OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	81
Implicit aggressive self-concept in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from an approach-avoidance task	57
The effect of uncertainty on attentional bias in subclinical worriers: Evidence from reaction time and eye-tracking	45
Using an ecological momentary assessment protocol to understand problem anger in veterans	33
The effect of imagery rescripting on prospective mental imagery of a feared social situation	31
Magical contagion beliefs in psychopathology: A review of cognitive mechanisms and maintaining factors	29
Computerized treatment of perfectionism through mistake making: A preliminary study	28
College students with depression symptom are more sensitive to task difficulty in reinforcement learning	21
Let's play pretend: Towards effective modelling in experimental psycho(patho)logy	18
Editorial Board	16
Impact of a brief self-compassion intervention on state emotion dysregulation in self-reported generalized anxiety disorder	16
Externally orienting cues improve cognitive control in OCD	15
The effect of brief mindfulness training on the micro-structure of human free-operant responding: Mindfulness affects stimulus-driven responding	15
Semantic similarity among autobiographical memories is associated with rumination	15
Predictors of polyregulation and its effectiveness following exposure to One's most personally distressing intrusive thought	15
The current status of mental contamination in obsessive compulsive disorder: A systematic review	14
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Are failures to suppress obsessive-intrusive thoughts associated with working memory?	14
The effectiveness of two novel approaches to prevent intrusions: A pilot study comparing Tetris_dualtask and imagery rescripting to control	13
A pilot randomised controlled trial of guided self-help cognitive behaviour therapy for perfectionism: Impact on diagnostic status and comorbidity	13
The effect of self-focused attention during mirror gazing on body image evaluations, appearance-related imagery, and urges to mirror gaze	12
Effects of an eating club for people with a psychotic disorder on personal recovery: Results of a randomized controlled trial	12
Reliability of and associations between cognitive bias measures and response inhibition in smoking	12

Measuring attentional bias using the dot-probe task in young women: Psychometric properties and feasibility of response-based computations, dwell time, and the N2pc component	12
Does fear reduction predict treatment response to exposure for social anxiety disorder?	12
Death anxiety and mental health: Requiem for a dreamer	12
If the discrepancy between expectations and actual information is too large, expectation change decreases – A replication study	11
Facing your inner critic: a randomized controlled trial investigating a virtual reality intervention with and without a perspective change for excessive self-criticism	11
Enhancing future-directed thinking in people with first-episode psychosis using a guided imagery intervention	11
Mental contamination among people in China: A replication of a moral manipulation experiment	11
I C U but I don't care: Callous-unemotional traits and approach-avoidance behaviour in conduct disorder	11
Special Issue Registered Report: Intentional suppression as a method to boost fear extinction	11
Those who (enjoy to) hurt: The influence of dark personality traits on animal- and human directed sadistic pleasure	11
Guided reactivation of personal phobic memories prior to exposure exercises prevents the renewal of fear responses in subjects with claustrophobic fears	11
Compulsive rituals in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder – A qualitative exploration of thoughts, feelings and behavioral patterns	11
Testing a brief attention training protocol to prevent emotional distress from a fear induction procedure	11
Different cognitive behavioural processes underpinning reassurance seeking in depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder	10
Attentional bias in German Armed Forces veterans with and without posttraumatic stress symptoms – An eye-tracking investigation and group comparison	10
Putting things right: An experimental investigation of memory biases related to symmetry, ordering and arranging behaviour	10
Reliability (or lack thereof) of smartphone ecological momentary assessment of visual dot probe attention bias toward threat indices	10
Verification report: A critical reanalysis of Vahey et al. (2015) “A meta-analysis of criterion effects for the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) in the clinical domain”	10
Development of the scrupulosity inventory: A factor analysis and construct validity study	10
Using experience sampling methodology (ESM) to improve our understanding of day-to-day intrusion frequency and related distress in survivors of trauma	10
The impact of self-referential processing on depression-linked negative interpretive bias	9
Reducing the stickiness of negative memory retrieval through positive memory training in adolescents	9
Self-control problems in Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Presentation of an explanatory approach	9
Fighting OCD together: An experimental study of the effectiveness and acceptability of seeking and receiving emotional support for OCD	9
Inhibition moderates the effect of attentional bias modification for reducing residual depressive symptoms: A randomized sham-controlled clinical trial	9
Negative mood and optimism bias: An experimental investigation of sadness and belief updating	9
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	8
A brief CBT intervention for depersonalisation-derealisation disorder in psychosis: Results from a feasibility randomised controlled trial	8
Examining the causal effects of social exclusion on shame and dissociative detachment	8
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The fear of losing control	8
Metacognitive monitoring in schizotypy: Systematic literature review and new empirical data	7
Negative cognitive biases in older adults with subthreshold depression	7
Different retrieval mechanisms of overgeneral autobiographical memory for positive and negative cues in remitted major depressive disorder	7
Hoarding mysteries Jack would appreciate	7
Can a virtual reality exposure therapy app improve symptoms of Emetophobia? A single-subject Experimental design study	7
Using an ecologically generalizable virtual reality (VR) paradigm for studying state dissociation and etiological models of clinically-significant dissociation	7
Imagery Rescripting as a stand-alone treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: A randomized controlled trial	7
Memory confidence and memory accuracy deterioration following repeated checking: A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Reappraising beliefs about losing control: An experimental investigation	7
Validity of the counter-app method in the assessment of intrusions	7
