OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Culture & 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
Attention operation and language in the learning process in a music lesson	18
Cultural psychological implications of Hermann Hesse’s Glasperlenspiel (glass bead game)	17
Maintaining the future through recurrent crises	16
Buffer zones in Wayanad: A social constructivist exploration into farmers’ mental health	15
How cultural beliefs shape adaptive behavior and views of happiness: The good life in the community of Uzbekistan	13
Perceptions of teachers from Brazil and the United States regarding creativity of gifted students: Contributions from Vygotsky	13
“Chabin (Light-Skinned People) are Naturally Feminine”: Pigmentocracy and the Construction of Color-Coded Masculinities in St. Lucia	13
The journey from unrealistic to realistic optimism: Ancient Confucian wisdom in modern business practice	13
Identity negotiation of Han women in Han-Hui-Muslim intermarriage in China: A dialogical-self theory approach	12
The wind of thinking	12
Identifying Hashtag Cultures to Study the Construction of Childhood Image and Parents’ Aspirations	11
Identity in university students: The semiotic work of making sense of yourself	11
‘Face consciousness’ and ‘culture of embarrassment’ as stimulators to consumption: Exploring consumption decisions in the Jordanian context.	11
A systematic review of client’s perspectives on the cultural and racial awareness and responsiveness of mental health practitioners	10
Conceptual questions about meaning: Divergence or complementarity between cultural-Historical positions?	10
Book Review: Contemporary conspiracy culture: truth and knowledge in an era of epistemic instability HarambamJaron (2020). Contemporary conspiracy culture: truth and knowledge in an era of epistemic i	9
Silence as a magnifying glass for uncertainty and affect: The qualitative case studies of Karin and Dana’s journals	9
Migrants’ deaths at Europe’s southern border: Cultural psychological dimensions of memory and mourning in Lampedusa	9
The Dialogical Self in Participatory Action Research	8
The Javanese Rasa: Sense, psychology, and spirituality	8
Sudhir Kakar on mysticism, psychoanalysis, and culture	8
From Function to Meaning: A Dialogue Between Geertz’s Hermeneutic Anthropology and Behavioral Science	7
Animals were harmed in the making of this research: the makings of human-animal relation in hunting	7
Questions about the will	6
Accounts of Sexual Abuse Using a Cultural Semiotic Model	6

Trauma, bicultural immersion, and growing into self: The impacts of media narratives on former refugees	6
Country, identity and sharing: Australian indigenous Children’s perspectives on their own indigeneity – A further case for authentic empathy	5
To trust or not to trust? How Hong Kong protesters build and maintain trust in a leaderless movement	5
Cultural understandings of fathering and fatherhood in India: An exploration of lived experiences	5
“Power to the people—all the people”: Sociocultural constructions of black queer identity	5
Beyond Redemption: Prevention, Protection, and Narrative Identity Construction among Bangladeshi Street-Based Female Sex Workers	5
Development and vulnerability across the lifecourse	5
Once Upon a Time, Materiality: A Possible Scenario for Psychology in the Nature/culture Divide	5
‘You Always Need at Least Two Tones to Produce a Harmonious Sound’: The Value of Arendt’s Ideas on Friendship for Thinking in Social Psychology	4
In memoriam Ivana Marková (1938–2024)	4
Understanding coping mechanisms in times of anxiety and uncertainty: A qualitative study of Kashmir women’s recourse to superstitions	4
The meanings of disability-related activities and disability identities: A qualitative analysis of narratives of people with physical disabilities in Japan	4
Thinking through cultures and psychologies: Robert Levine’s life and work, and a discipline’s ongoing project	4
The use of branded clothing in identity development and social relations between adolescents	4
Runaway rights: A closer look at different rights visions and entitlement perceptions	4
Conclusion: An invitation to dialogue with The Life of the Mind	4
Cultural mediation of grief: the role of aesthetic experience	4
Reflection to freedom: Return of a fundamental discourse in Contemporary Psychology	4
“A man doesn’t drink from a straw. Never!” the experience of coming out as gay to oneself and to others	4
The experiences of non-indigenous ethnic minority psychotherapists residing and practicing in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Definitions and scope of ginhawa: Unpacking the experiences of Filipinos toward having a good life	4
