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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of rumination on internalising symptoms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic among mothers and their offspring: a brief report	65
Control your emotions: evidence for a shared mechanism of cognitive and emotional control	37
The empathic measure of true emotion (EMOTE): a novel set of stimuli for measuring emotional responding	36
Attachment styles and attachment (in)security priming in relation to emotional conflict control	34
Literally or prosodically? Recognising emotional discourse in alexithymia	34
Infants use emotion to infer intentionality from non-random sampling events	32
Item method directed forgetting occurs independently of borderline personality traits, even for borderline-salient items	28
Investigating a bias account of emotional false memories using a criterion warning and force choice restrictions at retrieval	27
The closer you are, the more it hurts: the impact of proximity on moral decision-making	26
Positivity effects in self-defining memories in men and women across adulthood: different patterns between self-rated affect and content-coded meaning	24
Higher judgements of learning for emotional words: processing fluency or memory beliefs?	24
Emotional content influences eye-movements under natural but not under instructed conditions	20
Emotion malleability beliefs prompt cognitive reappraisal: evidence from an online longitudinal intervention for adolescents	18
Experimental elicitations of awe: a meta-analysis	18
Buffering effect of fiction on negative emotions: engagement with negatively valenced fiction decreases the intensity of negative emotions	17
Learned helplessness and its relevance for psychological suffering: a new perspective illustrated with attachment problems, burn-out, and fatigue complaints	17
Everything is going to be okay: emotion regulation and immune neglect in affective forecasting	17
Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease	17
Love and hate do not modulate the attentional blink but improve overall performance	16
Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces	15
Human interaction, polarisation, and democratic reform: integrating political science with an interpersonal systems approach	15
Feelings of gratitude to Allah and people and their associations with affect in daily life	14
Investigating the role of mental imagery use in the assessment of anhedonia	14
Natural language sentiment as an indicator of depression and anxiety symptoms: a longitudinal mixed methods study ¹	13
Self-esteem predicts positive affect directly and self-efficacy indirectly: a 10-year longitudinal study	13

Pride and moral disengagement: associations among comparison-based pride, moral disengagement, and unethical decision-making	12
Effects of scaffolding emotion language use on emotion differentiation and psychological health: an experience-sampling study	12
The appraisal patterns and response types of enthusiasm: a comparison with joy and hope	12
Persistence and disengagement in failing goals: commentary on Boddez, Van Dessel, & De Houwer	12
I want it small or, rather, give me a bunch: the role of evaluative morphology on the assessment of the emotional properties of words	11
Understanding the association between reappraisal use and depressive symptoms during adolescence: the moderating influence of regulatory success	11
Perceived naturalness of emotional voice morphs	11
Relative contributions of the face and body to social judgements: emotion, threat and status	11
A neurocognitive account of attentional control theory: how does trait anxiety affect the brain’s attentional networks?	10
Putting emotions into affective polarisation	10
Featural vs. Holistic processing and visual sampling in the influence of social category cues on emotion recognition	10
Devaluation of NoGo stimuli is both robust and fragile	10
The structure underlying core affect and perceived affective qualities of human vocal bursts	9
The perceived controllability of negatively-valenced episodic future thinking modulates delay discounting	9
The influence of PTSD symptoms on selective visual attention while reading	9
Emojis and affective priming in visual word recognition	9
Electrophysiological representations of multivariate human emotion experience	9
Emotional responses during communicational comfort: the effect of personality through the prism of process communication model	9
Updating the cognitive model of humour perception: a potential implicit processing pathway?	9
Evaluating the ‘skin disease-avoidance’ and ‘dangerous animal’ frameworks for understanding trypophobia	9
Induced gratitude and hope, and experienced fear, but not experienced disgust, facilitate COVID-19 prevention	9
How young children use manifest emotions and dominance cues to understand social rules: a registered report	9
