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Papers

(The median citation count of Emotion Review 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Shame is Personal, Not Ontological	220
Imagining Neo-Emotions: Historical Perspectives	58
Fairness, Hierarchy, and Moral Rationalization, or What's Wrong With Paradise Lost ?	35
Empathy & Literature	32
Contradictions at the Heart of Compassion	29
Call for Nominations	24
How Awe Shaped Us: An Evolutionary Perspective	20
Enhancing Emotional Intelligence With the Positive Humanities: A Narrative Review and Proposal for Well-Being Interventions	20
The Evolutionary Function of Awe: A Review and Integrated Model of Seven Theoretical Perspectives	19
Apprehending Value, Position-Taking and the Manifest Image of Emotion: Responses to Commentators	18
Author Reply: Why goal-directed cycles still explain most phenomena called emotions	18
Incorporating Consciousness into an Understanding of Emotion and Nonverbal Behavior	17
Specificity Versus Generality: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Association Between Trait Disgust Sensitivity and Moral Judgment	17
Emotion in Nonverbal Communication: Comparing Animal and Human Vocalizations and Human Text Messages	16
Why We Mimic Emotions Even When No One is Watching: Limited Visual Contact and Emotional Mimicry	15
CORRIGENDUM to “Does Music Training Improve Emotion Recognition Abilities? A Critical Review”	14
Music as an Evolved Tool for Socio-Affective Fiction	14
On the Invalidity of Neta and Kim's Argument That Surprise is Always Valenced	14
Moors’ Eliminativism Cross-Examined: Why Emotions Are Not Goal-Directed Cycles	13
Introduction to the Special Issue: “Literature and Emotion”	12
Understanding the Relationship Between the Big Five Personality Traits and the Cognitive Appraisals Leading to Emotions: An Integrative Narrative Review	12
On How to Develop Emotion Taxonomies	10
Affect Theory and Literary Criticism	9
Cross-Cultural Calibration of Words and Emotions: Referential, Constructionist, and Pragmatic Perspectives	9
Editorial	9

Comment: Getting Our Affect Together: Shared Representations as the Core of Empathy	9
A Multi-Component Model of Emotion Response Convergence: Implications for the Development of Psychopathology	8
Authors Reply: Empathy and Creativity: Dangers of the Methodological Tail Wagging the Conceptual Dog	8
Contempt and Righteous Anger: A Gendered Perspective From a Classical Indian Epic	8
Emotional Feelings: Evaluative Perceptions or Position-Takings? Introduction to the Special Section	8
Looking at Emotions to Understand Responses to Environmental Challenges	8
Dhaniya's Anger in Premchand's Godan: Emotion System Activation and Affective Marxism	7
Less Is More: How the Language of Fiction Fosters Emotion Recognition	7
Situated Affectivity and Mind Shaping: Lessons from Social Psychology	7
Empathic Perception: A Neutral Framework for Understanding Empathy	6
Skin Complexion and the Blush	6
Migration as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy: What Role do Emotions Play?	6
Emotional Self-Dissonance	6
Philosophical Insights for a Science of Long-Term Affect Dynamics	6
On the Nature of Nostalgia: A Psychological Perspective	5
Contempt, Withdrawal and Equanimity in the Zhuangzi	5
Nostalgia for the Past, Present and Future	5
Narrating Anger Appropriately: Implications for Narrative Form and Successful Coping	5
The Architecture of Happiness	5
Kant's Concept of Nostalgia	5
Introduction: Contempt, Ancient and Modern	5
Emotion Regulation Versus Mood Regulation	5
The Feeling “Without Any Name”	4
Comment: Empathy as a Flexible and Fundamentally Interpersonal Phenomenon: Comment on “Why We Should Reject the Restrictive Isomorphic Matching Definition of Empathy”	4
Analysis and Classification of Music-Induced States of Sadness	4
Expressing Contempt in Rome—Language, Rhetoric, and Critique	4
Comment: Debating Empathy: Historical Awareness and Conceptual Precision	4
Collective Emotion: A Framework for Experimental Research	3
Somatovisceral Influences on Emotional Development	3
Yearning for the Irretrievable: Nostalgia and Time	3
Emotionally Intelligent Behavior in Organizations: When Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity Meet	3
Emotions as the Enforcers of Norms	3
Exploring Emotions Through Co-speech Gestures: The Caveats and New Directions	2
The Early Western History of the Concept of Emotional Intelligence (1811–1990): From the Era of Proto-Emotional Intelligence to the Dawn of Scholarly Interest	2
Climate Anxiety: A Research Agenda Inspired by Emotion Research	2
Emotional Appraisal, Psychological Distance and Construal Level: Implications for Cognitive Reappraisal	2
Demystifying the Role of Goal-Related Processes in Explaining the Effects of Emotion on Information-Seeking Decisions	2
The Nature of Horror	2
A Motivational Account of Convergence in Emotion Expressions Within Groups: The Emotional Conformity Framework	2
Affective Ruptures: A Pragmatist Approach	2
Resolving Sequential Self-Control Dilemmas: The Role of Pride and Guilt	2
An Emotional Road to Sustainability: How Affective Science Can Support pro-Climate Action	2
A Person-Specific Emotion Regulation Flexibility Framework: Taking an Integrative Approach	2