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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	67
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	41
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	34
Searching for rightness: Ecological perspectives on realizing values in acting and perceiving	16
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	15
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	14
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	13
Conceptualising the digital “subject”: A Deleuzoguattarian framing of social media, desire and becoming in psychotherapeutic assemblages	11
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	10
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
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology	10
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	8
Imagination in perception and art	8
Affective experience in neuroscience and phenomenology: An epistemological analysis of emotions and feelings	8
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	7
The importance of interdisciplinarity in research: A response to Stenner	7
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick	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
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice	7
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	7
Existential origins of endogenous and exogenous psychosis: A phenomenological inquiry into uncanny and twilight atmospheres	6
Neonihilism: Meaninglessness and irony in neoliberal capitalism	6
Carl Rogers’ struggle to be “real” and its implications for understanding psychologists’ life–work connections and sociocultural impact	6
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	6

Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics	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
Iconic models in science and psychology	5
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization	5
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	5
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons	5
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	5
On the ontology of language: A critique of trait theory	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
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	5
Causal inference: Principles unifying experimental and observational accounts	4
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum	4
From cinema to the lab: Psychological experiments as liminal affective technologies	4
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	4
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	4
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	4
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	4
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	4
Social technologies in and out of psychology	4
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	4
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy	3
Wise thoughts on phronesis	3
Contrasts and synergies: A comment on Jones (2022)	3
Psychology: Where history, culture, and biology meet	3
Analysing films to rethink the psychology of time	3
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	3
A neurophenomenological theory of the three worlds	3
Making sense of signs: Readjusting William Stern’s personological value theory	3
The autistic pseudosignifier: Imaginary dialectization of signs in the clinic of autism	3
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents	3
The triptych of the mirror, the portal, and the resurrection: Re-thinking the psychology of time through Stenner and Zittoun’s academic chronotopic artistry	3
The evil within: The AMORAL model of dark creativity	3
A cautionary note on aggregation in educational psychology and beyond	3
Metaphor and the scientific method: Why Lacan’s perspective isn’t helpful yet	3
Worth-Conscious theory: Understanding the role of birthright self-worth and application to clinical practice	2
Individual and social growth: A commentary on “Carl Rogers’ Struggle to Be ‘Real’”	2
Epistemic inequality in the digital era: Unpacking biases in digital mental health	2
Examining the mechanism of disavowal and its two forms: Cynical disavowal and fetishistic disavowal	2
Why is one study technique superior to another?	2
Authenticization: Consuming commodified authenticity to become “authentic” subjects	2
When foundations falter: The emergence of defensive narratives from insecure attachment dynamics	2
Beyond a set of procedures: Reclaiming the philosophical depth of Q methodology	2
Pathologizing the pathological and the place for grief: Reply to Brinkmann	2
Between Dionysus and Apollo: The dialectic of spontaneity and reflection	2
Towards solving psychology’s fundamental problem	2
Revisioning psychology and deglobalisation: The case of Brexit	2
Culture as an ontological universe: Toward a broader model of culture in the globalizing era	2
Can psychology learn from the natural sciences?	2

In the aftermath of globalization: Antiglobalizing and deglobalizing forms of subjectivity	2
Freudian naturalism and the assessment of psychoanalysis as a natural science: Psychic phenomenon as process	2
Critical realism, psychology, and the crisis of replication: A reply to Haig; Derksen & Morawski; and Trafimow	2
A brief theoretical examination of late modern cultural reality	2
The significance of absence: A contextual-relational perspective	1
A new phase for Theory & Psychology	1
Extending sexual scripting theory through critical discursive psychology: An analytical approach to explore the performance of sexual identities	1
Psychoanalysis, thermodynamics, and the matter of scarcity: A genealogy of Freud’s death drive hypothesis	1
The psycholexical approach to individual differences	1
Psychoanalytic work with autistic objects and affinities: A Lacanian approach	1
Beyond the specific factors versus common factors debate: Lacan’s four discourses informing Wampold and Imel’s contextual model of psychotherapy efficacy	1
Lived experience and the naturalization of bodily experience: An ecological proposal	1
Mechanism and contextualism in psychology	1
A case for using methods from natural science in advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience	1
A theoretical model of projects in motivated behavior	1
A confusion of tongues: Trauma, fantasy, and dissociation in Lacanian theory and the imperative for social change	1
Kurt Lewin’s ideas are alive! But why doesn’t anybody recognize them?	1
A social ontology of grief	1
Theory as behaviour: Why empathy research needs horizontal, mutualistic habits of seeing	1
Filling in the vacuous flesh: Embodiment, constitution, and interoception	1
Where psychological science meets moral theory: Linking up motivational primitives with normative ethics	1
Not self-aware? Psychological antecedents and consequences of alienating from one’s actual motives, emotions, and goals	1
Should psychology adopt Bhaskar’s critical realist philosophy of science?	1
Phronesis, affordance, and executive function: Situating values within moral psychology	1
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	1
The looping effects of psychological theories: From anomaly to opportunity	1
Beyond anti-psychiatry to mad pride: A review of the Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health LewisBradleyAliAlishaRussellJazmine (Eds.), Mad S	1
Hontologie: A Lacanian theory of shame	1
Squaring the circle: From latent variables to theory-based measurement	1
Replications are informative, particularly when they fail	1
Stop chasing unicorns of climate inaction: Annulling the value–action gap, introducing persons	1
The importance of the theoretical basis of Q-methodology	1
Capturing minds: Towards a methods critique of questionnaire-based mental health surveys	1
Understanding, schizophrenia, and the limits of phenomenology	1
The multiple turns in the psychology of emotion	1
Single cases and the laws of subjectivity	1
The Western psychologization of global development: A cultural and decolonial approach	1