Motivation and Emotion

Papers
(The median citation count of Motivation and Emotion is 1. 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
Emotional expression in deaf and hearing populations15
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
Different functions of physical effort in physical activity and sports: a scoping review of the value of physical effort14
You have to let go sometimes: advances in understanding goal disengagement14
Believe, express, and enjoy: utility beliefs about social emotion expression consistently predict satisfactory outcomes13
Only “genuine” mastery goals lead to academic performance through effort and interest13
Hiding in plain sight: The distinct importance of low-arousal positive affect12
Gender differences in sensitivity to provocation and hostile attribution bias toward ambiguous facial cues in violent offenders and community-based adults12
Action over feeling: the revised animal preference test and callous-unemotional functioning12
The impact of an ACT intervention on intrinsic and extrinsic values and life fulfillment: an exploratory randomized controlled trial with university students11
To be angry or happy? Anything works. The interaction of emotional information and scope of attention during inhibitory control11
Emotion crafting: Individuals as agents of their positive emotional experiences10
Interplay of intrinsic motivation and well-being at school10
Evidence of an exponential relationship between attentional bias to threat and anxiety using an original “eye-dot-probe” task9
Do individuals with low cognitive empathy display an attenuated negativity bias?9
Extraversion’s link to reward sensitivity: evidence from an emotion dynamics task9
Relating students’ motivation trajectories in the first nine weeks of their vocational education program to dropout and persistence9
Navigating flow beyond achievement: the impact of the implicit and explicit power motive congruence on flow experience in competitive and collaborative group settings9
From relatedness frustrated to violent extremism: the mediating role of aggression8
Team need support and need thwarting scale (TNSNT-S): multi-study validation evidence and integrative multilevel modeling with team processes8
Do trait-assessed valenced emotion motives predict valenced affective states in the daily lives of university students?8
“Beating as one”: the effect of coaches’ behaviors on athletes’ psychobiological wellbeing through the lens of self-determination theory8
Do liberals value emotion more than conservatives? Political partisanship and Lay beliefs about the functionality of emotion8
How we think about how we feel: links to suicidal ideation8
The interplay between emotional semantics and prosody: behavioural and skin conductance responses7
Motivational consequences of counterfactual mindsets: Does counterfactual structure influence the use of conservative or risky tactics?7
Group and personal need satisfaction in Black Lives Matter activism during the COVID-19 pandemic7
Focus on the need or feeling good? Coping through instrumental action versus prohedonic distraction depends on the temporal efficacy of means7
Sounds boring: the causal effect of boredom on self-administration of aversive stimuli in the presence of a positive alternative7
Think your way to happiness? Investigating the role of need for cognition in well-being through a three-level meta-analytic approach7
What predicts the initiation and outcomes of interpersonal emotion regulation in everyday life?7
How music teachers’ emotional expressions shape students’ performance: “C’est le ton qui fait la musique”7
How feelings shape perception (and vice versa): dynamic links between emotion valence and empathic accuracy7
Enhancing emotion, motivation, and behavior in procedural tasks through autonomy-supportive instructions: an experimental study6
Development of different motivational cost component classes in university courses: group specific trajectories and later examination behavior6
Exploration and cross-validation for the latent profiles of emotion regulation difficulties among college students6
Exploring the relationship between fiction reading and emotion recognition6
Associations between maternal envy and parenting practices6
‘Help, my teacher is pressuring me!’ The role of students’ coping with controlling teaching in motivation and engagement6
Expectancy-value interactions and dropout intentions in higher education: can study values compensate for low expectancies?6
Heart over mind: unravelling motivated reasoning in an unprecedented socio-political context6
Reduced food neophobia and food disgust in colorblind men6
The effect of a physically formidable competitor or cooperator on attraction to violent video games6
Disgust learning and memory generalization across category exemplars and learning contexts6
Why do people help? The relationship of eudaimonic and hedonic orientations with other-focused and self-focused motives for helping6
Commentary: processes of disengagement – letting go from the wanted future, the missed-out past, and coping with inevitable endings6
The phenomenology of maintenance goals: lower threat and greater satisfaction with the current state5
The role of spontaneous facial mimicry in modulating instructed overt facial actions: evidence from facial electromyography5
Motivation and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples: it’s complicated!5
Everything under control? Daily dynamics of self-control and emotion regulation5
Framing self-sacrifice in the investigation of moral judgment and moral emotions in human and autonomous driving dilemmas5
What do we envy? How internal and external self-relevance shape envious reactions to upward comparisons5
Age-related differences in a DRM task: affect as a mediator5
