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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Pursuit of emotional satisfaction leads to increased risk taking in final decisions41
Painfully bored: the role of negative urgency and history of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Self-Administering painful stimuli36
The interpersonal correlates of believing emotions are controllable24
Lay beliefs about boredom: A mixed-methods investigation23
Perceptions of low self-control undermine interpersonal cooperation22
Parent–child relationships and depressive symptom among Chinese college students: the mediating role of psychological needs satisfaction and the moderating role of mindfulness21
Environmental motivation as a complex dynamic system21
The relationship between autonomous and controlled motivation and eating behaviors: examining the roles of self-regulating eating quality and quantity18
Emotion-regulation strategy use and commitment to a performance goal: the role of reappraisal tactics18
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 intenti17
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 identity17
Different functions of physical effort in physical activity and sports: a scoping review of the value of physical effort16
Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement16
Social dynamics in interpersonal emotion regulation: A theoretical framework for understanding direct and indirect other-based processes16
Forecasters overestimate the effect of meaningful and stimulating activities on feelings of felt boredom but underestimate their perceived effectiveness16
How to avoid collapse after one setback: developmental feedback alleviates the spillover negative impact of competence frustration16
Motivational functioning along the social anxiety continuum: examining the emergence of flow in everyday social activities15
Hiding in plain sight: The distinct importance of low-arousal positive affect15
Gender differences in sensitivity to provocation and hostile attribution bias toward ambiguous facial cues in violent offenders and community-based adults15
Only “genuine” mastery goals lead to academic performance through effort and interest15
Believe, express, and enjoy: utility beliefs about social emotion expression consistently predict satisfactory outcomes14
Action over feeling: the revised animal preference test and callous-unemotional functioning13
You have to let go sometimes: advances in understanding goal disengagement13
Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult13
To be angry or happy? Anything works. The interaction of emotional information and scope of attention during inhibitory control12
Interplay of intrinsic motivation and well-being at school12
Getting trapped in a dead end? Trait self-control and boredom are linked to goal adjustment12
Navigating flow beyond achievement: the impact of the implicit and explicit power motive congruence on flow experience in competitive and collaborative group settings11
The impact of an ACT intervention on intrinsic and extrinsic values and life fulfillment: an exploratory randomized controlled trial with university students11
College Students’ motivational beliefs and use of goal-oriented control strategies: Integrating two theories of motivated behavior11
Emotion crafting: Individuals as agents of their positive emotional experiences11
Evidence of an exponential relationship between attentional bias to threat and anxiety using an original “eye-dot-probe” task10
Relating students’ motivation trajectories in the first nine weeks of their vocational education program to dropout and persistence10
Extraversion’s link to reward sensitivity: evidence from an emotion dynamics task10
How we think about how we feel: links to suicidal ideation10
Do individuals with low cognitive empathy display an attenuated negativity bias?10
Do trait-assessed valenced emotion motives predict valenced affective states in the daily lives of university students?10
“Beating as one”: the effect of coaches’ behaviors on athletes’ psychobiological wellbeing through the lens of self-determination theory9
What predicts the initiation and outcomes of interpersonal emotion regulation in everyday life?9
The interplay between emotional semantics and prosody: behavioural and skin conductance responses9
Do liberals value emotion more than conservatives? Political partisanship and Lay beliefs about the functionality of emotion8
Think your way to happiness? Investigating the role of need for cognition in well-being through a three-level meta-analytic approach8
From relatedness frustrated to violent extremism: the mediating role of aggression8
How music teachers’ emotional expressions shape students’ performance: “C’est le ton qui fait la musique”8
Focus on the need or feeling good? Coping through instrumental action versus prohedonic distraction depends on the temporal efficacy of means8
Associations between maternal envy and parenting practices8
The effect of a physically formidable competitor or cooperator on attraction to violent video games7
Enhancing emotion, motivation, and behavior in procedural tasks through autonomy-supportive instructions: an experimental study7
Sounds boring: the causal effect of boredom on self-administration of aversive stimuli in the presence of a positive alternative7
Development of different motivational cost component classes in university courses: group specific trajectories and later examination behavior7
Commentary: processes of disengagement – letting go from the wanted future, the missed-out past, and coping with inevitable endings7
Motivational consequences of counterfactual mindsets: Does counterfactual structure influence the use of conservative or risky tactics?7
‘Help, my teacher is pressuring me!’ The role of students’ coping with controlling teaching in motivation and engagement7
Reduced food neophobia and food disgust in colorblind men6
Choosing to lose it: The role of autonomous motivation in goal disengagement6
Exploring the relationship between fiction reading and emotion recognition6
Intergroup threat stimulates malevolent creative idea generation6
Age-related differences in a DRM task: affect as a mediator6
