OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 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
Bridging the gap between consciousness and matter: recurrent out-of-body projection of visual awareness revealed by the law of non-identity	61
Is Culture Learned? The Neglected Role of Evoking Events	45
Use of Assistive Technologies and Alternative Means by Older People: The “Actional Model of Older People´s Coping with Health-Related Declines”	35
Evolutionary Psychology and Normal Science: in Search of a Unifying Research Program	24
The Evolution and Integration of Life and Theory in Foucault’s Work on Power	21
Psychology, Psychiatry, and Mental Health in Brazil – Convergences and Disputes	17
Receive, Retain and Retrieve: Psychological and Neurobiological Perspectives on Memory Retrieval	16
Temporality, Language and Body in Collaborative Remembering: a Videographic Study	15
Art Value Creation and Destruction	14
The Crisis of Everyday Self-other Misalignments between Unaccompanied Minors and Adult Professionals: A Dialogical Self Study	13
Navigating Complexity in Reflexive Cybernetics: Forces, feedback, and felt valences	12
Attention and Free Will in Experimental Psychology: An Unexpected Analysis of Voluntary Action by William James and Theodule Ribot	11
Back to Actual Behavior – A Modest Proposal on the Example of Exploratory Behavior in Children on the Autism Spectrum	11
Is Another kind of Biologization Possible? On Biology and the psy Sciences	10
Politics in Transitional Spaces: Direct and Indirect Political Participation	10
Cognitive Capacities as Functional Natural Kinds	10
Development through Borders: Photogrammetry of a Moving Experience	10
Enacting Inner Speech on the Academic Stage. A Dialogical Review on Fossa, P. (Ed.). (2022). New Perspectives on Inner Speech. Springer	9
Motivational Congruence Theory: Beyond the Dualistic Approach to Human Motivation	8
The Norm of Reciprocity in Intergroup Context: A Normative-Identity Model	8
Limitations of Variable-Oriented Methodologies: Challenges in Gesture Research and Recommendations for Future Improvements	8
Attention as a Higher Psychic Function	8
Conceptualisation of Uncertainty in Decision Neuroscience Research: Do We Really Know What Types of Uncertainties The Measured Neural Correlates Relate To?	8
Cultural psychology of education: approaches and strategies	8
History as Therapy: A Novel Interdisciplinary Framework for Meaning-making and Well-being	8

Lessons from a Neo-Aristotelian Theory Based on Evolutionary Science to the Field of Organizational Innovation	7
Propositional vs. Imagistic Modes in Metaphoric Creativity	7
Adaptation across the Lifespan: Towards a Processual Evolutionary Explanation of Human Development	7
From Subliminality, to the Unconscious Mind: Philosophical Lineages, Evolutionary Paradoxes, and the Future of the Origins of the Unconscious	7
Special Issue: Situated Psychology	7
Phenomenological Mapping: A Method For Understanding Pre-Reflective Consciousness	7
Situating Educational Psychology Practice. Exploring the Call for a ‘Practice Turn’ in Contemporary Danish Educational Psychology Practice	7
Cognition and Cognitive Reserve	7
Ruptures as Imagined and Theorized: Symbolic Resources for Dealing With the Unexpected	6
Raising Questions with Lamiell about Future Research Directions of Critical Personalism: A Book Review Essay	6
Transcending Time and Space in the Search for Synthesis: A Commentary on Paranjpe’s Understanding Yoga Psychology: Indigenous Knowledge with Global Relevance	6
The Changing Process of Disability Identity: A Trajectory Equifinality Model Analysis of Japanese with Physical Disabilities	6
University without Borders	6
Narrative Understanding as a Means of Understanding the Other: A Review of Andrea Smorti’s Book Telling to Understand	6
Updated Expectations are Needed for Masked Priming Experiments: Commentary on Tsikandilakis et al. (2025)	6
Samir Chopra, Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide, Princeton University Press, 2024, ISBN-10: 0691210675, 185 pp.	6
Theorising Human Development in Adult Life: A Complex, Multidimensional, Dynamic, Situated Model	6
Studies in the Mentality of Literates: 3. Conceptual Structure and Nonsense of Personality Testing	6
Selective Empathy Theory: the Bias of Affective Empathy and the Role of Social Frames	5
An Integrated Model of Social Psychology Constructs and Psychoanalytical Themes for Understanding the Extremist Mindset	5
Consciousness, Microtubules, and the Axon Initial Segment	5
Sisyphus’s Boulder: Flourishing Through Perpetual Organizational Challenges to Positive Organizational Behavior	5
Personal and social guidance in children’s development. How youth personalize and (re)construct digital TikTok-practices	5
Log-Linear and Configural Analysis of Intra-Individual Time Series under Consideration of Serial Dependence	5
