Cognition & Emotion

Papers
(The median citation count of Cognition & 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The empathic measure of true emotion (EMOTE): a novel set of stimuli for measuring emotional responding67
Does emotional expression influence face recognition? Re-examining Bruce and Young’s (1986) independence hypothesis54
Experimental elicitations of awe: a meta-analysis46
Statistical learning of across-trial regularities weakens emotion-induced blindness41
When we want to know the bad news: exploring information-seeking for unavoidable pain stimuli34
Higher judgements of learning for emotional words: processing fluency or memory beliefs?30
Literally or prosodically? Recognising emotional discourse in alexithymia26
Positivity effects in self-defining memories in men and women across adulthood: different patterns between self-rated affect and content-coded meaning23
Infants use emotion to infer intentionality from non-random sampling events22
Investigating a bias account of emotional false memories using a criterion warning and force choice restrictions at retrieval22
Attachment styles and attachment (in)security priming in relation to emotional conflict control22
Control your emotions: evidence for a shared mechanism of cognitive and emotional control22
The closer you are, the more it hurts: the impact of proximity on moral decision-making21
Feelings of gratitude to Allah and people and their associations with affect in daily life19
Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces19
Human interaction, polarisation, and democratic reform: integrating political science with an interpersonal systems approach19
Spiky anger, round peace: examining valence, arousal, and linguistic associations in emotion-eliciting concepts18
Everything is going to be okay: emotion regulation and immune neglect in affective forecasting17
Natural language sentiment as an indicator of depression and anxiety symptoms: a longitudinal mixed methods study17
Love and hate do not modulate the attentional blink but improve overall performance15
Emotion malleability beliefs prompt cognitive reappraisal: evidence from an online longitudinal intervention for adolescents15
Association of early adversity, neuroticism, and depression with perceived severity ratings of stressful life event vignettes15
Buffering effect of fiction on negative emotions: engagement with negatively valenced fiction decreases the intensity of negative emotions15
Investigating the role of mental imagery use in the assessment of anhedonia14
In the mood for flow: mood intervention effects on flow experiences14
The interplay between language and emotion: a narrative review14
Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease14
Learned helplessness and its relevance for psychological suffering: a new perspective illustrated with attachment problems, burn-out, and fatigue complaints14
Effects of scaffolding emotion language use on emotion differentiation and psychological health: an experience-sampling study13
Self-esteem predicts positive affect directly and self-efficacy indirectly: a 10-year longitudinal study13
The role of verbal cues in eliciting intrusive memories in a non-clinical population: a laboratory study13
The appraisal patterns and response types of enthusiasm: a comparison with joy and hope13
Pride and moral disengagement: associations among comparison-based pride, moral disengagement, and unethical decision-making13
Evaluative conditioning of sweet meaning using sweet and non-sweet food names as unconditioned stimuli and new words as conditioned stimuli12
I want it small or, rather, give me a bunch: the role of evaluative morphology on the assessment of the emotional properties of words11
Persistence and disengagement in failing goals: commentary on Boddez, Van Dessel, & De Houwer11
The structure underlying core affect and perceived affective qualities of human vocal bursts11
Perceived naturalness of emotional voice morphs11
Electrophysiological representations of multivariate human emotion experience11
Evaluating the ‘skin disease-avoidance’ and ‘dangerous animal’ frameworks for understanding trypophobia11
Induced gratitude and hope, and experienced fear, but not experienced disgust, facilitate COVID-19 prevention11
Low population density relates to more positive behavioural endophenotype in depressed patients on serotonergic antidepressants11
Relative contributions of the face and body to social judgements: emotion, threat and status11
Putting emotions into affective polarisation10
The perceived controllability of negatively-valenced episodic future thinking modulates delay discounting10
Overt attention to social signals during social exclusion: a pre-registered study10
Anger superiority effect or happiness superiority effect: how the distractor homogeneity modulates the asymmetry in searching emotional faces?10
