OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of New Ideas in Psychology is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Enhanced Agentic Diversity Perspective (EADP): An appeal for Co-creating an accommodative social space so that diversity unlocks innovativeness rather than problems	205
Disconnected from complexity: on nature exposure, sociality, and the self-organizing self	64
Does beautiful nature motivate to work? Outlining an alternative pathway to nature-induced cognitive performance benefits	33
Environmental resource theory: An integrative perspective on human habitat preferences and emotional responses to the environment	30
Religion and cognitive control: An event-coding approach	27
Probabilistic processing: Possible, probable, or preposterous? A dialectical essay	24
Passion a key for success: Exploring motivational factors in football players	22
Extending the two-component model of delusion to substance use disorder etiology and recovery	18
A self-regulatory perspective on human motivation and its implications for understanding adaptation to chronic pain	18
Beyond sorrow and terror management Theories: A dual-emotion model of death reflection after mortality salience across cultures and time	17
What is the process of personal growth? Introducing the Personal Growth Process Model	16
The evolution of prestige: Perspectives and hypotheses from comparative studies	16
Group dancing as the evolutionary origin of rhythmic entrainment in humans	16
Modeling the mood state on thermal sensation with a data mining algorithm and testing the accuracy of mood state correction factor	15
Editorial Board	15
A cultural identity approach to the generational divide	14
When sensitivity means strength: Distinguishing between soft and hard threats as part of the personality	14
New directions in research on somatic concerns in individuals with eating disorders	13
Beyond chaos and rigidity, flexstability	13
The impact of fabrication on recognition memory: An experimental study	13
Confronting microaggressions: Developing innovative strategies to challenge and prevent harm	12
Information, representation, and cognition	12
Editorial Board	11
The American psychological Association's practice guidelines for men and boys: Are they hurting rather than helping male mental wellness?	11
What happens to representatives during family constellations? Attempts at explanation and comparison with other difficult-to-explain phenomena	11

Me and my brand(s): Exploring the psychological resource exchange in consumer-brand relationships	10
The person as an extended field: Querying the ontological binaries and dominant “container” metaphor at the core of psychology	10
Using artworks to understand human memory and its neural mechanisms	9
The trip from metaphor to reality and back	9
The psychometric properties of the Passion Scale	9
A theory of moral categorization: The conceptual performance of moral cognition	8
Memory reconsolidation and the crisis of mechanism in psychotherapy	8
An “orthorexic society”: The role of psychological flexibility in responding to healthy eating pressures	8
Call for new measures suitable for intensive longitudinal studies: Ideas and suggestions	8
Partnering with AI for instrument development: Possibilities and pitfalls	8
Researching causal relationships from the first-person perspective. An Expansion of the micro-phenomenological method	8
Examining the root of intergroup sensitivity: What is the norm underlying defensive reactions to criticism?	8
Technopsychology: A new wave of psychological inquiry	8
Editorial Board	7
Presenting a strengths-based ecological model for promoting well-being among LGBTQ+ adults	7
The flawed logic of theory-free natural kind reasoning	7
‘What is the self anyway?’ towards a more parsimonious conceptualisation of the self: A review	7
Expertise and becoming conscious of something	7
If you don't problematize it, you won't see it, and you won't understand it	7
Understanding the relation between the need and ability to achieve closure: A single paper meta-analysis assessing subscale correlations	7
Conceptualizing and measuring psychological resilience: What can we learn from physics?	7
The imperative of happiness in positive psychology: Towards a psychopolitics of wellbeing	7
The organization of construal networks and functional adaptation	6
The dual metaphorical role of abstract symbols in symbolic mathematical processing	6
Becoming a person: How long-distance walking can lead to personal growth – A cultural and health-related approach	6
A tripartite perspective on self-evaluation: Three forms of self-regard and their social basis	6
Editorial Board	6
Large language models (LLMs) as research Subjects: Status, opportunities and challenges	6
Epistemic cultural constraints on the uses of psychology	6
When resilience becomes undesirable – A cautionary note	6