OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Social Psychology is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
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Does the union always make the force? Group status and recategorization influence the perceived physical formidability of potential coalition groups	44
Dishonest collaboration in an intergroup context	36
Your needs or mine? The role of allies' needs and their perceptions of disadvantaged groups' needs in motivating solidarity‐based actions	36
Between east and west, between past and future: The effects of exclusive historical victimhood on geopolitical attitudes in Hungary and Serbia	34
System‐justifying beliefs buffer against psychological distress during the COVID‐19 pandemic	32
The motivations and reputational consequences of spreading conspiracy theories	29
Social psychology of context and in context: Understanding the temporal, spatial and embodied dimensions of contemporary geopolitics	27
Psychological needs related to civil inattention: A qualitative and quantitative view on public encounters	25
A qualitative and quantitative study of radical pro‐environmental social change as anticipated future loss and threat: A gender perspective	24
Our ways will not change: Future collective continuity increases present prosocial considerations	23
Conspiracy believers claim to be free thinkers but (Under)Use advice like everyone else	21
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The likes that bind: Even novel opinion sharing can induce opinion‐based identification	20
Issue Information	19
Strategic thinking in the shadow of self‐enhancement: Benefits and costs	19
The fish can rot from the heart, not just the head: Exploring the detrimental impact of transgressions by leaders at multiple levels of an organization	18
Purity, politics, and polarization: Political ideology moderates threat‐induced shifts in moral purity beliefs	17
Testing a new indirect measure of general self‐worth: The Self‐esteem Questionnaire‐based Implicit Association Test	17
Why are beliefs in different conspiracy theories positively correlated across individuals? Testing monological network versus unidimensional factor model explanations	16
Equality data as immoral race politics: A case study of liberal, colour‐blind, and antiracialist opposition to equality data in Sweden	16
Red‐pilled mama bears and enlightened power goddesses: Discursive constructions of feminine identities in a conspiracy theory space	16
Can’t fight seeing sadness in tears: Measuring the implicit association between tears and sadness	16
Identity fusion is associated with outgroup trust and social exploration: Evidence for the fusion‐secure base hypothesis	16

Reminders of COVID‐19 social distancing can intensify physical pain	15
Reducing economic inequality is ‘just right’: Moral conviction predicts support for redistributive government policies	14
Attitude stability as a moderator of the relationships between cognitive and affective attitudes and behaviour	14
Leadership, mobilization of risky behaviours and accountability: The Church of Greece leaders' public talk during the COVID‐19 pandemic	13
“Who Islamises us?”: Does political ideology moderate the effects of exposure to different Great Replacement Conspiracy explanations on radical collective action against different targets?	13
Can ‘we’ share the contested territory with ‘them’? Shared territorial ownership perceptions and reconciliation intentions in Kosovo	13
Towards sustainability by reducing speciesism: The effect of a prejudice‐based intervention on people's attitudes and behaviours towards animals	13
Factors in workers’ dehumanization: Multiple stigmatization, social status, and workers’ sex	13
Adoption and social identity loss: Insights from adults adopted through Ireland's mother and baby homes	13
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver: Machiavellianism is associated with producing but not necessarily with falling for bullshit	12
The psychology of colonial ideologies: Decoupling pro‐egalitarian and neo‐colonial sources of support for Puerto Rico statehood	12
Talking about the experiences of racism: A study of reporting racism in broadcast interviews	12
How does economic inequality shape conspiracy theories? Empirical evidence from China	12
Factors promoting greater preoccupation with a secret	12
Rejection of the status quo: Conspiracy theories and preference for alternative political systems	12
Dehumanization through humour and conspiracies in online hate towards Chinese people during the COVID‐19 pandemic	12
Social identity processes associated with perceived risk at pilot sporting events during COVID‐19	12
Individual and contextual moderators of the relationship between authoritarianism and religiosity	12
Speciesism in everyday language	12
White Americans' blame attributions and empathy towards Black victims of police violence: How pejorative stereotypes ‘engulf the field’	12
Having a choice of means gears incomplete runners into more effective goal engagement: The effects of deliberative mindsets on the pursuit of identity goals	11
The role of empathy in trolley problems and variants: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	11
Corrigendum	11
Pandemic vulnerability, policy feedback and support for immigration: Evidence from Asia	11
The role of identity‐related beliefs in the appraisal and management of crowding: Insights from the Hajj	11
Efficiency or equality? The utilitarianism–egalitarianism trade‐off determines carbon allocation preference	11
Gender (in)equality at the kitchen table: A diary study on how Parents' coordination facilitates an equal task division and relationship quality	10
What are they in it for? Marginalised group members' perceptions of allies differ depending on the costs and rewards associated with their allyship	10
Avoidance coping explains the link between narcissism and counternormative tendencies	10
Individual uniqueness in trust profiles and well‐being: Understanding the role of cultural tightness–looseness from a representation similarity perspective	10
Who helps and why? A longitudinal exploration of volunteer role identity, between‐group closeness, and community identification as predictors of coordinated helping during the COVID‐19 pandemic	10
Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio‐functional model of conspiracy beliefs	10
Beyond normative and non‐normative: A systematic review on predictors of confrontational collective action	9
