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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The psychology of colonial ideologies: Decoupling pro‐egalitarian and neo‐colonial sources of support for Puerto Rico statehood	61
Strategic thinking in the shadow of self‐enhancement: Benefits and costs	55
Rejection of the status quo: Conspiracy theories and preference for alternative political systems	45
Gender and ideological orientation moderate the influence of climate misinformation on pro‐environmental behavioural intentions	38
Justifying violence and hostility through discourse: A critical discursive psychology analysis of anti‐refugee hostility on social media during disasters	38
Individual uniqueness in trust profiles and well‐being: Understanding the role of cultural tightness–looseness from a representation similarity perspective	37
Red‐pilled mama bears and enlightened power goddesses: Discursive constructions of feminine identities in a conspiracy theory space	37
Issue Information	37
Social psychology of context and in context: Understanding the temporal, spatial and embodied dimensions o	37
National bitterness, powerlessness and greatness: Examining constructions of affect as part of argumentation in populist EU discourse in Finland	34
Conspiracy believers claim to be free thinkers but (Under)Use advice like everyone else	33
Optimistic bias in updating beliefs about climate change longitudinally predicts low pro‐environmental behaviour	33
The crisis we are not naming: The psychology of capitalism	33
Experimental tests of the tertiary transfer effect of intergroup contact: Addressing valence, prototypicality and moderators	31
Sharing conspiracy theories and staying in power: How leaders' false theories influence leadership perception	30
Editorial acknowledgement	27
Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio‐functional model of conspiracy beliefs	27
Motivations to engage in collective action: A latent profile analysis of refugee supporters	27
Moral trade‐offs reveal foundational representations that predict unique variance in political attitudes	26
Cues of trait dominance elicit inferences of psychological ownership	26
Crowd psychology and the politics of co‐production: Social control, democratic order and the consequences of theory	26
‘They are lovely men’: Compassionate exclusion used to justify a protest outside asylum seeker accommodation	26
The working memory approach of persuasion: Induced eye movements lead to more social media self‐control behaviours	25
Perceptions of anomie in society shape support for wealth redistribution	25
“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	24

So different yet so alike? Political collective narcissism predicts blatant dehumanization of political outgroups among conservatives and liberals	24
Correction to ‘Digitizing fear: Identity, threat and collective mobilization through social media posts during the 2021 election campaigns in West Bengal, India’	24
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The costs of lying: Consequences of telling lies on liar's self‐esteem and affect	23
Prejudice towards refugees predicts social fear of crime	23
Issue Information	23
“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	22
Towards a social psychology of precarity	21
Beyond experiential spending: Consumers report higher well‐being from purchases that satisfy intrinsic goals	20
Egoistic value is positively associated with pro‐environmental attitude and behaviour when the environmental problems are psychologically close	20
Visual humanization of refugees: A visual rhetorical analysis of media discourse on the war in Ukraine	20
Bodies in and out of place: The racialized entanglements of occupying space	19
What is hiding behind the rainbow plot? The gender ideology and LGBTQ + lobby conspiracies ( GILC	18
Nostalgia encourages exploration and fosters uncertainty in response to AI technology	18
Issue Information	18
‘Far right just means anyone who wants to support British values’: Mobilizing ‘British values’ talk in discussions of the August 2024 UK race riots	18
Crisis geographies from above and below: Constructing globality during the COVID‐19 pandemic	18
Prosocial behaviour enhances evaluation of physical beauty	17
The psychology of Querfront tactics: How protesters perceive and navigate conflicting ideologies to mobilise collectively	17
Green dreams are made of this: Futures consciousness and proenvironmental engagement	17
Beyond the incident: Influences on the perception of multiple instances of discrimination	17
Space‐focused stereotypes of immigrant neighbourhoods	16
Your voice pitch speaks volumes about you: How voice pitch affects mind perception of the speakers	16
The regional big‐fish‐little‐pond effect: Evidence from national and subnational comparisons	16
Dominance meets competence: A socio‐ecological perspective on leadership and human social hierarchies	16
No borders on a fragile planet: Introducing four lay models of social psychological precarity to support global human identification and citizenship	16
Dressing up social psychology: Empirically investigating the psychological functions of clothing using the example of symbolic protection	16
Agreeing to disagree: When do superordinate identities facilitate competing opinion‐based groups to work through intergroup conflict?	15
Correction to ‘Past–future asymmetry in identity‐relevant perception of racism and inequality’	15
The values we share: A multi‐method approach to understanding how perceived outgroup values are related to attitudes towards immigrants	15
“This must really come from within”: Kurdish diasporic narratives of solidarity as resistance and existence in Belgium	15
Who you know influences where you go: Intergroup contact attenuates bias in trainee teachers' school preferences	15
How ingroup norms of multiculturalism (and tolerance) affect intergroup solidarity: The role of ideology	15
‘Support your sisters, not just your cis‐ters’: Feminist leaders' challenges and strategies in curating trans‐inclusive identities	14
Desegregating spaces: The interplay between ecological intergroup contact and GPS ‐traced spatial segregation among youth in two	14
Power effects on interindividual and intergroup competition	14
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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	13
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	13
Backfire effects of performance quantification on stress and disidentification: The role of metadehumanization in organizations, sport, and social networks	13
Reasons for qualitative psychologists to share human data	13
Child sexual abuse and social identity loss: A qualitative analysis of survivors' public accounts	13
Examining the connection between position‐based power and social status across 70 cultures	13
Sowing seeds for the future: Future time perspective and climate adaptation among farmers	12
