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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Attention operation and language in the learning process in a music lesson	12
Maintaining the future through recurrent crises	12
Buffer zones in Wayanad: A social constructivist exploration into farmers’ mental health	10
Cultural psychological implications of Hermann Hesse’s Glasperlenspiel (glass bead game)	9
Identity negotiation of Han women in Han-Hui-Muslim intermarriage in China: A dialogical-self theory approach	8
The journey from unrealistic to realistic optimism: Ancient Confucian wisdom in modern business practice	7
Identifying Hashtag Cultures to Study the Construction of Childhood Image and Parents’ Aspirations	7
Perceptions of teachers from Brazil and the United States regarding creativity of gifted students: Contributions from Vygotsky	7
Thinking and the Moral Landscape	7
The religious component of uncertainty avoidance in the child-rearing practices in Kerala, India	6
The Javanese Rasa: Sense, psychology, and spirituality	6
Silence as a magnifying glass for uncertainty and affect: The qualitative case studies of Karin and Dana’s journals	6
The wind of thinking	6
Trauma, bicultural immersion, and growing into self: The impacts of media narratives on former refugees	5
Migrants’ deaths at Europe’s southern border: Cultural psychological dimensions of memory and mourning in Lampedusa	5
Conceptual questions about meaning: Divergence or complementarity between cultural-Historical positions?	5
‘Face consciousness’ and ‘culture of embarrassment’ as stimulators to consumption: Exploring consumption decisions in the Jordanian context.	5
A systematic review of client’s perspectives on the cultural and racial awareness and responsiveness of mental health practitioners	5
Questions about the will	5
Identity in university students: The semiotic work of making sense of yourself	5
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	5
Once Upon a Time, Materiality: A Possible Scenario for Psychology in the Nature/culture Divide	4
“Power to the people—all the people”: Sociocultural constructions of black queer identity	4
The use of branded clothing in identity development and social relations between adolescents	4
Cultural understandings of fathering and fatherhood in India: An exploration of lived experiences	4

The experiences of non-indigenous ethnic minority psychotherapists residing and practicing in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
In memoriam Ivana Marková (1938–2024)	4
To trust or not to trust? How Hong Kong protesters build and maintain trust in a leaderless movement	4
Development and vulnerability across the lifecourse	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
Reflection to freedom: Return of a fundamental discourse in Contemporary Psychology	3
Natural origins of social essentialism: Ethnic groups, identities, and cultural transmission	3
Cultural mediation of grief: the role of aesthetic experience	3
Defining the Self in Terms of Power, Plurality and Social Embeddedness–The Model of the Agonistic Self	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
Older black South African women’s perceptions and attitudes of long-term care: An Ubuntu-centric cultural perspective	3
The Role of Dehumanization in Legitimation and Delegitimation of State Violence in Colombia	3
“A man doesn’t drink from a straw. Never!” the experience of coming out as gay to oneself and to others	3
Definitions and scope of ginhawa: Unpacking the experiences of Filipinos toward having a good life	3
The meanings of disability-related activities and disability identities: A qualitative analysis of narratives of people with physical disabilities in Japan	3
Understanding coping mechanisms in times of anxiety and uncertainty: A qualitative study of Kashmir women’s recourse to superstitions	3
Inter-group relationships of interdependence between the Adivasi people and the Jesuits in India: Emergence of a new identity	2
Gender identity from a dialogical and semiotic cultural perspective	2
Online compassion on the border: The case of Chinese undergraduates on social media in the first weave of COVID-19 pandemic	2
A social psychological investigation of “Anti-nationalism” in contemporary India – A media analysis	2
Systematic literature review: The use of the concept of perezhivanie in research on teacher training	2
Chilean experiences of exile in the “socialist brotherhood” negotiating solidarity, belonging and change in the German Democratic Republic	2
A semiotic cultural psychology theory analysis of the signs ‘We’, ‘Us’, ‘I’ and ‘Me’	2
Retelling the past: Narrative construction and reconstruction using personal photographs and the elicitation of nostalgia	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
