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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Rumination and inhibition in task switching: no evidence for an association63
Similar, not universal: the cognitive dimensions of conceptual prototypes of basic emotions in English and in Polish49
Revealing the distinct impacts of effectiveness recognition and memory retention on the transfer of creative cognitive reappraisal43
Peer threat evaluations shape one’s own threat perceptions and feelings of distress36
Aversive conditioning, anxiety, and the strategic control of attention34
A pandemic-related affect gap in risky decisions for self and others34
Temporal recall in the shadow of emotion: separate emotional contexts during encoding enhance the temporal source memory retrieval31
Emotional state dynamics impacts temporal memory31
How list composition affects the emotional enhancement of memory in younger and older adults26
Are multiple types of associative memory differently impacted by emotion?25
The influence of consonant wanderings and facial expressions in warmth and competence judgments25
A nervous wait: Instagram’s sensitive-content screens cause anticipatory anxiety but do not mitigate reactions to negative content25
From “isolation” to “me-time”: linguistic shifts enhance solitary experiences23
Angry populists or concerned citizens? How linguistic emotion ascriptions shape affective, cognitive, and behavioural responses to political outgroups22
Hope and fear in the experience of suspense22
Fear and anxiety differ in construal level and scope22
Dealing with elite sport competition demands: an exploration of the dynamic relationships between stress appraisal, coping, emotion, and performance during fencing matches21
How emotions are metaphorically embodied: measuring hand and head action strengths of typical emotional states20
Evaluating non-affective cross-modal congruence effects on emotion perception18
Always in flux: the role of attentional focus in emotion regulation dynamics17
Retrieval-induced forgetting of emotional memories16
In memoriam of Emily Butler, 1963–202315
Remember walking in their shoes? The relation of self-referential source memory and emotion recognition15
We like it ‘cause you take it: vicarious effects of approach/avoidance behaviours on observers15
Positive biases and psychological functioning during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic14
Emotion regulation via reappraisal – mechanisms and strategies14
Higher judgements of learning for emotional words: processing fluency or memory beliefs?14
Relationship between emotion comprehension, vocabulary, and verbal working memory in intellectual developmental disorders: involvement of verbal reasoning skills14
The role of hyperbole in conveying emotionality: the case of victim speech13
Empathising with masked targets: limited side effects of face masks on empathy for dynamic, context-rich stimuli13
Infants use emotion to infer intentionality from non-random sampling events13
Pressure to not feel bad among (different-sex) romantic partners: prevalence, and correlates12
The retrograde effects of negative emotion on memory for conceptually related events: a registered report11
The interpersonal effects of distinct emotions in online reviews11
Adding brief content-related information to sensitive-content screens does not exacerbate screen- or image-related distress11
Perceptions towards an interaction partner predict social anxiety: an ecological momentary assessment study10
The influence of dynamism and expression intensity on face emotion recognition in individuals with autistic traits10
The influence of mood on the effort in trying to shift one’s attention from a mind wandering phase to focusing on ongoing activities in a laboratory and in daily life10
How do “words poorly expressed emotion” affect mental health? The mediating role of affect labelling effect9
Parental linguistic content and distancing predict beliefs about emotion and child emotion regulation9
A perceptual control theory of emotional action9
Correction9
Why do people engage with the suffering of strangers? Exploring epistemic, eudaimonic, social, and affective motives9
Emotion effects survive non-standard orthographic representations9
Item method directed forgetting occurs independently of borderline personality traits, even for borderline-salient items9
Beliefs about emotion usefulness are nuanced: degree of personal reference and emotional valence predict affective distress9
Investigating a bias account of emotional false memories using a criterion warning and force choice restrictions at retrieval8
Does cognitive load influence expressive flexibility? Comparing civilian and veteran populations8
The effects of rumination on internalising symptoms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic among mothers and their offspring: a brief report8
Emotional processing writing and physiological stress responses: understanding constructive and unconstructive processes8
