Emotion

Article	Citations
Surprised–curious–confused: Epistemic emotions and knowledge exploration.	98
Mix it to fix it: Emotion regulation variability in daily life.	74
Time capsule: Nostalgia shields psychological wellbeing from limited time horizons.	63
Emotion dynamics across adulthood in everyday life: Older adults are more emotionally stable and better at regulating desires.	52
The measurement of within-person affect variation.	50
Racialized emotion recognition accuracy and anger bias of children’s faces.	46
Big smile, small self: Awe walks promote prosocial positive emotions in older adults.	43
Bodily maps of emotions are culturally universal.	40
On the automaticity of attentional orienting to threatening stimuli.	40
Maternal depression impairs child emotion understanding and executive functions: The role of dysregulated maternal care across the first decade of life.	39
Charting the development of emotion comprehension and abstraction from childhood to adulthood using observer-rated and linguistic measures.	38
Age and emotion regulation in daily life: Frequency, strategies, tactics, and effectiveness.	37
Modeling individual differences in emotion regulation repertoire in daily life with multilevel latent profile analysis.	37
Emotion recognition from posed and spontaneous dynamic expressions: Human observers versus machine analysis.	37
Increasing anticipated and anticipatory pleasure through episodic thinking.	36
Can I tell you how I feel? Perceived partner responsiveness encourages emotional expression.	36
Coherence between subjective experience and physiology in emotion: Individual differences and implications for well-being.	36
Infants’ attachment insecurity predicts attachment-relevant emotion regulation strategies in adulthood.	33
Shame, guilt, and secrets on the mind.	31
Gratitude and the brain: Trait gratitude mediates the association between structural variations in the medial prefrontal cortex and life satisfaction.	30
Changing stress mindsets with a novel imagery intervention: A randomized controlled trial.	30
The role of movement kinematics in facial emotion expression production and recognition.	30
Emotion dynamics in children and adolescents: A meta-analytic and descriptive review.	30
Is mindfulness associated with interpersonal forgiveness?	29
Emotion malleability beliefs and coping with the college transition.	28

Everyday emotional dynamics in major depression.	28
Building empathy through motivation-based interventions.	28
Emotion regulation and psychological and physical health during a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.	28
Use of linguistic distancing and cognitive reappraisal strategies during emotion regulation in children, adolescents, and young adults.	28
The relation between age and experienced stress, worry, affect, and depression during the spring 2020 phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.	27
The effect of a multi-week nostalgia intervention on well-being: Mechanisms and moderation.	26
Why do depressed people prefer sad music?	26
The immutability of valence and arousal in the foundation of emotion.	26
Happy facial expressions impair inhibitory control with respect to fearful facial expressions but only when task-relevant.	26
Do emotions result in their predicted facial expressions? A meta-analysis of studies on the co-occurrence of expression and emotion.	25
Emotion differentiation and behavioral dysregulation in clinical and nonclinical samples: A meta-analysis.	25
Behavioral indices of positivity resonance associated with long-term marital satisfaction.	25
The perils of murky emotions: Emotion differentiation moderates the prospective relationship between naturalistic stress exposure and adolescent depression.	25
Thinking mindfully: How mindfulness relates to rumination and reflection in daily life.	25
The recognition of 18 facial-bodily expressions across nine cultures.	24
Neural representations of awe: Distinguishing common and distinct neural mechanisms.	24
Changes in vocal emotion recognition across the life span.	24
Prosocial behavior promotes positive emotion during the COVID-19 pandemic.	24
Clear judgments based on unclear evidence: Person evaluation is strongly influenced by untrustworthy gossip.	24
Emodiversity, health, and well-being in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) daily diary study.	23
The relation between positive and negative affect becomes more negative in response to personally relevant events.	22
Age differences in emotion-induced blindness: Positivity effects in early attention.	22
Ethnic variation in gratitude and well-being.	22
Picking up good vibrations: Uncovering the content of distinct positive emotion subjective experience.	21
Nostalgia promotes help seeking by fostering social connectedness.	21
Pride: A meta-analytic project.	21
Evidence for the existence of emotion dispositions and the effects of appraisal bias.	21
Social interaction context shapes emotion recognition through body language, not facial expressions.	21
