OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
College students with depression symptom are more sensitive to task difficulty in reinforcement learning	57
The effect of uncertainty on attentional bias in subclinical worriers: Evidence from reaction time and eye-tracking	41
Editorial Board	29
Computerized treatment of perfectionism through mistake making: A preliminary study	24
The effect of imagery rescripting on prospective mental imagery of a feared social situation	24
Using an ecological momentary assessment protocol to understand problem anger in veterans	23
Implicit aggressive self-concept in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from an approach-avoidance task	23
Let's play pretend: Towards effective modelling in experimental psycho(patho)logy	20
Editorial Board	17
Impact of abstract vs. concrete processing on state rumination: An exploration of the role of cognitive flexibility	15
Impact of a brief self-compassion intervention on state emotion dysregulation in self-reported generalized anxiety disorder	15
Externally orienting cues improve cognitive control in OCD	15
The current status of mental contamination in obsessive compulsive disorder: A systematic review	13
Predictors of polyregulation and its effectiveness following exposure to One's most personally distressing intrusive thought	13
The effect of brief mindfulness training on the micro-structure of human free-operant responding: Mindfulness affects stimulus-driven responding	12
The remediating effect of Attention Bias Modification on aggression in young offenders with antisocial tendency: A randomized controlled trial	12
Editorial Board	12
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Reliability of and associations between cognitive bias measures and response inhibition in smoking	11
The effect of self-focused attention during mirror gazing on body image evaluations, appearance-related imagery, and urges to mirror gaze	11
Editorial Board	11
The effectiveness of two novel approaches to prevent intrusions: A pilot study comparing Tetris_dualtask and imagery rescripting to control	10
Correlation between laboratory-based vicarious threat learning and emotional disorder symptom dimensions	10
Are failures to suppress obsessive-intrusive thoughts associated with working memory?	10
A pilot randomised controlled trial of guided self-help cognitive behaviour therapy for perfectionism: Impact on diagnostic status and comorbidity	10

Death anxiety and mental health: Requiem for a dreamer	9
Mental contamination among people in China: A replication of a moral manipulation experiment	9
The efficacy of incorporating mental imagery in cognitive restructuring techniques on reducing hostility: A randomized controlled trial	9
Measuring attentional bias using the dot-probe task in young women: Psychometric properties and feasibility of response-based computations, dwell time, and the N2pc component	9
Addressing the punitive parent mode in schema therapy for borderline personality disorder: Short-term effects of the empty chair technique as compared to cognitive challenging.	9
Effects of an eating club for people with a psychotic disorder on personal recovery: Results of a randomized controlled trial	9
Smiling won't necessarily make you feel better: Response-focused emotion regulation strategies have little impact on cognitive, behavioural, physiological, and subjective outcomes	9
Those who (enjoy to) hurt: The influence of dark personality traits on animal- and human directed sadistic pleasure	9
People with schizophrenia use less information to interpret ambiguous social situations	9
Compulsive rituals in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder – A qualitative exploration of thoughts, feelings and behavioral patterns	9
Unprepared: Thinking of a trigger warning does not prompt preparation for trauma-related content	9
I C U but I don't care: Callous-unemotional traits and approach-avoidance behaviour in conduct disorder	9
Does fear reduction predict treatment response to exposure for social anxiety disorder?	9
Guided reactivation of personal phobic memories prior to exposure exercises prevents the renewal of fear responses in subjects with claustrophobic fears	8
Special Issue Registered Report: Intentional suppression as a method to boost fear extinction	8
Putting things right: An experimental investigation of memory biases related to symmetry, ordering and arranging behaviour	8
If the discrepancy between expectations and actual information is too large, expectation change decreases – A replication study	8
Verification report: A critical reanalysis of Vahey et al. (2015) “A meta-analysis of criterion effects for the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) in the clinical domain”	8
Using experience sampling methodology (ESM) to improve our understanding of day-to-day intrusion frequency and related distress in survivors of trauma	8
High trait anxiety enhances optimal integration of auditory and visual threat cues	8