A multinomial modelling approach to face identity recognition during instructed threat8
Humour in trolley problems and other sacrificial dilemmas: killing is not funny at all8
An integrative analysis of potential mechanisms of reduced positive affect in daily life in depression: an ESM study8
Associations of nature contact with emotional ill-being and well-being: the role of emotion regulation8
The empathic measure of true emotion (EMOTE): a novel set of stimuli for measuring emotional responding8
Literally or prosodically? Recognising emotional discourse in alexithymia8
The effect of induced COVID-19-related fear on psychological distance and time perception8
Towards a better understanding of the role of reappraisal in psychopathology and its treatment: commentary on “Reappraising Reappraisal: An Expanded View”8
How does the moral self-concept relate to prosocial behaviour? Investigating the role of emotions and consistency preference8
Longitudinal associations between emotion malleability beliefs and avoidance in college students8
Individual differences in pupil dilation to others’ emotional and neutral eyes with varying pupil sizes7
Rapid detection of neutral faces associated with emotional value7
Going beyond ourselves: the role of self-transcendent experiences in wisdom7
Control your emotions: evidence for a shared mechanism of cognitive and emotional control7
Aging and task design shape the relationship between response time variability and emotional response inhibition7
Registered report “Categorical perception of facial expressions of anger and disgust across cultures”7
Emotional content influences eye-movements under natural but not under instructed conditions7
Reward enhancement of item-location associative memory spreads to similar items within a category7
Rumination, but not mood, predicts prospective memory performance: novel insights from a derived measure of trait rumination7
Why do people (not) share guilt with others?7
Adult age differences in remembering gain- and loss-related intentions7
“When did you see it?” The effect of emotional valence on temporal source memory in aging7
Roles of recalled parenting experiences and effortful control in adult daily emotion regulation7
Working memory modulates the anger superiority effect in central and peripheral visual fields7
Psychological trauma and emotional upheaval as revealed in academic writing: The case of COVID-196
“Anger? No, thank you. I don't mimic it”: how contextual modulation of facial display meaning impacts emotional mimicry6
Emotion malleability beliefs influence emotion regulation and emotion recovery among individuals with depressive symptoms6
Level and stability of self-esteem mediate relationships between personality traits and life satisfaction: Bayesian multilevel modeling with annual data6
Attachment styles and attachment (in)security priming in relation to emotional conflict control6
Getting a grip on insight: real-time and embodied Aha experiences predict correct solutions6
Interpersonal helping in the workplace: social expectation predicts anticipated guilt and intention to help a coworker6
Correction6
Correction6
A unified approach to managing emotions and pursuing purpose in life6
Relationship between shame and theory of mind in early adolescence: the mediating role of private and public self-consciousness6
Memory control immediately improves unpleasant emotions associated with autobiographical memories of past immoral actions6
Emotion in motion: perceiving fear in the behaviour of individuals from minimal motion capture displays6
Contradict them softly! Contradictions of the subject feel less true than contradictions of the object6
Trolleys, triage and Covid-19: the role of psychological realism in sacrificial dilemmas5
Coherence of attention and memory biases in currently and previously depressed women5
Reactance, morality, and disgust: the relationship between affective dispositions and compliance with official health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic5
The closer you are, the more it hurts: the impact of proximity on moral decision-making5
Age-related differences in processing of emotions in speech disappear with babble noise in the background5
The impact of disgust learning on memory processes for neutral stimuli: a classical conditioning approach5
Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words: evidence from eye fixations during reading5
Emotion may predict susceptibility to fake news but emotion regulation does not seem to help5
Regulation of positive and negative emotions across cultures: does culture moderate associations between emotion regulation and mental health?5
Experimental elicitations of awe: a meta-analysis5
Varieties of instrumental theories of emotional action: commentary on “a perceptual control theory of emotional action”5
Working memory capacity relates to reduced negative emotion in daily life5
Different effects of emotional valence on overt attention and recognition memory5
Emotional stimuli similarly disrupt attention in both visual fields5
