Russell Spears

41.3k total citations · 12 hit papers
319 papers, 27.4k citations indexed

About

Russell Spears is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Russell Spears has authored 319 papers receiving a total of 27.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 220 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 157 papers in Social Psychology and 45 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Russell Spears's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology (188 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (117 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (42 papers). Russell Spears is often cited by papers focused on Social and Intergroup Psychology (188 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (117 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (42 papers). Russell Spears collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. Russell Spears's co-authors include Tom Postmes, Bertjan Doosje, Naomi Ellemers, Martijn van Zomeren, Martin Lea, Antony S. R. Manstead, Colin Wayne Leach, Nyla R. Branscombe, Jolanda Jetten and Stephen Reicher and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Russell Spears

310 papers receiving 25.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Toward an integrative social identity model of collective action: A quantitative research synthesis of three socio-psychological perspectives.

2008 1.7k citations Tom Postmes, Russell Spears et al. profile →
Group-level self-definition and self-investment: A hierarchical (multicomponent) model of in-group identification.

2008 1.3k citations Bertjan Doosje, Russell Spears et al. profile →
Self and Social Identity

2002 1.1k citations Naomi Ellemers, Russell Spears et al. profile →
Perceived Intragroup Variability as a Function of Group Status and Identification

1995 893 citations Bertjan Doosje, Naomi Ellemers et al. profile →
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is! Explaining Collective Action Tendencies Through Group-Based Anger and Group Efficacy.

2004 757 citations Russell Spears et al. profile →
A Social Identity Model of Deindividuation Phenomena

1995 742 citations Russell Spears, Tom Postmes et al. profile →
Guilty by association: When one's group has a negative history.

1998 658 citations Bertjan Doosje, Nyla R. Branscombe et al. profile →
The social psychology of stereotyping and group life

1997 641 citations Russell Spears, Penélope J. Oakes et al. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) profile →
Breaching or Building Social Boundaries?

1998 599 citations Tom Postmes, Russell Spears et al. profile →
The context and content of social identity threat

1999 588 citations Nyla R. Branscombe, Naomi Ellemers et al. profile →
Sticking together or falling apart: In-group identification as a psychological determinant of group commitment versus individual mobility.

1997 522 citations Naomi Ellemers, Russell Spears et al. profile →
Explaining radical group behavior: Developing emotion and efficacy routes to normative and nonnormative collective action.

2011 482 citations Nicole Tausch, Russell Spears et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The Relationship Between Social Identification and System Justification: A Meta‐Analytic Test of Relevant Moderators 2025 ·European Journal of Social Psychology ·Luca Caricati, Chuma Kevin Owuamalam, (unknown), Mark Rubin, Russell Spears	1
2	Understanding sustainable cooperation 2025 ·Theory and Society ·Rafael Wittek, Bas van Bavel, Naomi Ellemers, (unknown), Tanja van der Lippe, Russell Spears	0
3	Classified out of society? How educational classification induces political alienation through feelings of misrecognition 2023 ·British Journal of Sociology ·(unknown), Bram Spruyt, Toon Kuppens, Russell Spears	4
4	Lay perceptions of modern prejudice toward “White” and “Asian” people: It matters who said it, whom it's about, and who's judging 2022 ·Asian Journal Of Social Psychology ·Michael J. Platow, Dirk Van Rooy, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Martha Augoustinos, Daniel Bar‐Tal, Russell Spears	6
5	Playing to the gallery: investigating the normative explanation of ingroup favoritism by testing the impact of imagined audience 2021 ·Self and Identity ·Vincenzo Iacoviello, Russell Spears	7
6	Addressing Evidential and Theoretical Inconsistencies in System-Justification Theory with a Social Identity Model of System Attitudes 2018 ·Current Directions in Psychological Science ·Chuma Kevin Owuamalam, Mark Rubin, Russell Spears	43
7	Talking Politics? Educational Category Salience Reinforces Differences in People’s Willingness to Participate in Deliberative Initiatives 2018 ·Political Psychology ·Bram Spruyt, Toon Kuppens, Russell Spears, (unknown)	11
8	Deindividuation 2016 ·Oxford University Press eBooks ·Russell Spears	3
9	Event accessibility and context effects in causal inference 2012 ·Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ·Diederik A. Stapel, Russell Spears	0
10	Introduction to Social Psychology 5th Edition 2012 ·Russell Spears, Nicole Tausch	4
11	Religious and National Identity as Predictors of Attitudes towards the 7/7 Bombings among British Muslims: An Analysis of UK Opinion Poll Data 2009 ·University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) ·Nicole Tausch, Russell Spears, Oliver Christ	14
12	Three views on hate 2005 ·Psychologist ·Russell Spears, Wendy Hollway, (unknown)	2
13	Predicting the paths of peripherals: The interaction of identification and future possibilities 2003 ·UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) ·Jolanda Jetten, Nyla R. Branscombe, Russell Spears, Blake M. McKimmie	110
14	Framed and misfortuned: Self-categorization and the whiff of scandal 1999 ·UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) ·Diederik A. Stapel, Willem Koomen, Russell Spears	1
15	Social identity: Context, commitment and content 1999 ·UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) ·Naomi Ellemers, Russell Spears, Bertjan Doosje	469
16	The social psychology of stereotyping and group life breakdown → 1997 ·UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) ·Russell Spears, Penélope J. Oakes, Naomi Ellemers, S. Alexander Haslam	641
17	STUDENTS JUDGMENTS OF THE RISKS OF HIV-INFECTION AS A FUNCTION OF SEXUAL PRACTICE, SEX OF TARGET AND PARTNER, AND AGE AND SEX OF STUDENT 1995 ·Journal of college student development ·Russell Spears, Charles Abraham, Paschal Sheeran, Dominic Abrams	5
18	Bipolarisatie in inter-groeps overleg: de invloed van groepsnormen op attitudes 1995 ·UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) ·Tom Postmes, (unknown), Russell Spears, Robin Croft, Liset van Dijk, J. van der Pligt	1
19	COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, DEINDIVIDUATION AND GROUP DECISION-MAKING 1991 ·University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) ·M. Lea, Russell Spears	140
20	THE POSTAIDS STRUCTURE OF STUDENTS ATTITUDES TO CONDOMS 1990 ·Psychological Reports ·Paschal Sheeran, (unknown), (unknown), Russell Spears, (unknown)	1

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