OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Reliability (or lack thereof) of smartphone ecological momentary assessment of visual dot probe attention bias toward threat indices	34
An emotional regulation approach to psychosis recovery: The Living Through Psychosis group programme	33
The relationship between psychiatric symptoms and affective forecasting bias	28
Editorial Board	20
An experimental test of the effects of acute sleep deprivation on affect and avoidance	20
Implicit aggressive self-concept in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from an approach-avoidance task	18
Biased probability estimates in trait anxiety and trait depression are unrelated to biased availability	17
Expanding the scope, reach, and impact of evidence-based psychological treatments	15
Is it magic? An exploratory randomized controlled trial comparing imagery rescripting and cognitive restructuring in the treatment of depression	15
The relevance of dysfunctional reasoning to OCD and its treatment: Further evidence for inferential confusion utilizing a new task-based measure	14
The effects of computerised metacognitive cognitive bias modification training on the development of adaptive metacognitive beliefs and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms	14
Efficacy of narrative therapy for orphan and abandoned children with anxiety and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders in Rwanda: A randomized controlled trial	11
Computerized treatment of perfectionism through mistake making: A preliminary study	11
Building Closer Friendships in social anxiety disorder: A randomized control trial of an internet-based intervention	11
Different cognitive behavioural processes underpinning reassurance seeking in depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder	10
Self-control problems in Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Presentation of an explanatory approach	10
The effect of uncertainty on attentional bias in subclinical worriers: Evidence from reaction time and eye-tracking	10
Effects of exposure to plus-size fashion models on weight-related attitudes in bulimia nervosa: Findings from an exploratory study	9
The effect of imagery rescripting on prospective mental imagery of a feared social situation	9
Effectiveness of exposure-based treatment for childhood anxiety disorders: An open clinical trial to test its relation with indices of emotional processing and inhibitory learning	8
A faulty compass: Why do some people choose situations that are not good for them?	8
Let's play pretend: Towards effective modelling in experimental psycho(patho)logy	8
Trajectories of fear learning in healthy participants are able to distinguish groups that differ in individual characteristics, chronicity of fear and intrusions	8
College students with depression symptom are more sensitive to task difficulty in reinforcement learning	8
Lifetime adversity interacts with peritraumatic data-driven processing to predict intrusive memories	7

Evaluation of mechanism of change in transdiagnostic cognitive behaviour therapy using single case experimental design	7
The impact of modifying obsessive-compulsive beliefs about perfectionism	7
Reductions in guilt cognitions following prolonged exposure and/or sertraline predict subsequent improvements in PTSD and depression	7
The legacy of social anxiety-linked negative expectancy: A pathway from pre-event negative expectancies to post-event negative thinking	6
Examining social reinforcement learning in social anxiety	6
Targeting negative flashforward imagery in speech anxiety with a visuospatial dual-task: Do attenuated flashforwards lead to less anxiety and avoidance?	6
Editorial changes at the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry	6
Editorial Board	6
Impacts of repeated retrieval of positive and neutral memories on posttrauma health: An investigative pilot study	6
Do patients’ mood and gender affect the way we deliver CBT? An experimental, vignette-based study of the relevance of patient and clinician characteristics	6
Development and validation of the ambiguous scenario task for perfectionistic concerns for university students	6
Development of the scrupulosity inventory: A factor analysis and construct validity study	6
Using an ecological momentary assessment protocol to understand problem anger in veterans	6
Editorial Board	6
Identity – A critical but neglected construct in cognitive-behaviour therapy	6
Social anxiety does not impair attention inhibition: An emotion anti-saccade task	6
Adding EMDR for PTSD at the onset of treatment of borderline personality disorder: A pilot study	6
An investigation of the potential clinical utility of critical slowing down as an early warning sign for recurrence of depression	6
The role of cognitive biases involving selective interrogation of taste-based information in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption	6
The effect of imagery rescripting on core beliefs and eating disorder symptoms in a subclinical population	6
Cross-diagnostic cognitive heterogeneity in body dysmorphic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder	6
An intervention to promote concrete thinking style in young adults: Effects on depressive symptoms and its protective factors	5
Hasty decision-making in individuals at higher risk of developing an eating disorder	5
How to modify expectations of social rejection? An experimental study using a false-feedback paradigm	5
Editorial Board	5
Emotional interference and attentional control in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: The special case of neutral faces	5
Should cognitive restructuring precede imagery rescripting? An experimental pilot study	5
The current status of mental contamination in obsessive compulsive disorder: A systematic review	5
Relaxation training with and without Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics for Tourette's disorder: A multiple baseline across participants consecutive case series	5
Visual illusions in young people reporting psychotic-like experiences	5
Challenging depressive beliefs: Habitual and recollective components of stability or change	5
A brief cognitive-behavioural treatment approach for PTSD and Dissociative Identity Disorder, a case report	5
Negative mood and optimism bias: An experimental investigation of sadness and belief updating	5
Grab it or not? Measuring avoidance of spiders with touchscreen-based hand movements	5
Aversive conditioning is impaired in impulsive individuals: A study on learning asymmetries	5
Social problem-solving attitudes and performance as a function of differences in trait and state worry	5
A Dedication by Dr. Stanley Jack Rachman	5
The role of desired positive affect in depression in daily life	4
Fighting OCD together: An experimental study of the effectiveness and acceptability of seeking and receiving emotional support for OCD	4
Learning to be inventive in the face of statistics: A positive reappraisal intervention for statistics anxiety	4
Can mental imagery boost the effect of the positive cognitive bias modification of interpretation (CBM-I) on interpretation bias and memory bias?	4
