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Papers

(The median citation count of Theory & Psychology is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Why mainstream research will not end scientific racism in psychology	26
The evil within: The AMORAL model of dark creativity	22
Models of semiotic borders in psychology and their implications: From rigidity of separation to topological dynamics of connectivity	20
Signs as borders and borders as signs	17
Ecological psychology as social psychology?	16
Philosophy of science and the formalization of psychological theory	14
Representational measurement theory: Is its number up?	13
Disquieting experiences and conversation	13
Squaring the circle: From latent variables to theory-based measurement	12
Disturbances in dialogue and metacognition: A renewed way to understand and respond to alterations in self-experience in psychosis	12
“Are psychological attributes quantitative?” is not an empirical question: Conceptual confusions in the measurement debate	12
Respectful operationalism	11
Theorizing in psychology: From the critique of ahyper-scienceto conceptualizing subjectivity	11
For a knowledge with the other in psychological science	10
Thorndike’sCredo: Metaphysics in psychometrics	9
Phenomena complexes as targets of explanation in psychopathology: The relational analysis of phenomena approach	9
Relational ethics and epistemology: The case for complementary first principles in psychology	9
The metaphysics of psychology and a dialectical perspective	9
On stress and subjectivity	8
Scientific realism and the issue of variability in behavior	8
The subjectivity of self and its ontology: From the world–brain relation to the point of view in the world	8
Translating science into practice in clinical psychology: A reformulation of the evidence-based practice inquiry model	7
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	7
Between frustration and education: Transitioning students’ stress and coping through the lens of semiotic cultural psychology	7
When something dehumanizes, it is violent but when it elevates, it is not violent	7

Cognitive geographies of bordering: The case of urban neighbourhoods in transition	7
The Manichean division in children’s experience: Developmental psychology in an anti-Black world	7
The dialogical and political nature of emotions: A reading of Vygotsky’sThe Psychology of Art	7
Sociocultural affordances and enactment of agency: A transactional view	7
Some clarifications on critical and Indigenous psychologies	7
Borderscapes in landscape: Identity meets ideology	6
Tensed toward the collective: A Simondonian perspective on human experience in context	6
Dialogic borders: Interculturality from Vološinov and Bakhtin	6
Simondon, emotion, and individuation: The tensions of psychological life in digital worlds	6
Thirty years of focus on individual variability and the dynamics of processes	6
Psychology of borders: An integral proposal to understand border phenomena in human life	6
Historical borders and maps as symbolic supports to master narratives and history education	6
The archival turn in classical social psychology: Some recent reports	6
Problematic research practices in psychology: Misconceptions about data collection entail serious fallacies in data analysis	6
“The art of imposing measurement upon the mind”: Sir Francis Galton and the genesis of the psychometric paradigm	6
Metaphors of development and the development of metaphors	6
Reformulating the network theory of mental disorders: Folk psychology as a factor, not a fact	6
Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations	5
Epistemic pluralism and the justification of conceptual strategies in science	5
The motivational role of affect in an ecological model	5
The “placebo” paradox and the emotion paradox: Challenges to psychological explanation	5
Two kinds of theory: What psychology can learn from Einstein	5
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	5
Dispensing with the theory (and philosophy) of affordances	4
What does Theory & Psychology have to offer community-orientated psychologists?	4
Psychologising meritocracy: A historical account of its many guises	4
Border identities: Theoretical approach to the study of self from bordering processes	4
Moral affordance, moral expertise, and virtue	4
Which considerations are lost when debating the prolonged grief disorder diagnosis?	4
A theoretical model of projects in motivated behavior	4
What and for whom is a decolonising African psychology?	4
A taxonomical model of general human and generic life skills	4
Pretend play as a creative action: On the exploratory and evaluative features of children’s pretense	4
In the aftermath of globalization: Antiglobalizing and deglobalizing forms of subjectivity	4
The national nature of globalization and the global nature of nationalism: Historically and methodologically entangled	4
Where psychological science meets moral theory: Linking up motivational primitives with normative ethics	4
(Mis)constructing social construction: Answering the critiques	4
Dehumanization and a psychology of deglobalization: Double binds and movements beyond radicalization and racialized mis-interpellation	4
Folk psychology as a causal language	4
Aesthetic motifs and the materiality of motives	4
Ethical realism before social constructionism	4
Reflective function: A move to the level of concern	3
From competition to co-operation: Shifting the “one best model” perspective	3
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy	3
Who is the “other”? Epistemic violence and discursive practices	3
Sense and nonsense in psychological measurement: A case of problem and method passing one another by	3
vAde vAde jAyate tattvabodhaH: Toward epistemic harmony through dialogue	3
Psychology education and the neoliberal episteme in Australia	3
Kurt Lewin’s ideas are alive! But why doesn’t anybody recognize them?	3
Construction of borders: Intra-psychological dynamics of emerging national identity	3

