OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science is 3. 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
Bridging the gap between consciousness and matter: recurrent out-of-body projection of visual awareness revealed by the law of non-identity	61
Is Culture Learned? The Neglected Role of Evoking Events	45
Use of Assistive Technologies and Alternative Means by Older People: The “Actional Model of Older People´s Coping with Health-Related Declines”	36
The Evolution and Integration of Life and Theory in Foucault’s Work on Power	24
Art Value Creation and Destruction	21
Evolutionary Psychology and Normal Science: in Search of a Unifying Research Program	19
Psychology, Psychiatry, and Mental Health in Brazil – Convergences and Disputes	16
Navigating Complexity in Reflexive Cybernetics: Forces, feedback, and felt valences	15
Receive, Retain and Retrieve: Psychological and Neurobiological Perspectives on Memory Retrieval	15
Back to Actual Behavior – A Modest Proposal on the Example of Exploratory Behavior in Children on the Autism Spectrum	12
The Crisis of Everyday Self-other Misalignments between Unaccompanied Minors and Adult Professionals: A Dialogical Self Study	12
Attention and Free Will in Experimental Psychology: An Unexpected Analysis of Voluntary Action by William James and Theodule Ribot	11
Extreme Experience Reconsidered: Existential, Developmental, and Embodied Dimensions	11
Development through Borders: Photogrammetry of a Moving Experience	11
Politics in Transitional Spaces: Direct and Indirect Political Participation	10
Attention as a Higher Psychic Function	10
Is Another kind of Biologization Possible? On Biology and the psy Sciences	10
The Norm of Reciprocity in Intergroup Context: A Normative-Identity Model	9
Cognitive Capacities as Functional Natural Kinds	9
Enacting Inner Speech on the Academic Stage. A Dialogical Review on Fossa, P. (Ed.). (2022). New Perspectives on Inner Speech. Springer	9
History as Therapy: A Novel Interdisciplinary Framework for Meaning-making and Well-being	8
Phenomenological Mapping: A Method For Understanding Pre-Reflective Consciousness	8
Cognition and Cognitive Reserve	8
Cultural psychology of education: approaches and strategies	8
Conceptualisation of Uncertainty in Decision Neuroscience Research: Do We Really Know What Types of Uncertainties The Measured Neural Correlates Relate To?	8

Motivational Congruence Theory: Beyond the Dualistic Approach to Human Motivation	8
From Subliminality, to the Unconscious Mind: Philosophical Lineages, Evolutionary Paradoxes, and the Future of the Origins of the Unconscious	7
Propositional vs. Imagistic Modes in Metaphoric Creativity	7
The Changing Process of Disability Identity: A Trajectory Equifinality Model Analysis of Japanese with Physical Disabilities	7
Adaptation across the Lifespan: Towards a Processual Evolutionary Explanation of Human Development	7
Situating Educational Psychology Practice. Exploring the Call for a ‘Practice Turn’ in Contemporary Danish Educational Psychology Practice	7
Samir Chopra, Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide, Princeton University Press, 2024, ISBN-10: 0691210675, 185 pp.	7
Raising Questions with Lamiell about Future Research Directions of Critical Personalism: A Book Review Essay	7
Special Issue: Situated Psychology	7
Lessons from a Neo-Aristotelian Theory Based on Evolutionary Science to the Field of Organizational Innovation	7
Updated Expectations are Needed for Masked Priming Experiments: Commentary on Tsikandilakis et al. (2025)	7
Ruptures as Imagined and Theorized: Symbolic Resources for Dealing With the Unexpected	7
From Negentropy to Norms – A Gain-Based Theory of Agency: Kerdotism	6
Transcending Time and Space in the Search for Synthesis: A Commentary on Paranjpe’s Understanding Yoga Psychology: Indigenous Knowledge with Global Relevance	6
University without Borders	6
Theorising Human Development in Adult Life: A Complex, Multidimensional, Dynamic, Situated Model	6
Narrative Understanding as a Means of Understanding the Other: A Review of Andrea Smorti’s Book Telling to Understand	6
Studies in the Mentality of Literates: 3. Conceptual Structure and Nonsense of Personality Testing	6
Log-Linear and Configural Analysis of Intra-Individual Time Series under Consideration of Serial Dependence	6
Selective Empathy Theory: the Bias of Affective Empathy and the Role of Social Frames	5
Consciousness, Microtubules, and the Axon Initial Segment	5
An Integrated Model of Social Psychology Constructs and Psychoanalytical Themes for Understanding the Extremist Mindset	5
Setting the Theater for Creativity: Proposal for Integrating Temporal and Spatial Artificial Mnemonics as a Qualitative Artificial Development of the Autobiographical Naturalistic Mnemonics (AM)	5
An Integrative Hypothesis of Brain Evolution	5
Rethinking Urban Perception Through Linguistic Relativity a Review of Theoretical and Empirical Insights	5
Correction: The Gray Nine and Parallel Personality Patterns: Big Five, Dark Tetrad, and a “Well-Rounded Personality”	5
