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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Implicit aggressive self-concept in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from an approach-avoidance task	38
Editorial Board	34
Computerized treatment of perfectionism through mistake making: A preliminary study	29
The effect of imagery rescripting on prospective mental imagery of a feared social situation	21
Let's play pretend: Towards effective modelling in experimental psycho(patho)logy	20
College students with depression symptom are more sensitive to task difficulty in reinforcement learning	19
The effect of uncertainty on attentional bias in subclinical worriers: Evidence from reaction time and eye-tracking	18
Using an ecological momentary assessment protocol to understand problem anger in veterans	16
Editorial Board	15
The current status of mental contamination in obsessive compulsive disorder: A systematic review	14
The effect of brief mindfulness training on the micro-structure of human free-operant responding: Mindfulness affects stimulus-driven responding	14
Predictors of polyregulation and its effectiveness following exposure to One's most personally distressing intrusive thought	14
Impact of abstract vs. concrete processing on state rumination: An exploration of the role of cognitive flexibility	11
Does valence contribute to the effects of dual tasking in aversive autobiographical memory? Some unexpected findings	11
Editorial Board	11
Externally orienting cues improve cognitive control in OCD	11
Editorial Board	11
Effects of an eating club for people with a psychotic disorder on personal recovery: Results of a randomized controlled trial	10
The remediating effect of Attention Bias Modification on aggression in young offenders with antisocial tendency: A randomized controlled trial	10
People with schizophrenia use less information to interpret ambiguous social situations	9
Correlation between laboratory-based vicarious threat learning and emotional disorder symptom dimensions	9
Compulsive rituals in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder – A qualitative exploration of thoughts, feelings and behavioral patterns	8
Reliability of and associations between cognitive bias measures and response inhibition in smoking	8
The effect of self-focused attention during mirror gazing on body image evaluations, appearance-related imagery, and urges to mirror gaze	8
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.	8

A pilot randomised controlled trial of guided self-help cognitive behaviour therapy for perfectionism: Impact on diagnostic status and comorbidity	8
The effectiveness of two novel approaches to prevent intrusions: A pilot study comparing Tetris_dualtask and imagery rescripting to control	8
Death anxiety and mental health: Requiem for a dreamer	8
Does fear reduction predict treatment response to exposure for social anxiety disorder?	7
Unprepared: Thinking of a trigger warning does not prompt preparation for trauma-related content	7
I C U but I don't care: Callous-unemotional traits and approach-avoidance behaviour in conduct disorder	7
Are failures to suppress obsessive-intrusive thoughts associated with working memory?	7
Contextual goal-dependent attention flexibility or rule-based learning? An investigation of a new attention flexibility paradigm	7
Smiling won't necessarily make you feel better: Response-focused emotion regulation strategies have little impact on cognitive, behavioural, physiological, and subjective outcomes	7
Mental contamination among people in China: A replication of a moral manipulation experiment	7
High trait anxiety enhances optimal integration of auditory and visual threat cues	7
Those who (enjoy to) hurt: The influence of dark personality traits on animal- and human directed sadistic pleasure	7
Enhancing future-directed thinking in people with first-episode psychosis using a guided imagery intervention	6
Attentional bias in German Armed Forces veterans with and without posttraumatic stress symptoms – An eye-tracking investigation and group comparison	6
If the discrepancy between expectations and actual information is too large, expectation change decreases – A replication study	6
Reliability (or lack thereof) of smartphone ecological momentary assessment of visual dot probe attention bias toward threat indices	6
Development of the scrupulosity inventory: A factor analysis and construct validity study	6
The impact of modifying obsessive-compulsive beliefs about perfectionism	6
Fighting OCD together: An experimental study of the effectiveness and acceptability of seeking and receiving emotional support for OCD	6
Putting things right: An experimental investigation of memory biases related to symmetry, ordering and arranging behaviour	6
The efficacy of incorporating mental imagery in cognitive restructuring techniques on reducing hostility: A randomized controlled trial	6
“Was I asking for it?”: An experimental investigation of perceived responsibility, mental contamination and workplace sexual harassment	6
