Theory & Psychology

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.)
ArticleCitations
Denying Descartes and wary of Wittgenstein: Response to Franz58
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work28
Liberation in the hall of mirrors27
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology18
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section16
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model15
Border identities: Theoretical approach to the study of self from bordering processes12
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)12
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept11
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research10
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology10
Imagination in perception and art9
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology9
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline8
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes8
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice8
Affective experience in neuroscience and phenomenology: An epistemological analysis of emotions and feelings7
Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism7
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking7
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick6
Wundt’s logic: Old resource for new ideas6
Facing up to the hardest problem: The human information field and the ontological primacy of subjective consciousness6
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence6
Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics6
The trees and the forest: Investigating variability surrounding an aggregate result6
Carl Rogers’ struggle to be “real” and its implications for understanding psychologists’ life–work connections and sociocultural impact6
Neonihilism: Meaninglessness and irony in neoliberal capitalism6
Autism in the interstices: Toward an ethical understanding of autistic cultural worlds5
Iconic models in science and psychology5
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization5
The role of education in neoliberal selfhood5
Describing disorder: The importance and advancement of compositional explanations in psychopathology5
Advancing a cultural–historical activity perspective in a psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy training programme5
“Their voice becomes my voice”: Understanding the development of the dialogical self through the internalization of voices in group psychotherapy5
The problematic concrete individual implied by scientific realism5
The autistic mirror in the real: Autism in Lacan’s mirror stage4
Reclaiming care toward disability justice4
On the ontology of language: A critique of trait theory4
Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations4
Lacan after Heidegger4
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum4
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons4
“Are psychological attributes quantitative?” is not an empirical question: Conceptual confusions in the measurement debate4
Moral affordance, moral expertise, and virtue4
Realism and symbolic systems in the practice of scientific psychology3
The oughtness of existence: Living and suffering by what we ought3
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance3
Causal inference: Principles unifying experimental and observational accounts3
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom3
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory3
Social technologies in and out of psychology3
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al3
Emergence, convergence, and theory of mind3
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review2
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)2
Against the reduction of teleology to sophisticated causal explanation2
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy2
A neurophenomenological theory of the three worlds2
A cautionary note on aggregation in educational psychology and beyond2
Metaphor and the scientific method: Why Lacan’s perspective isn’t helpful yet2
Wise thoughts on phronesis2
The evil within: The AMORAL model of dark creativity2
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association2
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents2
Joseph Delboeuf on time as the mechanism of free will2
On Simpson’s paradox: To remain or not to remain a population-based science2
Making sense of signs: Readjusting William Stern’s personological value theory2
Epistemic inequality in the digital era: Unpacking biases in digital mental health2
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study2
The role of inferences in reading comprehension: A critical analysis2
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants2
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?2
The autistic pseudosignifier: Imaginary dialectization of signs in the clinic of autism2
Psychology: Where history, culture, and biology meet2
Pathologizing the pathological and the place for grief: Reply to Brinkmann2
Contrasts and synergies: A comment on Jones (2022)2
Replications are informative, particularly when they fail1
Freudian naturalism and the assessment of psychoanalysis as a natural science: Psychic phenomenon as process1
Why is one study technique superior to another?1
Simondon, emotion, and individuation: The tensions of psychological life in digital worlds1
Thirty years of focus on individual variability and the dynamics of processes1
On making stones speak: Concerning empathy and historical knowledge1
Embracing variability and complexity and the explanatory reductionism of scientific realism1
Examining the mechanism of disavowal and its two forms: Cynical disavowal and fetishistic disavowal1
Theory as behaviour: Why empathy research needs horizontal, mutualistic habits of seeing1
The multiple turns in the psychology of emotion1
A confusion of tongues: Trauma, fantasy, and dissociation in Lacanian theory and the imperative for social change1
Understanding, schizophrenia, and the limits of phenomenology1
Not self-aware? Psychological antecedents and consequences of alienating from one’s actual motives, emotions, and goals1
A theoretical model of projects in motivated behavior1
A case for using methods from natural science in advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience1
Kurt Lewin’s ideas are alive! But why doesn’t anybody recognize them?1
Revisioning psychology and deglobalisation: The case of Brexit1
Towards solving psychology’s fundamental problem1
Extending sexual scripting theory through critical discursive psychology: An analytical approach to explore the performance of sexual identities1
In the aftermath of globalization: Antiglobalizing and deglobalizing forms of subjectivity1
When foundations falter: The emergence of defensive narratives from insecure attachment dynamics1
Scientific realism and the historical emergence of consciousness1
The rhetorical use of B. F. Skinner in evolutionary psychology1
A social ontology of grief1
Translating science into practice in clinical psychology: A reformulation of the evidence-based practice inquiry model1
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants1
Phronesis, affordance, and executive function: Situating values within moral psychology1
Reasons versus causes in Arocha’s scientific realism1
A new phase for Theory & Psychology1
Squaring the circle: From latent variables to theory-based measurement1
Can psychology learn from the natural sciences?1
Critical realism, psychology, and the crisis of replication: A reply to Haig; Derksen & Morawski; and Trafimow1
Authenticization: Consuming commodified authenticity to become “authentic” subjects1
Worth-Conscious theory: Understanding the role of birthright self-worth and application to clinical practice1
Hontologie: A Lacanian theory of shame1
Psychoanalysis, thermodynamics, and the matter of scarcity: A genealogy of Freud’s death drive hypothesis1
Mechanism and contextualism in psychology1
Should psychology adopt Bhaskar’s critical realist philosophy of science?1
Psychologising meritocracy: A historical account of its many guises1
Single cases and the laws of subjectivity1
The joint construction of goals and means as a solution for the problem of variability in behavior1
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