Impact of virtual reality applications in the treatment of anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials	7
Fear-related associations in children of parents with an anxiety disorder	7
A decade on: Reflecting on the limitations of the first meta-analysis of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure's (IRAP) criterion validity in the clinical domain	7
Effects of confronting the feared outcome during exposure therapy on the return of fear: An analogue study	7
Latent class analysis of emotions experienced during compulsive hair-pulling episodes	6
Corrigendum to “Interpretation biases in childhood spider fear: Content-specificity, priming, and avoidance” [Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 83 (2024 June), 101941]	6
The legacy of social anxiety-linked negative expectancy: A pathway from pre-event negative expectancies to post-event negative thinking	6

Therapeutic climbing as an adjunctive treatment for psychiatric inpatients: A qualitative study	6
Social cognition and depression in adolescent girls	6
Exploring aspects of self-reported emotional mental imagery in patients with bipolar disorder	6
Targeting negative flashforward imagery in speech anxiety with a visuospatial dual-task: Do attenuated flashforwards lead to less anxiety and avoidance?	6
Associations between PTSD and temporal discounting: The role of future thinking	6
Gamification of cognitive bias modification for interpretations in anxiety increases training engagement and enjoyment	6
Individuals fearing positivity do not perceive positive affect treatments as strong fits: A novel experimental finding and replication	6
Stress and stress reactivity in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following eye movement desensitization (EMD): A randomized controlled trial	6
Can an app designed to reduce repetitive negative thinking decrease depression and anxiety in young people? Results from a randomized controlled prevention trial	6
Replication of individual differences in the Pirates and Planets conditioned punishment task, but no correspondence to behavior in a non-clinical sample	5
The relationship between psychiatric symptoms and affective forecasting bias	5
Building Closer Friendships in social anxiety disorder: A randomized control trial of an internet-based intervention	5
Emotional interference and attentional control in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: The special case of neutral faces	5
Social problem-solving attitudes and performance as a function of differences in trait and state worry	5
Efficacy of exposure scenario in virtual reality for the treatment of acrophobia: A randomized controlled trial	5
Virtual reality interventions for the treatment of anxiety disorders: A scoping review	5
Arousal grows up, arousal goes down. Emotion regulation, trait anxiety, rumination and worry as predictors of recovery time after mental imagery	5
Joint attention effect on irrelevant stimuli resistance in high functional autism and neurotypical adults	5
Long-term effects of imaginal retraining in overweight and obesity: A controlled study	4
Identity – A critical but neglected construct in cognitive-behaviour therapy	4
Aversive conditioning is impaired in impulsive individuals: A study on learning asymmetries	4
Implicit beliefs and automatic associations in smoking	4
Implicit cognitions on self-injurious and suicidal behavior in borderline personality disorder	4
Efficacy of internet-based emotion-focused cognitive behavior therapy (IECBT) in improving stress and anxiety of women with suspected fetal malformation: A randomized controlled trial	4
The effectiveness of a masked counterconditioning approach using continuous flash suppression to alleviate body dissatisfaction in women with high body image concerns	4
Learning asymmetry as a predictor of mood and behavior dynamics: A network analysis	4
A study of doubt in obsessive-compulsive disorder	4
Further analyses of appraisals of losing control and other OCD-related cognitions: A quasi-experimental investigation	4
Imagery rescripting: The value of an added positive emotion component	4
An experimental investigation of biased attention in non-suicidal self-injury: The effects of perfectionism and emotional valence on attentional engagement and disengagement	4
Investigating the role of weight in body representation through the Rubber Hand Illusion: when individual weight concerns matter	4
Effects of positivity training on character strengths, time perspective, and self-awareness in women with depression	4
Attenuating experimentally acquired disgust: Comparing counterconditioning, exposure and unconditioned stimulus revaluation	4
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Intolerance of uncertainty predicts paranoia over time: Evidence from a UK sample	4
Obsessive-compulsive tendencies predict reduced access to affective reactions to auditory stimuli	4
Trauma cue-elicited emotional response profiles influence acute experiences of alcohol urge	4
Repetitive negative thinking during ambiguous situations: Interactive roles of looming cognitive style and intolerance of uncertainty	4
Experimental analysis of the impact of body comparison on non-clinical women	4
Longitudinal relationships among posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters in response to positive memory processing	4
Exploring the links between dissociative experiences, schemas, modes, and coping	4
Examining two of the ingredients of Cognitive therapy for adolescent social anxiety disorder: Back-translation from a treatment trial	3
Examining patterns of executive functioning across dimensions of psychopathology	3
Rethinking paranoid ideation and reasoning: A pilot study based on the argumentative theory of reasoning	3
Social anxiety does not impair attention inhibition: An emotion anti-saccade task	3
The role of desired positive affect in depression in daily life	3
How to modify expectations of social rejection? An experimental study using a false-feedback paradigm	3
Editorial Board	3
Sensitivity and response bias in non-clinical social anxiety to detect changes in facial expressions	3
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioral group therapy, psychodrama, and their integration for treatment of social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial	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 core beliefs and eating disorder symptoms in a subclinical population	3
Adding EMDR for PTSD at the onset of treatment of borderline personality disorder: A pilot study	3
Beliefs about losing control and other OCD-related cognitions: An experimental investigation	3
Emotion-dependent language featuring depression	3
An online group behavioral activation therapy for major depressive disorder: Adaptation, effectiveness, and trajectories of change in a lower-middle income country	3
Examining social reinforcement learning in social anxiety	3
An intervention to promote concrete thinking style in young adults: Effects on depressive symptoms and its protective factors	3