Shared emotions in shared lives: Moments of co-experienced affect, more than individually experienced affect, linked to relationship quality.	20
Mind wandering and stress: When you don’t like the present moment.	20
Angry and happy expressions affect forward gait initiation only when task relevant.	20
When chatting about negative experiences helps—and when it hurts: Distinguishing adaptive versus maladaptive social support in computer-mediated communication.	20
Holding on to pieces of the past: Daily reports of nostalgia in a life-span sample.	20
Threat reduces value-driven but not salience-driven attentional capture.	20
A mind full of happiness: How mindfulness shapes affect dynamics in daily life.	20
Emotion regulation in everyday life: Mapping global self-reports to daily processes.	20
Emotion dynamics and responsiveness in intimate relationships.	19
Instructed threat enhances threat perception in faces.	19
Cause or symptom? A longitudinal test of bidirectional relationships between emotion regulation strategies and mental health symptoms.	19
Valuing emotional control in social anxiety disorder: A multimethod study of emotion beliefs and emotion regulation.	18
Prosocial behavior is associated with transdiagnostic markers of affective sensitivity in multiple domains.	18
Who emphasizes positivity? An exploration of emotion values in people of Latino, Asian, and European heritage living in the United States.	18
Feeling bad is not always unhealthy: Culture moderates the link between negative affect and diurnal cortisol profiles.	18
Positive emotion in daily life: Emotion regulation and depression.	18
Enhanced recognition of vocal emotions in individuals with naturally good musical abilities.	18
Satisfied yet striving: Gratitude fosters life satisfaction and improvement motivation in youth.	18
What we talk about when we talk about hope: A prototype analysis.	17
Why do my thoughts feel so bad? Getting at the reciprocal effects of rumination and negative affect using dynamic structural equation modeling.	17
The role of emotions in esports performance.	17
The consequences of compulsion: A 4-year longitudinal study of compulsive internet use and emotion regulation difficulties.	17

Emotion differentiation moderates the effects of rumination on depression: A longitudinal study.	17
Bidirectional contextual influence between faces and bodies in emotion perception.	16
Interpersonal emotion regulation in children: Age, gender, and cross-cultural differences using a serious game.	16
A multidimensional approach to the relationship between individualism-collectivism and guilt and shame.	16
How does the attention system learn from aversive outcomes?	16
Aging bodies, aging emotions: Interoceptive differences in emotion representations and self-reports across adulthood.	16
Seeing no pain: Assessing the generalizability of racial bias in pain perception.	16
Higher well-being is related to reduced affective reactivity to positive events in daily life.	15
Past adversity protects against the numeracy bias in compassion.	15
The self and empathy: Lacking a clear and stable sense of self undermines empathy and helping behavior.	15
Exploring the complexity of mothers’ real-time emotions while caregiving.	15
A new micro-intervention to increase the enjoyment and continued practice of meditation.	15
Prenatal maternal mood entropy is associated with child neurodevelopment.	15
Affective calculus: The construction of affect through information integration over time.	15
Motivated suppression of value- and threat-modulated attentional capture.	14
Many ways to see your feelings: Successful facial expression recognition occurs with diverse patterns of fixation distributions.	14
Affect variability and predictability: Using recurrence quantification analysis to better understand how the dynamics of affect relate to health.	14
Modulation of mood on eye movement and face recognition performance.	14
A conceptual replication of emotional intelligence as a second-stratum factor of intelligence.	14
Lower general executive function is primarily associated with trait worry: A latent variable analysis of negative thought/affect measures.	14
Sense of purpose predicts daily positive events and attenuates their influence on positive affect.	14
The thrill of victory: Savoring positive affect, psychophysiological reward processing, and symptoms of depression.	14
On the relationship between valence and arousal in samples across the globe.	13
On thanksgiving: Cultural variation in gratitude demonstrations and perceptions between the United States and Taiwan.	13
When do adolescents feel loved? A daily within-person study of parent–adolescent relations.	13
Predicting negative affect variability and spontaneous emotion regulation: Can working memory span tasks estimate emotion regulatory capacity?	13
Emotion experience and expression goals shape emotion regulation strategy choice.	13
Affective modulation of memory-based guidance in visual search: Dissociative role of positive and negative emotions.	13
