Cognition & Emotion

Papers
(The median citation count of Cognition & 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The effects of rumination on internalising symptoms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic among mothers and their offspring: a brief report65
Control your emotions: evidence for a shared mechanism of cognitive and emotional control52
Infants use emotion to infer intentionality from non-random sampling events45
The empathic measure of true emotion (EMOTE): a novel set of stimuli for measuring emotional responding37
Attachment styles and attachment (in)security priming in relation to emotional conflict control34
The interpersonal effects of distinct emotions in online reviews34
Literally or prosodically? Recognising emotional discourse in alexithymia33
Investigating a bias account of emotional false memories using a criterion warning and force choice restrictions at retrieval29
The closer you are, the more it hurts: the impact of proximity on moral decision-making29
Item method directed forgetting occurs independently of borderline personality traits, even for borderline-salient items26
Higher judgements of learning for emotional words: processing fluency or memory beliefs?24
Experimental elicitations of awe: a meta-analysis24
Reactance, morality, and disgust: the relationship between affective dispositions and compliance with official health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic24
Emotional content influences eye-movements under natural but not under instructed conditions23
Buffering effect of fiction on negative emotions: engagement with negatively valenced fiction decreases the intensity of negative emotions20
Emotion malleability beliefs prompt cognitive reappraisal: evidence from an online longitudinal intervention for adolescents20
Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease18
Natural language sentiment as an indicator of depression and anxiety symptoms: a longitudinal mixed methods study 118
Human interaction, polarisation, and democratic reform: integrating political science with an interpersonal systems approach17
Love and hate do not modulate the attentional blink but improve overall performance17
Self-esteem predicts positive affect directly and self-efficacy indirectly: a 10-year longitudinal study17
Investigating the role of mental imagery use in the assessment of anhedonia15
Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces15
Feelings of gratitude to Allah and people and their associations with affect in daily life15
Expectations about future learning influence moment-to-moment feelings of suspense14
Effects of scaffolding emotion language use on emotion differentiation and psychological health: an experience-sampling study14
The appraisal patterns and response types of enthusiasm: a comparison with joy and hope14
Learned helplessness and its relevance for psychological suffering: a new perspective illustrated with attachment problems, burn-out, and fatigue complaints13
Pride and moral disengagement: associations among comparison-based pride, moral disengagement, and unethical decision-making12
Devaluation of NoGo stimuli is both robust and fragile12
Persistence and disengagement in failing goals: commentary on Boddez, Van Dessel, & De Houwer11
Featural vs. Holistic processing and visual sampling in the influence of social category cues on emotion recognition11
Perceived naturalness of emotional voice morphs11
Evaluating the ‘skin disease-avoidance’ and ‘dangerous animal’ frameworks for understanding trypophobia11
I want it small or, rather, give me a bunch: the role of evaluative morphology on the assessment of the emotional properties of words11
Understanding the association between reappraisal use and depressive symptoms during adolescence: the moderating influence of regulatory success11
Relative contributions of the face and body to social judgements: emotion, threat and status11
The structure underlying core affect and perceived affective qualities of human vocal bursts11
Induced gratitude and hope, and experienced fear, but not experienced disgust, facilitate COVID-19 prevention10
A neurocognitive account of attentional control theory: how does trait anxiety affect the brain’s attentional networks?9
Emotional responses during communicational comfort: the effect of personality through the prism of process communication model9
The influence of PTSD symptoms on selective visual attention while reading9
How young children use manifest emotions and dominance cues to understand social rules: a registered report9
Electrophysiological representations of multivariate human emotion experience9
The subject matters: relations among types of anxiety, ADHD symptoms, math performance, and literacy performance9
The relationship between anger and creative performance: a three-level meta-analysis9
Updating the cognitive model of humour perception: a potential implicit processing pathway?9