The relationship between anger and creative performance: a three-level meta-analysis10
The effect of fragmented sleep on emotion regulation ability and usage10
Coordination in interpersonal systems10
A neurocognitive account of attentional control theory: how does trait anxiety affect the brain’s attentional networks?10
Updating the cognitive model of humour perception: a potential implicit processing pathway?10
Emotional mimicry as social regulator: theoretical considerations10
Emotional responses during communicational comfort: the effect of personality through the prism of process communication model10
(Eye-)tracking the escape from the self: guilt proneness moderates the effect of failure on self-avoidance9
Dampening in American and Korean young adults: a positive emotion regulation strategy linked to depressive symptoms in both countries9
Growth mindset and responses to acute stress9
How young children use manifest emotions and dominance cues to understand social rules: a registered report9
Stable abnormalities on the recognition of dynamic angry facial emotional expression in subthreshold depression9
Emotion-specific recognition biases and how they relate to emotion-specific recognition accuracy, family and child demographic factors, and social behaviour9
Emojis and affective priming in visual word recognition9
Does cognitive reappraisal facilitate extinction?9
Role of contingency in the effects of appetitive and aversive motivation on emotional distraction9
The influence of memory for impressions based on behaviours and beliefs on approach/avoidance decisions8
Measuring multiple automatic product appraisals simultaneously: introduction and examination of the implicit attribute classification task8
Sound symbolic associations in Spanish emotional words: affective dimensions and discrete emotions8
The illusion of insight: detailed warnings reduce but do not prevent false “Aha!” moments8
A smile hampers encoding and memory for non-happy eyes in a face: temporal dynamics and importance of initial fixation8
Eliciting social approach-avoidance conflict within a novel experimental paradigm: psychometric and computational evidence with a successful pre-registered replication8
Gratitude endures while indebtedness persuades: investigating the unique influences of gratitude and indebtedness in helping8
Bodily feedback: expansive and upward posture facilitates the experience of positive affect8
Sounds like a fight: listeners can infer behavioural contexts from spontaneous nonverbal vocalisations8
Determinants for positive and negative experiences of interpersonal touch: context matters8
Attention on visual disgust: comparison of intentional and unintentional gaze on disgusting images7
Social media’s influence on momentary emotion based on people’s initial mood: an experimental design7
Moral anger accelerates misinformation sharing: evidence from experimental manipulations and hierarchical drift-diffusion modelling7
Higher loneliness is associated with greater positive and negative emotion instability in everyday life7
What causes trypophobia?7
Sadness facilitates “deeper” reading comprehension: a behavioural and eye tracking study7
Social anxiety modulating early processing for social threat words: an ERP study7
Dynamics of attachment and emotion regulation in daily life: uni- and bidirectional associations7
The influence of emotion on temporal context models7
Manifestation of emotion regulation difficulties in intraindividual emotion dynamics7
Expression ambiguity leads to greater influence of predictive context during face emotion perception7
Affective theory of mind impairments underlying callous-unemotional traits and the role of cognitive control7
Illustrating the pathway from affect to somatic symptom: the Affective Picture Paradigm*7
The effects of cognitive reappraisal and sleep on emotional memory formation7
Ambiguity potentiates effects of loneliness on feelings of rejection7
The interplay of cognition and affect in fourth graders’ math performance: role of working memory in mediating the effects of math anxiety and math interest on arithmetic fluency7
Aging and task design shape the relationship between response time variability and emotional response inhibition7
A negativity bias in evaluative counter-conditioning6
A pandemic-related affect gap in risky decisions for self and others6
Retrieval-induced forgetting of emotional memories6
Social impression formation and depression: examining cognitive flexibility and bias6
How to design a trigger warning: An experimental study on the impact of trigger warning wording on affect, expectations, intrusions, and felt respect6
The divide between daily event appraisal and emotion experience in major depression6
Does cognitive load influence expressive flexibility? Comparing civilian and veteran populations6
Rumination and inhibition in task switching: no evidence for an association6
