OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Motivation and Emotion 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
Painfully bored: the role of negative urgency and history of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Self-Administering painful stimuli	33
Pursuit of emotional satisfaction leads to increased risk taking in final decisions	33
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 intenti	32
The interpersonal correlates of believing emotions are controllable	22
Perceptions of low self-control undermine interpersonal cooperation	20
Lay beliefs about boredom: A mixed-methods investigation	19
Environmental motivation as a complex dynamic system	19
The relationship between autonomous and controlled motivation and eating behaviors: examining the roles of self-regulating eating quality and quantity	18
Parent–child relationships and depressive symptom among Chinese college students: the mediating role of psychological needs satisfaction and the moderating role of mindfulness	18
Valuing negative affect weakens affect-health linkages: similarities and differences across affect valuation measures	17
Different functions of physical effort in physical activity and sports: a scoping review of the value of physical effort	16
Social dynamics in interpersonal emotion regulation: A theoretical framework for understanding direct and indirect other-based processes	16
“Pandemic stress made him do it!”: COVID-19-related threat predicts vicarious justification for assaulting Chinese men—especially those with strong ethnic identity	15
How to avoid collapse after one setback: developmental feedback alleviates the spillover negative impact of competence frustration	15
How first-year students manage their action crises and motivation to build their learner identity: a look into the critical moment of goal disengagement	15
Sequential modulations of emotional effects on cognitive performance in young and older adults	14
Gender differences in sensitivity to provocation and hostile attribution bias toward ambiguous facial cues in violent offenders and community-based adults	14
Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement	14
Action over feeling: the revised animal preference test and callous-unemotional functioning	14
To be angry or happy? Anything works. The interaction of emotional information and scope of attention during inhibitory control	14
You have to let go sometimes: advances in understanding goal disengagement	13
Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult	13
Only “genuine” mastery goals lead to academic performance through effort and interest	13
Believe, express, and enjoy: utility beliefs about social emotion expression consistently predict satisfactory outcomes	13
Hiding in plain sight: The distinct importance of low-arousal positive affect	12

Emotion crafting: Individuals as agents of their positive emotional experiences	12
The impact of an ACT intervention on intrinsic and extrinsic values and life fulfillment: an exploratory randomized controlled trial with university students	12
College Students’ motivational beliefs and use of goal-oriented control strategies: Integrating two theories of motivated behavior	11
Getting trapped in a dead end? Trait self-control and boredom are linked to goal adjustment	11
Interplay of intrinsic motivation and well-being at school	11
Do liberals value emotion more than conservatives? Political partisanship and Lay beliefs about the functionality of emotion	10
Evidence of an exponential relationship between attentional bias to threat and anxiety using an original “eye-dot-probe” task	10
Navigating flow beyond achievement: the impact of the implicit and explicit power motive congruence on flow experience in competitive and collaborative group settings	10
“Beating as one”: the effect of coaches’ behaviors on athletes’ psychobiological wellbeing through the lens of self-determination theory	10
Relating students’ motivation trajectories in the first nine weeks of their vocational education program to dropout and persistence	10
Do trait-assessed valenced emotion motives predict valenced affective states in the daily lives of university students?	10
Extraversion’s link to reward sensitivity: evidence from an emotion dynamics task	10
The interplay between emotional semantics and prosody: behavioural and skin conductance responses	9
From relatedness frustrated to violent extremism: the mediating role of aggression	9
What predicts the initiation and outcomes of interpersonal emotion regulation in everyday life?	9
How we think about how we feel: links to suicidal ideation	9
Focus on the need or feeling good? Coping through instrumental action versus prohedonic distraction depends on the temporal efficacy of means	8
Motivational consequences of counterfactual mindsets: Does counterfactual structure influence the use of conservative or risky tactics?	8
How music teachers’ emotional expressions shape students’ performance: “C’est le ton qui fait la musique”	8
