OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognition & 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
The empathic measure of true emotion (EMOTE): a novel set of stimuli for measuring emotional responding	67
Does emotional expression influence face recognition? Re-examining Bruce and Young’s (1986) independence hypothesis	54
Experimental elicitations of awe: a meta-analysis	46
Statistical learning of across-trial regularities weakens emotion-induced blindness	41
When we want to know the bad news: exploring information-seeking for unavoidable pain stimuli	34
Higher judgements of learning for emotional words: processing fluency or memory beliefs?	30
Literally or prosodically? Recognising emotional discourse in alexithymia	26
Positivity effects in self-defining memories in men and women across adulthood: different patterns between self-rated affect and content-coded meaning	23
Attachment styles and attachment (in)security priming in relation to emotional conflict control	22
Control your emotions: evidence for a shared mechanism of cognitive and emotional control	22
Infants use emotion to infer intentionality from non-random sampling events	22
Investigating a bias account of emotional false memories using a criterion warning and force choice restrictions at retrieval	22
The closer you are, the more it hurts: the impact of proximity on moral decision-making	21
Human interaction, polarisation, and democratic reform: integrating political science with an interpersonal systems approach	19
Feelings of gratitude to Allah and people and their associations with affect in daily life	19
Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces	19
Spiky anger, round peace: examining valence, arousal, and linguistic associations in emotion-eliciting concepts	18
Everything is going to be okay: emotion regulation and immune neglect in affective forecasting	17
Natural language sentiment as an indicator of depression and anxiety symptoms: a longitudinal mixed methods study	17
Love and hate do not modulate the attentional blink but improve overall performance	15
Emotion malleability beliefs prompt cognitive reappraisal: evidence from an online longitudinal intervention for adolescents	15
Association of early adversity, neuroticism, and depression with perceived severity ratings of stressful life event vignettes	15
Buffering effect of fiction on negative emotions: engagement with negatively valenced fiction decreases the intensity of negative emotions	15
Investigating the role of mental imagery use in the assessment of anhedonia	14
In the mood for flow: mood intervention effects on flow experiences	14

The interplay between language and emotion: a narrative review	14
Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease	14
Learned helplessness and its relevance for psychological suffering: a new perspective illustrated with attachment problems, burn-out, and fatigue complaints	14
Pride and moral disengagement: associations among comparison-based pride, moral disengagement, and unethical decision-making	13
Effects of scaffolding emotion language use on emotion differentiation and psychological health: an experience-sampling study	13
Self-esteem predicts positive affect directly and self-efficacy indirectly: a 10-year longitudinal study	13
The role of verbal cues in eliciting intrusive memories in a non-clinical population: a laboratory study	13
The appraisal patterns and response types of enthusiasm: a comparison with joy and hope	13
Evaluative conditioning of sweet meaning using sweet and non-sweet food names as unconditioned stimuli and new words as conditioned stimuli	12
Induced gratitude and hope, and experienced fear, but not experienced disgust, facilitate COVID-19 prevention	11
Low population density relates to more positive behavioural endophenotype in depressed patients on serotonergic antidepressants	11
Relative contributions of the face and body to social judgements: emotion, threat and status	11
I want it small or, rather, give me a bunch: the role of evaluative morphology on the assessment of the emotional properties of words	11
Persistence and disengagement in failing goals: commentary on Boddez, Van Dessel, & De Houwer	11
The structure underlying core affect and perceived affective qualities of human vocal bursts	11
Perceived naturalness of emotional voice morphs	11
Electrophysiological representations of multivariate human emotion experience	11
Evaluating the ‘skin disease-avoidance’ and ‘dangerous animal’ frameworks for understanding trypophobia	11
Emotional mimicry as social regulator: theoretical considerations	10
Emotional responses during communicational comfort: the effect of personality through the prism of process communication model	10
Putting emotions into affective polarisation	10
The perceived controllability of negatively-valenced episodic future thinking modulates delay discounting	10
Overt attention to social signals during social exclusion: a pre-registered study	10
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-analysis	10
The effect of fragmented sleep on emotion regulation ability and usage	10
Coordination in interpersonal systems	10
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
(Eye-)tracking the escape from the self: guilt proneness moderates the effect of failure on self-avoidance	9
Dampening in American and Korean young adults: a positive emotion regulation strategy linked to depressive symptoms in both countries	9
Growth mindset and responses to acute stress	9
How young children use manifest emotions and dominance cues to understand social rules: a registered report	9
Stable abnormalities on the recognition of dynamic angry facial emotional expression in subthreshold depression	9
Emotion-specific recognition biases and how they relate to emotion-specific recognition accuracy, family and child demographic factors, and social behaviour	9
Emojis and affective priming in visual word recognition	9
Does cognitive reappraisal facilitate extinction?	9
Role of contingency in the effects of appetitive and aversive motivation on emotional distraction	9
Gratitude endures while indebtedness persuades: investigating the unique influences of gratitude and indebtedness in helping	8
Bodily feedback: expansive and upward posture facilitates the experience of positive affect	8
Sounds like a fight: listeners can infer behavioural contexts from spontaneous nonverbal vocalisations	8
Determinants for positive and negative experiences of interpersonal touch: context matters	8
The influence of memory for impressions based on behaviours and beliefs on approach/avoidance decisions	8
