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

Article	Citations
Attention operation and language in the learning process in a music lesson	17
Buffer zones in Wayanad: A social constructivist exploration into farmers’ mental health	15
Maintaining the future through recurrent crises	14
Thinking and the Moral Landscape	13
Cultural psychological implications of Hermann Hesse’s Glasperlenspiel (glass bead game)	13
The wind of thinking	11
Identifying Hashtag Cultures to Study the Construction of Childhood Image and Parents’ Aspirations	11
Perceptions of teachers from Brazil and the United States regarding creativity of gifted students: Contributions from Vygotsky	10
How cultural beliefs shape adaptive behavior and views of happiness: The good life in the community of Uzbekistan	10
Identity negotiation of Han women in Han-Hui-Muslim intermarriage in China: A dialogical-self theory approach	9
The journey from unrealistic to realistic optimism: Ancient Confucian wisdom in modern business practice	9
The Javanese Rasa: Sense, psychology, and spirituality	8
Conceptual questions about meaning: Divergence or complementarity between cultural-Historical positions?	8
Silence as a magnifying glass for uncertainty and affect: The qualitative case studies of Karin and Dana’s journals	8
The religious component of uncertainty avoidance in the child-rearing practices in Kerala, India	8
Identity in university students: The semiotic work of making sense of yourself	7
Questions about the will	7
Migrants’ deaths at Europe’s southern border: Cultural psychological dimensions of memory and mourning in Lampedusa	7
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	7
Sudhir Kakar on mysticism, psychoanalysis, and culture	7
‘Face consciousness’ and ‘culture of embarrassment’ as stimulators to consumption: Exploring consumption decisions in the Jordanian context.	7
A systematic review of client’s perspectives on the cultural and racial awareness and responsiveness of mental health practitioners	7
Trauma, bicultural immersion, and growing into self: The impacts of media narratives on former refugees	7
Cultural understandings of fathering and fatherhood in India: An exploration of lived experiences	6
Animals were harmed in the making of this research: the makings of human-animal relation in hunting	6

Accounts of Sexual Abuse Using a Cultural Semiotic Model	6
The experiences of non-indigenous ethnic minority psychotherapists residing and practicing in Aotearoa New Zealand	5
From Function to Meaning: A Dialogue Between Geertz’s Hermeneutic Anthropology and Behavioral Science	5
Once Upon a Time, Materiality: A Possible Scenario for Psychology in the Nature/culture Divide	5
Development and vulnerability across the lifecourse	5
Country, identity and sharing: Australian indigenous Children’s perspectives on their own indigeneity – A further case for authentic empathy	5
Runaway rights: A closer look at different rights visions and entitlement perceptions	4
The use of branded clothing in identity development and social relations between adolescents	4
Conclusion: An invitation to dialogue with The Life of the Mind	4
‘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
“Power to the people—all the people”: Sociocultural constructions of black queer identity	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
Online compassion on the border: The case of Chinese undergraduates on social media in the first weave of COVID-19 pandemic	3
The Nectar of Conscious and Unconscious Interpersonal Complexity Cross-Pollinating in Western and Non-Western Counseling Contexts	3
Definitions and scope of ginhawa: Unpacking the experiences of Filipinos toward having a good life	3
Thinking through cultures and psychologies: Robert Levine’s life and work, and a discipline’s ongoing project	3
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
School refusal as a representation of questioning normality: Understanding the richness of socio-cultural transitions	3
Older black South African women’s perceptions and attitudes of long-term care: An Ubuntu-centric cultural perspective	3
Natural origins of social essentialism: Ethnic groups, identities, and cultural transmission	3
Reflection to freedom: Return of a fundamental discourse in Contemporary Psychology	3
Cultural mediation of grief: the role of aesthetic experience	3
The Role of Dehumanization in Legitimation and Delegitimation of State Violence in Colombia	3
(Dis)location and identity: Understanding the construction of Tibetan refugee identity in youth living in India	3
“A man doesn’t drink from a straw. Never!” the experience of coming out as gay to oneself and to others	3
The meanings of disability-related activities and disability identities: A qualitative analysis of narratives of people with physical disabilities in Japan	3
Community versus society: The normative vision of sociality in joint self-education	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
Negotiating autonomy, community, and divinity in urban Filipino young adults’ moral reasoning	2
Sexism with a small “S”: Indian women’s perceptions and experiences of benevolent sexism in the workplace	2
Philosophy of friendship with a place as interpretive support for cultural psychology	2
Shame experienced by self and others: A relational approach	2
“Flying over the crisis”: A study on interdisciplinary metaphors of resilience	2
Where is the Ground? Cultural Transmission and Psychological Adaptation of Sri Lankan-Tamil Ethnic Repatriates	2
Trends and directions in acculturation research	2
Trajectory equifinality model and German research on women’s self-negotiation of perceived normativity in a Western society	2
Dialogue with The Life of the Mind	2
Retelling the past: Narrative construction and reconstruction using personal photographs and the elicitation of nostalgia	2
Systematic literature review: The use of the concept of perezhivanie in research on teacher training	2
Hermeneutic dialogue with the unconscious: Exploring Jung and Neumann’s archetypal images in light of Gadamer’s aesthetic rationality	2
Introducing Syntheses	2
Towards a Reflexive Psychology: Embracing Interdisciplinarity, Intersectionality, and Decolonial Perspectives	2
Indigenous people in urban context and historical memory: Paths for psychology indigenous people in urban context and psychology	2
Chilean experiences of exile in the “socialist brotherhood” negotiating solidarity, belonging and change in the German Democratic Republic	2
Examining the impact of hagwons and the South Korean Education System on the entity mindset development of young South Korean adults	2
Objectivity and Subjectivity Revisited: Towards a Shared Human Ontology	2
Tackling gendered aspects of acculturation through Turkish migrant Women’s experiences in Europe	2

