OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Motivation and Emotion is 6. 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
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
Interplay of intrinsic motivation and well-being at school	11
Action over feeling: the revised animal preference test and callous-unemotional functioning	11
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
Emotion crafting: Individuals as agents of their positive emotional experiences	10
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
Do trait-assessed valenced emotion motives predict valenced affective states in the daily lives of university students?	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
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
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