OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behaviour Research and Therapy is 9. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study	173
Optimizing in vivo exposure using occasional reinforced extinction with aversive imagery in spider fearful individuals	148
Problem mastery and motivational clarification as mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial	129
The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events	107
A randomized controlled trial modifying insomnia-consistent interpretation bias in students	99
Predicting positive outcomes and successful completion in an online parenting program for parents of children with disruptive behavior: An integrated data analysis	83
Cognitive behavioural therapy for functional abdominal pain disorders in children and adolescents: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials	74
Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder	69
Exploring the effect of loneliness on fear: Implications for the effect of COVID-19-induced social disconnection on anxiety	62
Unsupervised clustering of autonomic temporal networks in clinically distressed and psychologically healthy individuals	54
Cognitive behavioral therapy versus compassion focused therapy for adult patients with eating disorders with and without childhood trauma: A randomized controlled trial in an intensive treatment setti	54
Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety	52
Social anxiety inhibits needs repair following exclusion in both relational and non-relational reward contexts: The mediating role of positive affect	52
From basic science to clinical practice: Can cognitive behavioural therapy tasks be augmented with enhanced episodic specificity?	51
Intolerance of uncertainty and information-seeking behavior: Experimental manipulation of threat relevance	50
Network Intervention Analyses of cognitive therapy and behavior therapy for insomnia: Symptom specific effects and process measures	44
The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal dysfunction in nonsuicidal self-injury during dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	43
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Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility	40
Sex differences in the effect of subjective sleep on fear conditioning, extinction learning, and extinction recall in individuals with a range of PTSD symptom severity	39
The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style	37
Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive coping predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of adaptive coping	37
Bilateral eye movements disrupt the involuntary perceptual representation of trauma-related memories	35
Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity	35
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy	34

Testing associations between negative interpretation inflexibility, anxiety symptoms and intolerance of uncertainty	34
Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic	34
Towards personalizing cognitive remediation therapy: Examining moderators of response for euthymic people with bipolar disorder	34
Psychological mechanisms of change in reducing co-occurring social anxiety and alcohol use: A causal mediation analysis of the online Inroads intervention	33
Cognitive flexibility improves in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome but not nonspecific education/support	33
No-think, No drink? Assessing the ability of reconsolidation interference by intentional forgetting to suppress alcohol memories in hazardous drinkers	32
The relative efficacy and efficiency of single- and multi-session exposure therapies for specific phobia: A meta-analysis	30
Is internet-based parent training for everyone? Predictors and moderators of outcomes in group vs. internet-based parent training for children with disruptive behavior problems	30
Induced awareness of stimulus differences impedes the generalization of extinction learning with various, highly similar stimuli	29
Corrigendum to “Intolerance of uncertainty enhances adolescent fear generalization in both perceptual-based and category-based tasks: fNIRS studies” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 183 (2024) 104650]	29
Divergent experiences of U.S. veterans who did and did not complete trauma-focused therapies for PTSD: A national qualitative study of treatment dropout	29
Heart-Mind-Behavior Parent Training: Randomized controlled trial for Chinese parents of young children with ASD	29
Decentering predicts attenuated perseverative thought and internalizing symptoms following stress exposure: A multi-level, multi-wave study	28
Repetitive negative thinking and suicidal ideation in internalizing psychopathologies: A replication study	28
Downstream effects of observational threat learning: Generalization and reversal learning across development	28
Systematically investigating the role of context on effect replicability in reinstatement of fear in humans	28
Effects of social buffering on fear extinction in adolescent rats	27
Cognitive behavior therapy for adult post-traumatic stress disorder in routine clinical care: A systematic review and meta-analysis	26
The causes and consequences of shame in obsessive-compulsive disorder	26
A multilevel machine learning algorithm to predict session-by-session outcome for patients receiving cognitive-behavioural therapy	26
Fear reacquisition and symptoms of combat-related PTSD: Specificity and preliminary examination of the influence of the 5-HT3A receptor gene	26
Repetitive negative thinking in daily life predicts psychopathology: Further validation of an ecological momentary assessment paradigm	26
Mechanisms of change in digital cognitive behavioral therapy for depression in patients with chronic back pain: A mediation analysis of a multicenter randomized clinical trial	25
Repetitive negative thinking and depressive symptoms are differentially related to response inhibition: The influence of non-emotional, socio-emotional, and self-referential stimuli	25