Personal and social guidance in children’s development. How youth personalize and (re)construct digital TikTok-practices	5
Sisyphus’s Boulder: Flourishing Through Perpetual Organizational Challenges to Positive Organizational Behavior	4
An Enmeshed Family System? Jean Piaget as a Designated Therapist in 1920	4
Retrospective Imagination in the Psychotherapeutic Process: A Theoretical-clinical Synthesis	4
The future of university from different viewpoints: a commentary to Szulevicz et al. (2021)	4
Learning and Crises in Human Development. A Sociocultural and Dialogical Approach	4
Hot Wind, Cold Sun: Kuhn, Vygotsky, Halliday and Metaphors in Science and Science Education	4
Politics and Psychology	4
Symbolic Acceleration and Embodied Integration: Toward a Developmental Framework of Identity Reconstruction	4
The cultural ground of academic knowledge construction: a methodological discussion opening paths for possible future researches	4
Replication Crisis in Psychology, Second-Order Cybernetics, and Transactional Causality: from Experimental Psychology to Applied Psychological Practice	4
Free Association and Inner Speech—On the Internal Form of Words	4
Temperaments as Basic Bias	4
Time Dilation in Motivational Congruence Theory’s Paradigm	4
The “Mind-Cognition-Emotion” System Model from the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine and its Clinical Applications	4
Crisis and Sensemaking: The Relevance of Liminal Experience and Metastability for a Sociocultural Psychology of Crisis	4
Meditation and Self-transcendence: A Human Need?	4
Toward a Differentiated Conceptualization of Extreme Experiences and Their Relevance To Integrative Mental Health Theory	3
Navigating Beyond Interpersonal Manipulation: Insights from Heidegger's Perspective	3
Beyond the Chains of Technology: Social Justice and the Psychology of Revolutionary Education	3
Conservation in Meaning-Making	3
A Qualitative Perspective on the Status of the Master’s Thesis in Higher education – A Commentary on ‘Social Normativity of Research Methods and the Methodological Discrepancy Between Mainstream Psych	3
The Role of Inhibition as a Component of Executive Functions in Metaphorical Embodiment	3
Cultural Psychology for a Technologically Transformed Society: A Neo-Structuration Perspective	3

An Analysis of Hikikomori in Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Through New Historicist Approach	3
Well-being as Need Fulfillment: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice	3
Place and Memory: Revisiting the Past Self Through Autobiographical Memory	3
Communication Patterns of Muslim Communities’ After Involvement in the Pela Gandong Ritual in Moluccas Immanuel Church, Indonesia	3
Correction to: A Pragmatic Turn in the Study of Early Executive Functions by Object Use and Gestures. A Case Study from 8 to 17 Months of Age at a Nursery School	3
Neurotechnologies, Ethics, and the Limits of Free Will	3
Beyond the Narrowness of Disciplinary Borders: Biology and the Unconscious in Ferenczi's Thalassa—Primordial Phylogenetic Trauma and its Recapitulation in Ontogenesis	3
Mirroring the Self through Hamlet Affective Aesthetic Experience	3
The Social Context of Consciousness: An Integrative Framework for Neuroscience, Psychology, and Law	3
Historical Overview and Pathologization of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Brazilian Psychological Assessment	3
The Natural Tendency for Wide and Careful Listening: Exploring the Relationship Between Open-Mindedness and Psychological Science	3
Towards Description of Universals of Culture as an Aggression Control System	3
The Roles of Gestural and Symbolic Schematizations in Inhibition as a Component of Executive Functions	3
Goals as Motives: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice	3
Remodelling the Psychology of Education in Postcolonial India: Decolonization, Identity and Power Relations	3
Vygotsky’s, Leontiev’s and Engeström’s Cultural-Historical (Activity) Theories: Overview, Clarifications and Implications	3
Situated psychology as triangulated. Understanding psychological processes as relations between subjectivity, intersubjectivity and objectivity	3
Encoded Selves: Human Nature in Kashmiri Proverbs, 1846–1947	3
Remaking time: Cultural semiotic transformations of temporality during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown	3
Cultural Semiotic Model for Psychotherapy	3
Connecting Mindfulness Practice to Generative Semiotic Activity—Self-Other Referent in Umwelt and Semiosphere	3
The Replicability Crisis and Human Agency in the Neo-Structured World	3
Art and Agency in the Era of De-Structuration: Exploring a New Field	3
Notes from Self-Isolation: Imagination in Times of Ruptures	3
Inquiry in psychology	3
The Psychology of Problem Finding: from the Arousal System to Cognitive Sensitivity	3
A Critical Perspective on the (Neuro)biological Foundations of Language and Linguistic Cognition	3
Windows of (Dis) Trust: A Situated Psychological Perspective on Understanding the Phenomenon of Trust	3
From Nomothetic and Idiographic to Synthography	3