OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behaviour Research and Therapy is 10. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study	159
Optimizing in vivo exposure using occasional reinforced extinction with aversive imagery in spider fearful individuals	138
Exploring the effect of loneliness on fear: Implications for the effect of COVID-19-induced social disconnection on anxiety	122
Does raising heart rate prior to a behavioural test enhance learning in cognitive therapy for anxiety? An experimental test for the treatment of fear of heights using virtual reality	103
Problem mastery and motivational clarification as mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial	95
The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events	67
Social anxiety inhibits needs repair following exclusion in both relational and non-relational reward contexts: The mediating role of positive affect	65
Predicting positive outcomes and successful completion in an online parenting program for parents of children with disruptive behavior: An integrated data analysis	62
Cognitive behavioural therapy for functional abdominal pain disorders in children and adolescents: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials	53
Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety	53
Unsupervised clustering of autonomic temporal networks in clinically distressed and psychologically healthy individuals	50
A randomized controlled trial modifying insomnia-consistent interpretation bias in students	49
From basic science to clinical practice: Can cognitive behavioural therapy tasks be augmented with enhanced episodic specificity?	48
Intolerance of uncertainty and information-seeking behavior: Experimental manipulation of threat relevance	47
Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder	43
Cognitive behavioral therapy versus compassion focused therapy for adult patients with eating disorders with and without childhood trauma: A randomized controlled trial in an intensive treatment setti	40
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Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity	38
Bilateral eye movements disrupt the involuntary perceptual representation of trauma-related memories	36
The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal dysfunction in nonsuicidal self-injury during dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	35
Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic	34
Sex differences in the effect of subjective sleep on fear conditioning, extinction learning, and extinction recall in individuals with a range of PTSD symptom severity	34
The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style	33
Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive coping predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of adaptive coping	33
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy	33

Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility	32
Towards personalizing cognitive remediation therapy: Examining moderators of response for euthymic people with bipolar disorder	32
Network Intervention Analyses of cognitive therapy and behavior therapy for insomnia: Symptom specific effects and process measures	31
Cognitive flexibility improves in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome but not nonspecific education/support	31
No-think, No drink? Assessing the ability of reconsolidation interference by intentional forgetting to suppress alcohol memories in hazardous drinkers	29
Fear reacquisition and symptoms of combat-related PTSD: Specificity and preliminary examination of the influence of the 5-HT3A receptor gene	29
Psychological mechanisms of change in reducing co-occurring social anxiety and alcohol use: A causal mediation analysis of the online Inroads intervention	29
The causes and consequences of shame in obsessive-compulsive disorder	29
Is internet-based parent training for everyone? Predictors and moderators of outcomes in group vs. internet-based parent training for children with disruptive behavior problems	29
Cognitive behavior therapy for adult post-traumatic stress disorder in routine clinical care: A systematic review and meta-analysis	28
Decentering predicts attenuated perseverative thought and internalizing symptoms following stress exposure: A multi-level, multi-wave study	28
Repetitive negative thinking and suicidal ideation in internalizing psychopathologies: A replication study	27
Downstream effects of observational threat learning: Generalization and reversal learning across development	27
Divergent experiences of U.S. veterans who did and did not complete trauma-focused therapies for PTSD: A national qualitative study of treatment dropout	27
Systematically investigating the role of context on effect replicability in reinstatement of fear in humans	26
Effects of social buffering on fear extinction in adolescent rats	26
The relative efficacy and efficiency of single- and multi-session exposure therapies for specific phobia: A meta-analysis	26
Remote mental health care interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An umbrella review	26
Corrigendum to “Intolerance of uncertainty enhances adolescent fear generalization in both perceptual-based and category-based tasks: fNIRS studies” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 183 (2024) 104650]	26
Visual attention during cognitive reappraisal in adolescent major depression: Evidence from two eye-tracking studies	25
Mechanisms of change in digital cognitive behavioral therapy for depression in patients with chronic back pain: A mediation analysis of a multicenter randomized clinical trial	25
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Performance-based attentional control, but not self-reported attentional control, predicts changes in depressive symptoms in short-term psychotherapy	25
