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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	42
Let's play pretend: Towards effective modelling in experimental psycho(patho)logy	34
College students with depression symptom are more sensitive to task difficulty in reinforcement learning	29
The effect of imagery rescripting on prospective mental imagery of a feared social situation	22
Using an ecological momentary assessment protocol to understand problem anger in veterans	21
Implicit aggressive self-concept in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from an approach-avoidance task	20
Computerized treatment of perfectionism through mistake making: A preliminary study	19
The effect of uncertainty on attentional bias in subclinical worriers: Evidence from reaction time and eye-tracking	17
Editorial Board	16
Externally orienting cues improve cognitive control in OCD	15
Impact of a brief self-compassion intervention on state emotion dysregulation in self-reported generalized anxiety disorder	15
Predictors of polyregulation and its effectiveness following exposure to One's most personally distressing intrusive thought	14
Impact of abstract vs. concrete processing on state rumination: An exploration of the role of cognitive flexibility	14
The effect of brief mindfulness training on the micro-structure of human free-operant responding: Mindfulness affects stimulus-driven responding	12
Editorial Board	11
The remediating effect of Attention Bias Modification on aggression in young offenders with antisocial tendency: A randomized controlled trial	11
The current status of mental contamination in obsessive compulsive disorder: A systematic review	11
Editorial Board	11
Does valence contribute to the effects of dual tasking in aversive autobiographical memory? Some unexpected findings	11
Reliability of and associations between cognitive bias measures and response inhibition in smoking	10
Compulsive rituals in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder – A qualitative exploration of thoughts, feelings and behavioral patterns	10
Editorial Board	10
The effect of self-focused attention during mirror gazing on body image evaluations, appearance-related imagery, and urges to mirror gaze	9
The effectiveness of two novel approaches to prevent intrusions: A pilot study comparing Tetris_dualtask and imagery rescripting to control	9
Are failures to suppress obsessive-intrusive thoughts associated with working memory?	8

People with schizophrenia use less information to interpret ambiguous social situations	8
Effects of an eating club for people with a psychotic disorder on personal recovery: Results of a randomized controlled trial	8
Correlation between laboratory-based vicarious threat learning and emotional disorder symptom dimensions	8
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.	8
Does fear reduction predict treatment response to exposure for social anxiety disorder?	8
A pilot randomised controlled trial of guided self-help cognitive behaviour therapy for perfectionism: Impact on diagnostic status and comorbidity	8
Death anxiety and mental health: Requiem for a dreamer	8
Smiling won't necessarily make you feel better: Response-focused emotion regulation strategies have little impact on cognitive, behavioural, physiological, and subjective outcomes	7
Mental contamination among people in China: A replication of a moral manipulation experiment	7
Unprepared: Thinking of a trigger warning does not prompt preparation for trauma-related content	7
Guided reactivation of personal phobic memories prior to exposure exercises prevents the renewal of fear responses in subjects with claustrophobic fears	7
Contextual goal-dependent attention flexibility or rule-based learning? An investigation of a new attention flexibility paradigm	7
“Was I asking for it?”: An experimental investigation of perceived responsibility, mental contamination and workplace sexual harassment	7
The efficacy of incorporating mental imagery in cognitive restructuring techniques on reducing hostility: A randomized controlled trial	7
If the discrepancy between expectations and actual information is too large, expectation change decreases – A replication study	7
High trait anxiety enhances optimal integration of auditory and visual threat cues	7
I C U but I don't care: Callous-unemotional traits and approach-avoidance behaviour in conduct disorder	7
Those who (enjoy to) hurt: The influence of dark personality traits on animal- and human directed sadistic pleasure	7
Attentional bias in German Armed Forces veterans with and without posttraumatic stress symptoms – An eye-tracking investigation and group comparison	6
Putting things right: An experimental investigation of memory biases related to symmetry, ordering and arranging behaviour	6
Enhancing future-directed thinking in people with first-episode psychosis using a guided imagery intervention	6
Different cognitive behavioural processes underpinning reassurance seeking in depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder	6
Fighting OCD together: An experimental study of the effectiveness and acceptability of seeking and receiving emotional support for OCD	6
