OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Culture & Psychology is 2. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Attention operation and language in the learning process in a music lesson	15
Buffer zones in Wayanad: A social constructivist exploration into farmers’ mental health	13
Cultural psychological implications of Hermann Hesse’s Glasperlenspiel (glass bead game)	12
Maintaining the future through recurrent crises	11
Identifying Hashtag Cultures to Study the Construction of Childhood Image and Parents’ Aspirations	11
Thinking and the Moral Landscape	11
The wind of thinking	10
Perceptions of teachers from Brazil and the United States regarding creativity of gifted students: Contributions from Vygotsky	9
How cultural beliefs shape adaptive behavior and views of happiness: The good life in the community of Uzbekistan	8
Identity negotiation of Han women in Han-Hui-Muslim intermarriage in China: A dialogical-self theory approach	8
The journey from unrealistic to realistic optimism: Ancient Confucian wisdom in modern business practice	8
The Javanese Rasa: Sense, psychology, and spirituality	7
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	7
The religious component of uncertainty avoidance in the child-rearing practices in Kerala, India	7
A systematic review of client’s perspectives on the cultural and racial awareness and responsiveness of mental health practitioners	7
Identity in university students: The semiotic work of making sense of yourself	7
Silence as a magnifying glass for uncertainty and affect: The qualitative case studies of Karin and Dana’s journals	7
‘Face consciousness’ and ‘culture of embarrassment’ as stimulators to consumption: Exploring consumption decisions in the Jordanian context.	7
Conceptual questions about meaning: Divergence or complementarity between cultural-Historical positions?	7
Migrants’ deaths at Europe’s southern border: Cultural psychological dimensions of memory and mourning in Lampedusa	6
Trauma, bicultural immersion, and growing into self: The impacts of media narratives on former refugees	6
Sudhir Kakar on mysticism, psychoanalysis, and culture	6
Animals were harmed in the making of this research: the makings of human-animal relation in hunting	6
Questions about the will	6
Development and vulnerability across the lifecourse	6

Accounts of Sexual Abuse Using a Cultural Semiotic Model	5
Once Upon a Time, Materiality: A Possible Scenario for Psychology in the Nature/culture Divide	5
Cultural understandings of fathering and fatherhood in India: An exploration of lived experiences	5
Country, identity and sharing: Australian indigenous Children’s perspectives on their own indigeneity – A further case for authentic empathy	5
“Power to the people—all the people”: Sociocultural constructions of black queer identity	4
Runaway rights: A closer look at different rights visions and entitlement perceptions	4
In memoriam Ivana Marková (1938–2024)	4
To trust or not to trust? How Hong Kong protesters build and maintain trust in a leaderless movement	4
The use of branded clothing in identity development and social relations between adolescents	4
The experiences of non-indigenous ethnic minority psychotherapists residing and practicing in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Conclusion: An invitation to dialogue with The Life of the Mind	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
“A man doesn’t drink from a straw. Never!” the experience of coming out as gay to oneself and to others	3
Reflection to freedom: Return of a fundamental discourse in Contemporary Psychology	3
Understanding coping mechanisms in times of anxiety and uncertainty: A qualitative study of Kashmir women’s recourse to superstitions	3
The Role of Dehumanization in Legitimation and Delegitimation of State Violence in Colombia	3
(Dis)location and identity: Understanding the construction of Tibetan refugee identity in youth living in India	3
Thinking through cultures and psychologies: Robert Levine’s life and work, and a discipline’s ongoing project	3
Older black South African women’s perceptions and attitudes of long-term care: An Ubuntu-centric cultural perspective	3
School refusal as a representation of questioning normality: Understanding the richness of socio-cultural transitions	3
Metamorphosis from exalted person to cultural symbol: A case study of the GOAT in tennis	3
Cultural mediation of grief: the role of aesthetic experience	3
Natural origins of social essentialism: Ethnic groups, identities, and cultural transmission	3
Definitions and scope of ginhawa: Unpacking the experiences of Filipinos toward having a good life	3
The meanings of disability-related activities and disability identities: A qualitative analysis of narratives of people with physical disabilities in Japan	3
Defining the Self in Terms of Power, Plurality and Social Embeddedness–The Model of the Agonistic Self	3
Online compassion on the border: The case of Chinese undergraduates on social media in the first weave of COVID-19 pandemic	3
Indigenous people in urban context and historical memory: Paths for psychology indigenous people in urban context and psychology	2
Where is the Ground? Cultural Transmission and Psychological Adaptation of Sri Lankan-Tamil Ethnic Repatriates	2
Trends and directions in acculturation research	2
Tackling gendered aspects of acculturation through Turkish migrant Women’s experiences in Europe	2
Dialogue with The Life of the Mind	2
Examining the impact of hagwons and the South Korean Education System on the entity mindset development of young South Korean adults	2
“Flying over the crisis”: A study on interdisciplinary metaphors of resilience	2
Towards a Reflexive Psychology: Embracing Interdisciplinarity, Intersectionality, and Decolonial Perspectives	2
“To become a gentleman” and other metaphors in the transition to university	2
The dialogical self and the multiplicity of I-positions: Experiences of becoming a teacher in the international practicum	2
Chilean experiences of exile in the “socialist brotherhood” negotiating solidarity, belonging and change in the German Democratic Republic	2
Trajectory equifinality model and German research on women’s self-negotiation of perceived normativity in a Western society	2
A semiotic cultural psychology theory analysis of the signs ‘We’, ‘Us’, ‘I’ and ‘Me’	2
Willing and action	2
Inter-group relationships of interdependence between the Adivasi people and the Jesuits in India: Emergence of a new identity	2
Psychotherapy displayed as an ongoing meaning-making dialogue	2
Muslim minorities’ experiences of Islamophobia in the West: A systematic review	2
A social psychological investigation of “Anti-nationalism” in contemporary India – A media analysis	2
Systematic literature review: The use of the concept of perezhivanie in research on teacher training	2
Who to marry? Norwegian-Tamil young adults reflecting on their conditions for partner choice. A narrative approach to intergenerational change processes	2
Retelling the past: Narrative construction and reconstruction using personal photographs and the elicitation of nostalgia	2
The Nectar of Conscious and Unconscious Interpersonal Complexity Cross-Pollinating in Western and Non-Western Counseling Contexts	2
Community versus society: The normative vision of sociality in joint self-education	2

Gender identity from a dialogical and semiotic cultural perspective	2
Introducing Syntheses	2
Negotiating autonomy, community, and divinity in urban Filipino young adults’ moral reasoning	2