Emotion

Papers
(The median citation count of Emotion is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Emotional modulation of gaze cueing does not depend on a global perceptual processing strategy.104
Supplemental Material for Better Relationships Do Not Always Feel Better: Social Relationships Interact in Predicting Negative Emotions in Early Adolescence93
Supplemental Material for Supporting the Willingness to Express Emotions in Relationships: The Role of Perceived Empathic Effort and Interpersonal Accuracy69
Supplemental Material for Judging Emotions as Good or Bad: Individual Differences and Associations with Psychological Health67
Supplemental Material for No One Is an Island: Awe Encourages Global Citizenship Identification66
Supplemental Material for Facial Expression of Pain: Sex Differences in the Discrimination of Varying Intensities61
Supplemental Material for Emotional Context and Predictability in Naturalistic Reading Aloud59
Supplemental Material for Emotionally Positive Self-Directed Speech Widens the Cone of Gaze57
Erratum to “The need for a unified language framework in extrinsic interpersonal emotion regulation research” by Walker et al. (2025).53
Supplemental Material for Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models to Understand Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies From Narratives53
Supplemental Material for Facial Expressions in Adolescent–Parent Interactions and Mental Health: A Proof-of-Concept Study49
Supplemental Material for Emotion Regulation in Daily Life: Testing Bidirectional Temporal Associations With Positive and Negative Affect49
Supplemental Material for Categorization Processes in Emotion Expression Recognition: The Roles of Language and Essentialism49
Supplemental Material for Social Support and Adaptive Emotion Regulation: Links Between Social Network Measures, Emotion Regulation Strategy Use, and Health49
Putting it into words: Emotion vocabulary, emotion differentiation, and depression among adolescents.48
Physiological coregulation during social support discussions.47
The role of trait reappraisal in response to emotional ambiguity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.46
Supplemental Material for Attention to Interoceptive Processes Interferes With Access of Emotion Concepts46
Affective variability prospectively predicts higher affective well-being, but only when people feel low.45
Thriving under pressure: The effects of stress-related wise interventions on affect, sleep, and exam performance for college students from disadvantaged backgrounds.44
What makes a word a good representative of the category of “emotion”? The role of feelings and interoception.43
The interplay between music engagement and affect: A random-intercept cross-lagged panel analysis.42
Combined effects of intrinsic and goal relevances on attention and action tendency during the emotional episode.41
Supplemental Material for Cardiac Responses to Daily Threats and Challenges During Wakefulness and Sleep40
Intertemporal empathy decline: Feeling less distress for future others’ suffering.40
Toward ecological validity in expression discrimination: Forced-choice saccadic responses to posed and naturalistic faces.39
Supplemental Material for Leader Choices Reflect Cultural Differences in Ideal Affect More During Organizational Growth Than Decline37
Neural mechanisms for secondary suppression of emotional distractors: Evidence from concurrent electroencephalography–magnetoencephalography data.36
Childhood emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between preschool emotion labeling and adolescent depressive symptoms.35
Multidimensional signal detection modeling reveals Gestalt-like perceptual integration of face emotion and identity.35
The impact of focused attention on emotional evaluation: An eye-tracking investigation.34
Supplemental Material for Mood Induction in Older Adults in Alzheimer’s Disease: Emotional Reactivity Using Film Clips31
“Let’s go over it again”: Examining the intra- and interpersonal processes that perpetuate co-rumination in close relationships.31
Supplemental Material for Emotion Regulation and Felt Security in Different-Gender Romantic Relationship Interactions: Two Dyadic, Observational Studies31
Supplemental Material for High Spatial Frequency Signals Drive Emotion-Related Perceptual Decision Making Under Emotion-Guided Attention30
Supplemental Material for Both Pleasant and Unpleasant Emotional Feelings Follow Weber’s Law but It Depends How You Ask30
Supplemental Material for How and When Awe Improves Meaning in Life: The Role of Authentic-Self Pursuit and Trait Authenticity29
Supplemental Material for One Size Does Not Fit All: Decomposing the Implementation and Differential Benefits of Social Emotion Regulation Strategies28
