OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Social Psychology is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Cultural orientation, power, belief in conspiracy theories, and intentions to reduce the spread of COVID‐19	235
Pylons ablaze: Examining the role of 5G COVID‐19 conspiracy beliefs and support for violence	217
The importance of (shared) human values for containing the COVID‐19 pandemic	100
On order and disorder during the COVID‐19 pandemic	98
The contagion of mortality: A terror management health model for pandemics	87
Inequalities and identity processes in crises: Recommendations for facilitating safe response to the COVID‐19 pandemic	73
A social identity perspective on COVID‐19: Health risk is affected by shared group membership	72
Collective resilience in times of crisis: Lessons from the literature for socially effective responses to the pandemic	69
‘Distancers’ and ‘non‐distancers’? The potential social psychological impact of moralizing COVID‐19 mitigating practices on sustained behaviour change	65
Collectively coping with coronavirus: Local community identification predicts giving support and lockdown adherence during the COVID‐19 pandemic	59
Neoliberalism can reduce well‐being by promoting a sense of social disconnection, competition, and loneliness	52
Mapping public health responses with attitude networks: the emergence of opinion‐based groups in the UK’s early COVID‐19 response phase	49
COVID‐19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It’s probably not because of collective psychology	47
The Queen Bee phenomenon in Academia 15 years after: Does it still exist, and if so, why?	45
Collective resilience in the disaster recovery period: Emergent social identity and observed social support are associated with collective efficacy, well‐being, and the provision of social support	40
Community identification, social support, and loneliness: The benefits of social identification for personal well‐being	36
Lacking socio‐economic status reduces subjective well‐being through perceptions of meta‐dehumanization	32
Together we can slow the spread of COVID‐19: The interactive effects of priming collectivism and mortality salience on virus‐related health behaviour intentions	30
What predicts perceived economic inequality? The roles of actual inequality, system justification, and fairness considerations	30
Examining the role of fundamental psychological needs in the development of metadehumanization: A multi‐population approach	27
‘This country is OURS’: The exclusionary potential of collective psychological ownership	27
Mobilizing collective hatred through humour: Affective–discursive production and reception of populist rhetoric	27
Reanalysing the factor structure of the moral foundations questionnaire	25
Implicit racism, colour blindness, and narrow definitions of discrimination: Why some White people prefer ‘All Lives Matter’ to ‘Black Lives Matter’	24
Who respects the will of the people? Support for democracy is linked to high secure national identity but low national narcissism	24

From bad to worse: Avoidance coping with stress increases conspiracy beliefs	23
Social psychological theory and research on the novel coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) pandemic: Introduction to the rapid response special section	22
To punish or to assist? Divergent reactions to ingroup and outgroup members disobeying social distancing	22
Science as collaborative knowledge generation	22
Why are beliefs in different conspiracy theories positively correlated across individuals? Testing monological network versus unidimensional factor model explanations	21
Compliance with governmental restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic: A matter of personal self‐protection or solidarity with people in risk groups?	21
The Bullshitting Frequency Scale: Development and psychometric properties	21
A multilevel analysis of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) rights support across 77 countries: The role of contact and country laws	20
Academics as Agentic Superheroes: Female academics’ lack of fit with the agentic stereotype of success limits their career advancement	19
Collective psychological ownership and the rise of reactionary counter‐movements defending the status quo	16
Ideology before party: Social dominance orientation and right‐wing authoritarianism temporally precede political party support	16
The effects of moral/social identity threats and affirmations on psychological defensiveness following wrongdoing	15
Surrendering to social emptiness: Chronic social exclusion longitudinally predicts resignation in asylum seekers	15
Tweeting about sexism motivates further activism: A social identity perspective	14
Stigmatization of ‘gay‐sounding’ voices: The role of heterosexual, lesbian, and gay individuals’ essentialist beliefs	14
Embrace the leadership challenge: The role of Gay men’s internalized sexual stigma on the evaluation of others’ leadership and one’s own	14
The intergenerational transmission of participation in collective action: The role of conversation and political practices in the family	14
‘You can’t bullshit a bullshitter’ (or can you?): Bullshitting frequency predicts receptivity to various types of misleading information	14
The antidepressant hoax: Conspiracy theories decrease health‐seeking intentions	14
Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio‐functional model of conspiracy beliefs	13
A trouble shared is a trouble halved: The role of family identification and identification with humankind in well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic	13
Meta‐humanization enhances positive reactions to prosocial cross‐group interaction	13
The (in)compatibility of identities: Understanding gender differences in work–life conflict through the fit with leaders	12
Battling ingroup bias with effective intergroup leadership	12