Relaxation training with and without Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics for Tourette's disorder: A multiple baseline across participants consecutive case series	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
Testing a brief attention training protocol to prevent emotional distress from a fear induction procedure	6
Special Issue Registered Report: Intentional suppression as a method to boost fear extinction	6
The impact of modifying obsessive-compulsive beliefs about perfectionism	6
Reliability (or lack thereof) of smartphone ecological momentary assessment of visual dot probe attention bias toward threat indices	6
Hasty decision-making in individuals at higher risk of developing an eating disorder	6
Development of the scrupulosity inventory: A factor analysis and construct validity study	6
Using experience sampling methodology (ESM) to improve our understanding of day-to-day intrusion frequency and related distress in survivors of trauma	6
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”	6
Lifetime adversity interacts with peritraumatic data-driven processing to predict intrusive memories	6
Self-control problems in Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Presentation of an explanatory approach	6
The effects of computerised metacognitive cognitive bias modification training on the development of adaptive metacognitive beliefs and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms	6
The impact of self-referential processing on depression-linked negative interpretive bias	6
Reducing the stickiness of negative memory retrieval through positive memory training in adolescents	5
Attentional biases towards food and body stimuli among individuals with disordered eating versus food allergies	5
A brief CBT intervention for depersonalisation-derealisation disorder in psychosis: Results from a feasibility randomised controlled trial	5
A mixed methods examination of emotional expression and its impact on emotion regulation effectiveness in borderline personality disorder	5
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	5
Desired attachment and breakup distress relate to automatic approach of the ex-partner	5
Negative mood and optimism bias: An experimental investigation of sadness and belief updating	5
Imagery Rescripting as a stand-alone treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: A randomized controlled trial	5
The link between dissociative tendencies and hyperassociativity	5
Impact of virtual reality applications in the treatment of anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials	5
The association between mnemonic discrimination ability and differential fear learning	5
Editorial Board	5
Inhibition moderates the effect of attentional bias modification for reducing residual depressive symptoms: A randomized sham-controlled clinical trial	5

A brief cognitive-behavioural treatment approach for PTSD and Dissociative Identity Disorder, a case report	5
Examining the causal effects of social exclusion on shame and dissociative detachment	5
Emotion regulation in context: A naturalistic study of emotion regulation in response to everyday happy and sad memories during dysphoria	5
Verbal suggestions fail to modulate expectations about the effectiveness of a laboratory model of EMDR therapy: Results of two preregistered studies	5
The fear of losing control	5
Gamification of cognitive bias modification for interpretations in anxiety increases training engagement and enjoyment	4
Metacognitive monitoring in schizotypy: Systematic literature review and new empirical data	4
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	4
Associations between PTSD and temporal discounting: The role of future thinking	4
Hoarding mysteries Jack would appreciate	4
Fear-related associations in children of parents with an anxiety disorder	4
Reappraising beliefs about losing control: An experimental investigation	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
Validity of the counter-app method in the assessment of intrusions	4
Social cognition and depression in adolescent girls	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
Individuals fearing positivity do not perceive positive affect treatments as strong fits: A novel experimental finding and replication	4
Different retrieval mechanisms of overgeneral autobiographical memory for positive and negative cues in remitted major depressive disorder	4
Effects of confronting the feared outcome during exposure therapy on the return of fear: An analogue study	4
Editorial Board	4
Excessive reassurance seeking versus compulsive checking in OCD: Comparing implicit motivators and mechanisms	4
Latent class analysis of emotions experienced during compulsive hair-pulling episodes	4
Can an app designed to reduce repetitive negative thinking decrease depression and anxiety in young people? Results from a randomized controlled prevention trial	3
Aversive conditioning is impaired in impulsive individuals: A study on learning asymmetries	3
Experimental analysis of the impact of body comparison on non-clinical women	3
Health anxiety and attentional control interact to predict uncertainty-related attentional biases	3
An experimental investigation of biased attention in non-suicidal self-injury: The effects of perfectionism and emotional valence on attentional engagement and disengagement	3
