OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Motivation and Emotion is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Pursuit of emotional satisfaction leads to increased risk taking in final decisions	45
Perceptions of low self-control undermine interpersonal cooperation	38
Painfully bored: the role of negative urgency and history of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Self-Administering painful stimuli	30
Lay beliefs about boredom: A mixed-methods investigation	26
Environmental motivation as a complex dynamic system	24
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	23
Emotion-regulation strategy use and commitment to a performance goal: the role of reappraisal tactics	23
The interpersonal correlates of believing emotions are controllable	21
Valuing negative affect weakens affect-health linkages: similarities and differences across affect valuation measures	20
Forecasters overestimate the effect of meaningful and stimulating activities on feelings of felt boredom but underestimate their perceived effectiveness	19
“Pandemic stress made him do it!”: COVID-19-related threat predicts vicarious justification for assaulting Chinese men—especially those with strong ethnic identity	19
How to avoid collapse after one setback: developmental feedback alleviates the spillover negative impact of competence frustration	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	16
Correction to: Development and validation of the self-supportive and self-thwarting styles of basic psychological needs scale	15
Motivational functioning along the social anxiety continuum: examining the emergence of flow in everyday social activities	15
Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement	15
Social dynamics in interpersonal emotion regulation: A theoretical framework for understanding direct and indirect other-based processes	15
Emotional expression in deaf and hearing populations	15
You have to let go sometimes: advances in understanding goal disengagement	14
Different functions of physical effort in physical activity and sports: a scoping review of the value of physical effort	14
Only “genuine” mastery goals lead to academic performance through effort and interest	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
Action over feeling: the revised animal preference test and callous-unemotional functioning	12
Hiding in plain sight: The distinct importance of low-arousal positive affect	12

The impact of an ACT intervention on intrinsic and extrinsic values and life fulfillment: an exploratory randomized controlled trial with university students	11
To be angry or happy? Anything works. The interaction of emotional information and scope of attention during inhibitory control	11
Interplay of intrinsic motivation and well-being at school	10
Emotion crafting: Individuals as agents of their positive emotional experiences	10
Navigating flow beyond achievement: the impact of the implicit and explicit power motive congruence on flow experience in competitive and collaborative group settings	9
Evidence of an exponential relationship between attentional bias to threat and anxiety using an original “eye-dot-probe” task	9
Do individuals with low cognitive empathy display an attenuated negativity bias?	9
Extraversion’s link to reward sensitivity: evidence from an emotion dynamics task	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	8
Do liberals value emotion more than conservatives? Political partisanship and Lay beliefs about the functionality of emotion	8
How we think about how we feel: links to suicidal ideation	8
From relatedness frustrated to violent extremism: the mediating role of aggression	8
Team need support and need thwarting scale (TNSNT-S): multi-study validation evidence and integrative multilevel modeling with team processes	8
Do trait-assessed valenced emotion motives predict valenced affective states in the daily lives of university students?	8
Focus on the need or feeling good? Coping through instrumental action versus prohedonic distraction depends on the temporal efficacy of means	7
Sounds boring: the causal effect of boredom on self-administration of aversive stimuli in the presence of a positive alternative	7
Think your way to happiness? Investigating the role of need for cognition in well-being through a three-level meta-analytic approach	7
What predicts the initiation and outcomes of interpersonal emotion regulation in everyday life?	7
How music teachers’ emotional expressions shape students’ performance: “C’est le ton qui fait la musique”	7
How feelings shape perception (and vice versa): dynamic links between emotion valence and empathic accuracy	7
The interplay between emotional semantics and prosody: behavioural and skin conductance responses	7
Motivational consequences of counterfactual mindsets: Does counterfactual structure influence the use of conservative or risky tactics?	7
Group and personal need satisfaction in Black Lives Matter activism during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
‘Help, my teacher is pressuring me!’ The role of students’ coping with controlling teaching in motivation and engagement	6
Expectancy-value interactions and dropout intentions in higher education: can study values compensate for low expectancies?	6
Heart over mind: unravelling motivated reasoning in an unprecedented socio-political context	6
Reduced food neophobia and food disgust in colorblind men	6
The effect of a physically formidable competitor or cooperator on attraction to violent video games	6
Disgust learning and memory generalization across category exemplars and learning contexts	6
Why do people help? The relationship of eudaimonic and hedonic orientations with other-focused and self-focused motives for helping	6
Commentary: processes of disengagement – letting go from the wanted future, the missed-out past, and coping with inevitable endings	6
Enhancing emotion, motivation, and behavior in procedural tasks through autonomy-supportive instructions: an experimental study	6
Development of different motivational cost component classes in university courses: group specific trajectories and later examination behavior	6
Exploration and cross-validation for the latent profiles of emotion regulation difficulties among college students	6
Exploring the relationship between fiction reading and emotion recognition	6
Associations between maternal envy and parenting practices	6
Age-related differences in a DRM task: affect as a mediator	5
Boredom over time: the interaction between achievement goals and perceived classroom goal structures in Taiwanese mathematics classrooms	5
The dualistic nature of academic passion revisited: a latent transition analysis	5
Self-determination: independent effects of choice and affective processing on the late positive potential (LPP)	5
Task-related fluctuations in action-state orientation: roles of anticipated task difficulty and task-related affect	5
The phenomenology of maintenance goals: lower threat and greater satisfaction with the current state	5
The role of spontaneous facial mimicry in modulating instructed overt facial actions: evidence from facial electromyography	5
Motivation and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples: it’s complicated!	5
Everything under control? Daily dynamics of self-control and emotion regulation	5
Framing self-sacrifice in the investigation of moral judgment and moral emotions in human and autonomous driving dilemmas	5
What do we envy? How internal and external self-relevance shape envious reactions to upward comparisons	5
When bigger is better: size of strategy repertoire predicts goal attainment	4
Reward learning in obsessive-compulsive disorder: an attentional perspective	4

Context-dependent basic and moral emotions in adults with autism	4
Lay perspectives on emotion: past, present, and future research directions	4
Intergroup threat stimulates malevolent creative idea generation	4
The implicit affiliation motive and self-regulation: exploring the differences with implicit achievement and power, and patterns of self-regulation	4
Body shame and exercise adherence intention: the moderating role of peer support and the mediating role of exercise motivation	4
Audio-Visual Interactions during Emotion Processing in Bicultural Bilinguals	4
Keeping up appearances: the role of motives and utility beliefs in expressive suppression	4
Self-concordant goal motivation influences how people respond to crowds, but not how they perceive them	4
The ease of experiencing positive emotions in negative contexts	4
Evaluating emotion effects on episodic memory: what makes negative information memorable?	4
SDT in action: enhancing motivational resources and auditory perception in German general music education	4
More materialistic by escaping experiences: experiential avoidance mediates the link between attachment anxiety and material values	4