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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The effects of rumination on internalising symptoms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic among mothers and their offspring: a brief report38
Control your emotions: evidence for a shared mechanism of cognitive and emotional control37
Attachment styles and attachment (in)security priming in relation to emotional conflict control36
Investigating a bias account of emotional false memories using a criterion warning and force choice restrictions at retrieval35
The closer you are, the more it hurts: the impact of proximity on moral decision-making33
Higher judgements of learning for emotional words: processing fluency or memory beliefs?29
Emotional content influences eye-movements under natural but not under instructed conditions27
Positivity effects in self-defining memories in men and women across adulthood: different patterns between self-rated affect and content-coded meaning26
The empathic measure of true emotion (EMOTE): a novel set of stimuli for measuring emotional responding24
Experimental elicitations of awe: a meta-analysis24
Infants use emotion to infer intentionality from non-random sampling events22
Literally or prosodically? Recognising emotional discourse in alexithymia19
Item method directed forgetting occurs independently of borderline personality traits, even for borderline-salient items18
Buffering effect of fiction on negative emotions: engagement with negatively valenced fiction decreases the intensity of negative emotions18
Emotion malleability beliefs prompt cognitive reappraisal: evidence from an online longitudinal intervention for adolescents18
Everything is going to be okay: emotion regulation and immune neglect in affective forecasting17
Love and hate do not modulate the attentional blink but improve overall performance16
Learned helplessness and its relevance for psychological suffering: a new perspective illustrated with attachment problems, burn-out, and fatigue complaints16
The appraisal patterns and response types of enthusiasm: a comparison with joy and hope14
Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease14
Effects of scaffolding emotion language use on emotion differentiation and psychological health: an experience-sampling study14
Human interaction, polarisation, and democratic reform: integrating political science with an interpersonal systems approach13
Association of early adversity, neuroticism, and depression with perceived severity ratings of stressful life event vignettes13
Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces13
Self-esteem predicts positive affect directly and self-efficacy indirectly: a 10-year longitudinal study12
Feelings of gratitude to Allah and people and their associations with affect in daily life12
Investigating the role of mental imagery use in the assessment of anhedonia12
Pride and moral disengagement: associations among comparison-based pride, moral disengagement, and unethical decision-making11
Natural language sentiment as an indicator of depression and anxiety symptoms: a longitudinal mixed methods study 111
The interplay between language and emotion: a narrative review11
Persistence and disengagement in failing goals: commentary on Boddez, Van Dessel, & De Houwer10
Relative contributions of the face and body to social judgements: emotion, threat and status10
Understanding the association between reappraisal use and depressive symptoms during adolescence: the moderating influence of regulatory success10
Putting emotions into affective polarisation10
Perceived naturalness of emotional voice morphs10
Featural vs. Holistic processing and visual sampling in the influence of social category cues on emotion recognition10
The influence of PTSD symptoms on selective visual attention while reading9
The structure underlying core affect and perceived affective qualities of human vocal bursts9
I want it small or, rather, give me a bunch: the role of evaluative morphology on the assessment of the emotional properties of words9
The perceived controllability of negatively-valenced episodic future thinking modulates delay discounting9
Anger superiority effect or happiness superiority effect: how the distractor homogeneity modulates the asymmetry in searching emotional faces?9
Updating the cognitive model of humour perception: a potential implicit processing pathway?9
Induced gratitude and hope, and experienced fear, but not experienced disgust, facilitate COVID-19 prevention9
Devaluation of NoGo stimuli is both robust and fragile9
Electrophysiological representations of multivariate human emotion experience9
How young children use manifest emotions and dominance cues to understand social rules: a registered report9
The relationship between anger and creative performance: a three-level meta-analysis9
A neurocognitive account of attentional control theory: how does trait anxiety affect the brain’s attentional networks?9
Evaluating the ‘skin disease-avoidance’ and ‘dangerous animal’ frameworks for understanding trypophobia9
Emotional responses during communicational comfort: the effect of personality through the prism of process communication model9
Bodily feedback: expansive and upward posture facilitates the experience of positive affect8
Emotional mimicry as social regulator: theoretical considerations8
(Eye-)tracking the escape from the self: guilt proneness moderates the effect of failure on self-avoidance8
Role of contingency in the effects of appetitive and aversive motivation on emotional distraction8
Sadness facilitates “deeper” reading comprehension: a behavioural and eye tracking study8
Coordination in interpersonal systems8
Emojis and affective priming in visual word recognition8
Does cognitive reappraisal facilitate extinction?8
Eliciting social approach-avoidance conflict within a novel experimental paradigm: psychometric and computational evidence with a successful pre-registered replication8