Emotion malleability beliefs influence emotion regulation and emotion recovery among individuals with depressive symptoms6
The role of hyperbole in conveying emotionality: the case of victim speech6
The influence of consonant wanderings and facial expressions in warmth and competence judgments6
Dissociable impacts of biological and functional framings of depression: an experimental approach6
Think again: the role of reappraisal in reducing negative valence bias6
Attentional bias and memory bias characteristics of individuals with depressive tendencies under different perceptual load conditions6
Individual differences in pupil dilation to others’ emotional and neutral eyes with varying pupil sizes6
The comfort of nostalgia in wartime: nostalgia as a vehicle to combat post-traumatic stress symptoms among civilian evacuees displaced by war6
Rumination, but not mood, predicts prospective memory performance: novel insights from a derived measure of trait rumination6
Correction6
Are multiple types of associative memory differently impacted by emotion?6
A unified approach to managing emotions and pursuing purpose in life6
Feeling hollow: examining the presence and emotional correlates of emptiness in borderline personality disorder6
Beliefs about emotion usefulness are nuanced: degree of personal reference and emotional valence predict affective distress6
The effects of nonverbal pride and skill on judgements of victory and social influence: a boxing study6
The role of self-compassion in loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a group-based trajectory modelling approach5
A registered conceptual replication and extension of Gable and Harmon-Jones (2008): does motivational intensity, valence, or perceptual focality drive attentional breadth?5
Agency influences vicarious approach/avoidance effects5
Modulation of attentional bias by hypnotic suggestion: experimental evidence from an emotional Stroop task5
The effect of state negative affect on post-error performance recovery5
Emotional mimicry: a communication accommodation approach5
A validation and comparison of three measures of participants’ disposition to feel moved (introducing the Geneva Sentimentality Scale)5
How emotional are words ambiguous on the spaces of valence, origin and activation?5
Meta-emotion-regulation: a conceptual framework for influencing emotion regulation behaviour5
Interactive relationship between alexithymia, psychological distress and posttraumatic stress disorder symptomology across time5
Joint attention modulates intergroup altruism via incidental learning of trust5
Modulatory effects of goal relevance on emotional attention reveal that fear has a distinct value5
Associations between attentional biases for emotional images and rumination in depression5
Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words: evidence from eye fixations during reading5
Bouncing back from emotional ups and downs: insights in emotional recovery using survival analyses of burst ESM data5
Children's executive functions predict their preferences for emotion regulation strategies5
Maternal interpretation of infant emotions related to mothers’ mindfulness and mother-infant stress5
False contingency beliefs reverse contingency learning effects in the valence contingency learning task5
When mind and body align: examining the role of cross-modal congruency in conscious representations of happy facial expressions5
When unpleasantness meets feminines: a behavioural study on gender agreement and emotionality5
Vocal emotion recognition in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis5
Working memory capacity relates to reduced negative emotion in daily life5
Different effects of emotional valence on overt attention and recognition memory5
Threat priming diminishes the gaze cueing effect5
Perceptual control or action-selection? Comment on: a perceptual control theory of emotional action5
The influences of emotion on covert and overt retrieval practice effects5
Correction5
Reappraising reappraisal: an expanded view5
Social anxiety and emotion regulation flexibility: a daily diary approach5
Integration of negative emotions, empathy, and support for conciliatory policies in intractable conflicts5
Not feeling it: lack of robust emotion effects on breadth of attention4
Two roads leading to the same evaluative conditioning effect? Stimulus-response binding versus operant conditioning4
Measuring emotion beliefs: a systematic review4
Contamination in Trypophobia: investigating the role of disgust4
Facial mimicry depends on the emotion we recognize in others' faces4
Emotional stimuli boost incidental learning through predictive processing4
Exploration of visual factors in the disgust-anger confusion: the importance of the mouth4
Applying the peak-end rule to improve exposure outcomes in fear and anxiety4
Ecological momentary assessment of the unique effects of trait worry on daily negative emotionality: does arousal matter?4
