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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	47
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	35
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	20
Considerations on Behavior Based on Merleau-Ponty’s Criticisms	18
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	17
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	16
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	15
Searching for rightness: Ecological perspectives on realizing values in acting and perceiving	13
Conceptualising the digital “subject”: A Deleuzoguattarian framing of social media, desire and becoming in psychotherapeutic assemblages	12
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology	11
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	11
Misogyny as Hierarchy Reinforcement: Towards an Integrated Framework of Gender Hierarchy Maintenance Mechanisms	10
Affective experience in neuroscience and phenomenology: An epistemological analysis of emotions and feelings	10
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	10
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	10
The importance of interdisciplinarity in research: A response to Stenner	10
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice	10
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	9
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	9
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	8
Imagination in perception and art	8
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick	8
Estranging intersectionality: A call for context-sensitive applications of intersectionality for non-capitalist and non-democratic regimes	7
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	7
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	7

Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics	7
Existential origins of endogenous and exogenous psychosis: A phenomenological inquiry into uncanny and twilight atmospheres	7
Carl Rogers’ struggle to be “real” and its implications for understanding psychologists’ life–work connections and sociocultural impact	7
Advancing a cultural–historical activity perspective in a psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy training programme	6
Neonihilism: Meaninglessness and irony in neoliberal capitalism	6
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons	6
“Their voice becomes my voice”: Understanding the development of the dialogical self through the internalization of voices in group psychotherapy	6
Facing up to the hardest problem: The human information field and the ontological primacy of subjective consciousness	6
Iconic models in science and psychology	6
Wundt’s logic: Old resource for new ideas	6
Trapped or Free? Fanon and Lacan on Psychosis and Alienation	5
Moral breakdowns and their (failed) repair: The role of socionormative concerns in ressentiment formation	5
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization	5
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	5
An ontology of difference: Speculations on psychotherapy, mental health work, difference, and ethical realism	5
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	5
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	5
Causal inference: Principles unifying experimental and observational accounts	5
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	5
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	4
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	4
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	4
Wise thoughts on phronesis	4
The Retreat to Positionality Statements: A Critique of the Assumptions (And How to Avoid Making Them)	4
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	4
Social technologies in and out of psychology	4
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents	4
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	4
From cinema to the lab: Psychological experiments as liminal affective technologies	4
Analysing films to rethink the psychology of time	4
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	4
Psychology: Where history, culture, and biology meet	3
Contrasts and synergies: A comment on Jones (2022)	3
Individual and social growth: A commentary on “Carl Rogers’ Struggle to Be ‘Real’”	3
Epistemic inequality in the digital era: Unpacking biases in digital mental health	3
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy	3
The triptych of the mirror, the portal, and the resurrection: Re-thinking the psychology of time through Stenner and Zittoun’s academic chronotopic artistry	3
Making sense of signs: Readjusting William Stern’s personological value theory	3
Beyond a set of procedures: Reclaiming the philosophical depth of Q methodology	3
Real Hate in Context (REHIC): A Theory of Hate	3
A cautionary note on aggregation in educational psychology and beyond	3
Book Review: Decolonial psychology: Toward anticolonial theories, research, training, and practice Comas-DíazL.AdamesH. Y.Chávez-DueñasN. Y. (Eds.), Decolonial psychology: Toward anticolonial theories	3
The autistic pseudosignifier: Imaginary dialectization of signs in the clinic of autism	3
Revisioning psychology and deglobalisation: The case of Brexit	2
Kurt Lewin’s ideas are alive! But why doesn’t anybody recognize them?	2
Beyond the Scare Quotes: Comment on “New Horizons for Piagetian Constructivism”	2
Culture as an ontological universe: Toward a broader model of culture in the globalizing era	2
In the aftermath of globalization: Antiglobalizing and deglobalizing forms of subjectivity	2
Critical realism, psychology, and the crisis of replication: A reply to Haig; Derksen & Morawski; and Trafimow	2
Examining the mechanism of disavowal and its two forms: Cynical disavowal and fetishistic disavowal	2

Can psychology learn from the natural sciences?	2
Why is one study technique superior to another?	2
Pathologizing the pathological and the place for grief: Reply to Brinkmann	2
The Pain of Replication: Emotional Concerns about Fidelity in a Replication Study	2
Worth-Conscious theory: Understanding the role of birthright self-worth and application to clinical practice	2
Squaring the circle: From latent variables to theory-based measurement	2
Extending sexual scripting theory through critical discursive psychology: An analytical approach to explore the performance of sexual identities	2
Δ Empathic Intelligence in Scope and Practice	2
A brief theoretical examination of late modern cultural reality	2
Freudian naturalism and the assessment of psychoanalysis as a natural science: Psychic phenomenon as process	2
Metaphor and the scientific method: Why Lacan’s perspective isn’t helpful yet	2
Between Dionysus and Apollo: The dialectic of spontaneity and reflection	2
When foundations falter: The emergence of defensive narratives from insecure attachment dynamics	2
Authenticization: Consuming commodified authenticity to become “authentic” subjects	2
A new phase for Theory & Psychology	2
Towards solving psychology’s fundamental problem	2
The Western psychologization of global development: A cultural and decolonial approach	1
The multiple turns in the psychology of emotion	1
Book Review: The multidisciplinary lens on subjective experience EagleMorris N., Subjective experience: Its fate in psychology, psychoanalysis and philosophy of mind. Routledge, 2024. 262 pp. ISBN 978	1
The looping effects of psychological theories: From anomaly to opportunity	1
Code Psychology: How Organic Codes Create Mind	1
Replications are informative, particularly when they fail	1
The significance of absence: A contextual-relational perspective	1
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	1
A theoretical model of projects in motivated behavior	1
A case for using methods from natural science in advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience	1
From the agora to the algorithm: Aristotle’s rhetoric as a theoretical framework for understanding social media persuasion	1
Social representations as objects of knowledge: New horizons for Piagetian constructivism	1
Understanding, schizophrenia, and the limits of phenomenology	1
Mechanism and contextualism in psychology	1
Beyond anti-psychiatry to mad pride: A review of the Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health LewisBradleyAliAlishaRussellJazmi	1
A confusion of tongues: Trauma, fantasy, and dissociation in Lacanian theory and the imperative for social change	1
Ecologies of Exposure and Resistance (EER): A Novel Framework for Understanding Health Inequalities in Marginalized Communities	1
Narrative subjectivity: Restorying hope	1
A social ontology of grief	1
Phronesis, affordance, and executive function: Situating values within moral psychology	1
Lived experience and the naturalization of bodily experience: An ecological proposal	1
On interpellation by the enigma: Revisiting the relation of nondirectiveness and psychoanalysis through Laplanche	1
Theory as behaviour: Why empathy research needs horizontal, mutualistic habits of seeing	1
Should psychology adopt Bhaskar’s critical realist philosophy of science?	1
The Experiential Field as a Morphogenetic Space: A Field‑Oriented Framework for Subjective Experience and Clinical Practice	1
Single cases and the laws of subjectivity	1
Hontologie : A Lacanian theory of shame	1
The psycholexical approach to individual differences	1