OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Culture & Psychology is 2. 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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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