Inhibition in the emotional Hayling task: can hypnotic suggestion enhance cognitive control on a prepotent negative word?4
The interplay between language and emotion: introduction to the special issue4
Investigating the interaction of pleasantness and arousal and the role of aesthetic emotions on episodic memory using a musical what-where-when paradigm4
No need to collect more data: ex-Gaussian modelling of existing data (Craig & Lipp, 2018) reveals an interactive effect of face race and face sex on speeded expression recognition4
For better or for worse: differential effects of the emotional valence of words on children’s recall4
Emotion-enhanced source memory: effects of age and experimental setting4
Associations between parental dispositional attributions, dismissing and coaching reactions to children’s emotions, and children’s problem behaviour moderated by child gender4
No memory, no effect: action based evaluative conditioning effects are modulated by contingency memory4
Symbolic number ordering strategies and math anxiety4
Anti-establishment sentiments: realistic and symbolic threat appraisals predict populist attitudes and conspiracy mentality4
Breaching of the U.S. Capitol: memory and moral judgment4
Untrusted under threat: on the superior bond between trustworthiness and threat in face-context integration4
Me, us, and others: exploring the role of familiarity and emotional expressions in face visual awareness4
The effect of facial colour on implicit facial expressions4
Emotional time travel: the role of emotion in temporal memory4
Real is the new sexy: the influence of perceived realness on self-reported arousal to sexual visual stimuli4
Persistent negative self-referent thinking in the context of depression: examining the role of temperament and emotion regulation4
Dispositional greed and moral emotions4
The role of state anxiety in salience-driven distractor processing: evidence from singleton detection and feature search4
Early adolescents’ attachment security, parental emotion socialisation, and early adolescents’ emotion regulation of positive emotions4
Prior memory encoding of negative distractors biases emotion-induced blindness4
Retellings of emotional videos: the dynamics of gesture characteristics in diverse emotion categories4
Observational learning of threat-related attentional bias4
Linking anger and disgust to motives and anticipations of aggression in the East: testing a socio-functional account of moral emotions in Japan4
“Love looks not with the eyes”: supranormal processing of emotional speech in individuals with late-blindness versus preserved processing in individuals with congenital-blindness4
Emotions, fast and slow: processing of emotion words is affected by individual differences in need for affect and narrative absorption4
How do “words poorly expressed emotion” affect mental health? The mediating role of affect labelling effect3
Moderating effect of stimulus presentation type, contingency awareness and anxiety on evaluative conditioning: an attentional perspective3
Inspired to act: motivational effects of being moved by love and willpower3
We like it ‘cause you take it: vicarious effects of approach/avoidance behaviours on observers3
Fluctuation in cognitive engagement during listening and reading of erotica and horror stories3
Promoting theoretical precision in emotion science3
Individuals with higher trait self-esteem prefer to use reappraisal, but not suppression: evidence from functional connectivity analyses3
Uniting theory and data: the promise and challenge of creating an honest model of facial expression3
A nervous wait: Instagram’s sensitive-content screens cause anticipatory anxiety but do not mitigate reactions to negative content3
Sex differences in emotion recognition: investigating the moderating effects of stimulus features3
Emotion effects survive non-standard orthographic representations3
Clouded judgments? The role of virtual weather in word valence evaluations3
Associations of nature contact with emotional ill-being and well-being: the role of emotion regulation3
The interplay of social rank perceptions of Trump and Biden and emotions following the U.S. presidential election 20203
Towards a better understanding of the role of reappraisal in psychopathology and its treatment: commentary on “Reappraising Reappraisal: An Expanded View”3
The mindful gaze: trait mindful people under an instructed emotion regulation goal selectively attend to positive stimuli3
Correction3
Positive biases and psychological functioning during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic3
Can sequencing of articulation ease explain the in–out effect? A preregistered test3
How positivity diminishes: evaluative conditioning of positive, negative, and neutral feelings towards positive scenery3
