European Journal of Social Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Social Psychology is 2. 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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The social amplification of illusory correlations38
Perceived social mobility and system justification predict greater well‐being, but less prosocial behaviour34
Victim empowerment and satisfaction: The potential of imagery rescripting33
Loving Taxation, Hating Single Taxes: Disentangling Temporal Distance and Abstraction in the Communication of Tax Proposals28
Hypocrisy judgements are affected by target attitude strength and attitude moralization26
Out‐group help in the time of Covid‐19 and intergroup reconciliation in the Western Balkans25
The added value of perceived values: Partner's perceived values predict own behaviour in interdependent interactions24
Locational citizenship, exclusion and inclusion. The case of street children in Ethiopia23
Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change22
Perception of helper's autonomous motivation increases recipient's prosocial behaviour intentions via feelings of gratitude21
Dark Triad and the attitude toward military violence against civilians: The role of moral disengagement20
Ideologically‐based contact avoidance during a pandemic: Blunt or selective distancing from ‘others’?20
Testing predictors of attitude strength as determinants of attitude stability and attitude–behaviour relationships: A multi‐behaviour study19
Pushing too far? Negotiations of non‐compliance and resistance to the COVID‐19 cabin ban in Norway18
Strength‐is‐Weakness: The (ir)relevant relation between resources and payoffs in coalition formation17
Behind the makeup: The effects of cosmetics on women's self‐objectification, and their objectification by others17
The fear of confession? High Catholic collective narcissism and low secure identification with Catholics predict increased pedophilia myth acceptance17
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Empathy as a predictor of high‐quality interpersonal apologies16
Emotional, motivational and attitudinal consequences of autonomous prosocial behaviour16
Protesting for stability or change? Definitional and conceptual issues in the study of reactionary, conservative, and progressive collective actions16
The mindset of birth predicts birth outcomes: Evidence from a prospective longitudinal study15
Dialogicality and Conspiracy Theory: The Coexistence of Conspiracist and Non‐Conspiracist Beliefs15
Fostering Social Cohesion in Post‐Conflict Societies: The Power of Normative Apologies in Reducing Competitive Victimhood and Enhancing Reconciliation and Intergroup Negotiation15
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Examining beliefs about reconciliation and social integration in Kosovo: Testing effects of interethnic contact and differences in perspective among ethnic Albanians and Serbs15
Social movement strategy (nonviolent vs. violent) and the garnering of third‐party support: A meta‐analysis14
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Cultural group norms for harmony explain the puzzling negative association between objective status and system justification in Asia14
Does personal relative deprivation mediate the relationship between passive social media use and beliefs in conspiracy theories? Cross‐sectional correlational and experimental evidence13
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The true self in reflections? Visual self‐recognition and the Big Five13
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Continuity and change12
Identifying stories of ‘us’: A mixed‐method analysis of the meaning, contents and associations of national narratives constructed by Americans12
Moral judgment under uncertainty: A CNI model analysis12
Consensual and idiosyncratic trustworthiness perceptions independently influence social decision‐making12
The ‘mixed bag’ of segregation—On positive and negative associations with migrants’ acculturation12
Ambivalent sexism and violence toward women: A meta‐analysis11
Territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: A person‐centred approach11
Being One or the Other, Both or Neither: Self‐Categorization Theory, Social Identity Theory and the Issue of Mixed Identities11
How do we cope when we believe we can? A systematic review and meta‐analysis of studies on coping and negative mood regulation expectancies11
Expecting exclusion: Does bracing for the worst buffer the pain of social exclusion?11
So where do you see this going? The effects of commitment asymmetry and asynchrony on relationship satisfaction and break‐up11
German desire for historical closure indirectly affects Israelis' intergroup attitudes11
Polarization from the perspective of ambivalents: Feeling caught in the social crossfire of the U.S. abortion debate10
National glorification and attachment differentially predict support for intergroup conflict resolution: Scrutinizing cross‐country generalizability10
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Playing to their strengths: Can focusing on typical in‐group strengths be detrimental to people of colour?10
How the perceived cost of prosocial action inspires observers to contribute10
Improving attitudes towards minority groups by thinking about the thoughts and meta‐cognitions of their members10
Kill or be killed: Can correcting misperceptions of out‐group hostility de‐escalate a violent inter‐group out‐break?10
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Tend‐and‐befriend and rally around the flag effects during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Differential longitudinal change patterns in multiple aspects of social cohesion9
