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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Bridging the gap between consciousness and matter: recurrent out-of-body projection of visual awareness revealed by the law of non-identity	51
Is Culture Learned? The Neglected Role of Evoking Events	36
Use of Assistive Technologies and Alternative Means by Older People: The “Actional Model of Older People´s Coping with Health-Related Declines”	21
The Evolution and Integration of Life and Theory in Foucault’s Work on Power	20
Art Value Creation and Destruction	17
Psychology, Psychiatry, and Mental Health in Brazil – Convergences and Disputes	15
Evolutionary Psychology and Normal Science: in Search of a Unifying Research Program	15
Navigating Complexity in Reflexive Cybernetics: Forces, feedback, and felt valences	13
The Crisis of Everyday Self-other Misalignments between Unaccompanied Minors and Adult Professionals: A Dialogical Self Study	13
Receive, Retain and Retrieve: Psychological and Neurobiological Perspectives on Memory Retrieval	12
Back to Actual Behavior – A Modest Proposal on the Example of Exploratory Behavior in Children on the Autism Spectrum	12
Development through Borders: Photogrammetry of a Moving Experience	11
Attention and Free Will in Experimental Psychology: An Unexpected Analysis of Voluntary Action by William James and Theodule Ribot	11
Extreme Experience Reconsidered: Existential, Developmental, and Embodied Dimensions	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	9
Enacting Inner Speech on the Academic Stage. A Dialogical Review on Fossa, P. (Ed.). (2022). New Perspectives on Inner Speech. Springer	9
Cognition and Cognitive Reserve	8
Phenomenological Mapping: A Method For Understanding Pre-Reflective Consciousness	8
Attention as a Higher Psychic Function	8
Adaptation across the Lifespan: Towards a Processual Evolutionary Explanation of Human Development	8
X implies Y – Testing Hypotheses of Direction of Effect Using Configural Frequency Analysis	8
History as Therapy: A Novel Interdisciplinary Framework for Meaning-making and Well-being	8
The Norm of Reciprocity in Intergroup Context: A Normative-Identity Model	8

Conceptualisation of Uncertainty in Decision Neuroscience Research: Do We Really Know What Types of Uncertainties The Measured Neural Correlates Relate To?	8
Motivational Congruence Theory: Beyond the Dualistic Approach to Human Motivation	8
From Subliminality, to the Unconscious Mind: Philosophical Lineages, Evolutionary Paradoxes, and the Future of the Origins of the Unconscious	7
Situating Educational Psychology Practice. Exploring the Call for a ‘Practice Turn’ in Contemporary Danish Educational Psychology Practice	7
Propositional vs. Imagistic Modes in Metaphoric Creativity	7
Lessons from a Neo-Aristotelian Theory Based on Evolutionary Science to the Field of Organizational Innovation	7
Special Issue: Situated Psychology	7
Raising Questions with Lamiell about Future Research Directions of Critical Personalism: A Book Review Essay	6
Updated Expectations are Needed for Masked Priming Experiments: Commentary on Tsikandilakis et al. (2025)	6
The Changing Process of Disability Identity: A Trajectory Equifinality Model Analysis of Japanese with Physical Disabilities	6
From Negentropy to Norms – A Gain-Based Theory of Agency: Kerdotism	6
Studies in the Mentality of Literates: 3. Conceptual Structure and Nonsense of Personality Testing	6
Theorising Human Development in Adult Life: A Complex, Multidimensional, Dynamic, Situated Model	6
Samir Chopra, Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide, Princeton University Press, 2024, ISBN-10: 0691210675, 185 pp.	6
Ruptures as Imagined and Theorized: Symbolic Resources for Dealing With the Unexpected	6
Empathy as a Risk Factor: A Theoretical Review on Depression-Induced Decline in Reading Performance Through the Mediation of Personality Dimensions	5
Correction: The Gray Nine and Parallel Personality Patterns: Big Five, Dark Tetrad, and a “Well-Rounded Personality”	5
Selective Empathy Theory: the Bias of Affective Empathy and the Role of Social Frames	5
Transcending Time and Space in the Search for Synthesis: A Commentary on Paranjpe’s Understanding Yoga Psychology: Indigenous Knowledge with Global Relevance	5
Log-Linear and Configural Analysis of Intra-Individual Time Series under Consideration of Serial Dependence	5
An Integrated Model of Social Psychology Constructs and Psychoanalytical Themes for Understanding the Extremist Mindset	5
Narrative Understanding as a Means of Understanding the Other: A Review of Andrea Smorti’s Book Telling to Understand	5
Sisyphus’s Boulder: Flourishing Through Perpetual Organizational Challenges to Positive Organizational Behavior	5
Rethinking Urban Perception Through Linguistic Relativity a Review of Theoretical and Empirical Insights	5
