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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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	31
Pursuit of emotional satisfaction leads to increased risk taking in final decisions	26
Parent–child relationships and depressive symptom among Chinese college students: the mediating role of psychological needs satisfaction and the moderating role of mindfulness	25
Painfully bored: the role of negative urgency and history of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Self-Administering painful stimuli	25
Lay beliefs about boredom: A mixed-methods investigation	22
The interpersonal correlates of believing emotions are controllable	21
Towards a neo-configurational theory of intrinsic motivation	17
The relationship between autonomous and controlled motivation and eating behaviors: examining the roles of self-regulating eating quality and quantity	17
Perceptions of low self-control undermine interpersonal cooperation	16
How first-year students manage their action crises and motivation to build their learner identity: a look into the critical moment of goal disengagement	15
Social dynamics in interpersonal emotion regulation: A theoretical framework for understanding direct and indirect other-based processes	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
Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement	14
How to avoid collapse after one setback: developmental feedback alleviates the spillover negative impact of competence frustration	14
Different functions of physical effort in physical activity and sports: a scoping review of the value of physical effort	13
Action over feeling: the revised animal preference test and callous-unemotional functioning	13
Valuing negative affect weakens affect-health linkages: similarities and differences across affect valuation measures	13
Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult	13
Sequential modulations of emotional effects on cognitive performance in young and older adults	12
To be angry or happy? Anything works. The interaction of emotional information and scope of attention during inhibitory control	12
Believe, express, and enjoy: utility beliefs about social emotion expression consistently predict satisfactory outcomes	11
You have to let go sometimes: advances in understanding goal disengagement	11
Gender differences in sensitivity to provocation and hostile attribution bias toward ambiguous facial cues in violent offenders and community-based adults	11
Extraversion’s link to reward sensitivity: evidence from an emotion dynamics task	10
Hiding in plain sight: The distinct importance of low-arousal positive affect	10

Interplay of intrinsic motivation and well-being at school	10
Getting trapped in a dead end? Trait self-control and boredom are linked to goal adjustment	10
Ripples of contempt: aversive responses to others (mis)fortunes	10
Emotion crafting: Individuals as agents of their positive emotional experiences	10
College Students’ motivational beliefs and use of goal-oriented control strategies: Integrating two theories of motivated behavior	10
Do liberals value emotion more than conservatives? Political partisanship and Lay beliefs about the functionality of emotion	9
Relating students’ motivation trajectories in the first nine weeks of their vocational education program to dropout and persistence	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
Do trait-assessed valenced emotion motives predict valenced affective states in the daily lives of university students?	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
How we think about how we feel: links to suicidal ideation	8
Focus on the need or feeling good? Coping through instrumental action versus prohedonic distraction depends on the temporal efficacy of means	8
Commentary: processes of disengagement – letting go from the wanted future, the missed-out past, and coping with inevitable endings	8
From relatedness frustrated to violent extremism: the mediating role of aggression	8
How music teachers’ emotional expressions shape students’ performance: “C’est le ton qui fait la musique”	8
Motivational consequences of counterfactual mindsets: Does counterfactual structure influence the use of conservative or risky tactics?	8
Correction to: A psychophysiological investigation of mourning: There are two sides to the story	8
What predicts the initiation and outcomes of interpersonal emotion regulation in everyday life?	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
Sounds boring: the causal effect of boredom on self-administration of aversive stimuli in the presence of a positive alternative	8
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
Reduced food neophobia and food disgust in colorblind men	7
Expectancy-value interactions and dropout intentions in higher education: can study values compensate for low expectancies?	7
The effect of a physically formidable competitor or cooperator on attraction to violent video games	7
Task-related fluctuations in action-state orientation: roles of anticipated task difficulty and task-related affect	6
Intergroup threat stimulates malevolent creative idea generation	6
Exploration and cross-validation for the latent profiles of emotion regulation difficulties among college students	6
The flexible nature of everyday reciprocity: reciprocity, helping, and relationship closeness	6
Motivation and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples: it’s complicated!	6
Everything under control? Daily dynamics of self-control and emotion regulation	6
The phenomenology of maintenance goals: lower threat and greater satisfaction with the current state	6
Age-related differences in a DRM task: affect as a mediator	6
Choosing to lose it: The role of autonomous motivation in goal disengagement	6
Self-concordant goal motivation influences how people respond to crowds, but not how they perceive them	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
How family supports children’s reading-related emotions and reading intention: a comparative study of rural, suburban, and urban areas	5
Framing self-sacrifice in the investigation of moral judgment and moral emotions in human and autonomous driving dilemmas	5
The ease of experiencing positive emotions in negative contexts	5
