Motivation and Emotion

Papers
(The H4-Index of Motivation and Emotion is 14. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Pursuit of emotional satisfaction leads to increased risk taking in final decisions33
Painfully bored: the role of negative urgency and history of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Self-Administering painful stimuli30
Toward the science of message design approach [emotional appeals version]: The combined effects of anticipated pride appeals and descriptive norm information embedded in messages on behavioral intenti29
Perceptions of low self-control undermine interpersonal cooperation27
The interpersonal correlates of believing emotions are controllable27
The relationship between autonomous and controlled motivation and eating behaviors: examining the roles of self-regulating eating quality and quantity27
Environmental motivation as a complex dynamic system19
Lay beliefs about boredom: A mixed-methods investigation18
Parent–child relationships and depressive symptom among Chinese college students: the mediating role of psychological needs satisfaction and the moderating role of mindfulness17
How first-year students manage their action crises and motivation to build their learner identity: a look into the critical moment of goal disengagement17
Valuing negative affect weakens affect-health linkages: similarities and differences across affect valuation measures17
“Pandemic stress made him do it!”: COVID-19-related threat predicts vicarious justification for assaulting Chinese men—especially those with strong ethnic identity16
How to avoid collapse after one setback: developmental feedback alleviates the spillover negative impact of competence frustration15
Different functions of physical effort in physical activity and sports: a scoping review of the value of physical effort15
Hiding in plain sight: The distinct importance of low-arousal positive affect14
Sequential modulations of emotional effects on cognitive performance in young and older adults14
Social dynamics in interpersonal emotion regulation: A theoretical framework for understanding direct and indirect other-based processes14
Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement14
Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult14
Action over feeling: the revised animal preference test and callous-unemotional functioning14
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