OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry is 5. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	46
Let's play pretend: Towards effective modelling in experimental psycho(patho)logy	36
College students with depression symptom are more sensitive to task difficulty in reinforcement learning	24
Using an ecological momentary assessment protocol to understand problem anger in veterans	22
The effect of imagery rescripting on prospective mental imagery of a feared social situation	22
Implicit aggressive self-concept in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from an approach-avoidance task	19
Computerized treatment of perfectionism through mistake making: A preliminary study	18
The effect of uncertainty on attentional bias in subclinical worriers: Evidence from reaction time and eye-tracking	18
Impact of a brief self-compassion intervention on state emotion dysregulation in self-reported generalized anxiety disorder	15
Editorial Board	15
Predictors of polyregulation and its effectiveness following exposure to One's most personally distressing intrusive thought	14
Externally orienting cues improve cognitive control in OCD	12
The current status of mental contamination in obsessive compulsive disorder: A systematic review	12
The effect of brief mindfulness training on the micro-structure of human free-operant responding: Mindfulness affects stimulus-driven responding	12
Editorial Board	11
Editorial Board	11
The remediating effect of Attention Bias Modification on aggression in young offenders with antisocial tendency: A randomized controlled trial	11
Impact of abstract vs. concrete processing on state rumination: An exploration of the role of cognitive flexibility	11
Editorial Board	10
The effectiveness of two novel approaches to prevent intrusions: A pilot study comparing Tetris_dualtask and imagery rescripting to control	10
Reliability of and associations between cognitive bias measures and response inhibition in smoking	10
Does fear reduction predict treatment response to exposure for social anxiety disorder?	9
People with schizophrenia use less information to interpret ambiguous social situations	9
The effect of self-focused attention during mirror gazing on body image evaluations, appearance-related imagery, and urges to mirror gaze	9
Are failures to suppress obsessive-intrusive thoughts associated with working memory?	9

Effects of an eating club for people with a psychotic disorder on personal recovery: Results of a randomized controlled trial	8
Mental contamination among people in China: A replication of a moral manipulation experiment	8
Death anxiety and mental health: Requiem for a dreamer	8
Correlation between laboratory-based vicarious threat learning and emotional disorder symptom dimensions	8
Compulsive rituals in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder – A qualitative exploration of thoughts, feelings and behavioral patterns	8
High trait anxiety enhances optimal integration of auditory and visual threat cues	8
A pilot randomised controlled trial of guided self-help cognitive behaviour therapy for perfectionism: Impact on diagnostic status and comorbidity	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
I C U but I don't care: Callous-unemotional traits and approach-avoidance behaviour in conduct disorder	8
Guided reactivation of personal phobic memories prior to exposure exercises prevents the renewal of fear responses in subjects with claustrophobic fears	7
Testing a brief attention training protocol to prevent emotional distress from a fear induction procedure	7
Putting things right: An experimental investigation of memory biases related to symmetry, ordering and arranging behaviour	7
If the discrepancy between expectations and actual information is too large, expectation change decreases – A replication study	7
The efficacy of incorporating mental imagery in cognitive restructuring techniques on reducing hostility: A randomized controlled trial	7
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”	7
Attentional bias in German Armed Forces veterans with and without posttraumatic stress symptoms – An eye-tracking investigation and group comparison	7
Smiling won't necessarily make you feel better: Response-focused emotion regulation strategies have little impact on cognitive, behavioural, physiological, and subjective outcomes	7
Special Issue Registered Report: Intentional suppression as a method to boost fear extinction	7
Enhancing future-directed thinking in people with first-episode psychosis using a guided imagery intervention	7
Using experience sampling methodology (ESM) to improve our understanding of day-to-day intrusion frequency and related distress in survivors of trauma	7
Those who (enjoy to) hurt: The influence of dark personality traits on animal- and human directed sadistic pleasure	7
Unprepared: Thinking of a trigger warning does not prompt preparation for trauma-related content	7
Reliability (or lack thereof) of smartphone ecological momentary assessment of visual dot probe attention bias toward threat indices	6
Development of the scrupulosity inventory: A factor analysis and construct validity study	6
The impact of modifying obsessive-compulsive beliefs about perfectionism	6
The impact of self-referential processing on depression-linked negative interpretive bias	6
Negative mood and optimism bias: An experimental investigation of sadness and belief updating	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
Hasty decision-making in individuals at higher risk of developing an eating disorder	6
Attentional biases towards food and body stimuli among individuals with disordered eating versus food allergies	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
The effects of computerised metacognitive cognitive bias modification training on the development of adaptive metacognitive beliefs and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms	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
Reducing the stickiness of negative memory retrieval through positive memory training in adolescents	6
Examining the causal effects of social exclusion on shame and dissociative detachment	5
Reappraising beliefs about losing control: An experimental investigation	5
Validity of the counter-app method in the assessment of intrusions	5
Excessive reassurance seeking versus compulsive checking in OCD: Comparing implicit motivators and mechanisms	5
A brief cognitive-behavioural treatment approach for PTSD and Dissociative Identity Disorder, a case report	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
Relaxation training with and without Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics for Tourette's disorder: A multiple baseline across participants consecutive case series	5
Desired attachment and breakup distress relate to automatic approach of the ex-partner	5
The association between mnemonic discrimination ability and differential fear learning	5
Gamification of cognitive bias modification for interpretations in anxiety increases training engagement and enjoyment	5
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
Verbal suggestions fail to modulate expectations about the effectiveness of a laboratory model of EMDR therapy: Results of two preregistered studies	5
A brief CBT intervention for depersonalisation-derealisation disorder in psychosis: Results from a feasibility randomised controlled trial	5
Inhibition moderates the effect of attentional bias modification for reducing residual depressive symptoms: A randomized sham-controlled clinical trial	5

The fear of losing control	5
Emotion regulation in context: A naturalistic study of emotion regulation in response to everyday happy and sad memories during dysphoria	5
A mixed methods examination of emotional expression and its impact on emotion regulation effectiveness in borderline personality disorder	5
Effects of confronting the feared outcome during exposure therapy on the return of fear: An analogue study	5
Different retrieval mechanisms of overgeneral autobiographical memory for positive and negative cues in remitted major depressive disorder	5
Metacognitive monitoring in schizotypy: Systematic literature review and new empirical data	5
Impact of virtual reality applications in the treatment of anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials	5
The link between dissociative tendencies and hyperassociativity	5
Editorial Board	5
Imagery Rescripting as a stand-alone treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: A randomized controlled trial	5