Visual disgust elicitors produce an attentional blink independent of contextual and trait-level pathogen avoidance.	13
Reflective functioning and empathy among mothers of school-aged children: Charting the space between.	13
Bugs are blech, butterflies are beautiful, but both are bad to bite: Admired animals are disgusting to eat but are themselves neither disgusting nor contaminating.	12
Collective emotions during the COVID-19 outbreak.	12
Daily dyadic coping during COVID-19 among Israeli couples.	12
Infant fecal microbiota composition and attention to emotional faces.	12
Does negative emotion differentiation influence how people choose to regulate their distress after stressful events? A four-year daily diary study.	12
Performance and belief-based emotion regulation capacity and tendency: Mapping links with cognitive flexibility and perceived stress.	12
Cascades of infant happiness: Infant positive affect predicts childhood IQ and adult educational attainment.	12
Why do bilinguals code-switch when emotional? Insights from immigrant parent–child interactions.	12
Attending to emotional faces in the flanker task: Probably much less automatic than previously assumed.	12
Alterations in facial expressions of emotion: Determining the promise of ultrathin slicing approaches and comparing human and automated coding methods in psychosis risk.	12
How task-unrelated and freely moving thought relate to affect: Evidence for dissociable patterns in everyday life.	12
The mediating role of emotion regulation strategies on the association between rejection sensitivity, aggression, withdrawal, and prosociality.	12
While a shy child waits: Autonomic and affective responses during the anticipation and delivery of a speech.	12
Awe, ideological conviction, and perceptions of ideological opponents.	12
Emojis as social information in digital communication.	12
More than one kind: Different sensory signatures and functions divide affectionate touch.	12
Accuracy and bias in the social perception of envy.	12
Third-party punishment following observed social rejection.	11
Testing theoretical assumptions underlying the relation between anxiety, mind wandering, and task-switching: A diffusion model analysis.	11
Expanding context in the role of emotion regulation in mental health: How socioeconomic status (SES) and developmental stage matter.	11
Investigating appraisal-driven facial expression and inference in emotion communication.	11
Bipolar spectrum psychopathology is associated with altered emotion dynamics across multiple timescales.	11
Cognitive and emotional correlates of belief in political misinformation: Who endorses partisan misbeliefs?	11
Daily perceived stress predicts less next day social interaction: Evidence from a naturalistic mobile sensing study.	11
Moral outrage drives the interaction of harm and culpable intent in third-party punishment decisions.	11
Testing a goal-driven account of involuntary attentional capture by threat.	11
Interoceptive cardiac expectations to emotional stimuli predict visual perception.	11
Effects of hunger on emotional arousal responses and attention/memory biases.	11
Childhood anxiety sensitivity, fear downregulation, and anxious behaviors: Vagal suppression as a moderator of risk.	11
Action opportunities modulate attention allocation under social threat.	11
Processing emotional expressions under fear of rejection: Findings from diffusion model analyses.	10
Intersectionality in emotion signaling and recognition: The influence of gender, ethnicity, and social class.	10
Emotion perception in habitual players of action video games.	10
Follow your gut? Emotional intelligence moderates the association between physiologically measured somatic markers and risk-taking.	10
From values to emotions: Cognitive appraisal mediates the impact of core values on emotional experience.	10
Negative emotion and perceived social class.	10
The role of reappraisal success in emotional and memory outcomes.	10
You don’t know how it feels: Accuracy in emotion perception predicts responsiveness of support.	10
Emotion regulation dynamics in daily life: Adaptive strategy use may be variable without being unstable and predictable without being autoregressive.	10
Feeling excited or taking a bath: Do distinct pathways underlie the positive affect–health link in the U.S. and Japan?	10
Affective dynamics among veterans: Associations with distress tolerance and posttraumatic stress symptoms.	10
Aversive distractors modulate affective working memory in frontoparietal regions.	10
Empathy-mediated altruism in intergroup contexts: The roles of posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth.	10
Indirect effect of family climate on adolescent depression through emotion regulatory processes.	10
Suggestion of cognitive enhancement improves emotion regulation.	10
Sour sleep, sweet revenge? Aggressive pleasure as a potential mechanism underlying poor sleep quality’s link to aggression.	10
Be here now: Perceptions of uncertainty enhance savoring.	10