Supplemental Material for Environmental Impassivity: Blunted Emotionality Undermines Concern for the Environment28
Supplemental Material for Variation in Bittersweet Nostalgic Feelings and Their Divergent Effects on Daily Well-Being28
Supplemental Material for Examining the Effects of Emotional Valence and Arousal on Source Memory: A Meta-Analysis of Behavioral Evidence28
Supplemental Material for “Sticky” Thinking Disrupts Decision Making for Individuals With a Tendency Toward Worry and Depression27
Do cues of infectious disease shape people’s affective responses to social exclusion?27
Supplemental Material for Information Gathering: Dissociable Effects of Autistic and Alexithymic Traits in Youths Aged 6–25 Years27
Supplemental Material for Behavioral Variability in Physiological Synchrony During Future-Based Conversations Between Romantic Partners27
A theory-informed emotion regulation variability index: Bray–Curtis dissimilarity.27
Supplemental Material for Green-Eyed Monster or Green-Eyed Mirage? A New Procedure for Telling When Begrudging Others’ Success Is or Is Not Envy27
Altered emotional mind–body coherence in older adults.27
Supplemental Material for People in Ecuador and the United States Conceptualize Compassion Differently: The Role of Avoided Negative Affect26
Supplemental Material for Inhibiting Orofacial Mimicry Affects Authenticity Perception in Vocal Emotions26
Deconstructing disgust as the emotion of violations of body and soul.26
Supplemental Material for An Experimental Paradigm for Triggering a Depressive Syndrome26
From memory to motivation: Probing the relationship between episodic simulation, empathy, and helping intentions.25
The best possible self task has direct effects on expectancies and mood, and an indirect effect on anxiety symptom severity.25
Affective working memory in depression.25
Emotion regulation dynamics in daily life: Adaptive strategy use may be variable without being unstable and predictable without being autoregressive.25
Valuation of emotion underlies cultural variation in cardiovascular stress responses.24
Increasing perceived happiness in neutral faces by posing a smile: An electroencephalography (EEG) frequency-tagging study.24
Supplemental Material for Conflict Interactions and Negative and Positive Affect in Parent–Adolescent Dyads’ Daily Lives24
The discrimination of self from other as a component of empathy.24
Supplemental Material for Altering Experienced Utility by Incidental Affect: The Interplay of Valence and Arousal in Incidental Affect Infusion Processes23
Supplemental Material for Individual Differences in Developmental Trajectories of Affective Attention and Relations With Competence and Social Reticence With Peers23
A functionalist perspective of young children’s anger and sadness.23
Supplemental Material for Are Paranoid Ideation and Hallucination Spectrum Experiences Differently Associated With Affect Dynamics? A Continuous-Time Modeling Approach23
Improving social belonging, meaning, and mental health during COVID-19: A self-affirmation approach.23
Bidirectional associations between smartphone usage and momentary well-being in young adults: Tackling methodological challenges by combining experience sampling methods with passive smartphone data.23
Rumination and acceptance differentially modulate the scope of attention.23
Supplemental Material for Instructional Learning of Threat-Related Attentional Capture Is Modulated by State Anxiety23
Erratum to “Affective control in adolescence: The influence of age and depressive symptomatology on working memory” by Griffiths et al. (2025).23
Childhood adversity and emotion regulation strategies as predictors of psychological stress and mental health in American Indian adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.22
Early childhood behavioral inhibition predicts altered social and emotional functioning in early adulthood: An ecological momentary assessment study.22
Biden or Trump? Working memory for emotion predicts the ability to forecast future feelings.22
From social status to emotions: Asymmetric contests predict emotional responses to victory and defeat.22
Changes in affect during the pursuit of performance goals.22
In the grip of pain: Elevated momentary pain is associated with lower momentary emotional granularity in individuals with chronic pain.22
Supplemental Material for Emotion Regulation Training for Adolescents With Major Depression: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial21
Emotion brokering in Latinx college students: Associations with depressive symptoms and acculturative stress.21
Supplemental Material for On the Social Signal Function of Emotional Crying: Broadening the Perspective to Social Interactions in Daily Life21
