from a qualitative study among Asian Americans5
Bystander intervention among secondary school pupils: Testing an augmented Prototype Willingness Model5
Turning the lens in the study of precarity: On experimental social psychology's acquiescence to the settler‐colonial status quo in historic Palestine5
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
Gender (in)equality at the kitchen table: A diary study on how Parents' coordination facilitates an equal task division and relationship quality5
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Unveiling the psychological mechanisms of mutual help groups for addiction recovery: The role of social identity factors5
The reciprocal relationship between social identity and adherence to group norms5
Using social cognition models to understand why people, such as perfectionists, struggle to respond with self‐compassion5
On the precariousness of address: What narratives of being called White can tell us about researching and re/producing social categories in research5
Attitudes towards refugees: Introducing a short three‐dimensional scale5
Efficiency or equality? The utilitarianism–egalitarianism trade‐off determines carbon allocation preference5
Social identities and the achievement gap: Incompatibility between social class background and student identity increases student disidentification, which decreases performance and leads to higher dro5
The utility of nostalgia for unhealthy populations: A systematic review and narrative analysis5
Engaged followership and toxic science: Exploring the effect of prototypicality on willingness to follow harmful experimental instructions4
Our ways will not change: Future collective continuity increases present prosocial considerations4
Cultivating multigenerational moral expansion: Interventions cultivate moral concern for future generations in boundless and zero‐sum contexts4
Between east and west, between past and future: The effects of exclusive historical victimhood on geopolitical attitudes in Hungary and Serbia4
A social identity approach to crisis leadership4
Biodiversity and cultural diversity are morally valued4
Corrigendum to “Is use of the general system justification scale across countries justified? Testing its measurement equivalence”4
How does ingroup identification predict forgiveness in post‐conflict societies? The role of conflict narratives4
Virtually in love: The role of anthropomorphism in virtual romantic relationships4
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Selective cultural adoption: The roles of warmth, competence, morality and perceived indispensability in majority‐group acculturation4
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Why do people object to economic inequality? The role of distributive justice and social harmony concerns as predictors of support for redistribution and collective action4
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The identification environment matters: Students' social identification, perceived physical school environment, and anxiety – A cross‐level interaction model4
The effect of transparency on the temporal spillover effect of default nudges4
Intellectual humility as a tool to combat false beliefs: An individual‐based approach to belief revision4
Exploring the social dynamics of urban regeneration: A qualitative analysis of community members' experiences4
Overcoming low status or maintaining high status? A multinational examination of the association between socioeconomic status and honour4
The psychology of income wealth threshold estimations: A registered report4
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Citizenship deservingness justifies exclusive national boundary making: A socio‐dynamic mixed‐methods approach to social representations of citizenship4
In‐between group membership within intergroup conflicts: The case of Druze in Israel3
Believing that social change is possible: Collective efficacy to promote engagement and mobilization of non‐Roma as allies3
How prototypical are we compared to them? The role of the group relative prototypicality in explaining the path from intergroup contact to collective action3
The effects of temperature on prosocial and antisocial behaviour: A review and meta‐analysis3
Ethnic identity concealment and disclosure: Contexts and strategies3
Tax the élites! The role of economic inequality and conspiracy beliefs on attitudes towards taxes and redistribution intentions3
Beyond ‘stampedes’: Towards a new psychology of crowd crush disasters3
Responses of the public towards the government in times of crisis3
Measuring associations among British national identification, group norms and social distancing behaviour during the COVID ‐19 pandemic: Testing a So3
Sense of place narratives of residents in neighbourhoods under touristic pressure: Making, entering and enjoying local sociocultural worlds3
Ableism differs by disability, gender and social context: Evidence from vignette experiments3
From acceptance to change: The role of acceptance in the effectiveness of the Informative Process Model for conflict resolution3
Economic inequality breeds corrupt behaviour3
Seeing is more than believing: Personal experience increases climate action3
‘Disabled joy is resistance’: Insights and recommendations from social psychology on reducing ableism3
Category intersections as conceptual combinations: Combining male categories of age and sexual orientation3
A mixed‐methods approach to understand victimization discourses by opposing feminist sub‐groups on social media3
Precarious engagements and the politics of knowledge production: Listening to calls for reorienting hegemonic social psychology3
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 peers3
Unlocking collective cooperation in the midst of COVID‐19: The role of social support in predicting the social class disparity in cooperation3
Mourning and orienting to the future in a liminal occasion: (Re)defining British national identity after Queen Elizabeth II 's death3
Motives for punishing powerful vs. prestigious offenders: The moderating role of group identity3
Does income inequality increase status anxiety? Not directly, the role of perceived upward and downward mobility3
How positive and negative intergroup contact jointly inform minority support for social change: The role of system‐fairness beliefs3
‘You can't live in fear all the time’: Affective dilemmas in Youth's discussions on climate change in Norway3
Rage donations and mobilization: Understanding the effects of advocacy on collective giving responses3
Damned if she does: The subordinate male target hypothesis and discrimination of social dominant female minority members3
Entrusted power enhances psychological other‐orientation and altruistic behavioural tendencies3
Greater expectations or less sugar‐coating? Perceptual underpinnings of constructive patriotism3
Building bridges with awe: Exploring underlying mechanisms and moderators of the relationship between awe and prejudice towards sexual minority group members3
Need satisfaction in daily well‐being : Both social and solitude contexts contribute to well‐being3
Watching for a snake in the grass: Objectification increases conspiracy beliefs3
People are more Sceptical of others' public virtue motivations than their own in separate (but not joint) evaluations3
Identity categories and the dilemma of calling police about family violence3
Collective UK nostalgia predicts a desire to leave the European Union3
When ‘Can I help you?’ hurts: Roma experiences of everyday microaggressions in retail outlets3
A warrant for violence? An analysis of Donald Trump's speech before the US Capitol attack3
Opportunities, challenges and tensions: Open science through a lens of qualitative social psychology3
In a double‐bind: Time–space distanciation, socioeconomic status, and coping with financial stress in the United States3
Passion is key: High emotionality in diversity statements promotes organizational attractiveness3
A compliment’s cost: How positive responses to non‐traditional choices may paradoxically reinforce traditional gender norms3
Exploring the origins of identity fusion: Shared emotional experience activates fusion with the group over time3
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Self‐uniqueness increases women's willingness to participate in collective action for gender justice, but not support for sex quotas3
Where you live matters more than who you know: Context‐level contact as a stronger predictor of post‐war reconciliation than individual‐level contact3
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