Putting emotions into affective polarisation9
The perceived controllability of negatively-valenced episodic future thinking modulates delay discounting9
Emojis and affective priming in visual word recognition9
The effect of fragmented sleep on emotion regulation ability and usage9
Growth mindset and responses to acute stress8
Sounds like a fight: listeners can infer behavioural contexts from spontaneous nonverbal vocalisations8
Coordination in interpersonal systems8
The influence of memory for impressions based on behaviours and beliefs on approach/avoidance decisions8
Illustrating the pathway from affect to somatic symptom: the Affective Picture Paradigm*8
Emotion-specific recognition biases and how they relate to emotion-specific recognition accuracy, family and child demographic factors, and social behaviour8
Gratitude endures while indebtedness persuades: investigating the unique influences of gratitude and indebtedness in helping8
A smile hampers encoding and memory for non-happy eyes in a face: temporal dynamics and importance of initial fixation8
Does cognitive reappraisal facilitate extinction?8
Sound symbolic associations in Spanish emotional words: affective dimensions and discrete emotions8
(Eye-)tracking the escape from the self: guilt proneness moderates the effect of failure on self-avoidance8
Determinants for positive and negative experiences of interpersonal touch: context matters8
Emotional mimicry as social regulator: theoretical considerations8
Bodily feedback: expansive and upward posture facilitates the experience of positive affect8
Predicting vs. guessing: the role of confidence for pupillometric markers of curiosity and surprise8
Sadness facilitates “deeper” reading comprehension: a behavioural and eye tracking study8
Social media’s influence on momentary emotion based on people’s initial mood: an experimental design7
A daily within-person investigation on the link between social expectancies to be busy and emotional wellbeing: the moderating role of emotional complexity acceptance7
Social anxiety modulating early processing for social threat words: an ERP study7
Dynamics of attachment and emotion regulation in daily life: uni- and bidirectional associations7
Individual differences in pupil dilation to others’ emotional and neutral eyes with varying pupil sizes7
The illusion of insight: detailed warnings reduce but do not prevent false “Aha!” moments7
Automatic processing of emotional images and psychopathic personality traits7
The influence of emotion on temporal context models7
Rumination and inhibition in task switching: no evidence for an association7
Ambiguity potentiates effects of loneliness on feelings of rejection7
Measuring multiple automatic product appraisals simultaneously: introduction and examination of the implicit attribute classification task7
The effects of cognitive reappraisal and sleep on emotional memory formation7
Affective theory of mind impairments underlying callous-unemotional traits and the role of cognitive control7
Evaluating non-affective cross-modal congruence effects on emotion perception7
Different effects of emotional valence on overt attention and recognition memory6
Emotion malleability beliefs influence emotion regulation and emotion recovery among individuals with depressive symptoms6
Think again: the role of reappraisal in reducing negative valence bias6
Rumination, but not mood, predicts prospective memory performance: novel insights from a derived measure of trait rumination6
Correction6
The effects of nonverbal pride and skill on judgements of victory and social influence: a boxing study6
The role of self-compassion in loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a group-based trajectory modelling approach6
The role of hyperbole in conveying emotionality: the case of victim speech6
Modulatory effects of goal relevance on emotional attention reveal that fear has a distinct value6
Are multiple types of associative memory differently impacted by emotion?6
The effect of momentary mood on appraisal of facial affect and distrust: an experimental approach using ambulatory assessment6
Social impression formation and depression: examining cognitive flexibility and bias6
Does cognitive load influence expressive flexibility? Comparing civilian and veteran populations6
Modulation of attentional bias by hypnotic suggestion: experimental evidence from an emotional Stroop task6
The influence of consonant wanderings and facial expressions in warmth and competence judgments6
Bouncing back from emotional ups and downs: insights in emotional recovery using survival analyses of burst ESM data6
Beliefs about emotion usefulness are nuanced: degree of personal reference and emotional valence predict affective distress6
Agency influences vicarious approach/avoidance effects6
Retrieval-induced forgetting of emotional memories6