Emotion-specific recognition biases and how they relate to emotion-specific recognition accuracy, family and child demographic factors, and social behaviour8
The effect of fragmented sleep on emotion regulation ability and usage8
A smile hampers encoding and memory for non-happy eyes in a face: temporal dynamics and importance of initial fixation8
Gratitude endures while indebtedness persuades: investigating the unique influences of gratitude and indebtedness in helping8
Sounds like a fight: listeners can infer behavioural contexts from spontaneous nonverbal vocalisations8
Growth mindset and responses to acute stress8
The interplay of cognition and affect in fourth graders’ math performance: role of working memory in mediating the effects of math anxiety and math interest on arithmetic fluency7
Social media’s influence on momentary emotion based on people’s initial mood: an experimental design7
Automatic processing of emotional images and psychopathic personality traits7
The influence of memory for impressions based on behaviours and beliefs on approach/avoidance decisions7
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
Rumination and inhibition in task switching: no evidence for an association7
Affective theory of mind impairments underlying callous-unemotional traits and the role of cognitive control7
The influence of emotion on temporal context models7
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
The illusion of insight: detailed warnings reduce but do not prevent false “Aha!” moments7
Sound symbolic associations in Spanish emotional words: affective dimensions and discrete emotions7
Ambiguity potentiates effects of loneliness on feelings of rejection7
Higher loneliness is associated with greater positive and negative emotion instability in everyday life7
Dynamics of attachment and emotion regulation in daily life: uni- and bidirectional associations7
Predicting vs. guessing: the role of confidence for pupillometric markers of curiosity and surprise7
Determinants for positive and negative experiences of interpersonal touch: context matters7
Illustrating the pathway from affect to somatic symptom: the Affective Picture Paradigm*7
Manifestation of emotion regulation difficulties in intraindividual emotion dynamics7
Retrieval-induced forgetting of emotional memories6
The influence of consonant wanderings and facial expressions in warmth and competence judgments6
A unified approach to managing emotions and pursuing purpose in life6
Agency influences vicarious approach/avoidance effects6
Does cognitive load influence expressive flexibility? Comparing civilian and veteran populations6
The role of hyperbole in conveying emotionality: the case of victim speech6
Working memory capacity relates to reduced negative emotion in daily life6
Correction6
Beliefs about emotion usefulness are nuanced: degree of personal reference and emotional valence predict affective distress6
Evaluating non-affective cross-modal congruence effects on emotion perception6
Modulatory effects of goal relevance on emotional attention reveal that fear has a distinct value6
Rumination, but not mood, predicts prospective memory performance: novel insights from a derived measure of trait rumination6
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
Individual differences in pupil dilation to others’ emotional and neutral eyes with varying pupil sizes6
A pandemic-related affect gap in risky decisions for self and others6
Are multiple types of associative memory differently impacted by emotion?6
Aging and task design shape the relationship between response time variability and emotional response inhibition6
Emotion malleability beliefs influence emotion regulation and emotion recovery among individuals with depressive symptoms6
Social impression formation and depression: examining cognitive flexibility and bias6
The divide between daily event appraisal and emotion experience in major depression6
A registered conceptual replication and extension of Gable and Harmon-Jones (2008): does motivational intensity, valence, or perceptual focality drive attentional breadth?5
Associations between attentional biases for emotional images and rumination in depression5
Social anxiety and emotion regulation flexibility: a daily diary approach5
Bouncing back from emotional ups and downs: insights in emotional recovery using survival analyses of burst ESM data5
Does facial redness really affect emotion perception? Evidence for limited generalisability of effects of facial redness on emotion perception in a large sample5
Threat priming diminishes the gaze cueing effect5
Both negative and positive task-irrelevant stimuli contract attentional breadth in individuals with high levels of negative affect5
Better memory for emotional sources? A systematic evaluation of source valence and arousal in source memory5
Perceptual control or action-selection? Comment on: a perceptual control theory of emotional action5
Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words: evidence from eye fixations during reading5
Different effects of emotional valence on overt attention and recognition memory5
Modulation of attentional bias by hypnotic suggestion: experimental evidence from an emotional Stroop task5
Lessons unlearned: A conceptual review and meta-analysis of the relationship between the Attention Control Scale and Objective Attention Control5
When unpleasantness meets feminines: a behavioural study on gender agreement and emotionality5
Children's executive functions predict their preferences for emotion regulation strategies5
Emotional mimicry: a communication accommodation approach5
Theory convergence in emotion science is timely and realistic5
Think again: the role of reappraisal in reducing negative valence bias5
Interactive relationship between alexithymia, psychological distress and posttraumatic stress disorder symptomology across time5
Interpersonal emotion regulation strategy choice in younger and older adults5
