Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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From ambivalence to vulnerability: Recognition and the subject41
Context, Emergence and Critical Realism: A Response to Navarrete and Fryer23
The nature of bank money, a case study of transformation in the Czech banking sector20
Cathectic mechanisms of cosmetic surgery: Operation and recovery as a ritual‐like process17
A Response to Hekki Patomäki': On Social Mechanisms15
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Relationship course theory: An interdisciplinary integrative proposition to address the complexification of interpersonal relationships14
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Tolerance and political freedom: Critique of a postmodern re‐definition of tolerance11
Questioning Consilience and Autonomy in Self‐Determination Theory: A Critique and Hermeneutic‐Phenomenological Alternative11
Coordinating Behaviors: Is social interaction scripted?10
Does social psychology need a new semiotic overarching framework for grasping social knowledge? Commentary on J. Wachelke: Semiosis, thought and codes: A theoretical framework for social knowledge10
Recognizability and recognition as human—Learning from Butler and Manne9
Autonomous Agency in Anti‐Dualistic Social Ontologies: A Compatibilist Notion9
How Therborn's Theory of Ideology Enhances Bourdieus's Theory of Fields9
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Human agency and social structure: From the evolutionary perspective8
Continuities Between Peircean Realism and Critical Realism: On Causation, Ontology, and Truth7
Patrimonial Imperialism: A Taxonomy of the Causes of the Russo‐Ukrainian War7
Redefining emergence: Making the case for contextual emergence in critical realism7
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Realism and Complexity6
Rules without regulation and regulation without rules6
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Powerless, Stupefied, and Repressed Actors Cannot Challenge Climate Change: Real Helplessness as a Barrier Between Environmental Concern and Action5
Feeling the Conspiracy—Theorising the Transformation and Collectivisation of Emotions Through Conspiracy Theories5
Contingency and Social Change: Collective Engagement in Conditions of Radical Uncertainty5
Ontological unpredictability: what can realists say about unpredictability, contingency and catastrophe?4
The Concept of Function in Social Positioning Theory4
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Explaining with Intentional Omissions4
Social psychology as a stable interpretative framework irrefutably committed to the scientific study of persons and society4
The Bourdieusian Unconscious: The Scientific and Political Significance of the Sociological Treatment of a Psychoanalytic Concept4
What Is Grounded Simulation?4
Social media and diatopic tension: A psychosocial study with Haddad and Bolsonaro's voters in Brazil4
Structure and agency between French and Morphogenetic Régulation3
Where does research design fall short? Mental health related‐stigma as example3
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The Failure of Roy Bhaskar's Explanatory Critique3
Should we talk of “extinction society”? A socio‐cultural reading3
A sociology of existence for a late modern world. Basic assumptions and conceptual tools2
Shedding Some (More) Light in Bourdieu's Habitus and Doxa: A Socio‐Phenomenological Approach2
The Relational Quiddity of Virtual/Digital Reality2
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A Person Without a Past: Robert Michels and Alfred Schutz and the Sociology of the “Stranger”2
The Paradox of Situated Knowledge: Toward an Existential Embedment Theory of Perceptual Truth2
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Commensal Attraction: Eating Together as a Social Tool2
Everything, everywhere, but not all at once? Time, contingency and the open future2
Post‐Legitimate Society2
Theoretical problems with oversimplifying autistic diversity into a single category2
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Simulated Sense‐Making or Social Knowledge? Artificial Intelligence and the Boundaries of Representation2
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Generalising Social Behaviour and Theory of Social Behaviour: When Is It Statistical and When Not?2
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Retraction1
Sensory experiences and social representation – Embodied multimodality of common‐sense thinking1
Materiality and Change in Social Fields1
Foxes who want to be hedgehogs: Is ethical pluralism possible in psychology's replication crisis?1
Complexity theory for complexity reduction? Revisiting the ontological and epistemological basis of complexity science with Critical Realism1
The Social Character of the Unconscious. A Cross Reading between G. H. Mead and C. G. Jung1
Merleau‐Ponty and Nagarjuna – Ethics Within the Self of the No‐Self1
Special Issue on Realist Complexity: An Introduction1
Cultural orientations and their influence on social behaviour: Catalysation and suppression1
The Governing Dynamics of Social Reality: A Unified Theory1
Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements1
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Praxeological Status of Unintentional Speech Acts1
Social cognition and the origin of concepts in Durkheim's sociology of knowledge1
Why and how ontology matters: A cartography of neoliberalism(s) and neoliberalization(s)1
Description‐experience gap in choice under risk: Are emotions involved?1
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