Denying Descartes and wary of Wittgenstein: Response to Franz	3
Towards rethinking the primacy of epistemology in psychology: Introduction to the special section	3
Tribalism: Where George Orwell leads us and where an understanding of existential–relational positions extends us	3
Resilience revisited: AIDS and resilience among a Yi ethnic minority in Southwest China	3
Is measurement in psychology an empirical or a conceptual issue? A comment on David Franz	3
Turning away from epistemic violence by capturing a lived experience of the other	2
Pluralism as an antidote to epistemic violence in psychological research	2
The politics of Chinese immigrants’ double unbelonging and deglobalization	2
A neurophenomenological theory of the three worlds	2
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	2
Revisioning psychology and deglobalisation: The case of Brexit	2
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum	2
Whose metaphor? Rethinking conceptual metaphor in Lacanian terms	2
The unappreciated relevance of auxiliary assumptions for evaluating theory-based interventions in health psychology	2
Distributing resources in a construction project: Conflictual co-operation about a common cause and its theoretical implications	2
“Hybrid psychology agent”: Overcoming the about/for dichotomy from praxis	2
The epistemic and pragmatic function of dichotomous claims based on statistical hypothesis tests	2
The oughtness of existence: Living and suffering by what we ought	2
The rhetorical use of B. F. Skinner in evolutionary psychology	2
Parenting in exile: Narratives of evolving parenting practices in transnational contact zones	2
The making of financial subjects: A phenomenological study of student debt	2
Thinking in opposites: The psychologies of Carl Gustav Jung and George Kelly	2
Why the professional practice of psychology requires a personalistic account of psychological phenomena	2
Equivocating on unconsciousness	1
Describing disorder: The importance and advancement of compositional explanations in psychopathology	1
Not self-aware? Psychological antecedents and consequences of alienating from one’s actual motives, emotions, and goals	1
Overcoming theoretical stagnation through cultural–historical neuropsychology: The case of dyslexia	1
Concern and control in human agency	1
Contradictory regimes of practice: Constructs and discourses in an open prison	1
Tensions, articulations, and novelty in the ontogenetic development of historical thinking: Contributions of cultural–historical psychology	1
Why does the pathologization of grief cause such a stir? A comment on Bergsmark and Ramsing	1
Metaphor and the scientific method: Why Lacan’s perspective isn’t helpful yet	1
The autistic mirror in the real: Autism in Lacan’s mirror stage	1
A cautionary note on aggregation in educational psychology and beyond	1
Qualitative psychology of the Brentano school and its inspirations (another look at empirical qualitative research)	1
Contrasts and synergies: A comment on Jones (2022)	1
Beyond the oversocialized conception of the subject in psychology: Desire, conflict, and the problem of social order	1
Dialogical selves in action: Movements within and between frames in work meetings	1
Research based on scientific realism should not make preliminary assumptions about mathematical structure representing human behavior: Cronbach and Gleser’s measure as an example	1
Indigenous psychology in Africa: Centrality of culture, misunderstandings, and global positioning	1
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	1
Learning, digital technologies, and sociomaterial approaches: A critical reflection from the perspective of materialist dialectics	1
The role of inferences in reading comprehension: A critical analysis	1
Psychological measurement is highly questionable but the details remain controversial: A response to Tafreshi, Michell, and Trendler	1
Husserlian empathy and embodied simulation	1
On the importance of theory and contagion	1
Theoretical proposal for the relationship between epistemology and ethics in psychology	1
Why force a square peg into a round hole? The ongoing (pseudo-)problem of psychological measurement	1
Filling in the vacuous flesh: Embodiment, constitution, and interoception	1
“There is nothing as practical as a good theory”: Theorising relationality in clinical practice	1
Leave inference alone: Direct inferential social cognition	1
The trees and the forest: Investigating variability surrounding an aggregate result	1
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	1
Theoretical dialogue and interdisciplinary relevance: Thirty years of Theory & Psychology	1
Against the reduction of teleology to sophisticated causal explanation	1
Objecting, subjecting, and epistemic diversity	1
How is distress understood in existential philosophies and can phenomenological therapeutic practices be “evidence-based”?	1
Decolonizing moral injury studies and treatment approaches: An Africentric perspective	1
The sociomaterial force theory of identity	1
On the nature of implicit motives	1
The unconscious in a new guise: Latent processes in two theories of the third wave of cognitive behavioral therapy	1
Gerd Jüttemann’s “historical psychology”: Why it should have succeeded, why it was ignored, and what that means for the future	1
Beyond the subject–object binary: Towards cosmopolitan knowledge	1
Embracing variability and complexity and the explanatory reductionism of scientific realism	1
The dangerous tendency to essentialize cultural categories in academic psychology	1
Folk psychology and network theory: Fact or gamble? A reply to Kalis and Borsboom	1
Meaningful measurement requires substantive formal theory	1
Reflections on an application of realism in psychology	1
Going round in squares: Theory-based measurement requires a theory of measurement	1
Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism	1
How lost and accomplished revolutions shaped psychology: Early Critical Theory (Frankfurt School), Wilhelm Reich, and Vygotsky	1