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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of teachers’ motivation and mindsets in predicting a (de)motivating teaching style in higher education: a circumplex approach	55
Putting the pieces together: reviewing the structural conceptualization of motivation within SDT	44
A review and empirical comparison of motivation scoring methods: An application to self-determination theory	43
Job crafting, leader autonomy support, and passion for work: Testing a model in Australia and China	29
The stability and reliability of attentional bias measures in the dot-probe task: Evidence from both traditional mean bias scores and trial-level bias scores	28
Predicting college students' psychological distress through basic psychological need-relevant practices by teachers, peers, and the academic program	20
Hedonic and eudaimonic motives to pursue well-being in three samples of youth	19
Projecting loneliness into the past and future: implications for self-esteem and affect	19
Individual variable pay for performance, controlling effects, and intrinsic motivation	19
Achievement goal orientation: A predictor of student engagement in higher education	18
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	17
An experience sampling study of the momentary dynamics of moral, autonomous, competent, and related need satisfactions, moral enactments, and psychological thriving	15
A longitudinal analysis of motivation profiles at work	14
Emotional exhaustion and reduced self-efficacy: The mediating role of deep and surface learning strategies	13
The role of daily need crafting in daily fluctuations in adolescents’ need-based and affective experiences	12
Promoting the underestimated: A vignette study on the importance of the need for affiliation to successful leadership	12
Boredom proneness, political orientation and adherence to social-distancing in the pandemic	12
A self-determination theory approach to predicting daily prosocial behavior	11
Greater autonomous motivation for study and basic psychological need satisfaction by being presently aware and ‘letting go’: An exploration of mindful attention and nonattachment	10
The role of the learning environment in adolescents’ motivational development	10
Differential impact of threat type on defensive motivation and attention during the NPU-threat task	10
Remembering pleasure and personal meaning from episodes of intrinsic motivation: an fMRI study	8
Childhood maltreatment and adulthood proneness to shame and guilt: The mediating role of maladaptive schemas	8
Making room for neutral affect: Evidence indicating that neutral affect is independent of and co-occurs with eight affective states	8
What do humans feel with mistreated humans, animals, robots, and objects? Exploring the role of cognitive empathy	7

Marie Curie vs. Serena Williams: ambition leads to extremism through obsessive (but not harmonious) passion	7
Basic psychological need satisfaction across the retirement transition: Changes and longitudinal associations with depressive symptoms	7
Self-determined profiles of academic motivation	6
Goal adjustment capacities in uncontrollable life circumstances: Benefits for psychological well-being during COVID-19	6
Emotion emphasis effects in moral judgment are moderated by mindsets	6
Effects of an inquiry-focused school improvement program on the development of pupils’ attitudes towards curiosity, their implicit ability and effort beliefs, and goal orientations	6
Comparing static and dynamic measures of affect intensity and affective lability: do they measure the same thing?	6
How self-awareness is connected to less experience of action crises in personal goal pursuit	6
Towards a neo-configurational theory of intrinsic motivation	6
Automated coding of implicit motives: A machine-learning approach	6
Flow theory: Advancing the two-dimensional conceptualization	6
Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement	6
Sticking fewer (or more) pins into a doll? The role of self-compassion in the relations between interpersonal goals and aggression	5
Helping when the desire is low: Expectancy as a booster	5
“This one’s on me!”: Differential well-being effects of self-centered and recipient-centered motives for spending money on others	5
Pathogen disgust sensitivity: Individual differences in pathogen perception or pathogen avoidance?	5
Always look on the bright side of life? Exploring the between-variance and within-variance of emotion regulation goals	5
Expressive suppression as an obstacle to social change: Linking system justification, emotion regulation, and collective action	5
Social anxiety and dissociation: the moderating role of emotion regulation	5
Motivation as a function of success frequency	5
Social emotional ability development (SEAD): An integrated model of practical emotion-based competencies	5
Multiple action options in the context of time: When exams approach, students study more and experience fewer motivational conflicts	5
Empirical testing of an alternative modeling of the self-determination continuum	5
Choosing to lose it: The role of autonomous motivation in goal disengagement	5
The “Big Two” and socially induced emotions: Agency and communion jointly influence emotional contagion and emotional mimicry	5
Painfully bored: the role of negative urgency and history of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Self-Administering painful stimuli	5
Agreeableness and Conscientiousness promote successful adaptation to the Covid-19 pandemic through effective internalization of public health guidelines	5
Multiple versus single immoral acts: an immoral person evokes more schadenfreude than an immoral action	5
Impaired cognitive control during reward pursuit and punishment avoidance	5
Melting COVID-frozen goals: How goal disengagement supports well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Compassion protects against vital exhaustion and negative emotionality	5
Inducing and blocking the goal to belong in an experimental setting: goal disengagement research using Cyberball	5
Energy investment and motivation: The additive impact of task demand and reward value on exerted force in hand grip tasks	5
Hedonic vs. epistemic goals in processing persuasive communications: Revisiting the role of personal involvement	5