Can placebos reduce intrusive memories?	25
Daily micropractice can augment single-session interventions: A randomized controlled trial of self-compassionate touch and examining their associations with habit formation in US college students	25
Remote mental health care interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An umbrella review	25
Responsibility, probability, and severity of harm: An experimental investigation of cognitive factors associated with checking-related OCD	24
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Can integrating the Memory Support Intervention into cognitive therapy improve depression outcome? A randomized controlled trial	22
Imagery rescripting and extinction: Effects on US expectancy, US revaluation, and the generalization of fear reduction	22
Outcomes of the Transdiagnostic Intervention for Sleep and Circadian Dysfunction (TranS-C) in a community setting: Unpacking comorbidity	22
Advances in the adaptation and implementation of evidence-based interventions for historically marginalized groups	22
The effect of concreteness training on peri-traumatic processing and intrusive memories following an analogue trauma	22
Performance-based attentional control, but not self-reported attentional control, predicts changes in depressive symptoms in short-term psychotherapy	22
Predicting responsiveness to a dialectical behaviour therapy skills training app for recurrent binge eating: A machine learning approach	21
Visual attention during cognitive reappraisal in adolescent major depression: Evidence from two eye-tracking studies	21
Threat sensitivity in emotion dynamics: Negativity effects and sex differences	21
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Role of social determinants in anxiety and depression symptoms during COVID-19: A longitudinal study of adults in North Carolina and Massachusetts	20
Guided internet-based LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy: A randomized controlled trial among sexual minority men in China	20
A threat from within: Learning to fear by observing aversive bodily symptoms in others	20
Mediators and Moderators of two online interventions for managing pain, fear of progression and functional ability in rheumatoid arthritis	20
Using network analysis to characterize clinical improvement during cognitive processing therapy	20
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Daily relationships among maternal rumination, mood and bonding with infant	18
The effects of culturally adapted expressive writing interventions on depressive and anxiety symptoms among Chinese American breast cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial	18
Feeling safe: Judgements of safety and anxiety as a function of worry and intolerance of uncertainty	18

The effect of exercise engagement on low back disability at 12-months is mediated by pain and catastrophizing in a community sample of people with chronic low back pain	18
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The integrated constructionist approach to emotions: A theoretical model for explaining alterations to positive emotional experiences in the aftermath of trauma	17
The impact of module dosage on treatment response in a modular transdiagnostic intervention for sleep and circadian dysfunction (TranS-C)	16
To focus on a confederate or oneself? Attentional bias and state anxiety in socially anxious individuals during real-time online video calls	16
The attenuation of spider avoidance action tendencies in spider-fearful individuals and its impact on explicit evaluation of spider stimuli	16
“I'm not here to push you:” raising adolescents' treatment engagement via autonomy support	16
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Recalling and anticipating positive events to improve the positive affect and mental health of adolescents: A cluster randomized controlled trial in secondary schools	16
Real-world evidence from users of a behavioral digital therapeutic for chronic insomnia	15
Translational assessment of anhedonia components: Significant associations between reward anticipation measured via behavioural task performance, daily smartphone reports, and general anhedonia questi	15
Prosody-focused feedback enhances the efficacy of anti-depressive self-statements in depressed individuals – A randomized controlled trial	15
Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: A summary and overview of the literature	15
Mechanistic pathways of change in twice weekly versus once weekly sessions of psychotherapy for depression	14
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Improving treatments for mental disorders using computational models	14
Affective and computational determinants of threat extinction biases	14
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Do appearance related safety behaviors contribute to distress intolerance? A Multi-method examination	14
Examining emotional processing theory and predictors of outcome in prolonged exposure for PTSD	14
A randomized-controlled trial comparing relative effects of mindfulness-based interoceptive exposure focus versus distraction on cold-pressor induced pain	13
Moderators of treatment effect of Prompt Mental Health Care compared to treatment as usual: Results from a randomized controlled trial	13
Changes in cognitive processes and coping strategies precede changes in symptoms during cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder	13
Are biased and inflexible updating of interpretations broad or narrow transdiagnostic risk markers for psychopathology? A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) lens	13
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Network intervention analysis of anxiety-related outcomes and processes of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for anxious cancer survivors	13
Safety behaviors toward innocuous stimuli can maintain or increase threat beliefs	13
