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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Denying Descartes and wary of Wittgenstein: Response to Franz	57
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
Border identities: Theoretical approach to the study of self from bordering processes	16
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	15
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	12
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	11
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology	10
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	10
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	9
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	8
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	8
Imagination in perception and art	8
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick	7
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	7
Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism	7
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	7
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice	7
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
Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics	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

The trees and the forest: Investigating variability surrounding an aggregate result	6
“Their voice becomes my voice”: Understanding the development of the dialogical self through the internalization of voices in group psychotherapy	5
Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations	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
The role of education in neoliberal selfhood	5
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons	5
Iconic models in science and psychology	5
Autism in the interstices: Toward an ethical understanding of autistic cultural worlds	5
The problematic concrete individual implied by scientific realism	5
On the ontology of language: A critique of trait theory	4
Lacan after Heidegger	4
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization	4
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	4
The autistic mirror in the real: Autism in Lacan’s mirror stage	4
The oughtness of existence: Living and suffering by what we ought	4
“Are psychological attributes quantitative?” is not an empirical question: Conceptual confusions in the measurement debate	4
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	3
Moral affordance, moral expertise, and virtue	3
Narrating the zone of proximal goodness	3
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	3
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	3
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum	3
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	3
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	2
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy	2
Contrasts and synergies: A comment on Jones (2022)	2
A neurophenomenological theory of the three worlds	2
Joseph Delboeuf on time as the mechanism of free will	2
Against the reduction of teleology to sophisticated causal explanation	2
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	2
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	2
The evil within: The AMORAL model of dark creativity	2
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents	2
The autistic pseudosignifier: Imaginary dialectization of signs in the clinic of autism	2
Psychology: Where history, culture, and biology meet	2
Wise thoughts on phronesis	2
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	2
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	2
The role of inferences in reading comprehension: A critical analysis	2
Realism and symbolic systems in the practice of scientific psychology	2
On Simpson’s paradox: To remain or not to remain a population-based science	2
“The art of imposing measurement upon the mind”: Sir Francis Galton and the genesis of the psychometric paradigm	2
Making sense of signs: Readjusting William Stern’s personological value theory	2
A cautionary note on aggregation in educational psychology and beyond	2
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	2
Social technologies in and out of psychology	2
Emergence, convergence, and theory of mind	2
Kurt Lewin’s ideas are alive! But why doesn’t anybody recognize them?	1
A new phase for Theory & Psychology	1

The joint construction of goals and means as a solution for the problem of variability in behavior	1
Psychoanalysis, thermodynamics, and the matter of scarcity: A genealogy of Freud’s death drive hypothesis	1
Theory as behaviour: Why empathy research needs horizontal, mutualistic habits of seeing	1
Extending sexual scripting theory through critical discursive psychology: An analytical approach to explore the performance of sexual identities	1
Single cases and the laws of subjectivity	1
Simondon, emotion, and individuation: The tensions of psychological life in digital worlds	1
A confusion of tongues: Trauma, fantasy, and dissociation in Lacanian theory and the imperative for social change	1
Can psychology learn from the natural sciences?	1
Scientific realism and the historical emergence of consciousness	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
Epistemic inequality in the digital era: Unpacking biases in digital mental health	1
Squaring the circle: From latent variables to theory-based measurement	1
Mechanism and contextualism in psychology	1
The multiple turns in the psychology of emotion	1
A case for using methods from natural science in advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience	1
A social ontology of grief	1
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	1
Why is one study technique superior to another?	1
Reasons versus causes in Arocha’s scientific realism	1
Towards solving psychology’s fundamental problem	1
Translating science into practice in clinical psychology: A reformulation of the evidence-based practice inquiry model	1
Critical realism, psychology, and the crisis of replication: A reply to Haig; Derksen & Morawski; and Trafimow	1
Embracing variability and complexity and the explanatory reductionism of scientific realism	1
In the aftermath of globalization: Antiglobalizing and deglobalizing forms of subjectivity	1
Metaphor and the scientific method: Why Lacan’s perspective isn’t helpful yet	1
Thirty years of focus on individual variability and the dynamics of processes	1
Hontologie: A Lacanian theory of shame	1
Phronesis, affordance, and executive function: Situating values within moral psychology	1
The rhetorical use of B. F. Skinner in evolutionary psychology	1
Should psychology adopt Bhaskar’s critical realist philosophy of science?	1
A theoretical model of projects in motivated behavior	1
Revisioning psychology and deglobalisation: The case of Brexit	1
Replications are informative, particularly when they fail	1
Freudian naturalism and the assessment of psychoanalysis as a natural science: Psychic phenomenon as process	1
Understanding, schizophrenia, and the limits of phenomenology	1
Examining the mechanism of disavowal and its two forms: Cynical disavowal and fetishistic disavowal	1
On making stones speak: Concerning empathy and historical knowledge	1
When foundations falter: The emergence of defensive narratives from insecure attachment dynamics	1
Pathologizing the pathological and the place for grief: Reply to Brinkmann	1