Expectancy-value interactions and dropout intentions in higher education: can study values compensate for low expectancies?6
Why do people help? The relationship of eudaimonic and hedonic orientations with other-focused and self-focused motives for helping6
The flexible nature of everyday reciprocity: reciprocity, helping, and relationship closeness6
Motivation and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples: it’s complicated!6
Exploration and cross-validation for the latent profiles of emotion regulation difficulties among college students6
Heart over mind: unravelling motivated reasoning in an unprecedented socio-political context6
Task-related fluctuations in action-state orientation: roles of anticipated task difficulty and task-related affect6
The phenomenology of maintenance goals: lower threat and greater satisfaction with the current state6
The role of spontaneous facial mimicry in modulating instructed overt facial actions: evidence from facial electromyography5
Everything under control? Daily dynamics of self-control and emotion regulation5
The ease of experiencing positive emotions in negative contexts5
Context-dependent basic and moral emotions in adults with autism5
Framing self-sacrifice in the investigation of moral judgment and moral emotions in human and autonomous driving dilemmas5
Audio-Visual Interactions during Emotion Processing in Bicultural Bilinguals5
Reward learning in obsessive-compulsive disorder: an attentional perspective5
Body shame and exercise adherence intention: the moderating role of peer support and the mediating role of exercise motivation5
The dualistic nature of academic passion revisited: a latent transition analysis5
What do we envy? How internal and external self-relevance shape envious reactions to upward comparisons5
The implicit affiliation motive and self-regulation: exploring the differences with implicit achievement and power, and patterns of self-regulation5
SDT in action: enhancing motivational resources and auditory perception in German general music education5
When bigger is better: size of strategy repertoire predicts goal attainment5
The internal structure of enthusiasm: a prototype analysis4
The impact of frowning and doubt on deductive reasoning4
Lay perspectives on emotion: past, present, and future research directions4
A matter of needs: Basic need satisfaction as an underlying mechanism between perfectionism and employee well-being4
How family supports children’s reading-related emotions and reading intention: a comparative study of rural, suburban, and urban areas4
How does paced breathing influence post-emotion encoding?4
Self-concordant goal motivation influences how people respond to crowds, but not how they perceive them4
Reading between the lines: teacher recognition of students’ requests to satisfy their psychological needs as a prerequisite for need-supportive communication style4
Effects of intensity on emotion regulation strategy preferences are emotion-specific4
Negative interpretation bias towards ambiguous facial expressions in individuals with high empathy4
Inbound friend or foe: how motion bistability is resolved under threat4
The effects of daily leaders’ recognition, positive affect and work-related isolation on daily innovative work behavior: a moderated mediation examination4
Including cognitive emotion regulation instructions on sensitive-content screens reduces distress4
Using emotion to guide decisions: the accuracy and perceived value of emotional intensity forecasts4
Keeping up appearances: the role of motives and utility beliefs in expressive suppression4
Fostering transformative actions through the combined effect of the social motive of quixoteism and an abstract mindset4
Prior autonomy frustration facilitates persistent behavior: The moderating role of autonomy causality orientation3
Preventing boredom with gratitude: The role of meaning in life3
Personal importance as a boundary condition in effortful dissonance reduction3
When are people willing to help others? Links with eudaimonic versus hedonic motives3
Understanding academic procrastination: A Longitudinal analysis of procrastination and emotions in undergraduate and graduate students3
Commentary: goal disengagement—past, processes, and future3
Why we need a living meta-analysis of self-determination theory: an illustration examining temporal changes in need supportive education3
Correction: When the eyes break the (naturalistic) scene: investigation on the eye-gaze following mechanisms in complex scenarios3
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 approac3
Evaluative conditioning of conflict aversiveness and its effects on adaptive control3
Emotion beliefs and goal setting: Malleability of emotion predicts changes in goal orientation across a semester3
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
Infantilization across the life span: A large-scale internet study suggests that emotional abuse is especially damaging3
Motivated reasoning: Election integrity beliefs, outcome acceptance, and polarization before, during, and after the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election3
Reader in face-reading: viewer’s empathy and sensitivity to disgust impacts the first impressions of anomalous faces2
The influence of performance incentives on the subjective experience of mental effort2
Intimate sounds of silence: its motives and consequences in romantic relationships2
How do passionate sport fans feel? An examination using a quadripartite approach2
Social expectancies to be constantly available and productive as antecedents and consequences of burnout: A longitudinal bidirectional investigation2
All are objects in the eyes of those who compete: social motivations and interpersonal objectification2
Smiling at moral misbehaviors: the effect of violation benignness and psychological distance2
The role of parenting style for the development of the implicit power motive in children2
Spontaneous self-affirmation predicts more meaning and less boredom2
Careful what you wish for: the primary role of malicious Envy in Predicting Moral Disengagement2
Motivational pathways involved in women’s intentions to engage in healthy and disordered eating behavior following a body-related discrepancy2