Supplemental Material for Unpacking the Components of Positive Affect Variability: Implications for Psychological Health Across Contexts21
Do unto others: People use similar strategies to regulate their own emotions and the emotions of others.20
Supplemental Material for Behavioral and Neural Evidence for Difficulty Recognizing Masked Emotional Faces20
Emotion-specific verbal fluency relates to the intensity and variety of emotional experiences but not their specificity.20
Supplemental Material for College Student Depressive Symptoms Linked to Feeling Worse During Social Media Use and Engaging in Social Media in More Emotionally Negative Ways: An Experimental Approach20
Not just for tough times: The efficacy and mechanisms of positive goal reappraisal in negative, neutral, and positive contexts.20
Perceived prolonged stress leads to difficulties in recognizing sadness from voice cues in men but not women.20
Emotion word production tasks grant insight into the development of emotion word organization and accessibility.19
Sharing the load: Contagion and tolerance of mood in social networks.19
Age differences in hedonic adaptation to societal restrictions? Positive and negative affect trajectories during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 33 nations.19
Executive functions predict the trajectories of rumination in middle-aged and older adults: A latent growth curve analysis.19
The viability and validity of the Authentic and Hubristic Pride scales: Reply to Dickens and Murphy (2023).19
Ensemble perception of emotion: Incidental effects of social identity.19
Warm hands, warm hearts: An investigation of physical warmth as a prepared safety stimulus.19
Valuing high arousal negative states increases negative responses toward outgroups across cultures.19
The role of specific affects in the psychopathology of dementia family caregivers.18
Be kinder to yourself: Awe promotes self-compassion via self-transcendence.18
Awe fosters global self-continuity: The mediating effect of global processing and narrative.18
Positive emotional reactivity to pleasant social and nonsocial stimuli in social anxiety disorder.17
Unpacking the components of positive affect variability: Implications for psychological health across contexts.17
High spatial frequency signals drive emotion-related perceptual decision making under emotion-guided attention.17
Daily dyadic coping during COVID-19 among Israeli couples.17
Does your past define you? The role of previous visual experience in subjective reactions to new affective pictures and sounds.17
Angry and happy expressions affect forward gait initiation only when task relevant.16
Supplemental Material for The Mind Wanders to Dark Places: Mind-Wandering Catalyzes Rumination in the Context of Negative Affect and Impulsivity16
Supplemental Material for Appraisal Shifts During Reappraisal16
Supplemental Material for Affect-Specific Empathy: Experience Sampling and Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling Provide a Within-Person Perspective16
Cultural variation in the motivational correlates of gratitude.16
Supplemental Material for Empathic Accuracy and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Close Relationships16
Supplemental Material for Characterizing Empathy and Compassion Using Computational Linguistic Analysis16
Supplemental Material for Does Your Past Define You? The Role of Previous Visual Experience in Subjective Reactions to New Affective Pictures and Sounds16
Supplemental Material for Unique Affective Profile of Music-Evoked Nostalgia: An Extension and Conceptual Replication of Barrett et al.’s (2010) Study16
Individual patterns of visual exploration predict the extent of fear generalization in humans.16
Supplemental Material for Trajectories of Affective Well-Being and Survival in Middle-Aged and Older Adults16
Supplemental Material for Examining the Strategy-Situation Fit of Emotion Regulation in Everyday Social Contexts16
Supplemental Material for Assessing the Influence of Emotional Expressions on Perceptual Sensitivity to Faces Overcoming Interocular Suppression16
Physiological arousal underlies preferential access to visual awareness of fear-conditioned (and possibly disgust-conditioned) stimuli.15
Supplemental Material for Committing to Emotion Regulation: Factors Impacting the Choice to Implement a Reappraisal After Its Generation15
Supplemental Material for Evaluating Past Emotions in Changing Facial Expressions: The Role of Current Emotions and Culture15
Effects of emotion and emotional ambiguity on early visual event-related potentials.15
Supplemental Material for Valence Explains How and Why Positive Affects and Negative Affects Correlate: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Diener et al.’s (1995) The Personality Structure of Af15
