OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory & Psychology is 3. 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
“Are psychological attributes quantitative?” is not an empirical question: Conceptual confusions in the measurement debate	15
Theorizing in psychology: From the critique of a hyper-science to conceptualizing subjectivity	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
Disturbances in dialogue and metacognition: A renewed way to understand and respond to alterations in self-experience in psychosis	12
The subjectivity of self and its ontology: From the world–brain relation to the point of view in the world	12
Sociocultural affordances and enactment of agency: A transactional view	11
Translating science into practice in clinical psychology: A reformulation of the evidence-based practice inquiry model	10
The dialogical and political nature of emotions: A reading of Vygotsky’s The Psychology of Art	10
What and for whom is a decolonising African psychology?	9
The metaphysics of psychology and a dialectical perspective	9
Which considerations are lost when debating the prolonged grief disorder diagnosis?	7
Metaphors of development and the development of metaphors	7
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

What does Theory & Psychology have to offer community-orientated psychologists?	6
Thirty years of focus on individual variability and the dynamics of processes	6
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
The motivational role of affect in an ecological model	5
Psychologising meritocracy: A historical account of its many guises	5
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
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
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
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
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