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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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The psychology of colonial ideologies: Decoupling pro‐egalitarian and neo‐colonial sources of support for Puerto Rico statehood54
Strategic thinking in the shadow of self‐enhancement: Benefits and costs53
Optimistic bias in updating beliefs about climate change longitudinally predicts low pro‐environmental behaviour42
Justifying violence and hostility through discourse: A critical discursive psychology analysis of anti‐refugee hostility on social media during disasters35
Conspiracy believers claim to be free thinkers but (Under)Use advice like everyone else35
Gender and ideological orientation moderate the influence of climate misinformation on pro‐environmental behavioural intentions35
Rejection of the status quo: Conspiracy theories and preference for alternative political systems35
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Individual uniqueness in trust profiles and well‐being: Understanding the role of cultural tightness–looseness from a representation similarity perspective33
Social psychology of context and in context: Understanding the temporal, spatial and embodied dimensions o32
Sharing conspiracy theories and staying in power: How leaders' false theories influence leadership perception31
Red‐pilled mama bears and enlightened power goddesses: Discursive constructions of feminine identities in a conspiracy theory space31
The crisis we are not naming: The psychology of capitalism30
The reciprocal relationship between social identification and social support over time: A four‐wave longitudinal study30
Motivations to engage in collective action: A latent profile analysis of refugee supporters28
Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio‐functional model of conspiracy beliefs27
National bitterness, powerlessness and greatness: Examining constructions of affect as part of argumentation in populist EU discourse in Finland25
Cues of trait dominance elicit inferences of psychological ownership25
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Moral trade‐offs reveal foundational representations that predict unique variance in political attitudes24
The working memory approach of persuasion: Induced eye movements lead to more social media self‐control behaviours24
Crowd psychology and the politics of co‐production: Social control, democratic order and the consequences of theory24
‘They are lovely men’: Compassionate exclusion used to justify a protest outside asylum seeker accommodation24
“You lose the person; they're still there but you don't recognize them”: A qualitative study examining the consequences of conspiracy beliefs for romantic partners23
Perceptions of anomie in society shape support for wealth redistribution23
Beyond experiential spending: Consumers report higher well‐being from purchases that satisfy intrinsic goals22
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Prejudice towards refugees predicts social fear of crime22
The costs of lying: Consequences of telling lies on liar's self‐esteem and affect22
“I have been hearing we are the future of tomorrow for so long now. When is tomorrow?” narratives on youth and the future in Nigeria21
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So different yet so alike? Political collective narcissism predicts blatant dehumanization of political outgroups among conservatives and liberals21
Nostalgia encourages exploration and fosters uncertainty in response to AI technology21
Towards a social psychology of precarity21
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Visual humanization of refugees: A visual rhetorical analysis of media discourse on the war in Ukraine20
Crisis geographies from above and below: Constructing globality during the COVID‐19 pandemic20
Egoistic value is positively associated with pro‐environmental attitude and behaviour when the environmental problems are psychologically close20
Space‐focused stereotypes of immigrant neighbourhoods19
The regional big‐fish‐little‐pond effect: Evidence from national and subnational comparisons19
Beyond the incident: Influences on the perception of multiple instances of discrimination18
The psychology of Querfront tactics: How protesters perceive and navigate conflicting ideologies to mobilise collectively18
Your voice pitch speaks volumes about you: How voice pitch affects mind perception of the speakers18
Prosocial behaviour enhances evaluation of physical beauty17
No borders on a fragile planet: Introducing four lay models of social psychological precarity to support global human identification and citizenship17
Green dreams are made of this: Futures consciousness and proenvironmental engagement17
Dressing up social psychology: Empirically investigating the psychological functions of clothing using the example of symbolic protection16
What is hiding behind the rainbow plot? The gender ideology and LGBTQ + lobby conspiracies ( GILC 16
“This must really come from within”: Kurdish diasporic narratives of solidarity as resistance and existence in Belgium16
