The European Journal of Social Psychology offers an international forum for the dissemination of original papers in all areas of social psychology. Our diverse editorial team encourages submissions that provide a significant contribution to the understanding of social psychological phenomena and are based on empirical, meta-analytical or theoretical research. Methodological contributions to social psychology are also welcome.

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Call for Special Issue Proposals

Deadline: September 1, 2025

Thematically, the special issue topic should be situated within social psychology, but links to neighboring (sub)disciplines are appreciated. Proposals that center on current debates and combine different perspectives within the field are welcome. The expected contributions to the special issue should be original empirical articles. The use of a diverse set of methods within a special issue is encouraged.

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Preemptive Buffering: Attachment Figure Representations Lessen the Affective Sting of Internally Generated Threats by Increasing Positive Affect

Vivian Zayas, Steve Strycharz, Minghui Ni, 
  •  18 July 2025
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Relationship Between Frugality and Subjective Well‐Being: A Person‐Centred Analysis

Julan Xie, Xiaoxing He, Yongqi Huang, Ya Luo, Yongdan Liu, 
  •  18 July 2025
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The Relationship Between Social Identification and System Justification: A Meta‐Analytic Test of Relevant Moderators

Luca Caricati, Chuma Kevin Owuamalam, Chiara Bonetti, Mark Rubin, Russell Spears, 
  •  17 July 2025
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Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood

Daniel Toribio-Flórez, Marlene S. Altenmüller, Karen M. Douglas, Mario Gollwitzer, Indro Adinugroho, Mark Alfano, Denisa Apriliawati, Flavio Azevedo, Cornelia Betsch, Olga Białobrzeska, Amélie Bret, André Calero Valdez, Viktoria Cologna, Gabriela Czarnek, Sylvain Delouvée, Kimberly C. Doell, Simone Dohle, Dmitrii Dubrov, Małgorzata Dzimińska, Christian T. Elbaek, Matthew Facciani, Antoinette Fage-Butler, Marinus Ferreira, Malte Friese, Simon Fuglsang, Albina Gallyamova, Patricia Garrido-Vásquez, Mauricio E. Garrido Vásquez, Oliver Genschow, Omid Ghasemi, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Claudia González Brambila, Hazel Clare Gordon, Dmitry Grigoryev, Alma Cristal Hernández-Mondragón, Tao Jin, Sebastian Jungkunz, Dominika Jurgiel, John R. Kerr, Lilian Kojan, Elizaveta Komyaginskaya, Claus Lamm, Jean-Baptiste Légal, Neil Levy, Mathew D. Marques, Sabrina J. Mayer, Niels G. Mede, Taciano L. Milfont, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Jonas P. Nitschke, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Michal Parzuchowski, Ekaterina Pronizius, Katarzyna Pypno-Blajda, Gabriel Gaudencio Rêgo, Robert M. Ross, Philipp Schmid, Samantha K. Stanley, Stylianos Syropoulos, Ewa Szumowska, Claudia Teran-Escobar, Boryana Todorova, Iris Vilares, Izabela Warwas, Marcel Weber, Mareike Westfal, Adrian Dominik Wojcik, 
  •  17 July 2025
RESEARCH ARTICLE

What the Press Reveals About ‘The Unemployed’: A Lexicometric Analysis of 12,996 Articles From French Written Newspapers From 2005 to 2022

Charly Marie, David Bourguignon, 
  •  12 July 2025
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Social categorization and intergroup behaviour†

Henri Tajfel, M. G. Billig, R. P. Bundy, Claude Flament, 
  •  149-178
  •  April/June 1971
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Methods of coping with social desirability bias: A review

Anton J. Nederhof, 
  •  263-280
  •  July/September 1985

How does intergroup contact reduce prejudice? Meta-analytic tests of three mediators†

Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp, 
  •  922-934
  •  5 March 2008

How are habits formed: Modelling habit formation in the real world†

Phillippa Lally, Cornelia H. M. van Jaarsveld, Henry W. W. Potts, Jane Wardle, 
  •  998-1009
  •  16 July 2009
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Social identity theory: past achievements, current problems and future challenges

Rupert Brown, 
  •  745-778
  •  16 November 2000
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