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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Victim empowerment and satisfaction: The potential of imagery rescripting54
The added value of perceived values: Partner's perceived values predict own behaviour in interdependent interactions52
Locational citizenship, exclusion and inclusion. The case of street children in Ethiopia46
Ideologically‐based contact avoidance during a pandemic: Blunt or selective distancing from ‘others’?43
Strength‐is‐Weakness: The (ir)relevant relation between resources and payoffs in coalition formation40
Perceived social mobility and system justification predict greater well‐being, but less prosocial behaviour38
Dark Triad and the attitude toward military violence against civilians: The role of moral disengagement37
Pushing too far? Negotiations of non‐compliance and resistance to the COVID‐19 cabin ban in Norway32
Out‐group help in the time of Covid‐19 and intergroup reconciliation in the Western Balkans30
The fear of confession? High Catholic collective narcissism and low secure identification with Catholics predict increased pedophilia myth acceptance27
Loving Taxation, Hating Single Taxes: Disentangling Temporal Distance and Abstraction in the Communication of Tax Proposals23
Rethinking National Well‐Being: Introducing a Measure of Wealth‐Adjusted Life Satisfaction in 116 Countries21
Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change21
Perception of helper's autonomous motivation increases recipient's prosocial behaviour intentions via feelings of gratitude20
Moral Perceptions in Politics: Ideological Asymmetries in Perceived Moral Obligations and Stereotypical Perceptions Across Leftists and Rightists20
Hypocrisy judgements are affected by target attitude strength and attitude moralization20
Protesting for stability or change? Definitional and conceptual issues in the study of reactionary, conservative, and progressive collective actions20
Alignment and Differentiation: How Language and Network Proximity Drive Opinion‐Based Group Formation Online20
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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 Serbs19
Emotional, motivational and attitudinal consequences of autonomous prosocial behaviour19
Cultural group norms for harmony explain the puzzling negative association between objective status and system justification in Asia19
The social amplification of illusory correlations19
On the Verge of Exclusion: The Unique Psychological Profile of the Threat of Social Exclusion18
The mindset of birth predicts birth outcomes: Evidence from a prospective longitudinal study18
Fostering Social Cohesion in Post‐Conflict Societies: The Power of Normative Apologies in Reducing Competitive Victimhood and Enhancing Reconciliation and Intergroup Negotiation18
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Dialogicality and Conspiracy Theory: The Coexistence of Conspiracist and Non‐Conspiracist Beliefs17
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Honesty in Difficult Conversations: Insights From Healthcare Professionals17
The true self in reflections? Visual self‐recognition and the Big Five17
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Expecting exclusion: Does bracing for the worst buffer the pain of social exclusion?16
Does personal relative deprivation mediate the relationship between passive social media use and beliefs in conspiracy theories? Cross‐sectional correlational and experimental evidence16
So where do you see this going? The effects of commitment asymmetry and asynchrony on relationship satisfaction and break‐up15
Continuity and change15
Believing the Power of Physical Appearance: How Perceived Economic Inequality Affects Female Self‐Objectification and Job Preference15
Moral judgment under uncertainty: A CNI model analysis15
Identifying stories of ‘us’: A mixed‐method analysis of the meaning, contents and associations of national narratives constructed by Americans15
Ambivalent sexism and violence toward women: A meta‐analysis14
Towards a Conceptual Integration of Collective Victimization Beliefs and Their Variation Within and Across Contexts: A Q Methodology Study in Five Communities14
Territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: A person‐centred approach14
A Social Psychological Perspective on How to Preserve Academic Freedom in Illiberal Political Contexts14
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How do we cope when we believe we can? A systematic review and meta‐analysis of studies on coping and negative mood regulation expectancies14
Improving attitudes towards minority groups by thinking about the thoughts and meta‐cognitions of their members13
Playing to their strengths: Can focusing on typical in‐group strengths be detrimental to people of colour?13
Collective Grievance Promotes Collective Action and Aggressive Intergroup Inclinations Through Dehumanization Among Conservative Members of Dominant Groups13
