OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of Religious Service Attendance and Religious Importance on Depression: Examining the Meta-analytic Evidence	15
Commentary on “Does Spirituality or Religion Positively Affect Mental Health?”	14
Do Daily Spiritual Experiences Moderate the Effect of Stressors on Psychological Well-being? A Smartphone-based Experience Sampling Study of Depressive Symptoms and Flourishing	13
Religiousness and Minority Stress in Conservatively Religious Sexual Minorities: Lessons from Latter-day Saints	10
Czech Out the Atheists: A Representative Study of Religiosity in the Czech Republic	8
The Existential Quest: Doubt, Openness, and the Exploration of Religious Uncertainty	8
Deconversion Processes and Quality of Life among Polish Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Social Support	8
Move with the Flow: Metaphorical Perspectives on Time in Chinese Taoists and Atheists	8
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religious Motivation: Retrospect and Prospect	7
Adolescent Religious Motivation: A Self-Determination Theory Approach	7
Nonreligious Identity in Three Western European Countries: A Closer Look at Nonbelievers’ Self-identifications and Attitudes Towards Religion	7
The Attitudes of Deconverted and Lifelong Atheists Towards Religious Groups: The Role of Religious and Spiritual Identity	7
Content Matters: Perceptions of the Science-Religion Relationship	6
Anxiety Enhances Recall of Supernatural Agents	6
Awe, Group Cohesion, and Religious Self-Sacrifice	6
Beliefs and Experiences Involving God, the Devil, Spirits, and Fate: Social, Motivational, and Cognitive Predictors	5
The Relationship between God’s Gender, Gender System Justification and Sexism	5
Intellectual Humility in the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality	5
Competing Forces Account for the Stability and Evolution of Religious Beliefs	5
A Lay Definition of Grace: A Quantitative and Qualitative Content Analysis	5
How Education and Metacognitive Training May Ameliorate Religious Prejudices: A Randomized Controlled Trial	4
The Link between Muslim Religiosity and Negative Attitudes toward the West: An Arab Study	4
The Role of Religious Orientation in Worldview Conflict	3
Spiritual Coping, Emotional Responses to Existential Challenges, and Character Strengths: Revision and Validation of the Using Private Prayer for Coping Scale (UPPC-R)	3
The Interplay of Religious and Nonreligious Meaning-Making on Psychological Well-Being in Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients	3

Mystical and Ego-Dissolution Experiences in Ayahuasca and Jurema Holistic Rituals: An Exploratory Study	3
No Longer Religious, but Still Spending Money Religiously: Religious Rituals and Community Influence Consumer Behavior among Religious Dones	3
The Memorability of Supernatural Concepts: Effects of Minimal Counterintuitiveness, Moral Valence, and Existential Anxiety on Recall	3
Writing About Gratitude Toward God Produces Differential Content and Outcomes Compared to Gratitude Toward Other Benefactors Among U.S. Adults	3
Assessing the Religion-Health Relationship: Introduction to the Meta-analysis by Garssen et al., and Two Commentaries	3
How Do Religiosity and National Identity Relate to Cosmopolitanism? An Empirical Study Using Representative Samples in Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist Societies	3
Deconversion and Identity Formation in Adolescents: The Role of Internal Dialogs and Religiousness of Parents	3
Attachment to God and Religious Coping as Mediators in the Relation between Immigration Distress and Life Satisfaction among Korean Americans	3
Studying Close Entity Encounters of the Psychedelic Kind: Insights from the Cognitive Evolutionary Science of Religion	2
Muslim Verbal and Active Prayer (MVAP): Measurement and Psychological Functioning of Supplications in Islam	2
An Analytic Cognitive Style Negatively Predicts a More Literal but Not a More Symbolic Religiosity Type	2
Psychedelic Science of Spirituality and Religion: An Attachment-Informed Agenda Proposal	2
Do Psychedelic Trips Open the Door to Messages from God, Spirits, Transcendent Realities, or the Devil? Links with Attitudes About Psychedelics, Opinions About Legalization, and Interest in Personal U	2
Spiritual Experiences in Soulmate Relationships: Qualitative and Network Analysis of the Mystical Bond	2
Do Empathetic People Have Strong Religious Beliefs? Survey Studies with Large Japanese Samples	2
Beyond the Socially Desirable: Longitudinal Evidence on Individual Prayer-Wellbeing Associations	2
Religiosity from Age 12 to 20: Stability, Change, and Bidirectional Effects of Attendance, Prayer, and Salience	2
Evidence for the Brief Mysticism Scale: Psychometric Properties, and Moderation and Mediation Effects in Predicting Spiritual Self-Identification	2
The Effect of Thinking about Being Excluded by God on Well-Being: A Replication and Extension	1
Religious Unbelief in Israel: A Replication Study Identifying and Characterizing Unbelievers Using Latent Class Analysis	1
Entheogenic Spirituality: Characteristics of Spiritually Motivated Psychedelics Use	1
The “Ghost” in the Lab: Believers’ and Non-Believers’ Implicit Responses to an Alleged Apparition	1
Aggression in Response to Threatening Individuals’ Religious versus National Identity in a Live Instant Messaging Paradigm	1
Psychology and Religion within an Ideological Surround	1
Positive Association Between Ritual Performance and Perceived Objectivity of Moral Norms	1
Temporal Associations between Religiosity and Subjective Well-Being in a Nationally Representative Australian Sample	1
The God of Big (And Good) Things: Religious Priming, Event Properties, and Supernatural Explanations	1
Let God Judge Between Me and Thee: Activating God-Related Concepts Increases Overconfidence in Chinese Han and Bai People	1
Is There a Dark Side to Humility? Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence for Existential Costs of Humility	1
Identity Centrality, Social Identity Threat, and Differences in Concealment between Religious Minorities and Nonreligious Individuals	1
If You Don’t Believe in God, Do You at Least Believe in Aristotle? Evaluations of Religious Outgroup Members Hinge upon Moral Perceptions	1
The Effect of Religiosity and Spirituality on Mental Health: Reply to Two Commentaries	1
Religious Identity Formation of Filipino Canadian Youth: Exploring Cluster Differences in Religiosity and Mental Health	1
The Associations between Religion, Impulsivity, and Externalizing Behaviors in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study	1