OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Culture & 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Attention operation and language in the learning process in a music lesson	18
Cultural psychological implications of Hermann Hesse’s Glasperlenspiel (glass bead game)	17
Maintaining the future through recurrent crises	16
Buffer zones in Wayanad: A social constructivist exploration into farmers’ mental health	15
“Chabin (Light-Skinned People) are Naturally Feminine”: Pigmentocracy and the Construction of Color-Coded Masculinities in St. Lucia	13
The journey from unrealistic to realistic optimism: Ancient Confucian wisdom in modern business practice	13
How cultural beliefs shape adaptive behavior and views of happiness: The good life in the community of Uzbekistan	13
Perceptions of teachers from Brazil and the United States regarding creativity of gifted students: Contributions from Vygotsky	13
The wind of thinking	12
Identity negotiation of Han women in Han-Hui-Muslim intermarriage in China: A dialogical-self theory approach	12
‘Face consciousness’ and ‘culture of embarrassment’ as stimulators to consumption: Exploring consumption decisions in the Jordanian context.	11
Identifying Hashtag Cultures to Study the Construction of Childhood Image and Parents’ Aspirations	11
Identity in university students: The semiotic work of making sense of yourself	11
Conceptual questions about meaning: Divergence or complementarity between cultural-Historical positions?	10
A systematic review of client’s perspectives on the cultural and racial awareness and responsiveness of mental health practitioners	10
Migrants’ deaths at Europe’s southern border: Cultural psychological dimensions of memory and mourning in Lampedusa	9
Book Review: Contemporary conspiracy culture: truth and knowledge in an era of epistemic instability HarambamJaron (2020). Contemporary conspiracy culture: truth and knowledge in an era of epistemic i	9
Silence as a magnifying glass for uncertainty and affect: The qualitative case studies of Karin and Dana’s journals	9
Sudhir Kakar on mysticism, psychoanalysis, and culture	8
The Dialogical Self in Participatory Action Research	8
The Javanese Rasa: Sense, psychology, and spirituality	8
From Function to Meaning: A Dialogue Between Geertz’s Hermeneutic Anthropology and Behavioral Science	7
Animals were harmed in the making of this research: the makings of human-animal relation in hunting	7
Accounts of Sexual Abuse Using a Cultural Semiotic Model	6
Trauma, bicultural immersion, and growing into self: The impacts of media narratives on former refugees	6

Questions about the will	6
Cultural understandings of fathering and fatherhood in India: An exploration of lived experiences	5
“Power to the people—all the people”: Sociocultural constructions of black queer identity	5
Beyond Redemption: Prevention, Protection, and Narrative Identity Construction among Bangladeshi Street-Based Female Sex Workers	5
Development and vulnerability across the lifecourse	5
Once Upon a Time, Materiality: A Possible Scenario for Psychology in the Nature/culture Divide	5
Country, identity and sharing: Australian indigenous Children’s perspectives on their own indigeneity – A further case for authentic empathy	5
To trust or not to trust? How Hong Kong protesters build and maintain trust in a leaderless movement	5
Cultural mediation of grief: the role of aesthetic experience	4
Reflection to freedom: Return of a fundamental discourse in Contemporary Psychology	4
“A man doesn’t drink from a straw. Never!” the experience of coming out as gay to oneself and to others	4
The experiences of non-indigenous ethnic minority psychotherapists residing and practicing in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Definitions and scope of ginhawa: Unpacking the experiences of Filipinos toward having a good life	4
Older black South African women’s perceptions and attitudes of long-term care: An Ubuntu-centric cultural perspective	4
Natural origins of social essentialism: Ethnic groups, identities, and cultural transmission	4
‘You Always Need at Least Two Tones to Produce a Harmonious Sound’: The Value of Arendt’s Ideas on Friendship for Thinking in Social Psychology	4
In memoriam Ivana Marková (1938–2024)	4
Understanding coping mechanisms in times of anxiety and uncertainty: A qualitative study of Kashmir women’s recourse to superstitions	4
The meanings of disability-related activities and disability identities: A qualitative analysis of narratives of people with physical disabilities in Japan	4
Thinking through cultures and psychologies: Robert Levine’s life and work, and a discipline’s ongoing project	4
The use of branded clothing in identity development and social relations between adolescents	4
Runaway rights: A closer look at different rights visions and entitlement perceptions	4
Conclusion: An invitation to dialogue with The Life of the Mind	4
Trajectory equifinality model and German research on women’s self-negotiation of perceived normativity in a Western society	3
Community versus society: The normative vision of sociality in joint self-education	3
Online compassion on the border: The case of Chinese undergraduates on social media in the first weave of COVID-19 pandemic	3
Objectivity and Subjectivity Revisited: Towards a Shared Human Ontology	3
Preserved Dissonance as an Extension of Cognitive Dissonance Theory	3
Phulkari Art, Folksong, and the Expression of Indignation: An Interdisciplinary Review With Indian Psychological Perspectives	3
Psychotherapy displayed as an ongoing meaning-making dialogue	3
Retelling the past: Narrative construction and reconstruction using personal photographs and the elicitation of nostalgia	3
School refusal as a representation of questioning normality: Understanding the richness of socio-cultural transitions	3
The Nectar of Conscious and Unconscious Interpersonal Complexity Cross-Pollinating in Western and Non-Western Counseling Contexts	3
Inter-group relationships of interdependence between the Adivasi people and the Jesuits in India: Emergence of a new identity	3
Tackling gendered aspects of acculturation through Turkish migrant Women’s experiences in Europe	3
Who to marry? Norwegian-Tamil young adults reflecting on their conditions for partner choice. A narrative approach to intergenerational change processes	3
Dialogue with The Life of the Mind	3
(Dis)location and identity: Understanding the construction of Tibetan refugee identity in youth living in India	3
The Role of Dehumanization in Legitimation and Delegitimation of State Violence in Colombia	3
Defining the Self in Terms of Power, Plurality and Social Embeddedness–The Model of the Agonistic Self	3
Willing and action	3
Where is the Ground? Cultural Transmission and Psychological Adaptation of Sri Lankan-Tamil Ethnic Repatriates	3
Trends and directions in acculturation research	3