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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Positivity effects in self-defining memories in men and women across adulthood: different patterns between self-rated affect and content-coded meaning51
The empathic measure of true emotion (EMOTE): a novel set of stimuli for measuring emotional responding43
Attachment styles and attachment (in)security priming in relation to emotional conflict control42
Item method directed forgetting occurs independently of borderline personality traits, even for borderline-salient items37
Infants use emotion to infer intentionality from non-random sampling events35
Does emotional expression influence face recognition? Re-examining Bruce and Young’s (1986) independence hypothesis30
Statistical learning of across-trial regularities weakens emotion-induced blindness29
When we want to know the bad news: exploring information-seeking for unavoidable pain stimuli25
Investigating a bias account of emotional false memories using a criterion warning and force choice restrictions at retrieval22
Literally or prosodically? Recognising emotional discourse in alexithymia21
Control your emotions: evidence for a shared mechanism of cognitive and emotional control19
The closer you are, the more it hurts: the impact of proximity on moral decision-making17
Human interaction, polarisation, and democratic reform: integrating political science with an interpersonal systems approach16
Higher judgements of learning for emotional words: processing fluency or memory beliefs?16
Feelings of gratitude to Allah and people and their associations with affect in daily life16
Experimental elicitations of awe: a meta-analysis16
Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease16
Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces15
Investigating the role of mental imagery use in the assessment of anhedonia14
Learned helplessness and its relevance for psychological suffering: a new perspective illustrated with attachment problems, burn-out, and fatigue complaints14
Love and hate do not modulate the attentional blink but improve overall performance14
Everything is going to be okay: emotion regulation and immune neglect in affective forecasting14
Natural language sentiment as an indicator of depression and anxiety symptoms: a longitudinal mixed methods study14
Buffering effect of fiction on negative emotions: engagement with negatively valenced fiction decreases the intensity of negative emotions13
The interplay between language and emotion: a narrative review13
Emotion malleability beliefs prompt cognitive reappraisal: evidence from an online longitudinal intervention for adolescents13
Spiky anger, round peace: examining valence, arousal, and linguistic associations in emotion-eliciting concepts13
The appraisal patterns and response types of enthusiasm: a comparison with joy and hope13
Effects of scaffolding emotion language use on emotion differentiation and psychological health: an experience-sampling study13
Association of early adversity, neuroticism, and depression with perceived severity ratings of stressful life event vignettes12
Self-esteem predicts positive affect directly and self-efficacy indirectly: a 10-year longitudinal study12
Low population density relates to more positive behavioural endophenotype in depressed patients on serotonergic antidepressants11
Understanding the association between reappraisal use and depressive symptoms during adolescence: the moderating influence of regulatory success11
Pride and moral disengagement: associations among comparison-based pride, moral disengagement, and unethical decision-making11
Evaluative conditioning of sweet meaning using sweet and non-sweet food names as unconditioned stimuli and new words as conditioned stimuli11
Persistence and disengagement in failing goals: commentary on Boddez, Van Dessel, & De Houwer11
The structure underlying core affect and perceived affective qualities of human vocal bursts10
Putting emotions into affective polarisation10
The role of verbal cues in eliciting intrusive memories in a non-clinical population: a laboratory study10
Perceived naturalness of emotional voice morphs10
I want it small or, rather, give me a bunch: the role of evaluative morphology on the assessment of the emotional properties of words10
Devaluation of NoGo stimuli is both robust and fragile10
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
Updating the cognitive model of humour perception: a potential implicit processing pathway?9
Emojis and affective priming in visual word recognition9
The perceived controllability of negatively-valenced episodic future thinking modulates delay discounting9
Relative contributions of the face and body to social judgements: emotion, threat and status9
Featural vs. Holistic processing and visual sampling in the influence of social category cues on emotion recognition9
Coordination in interpersonal systems9
Anger superiority effect or happiness superiority effect: how the distractor homogeneity modulates the asymmetry in searching emotional faces?9
The effect of fragmented sleep on emotion regulation ability and usage9
The relationship between anger and creative performance: a three-level meta-analysis9
Induced gratitude and hope, and experienced fear, but not experienced disgust, facilitate COVID-19 prevention9
A neurocognitive account of attentional control theory: how does trait anxiety affect the brain’s attentional networks?9
Emotional mimicry as social regulator: theoretical considerations9
How young children use manifest emotions and dominance cues to understand social rules: a registered report9
A smile hampers encoding and memory for non-happy eyes in a face: temporal dynamics and importance of initial fixation9
Electrophysiological representations of multivariate human emotion experience9
Sounds like a fight: listeners can infer behavioural contexts from spontaneous nonverbal vocalisations8
