OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Behavioral and Brain Sciences is 17. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
What we don't know about what babies know: Reconsidering psychophysics, exploration, and infant behavior	262
Belonging to a community of moral values as a key criterion of society	83
The adaptiveness of fear (and other emotions) considered more broadly: Missed literature on the nature of emotions and its functions	83
Correction, uncertainty, and anchoring effects	61
Trait attribution explains human–robot interactions	61
Ownership psychology as a cognitive adaptation: A minimalist model	44
The Trojan horse of historical myths: Emotion-driven narratives as a strategy for coalitional recruitment	39
Tradition and invention: The bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution	35
Disentangling paradigm and method can help bring qualitative research to post-positivist psychology and address the generalizability crisis	32
Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework	31
The cost of crisis in clinical psychological science	31
Taking social psychology out of context	30
Integrating cultural evolution and behavioral genetics	29
Cultural evolutionary theory is not enough: Ambiguous culture, neglect of structure, and the absence of theory in behavior genetics	29
The many geographical layers of culture	23
The disintegrated theory of consciousness: Sleep, waking, and meta-awareness	21
Making the unconscious conscious: Developing maladaptive scripts into conviction narratives	20
Frames, trade-offs, and perspectives	17
Do conviction narratives drive individual decisions?	17