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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Pursuit of emotional satisfaction leads to increased risk taking in final decisions	33
Painfully bored: the role of negative urgency and history of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Self-Administering painful stimuli	30
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	29
Perceptions of low self-control undermine interpersonal cooperation	27
The interpersonal correlates of believing emotions are controllable	27
The relationship between autonomous and controlled motivation and eating behaviors: examining the roles of self-regulating eating quality and quantity	27
Environmental motivation as a complex dynamic system	19
Lay beliefs about boredom: A mixed-methods investigation	18
Parent–child relationships and depressive symptom among Chinese college students: the mediating role of psychological needs satisfaction and the moderating role of mindfulness	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
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	16
How to avoid collapse after one setback: developmental feedback alleviates the spillover negative impact of competence frustration	15
Different functions of physical effort in physical activity and sports: a scoping review of the value of physical effort	15
Hiding in plain sight: The distinct importance of low-arousal positive affect	14
Sequential modulations of emotional effects on cognitive performance in young and older adults	14
Social dynamics in interpersonal emotion regulation: A theoretical framework for understanding direct and indirect other-based processes	14
Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement	14
Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult	14
Action over feeling: the revised animal preference test and callous-unemotional functioning	14
Gender differences in sensitivity to provocation and hostile attribution bias toward ambiguous facial cues in violent offenders and community-based adults	13
To be angry or happy? Anything works. The interaction of emotional information and scope of attention during inhibitory control	13
You have to let go sometimes: advances in understanding goal disengagement	12
Getting trapped in a dead end? Trait self-control and boredom are linked to goal adjustment	12
Believe, express, and enjoy: utility beliefs about social emotion expression consistently predict satisfactory outcomes	12

The impact of an ACT intervention on intrinsic and extrinsic values and life fulfillment: an exploratory randomized controlled trial with university students	12
Interplay of intrinsic motivation and well-being at school	11
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	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
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	10
Extraversion’s link to reward sensitivity: evidence from an emotion dynamics task	10
Relating students’ motivation trajectories in the first nine weeks of their vocational education program to dropout and persistence	10
How we think about how we feel: links to suicidal ideation	9
Do liberals value emotion more than conservatives? Political partisanship and Lay beliefs about the functionality of emotion	9
From relatedness frustrated to violent extremism: the mediating role of aggression	9
“Beating as one”: the effect of coaches’ behaviors on athletes’ psychobiological wellbeing through the lens of self-determination theory	9
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
Associations between maternal envy and parenting practices	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 interplay between emotional semantics and prosody: behavioural and skin conductance responses	8
How music teachers’ emotional expressions shape students’ performance: “C’est le ton qui fait la musique”	8
Sounds boring: the causal effect of boredom on self-administration of aversive stimuli in the presence of a positive alternative	8
Motivational consequences of counterfactual mindsets: Does counterfactual structure influence the use of conservative or risky tactics?	7
Correction to: A psychophysiological investigation of mourning: There are two sides to the story	7
The effect of a physically formidable competitor or cooperator on attraction to violent video games	7
Commentary: processes of disengagement – letting go from the wanted future, the missed-out past, and coping with inevitable endings	7
Reduced food neophobia and food disgust in colorblind men	7
Enhancing emotion, motivation, and behavior in procedural tasks through autonomy-supportive instructions: an experimental study	6
Exploration and cross-validation for the latent profiles of emotion regulation difficulties among college students	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
Framing self-sacrifice in the investigation of moral judgment and moral emotions in human and autonomous driving dilemmas	6
Heart over mind: unravelling motivated reasoning in an unprecedented socio-political context	6
‘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
The phenomenology of maintenance goals: lower threat and greater satisfaction with the current state	6
Self-concordant goal motivation influences how people respond to crowds, but not how they perceive them	5
Everything under control? Daily dynamics of self-control and emotion regulation	5
Audio-Visual Interactions during Emotion Processing in Bicultural Bilinguals	5
Intergroup threat stimulates malevolent creative idea generation	5
The internal structure of enthusiasm: a prototype analysis	5
Including cognitive emotion regulation instructions on sensitive-content screens reduces distress	5
Reward learning in obsessive-compulsive disorder: an attentional perspective	5
The ease of experiencing positive emotions in negative contexts	5
Task-related fluctuations in action-state orientation: roles of anticipated task difficulty and task-related affect	5
Motivation and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples: it’s complicated!	5
When bigger is better: size of strategy repertoire predicts goal attainment	5
A matter of needs: Basic need satisfaction as an underlying mechanism between perfectionism and employee well-being	5
Keeping up appearances: the role of motives and utility beliefs in expressive suppression	5
Context-dependent basic and moral emotions in adults with autism	5
The flexible nature of everyday reciprocity: reciprocity, helping, and relationship closeness	5

The implicit affiliation motive and self-regulation: exploring the differences with implicit achievement and power, and patterns of self-regulation	5
Effects of intensity on emotion regulation strategy preferences are emotion-specific	5
Negative interpretation bias towards ambiguous facial expressions in individuals with high empathy	5
Lay perspectives on emotion: past, present, and future research directions	5