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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Cathectic mechanisms of cosmetic surgery: Operation and recovery as a ritual‐like process24
Context, Emergence and Critical Realism: A Response to Navarrete and Fryer17
From ambivalence to vulnerability: Recognition and the subject13
The nature of bank money, a case study of transformation in the Czech banking sector13
The transformation of order in narrative as discordant concord: Using Paul Ricoeur to explore narrative realism as part of social morphogenesis13
Relationship course theory: An interdisciplinary integrative proposition to address the complexification of interpersonal relationships11
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Recognizability and recognition as human—Learning from Butler and Manne9
Tolerance and political freedom: Critique of a postmodern re‐definition of tolerance8
Questioning Consilience and Autonomy in Self‐Determination Theory: A Critique and Hermeneutic‐Phenomenological Alternative8
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 knowledge8
A social ontology of “maximal” persons7
Autonomous Agency in Anti‐Dualistic Social Ontologies: A Compatibilist Notion6
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Experts, naturalism, and democracy6
Coordinating Behaviors: Is social interaction scripted?6
How Therborn's Theory of Ideology Enhances Bourdieus's Theory of Fields6
Human agency and social structure: From the evolutionary perspective6
Continuities Between Peircean Realism and Critical Realism: On Causation, Ontology, and Truth5
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Redefining emergence: Making the case for contextual emergence in critical realism5
Rules without regulation and regulation without rules5
Visual essentialism & social kinds5
Contingency and Social Change: Collective Engagement in Conditions of Radical Uncertainty4
Powerless, Stupefied, and Repressed Actors Cannot Challenge Climate Change: Real Helplessness as a Barrier Between Environmental Concern and Action4
The Bourdieusian Unconscious: The Scientific and Political Significance of the Sociological Treatment of a Psychoanalytic Concept4
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Realism and Complexity4
Feeling the Conspiracy—Theorising the Transformation and Collectivisation of Emotions Through Conspiracy Theories4
What Is Grounded Simulation?4
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Cultures of listening, dark listening and a plea for theory4
Ontological unpredictability: what can realists say about unpredictability, contingency and catastrophe?4
The Concept of Function in Social Positioning Theory4
Should we talk of “extinction society”? A socio‐cultural reading3
Social psychology as a stable interpretative framework irrefutably committed to the scientific study of persons and society3
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The Failure of Roy Bhaskar's Explanatory Critique3
Explaining with Intentional Omissions3
Social media and diatopic tension: A psychosocial study with Haddad and Bolsonaro's voters in Brazil3
Where does research design fall short? Mental health related‐stigma as example3
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Structure and agency between French and Morphogenetic Régulation3
Post‐Legitimate Society2
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Generalising Social Behaviour and Theory of Social Behaviour: When Is It Statistical and When Not?2
Commensal Attraction: Eating Together as a Social Tool2
Everything, everywhere, but not all at once? Time, contingency and the open future2
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A Person Without a Past: Robert Michels and Alfred Schutz and the Sociology of the “Stranger”2
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The devil is in the categories: Metaphysics and social and political thought2
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A sociology of existence for a late modern world. Basic assumptions and conceptual tools2
Sensory experiences and social representation – Embodied multimodality of common‐sense thinking1
Description‐experience gap in choice under risk: Are emotions involved?1
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De‐ideologization, liberation psychology, and the place of contradiction1
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Shedding Some (More) Light in Bourdieu's Habitus and Doxa: A Socio‐Phenomenological Approach1
Hope, habitus and social recognition: A Bourdieusian proposal1
Complexity theory for complexity reduction? Revisiting the ontological and epistemological basis of complexity science with Critical Realism1
Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements1
Understanding and investigating relationality in the capability approach1
Cultural orientations and their influence on social behaviour: Catalysation and suppression1
The taboo against contact with minorities: A folk‐anthropology approach to prejudices1
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Theoretical problems with oversimplifying autistic diversity into a single category1
Retraction1
RETRACTED: A critical review on the mimetic theory of René Girard: Politics, religion, and violence1
Foxes who want to be hedgehogs: Is ethical pluralism possible in psychology's replication crisis?1
Merleau‐Ponty and Nagarjuna – Ethics Within the Self of the No‐Self1
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The Social Character of the Unconscious. A Cross Reading between G. H. Mead and C. G. Jung1
Vagueness and social ontology: Implications of inquiry resistant borderline cases for social ontological theorising1
The Paradox of Situated Knowledge: Toward an Existential Embedment Theory of Perceptual Truth1
Praxeological Status of Unintentional Speech Acts1
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