Knowledge acquisition following internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for loneliness – A secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial	4
Impact of abstract vs. concrete processing on state rumination: An exploration of the role of cognitive flexibility	4
Joint attention effect on irrelevant stimuli resistance in high functional autism and neurotypical adults	4
Threat biases associate with anxiety and depression in physically-abused young people with a history of child labour	4
Trauma cue-elicited emotional response profiles influence acute experiences of alcohol urge	4
Development and preliminary validation of the treatment adherence rating scale	4
The fear of losing control	4
Ecological momentary assessment models trajectories of expectancy following exposure: A proof-of-concept pilot study	4
Predictors of polyregulation and its effectiveness following exposure to One's most personally distressing intrusive thought	4

The effect of brief mindfulness training on the micro-structure of human free-operant responding: Mindfulness affects stimulus-driven responding	4
Attentional biases towards food and body stimuli among individuals with disordered eating versus food allergies	4
Reducing the stickiness of negative memory retrieval through positive memory training in adolescents	4
Psychopathy and gaze cueing	3
Does valence contribute to the effects of dual tasking in aversive autobiographical memory? Some unexpected findings	3
Attenuating experimentally acquired disgust: Comparing counterconditioning, exposure and unconditioned stimulus revaluation	3
The effectiveness of cognitive bias modification in reducing substance use in detained juveniles: An RCT	3
Health anxiety and attentional control interact to predict uncertainty-related attentional biases	3
Virtual reality interventions for the treatment of anxiety disorders: A scoping review	3
Embodied cognitive restructuring: The impact of posture and movement on changing dysfunctional attitudes	3
Formal vs. intuitive categorization and obsessive-compulsive symptoms	3
Examining the effect of depressive symptoms on habit formation and habit-breaking	3
Editorial Board	3
The effect of information seeking behaviors in fear control	3
Comparable repetition blindness effect in patients with schizophrenia	3
Acknowledgment of Reviewers	3
Memories of Jack	3
Inhibition moderates the effect of attentional bias modification for reducing residual depressive symptoms: A randomized sham-controlled clinical trial	3
A study of doubt in obsessive-compulsive disorder	3
Sleep quality and emotion recognition in individuals with and without internalizing psychopathologies	3
Examining the role of trait anxiety and attentional bias to negative information in intrusion vulnerability following an emotionally negative event	3
Dr. Jack Rachman's contributions to our understanding and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	3
Editorial Board	3
Change talk and sustain talk in treatment of generalized anxiety disorder: A secondary analysis of cognitive behavioral therapy and metacognitive therapy in adult outpatients	3
Imagery rescripting: The value of an added positive emotion component	3
The impact of self-referential processing on depression-linked negative interpretive bias	3
Externally orienting cues improve cognitive control in OCD	3
Neurophysiological effects of cognitive behavioral therapy in social anxiety: An ERP study using a dot-probe task	3
Reward prospect improves inhibitory control in female university students with a history of childhood sexual and physical abuse	3
Cognitive-affective reactions to a non-judgmental and judgmental mirror gazing task in individuals with body dysmorphic concerns	3
Modifying insecure attachment style with cognitive bias modification	2
Effects of acceptance-based strategies on psychological responses to disorder-relevant stimuli in inpatients with obsessive–compulsive disorder: An experimental study	2
Effects of rumination and distraction on inhibition	2
Desired attachment and breakup distress relate to automatic approach of the ex-partner	2
Attention bias modification in depression: A randomized trial using a novel, reward-based, eye-tracking approach	2
Implicit beliefs and automatic associations in smoking	2
Exploring intrusions without awareness: A preliminary study of the characteristics and influences of meta-awareness failures	2
Judging others makes me forget: Assessing the cognitive, behavioural, and emotional consequences of other-evaluations on self-evaluations for social anxiety	2
Habitual or hyper-controlled behavior: OCD symptoms and explicit sequence learning	2
Convergence of real-time and retrospective assessments: A systematic investigation of naturally occurring and experimentally induced intrusions	2
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	2
Editorial Board	2
Impact of virtual reality applications in the treatment of anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials	2
A single case series of imagery rescripting of intrusive autobiographical memories in depression	2
Imagery Rescripting as a stand-alone treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: A randomized controlled trial	2
Touchscreen-based approach-avoidance responses to appetitive and threatening stimuli	2
Effects of current and past depressive episodes on behavioral performance and subjective experience during an N-back task	2
Development of a behavioural measure of Intolerance of Uncertainty in preadolescent children: Adaptation of the beads task	2
Emotion dynamics of clients with test anxiety before and after an imagery-based treatment	2
Long-term effects of imaginal retraining in overweight and obesity: A controlled study	2
Threat memory devaluation by a dual-task intervention: Testing return of fear and intrusive memory over 48 hours	2
How do mindfulness and compassion programs improve mental health and well-being? The role of attentional processing of emotional information	2
Editorial Board	2
Editorial Board	2
The effects of bilateral stimulation using eye movements on sexual fantasies with follow-up	2
Metacognitive monitoring in schizotypy: Systematic literature review and new empirical data	2
A brief CBT intervention for depersonalisation-derealisation disorder in psychosis: Results from a feasibility randomised controlled trial	2
An experimental investigation of biased attention in non-suicidal self-injury: The effects of perfectionism and emotional valence on attentional engagement and disengagement	2
Further analyses of appraisals of losing control and other OCD-related cognitions: A quasi-experimental investigation	2
Distress variability during exposure therapy and its relationship with PTSD symptom decline	2
The remediating effect of Attention Bias Modification on aggression in young offenders with antisocial tendency: A randomized controlled trial	2
The link between dissociative tendencies and hyperassociativity	2
Examining the causal effects of social exclusion on shame and dissociative detachment	2