OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Border identities: Theoretical approach to the study of self from bordering processes	52
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	22
Phenomenology and natural science: What kind of a discipline is psychology?	21
Retiring Popper: Critical realism, falsificationism, and the crisis of replication	21
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	15
Moral affordance, moral expertise, and virtue	13
Subjectivity and method: Why psychology needs more armchair scholarship	12
Sense and nonsense in psychological measurement: A case of problem and method passing one another by	11
Why does the pathologization of grief cause such a stir? A comment on Bergsmark and Ramsing	10
Lacan after Heidegger	9
Indigenous psychology: Difficult engagements with culture and power	9
Theoretical proposal for the relationship between epistemology and ethics in psychology	9
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	8
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum	8
Embracing variability and complexity and the explanatory reductionism of scientific realism	8
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	8
Narrating the zone of proximal goodness	7
The oughtness of existence: Living and suffering by what we ought	7
Theory as behaviour: Why empathy research needs horizontal, mutualistic habits of seeing	7
Varieties of realism and their bearing on psychology	7
Replicating is difficult but necessary, and methodology can help	6
Eco-martyrdom: Positive elements of self-sacrifice	6
In the aftermath of globalization: Antiglobalizing and deglobalizing forms of subjectivity	6
The autistic mirror in the real: Autism in Lacan’s mirror stage	6
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	5

Why isn’t flow flowing? Metatheoretical issues in explanations of flow	5
Psychology and the question of radical democracy	5
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	5
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	5
Aesthetic motifs and the materiality of motives	5
Maintaining subjectivity under coercion: Former patients’ experiences of being transformed into an object in psychiatric care	5
Theorising embodied interaction in coaching: A Merleau-Pontian perspective on embodied practice	5
When foundations falter: The emergence of defensive narratives from insecure attachment dynamics	5
Depression and melancholia revisited via Lacan	4
Problematic research practices in psychology: Misconceptions about data collection entail serious fallacies in data analysis	4
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	4
Whose metaphor? Rethinking conceptual metaphor in Lacanian terms	4
On the ontology of language: A critique of trait theory	4
Qualitative psychology of the Brentano school and its inspirations (another look at empirical qualitative research)	4
On knowledge in action	4
“There is nothing as practical as a good theory”: Theorising relationality in clinical practice	4
Cross purposes and crossed wires: A reply to	4
“Professor Spearman has drawn over-hasty conclusions”: Unravelling psychometrics’ “Copernican Revolution”	4
Evaluating the complex systems approach to persisting post-concussion symptoms	3
The multiple turns in the psychology of emotion	3
The methods and principles of the natural sciences are not a diet we need to follow: A close look at the terms of the question	3
Looking for places to be alone: Lived space in social anxiety disorder	3
Denying Descartes and wary of Wittgenstein: Response to Franz	3
Why force a square peg into a round hole? The ongoing (pseudo-)problem of psychological measurement	3
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	3
Book Review: Psychology and contextualizing personhood	3
Worth-Conscious theory: Understanding the role of birthright self-worth and application to clinical practice	3
The rhetorical use of B. F. Skinner in evolutionary psychology	3
On the conceptual grounds of subjective rectification: Responsibility, choice, and freedom in Lacanian psychoanalysis	3
Dehumanization and a psychology of deglobalization: Double binds and movements beyond radicalization and racialized mis-interpellation	3
Critical realism, psychology, and the crisis of replication: A reply to Haig; Derksen & Morawski; and Trafimow	2
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	2
Resilience revisited: AIDS and resilience among a Yi ethnic minority in Southwest China	2
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	2
Tensions, articulations, and novelty in the ontogenetic development of historical thinking: Contributions of cultural–historical psychology	2
The joint construction of goals and means as a solution for the problem of variability in behavior	2
Authenticization: Consuming commodified authenticity to become “authentic” subjects	2
Emergence, convergence, and theory of mind	2
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	2
Psychologising meritocracy: A historical account of its many guises	2
Realism and symbolic systems in the practice of scientific psychology	2
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	2
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	2
A case for using methods from natural science in advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience	2
On making stones speak: Concerning empathy and historical knowledge	2
Freudian naturalism and the assessment of psychoanalysis as a natural science: Psychic phenomenon as process	2
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	2
Psychological resilience: Connecting contemporary psychology to ancient practical philosophy	2
Thirty years of focus on individual variability and the dynamics of processes	2
Sexuality in the digital world: Treatment of a case of dating app addiction	2

Sociocultural affordances and enactment of agency: A transactional view	1
Should psychology follow the methods and principles of the natural sciences? Introduction to the debate	1
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	1
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	1
Examining the mechanism of disavowal and its two forms: Cynical disavowal and fetishistic disavowal	1
The sociomaterial force theory of identity	1
Squaring the circle: From latent variables to theory-based measurement	1
The importance of cultural psychological perspectives in pain research: Towards the palliation of Cartesian anxiety	1
Equivocating on unconsciousness	1
Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism	1
Construction of borders: Intra-psychological dynamics of emerging national identity	1
Self-Transformations in Indian and Western psychology	1
Against the reduction of teleology to sophisticated causal explanation	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
Fiction and psychiatry	1
The role of inferences in reading comprehension: A critical analysis	1
The evil within: The AMORAL model of dark creativity	1
Is measurement in psychology an empirical or a conceptual issue? A comment on David Franz	1
Simondon, emotion, and individuation: The tensions of psychological life in digital worlds	1
Kurt Lewin’s ideas are alive! But why doesn’t anybody recognize them?	1
Indigenous psychology in Africa: Centrality of culture, misunderstandings, and global positioning	1
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	1
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	1
The Western psychologization of global development: A cultural and decolonial approach	1
Why is one study technique superior to another?	1
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	1
Was Wegner rejecting mental causality?	1
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	1
Extending sexual scripting theory through critical discursive psychology: An analytical approach to explore the performance of sexual identities	1
Imagination in perception and art	1
Not self-aware? Psychological antecedents and consequences of alienating from one’s actual motives, emotions, and goals	1
Revisioning psychology and deglobalisation: The case of Brexit	1
Can psychology learn from the natural sciences?	1
The epistemic and pragmatic function of dichotomous claims based on statistical hypothesis tests	1
Towards solving psychology’s fundamental problem	1
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	1
Social technologies in and out of psychology	1
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	1
A mother’s captivating face	1