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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	50
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	37
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	25
Considerations on Behavior Based on Merleau-Ponty’s Criticisms	18
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	18
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	16
Searching for rightness: Ecological perspectives on realizing values in acting and perceiving	13
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	11
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	11
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	11
Conceptualising the digital “subject”: A Deleuzoguattarian framing of social media, desire and becoming in psychotherapeutic assemblages	11
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology	11
Misogyny as Hierarchy Reinforcement: Towards an Integrated Framework of Gender Hierarchy Maintenance Mechanisms	10
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	10
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice	10
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	10
Affective experience in neuroscience and phenomenology: An epistemological analysis of emotions and feelings	10
Imagination in perception and art	9
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	9
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick	8
The importance of interdisciplinarity in research: A response to Stenner	8
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	8
Existential origins of endogenous and exogenous psychosis: A phenomenological inquiry into uncanny and twilight atmospheres	8
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	8
Estranging intersectionality: A call for context-sensitive applications of intersectionality for non-capitalist and non-democratic regimes	7

Carl Rogers’ struggle to be “real” and its implications for understanding psychologists’ life–work connections and sociocultural impact	7
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	7
Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics	7
“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
Neonihilism: Meaninglessness and irony in neoliberal capitalism	6
Advancing a cultural–historical activity perspective in a psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy training programme	6
Wundt’s logic: Old resource for new ideas	6
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization	5
Moral breakdowns and their (failed) repair: The role of socionormative concerns in ressentiment formation	5
Challenging (the History of) Psychology: Rewriting Psychology as a Feminist Practice	5
Trapped or Free? Fanon and Lacan on Psychosis and Alienation	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
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	5
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons	5
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	5
Habitus, Field, and the Broader Autism Phenotype: Toward a Structural Account of Neurodivergence Beyond Diagnosis	5
The Retreat to Positionality Statements: A Critique of the Assumptions (And How to Avoid Making Them)	5
Wise thoughts on phronesis	4
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	4
Causal inference: Principles unifying experimental and observational accounts	4
From cinema to the lab: Psychological experiments as liminal affective technologies	4
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	4
An ontology of difference: Speculations on psychotherapy, mental health work, difference, and ethical realism	4
Social technologies in and out of psychology	4
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	4
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	4
Analysing films to rethink the psychology of time	4
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy	3
Psychology: Where history, culture, and biology meet	3
Pathologizing the pathological and the place for grief: Reply to Brinkmann	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
Individual and social growth: A commentary on “Carl Rogers’ Struggle to Be ‘Real’”	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
Metaphor and the scientific method: Why Lacan’s perspective isn’t helpful yet	3
Real Hate in Context (REHIC): A Theory of Hate	3
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents	3
A cautionary note on aggregation in educational psychology and beyond	3
Beyond a set of procedures: Reclaiming the philosophical depth of Q methodology	3
The autistic pseudosignifier: Imaginary dialectization of signs in the clinic of autism	3
Authenticization: Consuming commodified authenticity to become “authentic” subjects	2
Squaring the circle: From latent variables to theory-based measurement	2
A brief theoretical examination of late modern cultural reality	2
Δ Empathic Intelligence in Scope and Practice	2
Ecologies of Exposure and Resistance (EER): A Novel Framework for Understanding Health Inequalities in Marginalized Communities	2
The Pain of Replication: Emotional Concerns about Fidelity in a Replication Study	2
Beyond the Scare Quotes: Comment on “New Horizons for Piagetian Constructivism”	2

Extending sexual scripting theory through critical discursive psychology: An analytical approach to explore the performance of sexual identities	2
When foundations falter: The emergence of defensive narratives from insecure attachment dynamics	2
Why is one study technique superior to another?	2
Freudian naturalism and the assessment of psychoanalysis as a natural science: Psychic phenomenon as process	2
Can psychology learn from the natural sciences?	2
Critical realism, psychology, and the crisis of replication: A reply to Haig; Derksen & Morawski; and Trafimow	2
Culture as an ontological universe: Toward a broader model of culture in the globalizing era	2
Kurt Lewin’s ideas are alive! But why doesn’t anybody recognize them?	2
Can Psychology Be An Art ? A Journey from the Human Sciences to the Psychological Humanities	2
Examining the mechanism of disavowal and its two forms: Cynical disavowal and fetishistic disavowal	2
In the aftermath of globalization: Antiglobalizing and deglobalizing forms of subjectivity	2
Revisioning psychology and deglobalisation: The case of Brexit	2
Towards solving psychology’s fundamental problem	2
Drive Exerts a Constant Trajectory: Revisiting the “Constant Pressure” Through Neuropsychoanalysis and the Free Energy Principle	2
Between Dionysus and Apollo: The dialectic of spontaneity and reflection	2
Epistemic inequality in the digital era: Unpacking biases in digital mental health	2
Worth-Conscious theory: Understanding the role of birthright self-worth and application to clinical practice	2
Mechanism and contextualism in psychology	1
A theoretical model of projects in motivated behavior	1
The Experiential Field as a Morphogenetic Space: A Field‑Oriented Framework for Subjective Experience and Clinical Practice	1
A new phase for Theory & Psychology	1
Understanding, schizophrenia, and the limits of phenomenology	1
Filling in the vacuous flesh: Embodiment, constitution, and interoception	1
A case for using methods from natural science in advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience	1
Stop chasing unicorns of climate inaction: Annulling the value–action gap, introducing persons	1
Lived experience and the naturalization of bodily experience: An ecological proposal	1
The multiple turns in the psychology of emotion	1
On interpellation by the enigma: Revisiting the relation of nondirectiveness and psychoanalysis through Laplanche	1
Should psychology adopt Bhaskar’s critical realist philosophy of science?	1
Beyond anti-psychiatry to mad pride: A review of the Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health LewisBradleyAliAlishaRussellJazmi	1
Replications are informative, particularly when they fail	1
A social ontology of grief	1
Code Psychology: How Organic Codes Create Mind	1
Psychoanalytic work with autistic objects and affinities: A Lacanian approach	1
Phronesis, affordance, and executive function: Situating values within moral psychology	1
The psycholexical approach to individual differences	1
The looping effects of psychological theories: From anomaly to opportunity	1
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	1
Narrative subjectivity: Restorying hope	1
The significance of absence: A contextual-relational perspective	1
Hontologie : A Lacanian theory of shame	1
Single cases and the laws of subjectivity	1
Theory as behaviour: Why empathy research needs horizontal, mutualistic habits of seeing	1
The Western psychologization of global development: A cultural and decolonial approach	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
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