Desegregating spaces: The interplay between ecological intergroup contact and GPS ‐traced spatial segregation among youth in two 16
Correction to ‘Past–future asymmetry in identity‐relevant perception of racism and inequality’16
Child sexual abuse and social identity loss: A qualitative analysis of survivors' public accounts15
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 groups15
How ingroup norms of multiculturalism (and tolerance) affect intergroup solidarity: The role of ideology15
Agreeing to disagree: When do superordinate identities facilitate competing opinion‐based groups to work through intergroup conflict?15
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Power effects on interindividual and intergroup competition15
The values we share: A multi‐method approach to understanding how perceived outgroup values are related to attitudes towards immigrants15
‘Support your sisters, not just your cis‐ters’: Feminist leaders' challenges and strategies in curating trans‐inclusive identities15
Who you know influences where you go: Intergroup contact attenuates bias in trainee teachers' school preferences15
Sowing seeds for the future: Future time perspective and climate adaptation among farmers14
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 candidates14
Examining the connection between position‐based power and social status across 70 cultures14
Reasons for qualitative psychologists to share human data14
Testing the socio‐functional model: Does precarity cause conspiracy belief?14
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 task14
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Being close or being alone: How Social ostracism affects solitude preference14
Alcoholics anonymous and recovery in Türkiye: A qualitative study in the context of Social Identity Theory13
Backfire effects of performance quantification on stress and disidentification: The role of metadehumanization in organizations, sport, and social networks13
Social influence and social identity: A diffusion model analysis13
The likes that bind: Even novel opinion sharing can induce opinion‐based identification12
Bread and Roses: Social re‐presentations for Unconditional Basic Income in the Basque Country12
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver: Machiavellianism is associated with producing but not necessarily with falling for bullshit12
The fish can rot from the heart, not just the head: Exploring the detrimental impact of transgressions by leaders at multiple levels of an organization12
Can't see the forest for the trees: Time poverty influences construal level and the moderating role of autonomous versus controlled motivation12
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 theories11
Suspicious of AI ? Perceived autonomy and interdependence predict AI ‐related conspiracy beliefs11
Having a choice of means gears incomplete runners into more effective goal engagement: The effects of deliberative mindsets on the pursuit of identity goals11
Reducing economic inequality is ‘just right’: Moral conviction predicts support for redistributive government policies11
Dynamic norms as a tool for social change: How dynamic norms can revert controversial political decision‐making related to Brexit10
Solidarity with whom? Minority perspectives on allyship in Danish queer spaces10
Integration, urban citizenship, and spatial aspects of (new) mobilities: Greek migrants' constructions of integration in European cities10
The role of legitimizing the social hierarchy in the impact of status on perceived assertiveness and competence10
Towards sustainability by reducing speciesism: The effect of a prejudice‐based intervention on people's attitudes and behaviours towards animals10
What are they in it for? Marginalised group members' perceptions of allies differ depending on the costs and rewards associated with their allyship10
Majority friendship and support for social change: Examining the role of ethnic and politicized identifications among Indigenous people in Chile10
On being better than average in values10
Performing populist leadership online: Discursive and multimodal construction of a shared social identity10
Stigma salience increases loneliness among ethnic minorities10
Identity fusion is associated with outgroup trust and social exploration: Evidence for the fusion‐secure base hypothesis10
The dark side of nostalgia: Yearning for the past fosters bribe‐taking10
How our ideological out‐group shapes our emotional response to our shared socio‐political reality10
Can transformative experiences bridge the gap between receiving communities and formerly incarcerated persons?9
The mediating effect of institutional trust in the relationship between precarity and conspiracy beliefs: A conceptual replication of Adam‐Troian et al. (2023)9
Word embeddings reveal growing moral concern for people, animals and the environment9
An investigation of politicians' responses to urban diversity and disadvantage: The case of the Danish ‘parallel societies’9
A social psychology of climate change: Progress and promise9
Perceived economic inequality inhibits pro‐environmental engagement9
