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 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
Identifying Hashtag Cultures to Study the Construction of Childhood Image and Parents’ Aspirations	11
The wind of thinking	11
How cultural beliefs shape adaptive behavior and views of happiness: The good life in the community of Uzbekistan	10
Perceptions of teachers from Brazil and the United States regarding creativity of gifted students: Contributions from Vygotsky	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 religious component of uncertainty avoidance in the child-rearing practices in Kerala, India	8
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
‘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
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
Accounts of Sexual Abuse Using a Cultural Semiotic Model	6
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
Country, identity and sharing: Australian indigenous Children’s perspectives on their own indigeneity – A further case for authentic empathy	5
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
“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
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
(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
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
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
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