Do patients’ mood and gender affect the way we deliver CBT? An experimental, vignette-based study of the relevance of patient and clinician characteristics	6
Different cognitive behavioural processes underpinning reassurance seeking in depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder	6
Relaxation training with and without Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics for Tourette's disorder: A multiple baseline across participants consecutive case series	6
Negative mood and optimism bias: An experimental investigation of sadness and belief updating	6
Using experience sampling methodology (ESM) to improve our understanding of day-to-day intrusion frequency and related distress in survivors of trauma	6
Testing a brief attention training protocol to prevent emotional distress from a fear induction procedure	6
Self-control problems in Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Presentation of an explanatory approach	6
Guided reactivation of personal phobic memories prior to exposure exercises prevents the renewal of fear responses in subjects with claustrophobic fears	6
Lifetime adversity interacts with peritraumatic data-driven processing to predict intrusive memories	6
The effects of computerised metacognitive cognitive bias modification training on the development of adaptive metacognitive beliefs and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms	6
A brief cognitive-behavioural treatment approach for PTSD and Dissociative Identity Disorder, a case report	6
Attentional biases towards food and body stimuli among individuals with disordered eating versus food allergies	5
Editorial Board	5
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	5
Impact of virtual reality applications in the treatment of anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials	5
Hasty decision-making in individuals at higher risk of developing an eating disorder	5
Inhibition moderates the effect of attentional bias modification for reducing residual depressive symptoms: A randomized sham-controlled clinical trial	5
Examining the causal effects of social exclusion on shame and dissociative detachment	5
A brief CBT intervention for depersonalisation-derealisation disorder in psychosis: Results from a feasibility randomised controlled trial	5
Imagery Rescripting as a stand-alone treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: A randomized controlled trial	5
The impact of self-referential processing on depression-linked negative interpretive bias	5
Reducing the stickiness of negative memory retrieval through positive memory training in adolescents	5
Desired attachment and breakup distress relate to automatic approach of the ex-partner	5
The link between dissociative tendencies and hyperassociativity	5
The fear of losing control	5
A mixed methods examination of emotional expression and its impact on emotion regulation effectiveness in borderline personality disorder	4
Metacognitive monitoring in schizotypy: Systematic literature review and new empirical data	4
Gamification of cognitive bias modification for interpretations in anxiety increases training engagement and enjoyment	4

Individuals fearing positivity do not perceive positive affect treatments as strong fits: A novel experimental finding and replication	4
Latent class analysis of emotions experienced during compulsive hair-pulling episodes	4
Emotion regulation in context: A naturalistic study of emotion regulation in response to everyday happy and sad memories during dysphoria	4
The association between mnemonic discrimination ability and differential fear learning	4
Verbal suggestions fail to modulate expectations about the effectiveness of a laboratory model of EMDR therapy: Results of two preregistered studies	4
Fear-related associations in children of parents with an anxiety disorder	4
Hoarding mysteries Jack would appreciate	4
Effects of confronting the feared outcome during exposure therapy on the return of fear: An analogue study	4
Excessive reassurance seeking versus compulsive checking in OCD: Comparing implicit motivators and mechanisms	4
Validity of the counter-app method in the assessment of intrusions	4
Different retrieval mechanisms of overgeneral autobiographical memory for positive and negative cues in remitted major depressive disorder	4
Social cognition and depression in adolescent girls	4
Memory confidence and memory accuracy deterioration following repeated checking: A systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Attenuating experimentally acquired disgust: Comparing counterconditioning, exposure and unconditioned stimulus revaluation	3
Social problem-solving attitudes and performance as a function of differences in trait and state worry	3
The relationship between psychiatric symptoms and affective forecasting bias	3
Editorial Board	3
The influence of nocebo information on fatigue and urge to stop: An experimental investigation	3
Effects of increased attention allocation to threat and safety stimuli on fear extinction and its recall	3
Joint attention effect on irrelevant stimuli resistance in high functional autism and neurotypical adults	3