Prior autonomy frustration facilitates persistent behavior: The moderating role of autonomy causality orientation	5
React to act: Negative mood, response inhibition, and the moderating role of emotional reactivity	5
Getting trapped in a dead end? Trait self-control and boredom are linked to goal adjustment	5
Beliefs about the ability to control specific emotions	4
The motivational system of task values and anticipated emotions in daily academic behavior	4
The effects of current unsatisfactory performance and evaluative approach on improvement expectancy and commitment to improvement	4
Associations between use of self-regulatory strategies and daily eating patterns: An experience sampling study in college-aged women	4
Reappraising fear: is up-regulation more efficient than down-regulation?	4
Psychological mechanisms linking sibling abuse and school delinquency: an experiential sampling study based on conservation of resources theory	4
Positive affect predicts engagement in healthy behaviors within a day, but not across days	4
Why do employees engage in counterproductive work behaviours? Cultural values and white-collar employees in China	4
Types of boredom and other learning activity emotions: A person-centred investigation of inter-individual data	4
Motivational mindsets versus reasons for action: implications for the dimensionality debate in self-determination theory	4
Individual differences in motives for regulating affect intensity: positive trait affect and the value of trait-consistent affect	4
You have to let go sometimes: advances in understanding goal disengagement	3
Exploring the Origins of intrinsic motivation	3

Exploring the relationship between Black high school students’ external regulation and intrinsic motivation	3
Punishment sensitivity and risk taking in depressed mood	3
Classroom transmission processes between teacher support, interest value and negative affect: An investigation guided by situated expectancy-value theory and control-value theory	3
Emotional inertia emerges after prolonged states of exhaustion: Evidences from a measurement burst study	3
Off the mark: Repetitive marking undermines essay evaluations due to boredom	3
The flexible nature of everyday reciprocity: reciprocity, helping, and relationship closeness	3
Further examinations of attitudes toward discrete emotions, with a focus on attitudes toward anger	3
Adolescents “walking the talk”: How value importance and enactment relate to well-being and risk-taking	3
Don’t give up? It’s a little complicated: Action Crisis Moderates Consequences of goal support	3
Face the food: Food plating with facial patterns influences appetite and event-related brain potentials	3
Ripples of contempt: aversive responses to others (mis)fortunes	3
The role of maternal emotion regulation in controlling parenting during toddlerhood: an observational study	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
Predictors of aversion to happiness: New Insights from a multi-national study	3
The interpersonal correlates of believing emotions are controllable	3
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
Association between shame aversion and ruminative retribution: Evidence for moderation by externalization of blame and control	3
Sequential modulations of emotional effects on cognitive performance in young and older adults	2
Affective forecasting and ex-offender hiring decisions	2
The association of autonomy support on memory need satisfaction and goal progress	2
Neural decoding of positive and negative self-knowledge	2
Understanding academic procrastination: A Longitudinal analysis of procrastination and emotions in undergraduate and graduate students	2
Relationships between schizotypal features, trait anticipatory and consummatory pleasure, and naturalistic hedonic States	2
Economic status and avoidance motivation: a meta-analysis	2
A within-person approach to the relation between quality of task motivation, performance and job satisfaction in everyday working life	2
Effects of emotion-induced self-focused attention on item and source memory	2
Coping with daily boredom: Exploring the relationships of job boredom, counterproductive work behavior, organizational citizenship behavior, and cognitive reappraisal	2
Greater death anxiety, greater dishonesty for self-benefit: The moderating role of social dominance orientation	2
Believe, express, and enjoy: utility beliefs about social emotion expression consistently predict satisfactory outcomes	2
Motivation and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples: it’s complicated!	2
The role of autobiographical memory in competence need satisfaction	2
Careful what you wish for: the primary role of malicious Envy in Predicting Moral Disengagement	2
Should science be a subject that we should keep our mind cool? A systemic evaluation using TIMSS 2015 data	2
Autonomy support and prosocial impact facilitate meaningful work: A daily diary study	2
The influence of competition and performance goals on decoding complex emotions	2
Mental contrasting and energization transfer to low-expectancy tasks	2
Contextual variation in beliefs about emotion and associated emotion regulation efforts	2
Teacher anger as a double-edged sword: Contrasting trait and emotional labor effects	2
Examining the implications of perceiving one’s future health as a goal or a standard for affect, motivation, and health behaviour	2
Ambient lighting alters motivational responses to advertisements for foods of different energetic value	2
Correction to: Is it still worth it? Applying expectancy-value theory to investigate the intraindividual motivational process of forming intentions to drop out from university	2
Not moved, still lonely: the negative relation between loneliness and being moved	2
How achievement motive enactment shapes daily flow experience and work engagement: The interplay of personality systems	2
Extending self-determination theory’s dual-process model to a new tripartite model to explain diminished functioning	2
From aesthetics to ethics: Testing the link between an emotional experience of awe and the motive of quixoteism on (un)ethical behavior	2
The influence of postural emotion cues on implicit trait judgements	2
How family supports children’s reading-related emotions and reading intention: a comparative study of rural, suburban, and urban areas	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