Allies or Rivals? The Consequences of Ideological Distinctiveness and Social Recognition of Emergent Subgroups Within Social Movements13
National glorification and attachment differentially predict support for intergroup conflict resolution: Scrutinizing cross‐country generalizability12
Being One or the Other, Both or Neither: Self‐Categorization Theory, Social Identity Theory and the Issue of Mixed Identities12
The Relationship Between Social Identification and System Justification: A Meta‐Analytic Test of Relevant Moderators12
Populism and the Pandemic: How the Covid‐Sceptic Movement Mobilised Opposition to Covid Measures12
Kill or be killed: Can correcting misperceptions of out‐group hostility de‐escalate a violent inter‐group out‐break?12
How to React in the Case of Powerful Transgressors: Kill Them With Kindness or Punishment?12
Polarization from the perspective of ambivalents: Feeling caught in the social crossfire of the U.S. abortion debate12
Judgements of Propaganda Near and Far: National Identity and Media Evaluations11
The experience and emergence of attitudinal consensus in conversations11
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Political Social Identity Threat Predicts Increases in Affective Polarisation Over Time, but Not Changes in Well‐Being10
Low system justification is associated with support for both progressive and reactionary social change10
There is an ‘I’ in truth: How salient identities shape dynamic perceptions of truth10
Tend‐and‐befriend and rally around the flag effects during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Differential longitudinal change patterns in multiple aspects of social cohesion10
Are Stereotypes About Minorities More Negative?10
Supporting men or male privilege? Women's progressive and reactionary collective action for men10
Owning leads to valuing: Meta‐analysis of the mere ownership effect10
Not in my group: Protecting group reputation by excluding stereotypical targets10
Women's and Men's Support for Gender Equality Policies in Organizations: From Belief in Gender Discrimination to Perceived Organizational Hypocrisy10
Perceived Robot Threat Enhances Preference for Hierarchy9
Individuals’ power determines how they respond to positive versus negative performance feedback9
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Introducing the brief reverse correlation: An improved tool to assess visual representations9
Perceived unequal and unfair workplaces trigger lower job satisfaction and lower workers’ dignity via organizational dehumanization and workers’ self‐objectification9
Re‐Examining Buchel et al.’s (2021) Test of the Status Legitimacy Hypothesis9
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The curse of objectivity: Choosing objectively better products hinders consumers from receiving help9
Conspiracy Beliefs as a Metacognitive Dimension of Intergroup Attitudes: A Novel Framework for Interventions9
Meta‐identification: Perceptions of others’ group identification shape group life9
Political ideology and belief change in the face of counterevidence9
Conspiracy blaming in the aftermath of group relative deprivation: The moderating role of national narcissism9
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Does Developing a Belief in One Conspiracy Theory Lead a Person to be More Likely to Believe in Others?8
Does Social Cohesion Predict Justification of Extremist Violence? Evidence From the Sahel Region in Burkina Faso8
Consistent Facial Cues to Social Class Across Two Different Western Contexts8
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’8
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The Content, Consistency and Accuracy of Stereotypes About Recreational Users of Various Psychoactive Substances8
Doing Bad to Feel Good: Working Objectification Promotes Production Deviance Via Thwarted Perceived Control8
Deciphering the Relationship Between Income Inequality and Life Satisfaction: Who, When and Where?8
Making Us Visible in the Cityscape: Organizers’ Reasons for Holding Ramadan Celebrations in Copenhagen's Public Space8
Ambivalence in the Context of Competing Narratives: Exploration Through a Case of the US Military Base Issue in Okinawa8
More than a prejudice reduction effect: Positive intergroup contact reduces conspiracy theory beliefs8
Boosted by closure! Regulatory focus predicts motivation and task persistence in the aftermath of task‐unrelated goal closure8
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(Not so) powerful allies? Decision makers’ reactions to advantaged group allies in collective action8
From social traditions to personalized routines: Maintenance goals as a resilience factor7
Race‐Based Rejection Sensitivity and Intergroup Anxiety Across the Adult Lifespan: Examining Age, Cohort, and Period Effects Among Ethnic Majority and Minority Groups7
‘Working Through’ Interpersonal Transgressions: The Role of Narration (and Re‐Narration) in the Self‐Forgiveness Processes of Wrongdoers7