Social identity, mental health and the experience of migration9
Re‐imagining space: Conceptualizing new psychological interventions against segregationist attitudes and behaviours9
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Empathy expectations: Trait empathy exacerbates apologetic offenders' negative reactions to non‐forgiveness9
Social network analysis in social psychological ressearch (1990–2020): A scoping review9
How compliance with behavioural measures during the initial phase of a pandemic develops over time: A longitudinal COVID ‐19 study9
Disentangling the meat paradox: A comparative review of meat‐related conflicts across dietary behaviours9
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Can we prevent social identity switches? An experimental–computational investigation8
Police officers' prejudice and distrust towards racialized groups is related to internal motivation to suppress prejudice and negative intergroup contact8
Blame it on her ‘baby brain’? Investigating the contents of social stereotypes about pregnant women's warmth and competence8
Making sense of punishment: Transgressors' interpretation of punishment motives determines the effects of sanctions8
‘They attacked you just like that’: Negotiating racial epistemics in making claims about racism8
Political orientation, trust and discriminatory beliefs during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from the United Kingdom8
The role of perspective‐taking in attenuating self‐group distancing in women managers7
Elaboration moderates reliance on metacognitive assessments: The case of attitude certainty7
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A latent profile analysis of the nature of social group memberships and their contribution to retirement outcomes7
Shared social identity and social norms shape risk‐taking at mass gatherings7
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Pressured to be proud? Investigating the link between perceived norms and intergroup attitudes in members of disadvantaged minority groups7
Rise of the alt‐White? Examining the prevalence of perceived racial and gender discrimination among White men from 2014 to 20237
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Impresarios of identity: How the leaders of Czechoslovakia's ‘Candlelight Demonstration’ enabled effective collective action in a context of repression7
Regulating liminality: Making sense of the vegetative state and defining the limits of end‐of‐life action7
Power and resistance: Black Americans' multifaceted perceptions of ingroup strengths and their effects on collective efficacy and resistance7
Honour, acculturation and well‐being: Evidence from the UK and Canada7
Small gifts, big shifts? Testing the role of contact through reciprocal gifting as a prejudice reduction strategy7
‘Are they just putting up with me’? How diversity approaches impact LGBTQ + employees' sense of being tolerated at work7
Leadership and discursive mobilizing of collective action in the Jonestown mass killing7
Moral evaluations of reporting transgressors are more favourable than people expect7
My mind to your mind: Christians egocentrically estimate God's and Satan's attitudes7
The role of group memberships and school identification on student well‐being7
‘Like we definitely have to go greener, but…’: Analysing affective–discursive practices in populist environmental discourse7
Unveiling the psychological mechanisms of mutual help groups for addiction recovery: The role of social identity factors6
The utility of nostalgia for unhealthy populations: A systematic review and narrative analysis6
The effects of social exclusion on distributive fairness judgements and cooperative behaviour6
Correction to ‘“They’re eating our pets!’: When disgust and perceived cruelty combine to heighten prejudice”6
Climate futures: Scientists' discourses on collapse versus transformation6
Within your rights: Dissociating wrongness and permissibility in moral judgement6
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 Unit6
On the precariousness of address: What narratives of being called White can tell us about researching and re/producing social categories in research6
A Kaupapa Māori conceptualization and efforts to address the needs of the growing precariat in Aotearoa New Zealand: A situated focus on Māori6
How White people manage the weight of the past: The role of advantaged identity strategies in linking colonialism to current racial inequality6
Why do we never have enough time? Economic inequality fuels the perception of time poverty by aggravating status anxiety6
Belief strength and the attitudinal and behavioural correlates of conspiracy beliefs6
The Siren's call: How social media influencers are using identity leadership to shape diagnostic label identification and self‐care intentions6
Mental contrasting promotes effective self‐regulation for the benefits of groups6
Is helping you helping me? The assessment of helping others using event sampling methodology in a clinical and a non‐clinical sample6
Past‐future asymmetry in identity‐relevant perception of racism and inequality6