Supporting men or male privilege? Women's progressive and reactionary collective action for men9
Owning leads to valuing: Meta‐analysis of the mere ownership effect9
Generalizing across behavior settings can make attitudes toward social groups more extreme in the absence of new information9
The epistemic bases of changes of opinion and choices: The joint effects of the need for cognitive closure, ascribed epistemic authority and quality of advice9
Gender perspectives on self‐censorship in organizations: The role of management position, procedural justice and organizational climate9
There is an ‘I’ in truth: How salient identities shape dynamic perceptions of truth9
Is patriotism helpful to fight the crisis? The role of constructive patriotism, conventional patriotism, and glorification amid the COVID‐19 pandemic9
Do the means affect the ends? Radical tactics influence motivation and action tendencies via the perceived legitimacy and efficacy of those actions9
The experience and emergence of attitudinal consensus in conversations9
Low system justification is associated with support for both progressive and reactionary social change9
Are Stereotypes About Minorities More Negative?9
Self‐connection and well‐being: Development and validation of a self‐connection scale8
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Not in my group: Protecting group reputation by excluding stereotypical targets8
Doing Bad to Feel Good: Working Objectification Promotes Production Deviance Via Thwarted Perceived Control8
Perceived unequal and unfair workplaces trigger lower job satisfaction and lower workers’ dignity via organizational dehumanization and workers’ self‐objectification8
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The curse of objectivity: Choosing objectively better products hinders consumers from receiving help8
Correction to ‘Examining beliefs about reconciliation and social integration in Kosovo: Testing effects of interethnic contact and differences in perspective among ethnic Albanians and Serbs’7
Introducing the brief reverse correlation: An improved tool to assess visual representations7
Individuals’ power determines how they respond to positive versus negative performance feedback7
More than a prejudice reduction effect: Positive intergroup contact reduces conspiracy theory beliefs7
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Gay = STIs? Exploring gay and lesbian sexual health stereotypes and their implications for prejudice and discrimination7
Conspiracy blaming in the aftermath of group relative deprivation: The moderating role of national narcissism7
Meta‐identification: Perceptions of others’ group identification shape group life7
Consistent Facial Cues to Social Class Across Two Different Western Contexts7
Does Developing a Belief in One Conspiracy Theory Lead a Person to be More Likely to Believe in Others?7
Does Social Cohesion Predict Justification of Extremist Violence? Evidence From the Sahel Region in Burkina Faso7
Political ideology and belief change in the face of counterevidence7
Re‐Examining Buchel et al.’s (2021) Test of the Status Legitimacy Hypothesis7
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The multiple meanings of the gender‐inclusive pronoun hen: Predicting attitudes and use6
Making Us Visible in the Cityscape: Organizers’ Reasons for Holding Ramadan Celebrations in Copenhagen's Public Space6
A wolf in sheep's clothing: The perils of exploitative leadership6
Standing up or giving up? Moral foundations mediate political differences in evaluations of BLACK LIVES MATTER and other protests6
(Not so) powerful allies? Decision makers’ reactions to advantaged group allies in collective action6
Putting the past into action: How historical narratives shape participation in collective action6
Boosted by closure! Regulatory focus predicts motivation and task persistence in the aftermath of task‐unrelated goal closure6
The Content, Consistency and Accuracy of Stereotypes About Recreational Users of Various Psychoactive Substances6
Expecting tasks to help or hurt subsequent cognitive performance: Variability, accuracy, and bias in forecasted after‐effects6
A power‐challenging theory of society, or a conservative mindset? Upward and downward conspiracy theories as ideologically distinct beliefs6
Perceptions of a sexual advance from gay men leads to negative affect and compensatory acts of masculinity6
Social dominance and anti‐immigrant prejudice: A cross‐national and prospective test of the mediating role of assimilation, multiculturalism, colour blindness, and interculturalism6
A longitudinal examination of the factors that facilitate and hinder support for conservative and progressive social movements6
“The liberation of LGBTQ+ will also liberate heterosexuals”: Heterosexual feminist women's participation in solidarity‐based collective action for LGBTQ+ rights5
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Bystanders’ Reactions to a Woman Victim of Sextortion: Moral Outrage, Victim Blaming and Reputational Damage5
The role of valuing cultural diversity in children's endorsements of rights5
From social traditions to personalized routines: Maintenance goals as a resilience factor5
Collective system‐supporting inaction: A conceptual framework of privilege maintenance5
Group‐based shame, guilt, and regret across cultures5
Leaders or Villains? The Role of Corruption in Shaping the Stereotypes of Politicians5
A fair share: Effects of disparity, allocation strategy and system justification on perceptions of policy support in the education domain5
