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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Cathectic mechanisms of cosmetic surgery: Operation and recovery as a ritual‐like process24
From ambivalence to vulnerability: Recognition and the subject18
The transformation of order in narrative as discordant concord: Using Paul Ricoeur to explore narrative realism as part of social morphogenesis14
The nature of bank money, a case study of transformation in the Czech banking sector14
Context, Emergence and Critical Realism: A Response to Navarrete and Fryer14
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Relationship course theory: An interdisciplinary integrative proposition to address the complexification of interpersonal relationships11
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Tolerance and political freedom: Critique of a postmodern re‐definition of tolerance10
Questioning Consilience and Autonomy in Self‐Determination Theory: A Critique and Hermeneutic‐Phenomenological Alternative10
Recognizability and recognition as human—Learning from Butler and Manne8
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
Experts, naturalism, and democracy8
Coordinating Behaviors: Is social interaction scripted?8
Human agency and social structure: From the evolutionary perspective7
Autonomous Agency in Anti‐Dualistic Social Ontologies: A Compatibilist Notion7
How Therborn's Theory of Ideology Enhances Bourdieus's Theory of Fields7
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Rules without regulation and regulation without rules6
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Realism and Complexity6
Continuities Between Peircean Realism and Critical Realism: On Causation, Ontology, and Truth6
Patrimonial Imperialism: A Taxonomy of the Causes of the Russo‐Ukrainian War6
Redefining emergence: Making the case for contextual emergence in critical realism6
Visual essentialism & social kinds6
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Powerless, Stupefied, and Repressed Actors Cannot Challenge Climate Change: Real Helplessness as a Barrier Between Environmental Concern and Action5
Contingency and Social Change: Collective Engagement in Conditions of Radical Uncertainty5
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Feeling the Conspiracy—Theorising the Transformation and Collectivisation of Emotions Through Conspiracy Theories4
Explaining with Intentional Omissions4
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The Bourdieusian Unconscious: The Scientific and Political Significance of the Sociological Treatment of a Psychoanalytic Concept4
The Concept of Function in Social Positioning Theory4
What Is Grounded Simulation?4
Ontological unpredictability: what can realists say about unpredictability, contingency and catastrophe?4
Where does research design fall short? Mental health related‐stigma as example3
Structure and agency between French and Morphogenetic Régulation3
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Social media and diatopic tension: A psychosocial study with Haddad and Bolsonaro's voters in Brazil3
The Failure of Roy Bhaskar's Explanatory Critique3
Social psychology as a stable interpretative framework irrefutably committed to the scientific study of persons and society3
Should we talk of “extinction society”? A socio‐cultural reading2
Everything, everywhere, but not all at once? Time, contingency and the open future2
The devil is in the categories: Metaphysics and social and political thought2
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Commensal Attraction: Eating Together as a Social Tool2
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Post‐Legitimate Society2
Generalising Social Behaviour and Theory of Social Behaviour: When Is It Statistical and When Not?2
A Person Without a Past: Robert Michels and Alfred Schutz and the Sociology of the “Stranger”2
De‐ideologization, liberation psychology, and the place of contradiction1
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Complexity theory for complexity reduction? Revisiting the ontological and epistemological basis of complexity science with Critical Realism1
Theoretical problems with oversimplifying autistic diversity into a single category1
The Paradox of Situated Knowledge: Toward an Existential Embedment Theory of Perceptual Truth1
Merleau‐Ponty and Nagarjuna – Ethics Within the Self of the No‐Self1
Sensory experiences and social representation – Embodied multimodality of common‐sense thinking1
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Hope, habitus and social recognition: A Bourdieusian proposal1
A sociology of existence for a late modern world. Basic assumptions and conceptual tools1
Retraction1
Materiality and Change in Social Fields1
Foxes who want to be hedgehogs: Is ethical pluralism possible in psychology's replication crisis?1
Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements1
The Social Character of the Unconscious. A Cross Reading between G. H. Mead and C. G. Jung1
Shedding Some (More) Light in Bourdieu's Habitus and Doxa: A Socio‐Phenomenological Approach1
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Praxeological Status of Unintentional Speech Acts1
Cultural orientations and their influence on social behaviour: Catalysation and suppression1
Description‐experience gap in choice under risk: Are emotions involved?1
The taboo against contact with minorities: A folk‐anthropology approach to prejudices1
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