The implicit affiliation motive and self-regulation: exploring the differences with implicit achievement and power, and patterns of self-regulation	5
The internal structure of enthusiasm: a prototype analysis	5
Audio-Visual Interactions during Emotion Processing in Bicultural Bilinguals	5
Context-dependent basic and moral emotions in adults with autism	5
Effects of intensity on emotion regulation strategy preferences are emotion-specific	5
Using emotion to guide decisions: the accuracy and perceived value of emotional intensity forecasts	5
Keeping up appearances: the role of motives and utility beliefs in expressive suppression	4
Preventing boredom with gratitude: The role of meaning in life	4

Inbound friend or foe: how motion bistability is resolved under threat	4
Evaluative conditioning of conflict aversiveness and its effects on adaptive control	4
Commentary: goal disengagement—past, processes, and future	4
A matter of needs: Basic need satisfaction as an underlying mechanism between perfectionism and employee well-being	4
Why we need a living meta-analysis of self-determination theory: an illustration examining temporal changes in need supportive education	4
Emotion beliefs and goal setting: Malleability of emotion predicts changes in goal orientation across a semester	4
When are people willing to help others? Links with eudaimonic versus hedonic motives	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
Lay perspectives on emotion: past, present, and future research directions	4
Prior autonomy frustration facilitates persistent behavior: The moderating role of autonomy causality orientation	4
Motivated reasoning: Election integrity beliefs, outcome acceptance, and polarization before, during, and after the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election	4
Understanding academic procrastination: A Longitudinal analysis of procrastination and emotions in undergraduate and graduate students	4
The role of parenting style for the development of the implicit power motive in children	3
Infantilization across the life span: A large-scale internet study suggests that emotional abuse is especially damaging	3
Positive cognitive reappraisal is beneficial for women’s but not for men’s IGT decision-making	3
Mental contrasting and energization transfer to low-expectancy tasks	3
Melting COVID-frozen goals: How goal disengagement supports well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Outrage fatigue? Cognitive costs and decisions to blame	3
Associations between GAD symptom severity and error monitoring depend on neural quenching variability	3
Self-determined immortality: Testing the role of autonomy in promoting perceptions of symbolic immortality and well-being	3
Reader in face-reading: viewer’s empathy and sensitivity to disgust impacts the first impressions of anomalous faces	3
Disentangling the relation among emotional cost, psychological cost, and anxiety with College Students	3
The bare necessities: a necessary condition analysis of the dual role of basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration on wellbeing at work	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
Autonomy striving and antiracism: A twofold view of autonomy reveals distinct pathways to outgroup attitudes vs. action	3
Correction: A self-support approach to satisfy basic psychological needs during difficult situations	3
Do reasons behind striving to do better than others differ in degree, kind, or both? A person-centred analysis of performance-approach goal complexes	3
All are objects in the eyes of those who compete: social motivations and interpersonal objectification	3
Spontaneous self-affirmation predicts more meaning and less boredom	3
Back to the future: self-defining memory recall amplifies effects of episodic future thinking on delay discounting	3
The influence of performance incentives on the subjective experience of mental effort	2
Financial and prosocial rewards differentially enhance cognition in younger and older healthy adults	2
People underestimate their capability to motivate themselves without performance-based extrinsic incentives	2
Extending self-determination theory’s dual-process model to a new tripartite model to explain diminished functioning	2
Disgustingly perfect: An examination of disgust, perfectionism, and gender	2
Commentary: Engage or disengage? Interpretations from a resource conservation perspective	2
Fundamental freedoms and optimal functioning: Nussbaum’s capabilities predict wellness in a dual process model via basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration	2
Correction to: A psychophysiological investigation of mourning: There are two sides to the story	2
All for one or one for all? Examining a parsing of emotion that is informed by lay people’s values	2
Intimate sounds of silence: its motives and consequences in romantic relationships	2
Flow theory: Advancing the two-dimensional conceptualization	2
Types of boredom and other learning activity emotions: A person-centred investigation of inter-individual data	2
Bored to stay bored: state boredom increases social comparison	2
“This one’s on me!”: Differential well-being effects of self-centered and recipient-centered motives for spending money on others	2
Effects of gratitude on intrinsic and extrinsic motivators in career decision-making	2
Intact modulation of response vigor in major depressive disorder	2
Psychological mechanisms linking sibling abuse and school delinquency: an experiential sampling study based on conservation of resources theory	2
How do passionate sport fans feel? An examination using a quadripartite approach	2
Affiliative stimuli elicit negative emotion and expressive suppression in high self-critics: A study using video stimuli	2
Smiling at moral misbehaviors: the effect of violation benignness and psychological distance	2
The impact of selective material incentives on intrinsic motivation in activities	2
Bullying is socially-regulated, but autonomy-supportive teaching and autonomy need satisfaction are effective antidotes	2
For the love of my child: How parents’ relative extrinsic aspirations for children and interdependent self-construal predict their relational well-being	2
Eco-Anxiety motivates pro-environmental behaviors: a Two-Wave Longitudinal Study	2