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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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The evil within: The AMORAL model of dark creativity	45
Ecological psychology as social psychology?	22
Squaring the circle: From latent variables to theory-based measurement	22
Signs as borders and borders as signs	20
Philosophy of science and the formalization of psychological theory	19
Theorizing in psychology: From the critique of a hyper-science to conceptualizing subjectivity	15
“Are psychological attributes quantitative?” is not an empirical question: Conceptual confusions in the measurement debate	15
Disquieting experiences and conversation	14
Relational ethics and epistemology: The case for complementary first principles in psychology	13
Psychology of borders: An integral proposal to understand border phenomena in human life	13
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	13
The subjectivity of self and its ontology: From the world–brain relation to the point of view in the world	12
Disturbances in dialogue and metacognition: A renewed way to understand and respond to alterations in self-experience in psychosis	12
Sociocultural affordances and enactment of agency: A transactional view	11
The dialogical and political nature of emotions: A reading of Vygotsky’s The Psychology of Art	10
Translating science into practice in clinical psychology: A reformulation of the evidence-based practice inquiry model	10
The metaphysics of psychology and a dialectical perspective	9
What and for whom is a decolonising African psychology?	9
The national nature of globalization and the global nature of nationalism: Historically and methodologically entangled	7
Border identities: Theoretical approach to the study of self from bordering processes	7
Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations	7
“The art of imposing measurement upon the mind”: Sir Francis Galton and the genesis of the psychometric paradigm	7
Problematic research practices in psychology: Misconceptions about data collection entail serious fallacies in data analysis	7
Which considerations are lost when debating the prolonged grief disorder diagnosis?	7
Metaphors of development and the development of metaphors	7

Simondon, emotion, and individuation: The tensions of psychological life in digital worlds	6
Sense and nonsense in psychological measurement: A case of problem and method passing one another by	6
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	6
What does Theory & Psychology have to offer community-orientated psychologists?	6
Thirty years of focus on individual variability and the dynamics of processes	6
A theoretical model of projects in motivated behavior	5
Construction of borders: Intra-psychological dynamics of emerging national identity	5
Ethical realism before social constructionism	5
Epistemic pluralism and the justification of conceptual strategies in science	5
Moral affordance, moral expertise, and virtue	5
The motivational role of affect in an ecological model	5
Psychologising meritocracy: A historical account of its many guises	5
In the aftermath of globalization: Antiglobalizing and deglobalizing forms of subjectivity	4
Denying Descartes and wary of Wittgenstein: Response to Franz	4
From competition to co-operation: Shifting the “one best model” perspective	4
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	4
Dehumanization and a psychology of deglobalization: Double binds and movements beyond radicalization and racialized mis-interpellation	4
Aesthetic motifs and the materiality of motives	4
The unappreciated relevance of auxiliary assumptions for evaluating theory-based interventions in health psychology	4
Where psychological science meets moral theory: Linking up motivational primitives with normative ethics	4
Indigenous psychology in Africa: Centrality of culture, misunderstandings, and global positioning	4
Husserlian empathy and embodied simulation	4
Retiring Popper: Critical realism, falsificationism, and the crisis of replication	4
Dispensing with the theory (and philosophy) of affordances	4
Tribalism: Where George Orwell leads us and where an understanding of existential–relational positions extends us	4
The epistemic and pragmatic function of dichotomous claims based on statistical hypothesis tests	4
The making of financial subjects: A phenomenological study of student debt	3
Towards rethinking the primacy of epistemology in psychology: Introduction to the special section	3
Kurt Lewin’s ideas are alive! But why doesn’t anybody recognize them?	3
Not self-aware? Psychological antecedents and consequences of alienating from one’s actual motives, emotions, and goals	3
Gerd Jüttemann’s “historical psychology”: Why it should have succeeded, why it was ignored, and what that means for the future	3
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy	3
Resilience revisited: AIDS and resilience among a Yi ethnic minority in Southwest China	3
The politics of Chinese immigrants’ double unbelonging and deglobalization	3
The role of inferences in reading comprehension: A critical analysis	3
Is measurement in psychology an empirical or a conceptual issue? A comment on David Franz	3
Why the professional practice of psychology requires a personalistic account of psychological phenomena	2