Turning the lens in the study of precarity: On experimental social psychology's acquiescence to the settler‐colonial status quo in historic Palestine6
‘Guilty as charged’: Intersectionality and accountability in lay talk on discrimination and violence6
Us, them and we: How national and human identifications influence adolescents' ethnic prejudice6
Collective nostalgia: Triggers and consequences for collective action intentions6
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Motor coordination induces social identity—A novel paradigm for the investigation of the group performance‐identity link6
Constructions of difference in lay talk about diversity: Ideological dilemmas, antiracism and implications for identity6
Investigating cycle shifts in women's clothing style and grooming6
Prec(ar)ious knowledge and the neoliberal academy: Towards re‐imagining epistemic justice and critical psychology6
Exaggerating differences back and forth: Two levels of intergroup accentuation6
Different power perceptions based on socially situated needs: Findings from a qualitative study among Asian Americans6
“It's that feeling that you can't get away”: Motherhood, gender inequality and the stress process during extreme events6
Virtually in love: The role of anthropomorphism in virtual romantic relationships5
Efficiency or equality? The utilitarianism–egalitarianism trade‐off determines carbon allocation preference5
The identification environment matters: Students' social identification, perceived physical school environment, and anxiety – A cross‐level interaction model5
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
Bridging the gap in public trust in science: An intergroup relations perspective5
Exploring the social dynamics of urban regeneration: A qualitative analysis of community members' experiences5
Our ways will not change: Future collective continuity increases present prosocial considerations5
Cultivating multigenerational moral expansion: Interventions cultivate moral concern for future generations in boundless and zero‐sum contexts5
How positive and negative intergroup contact jointly inform minority support for social change: The role of system‐fairness beliefs5
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The social psychology of collective violence: Civilian motivations for involvement in the Indonesian May 1998 riots5
Between east and west, between past and future: The effects of exclusive historical victimhood on geopolitical attitudes in Hungary and Serbia5
Responses of the public towards the government in times of crisis5
Deconstructing the moral circle: Obligations as the driver of moral expansion5
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Intellectual humility as a tool to combat false beliefs: An individual‐based approach to belief revision5
System justification and democracy: Is liberal democracy part of the status quo?5
Engaged followership and toxic science: Exploring the effect of prototypicality on willingness to follow harmful experimental instructions5
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Gender (in)equality at the kitchen table: A diary study on how Parents' coordination facilitates an equal task division and relationship quality5
Emotional synchrony predicts social cohesion effects following costly rituals5
How the manner in which data is visualized affects and corrects (mis)perceptions of political polarization5
The effect of transparency on the temporal spillover effect of default nudges5
The reciprocal relationship between social identity and adherence to group norms5
Why might members of racially minoritized groups seek anonymity when interacting with White people online? Codeswitching, emotional labour and burnout5
Overcoming low status or maintaining high status? A multinational examination of the association between socioeconomic status and honour5
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A social identity approach to crisis leadership5
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The psychology of income wealth threshold estimations: A registered report5
Selective cultural adoption: The roles of warmth, competence, morality and perceived indispensability in majority‐group acculturation5
Opportunities, challenges and tensions: Open science through a lens of qualitative social psychology4
Collective UK nostalgia predicts a desire to leave the European Union4
Selective (dis)honesty: Choosing overly positive feedback only when the truth hurts4
Mourning and orienting to the future in a liminal occasion: (Re)defining British national identity after Queen Elizabeth II 's death4
A warrant for violence? An analysis of Donald Trump's speech before the US Capitol attack4
How prototypical are we compared to them? The role of the group relative prototypicality in explaining the path from intergroup contact to collective action4
‘Disabled joy is resistance’: Insights and recommendations from social psychology on reducing ableism4
Need satisfaction in daily well‐being : Both social and solitude contexts contribute to well‐being4
Measuring associations among British national identification, group norms and social distancing behaviour during the COVID ‐19 pandemic: Testing a So4
