OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Role of Affective Sensemaking in the Constitution of Experience. The Affective Pertinentization Model (APER)	32
Parallelization: the Fourth Leg of Cultural Globalization Theory	24
Anthropomorphizing Technology: A Conceptual Review of Anthropomorphism Research and How it Relates to Children’s Engagements with Digital Voice Assistants	21
Decision Making: a Theoretical Review	18
Sinophobia during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Identity, Belonging, and International Politics	17
Towards a Wholistic Model of Identity: why Not a Meadow?	17
Negative vs. Positive Psychology: a Review of Science of Well-Being	15
Employee Engagement as Human Motivation: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice	15
Gestures Enhance Executive Functions for the Understating of Mathematical Concepts	13
Vygotsky’s, Leontiev’s and Engeström’s Cultural-Historical (Activity) Theories: Overview, Clarifications and Implications	13
Griefbots. A New Way of Communicating With The Dead?	13
Progressive Education is the Opium of the Educators	10
The Relation Between Guanxi and Interpersonal Trust in the Workplace	9
The Emotions in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Personality, Emotion and Motivation in Social Relations and Activity	9
Understanding The Process of Taoistic-Informed Mindfulness from a Meadian Perspective	9
Home is Where the Heart is: Identity and Belonging Among Older Chinese Immigrants in Australia	8
On the Adaptive Value of Paranormal Beliefs - a Qualitative Study	8
Theoretical and Empirical Foundations for a Unified Pyramid of Human Motivation	8
Vygotsky’s Legacy: Understanding and Beyond	8
“I Have Been Born, Raised and Lived My Whole Life Here” – Perpetually on the Move While Remaining Still	8
An Epistemological Strategy for Initiating Scientific Revolution against WEIRD Psychology	7
Self-Construction in Immigration – I-Positioning through Tensional Dialogues to Powerful Foreign and Native Voices	7
The teachers’ pedagogical fiduciary duty to their students	6
The QBIT theory of consciousness: Entropy and qualia	6
Microgenetic Analysis of Thought Trajectories: A Mixed Design	6

Social Normativity of Research Methods and the Methodological Discrepancy between Mainstream Psychological Research and Danish Psychology Students’ Master’s Thesis Projects	6
Toward a Cultural Evolutionary Psychology: Why the Evolutionary Approach does not Imply Reductionism or Determinism	6
A Simple Configural Approach for Testing Person-Oriented Mediation Hypotheses	5
Thinking with the Rain. The Trajectory of a Metaphor in Vygotsky’s Theoretical Development	5
Cultural-Historical Theory and the Dialectics of Lower and Higher Psychological Functions	5
Boundless China and Backward Asians: Hegemonic Confucianism as Epistemological Violence in Queer Psychology	5
Cognition and Cognitive Reserve	5
Well-being as Need Fulfillment: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice	5
Intentional Understanding Through Action Coordination in Early Triadic Interactions	5
Viktor von Weizsäcker’s Notion of Pathic: Affective Liminality, Modalization of Experience and Illness	5
The Hero-Villain-Fool Narrative Construction Method: Assessing hidden organizational phenomena	5
Existential Disruptions of Managers as a Collapse of Childhood Patterns: An Interpretative Phenomenological Investigation	5
Adaptation across the Lifespan: Towards a Processual Evolutionary Explanation of Human Development	4
The Making of an Ethnoburb: Studying Sub-ethnicities of the China-born New Immigrants in Albany, New Zealand	4
Plasticity-Led Evolution and Human Culture	4
Is Another kind of Biologization Possible? On Biology and the psy Sciences	4
University without Borders	4
Creativity of Creativity Researchers: Invention of Problems and Experimental Objects to Study Thinking	4
Activity Theory for the De-Structuralized Modernity	4
Basic Evaluation Process and some Associated Phenomena, Such as Emotions and Reactive Defense of Beliefs	4
Viktor von Weizsäcker’s Gestaltkreis Theory. The Dynamic and Subjective Relationship of Perception and Movement	3
Evolutionary Psychology and Normal Science: in Search of a Unifying Research Program	3
SILENCE: Capturing the Feeling of Inner Quietude	3
A Critical Perspective on the (Neuro)biological Foundations of Language and Linguistic Cognition	3