Do reasons behind striving to do better than others differ in degree, kind, or both? A person-centred analysis of performance-approach goal complexes2
Disentangling the relation among emotional cost, psychological cost, and anxiety with College Students2
All for one or one for all? Examining a parsing of emotion that is informed by lay people’s values2
Mental contrasting and energization transfer to low-expectancy tasks2
Goals for others: teachers’ aspirations for students predict motivating and demotivating teaching2
Affiliative stimuli elicit negative emotion and expressive suppression in high self-critics: A study using video stimuli2
Self-determined immortality: Testing the role of autonomy in promoting perceptions of symbolic immortality and well-being2
Meaning-augmentation motive: Valuing meaning in life facilitates preference for experiential over material purchases2
Correction: A self-support approach to satisfy basic psychological needs during difficult situations2
Back to the future: self-defining memory recall amplifies effects of episodic future thinking on delay discounting2
Affective space and motor response: the impact of proprioceptive/tactile cues on movement organization2
Autonomy over authority: the role of autonomous motivation in law compliance2
The bare necessities: a necessary condition analysis of the dual role of basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration on wellbeing at work2
Extending self-determination theory’s dual-process model to a new tripartite model to explain diminished functioning2
The impact of selective material incentives on intrinsic motivation in activities2
Implicit motive configurations as complements to dimensions: a comparative analysis using latent profile analysis and the operant motive test2
Financial and prosocial rewards differentially enhance cognition in younger and older healthy adults2
Autonomy striving and antiracism: A twofold view of autonomy reveals distinct pathways to outgroup attitudes vs. action2
People underestimate their capability to motivate themselves without performance-based extrinsic incentives2
Melting COVID-frozen goals: How goal disengagement supports well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Suppress to get along: a lifespan account of social motives for suppression at work2
How the open-door metaphor facilitates adaptive goal switching2
The attenuation of spider avoidance action tendencies in spider-fearful individuals and its impact on behavioural and emotional responding to spiders2
Are awe-prone people less aggressive? The mediating role of the small self2
Couples’ interpersonal behavior and depressive symptoms at the trait and state-level1
You make it work for me: priming social support reduces alienating effects of short mindfulness meditation among poor self-regulators1
Dynamic benefits of finding the silver lining: secondary control as a buffer against declines in well-being during COVID-191
Physical exertion leads to attentional bias modification toward pain-related stimuli1
Who climbs Mount Everest? Individual differences in achieving difficult goals1
The road not taken: selective sampling and persisting inaccurate impressions1
Delineating Mastery Goal Complexes in Teacher Professional Learning: A Qualitative Exploration of “Needing to” versus “Wanting to” Reasons1
Commentary: Engage or disengage? Interpretations from a resource conservation perspective1
Better safe than sorry: discriminability and response bias in adult food neophobia1
Intact modulation of response vigor in major depressive disorder1
Blunted anticipatory pleasure, but not consummatory pleasure, is longitudinally linked to depression symptoms in college students1
Eco-Anxiety motivates pro-environmental behaviors: a Two-Wave Longitudinal Study1
Agreeableness and Conscientiousness promote successful adaptation to the Covid-19 pandemic through effective internalization of public health guidelines1
How self-awareness is connected to less experience of action crises in personal goal pursuit1
Aligning with the agent of justice: Schadenfreude following punishment of trust violators1
Feelings of authenticity and civic engagement1
Neuroticism buffers the negative indirect effect of work-leisure conflict on faculty members’ work engagement through work-related affective rumination1
Embarrassment differs in embarrassability and affects behavioral inhibitory control: an ERP study1
Correction to: A psychophysiological investigation of mourning: There are two sides to the story1
Ambitious people are more prone to support resource-intensive aid programs1
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
Effects of gratitude on intrinsic and extrinsic motivators in career 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
Striving for identity goals by self-symbolizing on Instagram1
A within-person approach to the relation between quality of task motivation, performance and job satisfaction in everyday working life1
On the hierarchical and situational multidimensionality of motivation according to self-determination theory: further investigating the specificity hypothesis1
Bullying is socially-regulated, but autonomy-supportive teaching and autonomy need satisfaction are effective antidotes1
Hope for your health improves meaning in life by promoting relevant health behaviors1
Motivational weighing: examining high schoolers’ weighing of competing motivational beliefs related to math and science coursework1
Mental account linkage: the psychological process of future self-continuity influencing value trade-off in economic decision-making1
Swiping away dullness: disliking boredom predicts more smartphone use1
Exploring the interplay between motivation to succeed, depression, and anxiety among young adult offenders: a Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model analysis1
Bored to stay bored: state boredom increases social comparison1
Untangling cardiac effort mobilization associated with anhedonia and anxiety with a naturalistic task in a clinical adolescent sample1
For the love of my child: How parents’ relative extrinsic aspirations for children and interdependent self-construal predict their relational well-being1
Up to the sky, down to the earth: feeling, thinking, and acting on climate change1
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