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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards a neo-configurational theory of intrinsic motivation	29
Lay beliefs about boredom: A mixed-methods investigation	25
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	24
Pursuit of emotional satisfaction leads to increased risk taking in final decisions	18
Painfully bored: the role of negative urgency and history of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Self-Administering painful stimuli	17
The interpersonal correlates of believing emotions are controllable	16
The relationship between autonomous and controlled motivation and eating behaviors: examining the roles of self-regulating eating quality and quantity	16
Parent–child relationships and depressive symptom among Chinese college students: the mediating role of psychological needs satisfaction and the moderating role of mindfulness	15
Different functions of physical effort in physical activity and sports: a scoping review of the value of physical effort	15
Social dynamics in interpersonal emotion regulation: A theoretical framework for understanding direct and indirect other-based processes	14
Valuing negative affect weakens affect-health linkages: similarities and differences across affect valuation measures	14
“Pandemic stress made him do it!”: COVID-19-related threat predicts vicarious justification for assaulting Chinese men—especially those with strong ethnic identity	14
How first-year students manage their action crises and motivation to build their learner identity: a look into the critical moment of goal disengagement	13
You have to let go sometimes: advances in understanding goal disengagement	13
Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement	13
Hiding in plain sight: The distinct importance of low-arousal positive affect	13
Believe, express, and enjoy: utility beliefs about social emotion expression consistently predict satisfactory outcomes	13
Gender differences in sensitivity to provocation and hostile attribution bias toward ambiguous facial cues in violent offenders and community-based adults	12
Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult	12
Interplay of intrinsic motivation and well-being at school	11
Action over feeling: the revised animal preference test and callous-unemotional functioning	11
To be angry or happy? Anything works. The interaction of emotional information and scope of attention during inhibitory control	11
Sequential modulations of emotional effects on cognitive performance in young and older adults	11
Emotion crafting: Individuals as agents of their positive emotional experiences	10
Getting trapped in a dead end? Trait self-control and boredom are linked to goal adjustment	10

College Students’ motivational beliefs and use of goal-oriented control strategies: Integrating two theories of motivated behavior	10
What do humans feel with mistreated humans, animals, robots, and objects? Exploring the role of cognitive empathy	10
Ripples of contempt: aversive responses to others (mis)fortunes	10
Do trait-assessed valenced emotion motives predict valenced affective states in the daily lives of university students?	9
The influence of postural emotion cues on implicit trait judgements	9
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	9
“Beating as one”: the effect of coaches’ behaviors on athletes’ psychobiological wellbeing through the lens of self-determination theory	9
Navigating flow beyond achievement: the impact of the implicit and explicit power motive congruence on flow experience in competitive and collaborative group settings	9
How music teachers’ emotional expressions shape students’ performance: “C’est le ton qui fait la musique”	8
Do liberals value emotion more than conservatives? Political partisanship and Lay beliefs about the functionality of emotion	8
Think your way to happiness? Investigating the role of need for cognition in well-being through a three-level meta-analytic approach	8
The benefits of need satisfaction depend on their relative importance for people with a unidimensional identity: an idiographic analysis	8
Focus on the need or feeling good? Coping through instrumental action versus prohedonic distraction depends on the temporal efficacy of means	8
What predicts the initiation and outcomes of interpersonal emotion regulation in everyday life?	8
Sounds boring: the causal effect of boredom on self-administration of aversive stimuli in the presence of a positive alternative	7
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 “Big Two” and socially induced emotions: Agency and communion jointly influence emotional contagion and emotional mimicry	7
Predicting college students' psychological distress through basic psychological need-relevant practices by teachers, peers, and the academic program	7
Motivational consequences of counterfactual mindsets: Does counterfactual structure influence the use of conservative or risky tactics?	7
Commentary: processes of disengagement – letting go from the wanted future, the missed-out past, and coping with inevitable endings	7
Expectancy-value interactions and dropout intentions in higher education: can study values compensate for low expectancies?	7
Expressive suppression as an obstacle to social change: Linking system justification, emotion regulation, and collective action	7
Enhancing emotion, motivation, and behavior in procedural tasks through autonomy-supportive instructions: an experimental study	7
‘Help, my teacher is pressuring me!’ The role of students’ coping with controlling teaching in motivation and engagement	7
The effect of a physically formidable competitor or cooperator on attraction to violent video games	7
Choosing to lose it: The role of autonomous motivation in goal disengagement	6
Task-related fluctuations in action-state orientation: roles of anticipated task difficulty and task-related affect	6
Framing self-sacrifice in the investigation of moral judgment and moral emotions in human and autonomous driving dilemmas	6
Audio-Visual Interactions during Emotion Processing in Bicultural Bilinguals	6
Everything under control? Daily dynamics of self-control and emotion regulation	6
Age-related differences in a DRM task: affect as a mediator	6
The flexible nature of everyday reciprocity: reciprocity, helping, and relationship closeness	6
Intergroup threat stimulates malevolent creative idea generation	6
Reduced food neophobia and food disgust in colorblind men	6
The phenomenology of maintenance goals: lower threat and greater satisfaction with the current state	6
Motivation and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples: it’s complicated!	6
The implicit affiliation motive and self-regulation: exploring the differences with implicit achievement and power, and patterns of self-regulation	6