“Scientist as a Discoverer and Explorer of Unknown Lands”: Quo Vadis?	4
Goals as Motives: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice	4
An Enmeshed Family System? Jean Piaget as a Designated Therapist in 1920	4
Hot Wind, Cold Sun: Kuhn, Vygotsky, Halliday and Metaphors in Science and Science Education	4
Setting the Theater for Creativity: Proposal for Integrating Temporal and Spatial Artificial Mnemonics as a Qualitative Artificial Development of the Autobiographical Naturalistic Mnemonics (AM)	4
Symbolic Acceleration and Embodied Integration: Toward a Developmental Framework of Identity Reconstruction	4
Retrospective Imagination in the Psychotherapeutic Process: A Theoretical-clinical Synthesis	4
The future of university from different viewpoints: a commentary to Szulevicz et al. (2021)	4
Historical Overview and Pathologization of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Brazilian Psychological Assessment	4
Temperaments as Basic Bias	4
Temporal Experience and Human State Field: Toward a New Framework Bridging Physics and Perception Part I-Basic Arguments, Concepts, and Definitions	4
Time Dilation in Motivational Congruence Theory’s Paradigm	4
Beyond Fear: Disgust, Anger, and the Affective Core of Interpersonal Phobias	4
Meditation and Self-transcendence: A Human Need?	4
Towards Description of Universals of Culture as an Aggression Control System	4
The “Mind-Cognition-Emotion” System Model from the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine and its Clinical Applications	4
Free Association and Inner Speech—On the Internal Form of Words	4
Consciousness, Microtubules, and the Axon Initial Segment	4
An Integrative Hypothesis of Brain Evolution	4
Politics and Psychology	4
The Roulette Metaphor in Living with Type 1 Diabetes: Semiotic Dynamics and the Regulation of Self-Experience in Christin’s Case	3
Well-being as Need Fulfillment: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice	3
Ericksonian Hypnosis as a Possible Form of Inquiry: A Peircean Phenomenological Approach	3
Communication Patterns of Muslim Communities’ After Involvement in the Pela Gandong Ritual in Moluccas Immanuel Church, Indonesia	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
Toward a Differentiated Conceptualization of Extreme Experiences and Their Relevance To Integrative Mental Health Theory	3

Cultural Semiotic Model for Psychotherapy	3
The Natural Tendency for Wide and Careful Listening: Exploring the Relationship Between Open-Mindedness and Psychological Science	3
Cultural Psychology for a Technologically Transformed Society: A Neo-Structuration Perspective	3
Inquiry in psychology	3
Crisis and Sensemaking: The Relevance of Liminal Experience and Metastability for a Sociocultural Psychology of Crisis	3
Windows of (Dis) Trust: A Situated Psychological Perspective on Understanding the Phenomenon of Trust	3
Replication Crisis in Psychology, Second-Order Cybernetics, and Transactional Causality: from Experimental Psychology to Applied Psychological Practice	3
Role of Culture in Meaning Making: Bridging Semiotic Cultural Psychology and Active Inference	3
Encoded Selves: Human Nature in Kashmiri Proverbs, 1846–1947	3
Navigating Beyond Interpersonal Manipulation: Insights from Heidegger's Perspective	3
Beyond the Chains of Technology: Social Justice and the Psychology of Revolutionary Education	3
Beyond the Narrowness of Disciplinary Borders: Biology and the Unconscious in Ferenczi's Thalassa—Primordial Phylogenetic Trauma and its Recapitulation in Ontogenesis	3
Connecting Mindfulness Practice to Generative Semiotic Activity—Self-Other Referent in Umwelt and Semiosphere	3
The Role of Inhibition as a Component of Executive Functions in Metaphorical Embodiment	3
Remodelling the Psychology of Education in Postcolonial India: Decolonization, Identity and Power Relations	3
An Analysis of Hikikomori in Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Through New Historicist Approach	3
A Critical Perspective on the (Neuro)biological Foundations of Language and Linguistic Cognition	3
Learning and Crises in Human Development. A Sociocultural and Dialogical Approach	3
Place and Memory: Revisiting the Past Self Through Autobiographical Memory	3
Notes from Self-Isolation: Imagination in Times of Ruptures	3
Situated psychology as triangulated. Understanding psychological processes as relations between subjectivity, intersubjectivity and objectivity	3
The Social Context of Consciousness: An Integrative Framework for Neuroscience, Psychology, and Law	3
Neurotechnologies, Ethics, and the Limits of Free Will	3
Mirroring the Self through Hamlet Affective Aesthetic Experience	3
Conservation in Meaning-Making	3
Art and Agency in the Era of De-Structuration: Exploring a New Field	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
The Roles of Gestural and Symbolic Schematizations in Inhibition as a Component of Executive Functions	3