OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Motivation and Emotion is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
Pursuit of emotional satisfaction leads to increased risk taking in final decisions	41
Painfully bored: the role of negative urgency and history of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Self-Administering painful stimuli	36
The interpersonal correlates of believing emotions are controllable	24
Lay beliefs about boredom: A mixed-methods investigation	23
Perceptions of low self-control undermine interpersonal cooperation	22
Environmental motivation as a complex dynamic system	21
Parent–child relationships and depressive symptom among Chinese college students: the mediating role of psychological needs satisfaction and the moderating role of mindfulness	21
The relationship between autonomous and controlled motivation and eating behaviors: examining the roles of self-regulating eating quality and quantity	18
Emotion-regulation strategy use and commitment to a performance goal: the role of reappraisal tactics	18
Valuing negative affect weakens affect-health linkages: similarities and differences across affect valuation measures	17
“Pandemic stress made him do it!”: COVID-19-related threat predicts vicarious justification for assaulting Chinese men—especially those with strong ethnic identity	17
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	17
How first-year students manage their action crises and motivation to build their learner identity: a look into the critical moment of goal disengagement	17
Social dynamics in interpersonal emotion regulation: A theoretical framework for understanding direct and indirect other-based processes	16
Forecasters overestimate the effect of meaningful and stimulating activities on feelings of felt boredom but underestimate their perceived effectiveness	16
How to avoid collapse after one setback: developmental feedback alleviates the spillover negative impact of competence frustration	16
Different functions of physical effort in physical activity and sports: a scoping review of the value of physical effort	16
Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement	16
Gender differences in sensitivity to provocation and hostile attribution bias toward ambiguous facial cues in violent offenders and community-based adults	15
Only “genuine” mastery goals lead to academic performance through effort and interest	15
Motivational functioning along the social anxiety continuum: examining the emergence of flow in everyday social activities	15
Hiding in plain sight: The distinct importance of low-arousal positive affect	15
Believe, express, and enjoy: utility beliefs about social emotion expression consistently predict satisfactory outcomes	14
You have to let go sometimes: advances in understanding goal disengagement	13
Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult	13

Action over feeling: the revised animal preference test and callous-unemotional functioning	13
Interplay of intrinsic motivation and well-being at school	12
Getting trapped in a dead end? Trait self-control and boredom are linked to goal adjustment	12
To be angry or happy? Anything works. The interaction of emotional information and scope of attention during inhibitory control	12
College Students’ motivational beliefs and use of goal-oriented control strategies: Integrating two theories of motivated behavior	11
Emotion crafting: Individuals as agents of their positive emotional experiences	11
Navigating flow beyond achievement: the impact of the implicit and explicit power motive congruence on flow experience in competitive and collaborative group settings	11
The impact of an ACT intervention on intrinsic and extrinsic values and life fulfillment: an exploratory randomized controlled trial with university students	11
Extraversion’s link to reward sensitivity: evidence from an emotion dynamics task	10
How we think about how we feel: links to suicidal ideation	10
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
Evidence of an exponential relationship between attentional bias to threat and anxiety using an original “eye-dot-probe” task	10
Relating students’ motivation trajectories in the first nine weeks of their vocational education program to dropout and persistence	10
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 responses	9
“Beating as one”: the effect of coaches’ behaviors on athletes’ psychobiological wellbeing through the lens of self-determination theory	9
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
Focus on the need or feeling good? Coping through instrumental action versus prohedonic distraction depends on the temporal efficacy of means	8
Associations between maternal envy and parenting practices	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
Development of different motivational cost component classes in university courses: group specific trajectories and later examination behavior	7
Commentary: processes of disengagement – letting go from the wanted future, the missed-out past, and coping with inevitable endings	7
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 engagement	7
The effect of a physically formidable competitor or cooperator on attraction to violent video games	7
Enhancing emotion, motivation, and behavior in procedural tasks through autonomy-supportive instructions: an experimental study	7
Sounds boring: the causal effect of boredom on self-administration of aversive stimuli in the presence of a positive alternative	7
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 helping	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
Exploration and cross-validation for the latent profiles of emotion regulation difficulties among college students	6
Heart over mind: unravelling motivated reasoning in an unprecedented socio-political context	6
Task-related fluctuations in action-state orientation: roles of anticipated task difficulty and task-related affect	6
The phenomenology of maintenance goals: lower threat and greater satisfaction with the current state	6
Reduced food neophobia and food disgust in colorblind men	6
Choosing to lose it: The role of autonomous motivation in goal disengagement	6
Exploring the relationship between fiction reading and emotion recognition	6
Intergroup threat stimulates malevolent creative idea generation	6
Age-related differences in a DRM task: affect as a mediator	6
Framing self-sacrifice in the investigation of moral judgment and moral emotions in human and autonomous driving dilemmas	5
Audio-Visual Interactions during Emotion Processing in Bicultural Bilinguals	5
Reward learning in obsessive-compulsive disorder: an attentional perspective	5
Body shame and exercise adherence intention: the moderating role of peer support and the mediating role of exercise motivation	5
The dualistic nature of academic passion revisited: a latent transition analysis	5
What do we envy? How internal and external self-relevance shape envious reactions to upward comparisons	5
The implicit affiliation motive and self-regulation: exploring the differences with implicit achievement and power, and patterns of self-regulation	5

SDT in action: enhancing motivational resources and auditory perception in German general music education	5
When bigger is better: size of strategy repertoire predicts goal attainment	5
The role of spontaneous facial mimicry in modulating instructed overt facial actions: evidence from facial electromyography	5
Everything under control? Daily dynamics of self-control and emotion regulation	5
The ease of experiencing positive emotions in negative contexts	5
Context-dependent basic and moral emotions in adults with autism	5