Motivation and Emotion

Papers
(The H4-Index of Motivation and Emotion is 15. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Pursuit of emotional satisfaction leads to increased risk taking in final decisions45
Perceptions of low self-control undermine interpersonal cooperation38
Painfully bored: the role of negative urgency and history of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Self-Administering painful stimuli30
Lay beliefs about boredom: A mixed-methods investigation26
Environmental motivation as a complex dynamic system24
Emotion-regulation strategy use and commitment to a performance goal: the role of reappraisal tactics23
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 intenti23
The interpersonal correlates of believing emotions are controllable21
Valuing negative affect weakens affect-health linkages: similarities and differences across affect valuation measures20
“Pandemic stress made him do it!”: COVID-19-related threat predicts vicarious justification for assaulting Chinese men—especially those with strong ethnic identity19
Forecasters overestimate the effect of meaningful and stimulating activities on feelings of felt boredom but underestimate their perceived effectiveness19
How to avoid collapse after one setback: developmental feedback alleviates the spillover negative impact of competence frustration17
How first-year students manage their action crises and motivation to build their learner identity: a look into the critical moment of goal disengagement16
Correction to: Development and validation of the self-supportive and self-thwarting styles of basic psychological needs scale15
Motivational functioning along the social anxiety continuum: examining the emergence of flow in everyday social activities15
Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement15
Social dynamics in interpersonal emotion regulation: A theoretical framework for understanding direct and indirect other-based processes15
Emotional expression in deaf and hearing populations15
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