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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Denying Descartes and wary of Wittgenstein: Response to Franz	61
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	34
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	30
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	19
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	17
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	15
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	12
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	12
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology	11
Imagination in perception and art	10
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	10
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	10
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	9
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice	8
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	8
Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism	7
Affective experience in neuroscience and phenomenology: An epistemological analysis of emotions and feelings	7
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	7
Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics	6
The role of education in neoliberal selfhood	6
Iconic models in science and psychology	6
Carl Rogers’ struggle to be “real” and its implications for understanding psychologists’ life–work connections and sociocultural impact	6
Neonihilism: Meaninglessness and irony in neoliberal capitalism	6
Autism in the interstices: Toward an ethical understanding of autistic cultural worlds	6
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick	6

Wundt’s logic: Old resource for new ideas	6
Facing up to the hardest problem: The human information field and the ontological primacy of subjective consciousness	6
Advancing a cultural–historical activity perspective in a psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy training programme	6
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	6
“Their voice becomes my voice”: Understanding the development of the dialogical self through the internalization of voices in group psychotherapy	5
Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations	5
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons	5
“Are psychological attributes quantitative?” is not an empirical question: Conceptual confusions in the measurement debate	5
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization	5
The autistic mirror in the real: Autism in Lacan’s mirror stage	4
The oughtness of existence: Living and suffering by what we ought	4
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	4
On the ontology of language: A critique of trait theory	4
Lacan after Heidegger	4
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	4
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	4
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	4
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum	3
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	3
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	3
Wise thoughts on phronesis	3
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	3
Social technologies in and out of psychology	3
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	3
The evil within: The AMORAL model of dark creativity	3
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents	3
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	3
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	3
Causal inference: Principles unifying experimental and observational accounts	3
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	3
The role of inferences in reading comprehension: A critical analysis	3
Individual and social growth: A commentary on “Carl Rogers’ Struggle to Be ‘Real’”	2
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy	2
A neurophenomenological theory of the three worlds	2
Making sense of signs: Readjusting William Stern’s personological value theory	2
In the aftermath of globalization: Antiglobalizing and deglobalizing forms of subjectivity	2
On making stones speak: Concerning empathy and historical knowledge	2
Examining the mechanism of disavowal and its two forms: Cynical disavowal and fetishistic disavowal	2
Contrasts and synergies: A comment on Jones (2022)	2
Psychology: Where history, culture, and biology meet	2
Pathologizing the pathological and the place for grief: Reply to Brinkmann	2
When foundations falter: The emergence of defensive narratives from insecure attachment dynamics	2
Authenticization: Consuming commodified authenticity to become “authentic” subjects	2
Critical realism, psychology, and the crisis of replication: A reply to Haig; Derksen & Morawski; and Trafimow	2
Metaphor and the scientific method: Why Lacan’s perspective isn’t helpful yet	2
The autistic pseudosignifier: Imaginary dialectization of signs in the clinic of autism	2
A cautionary note on aggregation in educational psychology and beyond	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
Extending sexual scripting theory through critical discursive psychology: An analytical approach to explore the performance of sexual identities	2

Phronesis, affordance, and executive function: Situating values within moral psychology	1
A confusion of tongues: Trauma, fantasy, and dissociation in Lacanian theory and the imperative for social change	1
Theory as behaviour: Why empathy research needs horizontal, mutualistic habits of seeing	1
A new phase for Theory & Psychology	1
Single cases and the laws of subjectivity	1
Can psychology learn from the natural sciences?	1
Towards solving psychology’s fundamental problem	1
Understanding, schizophrenia, and the limits of phenomenology	1
Why is one study technique superior to another?	1
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	1
Psychologising meritocracy: A historical account of its many guises	1
The multiple turns in the psychology of emotion	1
Translating science into practice in clinical psychology: A reformulation of the evidence-based practice inquiry model	1
Not self-aware? Psychological antecedents and consequences of alienating from one’s actual motives, emotions, and goals	1
Kurt Lewin’s ideas are alive! But why doesn’t anybody recognize them?	1
A social ontology of grief	1
Revisioning psychology and deglobalisation: The case of Brexit	1
Freudian naturalism and the assessment of psychoanalysis as a natural science: Psychic phenomenon as process	1
The psycholexical approach to individual differences	1
The significance of absence: A contextual-relational perspective	1
The Western psychologization of global development: A cultural and decolonial approach	1
Replications are informative, particularly when they fail	1
A case for using methods from natural science in advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience	1
Hontologie: A Lacanian theory of shame	1
Psychoanalysis, thermodynamics, and the matter of scarcity: A genealogy of Freud’s death drive hypothesis	1
Squaring the circle: From latent variables to theory-based measurement	1
Should psychology adopt Bhaskar’s critical realist philosophy of science?	1
Simondon, emotion, and individuation: The tensions of psychological life in digital worlds	1
A theoretical model of projects in motivated behavior	1
Mechanism and contextualism in psychology	1