OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Measuring fear: Association among different measures of fear learning.	29
Imagery Rescripting as a stand-alone treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: A randomized controlled trial	29
Reward-related attentional capture and cognitive inflexibility interact to determine greater severity of compulsivity-related problems	28
Attention bias modification in depression: A randomized trial using a novel, reward-based, eye-tracking approach	26
Social anxiety is associated with heart rate but not gaze behavior in a real social interaction	24
Feasibility and efficacy of a digital CBT intervention for symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A randomized multiple-baseline study	23
I told you it was safe: Associations between intolerance of uncertainty and different parameters of uncertainty during instructed threat of shock	15
A randomised multiple baseline case series of a novel imagery rescripting protocol for intrusive trauma memories in people with psychosis	15
Impact of virtual reality applications in the treatment of anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials	15
Improving imagery rescripting treatments: Comparing an active versus passive approach	14
Unprepared: Thinking of a trigger warning does not prompt preparation for trauma-related content	14
Gamification of cognitive bias modification for interpretations in anxiety increases training engagement and enjoyment	14
Managing emotions in panic disorder: A systematic review of studies related to emotional intelligence, alexithymia, emotion regulation, and coping	13
Visual attention patterns during online video-mediated interaction in socially anxious individuals	11
Grab it or not? Measuring avoidance of spiders with touchscreen-based hand movements	11
A brief cognitive-behavioural treatment approach for PTSD and Dissociative Identity Disorder, a case report	10
Enhancing extinction with response prevention via imagery-based counterconditioning: Results on conditioned avoidance and distress	10
Virtual reality interventions for the treatment of anxiety disorders: A scoping review	10
Death anxiety and mental health: Requiem for a dreamer	9
Radically open dialectical behavior therapy for anorexia nervosa: A multiple baseline single-case experimental design study across 13 cases	9
Individuals fearing positivity do not perceive positive affect treatments as strong fits: A novel experimental finding and replication	9
An investigation of the impact of social exclusion on attachment to possessions and saving behaviors	8
Revisiting uncertainty as a felt sense of unsafety: The somatic error theory of intolerance of uncertainty	8
Habitual or hyper-controlled behavior: OCD symptoms and explicit sequence learning	8
Association between spatial working memory and Re-experiencing symptoms in PTSD	8

The fear of losing control	8
The relationship between symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder and depression during therapy: A random intercept cross-lagged panel model	7
An emotional regulation approach to psychosis recovery: The Living Through Psychosis group programme	7
Threat memory devaluation by a dual-task intervention: Testing return of fear and intrusive memory over 48 hours	7
Reductions in guilt cognitions following prolonged exposure and/or sertraline predict subsequent improvements in PTSD and depression	7
A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for body dysmorphic disorder: Impact on core symptoms, emotion dysregulation, and executive functioning	6
A pilot randomised controlled trial of guided self-help cognitive behaviour therapy for perfectionism: Impact on diagnostic status and comorbidity	6
The efficacy of randomised controlled trials of guided and unguided self-help interventions for the prevention and treatment of eating disorders in young people: A systematic review and preliminary me	6
The remediating effect of Attention Bias Modification on aggression in young offenders with antisocial tendency: A randomized controlled trial	6
Examining social reinforcement learning in social anxiety	6
The Bi-factor model of repetitive negative thinking: Common vs. unique factors as predictors of depression and anxiety	6
Addressing the punitive parent mode in schema therapy for borderline personality disorder: Short-term effects of the empty chair technique as compared to cognitive challenging.	6
Examining the effect of depressive symptoms on habit formation and habit-breaking	6
Attentional biases towards food and body stimuli among individuals with disordered eating versus food allergies	6
Trajectories of fear learning in healthy participants are able to distinguish groups that differ in individual characteristics, chronicity of fear and intrusions	6
Behavior when socially anxious individuals expect to be (dis)liked: The role of self-disclosure and mimicry in actual likeability	6
Different retrieval mechanisms of overgeneral autobiographical memory for positive and negative cues in remitted major depressive disorder	6
Is my patient too sad to approach their fear? Depression severity and imaginal exposure outcomes for patients with OCD	6
Emotion generation and regulation following an intrusion induction: Implications for taboo or autogenous obsessions	6
Expanding the scope, reach, and impact of evidence-based psychological treatments	6
Change talk and sustain talk in treatment of generalized anxiety disorder: A secondary analysis of cognitive behavioral therapy and metacognitive therapy in adult outpatients	5
Negative bias and reduced visual information processing of socio-emotional context in borderline Personality Disorder: A support for the hypersensitivity hypothesis	5
Effects of increased attention allocation to threat and safety stimuli on fear extinction and its recall	5
