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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Harré and the study of personality23
From ambivalence to vulnerability: Recognition and the subject20
Re‐envisioning Human Agency: A Commentary on, and Alternative to Gantt, Yanchar, and Parker's Hermeneutic‐Phenomenological Approach15
Thinking about laws in political science (and beyond)11
Context, Emergence and Critical Realism: A Response to Navarrete and Fryer11
Identity, Collective Action and Inaction: The Role of Self‐Esteem and Psychological Benefits11
The transformation of order in narrative as discordant concord: Using Paul Ricoeur to explore narrative realism as part of social morphogenesis10
Getting real about nominalism again: Special forum introduction10
The nature of bank money, a case study of transformation in the Czech banking sector9
Who am I when I don't know who I am? The problem of personal identity in infants and elderly with cognitive disabilities9
Why and how ontology matters: A cartography of neoliberalism(s) and neoliberalization(s)9
Commensal Attraction: Eating Together as a Social Tool7
Nominalist visualities and classical social theory: An examination of Durkheim and Weber7
Description‐experience gap in choice under risk: Are emotions involved?7
Cathectic mechanisms of cosmetic surgery: Operation and recovery as a ritual‐like process7
Realism and Complexity6
Materiality and Change in Social Fields6
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RETRACTED: A critical review on the mimetic theory of René Girard: Politics, religion, and violence5
Powerless, Stupefied, and Repressed Actors Cannot Challenge Climate Change: Real Helplessness as a Barrier Between Environmental Concern and Action5
Cognitive and social strengths of people living with dementia: Discoveries through Harré’s method5
Is the social study of finance necessarily nominalist? Using realism to address shortcomings in actor‐network theory approaches to financialisation and everyday life5
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Imagine, predict or perform? Reclaiming the future in sociology beyond scientism and catastrophism4
Cultures of listening, dark listening and a plea for theory4
Special Issue on Realist Complexity: An Introduction4
Everything, everywhere, but not all at once? Time, contingency and the open future4
Georg Simmel and the ontology of relational emergence4
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Do Realists Predict?4
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The devil is in the categories: Metaphysics and social and political thought3
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Institutionalized behavior, morality and domination: AHabitusin action model of violence3
Dialectical critical realism, complexity and the psychology of blame3
On the Uses of Phenomenology in Sociological Research: A Typology, some Criticisms and a Plea3
Organizing cultural dimensions within and across six frameworks: A human development perspective3
The psychology of bureaucracy: A normative account inspired by Rom Harré3
Contingency and Social Change: Collective Engagement in Conditions of Radical Uncertainty3
Social cognition and the origin of concepts in Durkheim's sociology of knowledge3
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The development of positioning theory as a process of theoretical positioning3
Sociological limits and prospects of contemporary cultural evolutionary theory3
Relationship course theory: An interdisciplinary integrative proposition to address the complexification of interpersonal relationships3
Post‐Legitimate Society3
Social positioning theory and quantum mechanics3
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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 knowledge2
Calibrating the Conatus in Morphogenetic Régulation: Towards a Problématique of Perseverance2
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What is implicit culture?2
The prediction of social catastrophes: Between necessity and contingency2
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Hope, habitus and social recognition: A Bourdieusian proposal2
A sociology of existence for a late modern world. Basic assumptions and conceptual tools2
Questioning Consilience and Autonomy in Self‐Determination Theory: A Critique and Hermeneutic‐Phenomenological Alternative2
Recognizability and recognition as human—Learning from Butler and Manne2
A social ontology of “maximal” persons2
Theoretical problems with oversimplifying autistic diversity into a single category1
Coordinating Behaviors: Is social interaction scripted?1
The psychology of ultimate values: A computational perspective1
Homelessness, Public Space and Civil Disobedience1
Fallacy of methodologism and its theoretical implication1
Neither individualism nor anti‐individualism: The coevolution of social systems and psychic systems1
Personality and public performance1
Tolerance and political freedom: Critique of a postmodern re‐definition of tolerance1
Framing the tendency to betray one's good intentions. Akrasia as a dialogical dynamic1
The Myth of Agreement1
Shedding Some (More) Light in Bourdieu's Habitus and Doxa: A Socio‐Phenomenological Approach1
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Autonomous Agency in Anti‐Dualistic Social Ontologies: A Compatibilist Notion1
Heritage, the power of the past, and the politics of (mis)recognition1
Rule‐free regulation: Exploring regulation ‘without rules’ and apart from ‘deontic categories’1
Towards the Spoken World Theory: The contribution of Rom Harré to advancing social theory1
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A Person Without a Past: Robert Michels and Alfred Schutz and the Sociology of the “Stranger”1
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Toward a sociological theory of social pain1
The Bourdieusian Unconscious: The Scientific and Political Significance of the Sociological Treatment of a Psychoanalytic Concept1
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Vagueness and social ontology: Implications of inquiry resistant borderline cases for social ontological theorising1
Complexity theory for complexity reduction? Revisiting the ontological and epistemological basis of complexity science with Critical Realism1
Experts, naturalism, and democracy1
A Motivational Theory of Roles, Rewards, and Institutions1
Durkheim and realism1
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