Matching your way to Success: The Influence of Motivational Frame Matching on Interaction Outcomes and Reciprocal Matching7
Collective system‐supporting inaction: A conceptual framework of privilege maintenance7
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Change in anti‐COVID‐19 behaviour and anti‐immigrant prejudice during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Longitudinal evidence from five European countries7
A longitudinal examination of the factors that facilitate and hinder support for conservative and progressive social movements7
Social dominance and anti‐immigrant prejudice: A cross‐national and prospective test of the mediating role of assimilation, multiculturalism, colour blindness, and interculturalism7
A wolf in sheep's clothing: The perils of exploitative leadership7
Expecting tasks to help or hurt subsequent cognitive performance: Variability, accuracy, and bias in forecasted after‐effects7
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 Albania7
Reviewing Research on Transgender and Nonbinary People in Social Psychology: Insights and Future Research Directions7
In control but uninspired: Displays of artist self‐control undermine perceptions of creativity6
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The role of valuing cultural diversity in children's endorsements of rights6
The role of parents in predicting gender‐stereotypic attitudes towards HEED occupations and gender‐stereotypic interest in these careers6
The Dual Pathways to Masculinity Threats: The Roles of Social Role Incongruity and Social Connection in Masculine Identity Maintenance Among Gay and Straight Men6
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Ideological (a)Symmetry in Research Evaluations: The Case of Research on Ideological Versus Racial Group Differences6
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By all means necessary: Closed mindedness, ingroup morality, and weapon ownership6
A Longitudinal Comparison of the Effects of Election Outcomes on System Legitimacy in the United Kingdom and United States6
Understanding identity processes in support for reactionary and progressive social movements among advantaged and disadvantaged groups: The role of collective narcissism and secure ingroup identity6
How do conspiratorial explanations differ from non‐conspiratorial explanations? A content analysis of real‐world online articles6
A fair share: Effects of disparity, allocation strategy and system justification on perceptions of policy support in the education domain6
Self‐Discontinuity as a Barrier to Identity and Behaviour Change: Evidence From Smoking Cessation6
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Leaders or Villains? The Role of Corruption in Shaping the Stereotypes of Politicians6
Bystanders’ Reactions to a Woman Victim of Sextortion: Moral Outrage, Victim Blaming and Reputational Damage6
The Effectiveness of Interventions Addressing Conspiracy Beliefs: A Meta‐Analysis6
The secondary transfer effects of contact in facilitating peace in a frozen conflict: The case of Turkish immigrants in Cyprus6
Preemptive Buffering: Attachment Figure Representations Lessen the Affective Sting of Internally Generated Threats by Increasing Positive Affect5
Does Touch Bring Us Closer? Exploring the Role of Physical Contact in Intergroup Contexts5
The relationships between affect dimensions and level of construal5
Who benefits the most? Teacher expectations and their relation with students’ achievement in mathematics in primary school5
The Social Psychology of Corruption5
Does powerlessness motivate men and women to endorse sexism?5
The More I See It the Less I Want It: Sociotropic Corruption and (In)tolerance Towards Corruption in Contexts of Perceived Economic Crisis5
When one's partner wants out: Awareness, attachment anxiety and accuracy5
The Achilles’ heel of the truth bias? High personal stakes reduce vulnerability to false information5
On the predicted replicability of two decades of experimental research on system justification: A Z‐curve analysis5
Identification Environment, School Identification and School Burnout: Multilevel Models5
Measurement Invariance of Human Values Across Time and Countries—An Analysis Using 11 Rounds of the European Social Survey5
What should allies do? Identifying activist perspectives on the role of white allies in the struggle for racial justice in the United States5
Moral commitment to gender equality increases (mis)perceptions of gender bias in hiring5
Contact with former adversaries through mass‐media is linked to forgiveness after dyadic and multi‐ethnic conflicts5
Mapping of Meaning and Pleasure on the Temporal Horizon: Long‐Term Orientation Predicts Preference for Meaningful Over Pleasurable Activities5
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The Power to Care for Oneself: Power Increases Self‐Compassion5
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Assessing the Role of Honour Culture and Image Concerns in Impeding Apologies4
