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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Denying Descartes and wary of Wittgenstein: Response to Franz	63
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	35
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	31
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	21
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	18
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	15
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	13
Searching for rightness: Ecological perspectives on realizing values in acting and perceiving	12
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	11
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology	11
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	10
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	10
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	9
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice	9
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	9
Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism	8
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick	7
Imagination in perception and art	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
Wundt’s logic: Old resource for new ideas	6
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons	6
Facing up to the hardest problem: The human information field and the ontological primacy of subjective consciousness	6
Carl Rogers’ struggle to be “real” and its implications for understanding psychologists’ life–work connections and sociocultural impact	6
Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics	6

The role of education in neoliberal selfhood	6
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	6
Neonihilism: Meaninglessness and irony in neoliberal capitalism	6
Advancing a cultural–historical activity perspective in a psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy training programme	6
On the ontology of language: A critique of trait theory	5
Iconic models in science and psychology	5
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization	5
Lacan after Heidegger	5
“Their voice becomes my voice”: Understanding the development of the dialogical self through the internalization of voices in group psychotherapy	5
“Are psychological attributes quantitative?” is not an empirical question: Conceptual confusions in the measurement debate	5
Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations	5
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	4
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	4
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	4
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	4
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	4
Social technologies in and out of psychology	4
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum	4
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	4
Causal inference: Principles unifying experimental and observational accounts	4
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	3
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	3
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy	3
A neurophenomenological theory of the three worlds	3
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	3
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	3
The evil within: The AMORAL model of dark creativity	3
Contrasts and synergies: A comment on Jones (2022)	3
Wise thoughts on phronesis	3
The role of inferences in reading comprehension: A critical analysis	3
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	3
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents	3
The autistic pseudosignifier: Imaginary dialectization of signs in the clinic of autism	3