Emotion

Article	Citations
Surprised–curious–confused: Epistemic emotions and knowledge exploration.	102
Time capsule: Nostalgia shields psychological wellbeing from limited time horizons.	67
Emotion dynamics across adulthood in everyday life: Older adults are more emotionally stable and better at regulating desires.	54
The measurement of within-person affect variation.	51
Racialized emotion recognition accuracy and anger bias of children’s faces.	48
Big smile, small self: Awe walks promote prosocial positive emotions in older adults.	48
Increasing anticipated and anticipatory pleasure through episodic thinking.	44
Age and emotion regulation in daily life: Frequency, strategies, tactics, and effectiveness.	41
Maternal depression impairs child emotion understanding and executive functions: The role of dysregulated maternal care across the first decade of life.	41
On the automaticity of attentional orienting to threatening stimuli.	41
Bodily maps of emotions are culturally universal.	41
Charting the development of emotion comprehension and abstraction from childhood to adulthood using observer-rated and linguistic measures.	40
Modeling individual differences in emotion regulation repertoire in daily life with multilevel latent profile analysis.	38
Coherence between subjective experience and physiology in emotion: Individual differences and implications for well-being.	38
Infants’ attachment insecurity predicts attachment-relevant emotion regulation strategies in adulthood.	37
Emotion recognition from posed and spontaneous dynamic expressions: Human observers versus machine analysis.	37
Emotion dynamics in children and adolescents: A meta-analytic and descriptive review.	33
Building empathy through motivation-based interventions.	31
Gratitude and the brain: Trait gratitude mediates the association between structural variations in the medial prefrontal cortex and life satisfaction.	31
Changing stress mindsets with a novel imagery intervention: A randomized controlled trial.	31
Emotion regulation and psychological and physical health during a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.	30
The role of movement kinematics in facial emotion expression production and recognition.	30
Happy facial expressions impair inhibitory control with respect to fearful facial expressions but only when task-relevant.	30
Use of linguistic distancing and cognitive reappraisal strategies during emotion regulation in children, adolescents, and young adults.	29
The immutability of valence and arousal in the foundation of emotion.	29