Aging and task design shape the relationship between response time variability and emotional response inhibition6
Threat priming diminishes the gaze cueing effect6
The divide between daily event appraisal and emotion experience in major depression6
A unified approach to managing emotions and pursuing purpose in life6
A pandemic-related affect gap in risky decisions for self and others6
When unpleasantness meets feminines: a behavioural study on gender agreement and emotionality5
Both negative and positive task-irrelevant stimuli contract attentional breadth in individuals with high levels of negative affect5
Emotional mimicry: a communication accommodation approach5
Working memory capacity relates to reduced negative emotion in daily life5
Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words: evidence from eye fixations during reading5
For better or for worse: differential effects of the emotional valence of words on children’s recall5
Facing social exclusion: a facial EMG examination of the reaffiliative function of smiling5
Acute shame in response to dissociative detachment: evidence from non-clinical and traumatised samples5
Coronashaming: interpersonal affect worsening in contexts of COVID-19 rule violations5
Interpersonal emotion regulation strategy choice in younger and older adults5
Children's executive functions predict their preferences for emotion regulation strategies5
Social anxiety and emotion regulation flexibility: a daily diary approach5
Associations between attentional biases for emotional images and rumination in depression5
Lessons unlearned: A conceptual review and meta-analysis of the relationship between the Attention Control Scale and Objective Attention Control5
How emotional are words ambiguous on the spaces of valence, origin and activation?5
Integration of negative emotions, empathy, and support for conciliatory policies in intractable conflicts5
Affect labelling increases the intensity of positive emotions5
Does facial redness really affect emotion perception? Evidence for limited generalisability of effects of facial redness on emotion perception in a large sample5
Theory convergence in emotion science is timely and realistic5
Vocal emotion recognition in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis5
Perceptual control or action-selection? Comment on: a perceptual control theory of emotional action5
Interactive relationship between alexithymia, psychological distress and posttraumatic stress disorder symptomology across time5
When mind and body align: examining the role of cross-modal congruency in conscious representations of happy facial expressions5
Commentary on “how emotions, relationships, and culture constitute each other: advances in social functionalist theory” by Keltner, Sauter, Tracy, Wetchler, and Cowen5
Better memory for emotional sources? A systematic evaluation of source valence and arousal in source memory5
Emotional time travel: the role of emotion in temporal memory4
A validation and comparison of three measures of participants’ disposition to feel moved (introducing the Geneva Sentimentality Scale)4
Maternal interpretation of infant emotions related to mothers’ mindfulness and mother-infant stress4
Prior memory encoding of negative distractors biases emotion-induced blindness4
Two roads leading to the same evaluative conditioning effect? Stimulus-response binding versus operant conditioning4
Investigating the interaction of pleasantness and arousal and the role of aesthetic emotions on episodic memory using a musical what-where-when paradigm4
Symbolic number ordering strategies and math anxiety4
Facial mimicry depends on the emotion we recognize in others' faces4
Correction4
Not feeling it: lack of robust emotion effects on breadth of attention4
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 recognition4
Emotions, fast and slow: processing of emotion words is affected by individual differences in need for affect and narrative absorption4
Persistent negative self-referent thinking in the context of depression: examining the role of temperament and emotion regulation4
The effect of facial colour on implicit facial expressions4
Reappraising reappraisal: an expanded view4
Contamination in Trypophobia: investigating the role of disgust4
Associations between parental dispositional attributions, dismissing and coaching reactions to children’s emotions, and children’s problem behaviour moderated by child gender4
Reduced vividness of emotional memories following reactivation in a second language4
Positive biases and psychological functioning during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic3
The role of working memory capacity in evaluative judgments of liking and beauty3
Modulation of facial muscle responses by another person’s presence and affiliative touch during affective image viewing3
Discrete emotions discovered by contactless measurement of facial blood flows3