Feelings of gratitude to Allah and people and their associations with affect in daily life5
Theories in cognition & emotion – social functions of emotion5
Social impression formation and depression: examining cognitive flexibility and bias5
Blocking lower facial features reduces emotion identification accuracy in static faces and full body dynamic expressions5
The relationship between environmentally induced emotion and memory for a naturalistic virtual experience5
Modulatory effects of goal relevance on emotional attention reveal that fear has a distinct value5
Investigating the role of mental imagery use in the assessment of anhedonia5
Emotion malleability beliefs predict daily positive and negative affect in adolescents4
Not all dogs (and goals) were created equal: an existential perspective on helplessness4
Age-related differences on temporal source memory by using dynamic stimuli: the effects of POV and emotional valence4
Reflect on emotional events from an observer’s perspective: a meta-analysis of experimental studies4
Empathic forecasting of the big-fish-little-pond effect4
Current and expected affective valence interact to predict choice in recurrent decisions4
Effects of scaffolding emotion language use on emotion differentiation and psychological health: an experience-sampling study4
You gotta fight! – Why norm-violations and outgroup criticism lead to confrontational reactions4
Natural language sentiment as an indicator of depression and anxiety symptoms: a longitudinal mixed methods study 14
Uniting theory and data: the promise and challenge of creating an honest model of facial expression4
The appraisal patterns and response types of enthusiasm: a comparison with joy and hope4
Feeling more neutral? Evaluative conditioning can increase neutral affective reactions4
Self-esteem predicts positive affect directly and self-efficacy indirectly: a 10-year longitudinal study4
Understanding human encounters goes beyond explaining musculoskeletal coordination: a review4
Implicit angry faces interfere with response inhibition and response adjustment4
“Me” means more than “good”: stimuli’s self-relevance matters more than valence in shaping evaluative learning via the self4
Supporting mentalizing in primary school children: the effects of thoughts in mind project for children (TiM-C) on metacognition, emotion regulation and theory of mind4
Clouded judgments? The role of virtual weather in word valence evaluations4
Attentional bias towards task-irrelevant threatening faces reduces working memory updating efficiency in social anxiety: evidence from the n -back task combining with ey4
How does Go/No-Go training lead to food devaluation? Separating the effects of motor inhibition and response valence4
Fact- and emotion-focused conversations elicit differential patterns of reporting and distress in children4
An eye-tracking study examining the relationship between males’ eating disorder symptomatology, body mass index, and expectations about character behaviour in text4
Modulation of attentional bias by hypnotic suggestion: experimental evidence from an emotional Stroop task4
Expectations about future learning influence moment-to-moment feelings of suspense4
Human interaction, polarisation, and democratic reform: integrating political science with an interpersonal systems approach4
The mystery remains: breadth of attention in Flanker and Navon tasks unaffected by affective states induced by an appraisal manipulation3
The role of working memory capacity in evaluative judgments of liking and beauty3
Perceived demands associated with emotion regulation strategies among young and cognitively diverse older adults3
Emotion malleability beliefs prompt cognitive reappraisal: evidence from an online longitudinal intervention for adolescents3
How affect modulates conversational meanings: a review of experimental research: invited review3
He must be mad; she might be sad: perceptual and decisional aspects of emotion recognition in ambiguous faces3
Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces3
What is gratitude without a benefactor? A daily diary approach3
Experimentally manipulated anger activates implicit cognitions about social hierarchy3
Social media misuse explained by emotion dysregulation and self-concept: an ecological momentary assessment approach3
Retrieval stopping can reduce distress from aversive memories3
Detecting emotion in speech expressing incongruent emotional cues through voice and content: investigation on dominant modality and language3
Dominance, reward, and affiliation smiles modulate the meaning of uncooperative or untrustworthy behaviour3
Browse or broadcast? The influence of active and passive social media use on mood3
Bodily feelings and aesthetic experience of art3
How nervous am I? How computer vision succeeds and humans fail in interpreting state anxiety from dynamic facial behaviour3
The influence of repetitive thoughts of CS-US pairing on expectancy learning and evaluative conditioning: a fundamental study3
