OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Role of Affective Sensemaking in the Constitution of Experience. The Affective Pertinentization Model (APER)	32
Parallelization: the Fourth Leg of Cultural Globalization Theory	24
Anthropomorphizing Technology: A Conceptual Review of Anthropomorphism Research and How it Relates to Children’s Engagements with Digital Voice Assistants	19
Decision Making: a Theoretical Review	18
Towards a Wholistic Model of Identity: why Not a Meadow?	17
Sinophobia during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Identity, Belonging, and International Politics	16
Negative vs. Positive Psychology: a Review of Science of Well-Being	15
Employee Engagement as Human Motivation: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice	14
Gestures Enhance Executive Functions for the Understating of Mathematical Concepts	14
Griefbots. A New Way of Communicating With The Dead?	13
Vygotsky’s, Leontiev’s and Engeström’s Cultural-Historical (Activity) Theories: Overview, Clarifications and Implications	13
The Emotions in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Personality, Emotion and Motivation in Social Relations and Activity	9
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	9
Mindful Age and Technology: a Qualitative Analysis of a Tablet/Smartphone App Intervention Designed for Older Adults	9
Progressive Education is the Opium of the Educators	9
The Relation Between Guanxi and Interpersonal Trust in the Workplace	9
Understanding The Process of Taoistic-Informed Mindfulness from a Meadian Perspective	9
Theoretical and Empirical Foundations for a Unified Pyramid of Human Motivation	8
Home is Where the Heart is: Identity and Belonging Among Older Chinese Immigrants in Australia	8
“I Have Been Born, Raised and Lived My Whole Life Here” – Perpetually on the Move While Remaining Still	8
Vygotsky’s Legacy: Understanding and Beyond	8
On the Adaptive Value of Paranormal Beliefs - a Qualitative Study	7
Self-Construction in Immigration – I-Positioning through Tensional Dialogues to Powerful Foreign and Native Voices	7
The teachers’ pedagogical fiduciary duty to their students	6
An Epistemological Strategy for Initiating Scientific Revolution against WEIRD Psychology	6

Microgenetic Analysis of Thought Trajectories: A Mixed Design	6
The QBIT theory of consciousness: Entropy and qualia	6
Social Normativity of Research Methods and the Methodological Discrepancy between Mainstream Psychological Research and Danish Psychology Students’ Master’s Thesis Projects	6
Toward a Cultural Evolutionary Psychology: Why the Evolutionary Approach does not Imply Reductionism or Determinism	6
A Simple Configural Approach for Testing Person-Oriented Mediation Hypotheses	5
Well-being as Need Fulfillment: Implications for Theory, Methods, and Practice	5
Cultural-Historical Theory and the Dialectics of Lower and Higher Psychological Functions	5
Viktor von Weizsäcker’s Notion of Pathic: Affective Liminality, Modalization of Experience and Illness	5
Existential Disruptions of Managers as a Collapse of Childhood Patterns: An Interpretative Phenomenological Investigation	5
Intentional Understanding Through Action Coordination in Early Triadic Interactions	5
Boundless China and Backward Asians: Hegemonic Confucianism as Epistemological Violence in Queer Psychology	5
Thinking with the Rain. The Trajectory of a Metaphor in Vygotsky’s Theoretical Development	5
Big and Small Stories from India in the COVID19 Plot: Directions for a ‘Post Coronial’ Psychology	5
Creativity of Creativity Researchers: Invention of Problems and Experimental Objects to Study Thinking	4
Adaptation across the Lifespan: Towards a Processual Evolutionary Explanation of Human Development	4
Activity Theory for the De-Structuralized Modernity	4
Basic Evaluation Process and some Associated Phenomena, Such as Emotions and Reactive Defense of Beliefs	4
Two Sides of the Same Coin or Two Different Currencies? Representations of Happiness and Unhappiness among Finnish Women	4
The Hero-Villain-Fool Narrative Construction Method: Assessing hidden organizational phenomena	4
The Making of an Ethnoburb: Studying Sub-ethnicities of the China-born New Immigrants in Albany, New Zealand	4
Cognition and Cognitive Reserve	4
Is Another kind of Biologization Possible? On Biology and the psy Sciences	4
Plasticity-Led Evolution and Human Culture	4
A Critical Perspective on the (Neuro)biological Foundations of Language and Linguistic Cognition	3
Creativity and Fiction: Interpretative Horizons on the Emergence of the New in the Relationship Between Individual and Culture	3
An Attempt to Explain Visual Aesthetic Appreciation	3
Collective Memory: Metaphor or Real?	3
Strong Ties and Weak Ties Rationality: Theory and Scale Development	3