“Love looks not with the eyes”: supranormal processing of emotional speech in individuals with late-blindness versus preserved processing in individuals with congenital-blindness3
Hope and fear in the experience of suspense3
Correction3
Peer threat evaluations shape one’s own threat perceptions and feelings of distress3
Anti-establishment sentiments: realistic and symbolic threat appraisals predict populist attitudes and conspiracy mentality3
Real is the new sexy: the influence of perceived realness on self-reported arousal to sexual visual stimuli3
Spatial frequency and valence interact in complex emotion perception3
Theories in cognition & emotion – social functions of emotion3
Empathising with masked targets: limited side effects of face masks on empathy for dynamic, context-rich stimuli3
Lesions and reduced working memory impair emotion recognition in self and others3
Towards a better understanding of the role of reappraisal in psychopathology and its treatment: commentary on “Reappraising Reappraisal: An Expanded View”3
Older adults get masked emotion priming for happy but not angry faces: evidence for a positivity effect in early perceptual processing of emotional signals3
Parental linguistic content and distancing predict beliefs about emotion and child emotion regulation3
Associations of nature contact with emotional ill-being and well-being: the role of emotion regulation3
A nervous wait: Instagram’s sensitive-content screens cause anticipatory anxiety but do not mitigate reactions to negative content3
Emotion effects survive non-standard orthographic representations3
Interpersonal helping in the workplace: social expectation predicts anticipated guilt and intention to help a coworker3
“Anger? No, thank you. I don't mimic it”: how contextual modulation of facial display meaning impacts emotional mimicry3
Untrusted under threat: on the superior bond between trustworthiness and threat in face-context integration3
Emotional stimuli boost incidental learning through predictive processing3
Effects of acute exercise on emotional memory3
How emotions are metaphorically embodied: measuring hand and head action strengths of typical emotional states3
Retrieval stopping can reduce distress from aversive memories3
What is gratitude without a benefactor? A daily diary approach3
Uniting theory and data: the promise and challenge of creating an honest model of facial expression3
How do “words poorly expressed emotion” affect mental health? The mediating role of affect labelling effect3
We like it ‘cause you take it: vicarious effects of approach/avoidance behaviours on observers3
How list composition affects the emotional enhancement of memory in younger and older adults3
Relationship between emotion comprehension, vocabulary, and verbal working memory in intellectual developmental disorders: involvement of verbal reasoning skills3
Ecological momentary assessment of the unique effects of trait worry on daily negative emotionality: does arousal matter?3
Exploration of visual factors in the disgust-anger confusion: the importance of the mouth3
Observational learning of threat-related attentional bias3
Inhibition in the emotional Hayling task: can hypnotic suggestion enhance cognitive control on a prepotent negative word?3
Mindfulness mechanisms in everyday life: examining variance in acceptance, attention monitoring, decentering, self-compassion, and nonreactivity and their links to negative emotions among a workplace 2
Does enhanced memory of disgust vs. fear images extend to involuntary memory?2
The interplay of social rank perceptions of Trump and Biden and emotions following the U.S. presidential election 20202
Effects of emotion, emotional tolerance, and emotional processing on reasoning2
Overestimating the intensity of negative feelings in autobiographical memory: evidence from the 9/11 attack and COVID-19 pandemic2
Phasic affective signals by themselves do not regulate cognitive control2
Affective dynamics in mother-adolescent dyads: links to mental health and relationship quality2
Sometimes you just can’t: within-person variation in working memory capacity moderates negative affect reactivity to stressor exposure2
You gotta fight! – Why norm-violations and outgroup criticism lead to confrontational reactions2
Priming using human and chimpanzee expressions of emotion biases attention toward positive emotions2
Can participants authoritatively report on the emotional valence of their mind wandering?2
The influence of instructions on generalised valence – conditional stimulus instructions after evaluative conditioning update the explicit and implicit evaluations of generalisation stimuli2
Coping with COVID-19: Insights from cognition and emotion research2
The malfunction of domain-specific attentional process in social anxiety: attentional process of social and non-social stimuli2