Beyond ‘stampedes’: Towards a new psychology of crowd crush disasters4
In a double‐bind: Time–space distanciation, socioeconomic status, and coping with financial stress in the United States4
How does ingroup identification predict forgiveness in post‐conflict societies? The role of conflict narratives4
Corrigendum to “Is use of the general system justification scale across countries justified? Testing its measurement equivalence”4
‘You can't live in fear all the time’: Affective dilemmas in Youth's discussions on climate change in Norway4
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 peers4
Building bridges with awe: Exploring underlying mechanisms and moderators of the relationship between awe and prejudice towards sexual minority group members4
Sexual prejudice declined across generational cohorts and genders: A cohort sequential latent growth curve model from 2014 to 20244
Passion is key: High emotionality in diversity statements promotes organizational attractiveness4
A mixed‐methods approach to understand victimization discourses by opposing feminist sub‐groups on social media4
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
Does income inequality increase status anxiety? Not directly, the role of perceived upward and downward mobility4
Biodiversity and cultural diversity are morally valued4
Citizenship deservingness justifies exclusive national boundary making: A socio‐dynamic mixed‐methods approach to social representations of citizenship4
Seeing is more than believing: Personal experience increases climate action4
The effects of temperature on prosocial and antisocial behaviour: A review and meta‐analysis4
Tax the élites! The role of economic inequality and conspiracy beliefs on attitudes towards taxes and redistribution intentions4
People are more Sceptical of others' public virtue motivations than their own in separate (but not joint) evaluations4
Category intersections as conceptual combinations: Combining male categories of age and sexual orientation4
From acceptance to change: The role of acceptance in the effectiveness of the Informative Process Model for conflict resolution3
Believing that social change is possible: Collective efficacy to promote engagement and mobilization of non‐Roma as allies3
Identity categories and the dilemma of calling police about family violence3
From curiosity to conspiracy: How epistemic motivation shapes competing ways of knowing3
Sense of place narratives of residents in neighbourhoods under touristic pressure: Making, entering and enjoying local sociocultural worlds3
From the perspective of the Construal Level Theory: Examining the effect of psychological distance on system justification3
Ableism differs by disability, gender and social context: Evidence from vignette experiments3
Primary and secondary generalization effects from Black and gay contact: Longitudinal evidence of between‐ and within‐person effects3
Exploring the origins of identity fusion: Shared emotional experience activates fusion with the group over time3
Self‐uniqueness increases women's willingness to participate in collective action for gender justice, but not support for sex quotas3
Greater expectations or less sugar‐coating? Perceptual underpinnings of constructive patriotism3
In‐between group membership within intergroup conflicts: The case of Druze in Israel3
Watching for a snake in the grass: Objectification increases conspiracy beliefs3
A wolf in sheep's clothing? The interplay of perceived threat and social norms in hierarchy‐maintaining action tendencies towards disadvantaged groups3
The differential effects of identification modes on suggestion‐making behaviour3
Love thy (Ukrainian) neighbour: Willingness to help refugees depends on their origin and is mediated by perceptions of similarity and threat3
Resisting collective violence: Shiite Muslims' discursive construction of solidarity in Pakistan3
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When ‘Can I help you?’ hurts: Roma experiences of everyday microaggressions in retail outlets3
Entrusted power enhances psychological other‐orientation and altruistic behavioural tendencies3
Where you live matters more than who you know: Context‐level contact as a stronger predictor of post‐war reconciliation than individual‐level contact3
Can I tolerate that kind of behaviour? Self‐esteem, expected benefits, risk perceptions and risk tolerance in romantic relationships3
With a little help from my friends: Social support, hope and climate change engagement3
A primer on politicization, polarization, radicalization, and activation and their implications for democracy in times of rapid technological change3
Does the union always make the force? Group status and recategorization influence the perceived physical formidability of potential coalition groups3
The sound of Unity: Exploring shared social identity and identity expression through collective sound‐making at live sports events3
Who is expected to make contact? Interpretative repertoires related to an intergroup encounter between Finnish majority mothers and immigrant mothers3
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