Threat memory devaluation by a dual-task intervention: Testing return of fear and intrusive memory over 48 hours	3
Editorial Board	3
Virtual reality interventions for the treatment of anxiety disorders: A scoping review	3
Sleep quality and emotion recognition in individuals with and without internalizing psychopathologies	3
Building Closer Friendships in social anxiety disorder: A randomized control trial of an internet-based intervention	3
Trajectories of fear learning in healthy participants are able to distinguish groups that differ in individual characteristics, chronicity of fear and intrusions	3
Exploring aspects of self-reported emotional mental imagery in patients with bipolar disorder	3
Emotional interference and attentional control in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: The special case of neutral faces	3
Aversive conditioning is impaired in impulsive individuals: A study on learning asymmetries	3
Identity – A critical but neglected construct in cognitive-behaviour therapy	3
Implicit beliefs and automatic associations in smoking	3
Imagery rescripting: The value of an added positive emotion component	3
A study of doubt in obsessive-compulsive disorder	3
Trauma cue-elicited emotional response profiles influence acute experiences of alcohol urge	3
The legacy of social anxiety-linked negative expectancy: A pathway from pre-event negative expectancies to post-event negative thinking	3
Is it magic? An exploratory randomized controlled trial comparing imagery rescripting and cognitive restructuring in the treatment of depression	3
An emotional regulation approach to psychosis recovery: The Living Through Psychosis group programme	3
Associations between PTSD and temporal discounting: The role of future thinking	3
Corrigendum to “Interpretation biases in childhood spider fear: Content-specificity, priming, and avoidance” [Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 83 (2024 June), 101941]	3
Targeting negative flashforward imagery in speech anxiety with a visuospatial dual-task: Do attenuated flashforwards lead to less anxiety and avoidance?	3
Health anxiety and attentional control interact to predict uncertainty-related attentional biases	3
Further analyses of appraisals of losing control and other OCD-related cognitions: A quasi-experimental investigation	3
Long-term effects of imaginal retraining in overweight and obesity: A controlled study	3
Editorial Board	3
Longitudinal relationships among posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters in response to positive memory processing	2
Recall, response bias and recognition are differentially impacted by social anxiety irrespective of feedback modality	2
Editorial Board	2
Implicit cognitions on self-injurious and suicidal behavior in borderline personality disorder	2
Examining the effect of depressive symptoms on habit formation and habit-breaking	2
The effectiveness of a masked counterconditioning approach using continuous flash suppression to alleviate body dissatisfaction in women with high body image concerns	2
The effect of imagery rescripting on core beliefs and eating disorder symptoms in a subclinical population	2
Social anxiety does not impair attention inhibition: An emotion anti-saccade task	2
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioral group therapy, psychodrama, and their integration for treatment of social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial	2
Adding EMDR for PTSD at the onset of treatment of borderline personality disorder: A pilot study	2
Beliefs about losing control and other OCD-related cognitions: An experimental investigation	2
Physiological sensation word usage in social anxiety disorder with and without comorbid depression	2
Experimental analysis of the impact of body comparison on non-clinical women	2
Emotion-dependent language featuring depression	2
Apprehension about the future: Investigating the phenomenological characteristics of episodic future thinking in socially anxious adolescents	2
Editorial changes at the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry	2
The relevance of dysfunctional reasoning to OCD and its treatment: Further evidence for inferential confusion utilizing a new task-based measure	2
Rethinking paranoid ideation and reasoning: A pilot study based on the argumentative theory of reasoning	2
Effects of positivity training on character strengths, time perspective, and self-awareness in women with depression	2
Sensitivity and response bias in non-clinical social anxiety to detect changes in facial expressions	2
An experimental investigation of biased attention in non-suicidal self-injury: The effects of perfectionism and emotional valence on attentional engagement and disengagement	2
Repetitive negative thinking during ambiguous situations: Interactive roles of looming cognitive style and intolerance of uncertainty	2
Examining patterns of executive functioning across dimensions of psychopathology	2
Cross-diagnostic cognitive heterogeneity in body dysmorphic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder	2
Examining social reinforcement learning in social anxiety	2