Associations between affect dynamics and eating regulation in daily life: a preliminary ecological momentary assessment study3
How emotions are metaphorically embodied: measuring hand and head action strengths of typical emotional states3
Can participants authoritatively report on the emotional valence of their mind wandering?3
“Me” means more than “good”: stimuli’s self-relevance matters more than valence in shaping evaluative learning via the self3
Mindfulness mechanisms in everyday life: examining variance in acceptance, attention monitoring, decentering, self-compassion, and nonreactivity and their links to negative emotions among a workplace 3
Social media misuse explained by emotion dysregulation and self-concept: an ecological momentary assessment approach3
Older adults get masked emotion priming for happy but not angry faces: evidence for a positivity effect in early perceptual processing of emotional signals3
Reshaping the happy face advantage with reinforcement learning3
“Anger? No, thank you. I don't mimic it”: how contextual modulation of facial display meaning impacts emotional mimicry3
Affective dynamics in mother-adolescent dyads: links to mental health and relationship quality3
Hope and fear in the experience of suspense3
Online consent risk-warnings about negative psychological side-effects do not change participant expectations or cause negative psychological side-effects3
Deep neural network models of emotion understanding3
The emotional life of animals3
How list composition affects the emotional enhancement of memory in younger and older adults3
Understanding alexithymia: the role of experiential avoidance3
How affect modulates conversational meanings: a review of experimental research: invited review3
The reciprocal relationship between smiles and situational contexts3
Parental linguistic content and distancing predict beliefs about emotion and child emotion regulation3
Priming using human and chimpanzee expressions of emotion biases attention toward positive emotions3
Correction3
Early identification of taboo words reveals a prominent role of semantic information in visual word recognition3
Modulation of facial muscle responses by another person’s presence and affiliative touch during affective image viewing3
Discrete emotions discovered by contactless measurement of facial blood flows3
Overestimating the intensity of negative feelings in autobiographical memory: evidence from the 9/11 attack and COVID-19 pandemic3
Relationship between emotion comprehension, vocabulary, and verbal working memory in intellectual developmental disorders: involvement of verbal reasoning skills3
Face your fears: direct and indirect measurement of responses to looming threats3
Empathising with masked targets: limited side effects of face masks on empathy for dynamic, context-rich stimuli3
Putting the affect into affective polarisation3
Peer threat evaluations shape one’s own threat perceptions and feelings of distress3
Emotions, social coordination, and the danger of affective polarisation3
Interpersonal helping in the workplace: social expectation predicts anticipated guilt and intention to help a coworker3
Affective connotations according to LLMs: implications for meaning measurement and cultural bias3
What is gratitude without a benefactor? A daily diary approach3
Food nostalgia and food comfort: the role of social connectedness2
Metacognitive confidence and affect – two sides of the same coin?2
How do cortical alpha-band dynamics differ at rest and during motor performance in male basketball players with low vs. high trait anxiety?2
Expressions of moral disgust reflect both disgust and anger2
Top-down versus bottom-up processes in the formation of positive and negative retrospective affect2
The emotional economics of dishonesty2
Social problems in young children: the interplay of ADHD symptoms and facial emotion recognition2
Correction2
Semantic effects on the perception of emotional prosody in native and non-native Chinese speakers2
The mystery of emotional mimicry: multiple functions and processing levels in expression imitation2
Impaired pattern of cognitive control moderates attentional bias in individuals with social anxiety2
Daily dynamics of negative affect: indicators of rate of response to treatment and remission from depression?2
Emotion specificity, coherence, and cultural variation in conceptualizations of positive emotions: a study of body sensations and emotion recognition2
Using spreading activation to understand repetitive negative thinking2
Similarity to the self influences memory for social targets2
Examining visual prior entry of semantic affective valences: positive is biased over negative2
Emotional inertia is independently associated with cognitive emotion regulation strategies and sleep quality*2
Emotional expressions, but not social context, modulate attention during a discrimination task2
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