Sounds boring: the causal effect of boredom on self-administration of aversive stimuli in the presence of a positive alternative	8
Think your way to happiness? Investigating the role of need for cognition in well-being through a three-level meta-analytic approach	8
Associations between maternal envy and parenting practices	8
Correction to: A psychophysiological investigation of mourning: There are two sides to the story	7
Exploration and cross-validation for the latent profiles of emotion regulation difficulties among college students	7
The effect of a physically formidable competitor or cooperator on attraction to violent video games	7
Heart over mind: unravelling motivated reasoning in an unprecedented socio-political context	7
Reduced food neophobia and food disgust in colorblind men	7
Enhancing emotion, motivation, and behavior in procedural tasks through autonomy-supportive instructions: an experimental study	7
Why do people help? The relationship of eudaimonic and hedonic orientations with other-focused and self-focused motives for helping	6
‘Help, my teacher is pressuring me!’ The role of students’ coping with controlling teaching in motivation and engagement	6
The phenomenology of maintenance goals: lower threat and greater satisfaction with the current state	6
The dualistic nature of academic passion revisited: a latent transition analysis	6
Age-related differences in a DRM task: affect as a mediator	6
Expectancy-value interactions and dropout intentions in higher education: can study values compensate for low expectancies?	6
Exploring the relationship between fiction reading and emotion recognition	6
Framing self-sacrifice in the investigation of moral judgment and moral emotions in human and autonomous driving dilemmas	6
The flexible nature of everyday reciprocity: reciprocity, helping, and relationship closeness	6
Choosing to lose it: The role of autonomous motivation in goal disengagement	6
Commentary: processes of disengagement – letting go from the wanted future, the missed-out past, and coping with inevitable endings	6
Task-related fluctuations in action-state orientation: roles of anticipated task difficulty and task-related affect	6
Intergroup threat stimulates malevolent creative idea generation	6
Motivation and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples: it’s complicated!	5
Audio-Visual Interactions during Emotion Processing in Bicultural Bilinguals	5
Reward learning in obsessive-compulsive disorder: an attentional perspective	5
Keeping up appearances: the role of motives and utility beliefs in expressive suppression	5
Including cognitive emotion regulation instructions on sensitive-content screens reduces distress	5
Everything under control? Daily dynamics of self-control and emotion regulation	5
The implicit affiliation motive and self-regulation: exploring the differences with implicit achievement and power, and patterns of self-regulation	5
Context-dependent basic and moral emotions in adults with autism	5
How family supports children’s reading-related emotions and reading intention: a comparative study of rural, suburban, and urban areas	5

Negative interpretation bias towards ambiguous facial expressions in individuals with high empathy	5
When bigger is better: size of strategy repertoire predicts goal attainment	5
Self-concordant goal motivation influences how people respond to crowds, but not how they perceive them	5
The ease of experiencing positive emotions in negative contexts	5
Lay perspectives on emotion: past, present, and future research directions	5
Using emotion to guide decisions: the accuracy and perceived value of emotional intensity forecasts	5
The internal structure of enthusiasm: a prototype analysis	5
Fostering transformative actions through the combined effect of the social motive of quixoteism and an abstract mindset	4
Emotion beliefs and goal setting: Malleability of emotion predicts changes in goal orientation across a semester	4
Reading between the lines: teacher recognition of students’ requests to satisfy their psychological needs as a prerequisite for need-supportive communication style	4
Motivated reasoning: Election integrity beliefs, outcome acceptance, and polarization before, during, and after the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	4
Inbound friend or foe: how motion bistability is resolved under threat	4
Commentary: goal disengagement—past, processes, and future	4
Prior autonomy frustration facilitates persistent behavior: The moderating role of autonomy causality orientation	4
Evaluative conditioning of conflict aversiveness and its effects on adaptive control	4
Infantilization across the life span: A large-scale internet study suggests that emotional abuse is especially damaging	4
Effects of intensity on emotion regulation strategy preferences are emotion-specific	4
Understanding academic procrastination: A Longitudinal analysis of procrastination and emotions in undergraduate and graduate students	4