Further analyses of appraisals of losing control and other OCD-related cognitions: A quasi-experimental investigation	3
A study of doubt in obsessive-compulsive disorder	3
Identity – A critical but neglected construct in cognitive-behaviour therapy	3
Trauma cue-elicited emotional response profiles influence acute experiences of alcohol urge	3
The relationship between psychiatric symptoms and affective forecasting bias	3
The legacy of social anxiety-linked negative expectancy: A pathway from pre-event negative expectancies to post-event negative thinking	3
Effects of increased attention allocation to threat and safety stimuli on fear extinction and its recall	3
Virtual reality interventions for the treatment of anxiety disorders: A scoping review	3
Emotional interference and attentional control in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: The special case of neutral faces	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
Implicit beliefs and automatic associations in smoking	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Joint attention effect on irrelevant stimuli resistance in high functional autism and neurotypical adults	3
Trajectories of fear learning in healthy participants are able to distinguish groups that differ in individual characteristics, chronicity of fear and intrusions	3
An emotional regulation approach to psychosis recovery: The Living Through Psychosis group programme	3
The influence of nocebo information on fatigue and urge to stop: An experimental investigation	3
Is it magic? An exploratory randomized controlled trial comparing imagery rescripting and cognitive restructuring in the treatment of depression	3
Repetitive negative thinking during ambiguous situations: Interactive roles of looming cognitive style and intolerance of uncertainty	3
Attenuating experimentally acquired disgust: Comparing counterconditioning, exposure and unconditioned stimulus revaluation	3
Threat memory devaluation by a dual-task intervention: Testing return of fear and intrusive memory over 48 hours	3
Long-term effects of imaginal retraining in overweight and obesity: A controlled study	3
Imagery rescripting: The value of an added positive emotion component	3
Sleep quality and emotion recognition in individuals with and without internalizing psychopathologies	3
Building Closer Friendships in social anxiety disorder: A randomized control trial of an internet-based intervention	3
Social problem-solving attitudes and performance as a function of differences in trait and state worry	3
Targeting negative flashforward imagery in speech anxiety with a visuospatial dual-task: Do attenuated flashforwards lead to less anxiety and avoidance?	3
Editorial Board	2
Beliefs about losing control and other OCD-related cognitions: An experimental investigation	2
Recall, response bias and recognition are differentially impacted by social anxiety irrespective of feedback modality	2
The role of desired positive affect in depression in daily life	2
Examining social reinforcement learning in social anxiety	2
Social anxiety does not impair attention inhibition: An emotion anti-saccade task	2
Longitudinal relationships among posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters in response to positive memory processing	2
Apprehension about the future: Investigating the phenomenological characteristics of episodic future thinking in socially anxious adolescents	2
Effects of positivity training on character strengths, time perspective, and self-awareness in women with depression	2
Emotion-dependent language featuring depression	2
Rethinking paranoid ideation and reasoning: A pilot study based on the argumentative theory of reasoning	2
Ecological momentary assessment models trajectories of expectancy following exposure: A proof-of-concept pilot study	2
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioral group therapy, psychodrama, and their integration for treatment of social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial	2
Cross-diagnostic cognitive heterogeneity in body dysmorphic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder	2
Examining patterns of executive functioning across dimensions of psychopathology	2
The effectiveness of a masked counterconditioning approach using continuous flash suppression to alleviate body dissatisfaction in women with high body image concerns	2
Sensitivity and response bias in non-clinical social anxiety to detect changes in facial expressions	2
An online group behavioral activation therapy for major depressive disorder: Adaptation, effectiveness, and trajectories of change in a lower-middle income country	2
An intervention to promote concrete thinking style in young adults: Effects on depressive symptoms and its protective factors	2
Editorial changes at the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry	2
The relevance of dysfunctional reasoning to OCD and its treatment: Further evidence for inferential confusion utilizing a new task-based measure	2
Adding EMDR for PTSD at the onset of treatment of borderline personality disorder: A pilot study	2
Physiological sensation word usage in social anxiety disorder with and without comorbid depression	2