Willing and action	2
Muslim minorities’ experiences of Islamophobia in the West: A systematic review	2
Making worldviews work: A heuristic, a planet scan, a case and their transversal implication	2
Phulkari Art, Folksong, and the Expression of Indignation: An Interdisciplinary Review With Indian Psychological Perspectives	2
The dialogical self and the multiplicity of I-positions: Experiences of becoming a teacher in the international practicum	2
“To become a gentleman” and other metaphors in the transition to university	2
A social psychological investigation of “Anti-nationalism” in contemporary India – A media analysis	2
Psychotherapy displayed as an ongoing meaning-making dialogue	2
Who to marry? Norwegian-Tamil young adults reflecting on their conditions for partner choice. A narrative approach to intergenerational change processes	2
A semiotic cultural psychology theory analysis of the signs ‘We’, ‘Us’, ‘I’ and ‘Me’	2
Towards new horizons: Welcome to the future	1
Understanding the power of mindfulness from a cultural-psychological perspective	1
Empathy as a Cultural Process: A Critical Analysis of the Phenomenon of Empathy Through Socio-Cultural Psychology	1
Shock and the materialist conception of art: Considerations for a politicised cultural psychology	1
Instagram and end of life. Exploring the mediational role of social networks in young cancer patients through a case study	1
Walking for well-being. Exploring the phenomenology of modern pilgrimage	1
Intimacy in social media: A theoretical analysis of extimacy	1
Grief as an existential interruption: Adults narrating their childhood grief	1
Toward a conceptualization of the musical self: A theoretical-methodological approach to subjectivity in independent musicians	1
Communicating freedom in the bifurcation point: Amanogawa (the Milky Way) as a metaphor for developing the three layers model of genesis	1
Artful interpretive thematic analysis of Women’s narratives of freedom	1
Civic engagement development in Argentinean adolescents: An autobiographical approach	1
Understanding Chinese international students’ perception of cultural conflicts in Canada: Through the case of cannabis use	1
Conceptualising Bhāvana: How do contemplative Hindu traditions inform understanding emotions and well-being?	1
The semiotics of culture in light of commonalities and conflicts in Lotmanian and Peircean theories	1
Moving up the stream beyond resistance to counter move	1
Corrigendum to “gender identity from a dialogical and semiotic cultural perspective”	1
Reclaiming disabled creativity: How cultural models make legible the creativity of people with disabilities	1
“Music is…”?! Significations attributed by middle school students to the notion of music	1
Sociocultural positivism: Critical evaluation in three research vignettes	1
Freedom as cultural-discursive resource	1
Book reviews: A dialogical reviewing process	1
On the problem of generalization in cultural psychology: Aesthetics, generalizability, and dialogical research	1
What Mafia do we have in mind? An exploratory study on mafia representation among ordinary people	1
Children’s peer world during the transition to primary school – A case study of a Chinese australian child	1
From Inner Worlds to Cultural Currents: The Legacy of Sudhir Kakar’s Work on Indian Identity	1
Insurrections of indigenous knowledges: Debating ‘critical’ in indigenous psychologies	1
Exploring experiences of proculturation in international students during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
How do the ethnicity minangkabau male express their masculinity in language: A identity point of view	1
Significance and functions of decorative ornaments on child modesty discs: A cultural psychological exploration	1
“Is my culture influencing me?”: Client experiences of mental illness and psychotherapy in a transitional Indian culture	1
Body alteration: On the mental function of body modification and body decoration	1
Understanding Postmodern Identity Among US Young Adults Through an Investigation of Globalized Interest	1
Dramatic to Cultural-Dramatic Perezhivanie: The Lived Experience of Early Childhood Interventionists	1
Spirit possession, mental suffering, and treatment by theurgic flight anthropological study of a culture-bound syndrome among the Turkmens of Iran	1
Reading men’s experiences of balancing work and family life through the lens of semiotic cultural approach to life-course transitions	1
Assignment resubmission and the emergence of a third space: International students’ discursive negotiation tools	1
Active imagination: A thorough presentation of a method applicable across psychodynamic approaches	1
Teachers’ attitudes toward regrets: A cultural comparative reading	1
A glimpse inside: Examining loob from the life stories of center-based Filipino children in conflict with the law	1
Reification of infant-directed speech? Exploring assumptions shaping infant-directed speech research	1
Manifestations of wisdom in ancient China: An analysis of theZhinang Quanji	1