Laurent Licata

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Laurent Licata is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laurent Licata has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 37 papers in Social Psychology and 7 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Laurent Licata's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (32 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (22 papers) and Social Representations and Identity (11 papers). Laurent Licata is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (32 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (22 papers) and Social Representations and Identity (11 papers). Laurent Licata collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, New Zealand and United Kingdom. Laurent Licata's co-authors include Olivier Klein, Christophe Leys, Philippe Bernard, Christophe Ley, Assaad Elia Azzi, Antoine Roblain, James H. Liu, Magdalena Bobowik, Pierre Bouchat and Bernard Rimé and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Laurent Licata

65 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Detecting outliers: Do not use standard deviation around the mean, use absolute deviation around the median

2013 2.6k citations Christophe Leys, Christophe Ley et al. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laurent Licata Belgium	21	892	764	671	326	274	72	3.7k
Liu Li China	36	1000 1.1×	1.0k 1.4×	795 1.2×	277 0.8×	218 0.8×	500	5.4k
Ernest Edmonds United Kingdom	24	582 0.7×	415 0.5×	322 0.5×	476 1.5×	394 1.4×	158	4.3k
Michael Smithson Australia	30	1.1k 1.3×	534 0.7×	295 0.4×	321 1.0×	417 1.5×	120	5.7k
Christophe Leys Belgium	22	485 0.5×	799 1.0×	819 1.2×	594 1.8×	405 1.5×	74	5.3k
Karl L. Wuensch United States	26	535 0.6×	760 1.0×	319 0.5×	294 0.9×	127 0.5×	100	4.0k
Robert A. Stine United States	28	702 0.8×	575 0.8×	229 0.3×	290 0.9×	573 2.1×	69	5.5k
Richard Harris United Kingdom	38	1.3k 1.4×	342 0.4×	374 0.6×	248 0.8×	199 0.7×	297	5.1k
Patrick Mair United States	34	512 0.6×	653 0.9×	697 1.0×	1.1k 3.2×	406 1.5×	153	4.8k
Shlomo S. Sawilowsky United States	25	309 0.3×	421 0.6×	395 0.6×	290 0.9×	199 0.7×	105	4.5k
María J. Blanca Spain	29	409 0.5×	715 0.9×	554 0.8×	343 1.1×	158 0.6×	154	3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laurent Licata

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20 of 20 papers shown

Licata, Laurent, et al.. (2025). Fear of Being Supplanted: Intergroup Competition Over Prototypicality and Identity Threats Within Social Movements. PubMed. 38(1). 8–8.

Roblain, Antoine, et al.. (2024). A Helpful Measure to Measure Help: The Construction and Validation of the Intergroup Giving and Intergroup Acting in Favor of Refugees Scale (IGIAF). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 37(1). 8–8. 2 indexed citations

Politi, Emanuele, Antoine Roblain, & Laurent Licata. (2023). Are we really going to get out of COVID-19 together? Secured legal status and trust among refugees and migrants. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 11(1). 45–59. 4 indexed citations

Klein, Olivier, et al.. (2022). Attitudes shape implicit temporal trajectories: A quantitative test of the narrative structure of collective memories of colonialism. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 10(1). 7–20. 3 indexed citations

Stone, Charles B., et al.. (2020). Do public speeches induce “collective” forgetting? The Belgian King’s 2012 summer speech as a case study. Memory Studies. 15(4). 713–730. 13 indexed citations

Licata, Laurent, et al.. (2017). Attitudes Towards World War II Collaboration in Belgium: Effects on Political Positioning Towards the Amnesty Issue in the Two Main Linguistic Communities. Psychologica Belgica. 57(3). 32–51. 4 indexed citations

Hanke, Katja, James H. Liu, Chris G. Sibley, et al.. (2015). “Heroes” and “Villains” of World History across Cultures. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0115641–e0115641. 34 indexed citations

Licata, Laurent, et al.. (2014). Collective Memories of WWII Collaboration in Belgium and Attitudes About Amnesty in the Two Main Linguistic Communities. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

Licata, Laurent, et al.. (2014). Reconnaître les victimes ne suffit pas. La Revue Nouvelle. 69(3). 68–73.

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Leys, Christophe, Christophe Ley, Olivier Klein, Philippe Bernard, & Laurent Licata. (2013). Detecting outliers: Do not use standard deviation around the mean, use absolute deviation around the median. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 49(4). 764–766. 2647 indexed citations breakdown →

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Figueiredo, Ana, Joaquim Pires Valentim, Laurent Licata, & Bertjan Doosje. (2013). The past and the present (re)visited: war veterans' representations of the Portuguese colonial war. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 76–91. 3 indexed citations

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Licata, Laurent, et al.. (2013). Considérer la dimension interculturelle dans les formations professionnalisantes en santé. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 1 indexed citations

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Leys, Christophe, et al.. (2011). The influence of defendants’ feelings of guilt on their penalties: The mediating role of attribution processes. Cairn.info. 24(4). 45–58. 1 indexed citations

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Licata, Laurent. (2010). Recension de Rouquette, M. -L. (coord.). "La pensée sociale. Perspectives fondamentales et recherches appliquées". Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 63(5). 374–375. 1 indexed citations

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Licata, Laurent, et al.. (2010). Recognition of shared past sufferings, trust and improving intergroup attitudes in Belgium. Revistas PUCP (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú). 28(1). 81–110. 10 indexed citations

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Sanchez‐Mazas, Margarita & Laurent Licata. (2008). Qui a peur de l'Autre ? Émotion, pensée et mise en altérité dans l'œuvre de Denise Jodelet. Cairn.info. 87–96. 1 indexed citations

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Klein, Olivier & Laurent Licata. (2003). When group representations serve social change: The speeches of Patrice Lumumba during the Congolese decolonization. British Journal of Social Psychology. 42(4). 571–593. 102 indexed citations

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Licata, Laurent, et al.. (2003). Driving European Identification through Discourse: Do Nationals Feel More European When Told they are all Similar?. Psychologica Belgica. 43(1-2). 85–85. 3 indexed citations

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Licata, Laurent. (2003). Representing the future of the European Union: Consequences on national and European identifications. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 12. 18 indexed citations

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Licata, Laurent & Olivier Klein. (2000). Situation de crise, explications profanes et citoyenneté: l'affaire Dutroux. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 155–174. 5 indexed citations

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