What is a compassionate face? Avoided negative affect explains differences between U.S. Americans and Chinese3
Credibility of results in emotion science: a Z -curve analysis of results in the journals Cognition & Emotion and Emoti3
Emotional regularity: associations with personality, psychological health, and occupational outcomes3
Learned helplessness and its relevance for psychological suffering: a new perspective illustrated with attachment problems, burn-out, and fatigue complaints3
Animal eMotion, or the emotional evaluation of moving animals3
Older adults get masked emotion priming for happy but not angry faces: evidence for a positivity effect in early perceptual processing of emotional signals3
The effect of temporal goals on emotion regulation choice: a replication and extension3
The effect of momentary mood on appraisal of facial affect and distrust: an experimental approach using ambulatory assessment3
Bouncing back from emotional ups and downs: insights in emotional recovery using survival analyses of burst ESM data3
Longitudinal and experimental investigations of implicit happiness and explicit fear of happiness3
Affective dynamics in mother-adolescent dyads: links to mental health and relationship quality3
Lesions and reduced working memory impair emotion recognition in self and others3
Aberrant cognitive empathy in individuals with elevated social anxiety and regulation with emotional working memory training3
The effects of nonverbal pride and skill on judgements of victory and social influence: a boxing study3
Discrete emotions discovered by contactless measurement of facial blood flows3
Are valence and arousal related to the development of amodal representations of words? A computational study2
Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease2
The interplay of social rank perceptions of Trump and Biden and emotions following the U.S. presidential election 20202
What we bet on is not only tangible money, but also good mood2
Associations between attentional biases for emotional images and rumination in depression2
Think again: the role of reappraisal in reducing negative valence bias2
Emotion processes in social and political contexts: the case of affective polarisation2
Love and hate do not modulate the attentional blink but improve overall performance2
Social-functional characteristics of Chinese terms translated as “shame” or “guilt”: a cross-referencing approach2
Evidence for an evaluative effect of stimulus co-occurrence may be inflated by evaluative differences between assimilative and contrastive relations2
Emotions, social coordination, and the danger of affective polarisation2
Articulation dynamics and evaluative conditioning: investigating the boundary conditions, mental representation, and origin of the in-out effect2
Successful implementation of cognitive reappraisal: effects of habit and situational factors2
Theory convergence in emotion science is timely and realistic2
Sustaining attention in affective contexts during adolescence: age-related differences and association with elevated symptoms of depression and anxiety2
Negative emotion amplifies retrieval practice effect for both task-relevant and task-irrelevant information2
Sadness and fear, but not happiness, motivate inhibitory behaviour: the influence of discrete emotions on the executive function of inhibition2
The role of self-compassion in loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a group-based trajectory modelling approach2
Time-dependent relations between emotion regulation, frustration, and metacognitive strategy use in technology-mediated learning2
Our individual order of things directs how we think we feel2
Seeing fast and slow: the influence of music-induced affective states and individual sensory sensitivity on visual processing speed2
“I feel your fear”: superior fear recognition in organised crime members2
Putting a label on someone: impact of schizophrenia stigma on emotional mimicry, liking, and interpersonal closeness2
Contextual cues about reciprocity impact ratings of smile sincerity2
Words matter when inferring emotions: a conceptual replication and extension2
Development and validation of the first adaptive test of emotion perception in music2
Inspired to act: motivational effects of being moved by love and willpower2
Persistence and disengagement in failing goals: commentary on Boddez, Van Dessel, & De Houwer2
Syntactic and emotional interplay in second language: emotional resonance but not proficiency modulates affective influences on L2 syntactic processing2
Threat priming diminishes the gaze cueing effect2
Buffering effect of fiction on negative emotions: engagement with negatively valenced fiction decreases the intensity of negative emotions2
Affect labelling increases the intensity of positive emotions2
Modulation of facial muscle responses by another person’s presence and affiliative touch during affective image viewing2
Stimulus valence moderates self-learning2
Agency influences vicarious approach/avoidance effects2
The role of category valence in prototype preference2