Supplemental Material for Harmonizing Hearts: High-Quality Listening and Kama Muta Among Listeners and Speakers15
Emotion mindsets and depressive symptoms in adolescence: The role of emotion regulation competence.14
The mediating role of emotion regulation strategies on the association between rejection sensitivity, aggression, withdrawal, and prosociality.14
The face pareidolia illusion drives a happy face advantage that is dependent on perceived gender.14
Supplemental Material for The Ontogeny of Children’s Group-Based Guilt and Motivated Reparative Prosocial Behaviors14
The actor’s insight: Actors have comparable interoception but better metacognition than nonactors.14
Supplemental Material for Express Yourself: Emotional Expressive Accuracy in a Supportive Interaction Between Friends14
Interoceptive awareness and clarity of one’s emotions and goals: A naturalistic investigation.14
Supplemental Material for Do Empathic People Respond Differently to Emotional Voices?14
Just keep flowing: A meta-analysis on the relationship between flow and well-being.14
Supplemental Material for Hope as a Meaningful Emotion: Hope, Positive Affect, and Meaning in Life14
Parents’ emotion suppression exacerbates the effect of COVID-19 stress on youth internalizing symptomatology.14
Exploring the interplay between stress-is-enhancing mindsets, emotional growth mindsets, and mental health: Dynamic structural equation modeling.14
Supplemental Material for The Inadequacy of Normative Ratings for Building Stimulus Sets in Affective Science14
Motivated to feel better and doing something about it: Cross-cultural differences in motivated emotion regulation during COVID-19.14
Asymmetry in updating of emotion inferences from faces and situations.13
Supplemental Material for Autistic Traits Are Associated With Differences in the Perception of Genuineness and Approachability in Emotional Facial Expressions, Independently of Alexithymia13
Supplemental Material for Affective Working Memory in Depression13
Supplemental Material for Intrinsic Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategy Use and Effectiveness Across Adulthood: The Role of Interaction Partner Age13
Evaluation experts: Relations between ability emotional intelligence and attitude strength indicators.13
Disgust reactions to a remembered trauma analogue are similarly persistent to fear reactions.13
Supplemental Material for What Can I Say to Help You? Language Associated With Successful Extrinsic Emotion Regulation13
Supplemental Material for The Representation of Emotional Experience From Imagined Scenarios13
Supplemental Material for Emotional Attention: Time Course and Effects of Agonistic and Antagonistic Overlay of Intrinsic and Goal Relevances13
A new hope induction.13
Relations between perceived affect and liking for melodies and visual designs.13
Three facets of emotion regulation in old and very old age: Strategy use, effectiveness, and variability.13
Social contexts are associated with higher emotional awareness than nonsocial contexts: Evidence in a sample of people with and without major depressive disorder.13
Supplemental Material for Adult Attachment and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Motives in Daily Life13
Supplemental Material for Out of Sight but in Mind: Experimentally Activating Partner Representations in Daily Life Buffers Against Common Stressors13
Forgiveness updates interpersonal memories to be less negative.13
Is it better to be happy or right? Examining the relative role of the pragmatic and epistemic imperatives in momentary affective evaluations.13
Supplemental Material for Cultural Context Shapes the Selection and Adaptiveness of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies12
Supplemental Material for The Best Possible Self Task Has Direct Effects on Expectancies and Mood, and an Indirect Effect on Anxiety Symptom Severity12
Categorization processes in emotion expression recognition: The roles of language and essentialism.12
Recalling autobiographical self-efficacy episodes boosts reappraisal-effects on negative emotional memories.12
Increased motivational intensity leads to preference for distraction over reappraisal during emotion regulation: Mediated by attentional breadth.12
Impact of parity and salivary hormonal levels on motivation toward infant emotions.12
Supplemental Material for Differential Audiovisual Information Processing in Emotion Recognition: An Eye-Tracking Study12
Supplemental Material for Relational Mobility Promotes Optimism and Willingness to Delay Happiness12
Negative emotions disrupt intentional synchronization during group sensorimotor interaction.12
Supplemental Material for It Takes Two to Co-ruminate: Examining Co-rumination as a Dyadic and Dynamic System12