Imagery rescripting and extinction: Effects on US expectancy, US revaluation, and the generalization of fear reduction	24
Can placebos reduce intrusive memories?	24
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Can integrating the Memory Support Intervention into cognitive therapy improve depression outcome? A randomized controlled trial	24
The effect of concreteness training on peri-traumatic processing and intrusive memories following an analogue trauma	24
Repetitive negative thinking and depressive symptoms are differentially related to response inhibition: The influence of non-emotional, socio-emotional, and self-referential stimuli	23
Role of social determinants in anxiety and depression symptoms during COVID-19: A longitudinal study of adults in North Carolina and Massachusetts	23
Threat sensitivity in emotion dynamics: Negativity effects and sex differences	23
Predicting responsiveness to a dialectical behaviour therapy skills training app for recurrent binge eating: A machine learning approach	23
Guided internet-based LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy: A randomized controlled trial among sexual minority men in China	22
Advances in the adaptation and implementation of evidence-based interventions for historically marginalized groups	22
Outcomes of the Transdiagnostic Intervention for Sleep and Circadian Dysfunction (TranS-C) in a community setting: Unpacking comorbidity	21
Responsibility, probability, and severity of harm: An experimental investigation of cognitive factors associated with checking-related OCD	21
Daily micropractice can augment single-session interventions: A randomized controlled trial of self-compassionate touch and examining their associations with habit formation in US college students	21
Retraction notice to “Changes in degree of sclerosis as a function of prophylactic treatment in cancer-prone and CHD-prone probands” ‘Behaviour Research and Therapy’ Volume 29, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 34	20
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The attenuation of spider avoidance action tendencies in spider-fearful individuals and its impact on explicit evaluation of spider stimuli	20
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Mediators and Moderators of two online interventions for managing pain, fear of progression and functional ability in rheumatoid arthritis	20
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Using network analysis to characterize clinical improvement during cognitive processing therapy	19
The impact of module dosage on treatment response in a modular transdiagnostic intervention for sleep and circadian dysfunction (TranS-C)	19
Daily relationships among maternal rumination, mood and bonding with infant	19
A threat from within: Learning to fear by observing aversive bodily symptoms in others	19
Real-world evidence from users of a behavioral digital therapeutic for chronic insomnia	19
To focus on a confederate or oneself? Attentional bias and state anxiety in socially anxious individuals during real-time online video calls	18
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The effect of exercise engagement on low back disability at 12-months is mediated by pain and catastrophizing in a community sample of people with chronic low back pain	18
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Translational assessment of anhedonia components: Significant associations between reward anticipation measured via behavioural task performance, daily smartphone reports, and general anhedonia questi	17
Recalling and anticipating positive events to improve the positive affect and mental health of adolescents: A cluster randomized controlled trial in secondary schools	17
The integrated constructionist approach to emotions: A theoretical model for explaining alterations to positive emotional experiences in the aftermath of trauma	17
Feeling safe: Judgements of safety and anxiety as a function of worry and intolerance of uncertainty	17
“I'm not here to push you:” raising adolescents' treatment engagement via autonomy support	17
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Moderators of treatment effect of Prompt Mental Health Care compared to treatment as usual: Results from a randomized controlled trial	16
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The effects of culturally adapted expressive writing interventions on depressive and anxiety symptoms among Chinese American breast cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial	16
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Prosody-focused feedback enhances the efficacy of anti-depressive self-statements in depressed individuals – A randomized controlled trial	15
Improving treatments for mental disorders using computational models	15
Safety behaviours in social anxiety: An examination across adolescence	15
Examining emotional processing theory and predictors of outcome in prolonged exposure for PTSD	15
Safety behaviors toward innocuous stimuli can maintain or increase threat beliefs	15
Do appearance related safety behaviors contribute to distress intolerance? A Multi-method examination	15
Changes in cognitive processes and coping strategies precede changes in symptoms during cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder	15
Mechanistic pathways of change in twice weekly versus once weekly sessions of psychotherapy for depression	15
Network intervention analysis of anxiety-related outcomes and processes of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for anxious cancer survivors	15
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A randomized-controlled trial comparing relative effects of mindfulness-based interoceptive exposure focus versus distraction on cold-pressor induced pain	15
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Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: A summary and overview of the literature	14
