OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognition & Emotion is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
Rumination and inhibition in task switching: no evidence for an association	63
Similar, not universal: the cognitive dimensions of conceptual prototypes of basic emotions in English and in Polish	49
Revealing the distinct impacts of effectiveness recognition and memory retention on the transfer of creative cognitive reappraisal	43
Peer threat evaluations shape one’s own threat perceptions and feelings of distress	36
Aversive conditioning, anxiety, and the strategic control of attention	34
A pandemic-related affect gap in risky decisions for self and others	34
Temporal recall in the shadow of emotion: separate emotional contexts during encoding enhance the temporal source memory retrieval	31
Emotional state dynamics impacts temporal memory	31
How list composition affects the emotional enhancement of memory in younger and older adults	26
Are multiple types of associative memory differently impacted by emotion?	25
The influence of consonant wanderings and facial expressions in warmth and competence judgments	25
A nervous wait: Instagram’s sensitive-content screens cause anticipatory anxiety but do not mitigate reactions to negative content	25
From “isolation” to “me-time”: linguistic shifts enhance solitary experiences	23
Fear and anxiety differ in construal level and scope	22
Angry populists or concerned citizens? How linguistic emotion ascriptions shape affective, cognitive, and behavioural responses to political outgroups	22
Hope and fear in the experience of suspense	22
Dealing with elite sport competition demands: an exploration of the dynamic relationships between stress appraisal, coping, emotion, and performance during fencing matches	21
How emotions are metaphorically embodied: measuring hand and head action strengths of typical emotional states	20
Evaluating non-affective cross-modal congruence effects on emotion perception	18
Always in flux: the role of attentional focus in emotion regulation dynamics	17
Retrieval-induced forgetting of emotional memories	16
We like it ‘cause you take it: vicarious effects of approach/avoidance behaviours on observers	15
In memoriam of Emily Butler, 1963–2023	15
Remember walking in their shoes? The relation of self-referential source memory and emotion recognition	15
Relationship between emotion comprehension, vocabulary, and verbal working memory in intellectual developmental disorders: involvement of verbal reasoning skills	14

Positive biases and psychological functioning during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	14
Emotion regulation via reappraisal – mechanisms and strategies	14
Higher judgements of learning for emotional words: processing fluency or memory beliefs?	14
The role of hyperbole in conveying emotionality: the case of victim speech	13
Empathising with masked targets: limited side effects of face masks on empathy for dynamic, context-rich stimuli	13
Infants use emotion to infer intentionality from non-random sampling events	13
Pressure to not feel bad among (different-sex) romantic partners: prevalence, and correlates	12
The retrograde effects of negative emotion on memory for conceptually related events: a registered report	11
The interpersonal effects of distinct emotions in online reviews	11
Adding brief content-related information to sensitive-content screens does not exacerbate screen- or image-related distress	11
Perceptions towards an interaction partner predict social anxiety: an ecological momentary assessment study	10
The influence of dynamism and expression intensity on face emotion recognition in individuals with autistic traits	10
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 life	10
How do “words poorly expressed emotion” affect mental health? The mediating role of affect labelling effect	9
Parental linguistic content and distancing predict beliefs about emotion and child emotion regulation	9
A perceptual control theory of emotional action	9
Correction	9
Why do people engage with the suffering of strangers? Exploring epistemic, eudaimonic, social, and affective motives	9
Emotion effects survive non-standard orthographic representations	9
Item method directed forgetting occurs independently of borderline personality traits, even for borderline-salient items	9
Beliefs about emotion usefulness are nuanced: degree of personal reference and emotional valence predict affective distress	9
The effect of induced COVID-19-related fear on psychological distance and time perception	8
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 preference	8
Longitudinal associations between emotion malleability beliefs and avoidance in college students	8
Investigating a bias account of emotional false memories using a criterion warning and force choice restrictions at retrieval	8
Does cognitive load influence expressive flexibility? Comparing civilian and veteran populations	8
The effects of rumination on internalising symptoms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic among mothers and their offspring: a brief report	8
Emotional processing writing and physiological stress responses: understanding constructive and unconstructive processes	8
A multinomial modelling approach to face identity recognition during instructed threat	8
Humour in trolley problems and other sacrificial dilemmas: killing is not funny at all	8
An integrative analysis of potential mechanisms of reduced positive affect in daily life in depression: an ESM study	8
Associations of nature contact with emotional ill-being and well-being: the role of emotion regulation	8
The empathic measure of true emotion (EMOTE): a novel set of stimuli for measuring emotional responding	8
Literally or prosodically? Recognising emotional discourse in alexithymia	8
Individual differences in pupil dilation to others’ emotional and neutral eyes with varying pupil sizes	7
Rapid detection of neutral faces associated with emotional value	7
Going beyond ourselves: the role of self-transcendent experiences in wisdom	7
Control your emotions: evidence for a shared mechanism of cognitive and emotional control	7
Aging and task design shape the relationship between response time variability and emotional response inhibition	7
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 conditions	7
Reward enhancement of item-location associative memory spreads to similar items within a category	7