“Was I asking for it?”: An experimental investigation of perceived responsibility, mental contamination and workplace sexual harassment	5
Predictors of paranoia in the daily lives of people with non-affective psychosis and non-clinical controls: A systematic review of intensive longitudinal studies	5
Does fear reduction predict treatment response to exposure for social anxiety disorder?	5
The link between dissociative tendencies and hyperassociativity	5
Manipulating avoidance motivation to modulate attention bias for negative information in dysphoria: An eye-tracking study	5
The effectiveness and equivalence of different versions of a brief online Best Possible Self (BPS) manipulation to temporary increase optimism and affect	5
Emotion-dependent language featuring depression	5
Pondering on how great I am: Does rumination play a role in grandiose ideas?	5
Touchscreen-based approach-avoidance responses to appetitive and threatening stimuli	5
The current status of mental contamination in obsessive compulsive disorder: A systematic review	5
The relationship between psychiatric symptoms and affective forecasting bias	5
The influence of nocebo information on fatigue and urge to stop: An experimental investigation	5
Assessing the effects of acute reductions in mobile device social media use on anxiety and sleep	5
Distraction versus focusing during VR exposure therapy for acrophobia: A randomized controlled trial	5
Online counterconditioning with COVID-19-relevant stimuli in lockdown: Impact on threat expectancy, fear, and persistent avoidance	5
The efficacy of incorporating mental imagery in cognitive restructuring techniques on reducing hostility: A randomized controlled trial	4
If the discrepancy between expectations and actual information is too large, expectation change decreases – A replication study	4
Latent class analysis of emotions experienced during compulsive hair-pulling episodes	4
How do mindfulness and compassion programs improve mental health and well-being? The role of attentional processing of emotional information	4
Should cognitive restructuring precede imagery rescripting? An experimental pilot study	4
Impacts of repeated retrieval of positive and neutral memories on posttrauma health: An investigative pilot study	4
Different cognitive behavioural processes underpinning reassurance seeking in depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder	4
An experimental investigation of intolerance of uncertainty and its impact on sub-clinical psychopathology	4
Will that hurt? A contingency learning task to assess pain-expectancy judgments for low back postures	4
Longitudinal relationships among posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters in response to positive memory processing	4
Intact capacity for implicit learning in obsessive-compulsive disorder	4
Desired attachment and breakup distress relate to automatic approach of the ex-partner	4

The effect of information seeking behaviors in fear control	4
Social anxiety does not impair attention inhibition: An emotion anti-saccade task	4
Biased interpretation in paranoia and its modification	4
High trait anxiety enhances optimal integration of auditory and visual threat cues	4
Examining patterns of executive functioning across dimensions of psychopathology	4
Effects of confronting the feared outcome during exposure therapy on the return of fear: An analogue study	4
Effects of rumination and distraction on inhibition	4
Sleep quality and emotion recognition in individuals with and without internalizing psychopathologies	4
Desire to drink as a function of laboratory-induced social stress among adolescents	4
Cross-diagnostic cognitive heterogeneity in body dysmorphic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder	4
A network analytic investigation of avoidance, dampening, and devaluation of positivity	4
More engagement in inefficient avoidance through partial reinforcement	3
A Systematic Review of the experimental induction of auditory perceptual experiences	3
Excessive reassurance seeking versus compulsive checking in OCD: Comparing implicit motivators and mechanisms	3
Verbal suggestions fail to modulate expectations about the effectiveness of a laboratory model of EMDR therapy: Results of two preregistered studies	3
Modifying insecure attachment style with cognitive bias modification	3
The effects of bilateral stimulation using eye movements on sexual fantasies with follow-up	3
How to modify expectations of social rejection? An experimental study using a false-feedback paradigm	3
Reward prospect improves inhibitory control in female university students with a history of childhood sexual and physical abuse	3
Building Closer Friendships in social anxiety disorder: A randomized control trial of an internet-based intervention	3
The relevance of dysfunctional reasoning to OCD and its treatment: Further evidence for inferential confusion utilizing a new task-based measure	3
The effect of imagery rescripting on prospective mental imagery of a feared social situation	3
The effect of rumination and distraction on auditory hallucinatory experiences: An analogue experimental study	3
The impact of mood-induction on maladaptive thinking in the vulnerability for depression	3
Repetitive negative thinking during ambiguous situations: Interactive roles of looming cognitive style and intolerance of uncertainty	3
Emotion regulation in context: A naturalistic study of emotion regulation in response to everyday happy and sad memories during dysphoria	3
Assessment of approach-avoidance tendencies in body image using a novel touchscreen paradigm	3
Development of a behavioural measure of Intolerance of Uncertainty in preadolescent children: Adaptation of the beads task	3
Effects of acceptance-based strategies on psychological responses to disorder-relevant stimuli in inpatients with obsessive–compulsive disorder: An experimental study	3