Who to marry? Norwegian-Tamil young adults reflecting on their conditions for partner choice. A narrative approach to intergenerational change processes	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
Muslim minorities’ experiences of Islamophobia in the West: A systematic review	2
Dialogue with The Life of the Mind	2
School refusal as a representation of questioning normality: Understanding the richness of socio-cultural transitions	2
Metamorphosis from exalted person to cultural symbol: A case study of the GOAT in tennis	2
Psychotherapy displayed as an ongoing meaning-making dialogue	2
Trends and directions in acculturation research	2
Indigenous people in urban context and historical memory: Paths for psychology indigenous people in urban context and psychology	2
Examining the impact of hagwons and the South Korean Education System on the entity mindset development of young South Korean adults	2
The dialogical self and the multiplicity of I-positions: Experiences of becoming a teacher in the international practicum	2
Trajectory equifinality model and German research on women’s self-negotiation of perceived normativity in a Western society	2
Willing and action	2
Book reviews: A dialogical reviewing process	1
Making worldviews work: A heuristic, a planet scan, a case and their transversal implication	1
Shame experienced by self and others: A relational approach	1
Understanding the power of mindfulness from a cultural-psychological perspective	1
Sociocultural positivism: Critical evaluation in three research vignettes	1
Exploring experiences of proculturation in international students during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Corrigendum to “gender identity from a dialogical and semiotic cultural perspective”	1
Shock and the materialist conception of art: Considerations for a politicised cultural psychology	1

Towards new horizons: Welcome to the future	1
The semiotics of culture in light of commonalities and conflicts in Lotmanian and Peircean theories	1
Communicating freedom in the bifurcation point: Amanogawa (the Milky Way) as a metaphor for developing the three layers model of genesis	1
Instagram and end of life. Exploring the mediational role of social networks in young cancer patients through a case study	1
Spirit possession, mental suffering, and treatment by theurgic flight anthropological study of a culture-bound syndrome among the Turkmens of Iran	1
Intimacy in social media: A theoretical analysis of extimacy	1
Hermeneutic dialogue with the unconscious: Exploring Jung and Neumann’s archetypal images in light of Gadamer’s aesthetic rationality	1
Sexism with a small “S”: Indian women’s perceptions and experiences of benevolent sexism in the workplace	1
Introducing Syntheses	1
Significance and functions of decorative ornaments on child modesty discs: A cultural psychological exploration	1
Assignment resubmission and the emergence of a third space: International students’ discursive negotiation tools	1
Conceptualising Bhāvana: How do contemplative Hindu traditions inform understanding emotions and well-being?	1
Understanding Postmodern Identity Among US Young Adults Through an Investigation of Globalized Interest	1
Insurrections of indigenous knowledges: Debating ‘critical’ in indigenous psychologies	1
What Mafia do we have in mind? An exploratory study on mafia representation among ordinary people	1
Walking for well-being. Exploring the phenomenology of modern pilgrimage	1
“Is my culture influencing me?”: Client experiences of mental illness and psychotherapy in a transitional Indian culture	1
Reading men’s experiences of balancing work and family life through the lens of semiotic cultural approach to life-course transitions	1
Moving up the stream beyond resistance to counter move	1
Freedom as cultural-discursive resource	1
On the problem of generalization in cultural psychology: Aesthetics, generalizability, and dialogical research	1
Philosophy of friendship with a place as interpretive support for cultural psychology	1
Reclaiming disabled creativity: How cultural models make legible the creativity of people with disabilities	1
Negotiating autonomy, community, and divinity in urban Filipino young adults’ moral reasoning	1
Body alteration: On the mental function of body modification and body decoration	1
Manifestations of wisdom in ancient China: An analysis of theZhinang Quanji	1
“Music is…”?! Significations attributed by middle school students to the notion of music	1
How do the ethnicity minangkabau male express their masculinity in language: A identity point of view	1
Teachers’ attitudes toward regrets: A cultural comparative reading	1
Active imagination: A thorough presentation of a method applicable across psychodynamic approaches	1
Toward a conceptualization of the musical self: A theoretical-methodological approach to subjectivity in independent musicians	1
Children’s peer world during the transition to primary school – A case study of a Chinese australian child	1