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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Cathectic mechanisms of cosmetic surgery: Operation and recovery as a ritual‐like process31
From ambivalence to vulnerability: Recognition and the subject22
Context, Emergence and Critical Realism: A Response to Navarrete and Fryer15
The nature of bank money, a case study of transformation in the Czech banking sector15
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Relationship course theory: An interdisciplinary integrative proposition to address the complexification of interpersonal relationships14
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Questioning Consilience and Autonomy in Self‐Determination Theory: A Critique and Hermeneutic‐Phenomenological Alternative13
Tolerance and political freedom: Critique of a postmodern re‐definition of tolerance11
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
Coordinating Behaviors: Is social interaction scripted?9
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How Therborn's Theory of Ideology Enhances Bourdieus's Theory of Fields8
Autonomous Agency in Anti‐Dualistic Social Ontologies: A Compatibilist Notion8
Redefining emergence: Making the case for contextual emergence in critical realism7
Human agency and social structure: From the evolutionary perspective7
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Patrimonial Imperialism: A Taxonomy of the Causes of the Russo‐Ukrainian War7
Continuities Between Peircean Realism and Critical Realism: On Causation, Ontology, and Truth6
Realism and Complexity5
Contingency and Social Change: Collective Engagement in Conditions of Radical Uncertainty5
Rules without regulation and regulation without rules5
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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 Theories4
What Is Grounded Simulation?4
The Concept of Function in Social Positioning Theory4
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Explaining with Intentional Omissions4
The Bourdieusian Unconscious: The Scientific and Political Significance of the Sociological Treatment of a Psychoanalytic Concept4
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Ontological unpredictability: what can realists say about unpredictability, contingency and catastrophe?4
Social psychology as a stable interpretative framework irrefutably committed to the scientific study of persons and society3
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Social media and diatopic tension: A psychosocial study with Haddad and Bolsonaro's voters in Brazil3
Structure and agency between French and Morphogenetic Régulation3
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The Failure of Roy Bhaskar's Explanatory Critique3
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Simulated Sense‐Making or Social Knowledge? Artificial Intelligence and the Boundaries of Representation2
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Post‐Legitimate Society2
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Where does research design fall short? Mental health related‐stigma as example2
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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Should we talk of “extinction society”? A socio‐cultural reading2
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Generalising Social Behaviour and Theory of Social Behaviour: When Is It Statistical and When Not?2
The Governing Dynamics of Social Reality: A Unified Theory1
Complexity theory for complexity reduction? Revisiting the ontological and epistemological basis of complexity science with Critical Realism1
A sociology of existence for a late modern world. Basic assumptions and conceptual tools1
A Person Without a Past: Robert Michels and Alfred Schutz and the Sociology of the “Stranger”1
Praxeological Status of Unintentional Speech Acts1
Merleau‐Ponty and Nagarjuna – Ethics Within the Self of the No‐Self1
Sensory experiences and social representation – Embodied multimodality of common‐sense thinking1
Materiality and Change in Social Fields1
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Shedding Some (More) Light in Bourdieu's Habitus and Doxa: A Socio‐Phenomenological Approach1
The Paradox of Situated Knowledge: Toward an Existential Embedment Theory of Perceptual Truth1
The Social Character of the Unconscious. A Cross Reading between G. H. Mead and C. G. Jung1
Why and how ontology matters: A cartography of neoliberalism(s) and neoliberalization(s)1
Cultural orientations and their influence on social behaviour: Catalysation and suppression1
RETRACTED: A critical review on the mimetic theory of René Girard: Politics, religion, and violence1
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Theoretical problems with oversimplifying autistic diversity into a single category1
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Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements1
Foxes who want to be hedgehogs: Is ethical pluralism possible in psychology's replication crisis?1
Description‐experience gap in choice under risk: Are emotions involved?1
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