Inter‐attitude centrality does not appear to reduce persuasion for political attitudes4
Passing the Torch: Reflections on 3 Years at the Helm of the EJSP4
Awe and Boredom: Unravelling Dual Pathways Through Meaning in Life4
Ambition‐driven aggression in response to significance‐threatening frustration4
Honour the Light in Every Soul: Awe Reduces Objectification via Self‐Transcendence4
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How do disadvantaged groups perceive allies? Women's perceptions of men who confront sexism in an egalitarian or paternalistic way4
Updating stereotypical attributions in light of new information: The attractiveness halo effect changes when attractiveness changes4
Changing perceptions of people wearing masks: Two years of living in a pandemic4
Race‐based shifting standards of SES: Potential moderators and implications4
Self‐objectification and sexual dysfunction among women: Testing and extending objectification theory4
Examining the Antecedents, Prevalence and Trajectories of Reactionary Collective Action Intentions Among Europeans Over Time4
Why cannot reasons change your moral decisions? Because they are not persuasive enough: A comment on Stanley et al. (2018)4
Beyond Collective Victimhood: How Diverse Conflict Knowledge Relates to Community Cohesion4
‘It always seems impossible, until it is done’: Perspectives on reconciliation and its underlying processes in post‐conflict societies4
Enhancing Intellectual Humility About Political Topics: An Intervention Tournament Including Five Conceptual Replications4
Information Regarding Shared Genes Between Humans Improves Attitudes Towards World Members4
City Slicker or Country Bumpkin?—Distinguishing Urban and Rural Residents From Subtle Facial Cues4
What Could Have Been: Predicted and Actual Exclusion by Potential Romantic Partners and Platonic Friends4
Food scarcity and disease concern reduce interdependence when people eat together3
‘You are a useful person’: Economic inequality leads people to approach others in an instrumental way3
The Impact of Freedom of Speech on Conspiracy Beliefs3
Religious costly signal induces more trustworthiness than secular costly signal: A study of pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela3
Engaged Onlooking: How Organisational Identification Shapes Public Condoning of Corporate Corruption3
How Do Citizens Respond to Government Measures in Times of Crisis? Narrative Meaning‐Making of Agency, Responsibility, and Compliance During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Ecuador3
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Power corrupts and being sure of felt power corrupts even more: Implications for immoral decisions and cheating3
Associations of orientation to promote good in challenging situations with distress and well‐being: Multi‐study evidence from three non‐Western Longitudinal samples3
Tensions between collective‐self forgiveness and political repair3
Turning the Camera Off in Virtual Interactions Can Harm the Reputation3
Working with a sleep‐deprived or a cognitively enhanced team member compromises motivation to contribute to group performance3
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Support (and rejection) of meritocracy as a self‐enhancement identity strategy: A qualitative study of university students’ perceptions about meritocracy in higher education3
The Effects of Arabic Gendered Language in Job Advertisements on Recruiters’ Evaluation of Job Applicants—A Hiring‐Simulation Experiment3
Children's bias beyond group boundaries: Perceived differences, outgroup attitudes and prosocial behaviour3
Majority residents’ perceptions of ‘economic’ and ‘political’ refugees: Psychological processes underlying the flight‐reason bias3
Beyond Income Disparities: Perceived Health and Education Inequities Drive Actions to Reduce Economic Inequality3
Shared Identity, Shared Experience, Social Mobilisation: A Social Identity Approach to Collective Action Among War‐Affected People3
Navigating non‐normative roles: Experiences of female‐breadwinning couples in Pakistan3
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
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Russians’ Attitudes Towards the War in Ukraine3
Understanding prosocial and antisocial behaviours: The roles of self‐focused and other‐focused motivational orientations3
Schadenfreude in the context of opposing vaccination statuses3
The meaning of touch: Relational and individual variables shape emotions and intentions associated with imagined social touch3
When and why does economic inequality predict prosocial behaviour? Examining the role of interpersonal trust among different targets3
Globalize the Intifada : Integrating Historical Materialism to Critically Examine Pro‐Palestine Solidarity Motivations in the ‘ I'm Not Palestinian bu3
Pay Your Taxes! Stay Behind the Yellow Line!: Testing the Normative Appraisal Scale3
(Mis)Matching Expectations: The Effects of Claimant Gender Identity and Harassment Form on Perceptions of Sexual Harassment Claims3