Variations in the regulation of affective neural responses across three cultures.	9
Increases in loneliness during medical school are associated with increases in individuals’ likelihood of mislabeling emotions as negative.	9
Testing the impact of emotional mood and cue characteristics on detailed autobiographical memory retrieval.	9

An elusive deficit: Psychopathic personality traits and aberrant attention to emotional stimuli.	9
The variably intense vocalizations of affect and emotion (VIVAE) corpus prompts new perspective on nonspeech perception.	9
The level of construal involved in the elicitation of core versus moral disgust.	9
Gratitude reduces consumption of depleting resources.	9
The generality of effects of emotional experience on emotion-regulation choice.	9
Using crying to cope: Physiological responses to stress following tears of sadness.	9
Childhood adversity and emotion regulation strategies as predictors of psychological stress and mental health in American Indian adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.	9
The role of imagery in threat-related perceptual decision making.	9
Soundtrack to the social world: Emotional music enhances empathy, compassion, and prosocial decisions but not theory of mind.	9
Morality is relative: Anger, disgust, and aggression as contingent responses to sibling versus acquaintance harm.	9
The curious case of threat-awe: A theoretical and empirical reconceptualization.	9
Are you looking or looking away? Visual exploration and avoidance of disgust- and fear-stimuli: An eye-tracking study.	9
Optimistic expectations have benefits for effort and emotion with little cost.	9
The Interpersonal Regulation Interaction Scale (IRIS): A multistudy investigation of receivers’ retrospective evaluations of interpersonal emotion regulation interactions.	9
Neuroanatomy of expressive suppression: The role of the insula.	9
I’ve seen enough! Prolonged and repeated exposure to disgusting stimuli increases oculomotor avoidance.	9
Emotional expressions as appeals to recipients.	8
Different bumps in the road: The emotional dynamics of couple disagreements in Belgium and Japan.	8
Contrast effects in backward evaluative conditioning: Exploring effects of affective relief/disappointment versus instructional information.	8
Expressive enhancement, suppression, and flexibility in childhood and adolescence: Longitudinal links with peer relations.	8
Altering emotions near the hand: Approach–avoidance swipe interactions modulate the perceived valence of emotional pictures.	8
Emotional arousal influences remembrance of goal-relevant stimuli.	8
Hate: Toward understanding its distinctive features across interpersonal and intergroup targets.	8
The functions of anger in moral courage—Insights from a behavioral study.	8
Emotion regulation self-efficacy mediates the relation between happiness emotion goals and depressive symptoms: A cross-lagged panel design.	8
Age-related changes in emotional behavior: Evidence from a 13-year longitudinal study of long-term married couples.	8
Momentary emotion regulation strategy use and success: Testing the influences of emotion intensity and habitual strategy use.	8
Do people choose the same strategies to regulate other people’s emotions as they choose to regulate their own?	8
Perceiving facial affective ambiguity: A behavioral and neural comparison of adolescents and adults.	8
Prospective associations between emotion regulation and depressive symptoms among Mexican-origin adolescents.	8
Individual differences in sadness coherence: Associations with dispositional affect and age.	8
Culturally valued facial expressions enhance loan request success.	8
Feeling proud today may lead people to coast tomorrow: Daily intraindividual associations between emotion and effort in academic goal striving.	8
How does the emotional experience evolve? Feeling generation as evidence accumulation.	8
Longitudinal associations between positive affect and relationship quality among children and adolescents: Examining patterns of co-occurring change.	8
Physical and social warmth: Warmer daily body temperature is associated with greater feelings of social connection.	8
Advanced emotion understanding: Children’s and adults’ knowledge that minds generalize from prior emotional events.	8
Relational savoring intervention: Positive impacts for mothers and evidence of cultural compatibility for Latinas.	8
Emotion-focused teaching practices and preschool children’s social and learning behaviors.	8
No one is an island: Awe encourages global citizenship identification.	7
Cultural norms influence nonverbal emotion communication: Japanese vocalizations of socially disengaging emotions.	7
Does expressing emotions enhance perceptual accuracy of negative emotions during relationship interactions?	7
The momentary benefits of positive events for individuals with elevated social anxiety.	7
PTSD in veterans, couple behavior, and cardiovascular response during marital conflict.	7
Implicit induction of emotional control—A comparative fMRI investigation of self-control and reappraisal goal pursuit.	7
