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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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
Perceptions of teachers from Brazil and the United States regarding creativity of gifted students: Contributions from Vygotsky	14
Buffer zones in Wayanad: A social constructivist exploration into farmers’ mental health	14
“Chabin (Light-Skinned People) are Naturally Feminine”: Pigmentocracy and the Construction of Color-Coded Masculinities in St. Lucia	13
How cultural beliefs shape adaptive behavior and views of happiness: The good life in the community of Uzbekistan	13
The journey from unrealistic to realistic optimism: Ancient Confucian wisdom in modern business practice	12
Identity negotiation of Han women in Han-Hui-Muslim intermarriage in China: A dialogical-self theory approach	12
A systematic review of client’s perspectives on the cultural and racial awareness and responsiveness of mental health practitioners	11
Identifying Hashtag Cultures to Study the Construction of Childhood Image and Parents’ Aspirations	11
Conceptual questions about meaning: Divergence or complementarity between cultural-Historical positions?	11
Silence as a magnifying glass for uncertainty and affect: The qualitative case studies of Karin and Dana’s journals	11
‘Face consciousness’ and ‘culture of embarrassment’ as stimulators to consumption: Exploring consumption decisions in the Jordanian context.	11
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	10
Migrants’ deaths at Europe’s southern border: Cultural psychological dimensions of memory and mourning in Lampedusa	10
The Javanese Rasa: Sense, psychology, and spirituality	9
Identity in university students: The semiotic work of making sense of yourself	8
Sudhir Kakar on mysticism, psychoanalysis, and culture	8
The Dialogical Self in Participatory Action Research	8
Accounts of Sexual Abuse Using a Cultural Semiotic Model	7
Development and vulnerability across the lifecourse	6
Trauma, bicultural immersion, and growing into self: The impacts of media narratives on former refugees	6
Animals were harmed in the making of this research: the makings of human-animal relation in hunting	6
Questions about the will	6

To trust or not to trust? How Hong Kong protesters build and maintain trust in a leaderless movement	5
Country, identity and sharing: Australian indigenous Children’s perspectives on their own indigeneity – A further case for authentic empathy	5
Beyond Redemption: Prevention, Protection, and Narrative Identity Construction among Bangladeshi Street-Based Female Sex Workers	5
From Function to Meaning: A Dialogue Between Geertz’s Hermeneutic Anthropology and Behavioral Science	5
“Power to the people—all the people”: Sociocultural constructions of black queer identity	5
Cultural understandings of fathering and fatherhood in India: An exploration of lived experiences	5
Runaway rights: A closer look at different rights visions and entitlement perceptions	4
“A man doesn’t drink from a straw. Never!” the experience of coming out as gay to oneself and to others	4
Natural origins of social essentialism: Ethnic groups, identities, and cultural transmission	4
Reflection to freedom: Return of a fundamental discourse in Contemporary Psychology	4
The Role of Dehumanization in Legitimation and Delegitimation of State Violence in Colombia	4
The meanings of disability-related activities and disability identities: A qualitative analysis of narratives of people with physical disabilities in Japan	4
The experiences of non-indigenous ethnic minority psychotherapists residing and practicing in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
The use of branded clothing in identity development and social relations between adolescents	4
Older black South African women’s perceptions and attitudes of long-term care: An Ubuntu-centric cultural perspective	4
Cultural mediation of grief: the role of aesthetic experience	4
The Nectar of Conscious and Unconscious Interpersonal Complexity Cross-Pollinating in Western and Non-Western Counseling Contexts	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
In memoriam Ivana Marková (1938–2024)	4
Definitions and scope of ginhawa: Unpacking the experiences of Filipinos toward having a good life	4
Understanding coping mechanisms in times of anxiety and uncertainty: A qualitative study of Kashmir women’s recourse to superstitions	4
Online compassion on the border: The case of Chinese undergraduates on social media in the first weave of COVID-19 pandemic	4
Defining the Self in Terms of Power, Plurality and Social Embeddedness–The Model of the Agonistic Self	3
Trajectory equifinality model and German research on women’s self-negotiation of perceived normativity in a Western society	3
Chilean experiences of exile in the “socialist brotherhood” negotiating solidarity, belonging and change in the German Democratic Republic	3
Examining the impact of hagwons and the South Korean Education System on the entity mindset development of young South Korean adults	3
(Dis)location and identity: Understanding the construction of Tibetan refugee identity in youth living in India	3
Preserved Dissonance as an Extension of Cognitive Dissonance Theory	3
Inter-group relationships of interdependence between the Adivasi people and the Jesuits in India: Emergence of a new identity	3
Psychotherapy displayed as an ongoing meaning-making dialogue	3
Where is the Ground? Cultural Transmission and Psychological Adaptation of Sri Lankan-Tamil Ethnic Repatriates	3
Trends and directions in acculturation research	3
School refusal as a representation of questioning normality: Understanding the richness of socio-cultural transitions	3
Tackling gendered aspects of acculturation through Turkish migrant Women’s experiences in Europe	3
Objectivity and Subjectivity Revisited: Towards a Shared Human Ontology	3
Gender identity from a dialogical and semiotic cultural perspective	3
Phulkari Art, Folksong, and the Expression of Indignation: An Interdisciplinary Review With Indian Psychological Perspectives	3
Who to marry? Norwegian-Tamil young adults reflecting on their conditions for partner choice. A narrative approach to intergenerational change processes	3
Community versus society: The normative vision of sociality in joint self-education	3
Retelling the past: Narrative construction and reconstruction using personal photographs and the elicitation of nostalgia	3
Towards a Reflexive Psychology: Embracing Interdisciplinarity, Intersectionality, and Decolonial Perspectives	2