The effect of facial colour on implicit facial expressions4
Anti-establishment sentiments: realistic and symbolic threat appraisals predict populist attitudes and conspiracy mentality4
Emotions, fast and slow: processing of emotion words is affected by individual differences in need for affect and narrative absorption4
Exploration of visual factors in the disgust-anger confusion: the importance of the mouth4
Measuring emotion beliefs: a systematic review4
Emotional time travel: the role of emotion in temporal memory4
Vocal emotion recognition in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis4
Two roads leading to the same evaluative conditioning effect? Stimulus-response binding versus operant conditioning4
Facial mimicry depends on the emotion we recognize in others' faces4
For better or for worse: differential effects of the emotional valence of words on children’s recall4
Integration of negative emotions, empathy, and support for conciliatory policies in intractable conflicts4
Coronashaming: interpersonal affect worsening in contexts of COVID-19 rule violations4
Associations between parental dispositional attributions, dismissing and coaching reactions to children’s emotions, and children’s problem behaviour moderated by child gender4
Prior memory encoding of negative distractors biases emotion-induced blindness4
Emotional stimuli boost incidental learning through predictive processing4
Me, us, and others: exploring the role of familiarity and emotional expressions in face visual awareness4
Effects of acute exercise on emotional memory4
The role of state anxiety in salience-driven distractor processing: evidence from singleton detection and feature search4
Investigating the interaction of pleasantness and arousal and the role of aesthetic emotions on episodic memory using a musical what-where-when paradigm4
Emotion-enhanced source memory: effects of age and experimental setting4
Persistent negative self-referent thinking in the context of depression: examining the role of temperament and emotion regulation4
No memory, no effect: action based evaluative conditioning effects are modulated by contingency memory4
A validation and comparison of three measures of participants’ disposition to feel moved (introducing the Geneva Sentimentality Scale)4
When mind and body align: examining the role of cross-modal congruency in conscious representations of happy facial expressions4
Commentary on “how emotions, relationships, and culture constitute each other: advances in social functionalist theory” by Keltner, Sauter, Tracy, Wetchler, and Cowen4
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
Untrusted under threat: on the superior bond between trustworthiness and threat in face-context integration4
The interplay between language and emotion: introduction to the special issue4
Not feeling it: lack of robust emotion effects on breadth of attention4
Symbolic number ordering strategies and math anxiety4
Reappraising reappraisal: an expanded view4
Retellings of emotional videos: the dynamics of gesture characteristics in diverse emotion categories4
How emotional are words ambiguous on the spaces of valence, origin and activation?4
Contamination in Trypophobia: investigating the role of disgust4
Correction4
Facing social exclusion: a facial EMG examination of the reaffiliative function of smiling4
Maternal interpretation of infant emotions related to mothers’ mindfulness and mother-infant stress4
How list composition affects the emotional enhancement of memory in younger and older adults3
You gotta fight! – Why norm-violations and outgroup criticism lead to confrontational reactions3
Modulation of facial muscle responses by another person’s presence and affiliative touch during affective image viewing3
Can sequencing of articulation ease explain the in–out effect? A preregistered test3
Clouded judgments? The role of virtual weather in word valence evaluations3
What is gratitude without a benefactor? A daily diary approach3
A nervous wait: Instagram’s sensitive-content screens cause anticipatory anxiety but do not mitigate reactions to negative content3
Positive biases and psychological functioning during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic3
Deep neural network models of emotion understanding3
Peer threat evaluations shape one’s own threat perceptions and feelings of distress3
Theories in cognition & emotion – social functions of emotion3
“Love looks not with the eyes”: supranormal processing of emotional speech in individuals with late-blindness versus preserved processing in individuals with congenital-blindness3
Observational learning of threat-related attentional bias3
Empathising with masked targets: limited side effects of face masks on empathy for dynamic, context-rich stimuli3
How do “words poorly expressed emotion” affect mental health? The mediating role of affect labelling effect3
“Me” means more than “good”: stimuli’s self-relevance matters more than valence in shaping evaluative learning via the self3
Retrieval stopping can reduce distress from aversive memories3
Lesions and reduced working memory impair emotion recognition in self and others3
Older adults get masked emotion priming for happy but not angry faces: evidence for a positivity effect in early perceptual processing of emotional signals3
How emotions are metaphorically embodied: measuring hand and head action strengths of typical emotional states3
Associations of nature contact with emotional ill-being and well-being: the role of emotion regulation3
We like it ‘cause you take it: vicarious effects of approach/avoidance behaviours on observers3
Towards a better understanding of the role of reappraisal in psychopathology and its treatment: commentary on “Reappraising Reappraisal: An Expanded View”3
“Anger? No, thank you. I don't mimic it”: how contextual modulation of facial display meaning impacts emotional mimicry3
Spatial frequency and valence interact in complex emotion perception3
