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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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	52
Infants use emotion to infer intentionality from non-random sampling events	45
The empathic measure of true emotion (EMOTE): a novel set of stimuli for measuring emotional responding	37
Attachment styles and attachment (in)security priming in relation to emotional conflict control	34
The interpersonal effects of distinct emotions in online reviews	34
Literally or prosodically? Recognising emotional discourse in alexithymia	33
Investigating a bias account of emotional false memories using a criterion warning and force choice restrictions at retrieval	29
The closer you are, the more it hurts: the impact of proximity on moral decision-making	29
Item method directed forgetting occurs independently of borderline personality traits, even for borderline-salient items	26
Higher judgements of learning for emotional words: processing fluency or memory beliefs?	24
Experimental elicitations of awe: a meta-analysis	24
Reactance, morality, and disgust: the relationship between affective dispositions and compliance with official health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic	24
Emotional content influences eye-movements under natural but not under instructed conditions	23
Buffering effect of fiction on negative emotions: engagement with negatively valenced fiction decreases the intensity of negative emotions	20
Emotion malleability beliefs prompt cognitive reappraisal: evidence from an online longitudinal intervention for adolescents	20
Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease	18
Natural language sentiment as an indicator of depression and anxiety symptoms: a longitudinal mixed methods study ¹	18
Human interaction, polarisation, and democratic reform: integrating political science with an interpersonal systems approach	17
Love and hate do not modulate the attentional blink but improve overall performance	17
Self-esteem predicts positive affect directly and self-efficacy indirectly: a 10-year longitudinal study	17
Investigating the role of mental imagery use in the assessment of anhedonia	15
Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces	15
Feelings of gratitude to Allah and people and their associations with affect in daily life	15
Expectations about future learning influence moment-to-moment feelings of suspense	14

Effects of scaffolding emotion language use on emotion differentiation and psychological health: an experience-sampling study	14
The appraisal patterns and response types of enthusiasm: a comparison with joy and hope	14
Learned helplessness and its relevance for psychological suffering: a new perspective illustrated with attachment problems, burn-out, and fatigue complaints	13
Pride and moral disengagement: associations among comparison-based pride, moral disengagement, and unethical decision-making	12
Devaluation of NoGo stimuli is both robust and fragile	12
Persistence and disengagement in failing goals: commentary on Boddez, Van Dessel, & De Houwer	11
Featural vs. Holistic processing and visual sampling in the influence of social category cues on emotion recognition	11
Perceived naturalness of emotional voice morphs	11
Evaluating the ‘skin disease-avoidance’ and ‘dangerous animal’ frameworks for understanding trypophobia	11
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
Relative contributions of the face and body to social judgements: emotion, threat and status	11
The structure underlying core affect and perceived affective qualities of human vocal bursts	11
Induced gratitude and hope, and experienced fear, but not experienced disgust, facilitate COVID-19 prevention	10
A neurocognitive account of attentional control theory: how does trait anxiety affect the brain’s attentional networks?	9
Emotional responses during communicational comfort: the effect of personality through the prism of process communication model	9
The influence of PTSD symptoms on selective visual attention while reading	9
How young children use manifest emotions and dominance cues to understand social rules: a registered report	9
Electrophysiological representations of multivariate human emotion experience	9
The subject matters: relations among types of anxiety, ADHD symptoms, math performance, and literacy performance	9
The relationship between anger and creative performance: a three-level meta-analysis	9
Updating the cognitive model of humour perception: a potential implicit processing pathway?	9
Putting emotions into affective polarisation	9
The perceived controllability of negatively-valenced episodic future thinking modulates delay discounting	9
Emojis and affective priming in visual word recognition	9
The effect of fragmented sleep on emotion regulation ability and usage	9
Growth mindset and responses to acute stress	8
Sounds like a fight: listeners can infer behavioural contexts from spontaneous nonverbal vocalisations	8
Coordination in interpersonal systems	8
The influence of memory for impressions based on behaviours and beliefs on approach/avoidance decisions	8
Illustrating the pathway from affect to somatic symptom: the Affective Picture Paradigm*	8
Emotion-specific recognition biases and how they relate to emotion-specific recognition accuracy, family and child demographic factors, and social behaviour	8
Gratitude endures while indebtedness persuades: investigating the unique influences of gratitude and indebtedness in helping	8
A smile hampers encoding and memory for non-happy eyes in a face: temporal dynamics and importance of initial fixation	8
Does cognitive reappraisal facilitate extinction?	8
Sound symbolic associations in Spanish emotional words: affective dimensions and discrete emotions	8
(Eye-)tracking the escape from the self: guilt proneness moderates the effect of failure on self-avoidance	8
Determinants for positive and negative experiences of interpersonal touch: context matters	8
Emotional mimicry as social regulator: theoretical considerations	8
Bodily feedback: expansive and upward posture facilitates the experience of positive affect	8
Predicting vs. guessing: the role of confidence for pupillometric markers of curiosity and surprise	8
Sadness facilitates “deeper” reading comprehension: a behavioural and eye tracking study	8
Social media’s influence on momentary emotion based on people’s initial mood: an experimental design	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
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
Individual differences in pupil dilation to others’ emotional and neutral eyes with varying pupil sizes	7
The illusion of insight: detailed warnings reduce but do not prevent false “Aha!” moments	7
Automatic processing of emotional images and psychopathic personality traits	7
The influence of emotion on temporal context models	7

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