The relationship between anger and creative performance: a three-level meta-analysis	9
The effect of fragmented sleep on emotion regulation ability and usage	8
Predicting vs. guessing: the role of confidence for pupillometric markers of curiosity and surprise	8
Illustrating the pathway from affect to somatic symptom: the Affective Picture Paradigm*	8
Does cognitive reappraisal facilitate extinction?	8
Anger superiority effect or happiness superiority effect: how the distractor homogeneity modulates the asymmetry in searching emotional faces?	8
Emotional mimicry as social regulator: theoretical considerations	8
Sound symbolic associations in Spanish emotional words: affective dimensions and discrete emotions	8
The influence of memory for impressions based on behaviours and beliefs on approach/avoidance decisions	8
(Eye-)tracking the escape from the self: guilt proneness moderates the effect of failure on self-avoidance	8
Coordination in interpersonal systems	8
A smile hampers encoding and memory for non-happy eyes in a face: temporal dynamics and importance of initial fixation	8
Gratitude endures while indebtedness persuades: investigating the unique influences of gratitude and indebtedness in helping	8
Bodily feedback: expansive and upward posture facilitates the experience of positive affect	8
Manifestation of emotion regulation difficulties in intraindividual emotion dynamics	7
Affective theory of mind impairments underlying callous-unemotional traits and the role of cognitive control	7
Sadness facilitates “deeper” reading comprehension: a behavioural and eye tracking study	7
The illusion of insight: detailed warnings reduce but do not prevent false “Aha!” moments	7
Measuring multiple automatic product appraisals simultaneously: introduction and examination of the implicit attribute classification task	7
Social anxiety modulating early processing for social threat words: an ERP study	7
Dynamics of attachment and emotion regulation in daily life: uni- and bidirectional associations	7
A daily within-person investigation on the link between social expectancies to be busy and emotional wellbeing: the moderating role of emotional complexity acceptance	7
Emotion-specific recognition biases and how they relate to emotion-specific recognition accuracy, family and child demographic factors, and social behaviour	7
Determinants for positive and negative experiences of interpersonal touch: context matters	7
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 fluency	7
The effects of cognitive reappraisal and sleep on emotional memory formation	7
Higher loneliness is associated with greater positive and negative emotion instability in everyday life	7
Sounds like a fight: listeners can infer behavioural contexts from spontaneous nonverbal vocalisations	7

Growth mindset and responses to acute stress	7
Automatic processing of emotional images and psychopathic personality traits	7
Social media’s influence on momentary emotion based on people’s initial mood: an experimental design	7
The influence of emotion on temporal context models	6
The role of self-compassion in loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: a group-based trajectory modelling approach	6
Does cognitive load influence expressive flexibility? Comparing civilian and veteran populations	6
Threat priming diminishes the gaze cueing effect	6
Emotion malleability beliefs influence emotion regulation and emotion recovery among individuals with depressive symptoms	6
The effects of nonverbal pride and skill on judgements of victory and social influence: a boxing study	6
The role of hyperbole in conveying emotionality: the case of victim speech	6
Correction	6
Rumination and inhibition in task switching: no evidence for an association	6
Aging and task design shape the relationship between response time variability and emotional response inhibition	6
A unified approach to managing emotions and pursuing purpose in life	6
Emotion processing in concrete and abstract words: evidence from eye fixations during reading	6
The divide between daily event appraisal and emotion experience in major depression	6
Retrieval-induced forgetting of emotional memories	6
The influence of consonant wanderings and facial expressions in warmth and competence judgments	6
Beliefs about emotion usefulness are nuanced: degree of personal reference and emotional valence predict affective distress	6
Ambiguity potentiates effects of loneliness on feelings of rejection	6
Are multiple types of associative memory differently impacted by emotion?	6
Rumination, but not mood, predicts prospective memory performance: novel insights from a derived measure of trait rumination	6
Think again: the role of reappraisal in reducing negative valence bias	6
Agency influences vicarious approach/avoidance effects	6