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The Impact of Holistic Justice on the Long‐Term Experiences and Wellbeing of Mass Human Rights Violation Survivors: Ethnographic and Interview Evidence From Kosova, Northern Ireland and Albania5
How information on sexism may increase women's perceptions of being excluded, threaten fundamental needs, and lower career motivation5
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In control but uninspired: Displays of artist self‐control undermine perceptions of creativity5
The secondary transfer effects of contact in facilitating peace in a frozen conflict: The case of Turkish immigrants in Cyprus5
Change in anti‐COVID‐19 behaviour and anti‐immigrant prejudice during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from five European countries5
Personal intergroup contact between different groups of ex‐combatants and civilians: Evidence from a behavioural experiment in Rwanda5
The Morality‐Agency‐Communion (MAC) model of respect and liking4
The role of parents in predicting gender‐stereotypic attitudes towards HEED occupations and gender‐stereotypic interest in these careers4
By all means necessary: Closed mindedness, ingroup morality, and weapon ownership4
Who benefits the most? Teacher expectations and their relation with students’ achievement in mathematics in primary school4
What should allies do? Identifying activist perspectives on the role of white allies in the struggle for racial justice in the United States4
Inter‐attitude centrality does not appear to reduce persuasion for political attitudes4
The More I See It the Less I Want It: Sociotropic Corruption and (In)tolerance Towards Corruption in Contexts of Perceived Economic Crisis4
The Achilles’ heel of the truth bias? High personal stakes reduce vulnerability to false information4
Mapping of Meaning and Pleasure on the Temporal Horizon: Long‐Term Orientation Predicts Preference for Meaningful Over Pleasurable Activities4
The Social Psychology of Corruption4
Beyond comparisons: The complexity and context‐dependency of collective victim beliefs4
Does powerlessness motivate men and women to endorse sexism?4
How do conspiratorial explanations differ from non‐conspiratorial explanations? A content analysis of real‐world online articles4
‘It always seems impossible, until it is done’: Perspectives on reconciliation and its underlying processes in post‐conflict societies4
Contact with former adversaries through mass‐media is linked to forgiveness after dyadic and multi‐ethnic conflicts4
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When one's partner wants out: Awareness, attachment anxiety and accuracy4
Structure, Content and Inter‐relationships between Self‐aspects: Integrating Findings from the Social Identity and Self Complexity Traditions4
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The Dual Pathways to Masculinity Threats: The Roles of Social Role Incongruity and Social Connection in Masculine Identity Maintenance Among Gay and Straight Men4
Understanding identity processes in support for reactionary and progressive social movements among advantaged and disadvantaged groups: The role of collective narcissism and secure ingroup identity4
On the predicted replicability of two decades of experimental research on system justification: A Z‐curve analysis4
The relationships between affect dimensions and level of construal4
If they don't care, I won't share: Feeling unrelated to one's in‐group increases selfishness instead of behavior for the greater good4
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Ambition‐driven aggression in response to significance‐threatening frustration3
Schadenfreude in the context of opposing vaccination statuses3
Updating stereotypical attributions in light of new information: The attractiveness halo effect changes when attractiveness changes3
Conflict, what conflict? Evidence that playing down “conflict” can be a weapon of choice for high‐status groups3
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Moral commitment to gender equality increases (mis)perceptions of gender bias in hiring3
Understanding prosocial and antisocial behaviours: The roles of self‐focused and other‐focused motivational orientations3
Information Regarding Shared Genes Between Humans Improves Attitudes Towards World Members3
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‘You are a useful person’: Economic inequality leads people to approach others in an instrumental way3
Food scarcity and disease concern reduce interdependence when people eat together3
Why do women support socio‐economic systems that favour men more? A registered test of system justification‐ and social identity‐inspired hope explanations3
On the use of gender categories and emotion categories in threat‐based person impressions3
Why cannot reasons change your moral decisions? Because they are not persuasive enough: A comment on Stanley et al. (2018)3
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Self‐objectification and sexual dysfunction among women: Testing and extending objectification theory3
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How do disadvantaged groups perceive allies? Women's perceptions of men who confront sexism in an egalitarian or paternalistic way3
Young, unemployed, excluded: Unemployed young adults report more ostracism3
Addressing Bribery and Associated Social Norms in Healthcare: Results of a Behaviour Change Intervention in Tanzania3
(Mis)Matching Expectations: The Effects of Claimant Gender Identity and Harassment Form on Perceptions of Sexual Harassment Claims3
Race‐based shifting standards of SES: Potential moderators and implications3
