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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Social psychology of context and in context: Understanding the temporal, spatial and embodied dimensions of contemporary geopolitics	45
Strategic thinking in the shadow of self‐enhancement: Benefits and costs	37
Motivations to engage in collective action: A latent profile analysis of refugee supporters	37
Issue Information	32
Rejection of the status quo: Conspiracy theories and preference for alternative political systems	32
Individual uniqueness in trust profiles and well‐being: Understanding the role of cultural tightness–looseness from a representation similarity perspective	31
Equality data as immoral race politics: A case study of liberal, colour‐blind, and antiracialist opposition to equality data in Sweden	28
Can ‘we’ share the contested territory with ‘them’? Shared territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation intentions in Kosovo	27
The psychology of colonial ideologies: Decoupling pro‐egalitarian and neo‐colonial sources of support for Puerto Rico statehood	25
Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio‐functional model of conspiracy beliefs	25
Red‐pilled mama bears and enlightened power goddesses: Discursive constructions of feminine identities in a conspiracy theory space	23
The reciprocal relationship between social identification and social support over time: A four‐wave longitudinal study	23
Conspiracy believers claim to be free thinkers but (Under)Use advice like everyone else	23
Optimistic bias in updating beliefs about climate change longitudinally predicts low pro‐environmental behaviour	22
The working memory approach of persuasion: Induced eye movements lead to more social media self‐control behaviours	21
Editorial acknowledgement	21
Cues of trait dominance elicit inferences of psychological ownership	20
Moral trade‐offs reveal foundational representations that predict unique variance in political attitudes	20
Students’ understanding and support for anti‐racism in universities	19
“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	18
Mobilizing race and racism: Visible race and invisible racism	18
Prejudice towards refugees predicts social fear of crime	18
The humble estimate: Humility predicts higher self‐assessment accuracy	18
Issue Information	17
Disentangling national and religious identification as predictors of support for religious minority rights among Christian majority groups	16

Corrigendum	16
Visual humanization of refugees: A visual rhetorical analysis of media discourse on the war in Ukraine	16
Nostalgia encourages exploration and fosters uncertainty in response to AI technology	16
So different yet so alike? Political collective narcissism predicts blatant dehumanization of political outgroups among conservatives and liberals	15
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Beyond experiential spending: Consumers report higher well‐being from purchases that satisfy intrinsic goals	15
Green dreams are made of this: Futures consciousness and proenvironmental engagement	15
Towards a social psychology of precarity	15
The costs of lying: Consequences of telling lies on liar's self‐esteem and affect	15
Egoistic value is positively associated with pro‐environmental attitude and behaviour when the environmental problems are psychologically close	15
No borders on a fragile planet: Introducing four lay models of social psychological precarity to support global human identification and citizenship	14
Beyond the incident: Influences on the perception of multiple instances of discrimination	14
Dressing up social psychology: Empirically investigating the psychological functions of clothing using the example of symbolic protection	14
Crisis geographies from above and below: Constructing globality during the COVID‐19 pandemic	14
Space‐focused stereotypes of immigrant neighbourhoods	14
Your voice pitch speaks volumes about you: How voice pitch affects mind perception of the speakers	14
Issue Information	14
What is hiding behind the rainbow plot? The gender ideology and LGBTQ+ lobby conspiracies (GILC) scale	13
Child sexual abuse and social identity loss: A qualitative analysis of survivors' public accounts	13
The regional big‐fish‐little‐pond effect: Evidence from national and subnational comparisons	13
Prosocial behaviour enhances evaluation of physical beauty	13
Correction to ‘Past–future asymmetry in identity‐relevant perception of racism and inequality’	13
Reductions in perceived COVID‐19 threat amid UK’s mass public vaccination programme coincide with reductions in outgroup avoidance (but not prejudice)	12
On Sanders, Trump, and rhinoceroses: Quantifying subjective construals helps predict political attitudes	12
Who you know influences where you go: Intergroup contact attenuates bias in trainee teachers' school preferences	12
Call me maybe: Risk factors of impaired social contact during the COVID‐19 pandemic and associations with well‐being	12
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	12
Constructing the places of young people in public space: Conflict, belonging and identity	12
‘Look not at what is contrary to propriety’: A meta‐analytic exploration of the association between religiosity and sensitivity to disgust	12
Power effects on interindividual and intergroup competition	12
The values we share: A multi‐method approach to understanding how perceived outgroup values are related to attitudes towards immigrants	12
Being close or being alone: How Social ostracism affects solitude preference	11
Communicating group norms through election results	11
Social influence and social identity: A diffusion model analysis	11
Existential isolation and the struggle for belief validation	11
Examining the connection between position‐based power and social status across 70 cultures	11
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	11
Issue Information	11
Gender stereotypes in UK children and adolescents: Changing patterns of knowledge and endorsement	11
How ingroup norms of multiculturalism (and tolerance) affect intergroup solidarity: The role of ideology	11