Negotiating autonomy, community, and divinity in urban Filipino young adults’ moral reasoning	2
“Flying over the crisis”: A study on interdisciplinary metaphors of resilience	2
Philosophy of friendship with a place as interpretive support for cultural psychology	2
Introducing Syntheses	2
Children’s peer world during the transition to primary school – A case study of a Chinese australian child	2
On the problem of generalization in cultural psychology: Aesthetics, generalizability, and dialogical research	2
A social psychological investigation of “Anti-nationalism” in contemporary India – A media analysis	2
Indigenous people in urban context and historical memory: Paths for psychology indigenous people in urban context and psychology	2
Sexism with a small “S”: Indian women’s perceptions and experiences of benevolent sexism in the workplace	2

Intimacy in social media: A theoretical analysis of extimacy	2
Book reviews: A dialogical reviewing process	2
Moving up the stream beyond resistance to counter move	2
Assignment resubmission and the emergence of a third space: International students’ discursive negotiation tools	2
Hermeneutic dialogue with the unconscious: Exploring Jung and Neumann’s archetypal images in light of Gadamer’s aesthetic rationality	2
“To become a gentleman” and other metaphors in the transition to university	2
The dialogical self and the multiplicity of I-positions: Experiences of becoming a teacher in the international practicum	2
Systematic literature review: The use of the concept of perezhivanie in research on teacher training	2
Making worldviews work: A heuristic, a planet scan, a case and their transversal implication	2
Freedom as cultural-discursive resource	2
Dramatic to Cultural-Dramatic Perezhivanie: The Lived Experience of Early Childhood Interventionists	2
Exploring experiences of proculturation in international students during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
“Is my culture influencing me?”: Client experiences of mental illness and psychotherapy in a transitional Indian culture	1
“Who Am I Now as a Mother?” Maternal Identity Negotiation During Children’s College Transition	1
Social representations of citizenship among Argentine adolescents: Between civic engagement, rights and nationality	1
Experiencing B-Values on the Camino de Santiago: A Culturally Mediated Path to Self-Actualization	1
Walking for well-being. Exploring the phenomenology of modern pilgrimage	1
Mapuche entrepreneur women profiles and their trajectories in poverty alleviation programs	1
How do the ethnicity minangkabau male express their masculinity in language: A identity point of view	1
Understanding Chinese international students’ perception of cultural conflicts in Canada: Through the case of cannabis use	1
From Inner Worlds to Cultural Currents: The Legacy of Sudhir Kakar’s Work on Indian Identity	1
Toward a conceptualization of the musical self: A theoretical-methodological approach to subjectivity in independent musicians	1
Civic engagement development in Argentinean adolescents: An autobiographical approach	1
Towards new horizons: Welcome to the future	1
Instagram and end of life. Exploring the mediational role of social networks in young cancer patients through a case study	1
Grief as an existential interruption: Adults narrating their childhood grief	1
Understanding Postmodern Identity Among US Young Adults Through an Investigation of Globalized Interest	1
The naturalization of runaway rights: A psychological perspective on how collective demands become subjectively eternal	1
The Janus Face of Individualization. Young People’s Lives between Soft and Hard Individualization	1
The psychoanalysis between the dynamic individual unconscious and the cultural unconscious: Sudhir Kakar’s analytical work in the Indian context	1
Silence is a construction: An exploratory study of people’s everyday understandings	1
What Mafia do we have in mind? An exploratory study on mafia representation among ordinary people	1
Decolonial ink drops on a psychological debate about the sociogenesis of human rights	1
Understanding the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity Through a Complex Dynamic Systems Lens	1
Empathy and self-awareness ( rasa rumangsa ) in the Javanese cultural context	1
Reification of infant-directed speech? Exploring assumptions shaping infant-directed speech research	1
A glimpse inside: Examining loob from the life stories of center-based Filipino children in conflict with the law	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
Artful interpretive thematic analysis of Women’s narratives of freedom	1
Exploring Trajectories of Youth Suicide and Prevention Strategies Within Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India	1
Body alteration: On the mental function of body modification and body decoration	1
Understanding the power of mindfulness from a cultural-psychological perspective	1
Bridging Tradition and Modernity: Enhancing the Appeal of Minangkabau Kaba Narratives for Gen-Z Students	1
Remembering the occupation of “Araucanía”: Mapuche students’ repeated reproduction of historical texts	1
Exploring the depth of Marion Dönhoff’s psyche: A Cultural Psychogram	1
Nature in the discourse of holistic consultants and therapists in southern Chile	1
The semiotics of culture in light of commonalities and conflicts in Lotmanian and Peircean theories	1
Career decision-making as dynamic semiosis: Autoethnographic trajectory equifinality modeling	1
Farm Fiction: Experiencing Narrative Identities in the Swiss Ballenberg Museum	1
An ecological model of experienced stigma during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study in Malaysia	1
Shock and the materialist conception of art: Considerations for a politicised cultural psychology	1
Insurrections of indigenous knowledges: Debating ‘critical’ in indigenous psychologies	1
Active imagination: A thorough presentation of a method applicable across psychodynamic approaches	1
Communicating freedom in the bifurcation point: Amanogawa (the Milky Way) as a metaphor for developing the three layers model of genesis	1
Corrigendum to “gender identity from a dialogical and semiotic cultural perspective”	1
Empathy as a Cultural Process: A Critical Analysis of the Phenomenon of Empathy Through Socio-Cultural Psychology	1
Sociocultural positivism: Critical evaluation in three research vignettes	1
Teachers’ attitudes toward regrets: A cultural comparative reading	1