Rumination, but not mood, predicts prospective memory performance: novel insights from a derived measure of trait rumination	7
Why do people (not) share guilt with others?	7
Adult age differences in remembering gain- and loss-related intentions	7
“When did you see it?” The effect of emotional valence on temporal source memory in aging	7
Roles of recalled parenting experiences and effortful control in adult daily emotion regulation	7
Working memory modulates the anger superiority effect in central and peripheral visual fields	7
Memory control immediately improves unpleasant emotions associated with autobiographical memories of past immoral actions	6

Emotion in motion: perceiving fear in the behaviour of individuals from minimal motion capture displays	6
Contradict them softly! Contradictions of the subject feel less true than contradictions of the object	6
Psychological trauma and emotional upheaval as revealed in academic writing: The case of COVID-19	6
“Anger? No, thank you. I don't mimic it”: how contextual modulation of facial display meaning impacts emotional mimicry	6
Emotion malleability beliefs influence emotion regulation and emotion recovery among individuals with depressive symptoms	6
Level and stability of self-esteem mediate relationships between personality traits and life satisfaction: Bayesian multilevel modeling with annual data	6
Attachment styles and attachment (in)security priming in relation to emotional conflict control	6
Getting a grip on insight: real-time and embodied Aha experiences predict correct solutions	6
Interpersonal helping in the workplace: social expectation predicts anticipated guilt and intention to help a coworker	6
Correction	6
Correction	6
A unified approach to managing emotions and pursuing purpose in life	6
Relationship between shame and theory of mind in early adolescence: the mediating role of private and public self-consciousness	6
The impact of disgust learning on memory processes for neutral stimuli: a classical conditioning approach	5
Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words: evidence from eye fixations during reading	5
Emotion may predict susceptibility to fake news but emotion regulation does not seem to help	5
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-analysis	5
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 life	5
Different effects of emotional valence on overt attention and recognition memory	5
Emotional stimuli similarly disrupt attention in both visual fields	5
Feelings of gratitude to Allah and people and their associations with affect in daily life	5
Theories in cognition & emotion – social functions of emotion	5
Social impression formation and depression: examining cognitive flexibility and bias	5
Blocking lower facial features reduces emotion identification accuracy in static faces and full body dynamic expressions	5
The relationship between environmentally induced emotion and memory for a naturalistic virtual experience	5
Modulatory effects of goal relevance on emotional attention reveal that fear has a distinct value	5
Investigating the role of mental imagery use in the assessment of anhedonia	5
Trolleys, triage and Covid-19: the role of psychological realism in sacrificial dilemmas	5
Coherence of attention and memory biases in currently and previously depressed women	5
Reactance, morality, and disgust: the relationship between affective dispositions and compliance with official health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
The closer you are, the more it hurts: the impact of proximity on moral decision-making	5
Age-related differences in processing of emotions in speech disappear with babble noise in the background	5
Empathic forecasting of the big-fish-little-pond effect	4
Current and expected affective valence interact to predict choice in recurrent decisions	4
Effects of scaffolding emotion language use on emotion differentiation and psychological health: an experience-sampling study	4
You gotta fight! – Why norm-violations and outgroup criticism lead to confrontational reactions	4
Natural language sentiment as an indicator of depression and anxiety symptoms: a longitudinal mixed methods study ¹	4
Uniting theory and data: the promise and challenge of creating an honest model of facial expression	4
The appraisal patterns and response types of enthusiasm: a comparison with joy and hope	4
Feeling more neutral? Evaluative conditioning can increase neutral affective reactions	4
Self-esteem predicts positive affect directly and self-efficacy indirectly: a 10-year longitudinal study	4
Understanding human encounters goes beyond explaining musculoskeletal coordination: a review	4
Implicit angry faces interfere with response inhibition and response adjustment	4
“Me” means more than “good”: stimuli’s self-relevance matters more than valence in shaping evaluative learning via the self	4
Supporting mentalizing in primary school children: the effects of thoughts in mind project for children (TiM-C) on metacognition, emotion regulation and theory of mind	4
Clouded judgments? The role of virtual weather in word valence evaluations	4
Attentional bias towards task-irrelevant threatening faces reduces working memory updating efficiency in social anxiety: evidence from the n -back task combining with ey	4
How does Go/No-Go training lead to food devaluation? Separating the effects of motor inhibition and response valence	4
Fact- and emotion-focused conversations elicit differential patterns of reporting and distress in children	4
An eye-tracking study examining the relationship between males’ eating disorder symptomatology, body mass index, and expectations about character behaviour in text	4
Modulation of attentional bias by hypnotic suggestion: experimental evidence from an emotional Stroop task	4
Expectations about future learning influence moment-to-moment feelings of suspense	4
Human interaction, polarisation, and democratic reform: integrating political science with an interpersonal systems approach	4
Emotion malleability beliefs predict daily positive and negative affect in adolescents	4
Not all dogs (and goals) were created equal: an existential perspective on helplessness	4
Age-related differences on temporal source memory by using dynamic stimuli: the effects of POV and emotional valence	4
Reflect on emotional events from an observer’s perspective: a meta-analysis of experimental studies	4