The divide between daily event appraisal and emotion experience in major depression2
Priming using human and chimpanzee expressions of emotion biases attention toward positive emotions2
Affective and cognitive impact of social overinclusion: a meta-analytic review of cyberball studies2
Neural correlates of emotion-label vs. emotion-laden word processing in late bilinguals: evidence from an ERP study2
Why might negative mood help or hinder inhibitory performance? An exploration of thinking styles using a Navon induction2
Perceptual control or action-selection? Comment on: a perceptual control theory of emotional action2
Can irony regulate negative emotion? Evidence from behaviour and ERPs2
Devaluation of NoGo stimuli is both robust and fragile2
How you think about an emotion predicts how you regulate: an experience-sampling study2
Can sequencing of articulation ease explain the in–out effect? A preregistered test2
When unpleasantness meets feminines: a behavioural study on gender agreement and emotionality2
Unlocking the past: efficacy of guided self-compassion and benefit-focused online interventions for managing negative personal memories2
Putting the affect into affective polarisation2
Individuals with higher trait self-esteem prefer to use reappraisal, but not suppression: evidence from functional connectivity analyses1
Reducing discrepancies between actual and ideal affect across adulthood: the roles of activity flow conduciveness, pleasantness, and familiarity1
A neurocognitive account of attentional control theory: how does trait anxiety affect the brain’s attentional networks?1
The structure underlying core affect and perceived affective qualities of human vocal bursts1
Perceived naturalness of emotional voice morphs1
Overestimating the intensity of negative feelings in autobiographical memory: evidence from the 9/11 attack and COVID-19 pandemic1
Looking on the bright side: the impact of ambivalent images on emotion regulation choice1
Amenders and Avoiders: an examination of guilt and shame for toddlers and their older siblings1
The role of valence and arousal for phonological iconicity in the lexicon of German: a cross-validation study using pseudoword ratings1
Having no words for feelings: alexithymia as a fundamental personality dimension at the interface of cognition and emotion1
Food-evoked nostalgia1
Evaluating the ‘skin disease-avoidance’ and ‘dangerous animal’ frameworks for understanding trypophobia1
Pride and moral disengagement: associations among comparison-based pride, moral disengagement, and unethical decision-making1
Relative contributions of the face and body to social judgements: emotion, threat and status1
The interpersonal effects of emotional expressions with both and single valences on work-related satisfaction: an examination of emotions and perceived openness as mediators1
Children across cultures respond emotionally to the acoustic environment1
Face your fears: direct and indirect measurement of responses to looming threats1
Valence, sensations and appraisals co-occurring with feeling moved: evidence on kama muta theory from intra-individually cross-correlated time series1
Duration of face mask exposure matters: evidence from Swiss and Brazilian kindergartners’ ability to recognise emotions1
Investigating the relationship between self-reported interoceptive experience and risk propensity1
Featural vs. Holistic processing and visual sampling in the influence of social category cues on emotion recognition1
Does facial redness really affect emotion perception? Evidence for limited generalisability of effects of facial redness on emotion perception in a large sample1
Acute shame in response to dissociative detachment: evidence from non-clinical and traumatised samples1
More than meets the eye: emotional stimuli enhance boundary extension effects for both depressed and never-depressed individuals1
Investigation of the mental health and cognitive correlates of psychological decentering in adolescence1
The emotion of sound target modulates the auditory gaze cueing effect1
Emotional arousal does not modulate stimulus-response binding and retrieval effects1
Understanding the association between reappraisal use and depressive symptoms during adolescence: the moderating influence of regulatory success1
Sex differences in emotion recognition: investigating the moderating effects of stimulus features1
Effects of task switching and emotional stimuli on memory selectivity1
Emotional mimicry: a communication accommodation approach1
Mothers need more information to recognise associated emotions in child facial expressions1
Fluctuation in cognitive engagement during listening and reading of erotica and horror stories1
The influence of incidental emotions on decision-making under risk and uncertainty: a systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental evidence1
Induced gratitude and hope, and experienced fear, but not experienced disgust, facilitate COVID-19 prevention1
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