Complexity in Environmental Sustainability Policy from a Semiotic Cultural Political Psychology Perspective	3
Towards Dialogic Metaphors of Learning – from Socialization to Authoring	3
Enacting Inner Speech on the Academic Stage. A Dialogical Review on Fossa, P. (Ed.). (2022). New Perspectives on Inner Speech. Springer	3
Viktor von Weizsäcker’s Gestaltkreis Theory. The Dynamic and Subjective Relationship of Perception and Movement	3
‘Measuring’ Collective Trauma: a Quantum Social Science Approach	3
University without Borders	3
The Relation between Emotion and Intellect: Which Governs Which?	3
The Roles of Gestural and Symbolic Schematizations in Inhibition as a Component of Executive Functions	3
Between Meanings and Senses-Making Spaces: Agency and Ownership Emergence Formalization from Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Position, for an AI-Friendly Model	3
The Concept of Dialogical CO-Zone of Proximal Development: Intergenerationality in the Making	3
Evolutionary Psychology and Normal Science: in Search of a Unifying Research Program	3
SILENCE: Capturing the Feeling of Inner Quietude	3
Speaking Pictures, Silent Voices: Female Athletes and the Negotiation of Selfhood	2
Art Value Creation and Destruction	2
The QBIT Theory: Consciousness from Entangled Qubits	2
Historical Epistemology: a Research Approach in Psychiatry	2
Two Sisters Family Histories: Self-In-Transit	2
Care Practices Between Generations: Ambivalence and Meaning-making Process	2
Critical Psychology and the Brain: Rethinking Free will in the Legal Context	2
Mind-Body Correlation and its Logic: the Experience of “Invisible Body”	2
The Sense of Belonging in the Context of Migration: Development and Trajectories Regarding Portuguese Migrants in Luxembourg	2
The “Creativity Crisis” as a Mind in Crisis: A Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Position	2

Biology, Culture and Environment: Methodological and Epistemological Principles for an Integrative Social Theory	2
Indigenous Psychology as a General Science for Escaping the Snares of Psychological Methodolatry	2
Separation in Unity: Dialogical Transformation of Maternal Bond	2
Embodied Minds: Hearts and Brains in Psychiatry and Chinese Medicine	2
Cultural Historical Psychology and the Reset of History	2
The Essence of What it Is to Act Rationally: A Perspective on Distinctively Human Action Based on Aristotelian Philosophy and Evolutionary Science	2
What Are Group Level Traits and How Do They Evolve?	2
Dramatizing Living-in-the-World: Affective Generalization in Drama-in-Education Workshop	2
Episodic Events as Spatiotemporal Memory: The Sequence of Information in the Episodic Buffer of Working Memory for Language Comprehension	2
Embracing Diversity: the Complexities of Reckoning and Accepting Otherness	2
Vygotsky’s Emotions: Desire/Passion in Spinoza, Proposal/Proposition in Halliday, and Teaching Sexual Consent to Children in Korea	2
Motivational Congruence Theory: Beyond the Dualistic Approach to Human Motivation	2
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Culture? There is a Missing Link Between the Natural and the Social Sciences	2
The Necessity to Recognize Processes of Radicalization from a Socio-cultural Perspective	2
Adapting Ourselves, Instead of the Environment: An Inquiry into Human Enhancement for Function and Beyond	2
A Critical Sociocultural Understanding of Evidence-Based Research and Practice Paradigm in Contemporary Psychology	2
Enhancing Enneagram Therapy with Contemporary Research on the Conscious and Unconscious Mind	2
Socioeconomic Status and Childhood Executive Function: Differing Conceptualizations, Diverse Assessments, and Decontextualized Investigations	2
Real-Time Assessment of Causal Attribution Shift and Stay Between Two Successive Tests of Movement Aids	2
Self – Regard of Individuals with Autism – How People from the Autism Spectrum Perceive Autism. A Netnographic Research	2
Introducing Cultural Psychology: An open Approach of Thinking	2
Stages in Theory and Experiment. Fuzzy-Structuralism and Piagetian Stages	2
Neurotechnologies, Ethics, and the Limits of Free Will	2
The cultural ground of academic knowledge construction: a methodological discussion opening paths for possible future researches	2
Peasants’ Fatalistic Thinking in Chinese Communism: an Analysis of a Rural Family’s Oral History	2
Anthropological Prosociality via Sub-Group Level Selection	2
Animal Creativity as a Function of Behavioral Innovation and Behavior Flexibility in Problem-solving Situations	2
Graphical Representation of the Movements of Motives of Consciousness in Leontyev’s Activity Theory	2
Inquiry in psychology	2
Transitions of bonding: The borders between hidden roots and visible roads in life course	2