OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Social Psychology is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The psychology of colonial ideologies: Decoupling pro‐egalitarian and neo‐colonial sources of support for Puerto Rico statehood	54
Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio‐functional model of conspiracy beliefs	51
Strategic thinking in the shadow of self‐enhancement: Benefits and costs	42
Individual uniqueness in trust profiles and well‐being: Understanding the role of cultural tightness–looseness from a representation similarity perspective	35
Optimistic bias in updating beliefs about climate change longitudinally predicts low pro‐environmental behaviour	34
Conspiracy believers claim to be free thinkers but (Under)Use advice like everyone else	34
Rejection of the status quo: Conspiracy theories and preference for alternative political systems	34
Justifying violence and hostility through discourse: A critical discursive psychology analysis of anti‐refugee hostility on social media during disasters	33
Gender and ideological orientation moderate the influence of climate misinformation on pro‐environmental behavioural intentions	33
Social psychology of context and in context: Understanding the temporal, spatial and embodied dimensions o	32
Issue Information	32
Motivations to engage in collective action: A latent profile analysis of refugee supporters	31
Red‐pilled mama bears and enlightened power goddesses: Discursive constructions of feminine identities in a conspiracy theory space	31
The reciprocal relationship between social identification and social support over time: A four‐wave longitudinal study	30
The crisis we are not naming: The psychology of capitalism	28
Sharing conspiracy theories and staying in power: How leaders' false theories influence leadership perception	26
National bitterness, powerlessness and greatness: Examining constructions of affect as part of argumentation in populist EU discourse in Finland	26
Cues of trait dominance elicit inferences of psychological ownership	25
Editorial acknowledgement	25
Moral trade‐offs reveal foundational representations that predict unique variance in political attitudes	25
The humble estimate: Humility predicts higher self‐assessment accuracy	24
The working memory approach of persuasion: Induced eye movements lead to more social media self‐control behaviours	24
“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 partners	23
Perceptions of anomie in society shape support for wealth redistribution	23
‘They are lovely men’: Compassionate exclusion used to justify a protest outside asylum seeker accommodation	22

Crowd psychology and the politics of co‐production: Social control, democratic order and the consequences of theory	22
Issue Information	22
The costs of lying: Consequences of telling lies on liar's self‐esteem and affect	21
Beyond experiential spending: Consumers report higher well‐being from purchases that satisfy intrinsic goals	21
Prejudice towards refugees predicts social fear of crime	21
Egoistic value is positively associated with pro‐environmental attitude and behaviour when the environmental problems are psychologically close	20
“I have been hearing we are the future of tomorrow for so long now. When is tomorrow?” narratives on youth and the future in Nigeria	20
Towards a social psychology of precarity	20
Visual humanization of refugees: A visual rhetorical analysis of media discourse on the war in Ukraine	20
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So different yet so alike? Political collective narcissism predicts blatant dehumanization of political outgroups among conservatives and liberals	20
Nostalgia encourages exploration and fosters uncertainty in response to AI technology	20
Issue Information	19
Crisis geographies from above and below: Constructing globality during the COVID‐19 pandemic	19
The regional big‐fish‐little‐pond effect: Evidence from national and subnational comparisons	19
Space‐focused stereotypes of immigrant neighbourhoods	19
Green dreams are made of this: Futures consciousness and proenvironmental engagement	18
Dressing up social psychology: Empirically investigating the psychological functions of clothing using the example of symbolic protection	17
Beyond the incident: Influences on the perception of multiple instances of discrimination	17
The psychology of Querfront tactics: How protesters perceive and navigate conflicting ideologies to mobilise collectively	17
Prosocial behaviour enhances evaluation of physical beauty	16
Your voice pitch speaks volumes about you: How voice pitch affects mind perception of the speakers	16
Power effects on interindividual and intergroup competition	16
What is hiding behind the rainbow plot? The gender ideology and LGBTQ + lobby conspiracies ( GILC	16
Correction to ‘Past–future asymmetry in identity‐relevant perception of racism and inequality’	16
No borders on a fragile planet: Introducing four lay models of social psychological precarity to support global human identification and citizenship	16
Who you know influences where you go: Intergroup contact attenuates bias in trainee teachers' school preferences	15
Desegregating spaces: The interplay between ecological intergroup contact and GPS ‐traced spatial segregation among youth in two	15
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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 groups	15
‘Support your sisters, not just your cis‐ters’: Feminist leaders' challenges and strategies in curating trans‐inclusive identities	15
Constructing the places of young people in public space: Conflict, belonging and identity	15
How ingroup norms of multiculturalism (and tolerance) affect intergroup solidarity: The role of ideology	15
Call me maybe: Risk factors of impaired social contact during the COVID ‐19 pandemic and associations with well‐being	15
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 task	14
The values we share: A multi‐method approach to understanding how perceived outgroup values are related to attitudes towards immigrants	14
Issue Information	14
Sowing seeds for the future: Future time perspective and climate adaptation among farmers	14
Agreeing to disagree: When do superordinate identities facilitate competing opinion‐based groups to work through intergroup conflict?	14
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 candidates	14
Child sexual abuse and social identity loss: A qualitative analysis of survivors' public accounts	14
Reasons for qualitative psychologists to share human data	14
Alcoholics anonymous and recovery in Türkiye: A qualitative study in the context of Social Identity Theory	13
Testing the socio‐functional model: Does precarity cause conspiracy belief?	13
Social influence and social identity: A diffusion model analysis	13