Parental linguistic content and distancing predict beliefs about emotion and child emotion regulation3
Emotion effects survive non-standard orthographic representations3
Putting the affect into affective polarisation3
Relationship between emotion comprehension, vocabulary, and verbal working memory in intellectual developmental disorders: involvement of verbal reasoning skills3
Affective dynamics in mother-adolescent dyads: links to mental health and relationship quality3
How affect modulates conversational meanings: a review of experimental research: invited review3
Discrete emotions discovered by contactless measurement of facial blood flows3
Uniting theory and data: the promise and challenge of creating an honest model of facial expression3
Social media misuse explained by emotion dysregulation and self-concept: an ecological momentary assessment approach3
Correction3
Interpersonal helping in the workplace: social expectation predicts anticipated guilt and intention to help a coworker3
Hope and fear in the experience of suspense3
Real is the new sexy: the influence of perceived realness on self-reported arousal to sexual visual stimuli3
Breaching of the U.S. Capitol: memory and moral judgment3
Inhibition in the emotional Hayling task: can hypnotic suggestion enhance cognitive control on a prepotent negative word?3
Ecological momentary assessment of the unique effects of trait worry on daily negative emotionality: does arousal matter?3
Autobiographical memory impairment among Rohingya refugee people: roles of direct and indirect trauma exposures and PTSD symptom severity2
Can participants authoritatively report on the emotional valence of their mind wandering?2
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
“But not the music”: psychopathic traits and difficulties recognising and resonating with the emotion in music2
Inspired to act: motivational effects of being moved by love and willpower2
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
The influence of instructions on generalised valence – conditional stimulus instructions after evaluative conditioning update the explicit and implicit evaluations of generalisation stimuli2
Moderating effect of stimulus presentation type, contingency awareness and anxiety on evaluative conditioning: an attentional perspective2
Do we see what we feel? A comparative study of spider size estimation among experts and people who are highly fearful of spiders2
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy. . . especially if I’m less intelligent: how sunlight and intelligence affect happiness in modern society2
Does mindfulness reduce negative interpretation bias?2
Emotion networks across self-reported depression levels during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Coping with COVID-19: Insights from cognition and emotion research2
Similarity to the self influences memory for social targets2
How you think about an emotion predicts how you regulate: an experience-sampling study2
The reciprocal relationship between smiles and situational contexts2
Re-appraising stressors from a distance: effects of linguistic distancing on cognitive appraisals and emotional responses to interpersonal conflict2
Why might negative mood help or hinder inhibitory performance? An exploration of thinking styles using a Navon induction2
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
Funny? Think About It! Selective effect of cognitive mechanisms of humour on insight problems2
Individuals with higher trait self-esteem prefer to use reappraisal, but not suppression: evidence from functional connectivity analyses2
This feels like the right choice: how decision aids may facilitate affect-based valuation2
The impact of catholic titles on the perception and aestheticisation of violence in figurative paintings2
Mimicry of partially occluded emotional faces: do we mimic what we see or what we know?2
Top-down versus bottom-up processes in the formation of positive and negative retrospective affect2
Social problems in young children: the interplay of ADHD symptoms and facial emotion recognition2
Semantic effects on the perception of emotional prosody in native and non-native Chinese speakers2
Remembering the blues: negative emotion during encoding improve memory recall in major depressive Disorder2
Combining virtual reality-based positive mental imagery and dual tasking increases children’s willingness to exposure2
The mindful gaze: trait mindful people under an instructed emotion regulation goal selectively attend to positive stimuli2
Emotions, social coordination, and the danger of affective polarisation2
A behavioural test of depression-related probability bias2
Associations between affect dynamics and eating regulation in daily life: a preliminary ecological momentary assessment study2
Blinded by wistfulness: on how nostalgia strengthens attitudes2
Early identification of taboo words reveals a prominent role of semantic information in visual word recognition2
Today’s positive affect predicts tomorrow’s experience of meaningful coincidences: a cross-lagged multilevel analysis2
Sometimes you just can’t: within-person variation in working memory capacity moderates negative affect reactivity to stressor exposure2
Overestimating the intensity of negative feelings in autobiographical memory: evidence from the 9/11 attack and COVID-19 pandemic2
Expressions of moral disgust reflect both disgust and anger2
Mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) reduces depression-related self-referential processing in patients with bipolar disorder: an exploratory task-based study2
Metacognitive confidence and affect – two sides of the same coin?2
Reappraisal affordances: a replication of Suri et al. (2018) and investigation of alternate predictors of reappraisal choice2
Pupil size and iris brightness interact to affect prosocial behaviour and affective responses2
Attentional bias to emotions after prolonged endurance exercise is modulated by age2
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