A Kaupapa Māori conceptualization and efforts to address the needs of the growing precariat in Aotearoa New Zealand: A situated focus on Māori	11
‘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 public	11
Dehumanization through humour and conspiracies in online hate towards Chinese people during the COVID‐19 pandemic	11
An exchange orientation results in an instrumental approach in intimate relationships	11
Addressing workplace gender inequality: Using the evidence to avoid common pitfalls	11
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 pandemic	11
Precarious engagements and the politics of knowledge production: Listening to calls for reorienting hegemonic social psychology	11
Can moral convictions against gender inequality overpower system justification effects? Examining the interaction between moral conviction and system justification	11
When open data closes the door: A critical examination of the past, present and the potential future for open data guidelines in journals	10
Why punish critical outgroup commenters? Social identity, general norms, and retribution	10
To be or not to be tolerant? A Terror Management perspective exploring the ideological dilemma of tolerance and prejudice	10
Turning the lens in the study of precarity: On experimental social psychology's acquiescence to the settler‐colonial status quo in historic Palestine	10
Tax the élites! The role of economic inequality and conspiracy beliefs on attitudes towards taxes and redistribution intentions	10
Benefits of being ambivalent: The relationship between trait ambivalence and attribution biases	10
Factors promoting greater preoccupation with a secret	10
‘One size doesn't fit all’: Lessons from interaction analysis on tailoring Open Science practices to qualitative research	10
Video games, frustration, violence, and virtual reality: Two studies	10
‘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 America	10
When work–family guilt becomes a women's issue: Internalized gender stereotypes predict high guilt in working mothers but low guilt in working fathers	9
Humanizing racialization: Social psychology in a time of unexpected transformational conjunctions	9
Comparing story reading and video watching as two distinct forms of vicarious contact: An experimental intervention among elementary school children	9
Reasons for qualitative psychologists to share human data	9
Majority group belonging without minority group distancing? Minority experiences of intergroup contact and inequality	9
Using word embeddings to investigate cultural biases	9
Personality as a moderator of immediate and delayed ostracism distress	9
The interactional production and breach of new norms in the time of COVID‐19: Achieving physical distancing in public spaces	9

In it together?: Exploring solidarity with frontline workers in the United Kingdom and Ireland during COVID‐19	9
Objectification limits authenticity: Exploring the relations between objectification, perceived authenticity, and subjective well‐being	8
Racism and misrecognition	8
Attitude stability as a moderator of the relationships between cognitive and affective attitudes and behaviour	8
Essentialism affects the perceived compatibility of minority culture maintenance and majority culture adoption preferences	8
Constructing the places of young people in public space: Conflict, belonging and identity	8
‘calling‐out’ vs. ‘calling‐in’ prejudice: Confrontation style affects inferred motive and expected outcomes	8
Fear leads to suffering: Fears of compassion predict restriction of the moral boundary	8
Rehearsing post‐Covid‐19 citizenship: Social representations of UK Covid‐19 mutual aid	8
More positive group memberships are associated with greater resilience in Royal Air Force (RAF) personnel	8
Can ‘we’ share the contested territory with ‘them’? Shared territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation intentions in Kosovo	7
Hungarian Roma and musical talent: Minority group members’ experiences of an apparently positive stereotype	7
Everyday dehumanization: Negative contact, humiliation, and the lived experience of being treated as ‘less than human’	7
Preventive behaviours during the pandemic: The role of collective rituals, emotional synchrony, social norms and moral obligation	7
Ethnic identity concealment and disclosure: Contexts and strategies	7
Collective nostalgia: Triggers and consequences for collective action intentions	7
Mind perception and stereotype attribution of corporations and charities	7
How compliance with behavioural measures during the initial phase of a pandemic develops over time: A longitudinal COVID‐19 study	7
Effects of intergroup contact on explicit and implicit outgroup attitudes: A longitudinal field study with majority and minority group members	7
What reduces prejudice in the real world? A meta‐analysis of prejudice reduction field experiments	7
Why are people ‘Lying Flat’? Personal relative deprivation suppresses self‐improvement motivation	6
Money and flexible generosity	6
In a double‐bind: Time–space distanciation, socioeconomic status, and coping with financial stress in the United States	6
The hers and his of prosociality across 10 countries	6
Status, relative deprivation, and moral devaluation of immigrants	6
Identity enactment as collective accomplishment: Religious identity enactment at home and at a festival	6
Identity‐based social support predicts mental and physical health outcomes during COVID‐19	6
Equality data as immoral race politics: A case study of liberal, colour‐blind, and antiracialist opposition to equality data in Sweden	6
‘You truly are the worst kind of racist!’: Argumentation and polarization in online discussions around gender and radical‐right populism	6
When looking ‘hot’ means not feeling cold: Evidence that self‐objectification inhibits feelings of being cold	6
Students’ understanding and support for anti‐racism in universities	6
Sex‐based and beauty‐based objectification: Metadehumanization and emotional consequences among victims	6