Suicide and cognitive processes: Introduction to the special issue	14
Directional associations among real-time activity, sleep, mood, and daytime symptoms in major depressive disorder using actigraphy and ecological momentary assessment	13
Identifying the active ingredients of cognitive-behavioural therapy: Conceptualisation, methods and evidence	13
Neurocognitive mechanisms of mental imagery-based disgust learning	13
Attentional bias modification in male college smokers: The changes of facilitated attention, difficulty in disengagement and the transfer effects of training	13
Concurrent and prospective associations between negative social-evaluative beliefs, safety behaviours, and symptoms during and following cognitive behavioural group therapy for social anxiety disorder	13
Predictors of school-based cognitive behavior therapy outcome for youth with anxiety	13
Neural correlates of fear conditioning and fear extinction and its association with cognitive-behavioral therapy outcome in adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder	13
Suicide-specific rumination as a predictor of suicide planning and intent	12
Effectiveness of two video-based multicomponent treatments for fibromyalgia: The added value of cognitive restructuring and mindfulness in a three-arm randomised controlled trial	12
Improving mental health in low-resource settings: A feasibility randomized controlled trial of a transdiagnostic psychological intervention among Burundian refugee adolescents and their caregivers	12
Persistence of extensively trained avoidance is not elevated in anxiety disorders in an outcome devaluation paradigm	12
Appraisals of insomnia identity in a clinical sample	12
Depression and approach-avoidance decisions to emotional displays: The role of anhedonia	12
Empirically supported treatments for all: Realizing equitable coverage of care for trauma survivors globally	12
Optimising exposure for adolescents with public speaking anxiety: Affect labelling or positive coping statements?	12
Facets of social problem-solving as moderators of the real-time relation between social rejection and negative affect in an at-risk sample	12
Prospective relations between anxiety sensitivity and transdiagnostic anxiety following cognitive-behavioral therapy: Evidence from the Coordinated Anxiety Learning management trial	12
The effect of depression and anxiety symptom severity on clinical outcomes and app use in digital mental health treatments: Meta-regression of three trials	12
An online, single-session intervention for adolescent self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: Results from a randomized trial	12
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No joy - why bother? Higher anhedonia relates to reduced pleasure from and motivation for threat avoidance	11
Is informal practice associated with outcomes in loving-kindness and compassion training? Evidence from pre-post and daily diary assessments	11
What we got wrong about depression and its treatment	11
The benefit and neural mechanisms of computerized inhibitory control training for insomnia with short sleep duration phenotype: a rs-fMRI study	11
Continuous theta burst stimulation to dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in young adults with depression: Changes in resting frontostriatal functional connectivity relevant to positive mood	11
Self-guided online treatment of disturbed grief, posttraumatic stress, and depression in adults bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized controlled trial	11
Temporal and specific pathways of change in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for depression	11
Reflections on an emerging new science of mental disorders	11
Fostering socio-emotional competencies in children on the autism spectrum using a parent-assisted serious game: A multicenter randomized controlled trial	11
Introduction to special issue honoring Dianne L. Chambless (1948–2023)	11
“It's safer to believe that others don't like me” – A qualitative study on the paradoxical value of negative core beliefs in depression	10
Corrigendum to “Measuring self-efficacy, executive function, and temporal discounting in Kenya” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 101 (2018) 30–45]	10
Using GIMME to model the emotional context of suicidal ideation based on clinical data: From research to clinical practice	10
Targeting image-based autobiographical memory in childhood to prevent emotional disorders: Intervention development and a feasibility randomised controlled trial	10
Eye-tracking to assess anxiety-related attentional biases among a large sample of preadolescent children	10
Moderators of outcome in self-guided internet-delivered cognitive-behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder	10
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Stigmatized experience is associated with exacerbated pain perception in depressed patients	10
Effects of positive and negative affect inductions on interpretive and response bias	10
Itsy bitsy spider: Fear and avoidance (generalization) in a free-exploratory virtual reality paradigm	10
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Parenting Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An RCT of an online course with families of children with CP	10
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Changes in trauma-related cognitions predict subsequent symptom improvement during prolonged exposure in patients with childhood abuse-related PTSD	10
Global precedence effect in fear generalization and the role of trait anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty	10
Do trauma cue exposure and/or PTSD symptom severity intensify selective approach bias toward cannabis cues in regular cannabis users with trauma histories?	10
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