Examining the connection between position‐based power and social status across 70 cultures	13
Being close or being alone: How Social ostracism affects solitude preference	13
The likes that bind: Even novel opinion sharing can induce opinion‐based identification	12
Can't see the forest for the trees: Time poverty influences construal level and the moderating role of autonomous versus controlled motivation	12
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver: Machiavellianism is associated with producing but not necessarily with falling for bullshit	12

Backfire effects of performance quantification on stress and disidentification: The role of metadehumanization in organizations, sport, and social networks	12
Reducing economic inequality is ‘just right’: Moral conviction predicts support for redistributive government policies	11
Bread and Roses: Social re‐presentations for Unconditional Basic Income in the Basque Country	11
The fish can rot from the heart, not just the head: Exploring the detrimental impact of transgressions by leaders at multiple levels of an organization	11
Suspicious of AI ? Perceived autonomy and interdependence predict AI ‐related conspiracy beliefs	11
Leadership, mobilization of risky behaviours and accountability: The Church of Greece leaders' public talk during the COVID‐19 pandemic	11
Having a choice of means gears incomplete runners into more effective goal engagement: The effects of deliberative mindsets on the pursuit of identity goals	11
Towards sustainability by reducing speciesism: The effect of a prejudice‐based intervention on people's attitudes and behaviours towards animals	11
Performing populist leadership online: Discursive and multimodal construction of a shared social identity	10
Dynamic norms as a tool for social change: How dynamic norms can revert controversial political decision‐making related to Brexit	10
Identity fusion is associated with outgroup trust and social exploration: Evidence for the fusion‐secure base hypothesis	10
The motivations and reputational consequences of spreading conspiracy theories	10
What are they in it for? Marginalised group members' perceptions of allies differ depending on the costs and rewards associated with their allyship	10
Stigma salience increases loneliness among ethnic minorities	10
Social identity, mental health and the experience of migration	9
Can transformative experiences bridge the gap between receiving communities and formerly incarcerated persons?	9
Solidarity with whom? Minority perspectives on allyship in Danish queer spaces	9
Majority friendship and support for social change: Examining the role of ethnic and politicized identifications among Indigenous people in Chile	9
Empathy expectations: Trait empathy exacerbates apologetic offenders' negative reactions to non‐forgiveness	9
The dark side of nostalgia: Yearning for the past fosters bribe‐taking	9
Perceived economic inequality inhibits pro‐environmental engagement	9
How compliance with behavioural measures during the initial phase of a pandemic develops over time: A longitudinal COVID ‐19 study	9
The role of legitimizing the social hierarchy in the impact of status on perceived assertiveness and competence	9
Integration, urban citizenship, and spatial aspects of (new) mobilities: Greek migrants' constructions of integration in European cities	9
Social network analysis in social psychological ressearch (1990–2020): A scoping review	9
Re‐imagining space: Conceptualizing new psychological interventions against segregationist attitudes and behaviours	9
How our ideological out‐group shapes our emotional response to our shared socio‐political reality	9
Word embeddings reveal growing moral concern for people, animals and the environment	9
A social psychology of climate change: Progress and promise	9
Issue Information	8
On being better than average in values	8
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Making sense of punishment: Transgressors' interpretation of punishment motives determines the effects of sanctions	8
Can we prevent social identity switches? An experimental–computational investigation	8
Disentangling the meat paradox: A comparative review of meat‐related conflicts across dietary behaviours	8
An investigation of politicians' responses to urban diversity and disadvantage: The case of the Danish ‘parallel societies’	8
Issue Information	8
Blame it on her ‘baby brain’? Investigating the contents of social stereotypes about pregnant women's warmth and competence	8
Rise of the alt‐White? Examining the prevalence of perceived racial and gender discrimination among White men from 2014 to 2023	8
The mediating effect of institutional trust in the relationship between precarity and conspiracy beliefs: A conceptual replication of Adam‐Troian et al. (2023)	8
Political orientation, trust and discriminatory beliefs during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from the United Kingdom	8
The role of perspective‐taking in attenuating self‐group distancing in women managers	8
Small gifts, big shifts? Testing the role of contact through reciprocal gifting as a prejudice reduction strategy	8
‘They attacked you just like that’: Negotiating racial epistemics in making claims about racism	8
Shared social identity and social norms shape risk‐taking at mass gatherings	7
Power and resistance: Black Americans' multifaceted perceptions of ingroup strengths and their effects on collective efficacy and resistance	7
Impresarios of identity: How the leaders of Czechoslovakia's ‘Candlelight Demonstration’ enabled effective collective action in a context of repression	7
Leadership and discursive mobilizing of collective action in the Jonestown mass killing	7
‘Like we definitely have to go greener, but…’: Analysing affective–discursive practices in populist environmental discourse	7
Moral evaluations of reporting transgressors are more favourable than people expect	7
Elaboration moderates reliance on metacognitive assessments: The case of attitude certainty	7
My mind to your mind: Christians egocentrically estimate God's and Satan's attitudes	7
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Regulating liminality: Making sense of the vegetative state and defining the limits of end‐of‐life action	7
‘Are they just putting up with me’? How diversity approaches impact LGBTQ + employees' sense of being tolerated at work	7
A latent profile analysis of the nature of social group memberships and their contribution to retirement outcomes	7
The role of group memberships and school identification on student well‐being	7
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Pressured to be proud? Investigating the link between perceived norms and intergroup attitudes in members of disadvantaged minority groups	7