Alcoholics anonymous and recovery in Türkiye: A qualitative study in the context of Social Identity Theory	12
The likes that bind: Even novel opinion sharing can induce opinion‐based identification	12
Being close or being alone: How Social ostracism affects solitude preference	12
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	12
Testing the socio‐functional model: Does precarity cause conspiracy belief?	12
Social influence and social identity: A diffusion model analysis	12

Dynamic norms as a tool for social change: How dynamic norms can revert controversial political decision‐making related to Brexit	11
The motivations and reputational consequences of spreading conspiracy theories	11
Bread and Roses: Social re‐presentations for Unconditional Basic Income in the Basque Country	11
Performing populist leadership online: Discursive and multimodal construction of a shared social identity	11
Leadership, mobilization of risky behaviours and accountability: The Church of Greece leaders' public talk during the COVID‐19 pandemic	11
Reducing economic inequality is ‘just right’: Moral conviction predicts support for redistributive government policies	11
Suspicious of AI ? Perceived autonomy and interdependence predict AI ‐related conspiracy beliefs	11
Empathy expectations: Trait empathy exacerbates apologetic offenders' negative reactions to non‐forgiveness	10
Can transformative experiences bridge the gap between receiving communities and formerly incarcerated persons?	10
Towards sustainability by reducing speciesism: The effect of a prejudice‐based intervention on people's attitudes and behaviours towards animals	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
What are they in it for? Marginalised group members' perceptions of allies differ depending on the costs and rewards associated with their allyship	10
Disentangling the meat paradox: A comparative review of meat‐related conflicts across dietary behaviours	10
How our ideological out‐group shapes our emotional response to our shared socio‐political reality	10
Can't see the forest for the trees: Time poverty influences construal level and the moderating role of autonomous versus controlled motivation	10
Perceived economic inequality inhibits pro‐environmental engagement	10
Re‐imagining space: Conceptualizing new psychological interventions against segregationist attitudes and behaviours	10
The dark side of nostalgia: Yearning for the past fosters bribe‐taking	10
Identity fusion is associated with outgroup trust and social exploration: Evidence for the fusion‐secure base hypothesis	10
Stigma salience increases loneliness among ethnic minorities	10
Majority friendship and support for social change: Examining the role of ethnic and politicized identifications among Indigenous people in Chile	9
The role of legitimizing the social hierarchy in the impact of status on perceived assertiveness and competence	9
Managing acculturation threats with tailored self‐affirmation interventions: A mixed‐methods study with Syrian forced migrants	9
A social psychology of climate change: Progress and promise	9
Issue Information	9
Making sense of punishment: Transgressors' interpretation of punishment motives determines the effects of sanctions	9
Integration, urban citizenship, and spatial aspects of (new) mobilities: Greek migrants' constructions of integration in European cities	9
Word embeddings reveal growing moral concern for people, animals and the environment	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
Small gifts, big shifts? Testing the role of contact through reciprocal gifting as a prejudice reduction strategy	9
Issue Information	9
Rise of the alt‐White? Examining the prevalence of perceived racial and gender discrimination among White men from 2014 to 2023	9
On being better than average in values	9
How compliance with behavioural measures during the initial phase of a pandemic develops over time: A longitudinal COVID ‐19 study	9
Social network analysis in social psychological ressearch (1990–2020): A scoping review	9
Solidarity with whom? Minority perspectives on allyship in Danish queer spaces	9
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Can we prevent social identity switches? An experimental–computational investigation	9
Social identity, mental health and the experience of migration	9
Police officers' prejudice and distrust towards racialized groups is related to internal motivation to suppress prejudice and negative intergroup contact	8
Moral evaluations of reporting transgressors are more favourable than people expect	8
Blame it on her ‘baby brain’? Investigating the contents of social stereotypes about pregnant women's warmth and competence	8
‘They attacked you just like that’: Negotiating racial epistemics in making claims about racism	8
An investigation of politicians' responses to urban diversity and disadvantage: The case of the Danish ‘parallel societies’	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
The role of group memberships and school identification on student well‐being	7
Pressured to be proud? Investigating the link between perceived norms and intergroup attitudes in members of disadvantaged minority groups	7
Impresarios of identity: How the leaders of Czechoslovakia's ‘Candlelight Demonstration’ enabled effective collective action in a context of repression	7
Power and resistance: Black Americans' multifaceted perceptions of ingroup strengths and their effects on collective efficacy and resistance	7
Issue Information	7
Honour, acculturation and well‐being: Evidence from the UK and Canada	7
A latent profile analysis of the nature of social group memberships and their contribution to retirement outcomes	7
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‘Like we definitely have to go greener, but…’: Analysing affective–discursive practices in populist environmental discourse	7
Shared social identity and social norms shape risk‐taking at mass gatherings	7
Investigating cycle shifts in women's clothing style and grooming	7
Motor coordination induces social identity—A novel paradigm for the investigation of the group performance‐identity link	7
Leadership and discursive mobilizing of collective action in the Jonestown mass killing	7
‘Are they just putting up with me’? How diversity approaches impact LGBTQ + employees' sense of being tolerated at work	7
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My mind to your mind: Christians egocentrically estimate God's and Satan's attitudes	7
Elaboration moderates reliance on metacognitive assessments: The case of attitude certainty	7
Within your rights: Dissociating wrongness and permissibility in moral judgement	7
Regulating liminality: Making sense of the vegetative state and defining the limits of end‐of‐life action	7
The Siren's call: How social media influencers are using identity leadership to shape diagnostic label identification and self‐care intentions	7