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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Achievement goal orientation: A predictor of student engagement in higher education	25
Hedonic and eudaimonic motives to pursue well-being in three samples of youth	23
Unhappy or unsatisfied: distinguishing the role of negative affect and need frustration in depressive symptoms over the academic year and during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Predicting college students' psychological distress through basic psychological need-relevant practices by teachers, peers, and the academic program	20
The role of daily need crafting in daily fluctuations in adolescents’ need-based and affective experiences	19
The role of the learning environment in adolescents’ motivational development	14
Making room for neutral affect: Evidence indicating that neutral affect is independent of and co-occurs with eight affective states	13
Boredom proneness, political orientation and adherence to social-distancing in the pandemic	13
A self-determination theory approach to predicting daily prosocial behavior	12
Childhood maltreatment and adulthood proneness to shame and guilt: The mediating role of maladaptive schemas	12
Self-determined profiles of academic motivation	11
Towards a neo-configurational theory of intrinsic motivation	10
Flow theory: Advancing the two-dimensional conceptualization	10
Marie Curie vs. Serena Williams: ambition leads to extremism through obsessive (but not harmonious) passion	10
Social emotional ability development (SEAD): An integrated model of practical emotion-based competencies	10
Choosing to lose it: The role of autonomous motivation in goal disengagement	9
Prior autonomy frustration facilitates persistent behavior: The moderating role of autonomy causality orientation	8
Empirical testing of an alternative modeling of the self-determination continuum	8
Pathogen disgust sensitivity: Individual differences in pathogen perception or pathogen avoidance?	8
Agreeableness and Conscientiousness promote successful adaptation to the Covid-19 pandemic through effective internalization of public health guidelines	8
Positive affect predicts engagement in healthy behaviors within a day, but not across days	8
Further examinations of attitudes toward discrete emotions, with a focus on attitudes toward anger	8
What do humans feel with mistreated humans, animals, robots, and objects? Exploring the role of cognitive empathy	8
The flexible nature of everyday reciprocity: reciprocity, helping, and relationship closeness	8
Expressive suppression as an obstacle to social change: Linking system justification, emotion regulation, and collective action	8

How self-awareness is connected to less experience of action crises in personal goal pursuit	7
Compassion protects against vital exhaustion and negative emotionality	7
Hedonic vs. epistemic goals in processing persuasive communications: Revisiting the role of personal involvement	7
Types of boredom and other learning activity emotions: A person-centred investigation of inter-individual data	7
Teacher anger as a double-edged sword: Contrasting trait and emotional labor effects	7
Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement	7
Predictors of aversion to happiness: New Insights from a multi-national study	7
Goal adjustment capacities in uncontrollable life circumstances: Benefits for psychological well-being during COVID-19	7
You have to let go sometimes: advances in understanding goal disengagement	7
Exploring the Origins of intrinsic motivation	7
Understanding academic procrastination: A Longitudinal analysis of procrastination and emotions in undergraduate and graduate students	7
“This one’s on me!”: Differential well-being effects of self-centered and recipient-centered motives for spending money on others	6
Associations between use of self-regulatory strategies and daily eating patterns: An experience sampling study in college-aged women	6
Painfully bored: the role of negative urgency and history of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Self-Administering painful stimuli	6
Eco-Anxiety motivates pro-environmental behaviors: a Two-Wave Longitudinal Study	6
Social anxiety and dissociation: the moderating role of emotion regulation	6
The “Big Two” and socially induced emotions: Agency and communion jointly influence emotional contagion and emotional mimicry	6
Why do employees engage in counterproductive work behaviours? Cultural values and white-collar employees in China	6
Motivational mindsets versus reasons for action: implications for the dimensionality debate in self-determination theory	6
Extending self-determination theory’s dual-process model to a new tripartite model to explain diminished functioning	6
Multiple action options in the context of time: When exams approach, students study more and experience fewer motivational conflicts	6
Inducing and blocking the goal to belong in an experimental setting: goal disengagement research using Cyberball	6
Always look on the bright side of life? Exploring the between-variance and within-variance of emotion regulation goals	6
Beliefs about the ability to control specific emotions	6
Motivation as a function of success frequency	6
Economic status and avoidance motivation: a meta-analysis	5
Off the mark: Repetitive marking undermines essay evaluations due to boredom	5
Sticking fewer (or more) pins into a doll? The role of self-compassion in the relations between interpersonal goals and aggression	5
Energy investment and motivation: The additive impact of task demand and reward value on exerted force in hand grip tasks	5
Reappraising fear: is up-regulation more efficient than down-regulation?	5
The motivational system of task values and anticipated emotions in daily academic behavior	5
Disentangling the relation among emotional cost, psychological cost, and anxiety with College Students	5
Melting COVID-frozen goals: How goal disengagement supports well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Psychological mechanisms linking sibling abuse and school delinquency: an experiential sampling study based on conservation of resources theory	5
Classroom transmission processes between teacher support, interest value and negative affect: An investigation guided by situated expectancy-value theory and control-value theory	5
Getting trapped in a dead end? Trait self-control and boredom are linked to goal adjustment	5
Careful what you wish for: the primary role of malicious Envy in Predicting Moral Disengagement	5
Probability bias is an independent correlate of depressive symptoms	4
Coping with daily boredom: Exploring the relationships of job boredom, counterproductive work behavior, organizational citizenship behavior, and cognitive reappraisal	4
Hiding in plain sight: The distinct importance of low-arousal positive affect	4
How achievement motive enactment shapes daily flow experience and work engagement: The interplay of personality systems	4