A chip off the (im)moral block? Lay beliefs about genetic heritability predicts whether family members’ actions affect self‐judgments3
Religious costly signal induces more trustworthiness than secular costly signal: A study of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela3
Changing perceptions of people wearing masks: Two years of living in a pandemic3
Episodic master narratives through time: Exploring the temporal dynamism of 2016 election night stories3
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Beyond Collective Victimhood: How Diverse Conflict Knowledge Relates to Community Cohesion3
Examining the Antecedents, Prevalence and Trajectories of Reactionary Collective Action Intentions Among Europeans Over Time3
Russians’ Attitudes Towards the War in Ukraine3
Turning the Camera Off in Virtual Interactions Can Harm the Reputation3
Children's bias beyond group boundaries: Perceived differences, outgroup attitudes and prosocial behaviour3
Support (and rejection) of meritocracy as a self‐enhancement identity strategy: A qualitative study of university students’ perceptions about meritocracy in higher education3
Working with a sleep‐deprived or a cognitively enhanced team member compromises motivation to contribute to group performance3
Making Sense of ‘Us’: Mechanisms Linking Attachment Avoidance and Couple Identity Clarity2
‘Sanna, Aren't You Ashamed?’ Affective‐discursive practices in online misogynist discourse of Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin2
A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping2
Gender stereotypes may not influence the choice of female leaders: Experimental evidence from a crisis framed as social or economic during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Tensions between collective‐self forgiveness and political repair2
The virus of distrust: How one victim‐sensitive group member can affect the entire group's outcomes2
Pay Your Taxes! Stay Behind the Yellow Line!: Testing the Normative Appraisal Scale2
When and why does economic inequality predict prosocial behaviour? Examining the role of interpersonal trust among different targets2
Navigating non‐normative roles: Experiences of female‐breadwinning couples in Pakistan2
Attitudes and attitude certainty guiding pro‐social behaviour as a function of perceived elaboration2
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A functional analysis of personal autonomy: How restricting ‘what’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ affects experienced agency and goal motivation2
Examining the between‐ and within‐person effects of relative deprivation: Results from a 7‐year longitudinal panel sample2
The effect of outcome severity on moral judgement and interpersonal goals of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders2
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Repeating stereotypes: Increased belief and subsequent discrimination2
Moral relevance varies due to inter‐individual and intra‐individual differences across big data technology domains2
The impact of education about historical and current injustices, individual racism and systemic racism on anti‐Indigenous racism2
Acculturation of self‐construal: First evidence from immigrant minorities in Belgium and the UK2
Majority residents’ perceptions of ‘economic’ and ‘political’ refugees: Psychological processes underlying the flight‐reason bias2
Thoroughly thought through? Experimenting with Registered Reports2
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Engaged Onlooking: How Organisational Identification Shapes Public Condoning of Corporate Corruption2
“I hate to be a burden!”: Experiencing feelings associated with ostracism due to one's poor performance burdening the group2
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How Do People Morally Judge Corruption? A Comparison Between the Netherlands and Indonesia2
A longitudinal test of secondary transfer effects of negative intergroup contact and mediating processes2
Organisational antecedents of employee ambassadorship on social network sites2
Political distrust, perceived threat, and intentions to engage in normative and violent collective action: A mixed‐methods study2
The effect of serial day on the measurement of positivity and emotional complexity in diary studies2
Non‐verbal behaviour of professional soccer players performing in the absence or presence of fans2
Love's a dance you learn as you go: Evidence for interpersonal complementarity during romantic conflict and its association with relationship outcomes2
Let's talk about this: Co‐rumination and dyadic dynamics of moral repair following wrongdoing2
Power corrupts and being sure of felt power corrupts even more: Implications for immoral decisions and cheating2
Beyond Income Disparities: Perceived Health and Education Inequities Drive Actions to Reduce Economic Inequality2
Associations of orientation to promote good in challenging situations with distress and well‐being: Multi‐study evidence from three non‐Western Longitudinal samples2
The meaning of touch: Relational and individual variables shape emotions and intentions associated with imagined social touch2
Loss context enhances preferences for generosity but reduces preferences for honesty: Evidence from a combined behavioural‐computational approach2
Understanding a liminal condition: Comparing emerging representations of the “vegetative state”2
Mindfully motivated: Can a brief session of mindfulness meditation enhance motivation towards personal goals?2
The nuances of “the social cure” for people who experience psychosis2
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