The impact of catholic titles on the perception and aestheticisation of violence in figurative paintings2
Why might negative mood help or hinder inhibitory performance? An exploration of thinking styles using a Navon induction2
Mimicry of partially occluded emotional faces: do we mimic what we see or what we know?2
Early identification of taboo words reveals a prominent role of semantic information in visual word recognition2
Dissociating the roles of episodic retrieval and contingency awareness in valence contingency learning2
Clouded judgments? The role of virtual weather in word valence evaluations2
Are adaptation aftereffects for facial emotional expressions affected by prior knowledge about the emotion?2
Social media misuse explained by emotion dysregulation and self-concept: an ecological momentary assessment approach2
“But not the music”: psychopathic traits and difficulties recognising and resonating with the emotion in music2
How affect modulates conversational meanings: a review of experimental research: invited review2
“Me” means more than “good”: stimuli’s self-relevance matters more than valence in shaping evaluative learning via the self2
Food-evoked nostalgia2
Sex differences in emotion recognition: investigating the moderating effects of stimulus features2
Blinded by wistfulness: on how nostalgia strengthens attitudes2
Emotions, social coordination, and the danger of affective polarisation2
Do we see what we feel? A comparative study of spider size estimation among experts and people who are highly fearful of spiders2
Fluctuation in cognitive engagement during listening and reading of erotica and horror stories2
A behavioural test of depression-related probability bias2
The mindful gaze: trait mindful people under an instructed emotion regulation goal selectively attend to positive stimuli2
This feels like the right choice: how decision aids may facilitate affect-based valuation2
Inspired to act: motivational effects of being moved by love and willpower2
The disconnect between metamemory and memory for emotional images2
Individuals with higher trait self-esteem prefer to use reappraisal, but not suppression: evidence from functional connectivity analyses2
Attentional bias to emotions after prolonged endurance exercise is modulated by age2
Putting the affect into affective polarisation2
Similarities in emotion perception from faces and voices: evidence from emotion sorting tasks2
Can sequencing of articulation ease explain the in–out effect? A preregistered test2
The reciprocal relationship between smiles and situational contexts2
Associations between affect dynamics and eating regulation in daily life: a preliminary ecological momentary assessment study2
Reappraisal affordances: a replication of Suri et al. (2018) and investigation of alternate predictors of reappraisal choice2
Emotional inertia is independently associated with cognitive emotion regulation strategies and sleep quality*2
Face your fears: direct and indirect measurement of responses to looming threats2
Re-appraising stressors from a distance: effects of linguistic distancing on cognitive appraisals and emotional responses to interpersonal conflict2
How you think about an emotion predicts how you regulate: an experience-sampling study2
The dual-feature approach-avoidance task: validity, training efficacy, and the role of contingency awareness in changing food preference2
Feeling more neutral? Evaluative conditioning can increase neutral affective reactions1
Biased judgments of emotion are resistant to changes in the prevalence of anger1
Experimentally manipulated anger activates implicit cognitions about social hierarchy1
Our individual order of things directs how we think we feel1
Bodily feelings and aesthetic experience of art1
Current and expected affective valence interact to predict choice in recurrent decisions1
Emotion regulation via reappraisal – mechanisms and strategies1
Dealing with elite sport competition demands: an exploration of the dynamic relationships between stress appraisal, coping, emotion, and performance during fencing matches1
Perceived demands associated with emotion regulation strategies among young and cognitively diverse older adults1
Understanding human encounters goes beyond explaining musculoskeletal coordination: a review1
Emotion malleability beliefs predict daily positive and negative affect in adolescents1
Coherence of attention and memory biases in currently and previously depressed women1
Why do people engage with the suffering of strangers? Exploring epistemic, eudaimonic, social, and affective motives1
Aversive conditioning, anxiety, and the strategic control of attention1
Detecting emotion in speech expressing incongruent emotional cues through voice and content: investigation on dominant modality and language1
“I feel your fear”: superior fear recognition in organised crime members1
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