Self-concordant goal motivation influences how people respond to crowds, but not how they perceive them	5
Context-dependent basic and moral emotions in adults with autism	5
Effects of intensity on emotion regulation strategy preferences are emotion-specific	5
Lay perspectives on emotion: past, present, and future research directions	5
The ease of experiencing positive emotions in negative contexts	5
How family supports children’s reading-related emotions and reading intention: a comparative study of rural, suburban, and urban areas	5
The internal structure of enthusiasm: a prototype analysis	5
A matter of needs: Basic need satisfaction as an underlying mechanism between perfectionism and employee well-being	5
When bigger is better: size of strategy repertoire predicts goal attainment	5
Negative interpretation bias towards ambiguous facial expressions in individuals with high empathy	5
Keeping up appearances: the role of motives and utility beliefs in expressive suppression	5
Using emotion to guide decisions: the accuracy and perceived value of emotional intensity forecasts	5

Commentary: goal disengagement—past, processes, and future	4
Preventing boredom with gratitude: The role of meaning in life	4
Evaluative conditioning of conflict aversiveness and its effects on adaptive control	4
Relationships between schizotypal features, trait anticipatory and consummatory pleasure, and naturalistic hedonic States	4
Inbound friend or foe: how motion bistability is resolved under threat	4
Emotion beliefs and goal setting: Malleability of emotion predicts changes in goal orientation across a semester	4
Prior autonomy frustration facilitates persistent behavior: The moderating role of autonomy causality orientation	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
Outrage fatigue? Cognitive costs and decisions to blame	3
Infantilization across the life span: A large-scale internet study suggests that emotional abuse is especially damaging	3
Motivational pathways involved in women’s intentions to engage in healthy and disordered eating behavior following a body-related discrepancy	3
The attenuation of spider avoidance action tendencies in spider-fearful individuals and its impact on behavioural and emotional responding to spiders	3
The bare necessities: a necessary condition analysis of the dual role of basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration on wellbeing at work	3
Correction: A self-support approach to satisfy basic psychological needs during difficult situations	3
Positive cognitive reappraisal is beneficial for women’s but not for men’s IGT decision-making	3
The role of parenting style for the development of the implicit power motive in children	3
When are people willing to help others? Links with eudaimonic versus hedonic motives	3
Back to the future: self-defining memory recall amplifies effects of episodic future thinking on delay discounting	3
Associations between GAD symptom severity and error monitoring depend on neural quenching variability	3
Autonomy striving and antiracism: A twofold view of autonomy reveals distinct pathways to outgroup attitudes vs. action	3
Disentangling the relation among emotional cost, psychological cost, and anxiety with College Students	3
Self-determined immortality: Testing the role of autonomy in promoting perceptions of symbolic immortality and well-being	3
Boredom proneness, political orientation and adherence to social-distancing in the pandemic	3
Motivated reasoning: Election integrity beliefs, outcome acceptance, and polarization before, during, and after the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	3
Careful what you wish for: the primary role of malicious Envy in Predicting Moral Disengagement	3
P-Curve analysis of autonomous and controlling motivation priming effects supports their evidential value	3
Spontaneous self-affirmation predicts more meaning and less boredom	3
Melting COVID-frozen goals: How goal disengagement supports well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Examining the implications of perceiving one’s future health as a goal or a standard for affect, motivation, and health behaviour	3
For the love of my child: How parents’ relative extrinsic aspirations for children and interdependent self-construal predict their relational well-being	2
How achievement motive enactment shapes daily flow experience and work engagement: The interplay of personality systems	2
Effects of gratitude on intrinsic and extrinsic motivators in career decision-making	2
Disgustingly perfect: An examination of disgust, perfectionism, and gender	2
Types of boredom and other learning activity emotions: A person-centred investigation of inter-individual data	2
Extending self-determination theory’s dual-process model to a new tripartite model to explain diminished functioning	2
Affiliative stimuli elicit negative emotion and expressive suppression in high self-critics: A study using video stimuli	2
People underestimate their capability to motivate themselves without performance-based extrinsic incentives	2
Eco-Anxiety motivates pro-environmental behaviors: a Two-Wave Longitudinal Study	2
Who climbs Mount Everest? Individual differences in achieving difficult goals	2
Ambient lighting alters motivational responses to advertisements for foods of different energetic value	2
The role of autobiographical memory in competence need satisfaction	2
Correction to: A psychophysiological investigation of mourning: There are two sides to the story	2
The influence of performance incentives on the subjective experience of mental effort	2
Flow theory: Advancing the two-dimensional conceptualization	2
Smiling at moral misbehaviors: the effect of violation benignness and psychological distance	2
Mental contrasting and energization transfer to low-expectancy tasks	2
All for one or one for all? Examining a parsing of emotion that is informed by lay people’s values	2
Neural decoding of positive and negative self-knowledge	2
“This one’s on me!”: Differential well-being effects of self-centered and recipient-centered motives for spending money on others	2
Commentary: Engage or disengage? Interpretations from a resource conservation perspective	2
Intact modulation of response vigor in major depressive disorder	2
How do passionate sport fans feel? An examination using a quadripartite approach	2
Intimate sounds of silence: its motives and consequences in romantic relationships	2
Psychological mechanisms linking sibling abuse and school delinquency: an experiential sampling study based on conservation of resources theory	2
Positive emotions have different impacts on mood and sympathetic changes in crying from negative emotions	2
Financial and prosocial rewards differentially enhance cognition in younger and older healthy adults	2
Bored to stay bored: state boredom increases social comparison	2