OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Motivation and Emotion is 14. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The relationship between autonomous and controlled motivation and eating behaviors: examining the roles of self-regulating eating quality and quantity	32
Toward the science of message design approach [emotional appeals version]: The combined effects of anticipated pride appeals and descriptive norm information embedded in messages on behavioral intenti	30
Pursuit of emotional satisfaction leads to increased risk taking in final decisions	27
Painfully bored: the role of negative urgency and history of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Self-Administering painful stimuli	27
Parent–child relationships and depressive symptom among Chinese college students: the mediating role of psychological needs satisfaction and the moderating role of mindfulness	26
Lay beliefs about boredom: A mixed-methods investigation	25
Perceptions of low self-control undermine interpersonal cooperation	17
Environmental motivation as a complex dynamic system	17
The interpersonal correlates of believing emotions are controllable	17
“Pandemic stress made him do it!”: COVID-19-related threat predicts vicarious justification for assaulting Chinese men—especially those with strong ethnic identity	16
Social dynamics in interpersonal emotion regulation: A theoretical framework for understanding direct and indirect other-based processes	16
How first-year students manage their action crises and motivation to build their learner identity: a look into the critical moment of goal disengagement	16
How to avoid collapse after one setback: developmental feedback alleviates the spillover negative impact of competence frustration	15
Valuing negative affect weakens affect-health linkages: similarities and differences across affect valuation measures	14
Healthy eating in daily life: the role of relative autonomous motivation when it is difficult	14
Different functions of physical effort in physical activity and sports: a scoping review of the value of physical effort	14
Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement	14