Influencing emotion: Social anxiety and comparisons on Instagram.	7
Modeling heterogeneity in the simultaneous emotional costs and social benefits of co-rumination.	7
A dyadic perspective of expressive suppression: Own or partner suppression weakens relationships.	7
Lower emotional complexity as a prospective predictor of psychopathology in adolescents from the general population.	7
Empathic accuracy: Associations with prosocial behavior and self-insecurity.	7
Demonstrate values: Behavioral displays of moral outrage as a cue to long-term mate potential.	7
Hurts so good: Pain as an emotion regulation strategy.	7
Perceptions of romantic partners’ emotional suppression are more biased than accurate.	7
Incremental theories of emotion across time: Temporal dynamics and correlates of change.	7
Regaining control of your emotions? Investigating the mechanisms underlying effects of cognitive control training for remitted depressed patients.	7
The role of facial coloration in emotion disambiguation.	7
Self-efficacy moderates the relationship between avoidance intentions and anxiety.	7
Emotion regulation in the face of loss: How detachment, positive reappraisal, and acceptance shape experiences, physiology, and perceptions in late life.	7
Gratitude facilitates obedience: New evidence for the social alignment perspective.	7
Social emotion regulation strategies are differentially helpful for anxiety and sadness.	7
How individuals perceive time in an anxious state: The mediating effect of attentional bias.	7
People respond with different moral emotions to violations in different relational models: A cross-cultural comparison.	7
Nudging the better angels of our nature: A field experiment on morality and well-being.	7
Attentional bias to fearful faces in infants at high risk for autism spectrum disorder.	7
Naming emotions in motion: Alexithymic traits impact the perception of implied motion in facial displays of affect.	7
The impact of focused attention on emotional evaluation: An eye-tracking investigation.	7
Perceiving acculturation from neutral and emotional faces.	7
Semantic and affective representations of valence: Prediction of autonomic and facial responses from feelings-focused and knowledge-focused self-reports.	7
Counterfactual thoughts distinguish benign and malicious envy.	7
Getting over it: Working memory capacity and affective responses to stressful events in daily life.	7
Evaluations of affective stimuli modulated by another person’s presence and affiliative touch.	7
Accurate emotion prediction in dyads and groups and its potential social benefits.	7
Discrete negative emotions and goal disengagement in older adulthood: Context effects and associations with emotional well-being.	7
Induced negative arousal modulates the speed of visual working memory consolidation.	6
One size does not fit all: Decomposing the implementation and differential benefits of social emotion regulation strategies.	6
Age differences in emotion perception in a multiple target setting: An eye-tracking study.	6
Perceived social integration predicts future physical activity through positive affect and spontaneous thoughts.	6
Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions.	6
Mixed and conflicted: The role of ambivalence in romantic relationships in light of attractive alternatives.	6
Emotion words link faces to emotional scenarios in early childhood.	6
Observers perceive the Duchenne marker as signaling only intensity for sad expressions, not genuine emotion.	6
An investigation of the impact of encounters with artistic imagination on well-being.	6
Executive function moderates the effect of reappraisal on life satisfaction: A latent variable analysis.	6
Not to worry: Episodic retrieval impacts emotion regulation in older adults.	6
Within-person day-of-week effects on affective and evaluative/cognitive well-being among Koreans.	6
Effectiveness of extrinsic emotion regulation strategies in text-based online communication.	6
Investigating the effects of perinatal status and gender on adults’ responses to infant and adult facial emotion.	6
Reading the mind with a mask? Improvement in reading the mind in the eyes during the COVID-19 pandemic.	6
Butchers’ and deli workers’ psychological adaptation to meat.	6
Within- and between-group heterogeneity in cultural models of emotion among people of European, Asian, and Latino heritage in the United States.	6
Thriving under pressure: The effects of stress-related wise interventions on affect, sleep, and exam performance for college students from disadvantaged backgrounds.	6
The expanding class divide in happiness in the United States, 1972–2016.	6
Learning biases to angry and happy faces during Pavlovian aversive conditioning.	6
Task-irrelevant threatening information is harder to ignore than other valences.	6
Never too late to plan: “Refocus on planning” as an effective way to lower symptoms and difficulties in emotion regulation during the COVID-19 first lockdown.	6