OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognition & 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Emotional content influences eye-movements under natural but not under instructed conditions	63
The effects of rumination on internalising symptoms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic among mothers and their offspring: a brief report	51
Emotional processing writing and physiological stress responses: understanding constructive and unconstructive processes	43
Control your emotions: evidence for a shared mechanism of cognitive and emotional control	35
Infants use emotion to infer intentionality from non-random sampling events	33
Higher judgements of learning for emotional words: processing fluency or memory beliefs?	33
Experimental elicitations of awe: a meta-analysis	32
The empathic measure of true emotion (EMOTE): a novel set of stimuli for measuring emotional responding	29
Attachment styles and attachment (in)security priming in relation to emotional conflict control	27
The interpersonal effects of distinct emotions in online reviews	26
Literally or prosodically? Recognising emotional discourse in alexithymia	24
Item method directed forgetting occurs independently of borderline personality traits, even for borderline-salient items	23
The closer you are, the more it hurts: the impact of proximity on moral decision-making	23
Reactance, morality, and disgust: the relationship between affective dispositions and compliance with official health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Investigating a bias account of emotional false memories using a criterion warning and force choice restrictions at retrieval	22
Human interaction, polarisation, and democratic reform: integrating political science with an interpersonal systems approach	20
Buffering effect of fiction on negative emotions: engagement with negatively valenced fiction decreases the intensity of negative emotions	18
Emotion malleability beliefs prompt cognitive reappraisal: evidence from an online longitudinal intervention for adolescents	18
Effects of scaffolding emotion language use on emotion differentiation and psychological health: an experience-sampling study	18
Investigating the role of mental imagery use in the assessment of anhedonia	17
Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease	16
Love and hate do not modulate the attentional blink but improve overall performance	15
Learned helplessness and its relevance for psychological suffering: a new perspective illustrated with attachment problems, burn-out, and fatigue complaints	15
Natural language sentiment as an indicator of depression and anxiety symptoms: a longitudinal mixed methods study ¹	15
The appraisal patterns and response types of enthusiasm: a comparison with joy and hope	14

Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces	14
Expectations about future learning influence moment-to-moment feelings of suspense	14
Feelings of gratitude to Allah and people and their associations with affect in daily life	13
Self-esteem predicts positive affect directly and self-efficacy indirectly: a 10-year longitudinal study	13
Persistence and disengagement in failing goals: commentary on Boddez, Van Dessel, & De Houwer	12
Perceived naturalness of emotional voice morphs	11
Electrophysiological representations of multivariate human emotion experience	11
Relative contributions of the face and body to social judgements: emotion, threat and status	11
Induced gratitude and hope, and experienced fear, but not experienced disgust, facilitate COVID-19 prevention	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
Understanding the association between reappraisal use and depressive symptoms during adolescence: the moderating influence of regulatory success	11
Devaluation of NoGo stimuli is both robust and fragile	11
The structure underlying core affect and perceived affective qualities of human vocal bursts	10
Featural vs. Holistic processing and visual sampling in the influence of social category cues on emotion recognition	10
Evaluating the ‘skin disease-avoidance’ and ‘dangerous animal’ frameworks for understanding trypophobia	10
The subject matters: relations among types of anxiety, ADHD symptoms, math performance, and literacy performance	9
The influence of PTSD symptoms on selective visual attention while reading	9
A neurocognitive account of attentional control theory: how does trait anxiety affect the brain’s attentional networks?	9
Pride and moral disengagement: associations among comparison-based pride, moral disengagement, and unethical decision-making	9
Emojis and affective priming in visual word recognition	9
Coordination in interpersonal systems	9
The relationship between anger and creative performance: a three-level meta-analysis	9
Putting emotions into affective polarisation	9
The perceived controllability of negatively-valenced episodic future thinking modulates delay discounting	9
Emotional responses during communicational comfort: the effect of personality through the prism of process communication model	8
The effect of fragmented sleep on emotion regulation ability and usage	8
A smile hampers encoding and memory for non-happy eyes in a face: temporal dynamics and importance of initial fixation	8
Predicting vs. guessing: the role of confidence for pupillometric markers of curiosity and surprise	8
Sounds like a fight: listeners can infer behavioural contexts from spontaneous nonverbal vocalisations	8
Bodily feedback: expansive and upward posture facilitates the experience of positive affect	8
Sound symbolic associations in Spanish emotional words: affective dimensions and discrete emotions	8
Updating the cognitive model of humour perception: a potential implicit processing pathway?	8
Sadness facilitates “deeper” reading comprehension: a behavioural and eye tracking study	8
Emotion-specific recognition biases and how they relate to emotion-specific recognition accuracy, family and child demographic factors, and social behaviour	8
Does cognitive reappraisal facilitate extinction?	8
The illusion of insight: detailed warnings reduce but do not prevent false “Aha!” moments	8
Emotional mimicry as social regulator: theoretical considerations	8
How young children use manifest emotions and dominance cues to understand social rules: a registered report	8
(Eye-)tracking the escape from the self: guilt proneness moderates the effect of failure on self-avoidance	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
Growth mindset and responses to acute stress	8
Ambiguity potentiates effects of loneliness on feelings of rejection	7
Automatic processing of emotional images and psychopathic personality traits	7
Illustrating the pathway from affect to somatic symptom: the Affective Picture Paradigm*	7