Setting the Theater for Creativity: Proposal for Integrating Temporal and Spatial Artificial Mnemonics as a Qualitative Artificial Development of the Autobiographical Naturalistic Mnemonics (AM)	5
Correction: The Gray Nine and Parallel Personality Patterns: Big Five, Dark Tetrad, and a “Well-Rounded Personality”	5
An Integrative Hypothesis of Brain Evolution	5
Retrospective Imagination in the Psychotherapeutic Process: A Theoretical-clinical Synthesis	4
The cultural ground of academic knowledge construction: a methodological discussion opening paths for possible future researches	4
An Enmeshed Family System? Jean Piaget as a Designated Therapist in 1920	4
Free Association and Inner Speech—On the Internal Form of Words	4
Time Dilation in Motivational Congruence Theory’s Paradigm	4
Meditation and Self-transcendence: A Human Need?	4
Politics and Psychology	4
Rethinking Urban Perception Through Linguistic Relativity a Review of Theoretical and Empirical Insights	4
Culturing the Mind: China as a Glocal Site of Epistemological Innovation	4
The “Mind-Cognition-Emotion” System Model from the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine and its Clinical Applications	4
The future of university from different viewpoints: a commentary to Szulevicz et al. (2021)	4
Hot Wind, Cold Sun: Kuhn, Vygotsky, Halliday and Metaphors in Science and Science Education	4
Temperaments as Basic Bias	4
Replication Crisis in Psychology, Second-Order Cybernetics, and Transactional Causality: from Experimental Psychology to Applied Psychological Practice	3
The Replicability Crisis and Human Agency in the Neo-Structured World	3
The Psychology of Problem Finding: from the Arousal System to Cognitive Sensitivity	3
Correction to: A Pragmatic Turn in the Study of Early Executive Functions by Object Use and Gestures. A Case Study from 8 to 17 Months of Age at a Nursery School	3
Encoded Selves: Human Nature in Kashmiri Proverbs, 1846–1947	3
Neurotechnologies, Ethics, and the Limits of Free Will	3
Cultural Semiotic Model for Psychotherapy	3
Windows of (Dis) Trust: A Situated Psychological Perspective on Understanding the Phenomenon of Trust	3
Crisis and Sensemaking: The Relevance of Liminal Experience and Metastability for a Sociocultural Psychology of Crisis	3
Cultural Psychology for a Technologically Transformed Society: A Neo-Structuration Perspective	3

Notes from Self-Isolation: Imagination in Times of Ruptures	3
Towards Description of Universals of Culture as an Aggression Control System	3
Well-being as Need Fulfillment: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice	3
An Analysis of Hikikomori in Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Through New Historicist Approach	3
Place and Memory: Revisiting the Past Self Through Autobiographical Memory	3
Navigating Beyond Interpersonal Manipulation: Insights from Heidegger's Perspective	3
Beyond the Narrowness of Disciplinary Borders: Biology and the Unconscious in Ferenczi's Thalassa—Primordial Phylogenetic Trauma and its Recapitulation in Ontogenesis	3
The Social Context of Consciousness: An Integrative Framework for Neuroscience, Psychology, and Law	3
Toward a Differentiated Conceptualization of Extreme Experiences and Their Relevance To Integrative Mental Health Theory	3
Communication Patterns of Muslim Communities’ After Involvement in the Pela Gandong Ritual in Moluccas Immanuel Church, Indonesia	3
The Role of Inhibition as a Component of Executive Functions in Metaphorical Embodiment	3
The Natural Tendency for Wide and Careful Listening: Exploring the Relationship Between Open-Mindedness and Psychological Science	3
Learning and Crises in Human Development. A Sociocultural and Dialogical Approach	3
Historical Overview and Pathologization of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Brazilian Psychological Assessment	3
Goals as Motives: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice	3
A Qualitative Perspective on the Status of the Master’s Thesis in Higher education – A Commentary on ‘Social Normativity of Research Methods and the Methodological Discrepancy Between Mainstream Psych	3
A Critical Perspective on the (Neuro)biological Foundations of Language and Linguistic Cognition	3
Situated psychology as triangulated. Understanding psychological processes as relations between subjectivity, intersubjectivity and objectivity	3
Remaking time: Cultural semiotic transformations of temporality during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown	3
Mirroring the Self through Hamlet Affective Aesthetic Experience	3
Conservation in Meaning-Making	3
The Roles of Gestural and Symbolic Schematizations in Inhibition as a Component of Executive Functions	3
Beyond the Chains of Technology: Social Justice and the Psychology of Revolutionary Education	3
Art and Agency in the Era of De-Structuration: Exploring a New Field	3
Connecting Mindfulness Practice to Generative Semiotic Activity—Self-Other Referent in Umwelt and Semiosphere	3
Inquiry in psychology	3