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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	45
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	35
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	19
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	18
Searching for rightness: Ecological perspectives on realizing values in acting and perceiving	17
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	16
Considerations on Behavior Based on Merleau-Ponty’s Criticisms	15
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	13
Conceptualising the digital “subject”: A Deleuzoguattarian framing of social media, desire and becoming in psychotherapeutic assemblages	12
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology	11
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	11
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	10
Imagination in perception and art	10
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	10
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	10
The importance of interdisciplinarity in research: A response to Stenner	9
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	9
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	9
Misogyny as Hierarchy Reinforcement: Towards an Integrated Framework of Gender Hierarchy Maintenance Mechanisms	8
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice	8
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick	8
Affective experience in neuroscience and phenomenology: An epistemological analysis of emotions and feelings	8
Carl Rogers’ struggle to be “real” and its implications for understanding psychologists’ life–work connections and sociocultural impact	7
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	7
Estranging intersectionality: A call for context-sensitive applications of intersectionality for non-capitalist and non-democratic regimes	7

Existential origins of endogenous and exogenous psychosis: A phenomenological inquiry into uncanny and twilight atmospheres	7
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons	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	6
“Their voice becomes my voice”: Understanding the development of the dialogical self through the internalization of voices in group psychotherapy	6
Neonihilism: Meaninglessness and irony in neoliberal capitalism	6
Wundt’s logic: Old resource for new ideas	6
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization	6
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	6
Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics	6
Advancing a cultural–historical activity perspective in a psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy training programme	5
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	5
An ontology of difference: Speculations on psychotherapy, mental health work, difference, and ethical realism	5
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	5
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	5
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	5
Moral breakdowns and their (failed) repair: The role of socionormative concerns in ressentiment formation	5
Causal inference: Principles unifying experimental and observational accounts	5
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	5
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	4
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	4
From cinema to the lab: Psychological experiments as liminal affective technologies	4
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents	4
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	4
Social technologies in and out of psychology	4
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	4
Wise thoughts on phronesis	4
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	4
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
Real Hate in Context (REHIC): A Theory of Hate	3
Pathologizing the pathological and the place for grief: Reply to Brinkmann	3
Book Review: Decolonial psychology: Toward anticolonial theories, research, training, and practice Comas-DíazL.AdamesH. Y.Chávez-DueñasN. Y. (Eds.), Decolonial psychology: Toward anticolonial theories	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
Contrasts and synergies: A comment on Jones (2022)	3
Individual and social growth: A commentary on “Carl Rogers’ Struggle to Be ‘Real’”	3
Beyond a set of procedures: Reclaiming the philosophical depth of Q methodology	3
A cautionary note on aggregation in educational psychology and beyond	3
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy	3
Psychology: Where history, culture, and biology meet	3
Metaphor and the scientific method: Why Lacan’s perspective isn’t helpful yet	3
Epistemic inequality in the digital era: Unpacking biases in digital mental health	3
Analysing films to rethink the psychology of time	3
Squaring the circle: From latent variables to theory-based measurement	2
Beyond the Scare Quotes: Comment on “New Horizons for Piagetian Constructivism”	2
Culture as an ontological universe: Toward a broader model of culture in the globalizing era	2
The Pain of Replication: Emotional Concerns about Fidelity in a Replication Study	2
Freudian naturalism and the assessment of psychoanalysis as a natural science: Psychic phenomenon as process	2
A new phase for Theory & Psychology	2
Can psychology learn from the natural sciences?	2

Examining the mechanism of disavowal and its two forms: Cynical disavowal and fetishistic disavowal	2
When foundations falter: The emergence of defensive narratives from insecure attachment dynamics	2
Between Dionysus and Apollo: The dialectic of spontaneity and reflection	2
Critical realism, psychology, and the crisis of replication: A reply to Haig; Derksen & Morawski; and Trafimow	2
Authenticization: Consuming commodified authenticity to become “authentic” subjects	2
Towards solving psychology’s fundamental problem	2
Why is one study technique superior to another?	2
Extending sexual scripting theory through critical discursive psychology: An analytical approach to explore the performance of sexual identities	2
Δ Empathic Intelligence in Scope and Practice	2
Worth-Conscious theory: Understanding the role of birthright self-worth and application to clinical practice	2
In the aftermath of globalization: Antiglobalizing and deglobalizing forms of subjectivity	2
A brief theoretical examination of late modern cultural reality	2
Revisioning psychology and deglobalisation: The case of Brexit	2
Kurt Lewin’s ideas are alive! But why doesn’t anybody recognize them?	2
Mechanism and contextualism in psychology	1
The Experiential Field as a Morphogenetic Space: A Field‑Oriented Framework for Subjective Experience and Clinical Practice	1
Ecologies of Exposure and Resistance (EER): A Novel Framework for Understanding Health Inequalities in Marginalized Communities	1
Hontologie: A Lacanian theory of shame	1
Single cases and the laws of subjectivity	1
On interpellation by the enigma: Revisiting the relation of nondirectiveness and psychoanalysis through Laplanche	1
Book Review: The multidisciplinary lens on subjective experience EagleMorris N., Subjective experience: Its fate in psychology, psychoanalysis and philosophy of mind. Routledge, 2024. 262 pp. ISBN 978	1
Lived experience and the naturalization of bodily experience: An ecological proposal	1
The looping effects of psychological theories: From anomaly to opportunity	1
Phronesis, affordance, and executive function: Situating values within moral psychology	1
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	1
The significance of absence: A contextual-relational perspective	1
Beyond anti-psychiatry to mad pride: A review of the Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health LewisBradleyAliAlishaRussellJazmine (Eds.), Mad S	1
A confusion of tongues: Trauma, fantasy, and dissociation in Lacanian theory and the imperative for social change	1
A social ontology of grief	1
Where psychological science meets moral theory: Linking up motivational primitives with normative ethics	1
From the agora to the algorithm: Aristotle’s rhetoric as a theoretical framework for understanding social media persuasion	1
The Western psychologization of global development: A cultural and decolonial approach	1
Theory as behaviour: Why empathy research needs horizontal, mutualistic habits of seeing	1
Replications are informative, particularly when they fail	1
Narrative subjectivity: Restorying hope	1
A theoretical model of projects in motivated behavior	1
The psycholexical approach to individual differences	1
Understanding, schizophrenia, and the limits of phenomenology	1
A case for using methods from natural science in advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience	1
The multiple turns in the psychology of emotion	1
Social representations as objects of knowledge: New horizons for Piagetian constructivism	1
Should psychology adopt Bhaskar’s critical realist philosophy of science?	1