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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Cultural psychological implications of Hermann Hesse’s Glasperlenspiel (glass bead game)	15
Attention operation and language in the learning process in a music lesson	12
Buffer zones in Wayanad: A social constructivist exploration into farmers’ mental health	11
Thinking and the Moral Landscape	11
Maintaining the future through recurrent crises	11
Identifying Hashtag Cultures to Study the Construction of Childhood Image and Parents’ Aspirations	10
The wind of thinking	10
Perceptions of teachers from Brazil and the United States regarding creativity of gifted students: Contributions from Vygotsky	8
The Javanese Rasa: Sense, psychology, and spirituality	7
The journey from unrealistic to realistic optimism: Ancient Confucian wisdom in modern business practice	7
Migrants’ deaths at Europe’s southern border: Cultural psychological dimensions of memory and mourning in Lampedusa	7
Silence as a magnifying glass for uncertainty and affect: The qualitative case studies of Karin and Dana’s journals	7
The religious component of uncertainty avoidance in the child-rearing practices in Kerala, India	7
Identity negotiation of Han women in Han-Hui-Muslim intermarriage in China: A dialogical-self theory approach	7
How cultural beliefs shape adaptive behavior and views of happiness: The good life in the community of Uzbekistan	7
Conceptual questions about meaning: Divergence or complementarity between cultural-Historical positions?	6
A systematic review of client’s perspectives on the cultural and racial awareness and responsiveness of mental health practitioners	6
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	6
‘Face consciousness’ and ‘culture of embarrassment’ as stimulators to consumption: Exploring consumption decisions in the Jordanian context.	6
Identity in university students: The semiotic work of making sense of yourself	6
Sudhir Kakar on mysticism, psychoanalysis, and culture	6
Cultural understandings of fathering and fatherhood in India: An exploration of lived experiences	5
Questions about the will	5
Development and vulnerability across the lifecourse	5
Trauma, bicultural immersion, and growing into self: The impacts of media narratives on former refugees	5

Accounts of Sexual Abuse Using a Cultural Semiotic Model	5
Animals were harmed in the making of this research: the makings of human-animal relation in hunting	5
Country, identity and sharing: Australian indigenous Children’s perspectives on their own indigeneity – A further case for authentic empathy	4
To trust or not to trust? How Hong Kong protesters build and maintain trust in a leaderless movement	4
In memoriam Ivana Marková (1938–2024)	4
Once Upon a Time, Materiality: A Possible Scenario for Psychology in the Nature/culture Divide	4
The experiences of non-indigenous ethnic minority psychotherapists residing and practicing in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Runaway rights: A closer look at different rights visions and entitlement perceptions	4
“Power to the people—all the people”: Sociocultural constructions of black queer identity	4
Conclusion: An invitation to dialogue with The Life of the Mind	4
Understanding coping mechanisms in times of anxiety and uncertainty: A qualitative study of Kashmir women’s recourse to superstitions	3
Defining the Self in Terms of Power, Plurality and Social Embeddedness–The Model of the Agonistic Self	3
Reflection to freedom: Return of a fundamental discourse in Contemporary Psychology	3
“A man doesn’t drink from a straw. Never!” the experience of coming out as gay to oneself and to others	3
Older black South African women’s perceptions and attitudes of long-term care: An Ubuntu-centric cultural perspective	3
Definitions and scope of ginhawa: Unpacking the experiences of Filipinos toward having a good life	3
The Role of Dehumanization in Legitimation and Delegitimation of State Violence in Colombia	3
The use of branded clothing in identity development and social relations between adolescents	3
Natural origins of social essentialism: Ethnic groups, identities, and cultural transmission	3
Metamorphosis from exalted person to cultural symbol: A case study of the GOAT in tennis	3
Cultural mediation of grief: the role of aesthetic experience	3
The meanings of disability-related activities and disability identities: A qualitative analysis of narratives of people with physical disabilities in Japan	3
‘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	3
Thinking through cultures and psychologies: Robert Levine’s life and work, and a discipline’s ongoing project	3
A semiotic cultural psychology theory analysis of the signs ‘We’, ‘Us’, ‘I’ and ‘Me’	2
Dialogue with The Life of the Mind	2
Community versus society: The normative vision of sociality in joint self-education	2
Tackling gendered aspects of acculturation through Turkish migrant Women’s experiences in Europe	2
Systematic literature review: The use of the concept of perezhivanie in research on teacher training	2
Indigenous people in urban context and historical memory: Paths for psychology indigenous people in urban context and psychology	2
Psychotherapy displayed as an ongoing meaning-making dialogue	2
Examining the impact of hagwons and the South Korean Education System on the entity mindset development of young South Korean adults	2
Inter-group relationships of interdependence between the Adivasi people and the Jesuits in India: Emergence of a new identity	2
Willing and action	2
(Dis)location and identity: Understanding the construction of Tibetan refugee identity in youth living in India	2
The Nectar of Conscious and Unconscious Interpersonal Complexity Cross-Pollinating in Western and Non-Western Counseling Contexts	2