Towards Dialogic Metaphors of Learning – from Socialization to Authoring	3
The cultural ground of academic knowledge construction: a methodological discussion opening paths for possible future researches	3
Motivational Congruence Theory: Beyond the Dualistic Approach to Human Motivation	3
The Concept of Dialogical CO-Zone of Proximal Development: Intergenerationality in the Making	3
Collective Memory: Metaphor or Real?	3
Strong Ties and Weak Ties Rationality: Theory and Scale Development	3
Real-Time Assessment of Causal Attribution Shift and Stay Between Two Successive Tests of Movement Aids	3
Complexity in Environmental Sustainability Policy from a Semiotic Cultural Political Psychology Perspective	3
The Roles of Gestural and Symbolic Schematizations in Inhibition as a Component of Executive Functions	3
Enacting Inner Speech on the Academic Stage. A Dialogical Review on Fossa, P. (Ed.). (2022). New Perspectives on Inner Speech. Springer	3
An Attempt to Explain Visual Aesthetic Appreciation	3
Anthropological Prosociality via Sub-Group Level Selection	3
‘Measuring’ Collective Trauma: a Quantum Social Science Approach	3
The Relation between Emotion and Intellect: Which Governs Which?	3
Adapting Ourselves, Instead of the Environment: An Inquiry into Human Enhancement for Function and Beyond	3
Between Meanings and Senses-Making Spaces: Agency and Ownership Emergence Formalization from Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Position, for an AI-Friendly Model	3
Stages in Theory and Experiment. Fuzzy-Structuralism and Piagetian Stages	3
Biology, Culture and Environment: Methodological and Epistemological Principles for an Integrative Social Theory	2
Mind-Body Correlation and its Logic: the Experience of “Invisible Body”	2
What Are Group Level Traits and How Do They Evolve?	2
Dialogic Problematization of Academic Integrity Education	2
Two Sisters Family Histories: Self-In-Transit	2
The “Creativity Crisis” as a Mind in Crisis: A Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Position	2
The Sense of Belonging in the Context of Migration: Development and Trajectories Regarding Portuguese Migrants in Luxembourg	2
Indigenous Psychology as a General Science for Escaping the Snares of Psychological Methodolatry	2
Separation in Unity: Dialogical Transformation of Maternal Bond	2

Socioeconomic Status and Childhood Executive Function: Differing Conceptualizations, Diverse Assessments, and Decontextualized Investigations	2
Animal Creativity as a Function of Behavioral Innovation and Behavior Flexibility in Problem-solving Situations	2
Inquiry in psychology	2
Historical Epistemology: a Research Approach in Psychiatry	2
Cultural Historical Psychology and the Reset of History	2
Self – Regard of Individuals with Autism – How People from the Autism Spectrum Perceive Autism. A Netnographic Research	2
Vygotsky’s Emotions: Desire/Passion in Spinoza, Proposal/Proposition in Halliday, and Teaching Sexual Consent to Children in Korea	2
The Necessity to Recognize Processes of Radicalization from a Socio-cultural Perspective	2
Neurotechnologies, Ethics, and the Limits of Free Will	2
A Critical Sociocultural Understanding of Evidence-Based Research and Practice Paradigm in Contemporary Psychology	2
Enhancing Enneagram Therapy with Contemporary Research on the Conscious and Unconscious Mind	2
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Culture? There is a Missing Link Between the Natural and the Social Sciences	2
The Essence of What it Is to Act Rationally: A Perspective on Distinctively Human Action Based on Aristotelian Philosophy and Evolutionary Science	2
The QBIT Theory: Consciousness from Entangled Qubits	2
Dramatizing Living-in-the-World: Affective Generalization in Drama-in-Education Workshop	2
Introducing Cultural Psychology: An open Approach of Thinking	2
Care Practices Between Generations: Ambivalence and Meaning-making Process	2
Peasants’ Fatalistic Thinking in Chinese Communism: an Analysis of a Rural Family’s Oral History	2
Graphical Representation of the Movements of Motives of Consciousness in Leontyev’s Activity Theory	2
Critical Psychology and the Brain: Rethinking Free will in the Legal Context	2
Embodied Minds: Hearts and Brains in Psychiatry and Chinese Medicine	2
Art Value Creation and Destruction	2
Episodic Events as Spatiotemporal Memory: The Sequence of Information in the Episodic Buffer of Working Memory for Language Comprehension	2