Testing a brief attention training protocol to prevent emotional distress from a fear induction procedure	8
Enhancing future-directed thinking in people with first-episode psychosis using a guided imagery intervention	8
Attentional bias in German Armed Forces veterans with and without posttraumatic stress symptoms – An eye-tracking investigation and group comparison	7
Development of the scrupulosity inventory: A factor analysis and construct validity study	7
Self-control problems in Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Presentation of an explanatory approach	7
Attentional biases towards food and body stimuli among individuals with disordered eating versus food allergies	7
Hasty decision-making in individuals at higher risk of developing an eating disorder	7
Different cognitive behavioural processes underpinning reassurance seeking in depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder	7
Reliability (or lack thereof) of smartphone ecological momentary assessment of visual dot probe attention bias toward threat indices	7
The impact of modifying obsessive-compulsive beliefs about perfectionism	7
Negative mood and optimism bias: An experimental investigation of sadness and belief updating	7
The impact of self-referential processing on depression-linked negative interpretive bias	7
Fighting OCD together: An experimental study of the effectiveness and acceptability of seeking and receiving emotional support for OCD	7
Lifetime adversity interacts with peritraumatic data-driven processing to predict intrusive memories	7
Do patients’ mood and gender affect the way we deliver CBT? An experimental, vignette-based study of the relevance of patient and clinician characteristics	7
The effects of computerised metacognitive cognitive bias modification training on the development of adaptive metacognitive beliefs and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms	7
Relaxation training with and without Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics for Tourette's disorder: A multiple baseline across participants consecutive case series	7
Reducing the stickiness of negative memory retrieval through positive memory training in adolescents	7
The fear of losing control	7
Desired attachment and breakup distress relate to automatic approach of the ex-partner	6
The link between dissociative tendencies and hyperassociativity	6
Impact of virtual reality applications in the treatment of anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials	6
The association between mnemonic discrimination ability and differential fear learning	6
Validity of the counter-app method in the assessment of intrusions	6
Inhibition moderates the effect of attentional bias modification for reducing residual depressive symptoms: A randomized sham-controlled clinical trial	6
A brief CBT intervention for depersonalisation-derealisation disorder in psychosis: Results from a feasibility randomised controlled trial	6
Examining the causal effects of social exclusion on shame and dissociative detachment	6
A mixed methods examination of emotional expression and its impact on emotion regulation effectiveness in borderline personality disorder	6
Emotion regulation in context: A naturalistic study of emotion regulation in response to everyday happy and sad memories during dysphoria	6
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The efficacy of randomised controlled trials of guided and unguided self-help interventions for the prevention and treatment of eating disorders in young people: A systematic review and preliminary me	6
Imagery Rescripting as a stand-alone treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: A randomized controlled trial	6
Different retrieval mechanisms of overgeneral autobiographical memory for positive and negative cues in remitted major depressive disorder	6
A decade on: Reflecting on the limitations of the first meta-analysis of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure's (IRAP) criterion validity in the clinical domain	5
Social cognition and depression in adolescent girls	5
Hoarding mysteries Jack would appreciate	5
Excessive reassurance seeking versus compulsive checking in OCD: Comparing implicit motivators and mechanisms	5
Latent class analysis of emotions experienced during compulsive hair-pulling episodes	5
Metacognitive monitoring in schizotypy: Systematic literature review and new empirical data	5
Individuals fearing positivity do not perceive positive affect treatments as strong fits: A novel experimental finding and replication	5
Reappraising beliefs about losing control: An experimental investigation	5
Verbal suggestions fail to modulate expectations about the effectiveness of a laboratory model of EMDR therapy: Results of two preregistered studies	5
Effects of confronting the feared outcome during exposure therapy on the return of fear: An analogue study	5
Fear-related associations in children of parents with an anxiety disorder	5