Older black South African women’s perceptions and attitudes of long-term care: An Ubuntu-centric cultural perspective	4
Natural origins of social essentialism: Ethnic groups, identities, and cultural transmission	4
Tackling gendered aspects of acculturation through Turkish migrant Women’s experiences in Europe	3
Who to marry? Norwegian-Tamil young adults reflecting on their conditions for partner choice. A narrative approach to intergenerational change processes	3
Dialogue with The Life of the Mind	3
(Dis)location and identity: Understanding the construction of Tibetan refugee identity in youth living in India	3
The Role of Dehumanization in Legitimation and Delegitimation of State Violence in Colombia	3
Defining the Self in Terms of Power, Plurality and Social Embeddedness–The Model of the Agonistic Self	3
Willing and action	3
Where is the Ground? Cultural Transmission and Psychological Adaptation of Sri Lankan-Tamil Ethnic Repatriates	3
Trends and directions in acculturation research	3
Trajectory equifinality model and German research on women’s self-negotiation of perceived normativity in a Western society	3
Community versus society: The normative vision of sociality in joint self-education	3
Online compassion on the border: The case of Chinese undergraduates on social media in the first weave of COVID-19 pandemic	3
Objectivity and Subjectivity Revisited: Towards a Shared Human Ontology	3
Preserved Dissonance as an Extension of Cognitive Dissonance Theory	3
Phulkari Art, Folksong, and the Expression of Indignation: An Interdisciplinary Review With Indian Psychological Perspectives	3
Psychotherapy displayed as an ongoing meaning-making dialogue	3
Retelling the past: Narrative construction and reconstruction using personal photographs and the elicitation of nostalgia	3
School refusal as a representation of questioning normality: Understanding the richness of socio-cultural transitions	3
The Nectar of Conscious and Unconscious Interpersonal Complexity Cross-Pollinating in Western and Non-Western Counseling Contexts	3
Inter-group relationships of interdependence between the Adivasi people and the Jesuits in India: Emergence of a new identity	3
Chilean experiences of exile in the “socialist brotherhood” negotiating solidarity, belonging and change in the German Democratic Republic	2
Indigenous people in urban context and historical memory: Paths for psychology indigenous people in urban context and psychology	2
Gender identity from a dialogical and semiotic cultural perspective	2
Systematic literature review: The use of the concept of perezhivanie in research on teacher training	2
Sexism with a small “S”: Indian women’s perceptions and experiences of benevolent sexism in the workplace	2
Introducing Syntheses	2
Toward a conceptualization of the musical self: A theoretical-methodological approach to subjectivity in independent musicians	2

A social psychological investigation of “Anti-nationalism” in contemporary India – A media analysis	2
Examining the impact of hagwons and the South Korean Education System on the entity mindset development of young South Korean adults	2
“Flying over the crisis”: A study on interdisciplinary metaphors of resilience	2
“To become a gentleman” and other metaphors in the transition to university	2
Hermeneutic dialogue with the unconscious: Exploring Jung and Neumann’s archetypal images in light of Gadamer’s aesthetic rationality	2
Making worldviews work: A heuristic, a planet scan, a case and their transversal implication	2
Grief as an existential interruption: Adults narrating their childhood grief	2
Muslim minorities’ experiences of Islamophobia in the West: A systematic review	2
Towards a Reflexive Psychology: Embracing Interdisciplinarity, Intersectionality, and Decolonial Perspectives	2
Negotiating autonomy, community, and divinity in urban Filipino young adults’ moral reasoning	2
The dialogical self and the multiplicity of I-positions: Experiences of becoming a teacher in the international practicum	2
On the problem of generalization in cultural psychology: Aesthetics, generalizability, and dialogical research	2
Philosophy of friendship with a place as interpretive support for cultural psychology	2
Assignment resubmission and the emergence of a third space: International students’ discursive negotiation tools	2
Dramatic to Cultural-Dramatic Perezhivanie: The Lived Experience of Early Childhood Interventionists	2
Understanding the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity Through a Complex Dynamic Systems Lens	1
Instagram and end of life. Exploring the mediational role of social networks in young cancer patients through a case study	1