Social media’s influence on momentary emotion based on people’s initial mood: an experimental design	7
Affective theory of mind impairments underlying callous-unemotional traits and the role of cognitive control	7
Social anxiety modulating early processing for social threat words: an ERP study	7
Gratitude endures while indebtedness persuades: investigating the unique influences of gratitude and indebtedness in helping	7
A daily within-person investigation on the link between social expectancies to be busy and emotional wellbeing: the moderating role of emotional complexity acceptance	7

Dynamics of attachment and emotion regulation in daily life: uni- and bidirectional associations	7
Rumination and inhibition in task switching: no evidence for an association	7
The influence of emotion on temporal context models	7
The effects of cognitive reappraisal and sleep on emotional memory formation	7
Emotion malleability beliefs influence emotion regulation and emotion recovery among individuals with depressive symptoms	6
Are multiple types of associative memory differently impacted by emotion?	6
Social impression formation and depression: examining cognitive flexibility and bias	6
Working memory capacity relates to reduced negative emotion in daily life	6
Aging and task design shape the relationship between response time variability and emotional response inhibition	6
The influence of consonant wanderings and facial expressions in warmth and competence judgments	6
Retrieval-induced forgetting of emotional memories	6
A pandemic-related affect gap in risky decisions for self and others	6
A unified approach to managing emotions and pursuing purpose in life	6
Evaluating non-affective cross-modal congruence effects on emotion perception	6
The effects of nonverbal pride and skill on judgements of victory and social influence: a boxing study	6
Rumination, but not mood, predicts prospective memory performance: novel insights from a derived measure of trait rumination	6
The influence of mood on the effort in trying to shift one’s attention from a mind wandering phase to focusing on ongoing activities in a laboratory and in daily life	6
Does cognitive load influence expressive flexibility? Comparing civilian and veteran populations	6
Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words: evidence from eye fixations during reading	6
Individual differences in pupil dilation to others’ emotional and neutral eyes with varying pupil sizes	6
Correction	6
The role of hyperbole in conveying emotionality: the case of victim speech	6
Beliefs about emotion usefulness are nuanced: degree of personal reference and emotional valence predict affective distress	6
Theory convergence in emotion science is timely and realistic	5
Think again: the role of reappraisal in reducing negative valence bias	5
Different effects of emotional valence on overt attention and recognition memory	5
Modulatory effects of goal relevance on emotional attention reveal that fear has a distinct value	5
When unpleasantness meets feminines: a behavioural study on gender agreement and emotionality	5
Both negative and positive task-irrelevant stimuli contract attentional breadth in individuals with high levels of negative affect	5
Emotional mimicry: a communication accommodation approach	5
The divide between daily event appraisal and emotion experience in major depression	5
Agency influences vicarious approach/avoidance effects	5
Bouncing back from emotional ups and downs: insights in emotional recovery using survival analyses of burst ESM data	5
The role of self-compassion in loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a group-based trajectory modelling approach	5
Does facial redness really affect emotion perception? Evidence for limited generalisability of effects of facial redness on emotion perception in a large sample	5
Vocal emotion recognition in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis	5
Interpersonal emotion regulation strategy choice in younger and older adults	5
The effect of momentary mood on appraisal of facial affect and distrust: an experimental approach using ambulatory assessment	5
Threat priming diminishes the gaze cueing effect	5
Modulation of attentional bias by hypnotic suggestion: experimental evidence from an emotional Stroop task	5
Social anxiety and emotion regulation flexibility: a daily diary approach	5
Better memory for emotional sources? A systematic evaluation of source valence and arousal in source memory	5
Associations between attentional biases for emotional images and rumination in depression	5
Children's executive functions predict their preferences for emotion regulation strategies	5
Coronashaming: interpersonal affect worsening in contexts of COVID-19 rule violations	4
Acute shame in response to dissociative detachment: evidence from non-clinical and traumatised samples	4
Perceptual control or action-selection? Comment on: a perceptual control theory of emotional action	4
How emotional are words ambiguous on the spaces of valence, origin and activation?	4
Prior memory encoding of negative distractors biases emotion-induced blindness	4
A validation and comparison of three measures of participants’ disposition to feel moved (introducing the Geneva Sentimentality Scale)	4
Integration of negative emotions, empathy, and support for conciliatory policies in intractable conflicts	4
When mind and body align: examining the role of cross-modal congruency in conscious representations of happy facial expressions	4
Associations between parental dispositional attributions, dismissing and coaching reactions to children’s emotions, and children’s problem behaviour moderated by child gender	4
Interactive relationship between alexithymia, psychological distress and posttraumatic stress disorder symptomology across time	4
Lessons unlearned: A conceptual review and meta-analysis of the relationship between the Attention Control Scale and Objective Attention Control	4
Reappraising reappraisal: an expanded view	4
Reduced vividness of emotional memories following reactivation in a second language	4
Maternal interpretation of infant emotions related to mothers’ mindfulness and mother-infant stress	4
Correction	4
Facing social exclusion: a facial EMG examination of the reaffiliative function of smiling	4
Commentary on “how emotions, relationships, and culture constitute each other: advances in social functionalist theory” by Keltner, Sauter, Tracy, Wetchler, and Cowen	4
Affect labelling increases the intensity of positive emotions	4
For better or for worse: differential effects of the emotional valence of words on children’s recall	4
The effect of facial colour on implicit facial expressions	4
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 recognition	4
Contamination in Trypophobia: investigating the role of disgust	4