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Papers

(The median citation count of Theory & Psychology is 1. 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
Denying Descartes and wary of Wittgenstein: Response to Franz	58
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	28
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	27
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	18
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	16
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	15
Border identities: Theoretical approach to the study of self from bordering processes	12
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	12
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	11
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	10
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	10
Imagination in perception and art	9
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology	9
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	8
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	8
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice	8
Affective experience in neuroscience and phenomenology: An epistemological analysis of emotions and feelings	7
Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism	7
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	7
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick	6
Wundt’s logic: Old resource for new ideas	6
Facing up to the hardest problem: The human information field and the ontological primacy of subjective consciousness	6
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	6
Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics	6
The trees and the forest: Investigating variability surrounding an aggregate result	6

Carl Rogers’ struggle to be “real” and its implications for understanding psychologists’ life–work connections and sociocultural impact	6
Neonihilism: Meaninglessness and irony in neoliberal capitalism	6
Autism in the interstices: Toward an ethical understanding of autistic cultural worlds	5
Iconic models in science and psychology	5
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization	5
The role of education in neoliberal selfhood	5
Describing disorder: The importance and advancement of compositional explanations in psychopathology	5
Advancing a cultural–historical activity perspective in a psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy training programme	5
“Their voice becomes my voice”: Understanding the development of the dialogical self through the internalization of voices in group psychotherapy	5
The problematic concrete individual implied by scientific realism	5
The autistic mirror in the real: Autism in Lacan’s mirror stage	4
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	4
On the ontology of language: A critique of trait theory	4
Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations	4
Lacan after Heidegger	4
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum	4
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons	4
“Are psychological attributes quantitative?” is not an empirical question: Conceptual confusions in the measurement debate	4
Moral affordance, moral expertise, and virtue	4
Realism and symbolic systems in the practice of scientific psychology	3
The oughtness of existence: Living and suffering by what we ought	3
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	3
Causal inference: Principles unifying experimental and observational accounts	3
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	3
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	3
Social technologies in and out of psychology	3
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	3
Emergence, convergence, and theory of mind	3
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	2
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	2
Against the reduction of teleology to sophisticated causal explanation	2
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy	2
A neurophenomenological theory of the three worlds	2
A cautionary note on aggregation in educational psychology and beyond	2
Metaphor and the scientific method: Why Lacan’s perspective isn’t helpful yet	2
Wise thoughts on phronesis	2
The evil within: The AMORAL model of dark creativity	2
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	2
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents	2
Joseph Delboeuf on time as the mechanism of free will	2
On Simpson’s paradox: To remain or not to remain a population-based science	2
Making sense of signs: Readjusting William Stern’s personological value theory	2
Epistemic inequality in the digital era: Unpacking biases in digital mental health	2
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	2
The role of inferences in reading comprehension: A critical analysis	2
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	2
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	2
The autistic pseudosignifier: Imaginary dialectization of signs in the clinic of autism	2
Psychology: Where history, culture, and biology meet	2
Pathologizing the pathological and the place for grief: Reply to Brinkmann	2

Contrasts and synergies: A comment on Jones (2022)	2
Replications are informative, particularly when they fail	1
Freudian naturalism and the assessment of psychoanalysis as a natural science: Psychic phenomenon as process	1
Why is one study technique superior to another?	1
Simondon, emotion, and individuation: The tensions of psychological life in digital worlds	1
Thirty years of focus on individual variability and the dynamics of processes	1
On making stones speak: Concerning empathy and historical knowledge	1
Embracing variability and complexity and the explanatory reductionism of scientific realism	1
Examining the mechanism of disavowal and its two forms: Cynical disavowal and fetishistic disavowal	1
Theory as behaviour: Why empathy research needs horizontal, mutualistic habits of seeing	1
The multiple turns in the psychology of emotion	1
A confusion of tongues: Trauma, fantasy, and dissociation in Lacanian theory and the imperative for social change	1
Understanding, schizophrenia, and the limits of phenomenology	1
Not self-aware? Psychological antecedents and consequences of alienating from one’s actual motives, emotions, and goals	1
A theoretical model of projects in motivated behavior	1
A case for using methods from natural science in advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience	1
Kurt Lewin’s ideas are alive! But why doesn’t anybody recognize them?	1
Revisioning psychology and deglobalisation: The case of Brexit	1
Towards solving psychology’s fundamental problem	1
Extending sexual scripting theory through critical discursive psychology: An analytical approach to explore the performance of sexual identities	1
In the aftermath of globalization: Antiglobalizing and deglobalizing forms of subjectivity	1
When foundations falter: The emergence of defensive narratives from insecure attachment dynamics	1
Scientific realism and the historical emergence of consciousness	1
The rhetorical use of B. F. Skinner in evolutionary psychology	1
A social ontology of grief	1
Translating science into practice in clinical psychology: A reformulation of the evidence-based practice inquiry model	1
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	1
Phronesis, affordance, and executive function: Situating values within moral psychology	1
Reasons versus causes in Arocha’s scientific realism	1
A new phase for Theory & Psychology	1
Squaring the circle: From latent variables to theory-based measurement	1
Can psychology learn from the natural sciences?	1
Critical realism, psychology, and the crisis of replication: A reply to Haig; Derksen & Morawski; and Trafimow	1
Authenticization: Consuming commodified authenticity to become “authentic” subjects	1
Worth-Conscious theory: Understanding the role of birthright self-worth and application to clinical practice	1
Hontologie: A Lacanian theory of shame	1
Psychoanalysis, thermodynamics, and the matter of scarcity: A genealogy of Freud’s death drive hypothesis	1
Mechanism and contextualism in psychology	1
Should psychology adopt Bhaskar’s critical realist philosophy of science?	1
Psychologising meritocracy: A historical account of its many guises	1
Single cases and the laws of subjectivity	1
The joint construction of goals and means as a solution for the problem of variability in behavior	1