An ecological model of experienced stigma during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study in Malaysia	1
Empathy as a Cultural Process: A Critical Analysis of the Phenomenon of Empathy Through Socio-Cultural Psychology	1
Book reviews: A dialogical reviewing process	1
Communicating freedom in the bifurcation point: Amanogawa (the Milky Way) as a metaphor for developing the three layers model of genesis	1
“Music is…”?! Significations attributed by middle school students to the notion of music	1
“Who Am I Now as a Mother?” Maternal Identity Negotiation During Children’s College Transition	1
From Inner Worlds to Cultural Currents: The Legacy of Sudhir Kakar’s Work on Indian Identity	1
Exploring the depth of Marion Dönhoff’s psyche: A Cultural Psychogram	1
Civic engagement development in Argentinean adolescents: An autobiographical approach	1
Decolonial ink drops on a psychological debate about the sociogenesis of human rights	1
Reification of infant-directed speech? Exploring assumptions shaping infant-directed speech research	1
Nature in the discourse of holistic consultants and therapists in southern Chile	1
Artful interpretive thematic analysis of Women’s narratives of freedom	1
Farm Fiction: Experiencing Narrative Identities in the Swiss Ballenberg Museum	1
Exploring experiences of proculturation in international students during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Walking for well-being. Exploring the phenomenology of modern pilgrimage	1
Understanding Chinese international students’ perception of cultural conflicts in Canada: Through the case of cannabis use	1
Body alteration: On the mental function of body modification and body decoration	1
A glimpse inside: Examining loob from the life stories of center-based Filipino children in conflict with the law	1
Children’s peer world during the transition to primary school – A case study of a Chinese australian child	1
Intimacy in social media: A theoretical analysis of extimacy	1
“Is my culture influencing me?”: Client experiences of mental illness and psychotherapy in a transitional Indian culture	1
Corrigendum to “gender identity from a dialogical and semiotic cultural perspective”	1
The psychoanalysis between the dynamic individual unconscious and the cultural unconscious: Sudhir Kakar’s analytical work in the Indian context	1
The semiotics of culture in light of commonalities and conflicts in Lotmanian and Peircean theories	1
A new position: Creativity as ecological responsiveness. The sociomateriality of creativity - reviewed	1
Shock and the materialist conception of art: Considerations for a politicised cultural psychology	1
Silence is a construction: An exploratory study of people’s everyday understandings	1
How do the ethnicity minangkabau male express their masculinity in language: A identity point of view	1
Mapuche entrepreneur women profiles and their trajectories in poverty alleviation programs	1
The Janus Face of Individualization. Young People’s Lives between Soft and Hard Individualization	1
Significance and functions of decorative ornaments on child modesty discs: A cultural psychological exploration	1
Bridging Tradition and Modernity: Enhancing the Appeal of Minangkabau Kaba Narratives for Gen-Z Students	1
Towards new horizons: Welcome to the future	1
A Psychological Analysis of the Imagery of Chinese Menshen	1
Sociocultural positivism: Critical evaluation in three research vignettes	1
Moving up the stream beyond resistance to counter move	1
Understanding the power of mindfulness from a cultural-psychological perspective	1
Understanding Postmodern Identity Among US Young Adults Through an Investigation of Globalized Interest	1
Remembering the occupation of “Araucanía”: Mapuche students’ repeated reproduction of historical texts	1
Active imagination: A thorough presentation of a method applicable across psychodynamic approaches	1
Emotional configurations of grief: Narratives from childhood	1
What Mafia do we have in mind? An exploratory study on mafia representation among ordinary people	1
Social representations of citizenship among Argentine adolescents: Between civic engagement, rights and nationality	1
Conceptualising Bhāvana: How do contemplative Hindu traditions inform understanding emotions and well-being?	1
Career decision-making as dynamic semiosis: Autoethnographic trajectory equifinality modeling	1
Teachers’ attitudes toward regrets: A cultural comparative reading	1
Empathy and self-awareness ( rasa rumangsa ) in the Javanese cultural context	1
Insurrections of indigenous knowledges: Debating ‘critical’ in indigenous psychologies	1
Freedom as cultural-discursive resource	1