Gamification of cognitive bias modification for interpretations in anxiety increases training engagement and enjoyment	5
Editorial Board	4
Associations between PTSD and temporal discounting: The role of future thinking	4
Implicit beliefs and automatic associations in smoking	4
Aversive conditioning is impaired in impulsive individuals: A study on learning asymmetries	4
A study of doubt in obsessive-compulsive disorder	4
Long-term effects of imaginal retraining in overweight and obesity: A controlled study	4
The relationship between psychiatric symptoms and affective forecasting bias	4
Building Closer Friendships in social anxiety disorder: A randomized control trial of an internet-based intervention	4
Corrigendum to “Interpretation biases in childhood spider fear: Content-specificity, priming, and avoidance” [Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 83 (2024 June), 101941]	4
Efficacy of exposure scenario in virtual reality for the treatment of acrophobia: A randomized controlled trial	4
Joint attention effect on irrelevant stimuli resistance in high functional autism and neurotypical adults	4
Sleep quality and emotion recognition in individuals with and without internalizing psychopathologies	4
Identity – A critical but neglected construct in cognitive-behaviour therapy	4
Imagery rescripting: The value of an added positive emotion component	4
Attenuating experimentally acquired disgust: Comparing counterconditioning, exposure and unconditioned stimulus revaluation	4
Is it magic? An exploratory randomized controlled trial comparing imagery rescripting and cognitive restructuring in the treatment of depression	4
The legacy of social anxiety-linked negative expectancy: A pathway from pre-event negative expectancies to post-event negative thinking	4
Exploring aspects of self-reported emotional mental imagery in patients with bipolar disorder	4
Memory confidence and memory accuracy deterioration following repeated checking: A systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Emotional interference and attentional control in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: The special case of neutral faces	4
Trauma cue-elicited emotional response profiles influence acute experiences of alcohol urge	4
Virtual reality interventions for the treatment of anxiety disorders: A scoping review	4
Social problem-solving attitudes and performance as a function of differences in trait and state worry	4
Targeting negative flashforward imagery in speech anxiety with a visuospatial dual-task: Do attenuated flashforwards lead to less anxiety and avoidance?	4
Can an app designed to reduce repetitive negative thinking decrease depression and anxiety in young people? Results from a randomized controlled prevention trial	4
An experimental investigation of biased attention in non-suicidal self-injury: The effects of perfectionism and emotional valence on attentional engagement and disengagement	3
Health anxiety and attentional control interact to predict uncertainty-related attentional biases	3
Repetitive negative thinking during ambiguous situations: Interactive roles of looming cognitive style and intolerance of uncertainty	3
Effects of positivity training on character strengths, time perspective, and self-awareness in women with depression	3
The effectiveness of a masked counterconditioning approach using continuous flash suppression to alleviate body dissatisfaction in women with high body image concerns	3
Editorial Board	3
Implicit cognitions on self-injurious and suicidal behavior in borderline personality disorder	3
Examining the effect of depressive symptoms on habit formation and habit-breaking	3
Investigating the role of weight in body representation through the Rubber Hand Illusion: when individual weight concerns matter	3
Sensitivity and response bias in non-clinical social anxiety to detect changes in facial expressions	3
Longitudinal relationships among posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters in response to positive memory processing	3
Recall, response bias and recognition are differentially impacted by social anxiety irrespective of feedback modality	3
Efficacy of internet-based emotion-focused cognitive behavior therapy (IECBT) in improving stress and anxiety of women with suspected fetal malformation: A randomized controlled trial	3
Editorial Board	3
Further analyses of appraisals of losing control and other OCD-related cognitions: A quasi-experimental investigation	3
Experimental analysis of the impact of body comparison on non-clinical women	3
Beliefs about losing control and other OCD-related cognitions: An experimental investigation	3
Apprehension about the future: Investigating the phenomenological characteristics of episodic future thinking in socially anxious adolescents	3
Examining patterns of executive functioning across dimensions of psychopathology	3
Emotion-dependent language featuring depression	3