Emotion-specific recognition biases and how they relate to emotion-specific recognition accuracy, family and child demographic factors, and social behaviour8
Dampening in American and Korean young adults: a positive emotion regulation strategy linked to depressive symptoms in both countries8
(Eye-)tracking the escape from the self: guilt proneness moderates the effect of failure on self-avoidance8
Growth mindset and responses to acute stress8
Measuring multiple automatic product appraisals simultaneously: introduction and examination of the implicit attribute classification task8
Sound symbolic associations in Spanish emotional words: affective dimensions and discrete emotions8
The illusion of insight: detailed warnings reduce but do not prevent false “Aha!” moments8
Role of contingency in the effects of appetitive and aversive motivation on emotional distraction8
Does cognitive reappraisal facilitate extinction?7
The influence of memory for impressions based on behaviours and beliefs on approach/avoidance decisions7
Bodily feedback: expansive and upward posture facilitates the experience of positive affect7
Gratitude endures while indebtedness persuades: investigating the unique influences of gratitude and indebtedness in helping7
Sadness facilitates “deeper” reading comprehension: a behavioural and eye tracking study7
Illustrating the pathway from affect to somatic symptom: the Affective Picture Paradigm*7
Predicting vs. guessing: the role of confidence for pupillometric markers of curiosity and surprise7
Eliciting social approach-avoidance conflict within a novel experimental paradigm: psychometric and computational evidence with a successful pre-registered replication7
Stable abnormalities on the recognition of dynamic angry facial emotional expression in subthreshold depression7
Determinants for positive and negative experiences of interpersonal touch: context matters7
Correction6
Retrieval-induced forgetting of emotional memories6
The influence of consonant wanderings and facial expressions in warmth and competence judgments6
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 fluency6
Higher loneliness is associated with greater positive and negative emotion instability in everyday life6
Manifestation of emotion regulation difficulties in intraindividual emotion dynamics6
Social media’s influence on momentary emotion based on people’s initial mood: an experimental design6
Aging and task design shape the relationship between response time variability and emotional response inhibition6
Are multiple types of associative memory differently impacted by emotion?6
Does cognitive load influence expressive flexibility? Comparing civilian and veteran populations6
Rumination, but not mood, predicts prospective memory performance: novel insights from a derived measure of trait rumination6
Attention on visual disgust: comparison of intentional and unintentional gaze on disgusting images6
Social anxiety modulating early processing for social threat words: an ERP study6
The effects of cognitive reappraisal and sleep on emotional memory formation6
Affective theory of mind impairments underlying callous-unemotional traits and the role of cognitive control6
Rumination and inhibition in task switching: no evidence for an association6
Beliefs about emotion usefulness are nuanced: degree of personal reference and emotional valence predict affective distress6
A pandemic-related affect gap in risky decisions for self and others6
The influence of emotion on temporal context models6
Ambiguity potentiates effects of loneliness on feelings of rejection6
Automatic processing of emotional images and psychopathic personality traits6
Dynamics of attachment and emotion regulation in daily life: uni- and bidirectional associations6
A daily within-person investigation on the link between social expectancies to be busy and emotional wellbeing: the moderating role of emotional complexity acceptance6
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
Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words: evidence from eye fixations during reading5
Feeling hollow: examining the presence and emotional correlates of emptiness in borderline personality disorder5
The divide between daily event appraisal and emotion experience in major depression5
Individual differences in pupil dilation to others’ emotional and neutral eyes with varying pupil sizes5
Threat priming diminishes the gaze cueing effect5
A unified approach to managing emotions and pursuing purpose in life5
Attentional bias and memory bias characteristics of individuals with depressive tendencies under different perceptual load conditions5
Agency influences vicarious approach/avoidance effects5
Theory convergence in emotion science is timely and realistic5
The effects of nonverbal pride and skill on judgements of victory and social influence: a boxing study5
The role of hyperbole in conveying emotionality: the case of victim speech5
A negativity bias in evaluative counter-conditioning5
Modulatory effects of goal relevance on emotional attention reveal that fear has a distinct value5
Working memory capacity relates to reduced negative emotion in daily life5
The role of self-compassion in loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a group-based trajectory modelling approach5
Bouncing back from emotional ups and downs: insights in emotional recovery using survival analyses of burst ESM data5
Think again: the role of reappraisal in reducing negative valence bias5
Emotion malleability beliefs influence emotion regulation and emotion recovery among individuals with depressive symptoms5
Social impression formation and depression: examining cognitive flexibility and bias5
A registered conceptual replication and extension of Gable and Harmon-Jones (2008): does motivational intensity, valence, or perceptual focality drive attentional breadth?4
Contamination in Trypophobia: investigating the role of disgust4
Facial mimicry depends on the emotion we recognize in others' faces4
Not feeling it: lack of robust emotion effects on breadth of attention4