Individual differences in pupil dilation to others’ emotional and neutral eyes with varying pupil sizes	6
A pandemic-related affect gap in risky decisions for self and others	6
Social impression formation and depression: examining cognitive flexibility and bias	6
Evaluating non-affective cross-modal congruence effects on emotion perception	6
Emotional mimicry: a communication accommodation approach	5
Different effects of emotional valence on overt attention and recognition memory	5
Theory convergence in emotion science is timely and realistic	5
Vocal emotion recognition in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis	5
Lessons unlearned: A conceptual review and meta-analysis of the relationship between the Attention Control Scale and Objective Attention Control	5
Interactive relationship between alexithymia, psychological distress and posttraumatic stress disorder symptomology across time	5
Better memory for emotional sources? A systematic evaluation of source valence and arousal in source memory	5
Modulation of attentional bias by hypnotic suggestion: experimental evidence from an emotional Stroop task	5
Modulatory effects of goal relevance on emotional attention reveal that fear has a distinct value	5
Social anxiety and emotion regulation flexibility: a daily diary approach	5
Does facial redness really affect emotion perception? Evidence for limited generalisability of effects of facial redness on emotion perception in a large sample	5
Perceptual control or action-selection? Comment on: a perceptual control theory of emotional action	5
Both negative and positive task-irrelevant stimuli contract attentional breadth in individuals with high levels of negative affect	5
Working memory capacity relates to reduced negative emotion in daily life	5
Bouncing back from emotional ups and downs: insights in emotional recovery using survival analyses of burst ESM data	5
Children's executive functions predict their preferences for emotion regulation strategies	5
When unpleasantness meets feminines: a behavioural study on gender agreement and emotionality	5
Associations between attentional biases for emotional images and rumination in depression	5
Interpersonal emotion regulation strategy choice in younger and older adults	5
Not feeling it: lack of robust emotion effects on breadth of attention	4
Maternal interpretation of infant emotions related to mothers’ mindfulness and mother-infant stress	4
Associations between parental dispositional attributions, dismissing and coaching reactions to children’s emotions, and children’s problem behaviour moderated by child gender	4
For better or for worse: differential effects of the emotional valence of words on children’s recall	4
Measuring emotion beliefs: a systematic review	4
Two roads leading to the same evaluative conditioning effect? Stimulus-response binding versus operant conditioning	4
Me, us, and others: exploring the role of familiarity and emotional expressions in face visual awareness	4
Emotions, fast and slow: processing of emotion words is affected by individual differences in need for affect and narrative absorption	4
Retellings of emotional videos: the dynamics of gesture characteristics in diverse emotion categories	4
The effect of facial colour on implicit facial expressions	4
Facial mimicry depends on the emotion we recognize in others' faces	4
Commentary on “how emotions, relationships, and culture constitute each other: advances in social functionalist theory” by Keltner, Sauter, Tracy, Wetchler, and Cowen	4
When mind and body align: examining the role of cross-modal congruency in conscious representations of happy facial expressions	4
Facing social exclusion: a facial EMG examination of the reaffiliative function of smiling	4
Correction	4
Prior memory encoding of negative distractors biases emotion-induced blindness	4
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 recognition	4
Effects of acute exercise on emotional memory	4
Persistent negative self-referent thinking in the context of depression: examining the role of temperament and emotion regulation	4
Symbolic number ordering strategies and math anxiety	4
Contamination in Trypophobia: investigating the role of disgust	4
Reappraising reappraisal: an expanded view	4
Integration of negative emotions, empathy, and support for conciliatory policies in intractable conflicts	4
Coronashaming: interpersonal affect worsening in contexts of COVID-19 rule violations	4
A validation and comparison of three measures of participants’ disposition to feel moved (introducing the Geneva Sentimentality Scale)	4
How emotional are words ambiguous on the spaces of valence, origin and activation?	4
Emotional time travel: the role of emotion in temporal memory	4
Investigating the interaction of pleasantness and arousal and the role of aesthetic emotions on episodic memory using a musical what-where-when paradigm	4