Measuring multiple automatic product appraisals simultaneously: introduction and examination of the implicit attribute classification task	8
Sound symbolic associations in Spanish emotional words: affective dimensions and discrete emotions	8
The illusion of insight: detailed warnings reduce but do not prevent false “Aha!” moments	8
A smile hampers encoding and memory for non-happy eyes in a face: temporal dynamics and importance of initial fixation	8
Eliciting social approach-avoidance conflict within a novel experimental paradigm: psychometric and computational evidence with a successful pre-registered replication	8
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 fluency	7
Aging and task design shape the relationship between response time variability and emotional response inhibition	7

Attention on visual disgust: comparison of intentional and unintentional gaze on disgusting images	7
Social media’s influence on momentary emotion based on people’s initial mood: an experimental design	7
Moral anger accelerates misinformation sharing: evidence from experimental manipulations and hierarchical drift-diffusion modelling	7
Higher loneliness is associated with greater positive and negative emotion instability in everyday life	7
What causes trypophobia?	7
Sadness facilitates “deeper” reading comprehension: a behavioural and eye tracking study	7
Social anxiety modulating early processing for social threat words: an ERP study	7
Dynamics of attachment and emotion regulation in daily life: uni- and bidirectional associations	7
The influence of emotion on temporal context models	7
Manifestation of emotion regulation difficulties in intraindividual emotion dynamics	7
Expression ambiguity leads to greater influence of predictive context during face emotion perception	7
Affective theory of mind impairments underlying callous-unemotional traits and the role of cognitive control	7
Illustrating the pathway from affect to somatic symptom: the Affective Picture Paradigm*	7
The effects of cognitive reappraisal and sleep on emotional memory formation	7
Ambiguity potentiates effects of loneliness on feelings of rejection	7
Rumination, but not mood, predicts prospective memory performance: novel insights from a derived measure of trait rumination	6
Correction	6
Are multiple types of associative memory differently impacted by emotion?	6
A unified approach to managing emotions and pursuing purpose in life	6
Feeling hollow: examining the presence and emotional correlates of emptiness in borderline personality disorder	6
Beliefs about emotion usefulness are nuanced: degree of personal reference and emotional valence predict affective distress	6
The effects of nonverbal pride and skill on judgements of victory and social influence: a boxing study	6
A negativity bias in evaluative counter-conditioning	6
A pandemic-related affect gap in risky decisions for self and others	6
Retrieval-induced forgetting of emotional memories	6
Social impression formation and depression: examining cognitive flexibility and bias	6
How to design a trigger warning: An experimental study on the impact of trigger warning wording on affect, expectations, intrusions, and felt respect	6
The divide between daily event appraisal and emotion experience in major depression	6
Does cognitive load influence expressive flexibility? Comparing civilian and veteran populations	6
Rumination and inhibition in task switching: no evidence for an association	6
Emotion malleability beliefs influence emotion regulation and emotion recovery among individuals with depressive symptoms	6
The role of hyperbole in conveying emotionality: the case of victim speech	6
The influence of consonant wanderings and facial expressions in warmth and competence judgments	6
Dissociable impacts of biological and functional framings of depression: an experimental approach	6
Think again: the role of reappraisal in reducing negative valence bias	6
Attentional bias and memory bias characteristics of individuals with depressive tendencies under different perceptual load conditions	6
Individual differences in pupil dilation to others’ emotional and neutral eyes with varying pupil sizes	6
The comfort of nostalgia in wartime: nostalgia as a vehicle to combat post-traumatic stress symptoms among civilian evacuees displaced by war	6
Vocal emotion recognition in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis	5
Working memory capacity relates to reduced negative emotion in daily life	5
Different effects of emotional valence on overt attention and recognition memory	5
Threat priming diminishes the gaze cueing effect	5
Perceptual control or action-selection? Comment on: a perceptual control theory of emotional action	5
The influences of emotion on covert and overt retrieval practice effects	5
Correction	5
Reappraising reappraisal: an expanded view	5
Social anxiety and emotion regulation flexibility: a daily diary approach	5
Integration of negative emotions, empathy, and support for conciliatory policies in intractable conflicts	5
The role of self-compassion in loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a group-based trajectory modelling approach	5
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 effects	5
Modulation of attentional bias by hypnotic suggestion: experimental evidence from an emotional Stroop task	5
The effect of state negative affect on post-error performance recovery	5
Emotional mimicry: a communication accommodation approach	5
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 behaviour	5
Interactive relationship between alexithymia, psychological distress and posttraumatic stress disorder symptomology across time	5
Joint attention modulates intergroup altruism via incidental learning of trust	5
Modulatory effects of goal relevance on emotional attention reveal that fear has a distinct value	5
Associations between attentional biases for emotional images and rumination in depression	5
Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words: evidence from eye fixations during reading	5
Bouncing back from emotional ups and downs: insights in emotional recovery using survival analyses of burst ESM data	5
Children's executive functions predict their preferences for emotion regulation strategies	5
Maternal interpretation of infant emotions related to mothers’ mindfulness and mother-infant stress	5
False contingency beliefs reverse contingency learning effects in the valence contingency learning task	5
When mind and body align: examining the role of cross-modal congruency in conscious representations of happy facial expressions	5
When unpleasantness meets feminines: a behavioural study on gender agreement and emotionality	5