OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychological Inquiry 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Commentary on Gries, Muller and Jost’s “The Market for Belief Systems: A Formal Model of Ideological Choice”	23
On the Role of Metacognitive Beliefs and Experience With Internal and External Autobiographical Memory	21
Inductive Reasoning Model	18
The Inductive Reasoning Model: A Step Forward into the Future or a Step Back into the Past?	14
The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT): Highlighting Core Concepts and Potential Extensions	12
Strange Bedfellows and Their Irrational Pillow Talk	12
Reply to Dahl: Moral Content is Varied, and Premature Definitions Should Not Constrain It	9
Defining and Describing Morality: The View from Personality Psychology	8
People Who Need People	8
Constructs in Psychology: Lessons from the Philosophy of Science	7
Analogies Offer Value Through the Struggle to Make Them Work: Making Sense of the Psychological Immune System	7
What Are Constructs? Ontological Nature, Epistemological Challenges, Theoretical Foundations and Key Sources of Misunderstandings and Confusions	5
The Psychological Immune System: What Needs Defending?	4
Ideologies Are Like Possessions	3
Seven Grand Challenges for Evolutionary Political Psychology or: Political Ideologies as Ad-Hoc Alliances…So What?	3
A Call for Keeping Doors Open and for Parallel Efforts	3
Ideology as a Moral-Relational Language	3
Costs and Benefits of a Market-Based Model of Ideological Choice: Responding to Consumers and Critics	2
Toward a Parsimonious Framework for Understanding Emotional Reactions to Conspiracy Theories Across Cultures	2
Who Needs to Define Morality, and Other Conversations	2
Autobiographical Narratives Reflect, Repair, and Rewrite Self-Views	2
How Prevalent is Social Projection?	2
The Necessary Efforts to Reduce Social Inequality Must be Grounded in Political Reality	2
Three Pokes into the Comfort Zone of the Inductive Reasoning Model	2
Focusing Inward: A Timely Yet Daunting Challenge for Clinical Psychological Science	2

The Appraisal Model of Conspiracy Theories (AMCT): Applying Appraisal Theories to Understand Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Conspiracy Theories	2
Lost in the Supermarket? A Commentary on Gries, Müller, and Jost	2
A Homeostatic Perspective on Narcissistic Personality Dynamics	2
Agency and Assistance Are Compensatory When They Are Perceived as Substitutable Means: A Response to Commentaries	1
Self-Construction, Self-Protection, and Self-Enhancement: A Homeostatic Model of Identity Protection	1
Alphabetical Diaries and Autobiographical Memory in the Digital Age	1
The Emotive Effects of Conspiracy Beliefs: More About Emotion and Motivation	1
The “Implicit Bias” Wording Is a Relic. Let’s Move On and Study Unconscious Social Categorization Effects	1
The Case for Social Support as Social Assistance: When Social Means to Personal Goal Pursuit Enhance Agency	1
Shoring Up the Shaky Psychological Foundations of a Micro-Economic Model of Ideology: Adversarial Collaboration Solutions	1
The Future of Social Perception Models: Further Directions for Theoretical Development of the Inductive Reasoning Model	1
A Functional Approach to Memory “Errors” (and Why Technology Need Not Doom Us All)	1
Experts Are People, Too: Attitudes and Cognition Impact Experts’ Progress Toward Racial Equality	1
Reflecting on Past Theoretical Contributions in Psychological Science: A New Initiative	1
The Strange Epicycles of Political Psychology: A Response to Commentaries	1
It’s More Complicated Than That—Alliances Are One of Many Factors Shaping Political Belief Systems	1
Resources and Partisanship: Response to Commentaries	1
The Homeostatic Model of Identity Protection: Lingering Issues	1
How Appraisal Model Allows to Distinguish Intergroup Conspiracy Theories from Other Forms of Hate Speech	1
The AMCT and Conceptual Clarity	1
Mind the (Construct-Measurement) Gap	1
The Dangers of Alliances Caused the Evolution of Moral Principles	1
Dahl’s Definition of Morality	1
The Relevance of Cognitive Processes to the Formation and Consequences of Conspiracy Theory Appraisals	1
Psychological Homeostasis and Environmental Control via Preemptive and Reparative Narrative-Specificity	1
The Alliance Theory: A Strategic Model of Moral Judgments?	1
Transparency and Inclusion in Psychological Inquiry: Reflecting on the Past, Embracing the Present, and Building an Inclusive Future	1
It’s All About Significance: A Reframing in Response to Commentaries	1
The Difficult But Important Journey From Here to Equality	1
Working toward a Psychological Definition of Morality	1
Political Ideology is Not Meaningfully Explained by Alliances and is Not Inconsistent with Attitudinal Inconsistencies	1
Reflections on the Difference Between Implicit Bias and Bias on Implicit Measures	1
Culture, Partisanship, and Signaling: The Social Nature of Political Belief Systems	1
The Market for Belief Systems: A Formal Model of Ideological Choice	1
People Who Need People (and Some Who Think They Don't): On Compensatory Personal and Social Means of Goal Pursuit	1
What is Morality? Narrow and Broad Definition	1