Trends and directions in acculturation research	2
Gender identity from a dialogical and semiotic cultural perspective	2
The dialogical self and the multiplicity of I-positions: Experiences of becoming a teacher in the international practicum	2
Who to marry? Norwegian-Tamil young adults reflecting on their conditions for partner choice. A narrative approach to intergenerational change processes	2
Trajectory equifinality model and German research on women’s self-negotiation of perceived normativity in a Western society	2
Online compassion on the border: The case of Chinese undergraduates on social media in the first weave of COVID-19 pandemic	2
School refusal as a representation of questioning normality: Understanding the richness of socio-cultural transitions	2
Retelling the past: Narrative construction and reconstruction using personal photographs and the elicitation of nostalgia	2
“Flying over the crisis”: A study on interdisciplinary metaphors of resilience	2
Chilean experiences of exile in the “socialist brotherhood” negotiating solidarity, belonging and change in the German Democratic Republic	2
Where is the Ground? Cultural Transmission and Psychological Adaptation of Sri Lankan-Tamil Ethnic Repatriates	2
Muslim minorities’ experiences of Islamophobia in the West: A systematic review	2
A social psychological investigation of “Anti-nationalism” in contemporary India – A media analysis	1
Body alteration: On the mental function of body modification and body decoration	1

How do the ethnicity minangkabau male express their masculinity in language: A identity point of view	1
Insurrections of indigenous knowledges: Debating ‘critical’ in indigenous psychologies	1
Exploring experiences of proculturation in international students during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Book reviews: A dialogical reviewing process	1
Reclaiming disabled creativity: How cultural models make legible the creativity of people with disabilities	1
Understanding the power of mindfulness from a cultural-psychological perspective	1
Sociocultural positivism: Critical evaluation in three research vignettes	1
Manifestations of wisdom in ancient China: An analysis of theZhinang Quanji	1
On the problem of generalization in cultural psychology: Aesthetics, generalizability, and dialogical research	1
Active imagination: A thorough presentation of a method applicable across psychodynamic approaches	1
Sexism with a small “S”: Indian women’s perceptions and experiences of benevolent sexism in the workplace	1
What Mafia do we have in mind? An exploratory study on mafia representation among ordinary people	1
Philosophy of friendship with a place as interpretive support for cultural psychology	1
Communicating freedom in the bifurcation point: Amanogawa (the Milky Way) as a metaphor for developing the three layers model of genesis	1
Towards a Reflexive Psychology: Embracing Interdisciplinarity, Intersectionality, and Decolonial Perspectives	1
Assignment resubmission and the emergence of a third space: International students’ discursive negotiation tools	1
Towards new horizons: Welcome to the future	1
Reification of infant-directed speech? Exploring assumptions shaping infant-directed speech research	1
Civic engagement development in Argentinean adolescents: An autobiographical approach	1
Reading men’s experiences of balancing work and family life through the lens of semiotic cultural approach to life-course transitions	1
Grief as an existential interruption: Adults narrating their childhood grief	1
Moving up the stream beyond resistance to counter move	1
Corrigendum to “gender identity from a dialogical and semiotic cultural perspective”	1
Toward a conceptualization of the musical self: A theoretical-methodological approach to subjectivity in independent musicians	1
“Music is…”?! Significations attributed by middle school students to the notion of music	1
“To become a gentleman” and other metaphors in the transition to university	1
From Inner Worlds to Cultural Currents: The Legacy of Sudhir Kakar’s Work on Indian Identity	1
Hermeneutic dialogue with the unconscious: Exploring Jung and Neumann’s archetypal images in light of Gadamer’s aesthetic rationality	1
The semiotics of culture in light of commonalities and conflicts in Lotmanian and Peircean theories	1
Introducing Syntheses	1
Shock and the materialist conception of art: Considerations for a politicised cultural psychology	1
Negotiating autonomy, community, and divinity in urban Filipino young adults’ moral reasoning	1
Instagram and end of life. Exploring the mediational role of social networks in young cancer patients through a case study	1
A Psychological Analysis of the Imagery of Chinese Menshen	1
Conceptualising Bhāvana: How do contemplative Hindu traditions inform understanding emotions and well-being?	1
Significance and functions of decorative ornaments on child modesty discs: A cultural psychological exploration	1
Freedom as cultural-discursive resource	1
Spirit possession, mental suffering, and treatment by theurgic flight anthropological study of a culture-bound syndrome among the Turkmens of Iran	1
Artful interpretive thematic analysis of Women’s narratives of freedom	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
Children’s peer world during the transition to primary school – A case study of a Chinese australian child	1
Understanding Postmodern Identity Among US Young Adults Through an Investigation of Globalized Interest	1
Making worldviews work: A heuristic, a planet scan, a case and their transversal implication	1
Walking for well-being. Exploring the phenomenology of modern pilgrimage	1
Shame experienced by self and others: A relational approach	1
Teachers’ attitudes toward regrets: A cultural comparative reading	1