A study of doubt in obsessive-compulsive disorder	3
Prospective associations between intelligence, working memory capacity, and intrusive memories of a traumatic film: Potential mediating effects of rumination and memory disorganization	3
Computerized treatment of perfectionism through mistake making: A preliminary study	3
Is it magic? An exploratory randomized controlled trial comparing imagery rescripting and cognitive restructuring in the treatment of depression	3
Efficacy of narrative therapy for orphan and abandoned children with anxiety and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders in Rwanda: A randomized controlled trial	3
The role of belief in memory amplification for trauma events	3
Metacognitive monitoring in schizotypy: Systematic literature review and new empirical data	3
Misperception of sleep is associated with intrinsic motivation toward thinking about sleep	3
Beneficial Effects of Role Reversal in Comparison to role-playing on negative cognitions about Other's Judgments for Social Anxiety Disorder	3
Testing the neurocognitive framework for regulation expectation: The relationship between actual/ideal self-esteem and proactive/reactive autonomic stress regulation	3
Impact of abstract vs. concrete processing on state rumination: An exploration of the role of cognitive flexibility	3
Relaxation training with and without Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics for Tourette's disorder: A multiple baseline across participants consecutive case series	3
Behavioral inhibition system sensitivity moderates audio-visual neutral information processing	3
Using an ecological momentary assessment protocol to understand problem anger in veterans	3
Biased probability estimates in trait anxiety and trait depression are unrelated to biased availability	3
Evaluating the effects of a brief motivational interviewing protocol on excessive acquisition	2
Examining reciprocal relations between disgust proneness and OCD symptoms: A four-wave longitudinal study	2
Recall, response bias and recognition are differentially impacted by social anxiety irrespective of feedback modality	2
Client memory and learning of treatment contents: An experimental study of intervention strategies and relationship to outcome in a brief treatment for procrastination	2
A preliminary investigation of the causal role of social media use in eating disorder symptoms	2
Retraction notice to “Prophylactic effects of psychoanalysis on cancer-prone and coronary heart disease-prone probands, as compared with control groups and behaviour therapy groups”, ‘Journal of Behav	2
Eye movement pattern of attention bias to emotional stimuli in women with high premenstrual symptoms	2
Judging others makes me forget: Assessing the cognitive, behavioural, and emotional consequences of other-evaluations on self-evaluations for social anxiety	2
Reducing the stickiness of negative memory retrieval through positive memory training in adolescents	2
Visual illusions in young people reporting psychotic-like experiences	2
Exploring aspects of self-reported emotional mental imagery in patients with bipolar disorder	2
The effects of computerised metacognitive cognitive bias modification training on the development of adaptive metacognitive beliefs and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms	2
Enhancing future-directed thinking in people with first-episode psychosis using a guided imagery intervention	2
Social cognition and depression in adolescent girls	2
Apprehension about the future: Investigating the phenomenological characteristics of episodic future thinking in socially anxious adolescents	2
Discrepant negative self-associations as a risk factor for depressive deterioration after outpatient psychotherapy	2
Changes in avoidance and distress related to trauma reminders in PTSD psychotherapy	2
A mixed methods examination of emotional expression and its impact on emotion regulation effectiveness in borderline personality disorder	2
A single case series of imagery rescripting of intrusive autobiographical memories in depression	2
Attenuating experimentally acquired disgust: Comparing counterconditioning, exposure and unconditioned stimulus revaluation	2
The effect of brief mindfulness training on the micro-structure of human free-operant responding: Mindfulness affects stimulus-driven responding	2
The effect of imagery rescripting on core beliefs and eating disorder symptoms in a subclinical population	2
Low goal-directed behavior in negative symptoms is explained by goal setting - Results of a diary study	2
The impact of modifying obsessive-compulsive beliefs about perfectionism	2
Look at me: The relation between empathy and fixation on the emotional eye-region in low vs. high social anxiety	2
The independent roles of attentional engagement with, and disengagement from, negative information in intrusive re-experiencing of negative events	2
Reality check: An experimental manipulation of inferential confusion in eating disorders	2
Guided reactivation of personal phobic memories prior to exposure exercises prevents the renewal of fear responses in subjects with claustrophobic fears	2
Examining the influence of self-referential thinking on aberrant salience and jumping to conclusions bias in individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders	2
The association between mnemonic discrimination ability and differential fear learning	2
Long-term effects of imaginal retraining in overweight and obesity: A controlled study	2
Learning to be inventive in the face of statistics: A positive reappraisal intervention for statistics anxiety	2
Development and preliminary validation of the treatment adherence rating scale	2
An investigation of the potential clinical utility of critical slowing down as an early warning sign for recurrence of depression	2