‘Free to Be Me?’: Gender Role Norms Constrain Career Interests Less for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People Than for Heterosexual People3
Let's talk about this: Co‐rumination and dyadic dynamics of moral repair following wrongdoing2
Mobilization of shared victimhood in the radical right populist Finns Party supporters’ identity work: A narrative–discursive approach to populist support2
Love's a dance you learn as you go: Evidence for interpersonal complementarity during romantic conflict and its association with relationship outcomes2
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When Your Co‐Worker Is a Robot: Intergroup Performance Status and Its Consequences for Workplace Attitudes2
Spontaneous Stereotypes About Individuals With Mental Illnesses: What Spontaneous Language Production Tells Us2
Conspiracy Theory Endorsement Profiles: A Cluster Validation Study2
A functional analysis of personal autonomy: How restricting ‘what’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ affects experienced agency and goal motivation2
Is the uncertain self good at detecting lies? The influence of personal uncertainty on deception detection2
Contextual Effects of National Identity on Willingness to Fight: A Multilevel Analysis Using the World Values Survey2
Age of the examiner and older people's memory performances: A test of the stereotype threat theory using variations on negative age stereotypes across 18 European countries2
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Reporting racism in broadcast interview2
Organisational antecedents of employee ambassadorship on social network sites2
How Do People Morally Judge Corruption? A Comparison Between the Netherlands and Indonesia2
Changing Minds in Times of War: An Intervention Tournament to Increase Public Support for Ending the Israel–Gaza War2
Euromaidan and Ukrainian Subjective Well‐Being2
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
Grateful Hearts, Lighter Wallets: Gratitude Diminishes the Desire for Money Through Social Connectedness and Self‐Transcendence2
Acculturation of self‐construal: First evidence from immigrant minorities in Belgium and the UK2
Mood and fluency: The case of pronunciation ease, liking and trust2
Individuals From Higher Social Classes View Charitable Giving as a Solution to Societal Issues2
Lay theories about collective power in the context of racial oppression2
Blindfolding, Perceptual Dehumanization and Tolerance for State‐Sanctioned Killing: A Theory of Illegitimate Punishment2
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Thinking Beyond the Bargaining Table: Negotiators’ Perceptions, Behaviours and Outcomes in Negotiations Affecting External Parties2
Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood2
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‘Please Continue’: Implicit Communication and the Experimenter's Interventions in Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority Series2
Does Mindfulness Support the Status Quo? The Role of Neoliberal Orientation and Emotion Regulation2
The impact of education about historical and current injustices, individual racism and systemic racism on anti‐Indigenous racism2
A longitudinal test of secondary transfer effects of negative intergroup contact and mediating processes2
Political distrust, perceived threat, and intentions to engage in normative and violent collective action: A mixed‐methods study2
Examining the between‐ and within‐person effects of relative deprivation: Results from a 7‐year longitudinal panel sample2
A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping2
Loss context enhances preferences for generosity but reduces preferences for honesty: Evidence from a combined behavioural‐computational approach2
Non‐verbal behaviour of professional soccer players performing in the absence or presence of fans2
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How Social Media Connects and Divides Us: Psychological Insights and Paths Forward2
Parent and community political orientation predicts children's health behaviours2
Making Sense of ‘Us’: Mechanisms Linking Attachment Avoidance and Couple Identity Clarity2
Identifying Profiles of Colonial Ideologies: A Test of the Moral Credentialer Hypothesis2
Correction to “ Are Stereotypes About Minorities More Negative?2
How Does Intergroup Contact Affect Reconciliation in Post‐Conflict Colombia? Examining the Role of Conflict Appraisals and Emotions2
Empathy, Perceived Injustice and Solidarity‐Based Action: Observer Responses to Civilian Suffering in Military Conflicts2
What the Press Reveals About ‘The Unemployed’: A Lexicometric Analysis of 12,996 Articles From French Written Newspapers From 2005 to 20222
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Reducing Intergroup Bias Towards Stigmatised Groups: How Intersectionality Models Advance Beyond Traditional Models of Social Categorisation2
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