Punishment sensitivity and risk taking in depressed mood	4
From aesthetics to ethics: Testing the link between an emotional experience of awe and the motive of quixoteism on (un)ethical behavior	4
Association between shame aversion and ruminative retribution: Evidence for moderation by externalization of blame and control	4
A self-support approach to satisfy basic psychological needs during difficult situations	4
The association of autonomy support on memory need satisfaction and goal progress	4
The interpersonal correlates of believing emotions are controllable	4
Face the food: Food plating with facial patterns influences appetite and event-related brain potentials	4
Five reasons to cry—FRC: a taxonomy for common antecedents of emotional crying	4
A multilevel perspective on self-determination theory: Predictors and correlates of autonomous and controlled motivation	4

The effects of current unsatisfactory performance and evaluative approach on improvement expectancy and commitment to improvement	4
Exploring the relationship between Black high school students’ external regulation and intrinsic motivation	4
Adolescents “walking the talk”: How value importance and enactment relate to well-being and risk-taking	4
Emotional inertia emerges after prolonged states of exhaustion: Evidences from a measurement burst study	4
Do liberals value emotion more than conservatives? Political partisanship and Lay beliefs about the functionality of emotion	3
On the efficacy of volitional personality change in young adulthood: Convergent evidence using a longitudinal personal goal paradigm	3
Mental contrasting and energization transfer to low-expectancy tasks	3
Outrage fatigue? Cognitive costs and decisions to blame	3
Ambient lighting alters motivational responses to advertisements for foods of different energetic value	3
Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult	3
Managing the work-home interface by making sacrifices: Costs of sacrificing psychological needs	3
Don’t give up? It’s a little complicated: Action Crisis Moderates Consequences of goal support	3
Autonomy support and prosocial impact facilitate meaningful work: A daily diary study	3
People underestimate their capability to motivate themselves without performance-based extrinsic incentives	3
A within-person approach to the relation between quality of task motivation, performance and job satisfaction in everyday working life	3
Ripples of contempt: aversive responses to others (mis)fortunes	3
Believe, express, and enjoy: utility beliefs about social emotion expression consistently predict satisfactory outcomes	3
Neural decoding of positive and negative self-knowledge	3
The role of autobiographical memory in competence need satisfaction	3
Motivated reasoning: Election integrity beliefs, outcome acceptance, and polarization before, during, and after the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	3
Factors mitigating the decline of motivation during the first academic year: a latent change score analysis	3
If the party is good, you can stay longer—effects of trait hedonic capacity on hedonic quantity and performance	3
Keeping up appearances: the role of motives and utility beliefs in expressive suppression	3
Lay perspectives on emotion: past, present, and future research directions	3
Greater death anxiety, greater dishonesty for self-benefit: The moderating role of social dominance orientation	3
Sequential modulations of emotional effects on cognitive performance in young and older adults	3
Affective forecasting and ex-offender hiring decisions	3
How first-year students manage their action crises and motivation to build their learner identity: a look into the critical moment of goal disengagement	3
Should science be a subject that we should keep our mind cool? A systemic evaluation using TIMSS 2015 data	3
Effects of gratitude on intrinsic and extrinsic motivators in career decision-making	2
The relationship between autonomous and controlled motivation and eating behaviors: examining the roles of self-regulating eating quality and quantity	2
The influence of postural emotion cues on implicit trait judgements	2
Using emotion to guide decisions: the accuracy and perceived value of emotional intensity forecasts	2
Contextual variation in beliefs about emotion and associated emotion regulation efforts	2
Identifying the emotions behind apologies for severe transgressions	2
Out of the shell, into the world: preferences for openness as a substrate of approach motivation and positive affect	2
Motivation and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples: it’s complicated!	2
Negative expectations regarding interpersonal interactions in daily life are associated with subclinical depressive symptoms in a student sample: A prospective experience sampling study	2
Commentary: processes of disengagement – letting go from the wanted future, the missed-out past, and coping with inevitable endings	2
Infantilization across the life span: A large-scale internet study suggests that emotional abuse is especially damaging	2
The role of mindfulness and autonomous motivation for goal progress and goal adjustment: an intervention study	2
Relationships between schizotypal features, trait anticipatory and consummatory pleasure, and naturalistic hedonic States	2
Positive cognitive reappraisal is beneficial for women’s but not for men’s IGT decision-making	2
Patterns of emotional schema endorsement and personality disorder symptoms among outpatient psychotherapy clients	2
How family supports children’s reading-related emotions and reading intention: a comparative study of rural, suburban, and urban areas	2
College Students’ motivational beliefs and use of goal-oriented control strategies: Integrating two theories of motivated behavior	2
Examining the implications of perceiving one’s future health as a goal or a standard for affect, motivation, and health behaviour	2
Not moved, still lonely: the negative relation between loneliness and being moved	2
The structure of affect: A network analytic moderation approach	2
Disgustingly perfect: An examination of disgust, perfectionism, and gender	2
When are people willing to help others? Links with eudaimonic versus hedonic motives	2
Commentary: goal disengagement—past, processes, and future	2
A matter of needs: Basic need satisfaction as an underlying mechanism between perfectionism and employee well-being	2
Ambitious people are more prone to support resource-intensive aid programs	2
Positive emotions have different impacts on mood and sympathetic changes in crying from negative emotions	2
The ease of experiencing positive emotions in negative contexts	2
The influence of facial blushing and paling on emotion perception and memory	2
Framing self-sacrifice in the investigation of moral judgment and moral emotions in human and autonomous driving dilemmas	2
Reduced food neophobia and food disgust in colorblind men	2