How emotional are words ambiguous on the spaces of valence, origin and activation?4
Reappraising reappraisal: an expanded view4
Measuring emotion beliefs: a systematic review4
For better or for worse: differential effects of the emotional valence of words on children’s recall4
Emotion-enhanced source memory: effects of age and experimental setting4
When mind and body align: examining the role of cross-modal congruency in conscious representations of happy facial expressions4
Children's executive functions predict their preferences for emotion regulation strategies4
Emotional mimicry: a communication accommodation approach4
Social anxiety and emotion regulation flexibility: a daily diary approach4
Maternal interpretation of infant emotions related to mothers’ mindfulness and mother-infant stress4
Retellings of emotional videos: the dynamics of gesture characteristics in diverse emotion categories4
Symbolic number ordering strategies and math anxiety4
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
Associations between parental dispositional attributions, dismissing and coaching reactions to children’s emotions, and children’s problem behaviour moderated by child gender4
False contingency beliefs reverse contingency learning effects in the valence contingency learning task4
No memory, no effect: action based evaluative conditioning effects are modulated by contingency memory4
Integration of negative emotions, empathy, and support for conciliatory policies in intractable conflicts4
Dispositional greed and moral emotions4
Facing social exclusion: a facial EMG examination of the reaffiliative function of smiling4
Associations between attentional biases for emotional images and rumination in depression4
The influences of emotion on covert and overt retrieval practice effects4
Vocal emotion recognition in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis4
Interpersonal emotion regulation strategy choice in younger and older adults4
Meta-emotion-regulation: a conceptual framework for influencing emotion regulation behaviour4
Me, us, and others: exploring the role of familiarity and emotional expressions in face visual awareness4
Two roads leading to the same evaluative conditioning effect? Stimulus-response binding versus operant conditioning4
Persistent negative self-referent thinking in the context of depression: examining the role of temperament and emotion regulation4
A validation and comparison of three measures of participants’ disposition to feel moved (introducing the Geneva Sentimentality Scale)4
When unpleasantness meets feminines: a behavioural study on gender agreement and emotionality4
The role of state anxiety in salience-driven distractor processing: evidence from singleton detection and feature search4
Correction4
Commentary on “how emotions, relationships, and culture constitute each other: advances in social functionalist theory” by Keltner, Sauter, Tracy, Wetchler, and Cowen4
Perceptual control or action-selection? Comment on: a perceptual control theory of emotional action4
Interactive relationship between alexithymia, psychological distress and posttraumatic stress disorder symptomology across time4
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 affect modulates conversational meanings: a review of experimental research: invited review3
Associations of nature contact with emotional ill-being and well-being: the role of emotion regulation3
Untrusted under threat: on the superior bond between trustworthiness and threat in face-context integration3
“Me” means more than “good”: stimuli’s self-relevance matters more than valence in shaping evaluative learning via the self3
Emotion effects survive non-standard orthographic representations3
We like it ‘cause you take it: vicarious effects of approach/avoidance behaviours on observers3
“Love looks not with the eyes”: supranormal processing of emotional speech in individuals with late-blindness versus preserved processing in individuals with congenital-blindness3
Positive biases and psychological functioning during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic3
Inhibition in the emotional Hayling task: can hypnotic suggestion enhance cognitive control on a prepotent negative word?3
How do “words poorly expressed emotion” affect mental health? The mediating role of affect labelling effect3
Real is the new sexy: the influence of perceived realness on self-reported arousal to sexual visual stimuli3
The effect of facial colour on implicit facial expressions3
Prior memory encoding of negative distractors biases emotion-induced blindness3
Peer threat evaluations shape one’s own threat perceptions and feelings of distress3
“Anger? No, thank you. I don't mimic it”: how contextual modulation of facial display meaning impacts emotional mimicry3
Discrete emotions discovered by contactless measurement of facial blood flows3
How list composition affects the emotional enhancement of memory in younger and older adults3
Modulation of facial muscle responses by another person’s presence and affiliative touch during affective image viewing3
Putting the affect into affective polarisation3
Older adults get masked emotion priming for happy but not angry faces: evidence for a positivity effect in early perceptual processing of emotional signals3
Deep neural network models of emotion understanding3
Correction3
A nervous wait: Instagram’s sensitive-content screens cause anticipatory anxiety but do not mitigate reactions to negative content3
Observational learning of threat-related attentional bias3
Relationship between emotion comprehension, vocabulary, and verbal working memory in intellectual developmental disorders: involvement of verbal reasoning skills3
Parental linguistic content and distancing predict beliefs about emotion and child emotion regulation3
Investigating the interaction of pleasantness and arousal and the role of aesthetic emotions on episodic memory using a musical what-where-when paradigm3