Can't see the forest for the trees: Time poverty influences construal level and the moderating role of autonomous versus controlled motivation	9
Addressing workplace gender inequality: Using the evidence to avoid common pitfalls	9
The reciprocal relationship between social identification and social support over time: A four‐wave longitudinal study	9
When and why does political trust predict well‐being in authoritarian contexts? Examining the role of political efficacy and collective action among opposition voters	9
Motivations to engage in collective action: A latent profile analysis of refugee supporters	9
Who respects the will of the people? Support for democracy is linked to high secure national identity but low national narcissism	9
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Exploring the social dynamics of urban regeneration: A qualitative analysis of community members' experiences	8
How the manner in which data is visualized affects and corrects (mis)perceptions of political polarization	8
Overcoming low status or maintaining high status? A multinational examination of the association between socioeconomic status and honour	8
Selective cultural adoption: The roles of warmth, competence, morality and perceived indispensability in majority‐group acculturation	8
In it together?: Exploring solidarity with frontline workers in the United Kingdom and Ireland during COVID‐19	8
Gendered attitudes towards pro‐environmental change: The role of hegemonic masculinity endorsement, dominance and threat	8
Moral trade‐offs reveal foundational representations that predict unique variance in political attitudes	8
Social network analysis in social psychological ressearch (1990–2020): A scoping review	8
Global perceptions of state apologies for human rights violations	8
Connecting groups and behaviours: A network analysis of identity‐infused behaviours	8

Solidarity with whom? Minority perspectives on allyship in Danish queer spaces	8
Cues of trait dominance elicit inferences of psychological ownership	8
Exploring the ecological relationship between temperature and prosocial behaviour: A geographical and temporal analysis	8
The role of legitimizing the social hierarchy in the impact of status on perceived assertiveness and competence	7
The identification environment matters: Students' social identification, perceived physical school environment, and anxiety – A cross‐level interaction model	7
Not revenge, but change is sweet: Experimental evidence of how offender change and punishment play independent roles in victims' sense of justice	7
The humble estimate: Humility predicts higher self‐assessment accuracy	7
The working memory approach of persuasion: Induced eye movements lead to more social media self‐control behaviours	7
Editorial Acknowledgement	6
Iron fists and velvet gloves: Investigating the associations between the stringency of governments’ responses to COVID‐19, stress, and compliance in the early stages of the pandemic	6
Prosocial advice to close versus non‐close others	6
The mediating effect of institutional trust in the relationship between precarity and conspiracy beliefs: A conceptual replication of Adam‐Troian et al. (2023)	6
Challenges of measuring empathic accuracy: A mentalizing versus experience‐sharing paradigm	6
A search for commonalities in defining the common good: Using folk theories to unlock shared conceptions	6
Attitude networks as intergroup realities: Using network‐modelling to research attitude‐identity relationships in polarized political contexts	6
‘Depending on where I am…’ Hair, travelling and the performance of identity among Black and mixed‐race women	6
Can culture beat Covid‐19? Evidence that exposure to facemasks with cultural symbols increases solidarity	6
Using word embeddings to investigate cultural biases	6
Implicit association tests: Stimuli validation from participant responses	6
Issue Information	6
Editorial acknowledgement	6
A social identity approach to crisis leadership	6
How compliance with behavioural measures during the initial phase of a pandemic develops over time: A longitudinal COVID‐19 study	6
Engaged followership and toxic science: Exploring the effect of prototypicality on willingness to follow harmful experimental instructions	6
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Word embeddings reveal growing moral concern for people, animals and the environment	5
The social tensions felt within: Explaining felt ambivalence about polarized societal debates through perceived opinion discrepancies in the social environment	5
Students’ understanding and support for anti‐racism in universities	5
The effect of transparency on the temporal spillover effect of default nudges	5
Self‐objectification in women predicts approval motivation in online self‐presentation	5
Mobilizing race and racism: Visible race and invisible racism	5
How our ideological out‐group shapes our emotional response to our shared socio‐political reality	5
Throwing off the dark legacy when going down: Experience of status loss undermines reparation intentions prompted by narratives of the ingroup’s past wrongdoings	5
Toleration, discrimination, or acceptance? How majorities interpret and legitimize minority toleration depends on outgroup threat	5
Integration, urban citizenship, and spatial aspects of (new) mobilities: Greek migrants' constructions of integration in European cities	5
Show me your friends, I'll tell you your emotions: Emotional fit of immigrant‐origin minority youth in cross‐cultural friendship networks	5
Using social psychology to create inclusive education	5
Issue Information	5
Seeking and avoiding contact with Muslims at a Hijab Stall: Evidence for multilayer, multi‐determined solidarity, courage, apathy, and moral outrage	5
Intellectual humility as a tool to combat false beliefs: An individual‐based approach to belief revision	5
The political system through a partisan lens: Within‐person changes in support for political parties precede political system attitudes	5
System circumvention: Dishonest‐illegal transgressions are perceived as justified in non‐meritocratic societies	5
The Perceived Economic Scarcity Scale: A valid tool with greater predictive utility than income	5
Implicit racism, colour blindness, and narrow definitions of discrimination: Why some White people prefer ‘All Lives Matter’ to ‘Black Lives Matter’	5
Reduced loneliness mediates the effects of multiple group identifications on well‐being	5
Call for papers: Towards a social psychology of precarity	5