Classroom transmission processes between teacher support, interest value and negative affect: An investigation guided by situated expectancy-value theory and control-value theory	4
Preventing boredom with gratitude: The role of meaning in life	4
Why we need a living meta-analysis of self-determination theory: an illustration examining temporal changes in need supportive education	4
When are people willing to help others? Links with eudaimonic versus hedonic motives	4
A matter of needs: Basic need satisfaction as an underlying mechanism between perfectionism and employee well-being	4
Spontaneous self-affirmation predicts more meaning and less boredom	4
Motivational pathways involved in women’s intentions to engage in healthy and disordered eating behavior following a body-related discrepancy	3
Back to the future: self-defining memory recall amplifies effects of episodic future thinking on delay discounting	3
Autonomy striving and antiracism: A twofold view of autonomy reveals distinct pathways to outgroup attitudes vs. action	3
Suppress to get along: a lifespan account of social motives for suppression at work	3
Autonomy over authority: the role of autonomous motivation in law compliance	3
The role of parenting style for the development of the implicit power motive in children	3
Are awe-prone people less aggressive? The mediating role of the small self	3
Associations between GAD symptom severity and error monitoring depend on neural quenching variability	3
All are objects in the eyes of those who compete: social motivations and interpersonal objectification	3
Melting COVID-frozen goals: How goal disengagement supports well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Self-determined immortality: Testing the role of autonomy in promoting perceptions of symbolic immortality and well-being	3
Careful what you wish for: the primary role of malicious Envy in Predicting Moral Disengagement	3
The attenuation of spider avoidance action tendencies in spider-fearful individuals and its impact on behavioural and emotional responding to spiders	3
Correction: A self-support approach to satisfy basic psychological needs during difficult situations	3
The bare necessities: a necessary condition analysis of the dual role of basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration on wellbeing at work	3
Reader in face-reading: viewer’s empathy and sensitivity to disgust impacts the first impressions of anomalous faces	3
Exploring the interplay between motivation to succeed, depression, and anxiety among young adult offenders: a Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model analysis	2
Intimate sounds of silence: its motives and consequences in romantic relationships	2
All for one or one for all? Examining a parsing of emotion that is informed by lay people’s values	2
Untangling cardiac effort mobilization associated with anhedonia and anxiety with a naturalistic task in a clinical adolescent sample	2
Financial and prosocial rewards differentially enhance cognition in younger and older healthy adults	2
Mental contrasting and energization transfer to low-expectancy tasks	2
Positive cognitive reappraisal is beneficial for women’s but not for men’s IGT decision-making	2
Outrage fatigue? Cognitive costs and decisions to blame	2
Extending self-determination theory’s dual-process model to a new tripartite model to explain diminished functioning	2
Bored to stay bored: state boredom increases social comparison	2
Psychological mechanisms linking sibling abuse and school delinquency: an experiential sampling study based on conservation of resources theory	2
The impact of selective material incentives on intrinsic motivation in activities	2
Social expectancies to be constantly available and productive as antecedents and consequences of burnout: A longitudinal bidirectional investigation	2
Affiliative stimuli elicit negative emotion and expressive suppression in high self-critics: A study using video stimuli	2
Do reasons behind striving to do better than others differ in degree, kind, or both? A person-centred analysis of performance-approach goal complexes	2
Smiling at moral misbehaviors: the effect of violation benignness and psychological distance	2
How do passionate sport fans feel? An examination using a quadripartite approach	2
Eco-Anxiety motivates pro-environmental behaviors: a Two-Wave Longitudinal Study	2
Fundamental freedoms and optimal functioning: Nussbaum’s capabilities predict wellness in a dual process model via basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration	2
The influence of performance incentives on the subjective experience of mental effort	2
Meaning-augmentation motive: Valuing meaning in life facilitates preference for experiential over material purchases	2
People underestimate their capability to motivate themselves without performance-based extrinsic incentives	2
Disentangling the relation among emotional cost, psychological cost, and anxiety with College Students	2
Goals for others: teachers’ aspirations for students predict motivating and demotivating teaching	2