Exploration of visual factors in the disgust-anger confusion: the importance of the mouth3
Emotional time travel: the role of emotion in temporal memory3
The interplay between language and emotion: introduction to the special issue3
Emotional stimuli boost incidental learning through predictive processing3
Correction3
Social media misuse explained by emotion dysregulation and self-concept: an ecological momentary assessment approach3
Clouded judgments? The role of virtual weather in word valence evaluations3
Can sequencing of articulation ease explain the in–out effect? A preregistered test3
Towards a better understanding of the role of reappraisal in psychopathology and its treatment: commentary on “Reappraising Reappraisal: An Expanded View”3
Affective dynamics in mother-adolescent dyads: links to mental health and relationship quality3
Theories in cognition & emotion – social functions of emotion3
Interpersonal helping in the workplace: social expectation predicts anticipated guilt and intention to help a coworker3
Ecological momentary assessment of the unique effects of trait worry on daily negative emotionality: does arousal matter?3
How emotions are metaphorically embodied: measuring hand and head action strengths of typical emotional states3
Anti-establishment sentiments: realistic and symbolic threat appraisals predict populist attitudes and conspiracy mentality3
Empathising with masked targets: limited side effects of face masks on empathy for dynamic, context-rich stimuli3
Linking anger and disgust to motives and anticipations of aggression in the East: testing a socio-functional account of moral emotions in Japan3
Breaching of the U.S. Capitol: memory and moral judgment3
Emotions, fast and slow: processing of emotion words is affected by individual differences in need for affect and narrative absorption3
Effects of acute exercise on emotional memory3
Hope and fear in the experience of suspense3
The interplay of social rank perceptions of Trump and Biden and emotions following the U.S. presidential election 20202
Combining virtual reality-based positive mental imagery and dual tasking increases children’s willingness to exposure2
Impaired pattern of cognitive control moderates attentional bias in individuals with social anxiety2
Retrieval stopping can reduce distress from aversive memories2
Do we see what we feel? A comparative study of spider size estimation among experts and people who are highly fearful of spiders2
A behavioural test of depression-related probability bias2
Emotional inertia is independently associated with cognitive emotion regulation strategies and sleep quality*2
Today’s positive affect predicts tomorrow’s experience of meaningful coincidences: a cross-lagged multilevel analysis2
Reappraisal affordances: a replication of Suri et al. (2018) and investigation of alternate predictors of reappraisal choice2
Funny? Think About It! Selective effect of cognitive mechanisms of humour on insight problems2
Remembering the blues: negative emotion during encoding improve memory recall in major depressive Disorder2
“But not the music”: psychopathic traits and difficulties recognising and resonating with the emotion in music2
Can participants authoritatively report on the emotional valence of their mind wandering?2
The dual-feature approach-avoidance task: validity, training efficacy, and the role of contingency awareness in changing food preference2
The mindful gaze: trait mindful people under an instructed emotion regulation goal selectively attend to positive stimuli2
Blinded by wistfulness: on how nostalgia strengthens attitudes2
This feels like the right choice: how decision aids may facilitate affect-based valuation2
Mimicry of partially occluded emotional faces: do we mimic what we see or what we know?2
Priming using human and chimpanzee expressions of emotion biases attention toward positive emotions2
Top-down versus bottom-up processes in the formation of positive and negative retrospective affect2
Observer and stimulus factors jointly shape perceptual similarity of static and dynamic facial emotions2
The influence of instructions on generalised valence – conditional stimulus instructions after evaluative conditioning update the explicit and implicit evaluations of generalisation stimuli2
Semantic effects on the perception of emotional prosody in native and non-native Chinese speakers2
Pupil size and iris brightness interact to affect prosocial behaviour and affective responses2
Phasic affective signals by themselves do not regulate cognitive control2
Does enhanced memory of disgust vs. fear images extend to involuntary memory?2
Early identification of taboo words reveals a prominent role of semantic information in visual word recognition2
Effects of emotion, emotional tolerance, and emotional processing on reasoning2
Adding dynamics to the evaluative priming task: face primes with delayed dynamic onset of emotional expression or ethnicity2
Inspired to act: motivational effects of being moved by love and willpower2
How you think about an emotion predicts how you regulate: an experience-sampling study2
Dissociating the roles of episodic retrieval and contingency awareness in valence contingency learning2
Similarity to the self influences memory for social targets2
How social media influencers’ emotional expressions shape their popularity: the role of authenticity and appropriateness2
The motivational consequences of boredom2
Coping with COVID-19: Insights from cognition and emotion research2
The mystery of emotional mimicry: multiple functions and processing levels in expression imitation2
Sometimes you just can’t: within-person variation in working memory capacity moderates negative affect reactivity to stressor exposure2
Emotions, social coordination, and the danger of affective polarisation2
Re-appraising stressors from a distance: effects of linguistic distancing on cognitive appraisals and emotional responses to interpersonal conflict2
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