Boredom over time: the interaction between achievement goals and perceived classroom goal structures in Taiwanese mathematics classrooms5
The dualistic nature of academic passion revisited: a latent transition analysis5
Self-determination: independent effects of choice and affective processing on the late positive potential (LPP)5
Task-related fluctuations in action-state orientation: roles of anticipated task difficulty and task-related affect5
Self-concordant goal motivation influences how people respond to crowds, but not how they perceive them4
The ease of experiencing positive emotions in negative contexts4
Evaluating emotion effects on episodic memory: what makes negative information memorable?4
SDT in action: enhancing motivational resources and auditory perception in German general music education4
More materialistic by escaping experiences: experiential avoidance mediates the link between attachment anxiety and material values4
When bigger is better: size of strategy repertoire predicts goal attainment4
Reward learning in obsessive-compulsive disorder: an attentional perspective4
Context-dependent basic and moral emotions in adults with autism4
Lay perspectives on emotion: past, present, and future research directions4
Intergroup threat stimulates malevolent creative idea generation4
The implicit affiliation motive and self-regulation: exploring the differences with implicit achievement and power, and patterns of self-regulation4
Body shame and exercise adherence intention: the moderating role of peer support and the mediating role of exercise motivation4
Audio-Visual Interactions during Emotion Processing in Bicultural Bilinguals4
Keeping up appearances: the role of motives and utility beliefs in expressive suppression4
Using emotion to guide decisions: the accuracy and perceived value of emotional intensity forecasts3
The effects of daily leaders’ recognition, positive affect and work-related isolation on daily innovative work behavior: a moderated mediation examination3
Fostering transformative actions through the combined effect of the social motive of quixoteism and an abstract mindset3
Including cognitive emotion regulation instructions on sensitive-content screens reduces distress3
The internal structure of enthusiasm: a prototype analysis3
Inbound friend or foe: how motion bistability is resolved under threat3
The impact of frowning and doubt on deductive reasoning3
Preventing boredom with gratitude: The role of meaning in life3
How does paced breathing influence post-emotion encoding?3
A matter of needs: Basic need satisfaction as an underlying mechanism between perfectionism and employee well-being3
Reading between the lines: teacher recognition of students’ requests to satisfy their psychological needs as a prerequisite for need-supportive communication style3
Effects of intensity on emotion regulation strategy preferences are emotion-specific3
Commentary: goal disengagement—past, processes, and future3
Can saying “thanks” hinder social contact? Encouraging people to express gratitude to an old friend undermines reconnection efforts3
Classroom transmission processes between teacher support, interest value and negative affect: An investigation guided by situated expectancy-value theory and control-value theory3
How family supports children’s reading-related emotions and reading intention: a comparative study of rural, suburban, and urban areas3
Negative interpretation bias towards ambiguous facial expressions in individuals with high empathy3
Personal importance as a boundary condition in effortful dissonance reduction2
Careful what you wish for: the primary role of malicious Envy in Predicting Moral Disengagement2
Affective space and motor response: the impact of proprioceptive/tactile cues on movement organization2
Implicit motive configurations as complements to dimensions: a comparative analysis using latent profile analysis and the operant motive test2
Mental contrasting and energization transfer to low-expectancy tasks2
Reader in face-reading: viewer’s empathy and sensitivity to disgust impacts the first impressions of anomalous faces2
The bare necessities: a necessary condition analysis of the dual role of basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration on wellbeing at work2
The attenuation of spider avoidance action tendencies in spider-fearful individuals and its impact on behavioural and emotional responding to spiders2
Correction: A self-support approach to satisfy basic psychological needs during difficult situations2
Suppress to get along: a lifespan account of social motives for suppression at work2
Understanding academic procrastination: A Longitudinal analysis of procrastination and emotions in undergraduate and graduate students2
Motivated reasoning: Election integrity beliefs, outcome acceptance, and polarization before, during, and after the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election2
Why we need a living meta-analysis of self-determination theory: an illustration examining temporal changes in need supportive education2
Correction: When the eyes break the (naturalistic) scene: investigation on the eye-gaze following mechanisms in complex scenarios2
Infantilization across the life span: A large-scale internet study suggests that emotional abuse is especially damaging2
Spontaneous self-affirmation predicts more meaning and less boredom2
Meaning-augmentation motive: Valuing meaning in life facilitates preference for experiential over material purchases2
Affiliative stimuli elicit negative emotion and expressive suppression in high self-critics: A study using video stimuli2
Goals for others: teachers’ aspirations for students predict motivating and demotivating teaching2
All are objects in the eyes of those who compete: social motivations and interpersonal objectification2
The role of parenting style for the development of the implicit power motive in children2