Resilience in the face of racial discrimination: The role of emotional acceptance.12
Supplemental Material for A Divergent Effect of Stimulus Perceptual Details on Affective and Semantic Representations of Valence12
Supplemental Material for An Experimental Test of the Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory: Casual Pathways Between Decentering, Reappraisal, and Well-being12
Extrinsic emotion regulation motives in dyads of friends.12
Momentary emotion regulation strategy use and success: Testing the influences of emotion intensity and habitual strategy use.12
Shining our humanity: The benefits of awe on self-humanity.12
You changed my mind: Immediate and enduring impacts of social emotion regulation.11
The intrapersonal and interpersonal consequences of a new experimental manipulation of co-rumination.11
Examining daily affect variability by individual differences among a diverse community sample.11
What can I say to help you? Language associated with successful extrinsic emotion regulation.11
Interpersonal emotion regulation flexibility: Effects on affect in daily life.11
Individual differences in emotion prediction and implications for social success.11
What we talk about when we talk about hope: A prototype analysis.11
Affective intensity of enacted stigma events and emotion regulation strategy use among sexual and gender minorities.11
Unpacking the pursuit of happiness: Being concerned about happiness but not aspiring to happiness is linked with negative meta-emotions and worse well-being.11
Suppressing versus expressing anger influences person perceptions of warmth and competence.11
Supplemental Material for Fear During Pandemic Promoted Holistic Cognitive Style: The Moderating Role of Uncertainty11
Prioritization of danger-related social signals during threat-induced anxiety.10
Supplemental Material for Affective Control in Adolescence: The Influence of Age and Depressive Symptomatology on Working Memory10
Supplemental Material for I Can Feel It in My Bones: Experienced Intensity of Emotion Predicts In-the-Moment Awareness of Body Sensations10
Supplemental Material for The Interpersonal Risks of Valuing Happiness: Links to Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Close Others’ Mental Health10
Supplemental Material for Behavioral and Brain Differences in the Processing of Negative Emotion in Previously Depressed Individuals: An Exploratory Analysis of Population-Based Data10
Increases in loneliness during medical school are associated with increases in individuals’ likelihood of mislabeling emotions as negative.10
Supplemental Material for Suppressing Versus Expressing Anger Influences Person Perceptions of Warmth and Competence10
Transactional dynamics between parental responsiveness and child emotion dysregulation: A longitudinal study from infancy to early school age.10
Integrating emotion beliefs and emotion regulation into the pathway from emotional awareness to affective distress.10
Supplemental Material for The Expectation-Updating Mechanism in Gratitude: A Predictive Coding Perspective10
Supplemental Material for Regulating Emotions About Secrets10
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers10
Supplemental Material for Balancing Emotional Scales: Empathy and Dehumanization in Legal Contexts10
Supplemental Material for Extrinsic Emotion Regulation Motives in Dyads of Friends10
Seven challenges in affective inertia research.10
Emotions do reliably co-occur with predicted facial signals: Comment on Durán and Fernández-Dols (2021).10
Facing discomfort: Avoided negative affect shapes the acknowledgment of systemic racism.10
Causal enhancement of cognitive reappraisal through synchronized dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activity.10
Supplemental Material for A Theory-Informed Emotion Regulation Variability Index: Bray–Curtis Dissimilarity10
Is threat detection Black and White? Race effects in threat-related perceptual decision-making.10
Supplemental Material for The Function of Regulator’s Empathy and Social Distance in Adolescent Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Effectiveness: A Dyadic Approach10
Supplemental Material for Relief in Everyday Life10
Examining distinctions between polyregulation and single-strategy emotion regulation.10
The curious case of threat-awe: A theoretical and empirical reconceptualization.10
Negative emotion reduces visual working memory recall variability: A meta-analytical review.9
The role of facial coloration in emotion disambiguation.9
Green-eyed monster or green-eyed mirage? A new procedure for telling when begrudging others’ success is or is not envy.9
On the latency of object recognition and affect: Evidence from speeded reaction time tasks.9