Sowing seeds for the future: Future time perspective and climate adaptation among farmers	11
Reasons for qualitative psychologists to share human data	11
Backfire effects of performance quantification on stress and disidentification: The role of metadehumanization in organizations, sport, and social networks	11
Suspicious of AI? Perceived autonomy and interdependence predict AI‐related conspiracy beliefs	10
Having a choice of means gears incomplete runners into more effective goal engagement: The effects of deliberative mindsets on the pursuit of identity goals	10
The motivations and reputational consequences of spreading conspiracy theories	10
Leadership, mobilization of risky behaviours and accountability: The Church of Greece leaders' public talk during the COVID‐19 pandemic	10
The likes that bind: Even novel opinion sharing can induce opinion‐based identification	10
Towards sustainability by reducing speciesism: The effect of a prejudice‐based intervention on people's attitudes and behaviours towards animals	10
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver: Machiavellianism is associated with producing but not necessarily with falling for bullshit	9

Identity fusion is associated with outgroup trust and social exploration: Evidence for the fusion‐secure base hypothesis	9
Can't see the forest for the trees: Time poverty influences construal level and the moderating role of autonomous versus controlled motivation	9
Factors in workers’ dehumanization: Multiple stigmatization, social status, and workers’ sex	9
What are they in it for? Marginalised group members' perceptions of allies differ depending on the costs and rewards associated with their allyship	9
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	9
Social identity, mental health and the experience of migration	8
How our ideological out‐group shapes our emotional response to our shared socio‐political reality	8
Social network analysis in social psychological ressearch (1990–2020): A scoping review	8
Can transformative experiences bridge the gap between receiving communities and formerly incarcerated persons?	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
Reducing economic inequality is ‘just right’: Moral conviction predicts support for redistributive government policies	8
Solidarity with whom? Minority perspectives on allyship in Danish queer spaces	8
Stigma salience increases loneliness among ethnic minorities	8
Perceived economic inequality inhibits pro‐environmental engagement	8
The role of legitimizing the social hierarchy in the impact of status on perceived assertiveness and competence	8
Majority friendship and support for social change: Examining the role of ethnic and politicized identifications among Indigenous people in Chile	8
Word embeddings reveal growing moral concern for people, animals and the environment	8
Seeking and avoiding contact with Muslims at a Hijab Stall: Evidence for multilayer, multi‐determined solidarity, courage, apathy, and moral outrage	7
Integration, urban citizenship, and spatial aspects of (new) mobilities: Greek migrants' constructions of integration in European cities	7
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The dark side of nostalgia: Yearning for the past fosters bribe‐taking	7
‘They attacked you just like that’: Negotiating racial epistemics in making claims about racism	7
An investigation of politicians' responses to urban diversity and disadvantage: The case of the Danish ‘parallel societies’	7
Prosocial advice to close versus non‐close others	7
How compliance with behavioural measures during the initial phase of a pandemic develops over time: A longitudinal COVID‐19 study	7
Issue Information	7
A social psychology of climate change: Progress and promise	7
A latent profile analysis of the nature of social group memberships and their contribution to retirement outcomes	6
Regulating liminality: Making sense of the vegetative state and defining the limits of end‐of‐life action	6
My mind to your mind: Christians egocentrically estimate God's and Satan's attitudes	6
Shared social identity and social norms shape risk‐taking at mass gatherings	6
Issue Information	6
Impresarios of identity: How the leaders of Czechoslovakia's ‘Candlelight Demonstration’ enabled effective collective action in a context of repression	6
Can we prevent social identity switches? An experimental–computational investigation	6
Mental contrasting promotes effective self‐regulation for the benefits of groups	6
Motor coordination induces social identity—A novel paradigm for the investigation of the group performance‐identity link	6
The role of perspective‐taking in attenuating self‐group distancing in women managers	6
‘Like we definitely have to go greener, but…’: Analysing affective–discursive practices in populist environmental discourse	6
Pressured to be proud? Investigating the link between perceived norms and intergroup attitudes in members of disadvantaged minority groups	6
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Blame it on her ‘baby brain’? Investigating the contents of social stereotypes about pregnant women's warmth and competence	6
Why punish critical outgroup commenters? Social identity, general norms, and retribution	6
Power and resistance: Black Americans' multifaceted perceptions of ingroup strengths and their effects on collective efficacy and resistance	6
A trouble shared is a trouble halved: The role of family identification and identification with humankind in well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
Issue Information	6
How the home features in young adults’ representations of loneliness: The impact of COVID‐19	6
Leadership and discursive mobilizing of collective action in the Jonestown mass killing	6
Political orientation, trust and discriminatory beliefs during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from the United Kingdom	6
Making sense of punishment: Transgressors' interpretation of punishment motives determines the effects of sanctions	6
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The role of group memberships and school identification on student well‐being	6
Honour, acculturation and well‐being: Evidence from the UK and Canada	6