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Suicide-specific rumination as a predictor of suicide planning and intent	12
Empirically supported treatments for all: Realizing equitable coverage of care for trauma survivors globally	12
Appraisals of insomnia identity in a clinical sample	12
Attentional bias modification in male college smokers: The changes of facilitated attention, difficulty in disengagement and the transfer effects of training	12
Prospective relations between anxiety sensitivity and transdiagnostic anxiety following cognitive-behavioral therapy: Evidence from the Coordinated Anxiety Learning management trial	12
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Identifying the active ingredients of cognitive-behavioural therapy: Conceptualisation, methods and evidence	12
Neurocognitive mechanisms of mental imagery-based disgust learning	12
Remembering and Forgetting: A Dynamic Social Retrieval Theory of Posttraumatic Stress	12
Suicide and cognitive processes: Introduction to the special issue	12
Directional associations among real-time activity, sleep, mood, and daytime symptoms in major depressive disorder using actigraphy and ecological momentary assessment	12
Predictors of school-based cognitive behavior therapy outcome for youth with anxiety	12
Effectiveness of two video-based multicomponent treatments for fibromyalgia: The added value of cognitive restructuring and mindfulness in a three-arm randomised controlled trial	12
Improving mental health in low-resource settings: A feasibility randomized controlled trial of a transdiagnostic psychological intervention among Burundian refugee adolescents and their caregivers	11
Depression and approach-avoidance decisions to emotional displays: The role of anhedonia	11
Reflections on an emerging new science of mental disorders	11
Facets of social problem-solving as moderators of the real-time relation between social rejection and negative affect in an at-risk sample	11
The benefit and neural mechanisms of computerized inhibitory control training for insomnia with short sleep duration phenotype: a rs-fMRI study	11
An online, single-session intervention for adolescent self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: Results from a randomized trial	11
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No joy - why bother? Higher anhedonia relates to reduced pleasure from and motivation for threat avoidance	11
Parenting Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An RCT of an online course with families of children with CP	11
Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments	11
Concurrent and prospective associations between negative social-evaluative beliefs, safety behaviours, and symptoms during and following cognitive behavioural group therapy for social anxiety disorder	11
The effect of depression and anxiety symptom severity on clinical outcomes and app use in digital mental health treatments: Meta-regression of three trials	11
Continuous theta burst stimulation to dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in young adults with depression: Changes in resting frontostriatal functional connectivity relevant to positive mood	11
Optimising exposure for adolescents with public speaking anxiety: Affect labelling or positive coping statements?	11
The combination of physical exercise and slow-paced breathing on psychophysiological indices of emotion reactivity, psychosocial stress reactivity and recovery: A multimodal investigation	11
Persistence of extensively trained avoidance is not elevated in anxiety disorders in an outcome devaluation paradigm	11
Effects of positive and negative affect inductions on interpretive and response bias	10
What we got wrong about depression and its treatment	10
“It's safer to believe that others don't like me” – A qualitative study on the paradoxical value of negative core beliefs in depression	10
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Temporal and specific pathways of change in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for depression	10
Self-guided online treatment of disturbed grief, posttraumatic stress, and depression in adults bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial	10
Introduction to special issue honoring Dianne L. Chambless (1948–2023)	10
Fostering socio-emotional competencies in children on the autism spectrum using a parent-assisted serious game: A multicenter randomized controlled trial	10
Stigmatized experience is associated with exacerbated pain perception in depressed patients	9
Eye-tracking to assess anxiety-related attentional biases among a large sample of preadolescent children	9
The role of mental imagery in worry: Insights from aphantasia	9
Neurocognitive functioning in adults with trichotillomania: Predictors of treatment response and symptom severity in a randomized control trial	9
Do trauma cue exposure and/or PTSD symptom severity intensify selective approach bias toward cannabis cues in regular cannabis users with trauma histories?	9
Changes in trauma-related cognitions predict subsequent symptom improvement during prolonged exposure in patients with childhood abuse-related PTSD	9
Using GIMME to model the emotional context of suicidal ideation based on clinical data: From research to clinical practice	9
A randomized controlled trial of brief behavioral activation plus savoring for positive affect dysregulation in university students	9
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Youth social functioning interacts with treatment arm, diagnosis, and gender to predict anxiety treatment outcome	9
Corrigendum to “Measuring self-efficacy, executive function, and temporal discounting in Kenya” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 101 (2018) 30–45]	9
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Moderators of outcome in self-guided internet-delivered cognitive-behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder	9
Joy Beyond Fear: Positive Emotions After Exposure in Patients with Anxiety Disorders and Their Link to Threat Expectancy and Treatment Outcome	9