Motivational pathways involved in women’s intentions to engage in healthy and disordered eating behavior following a body-related discrepancy2
Evaluative conditioning of conflict aversiveness and its effects on adaptive control2
When are people willing to help others? Links with eudaimonic versus hedonic motives2
Exploring the mediating role of basic needs satisfaction between students’ perceived digital teacher support and engagement in blended language learning: combining variable-and person-centered approac2
Emotion beliefs and goal setting: Malleability of emotion predicts changes in goal orientation across a semester2
How the open-door metaphor facilitates adaptive goal switching2
Are awe-prone people less aggressive? The mediating role of the small self2
Social expectancies to be constantly available and productive as antecedents and consequences of burnout: A longitudinal bidirectional investigation2
Do reasons behind striving to do better than others differ in degree, kind, or both? A person-centred analysis of performance-approach goal complexes2
Autonomy over authority: the role of autonomous motivation in law compliance2
Back to the future: self-defining memory recall amplifies effects of episodic future thinking on delay discounting2
Autonomy striving and antiracism: A twofold view of autonomy reveals distinct pathways to outgroup attitudes vs. action2
Disentangling the relation among emotional cost, psychological cost, and anxiety with College Students2
Judging emotional authenticity from dynamic facial expressions: a preregistered Bayesian analysis of individual differences2
Adolescent development of perceived competence and scientific mastery goals: analysis of time-varying growth processes2
Power in fantasy stories and life story episodes: an exploratory study on meaning in life in elderlies from Cameroon, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Hong Kong2
Effects of gratitude on intrinsic and extrinsic motivators in career decision-making1
Extending self-determination theory’s dual-process model to a new tripartite model to explain diminished functioning1
Commentary: Engage or disengage? Interpretations from a resource conservation perspective1
Feelings of authenticity and civic engagement1
Editorial1
Delineating Mastery Goal Complexes in Teacher Professional Learning: A Qualitative Exploration of “Needing to” versus “Wanting to” Reasons1
Blunted anticipatory pleasure, but not consummatory pleasure, is longitudinally linked to depression symptoms in college students1
Physical exertion leads to attentional bias modification toward pain-related stimuli1
Intact modulation of response vigor in major depressive disorder1
Fundamental freedoms and optimal functioning: Nussbaum’s capabilities predict wellness in a dual process model via basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration1
The emotional movie database (EMDB): an expanded toolkit for emotion research1
People underestimate their capability to motivate themselves without performance-based extrinsic incentives1
Exploring the interplay between motivation to succeed, depression, and anxiety among young adult offenders: a Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model analysis1
Eco-Anxiety motivates pro-environmental behaviors: a Two-Wave Longitudinal Study1
Dormant: an overlooked yet essential psychological need state1
Mental account linkage: the psychological process of future self-continuity influencing value trade-off in economic decision-making1
Correction to: The bare necessities: a necessary condition analysis of the dual role of basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration on wellbeing at work1
Up to the sky, down to the earth: feeling, thinking, and acting on climate change1
For the love of my child: How parents’ relative extrinsic aspirations for children and interdependent self-construal predict their relational well-being1
Motivational weighing: examining high schoolers’ weighing of competing motivational beliefs related to math and science coursework1
Swiping away dullness: disliking boredom predicts more smartphone use1
The influence of performance incentives on the subjective experience of mental effort1
How do passionate sport fans feel? An examination using a quadripartite approach1
All for one or one for all? Examining a parsing of emotion that is informed by lay people’s values1
Smiling at moral misbehaviors: the effect of violation benignness and psychological distance1
Intimate sounds of silence: its motives and consequences in romantic relationships1
Bullying is socially-regulated, but autonomy-supportive teaching and autonomy need satisfaction are effective antidotes1
Bored to stay bored: state boredom increases social comparison1
Embarrassment differs in embarrassability and affects behavioral inhibitory control: an ERP study1
Feeling seen, moving slow: the role of negative trait appearance self-conscious emotions on visuomotor adaptation1
Who climbs Mount Everest? Individual differences in achieving difficult goals1
The road not taken: selective sampling and persisting inaccurate impressions1
Neuroticism buffers the negative indirect effect of work-leisure conflict on faculty members’ work engagement through work-related affective rumination1
Better safe than sorry: discriminability and response bias in adult food neophobia1
Anticipate, experience, strengthen: a network analysis of daily life positive affect dynamics1
Untangling cardiac effort mobilization associated with anhedonia and anxiety with a naturalistic task in a clinical adolescent sample1
The impact of selective material incentives on intrinsic motivation in activities1
Financial and prosocial rewards differentially enhance cognition in younger and older healthy adults1
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