OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry is 4. 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
Imagery Rescripting as a stand-alone treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: A randomized controlled trial	29
Measuring fear: Association among different measures of fear learning.	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
Impact of virtual reality applications in the treatment of anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials	15
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
Gamification of cognitive bias modification for interpretations in anxiety increases training engagement and enjoyment	14
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
Managing emotions in panic disorder: A systematic review of studies related to emotional intelligence, alexithymia, emotion regulation, and coping	13
Grab it or not? Measuring avoidance of spiders with touchscreen-based hand movements	11
Visual attention patterns during online video-mediated interaction in socially anxious individuals	11
Virtual reality interventions for the treatment of anxiety disorders: A scoping review	10
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
Individuals fearing positivity do not perceive positive affect treatments as strong fits: A novel experimental finding and replication	9
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
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
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
Reductions in guilt cognitions following prolonged exposure and/or sertraline predict subsequent improvements in PTSD and depression	7
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
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
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
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
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
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
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