Supplemental Material for Effectiveness of Extrinsic Emotion Regulation Strategies in Text-Based Online Communication9
Supplemental Material for The Development and Validation of the Emotional Entitlement Questionnaire (EEQ)9
Both pleasant and unpleasant emotional feelings follow Weber’s law but it depends how you ask.9
Dynamic associations between emotion expressions and strategy use in Chinese American and Mexican American preschoolers.9
Supplemental Material for Emotional Complexity Under High Stress: Do Protective Associations for Risk Behaviors Persist Even During a Pandemic?9
Attention-focused emotion regulation in everyday life in adulthood and old age.9
Supplemental Material for Examining Distinctions Between Polyregulation and Single-Strategy Emotion Regulation9
I’ve seen enough! Prolonged and repeated exposure to disgusting stimuli increases oculomotor avoidance.9
Supplemental Material for Goal Clarity as Context for Regulation Success9
Supplemental Material for Visual Attention to Emotional Pictures: Striking Parallels With Neutral Stimuli Challenge Emotion-Specific Accounts of Influences on Attentional Biases9
Supplemental Material for Men and Women’s Waking Patterns to Infant Crying: Preparenthood Differences Are Insufficient to Explain Uneven Sharing of Nighttime Care9
Supplemental Material for Intertemporal Empathy Decline: Feeling Less Distress for Future Others’ Suffering9
Supplemental Material for Changes in Happiness, Sadness, Anxiety, and Anger Around Romantic Relationship Events9
Staying connected: How close friendships supported emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.9
Measuring distinct emotional states implicitly: The role of response speed.9
Extrinsic emotion regulation: Exploring strategies used by individuals with high and low depression symptoms.9
Daily relatedness predicts positive shifts in world beliefs: Implications for psychological well-being and affective tendencies.9
Does empathy promote helping by activating altruistic motivation or concern about social evaluation? A direct replication of Fultz et al. (1986).9
Successful mood repair in the laboratory predicts successful mood repair in daily life for typical but not for depression-prone young adults.9
Supplemental Material for Tweeting Under Uncertainty: The Relationship Between Uncertain Language and Negative Emotions in the wild9
Supplemental Material for “Let’s Go Over It Again”: Examining the Intra- and Interpersonal Processes That Perpetuate Co-Rumination in Close Relationships9
Golden tears: A cross-country study of crying in the Olympics.9
The effects of spatial frequency on the decoding of emotional facial expressions.9
Supplemental Material for Fluid and Crystallized Cognitive Abilities Differentially Predict Successful Regulation of Positive Versus Negative Emotion9
Is moral disgust socially learned?8
Supplemental Material for Visual Experience Shapes Bodily Representation of Emotion8
Does the Brief Implicit Association Test measure semantic or affective valence representations?8
Emotion language use in narratives of the 9/11 attacks predicts long-term memory.8
Supplemental Material for Induced Negative Affect Hinders Self-Referential Belief Updating in Response to Social Feedback8
Social support and adaptive emotion regulation: Links between social network measures, emotion regulation strategy use, and health.8
Supplemental Material for Episodic Memory Through a Social and Emotional Lens8
Supplemental Material for Baby Bliss: Longitudinal Evidence for Set-Point Theory Around Childbirth for Cognitive and Affective Well-Being8
Supplemental Material for Blunted Neural Response to Errors Prospectively Predicts Increased Symptoms of Depression During the COVID-19 Pandemic8
Positive affect inertia uniquely differentiates formerly depressed individuals from healthy controls: An ecological momentary assessment study.8
Emotion misattribution from complex scene pictures: Evidence for affective processing beyond valence.8
Supplemental Material for What Makes Us Feel Good? A Data-Driven Investigation of Positive Emotion Experience8
Emotional tone distorts remembered durations of naturalistic activities.8
Emotional context and predictability in naturalistic reading aloud.8
Now you see it, now you don’t: The age-related positivity effect to faces disappears in naturalistic settings.8
Supplemental Material for Affective Schemas: Acquisition, Updating, and Inference8
Supplemental Material for The Emotional Cost of Political Engagement8
Types of social media use are differentially associated with trait and momentary affect.8
Variation in bittersweet nostalgic feelings and their divergent effects on daily well-being.8
Emotional balance, health, and resilience at the start of COVID-19 pandemic.8
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