“Professor Spearman has drawn over-hasty conclusions”: Unravelling psychometrics’ “Copernican Revolution”	2
Why does the pathologization of grief cause such a stir? A comment on Bergsmark and Ramsing	2
The rhetorical use of B. F. Skinner in evolutionary psychology	2
Learning, digital technologies, and sociomaterial approaches: A critical reflection from the perspective of materialist dialectics	2
A neurophenomenological theory of the three worlds	2
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	2
Research based on scientific realism should not make preliminary assumptions about mathematical structure representing human behavior: Cronbach and Gleser’s measure as an example	2
Whose metaphor? Rethinking conceptual metaphor in Lacanian terms	2
Qualitative psychology of the Brentano school and its inspirations (another look at empirical qualitative research)	2
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum	2
Describing disorder: The importance and advancement of compositional explanations in psychopathology	2
On the importance of theory and contagion	2
Thinking in opposites: The psychologies of Carl Gustav Jung and George Kelly	2

Beyond the oversocialized conception of the subject in psychology: Desire, conflict, and the problem of social order	2
Revisioning psychology and deglobalisation: The case of Brexit	2
The oughtness of existence: Living and suffering by what we ought	2
Why force a square peg into a round hole? The ongoing (pseudo-)problem of psychological measurement	2
Theoretical proposal for the relationship between epistemology and ethics in psychology	2
Psychological measurement is highly questionable but the details remain controversial: A response to Tafreshi, Michell, and Trendler	2
Filling in the vacuous flesh: Embodiment, constitution, and interoception	2
Embodying cognitive ethology	2
Going round in squares: Theory-based measurement requires a theory of measurement	1
Beyond the specific factors versus common factors debate: Lacan’s four discourses informing Wampold and Imel’s contextual model of psychotherapy efficacy	1
The sociomaterial force theory of identity	1
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	1
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	1
Contradictory regimes of practice: Constructs and discourses in an open prison	1
The unconscious in a new guise: Latent processes in two theories of the third wave of cognitive behavioral therapy	1
Overcoming theoretical stagnation through cultural–historical neuropsychology: The case of dyslexia	1
Eco-martyrdom: Positive elements of self-sacrifice	1
“There is nothing as practical as a good theory”: Theorising relationality in clinical practice	1
“Their voice becomes my voice”: Understanding the development of the dialogical self through the internalization of voices in group psychotherapy	1
Recent movements in theoretical psychology in Japan	1
Hearing voices, but whose? Constructions of schizophrenia in introductory psychology textbooks	1
The trees and the forest: Investigating variability surrounding an aggregate result	1
Meaningful measurement requires substantive formal theory	1
Integrating affection, emotion, and aesthetics into a General Theory of Learning	1
Theoretical dialogue and interdisciplinary relevance: Thirty years of Theory & Psychology	1
Equivocating on unconsciousness	1
Against the reduction of teleology to sophisticated causal explanation	1
Should psychology follow the methods and principles of the natural sciences? Introduction to the debate	1
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	1
Decolonizing moral injury studies and treatment approaches: An Africentric perspective	1
Varieties of realism and their bearing on psychology	1
The picture theory of symbolic development in early childhood	1
Embracing variability and complexity and the explanatory reductionism of scientific realism	1
On the nature of implicit motives	1
Contrasts and synergies: A comment on Jones (2022)	1
Realising the potential of general population research to reconceptualise the study of “delusions”: From normalising “psychosis” to defamiliarising “normality”	1
A cautionary note on aggregation in educational psychology and beyond	1
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents	1
Reflections on an application of realism in psychology	1
Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism	1
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	1
Towards solving psychology’s fundamental problem	1
Tensions, articulations, and novelty in the ontogenetic development of historical thinking: Contributions of cultural–historical psychology	1
Conceptual misunderstandings in mainstream scale construction: Suggestions for a better approach to concepts	1
On the ontology of language: A critique of trait theory	1
The autistic mirror in the real: Autism in Lacan’s mirror stage	1
Joseph Delboeuf on time as the mechanism of free will	1
Knowing as being: Psychology, limits to knowledge, and an ethics of solidarity	1
Metaphor and the scientific method: Why Lacan’s perspective isn’t helpful yet	1
Psychology: Where history, culture, and biology meet	1
Towards rethinking the primacy of foundationalism: Epistemology, dialogue, and ethics in psychopathology	1
A confusion of tongues: Trauma, fantasy, and dissociation in Lacanian theory and the imperative for social change	1