OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of New Ideas in Psychology 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
An integrated review of fear and avoidance learning in anxiety disorders and application to eating disorders	117
Embodiment as a synthesis of having a body and being a body, and its role in self-identity and mental health	52
Editorial Board	42
Using targeted visceroception to improve interoceptive sensibility and emotion regulation	30
Bridging attentional control and reinvestment: A test of the interactionist hypothesis in an E-sport context	27
Editorial Board	26
Memory reconsolidation and the crisis of mechanism in psychotherapy	24
Beyond outcome studies: Good psychotherapy rests on many secure epistemic foundations	23
Adolescents thinking on economic inequality: Expanding the discussion beyond the Global North	22
Editorial Board	22
Interactive alignment as an allostatic process: A literature review	21
A theoretical paradigm proposal of music arousal and emotional valence interrelations with tempo, preference, familiarity, and presence of lyrics	21
Obstetrics at odds with evolution: The consequences of interrupting adaptive birthing consciousness	15
Clarifying the use of Theodosius Dobzhansky's and E. O. Wilson's evolutionary maxims: A guide for psychologists	14
Editorial Board	13
The relationship between mental toughness and subjective mental illness recovery	12
Good conversations: Grounding, convergence, and richness	11
Adaptation to stressors: Hormesis as a framework for human performance	10
Refining the prevalence inflation hypothesis: Disentangling overinterpretation from self-fulfilling prophecies	10
An evolutionary model for aggression in youth: Rethinking aggression in terms of the Catalyst Model	10
The Enhanced Agentic Diversity Perspective (EADP): An appeal for Co-creating an accommodative social space so that diversity unlocks innovativeness rather than problems	9
A systematic review of interventions to address workplace bias: What we know, what we don't, and lessons learned	9
Partnering with AI for instrument development: Possibilities and pitfalls	9
Typical coping patterns: A person-centered approach to coping	9
Construction of a Meaning Effectiveness Model: A new interpretation of meaning in life	9

Merging the Self-Determination Theory and the Broaden and Build Theory through the nexus of positive affect: A macro theory of positive functioning	9
Expanding the concept of birthparent loss to orphans: Exploratory findings from adolescents in institutional care in South Korea	9
Passion, grit and mindset: Exploring gender differences	9
Racial microaffirmations as a response to racial microaggressions: Exploring risk and protective factors	9
Activating creative behaviour of academic knowledge workers in selected public universities in Uganda: The role of hope	8
Key characteristics of decision making in soccer and their implications	8
Are mental health awareness efforts contributing to the rise in reported mental health problems? A call to test the prevalence inflation hypothesis	8
Editorial Board	7
Face perception and synchrony disruption in theatre masks	7
Context matters: How smartphone (mis)use may disrupt early emotion regulation development	7
Amateur hour: Improving knowledge diversity in psychological and behavioral science by harnessing contributions from amateurs	7
Moods in transition: Theorizing the affective-dynamic constitution of situatedness	7
Critical appraisal of the discussion on delay discounting by Bailey et al. and Stein et al.: A scientific proposal for a reinforcer pathology theory 3.0	6
The institutional impact of research challenges and constraints on psychology and other social and behavioral sciences	6
Actions Speak Louder than outcomes leading to ineffective altruism	6
Chiastic thinking: A cognitive process closely related to Janusian thinking	6
Unveiling the influence of disciplinary biases on information sampling during an interdisciplinary collaboration creative task through eye-tracking analysis	6
Critical thinking as cooperation and its relation to mental health and social welfare	6
A theory of moral categorization: The conceptual performance of moral cognition	6
The desire to be remembered: A review and analysis of legacy motivations and behaviors	5
Conceptualizing and measuring psychological resilience: What can we learn from physics?	5
Artificial intelligence in lie detection: Why do cognitive theories matter?	5
Advancing first-person access to experience through sense of certainty training	5
Passion a key for success: Exploring motivational factors in football players	5
Does mental toughness predict happiness over and above resilience, self-efficacy and grit?	5
Knowledge and knowledge gaps in semantic memory of technical artifacts	5
Call for new measures suitable for intensive longitudinal studies: Ideas and suggestions	5
Virtual reality analytics map (VRAM): A conceptual framework for detecting mental disorders using virtual reality data	5
Taking a naïve other's perspective to debias the hindsight bias: Did it backfire?	5
Bystander training for faculty: A promising approach to tackling microaggressions in the academy	5