The effect of a multi-week nostalgia intervention on well-being: Mechanisms and moderation.	28
Thinking mindfully: How mindfulness relates to rumination and reflection in daily life.	27
Neural representations of awe: Distinguishing common and distinct neural mechanisms.	27
The relation between age and experienced stress, worry, affect, and depression during the spring 2020 phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.	27
Emotion differentiation and behavioral dysregulation in clinical and nonclinical samples: A meta-analysis.	26
Angry and happy expressions affect forward gait initiation only when task relevant.	26
Do emotions result in their predicted facial expressions? A meta-analysis of studies on the co-occurrence of expression and emotion.	26
The perils of murky emotions: Emotion differentiation moderates the prospective relationship between naturalistic stress exposure and adolescent depression.	26
Changes in vocal emotion recognition across the life span.	26
Why do depressed people prefer sad music?	26
Prosocial behavior promotes positive emotion during the COVID-19 pandemic.	26
The recognition of 18 facial-bodily expressions across nine cultures.	26
Behavioral indices of positivity resonance associated with long-term marital satisfaction.	26
Emotion regulation in everyday life: Mapping global self-reports to daily processes.	25
The relation between positive and negative affect becomes more negative in response to personally relevant events.	24
Pride: A meta-analytic project.	23
Age differences in emotion-induced blindness: Positivity effects in early attention.	23
Social interaction context shapes emotion recognition through body language, not facial expressions.	23
Holding on to pieces of the past: Daily reports of nostalgia in a life-span sample.	23
Emodiversity, health, and well-being in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) daily diary study.	23
Cause or symptom? A longitudinal test of bidirectional relationships between emotion regulation strategies and mental health symptoms.	22
Nostalgia promotes help seeking by fostering social connectedness.	22
Picking up good vibrations: Uncovering the content of distinct positive emotion subjective experience.	22
Positive emotion in daily life: Emotion regulation and depression.	22
Evidence for the existence of emotion dispositions and the effects of appraisal bias.	21
Valuing emotional control in social anxiety disorder: A multimethod study of emotion beliefs and emotion regulation.	21
Shared emotions in shared lives: Moments of co-experienced affect, more than individually experienced affect, linked to relationship quality.	21
Why do my thoughts feel so bad? Getting at the reciprocal effects of rumination and negative affect using dynamic structural equation modeling.	20
Threat reduces value-driven but not salience-driven attentional capture.	20
Satisfied yet striving: Gratitude fosters life satisfaction and improvement motivation in youth.	19
Who emphasizes positivity? An exploration of emotion values in people of Latino, Asian, and European heritage living in the United States.	19
Feeling bad is not always unhealthy: Culture moderates the link between negative affect and diurnal cortisol profiles.	19
The role of emotions in esports performance.	19
Instructed threat enhances threat perception in faces.	19
The consequences of compulsion: A 4-year longitudinal study of compulsive internet use and emotion regulation difficulties.	19
Enhanced recognition of vocal emotions in individuals with naturally good musical abilities.	19
A multidimensional approach to the relationship between individualism-collectivism and guilt and shame.	18
Bidirectional contextual influence between faces and bodies in emotion perception.	18
Prosocial behavior is associated with transdiagnostic markers of affective sensitivity in multiple domains.	18
Seeing no pain: Assessing the generalizability of racial bias in pain perception.	18
What we talk about when we talk about hope: A prototype analysis.	17
Emotion differentiation moderates the effects of rumination on depression: A longitudinal study.	17
When do adolescents feel loved? A daily within-person study of parent–adolescent relations.	17
Aging bodies, aging emotions: Interoceptive differences in emotion representations and self-reports across adulthood.	17
The self and empathy: Lacking a clear and stable sense of self undermines empathy and helping behavior.	16
Interpersonal emotion regulation in children: Age, gender, and cross-cultural differences using a serious game.	16
A new micro-intervention to increase the enjoyment and continued practice of meditation.	16
Exploring the complexity of mothers’ real-time emotions while caregiving.	16
Affective calculus: The construction of affect through information integration over time.	16
Prenatal maternal mood entropy is associated with child neurodevelopment.	16

How does the attention system learn from aversive outcomes?	16
On the relationship between valence and arousal in samples across the globe.	15
The thrill of victory: Savoring positive affect, psychophysiological reward processing, and symptoms of depression.	15
Sense of purpose predicts daily positive events and attenuates their influence on positive affect.	15
Collective emotions during the COVID-19 outbreak.	15
Reflective functioning and empathy among mothers of school-aged children: Charting the space between.	15
Visual disgust elicitors produce an attentional blink independent of contextual and trait-level pathogen avoidance.	15
Past adversity protects against the numeracy bias in compassion.	15
Accuracy and bias in the social perception of envy.	14
Lower general executive function is primarily associated with trait worry: A latent variable analysis of negative thought/affect measures.	14
Many ways to see your feelings: Successful facial expression recognition occurs with diverse patterns of fixation distributions.	14
Motivated suppression of value- and threat-modulated attentional capture.	14
Alterations in facial expressions of emotion: Determining the promise of ultrathin slicing approaches and comparing human and automated coding methods in psychosis risk.	14
Emojis as social information in digital communication.	14
Modulation of mood on eye movement and face recognition performance.	14
Cascades of infant happiness: Infant positive affect predicts childhood IQ and adult educational attainment.	13
While a shy child waits: Autonomic and affective responses during the anticipation and delivery of a speech.	13
Bipolar spectrum psychopathology is associated with altered emotion dynamics across multiple timescales.	13
Daily perceived stress predicts less next day social interaction: Evidence from a naturalistic mobile sensing study.	13
Predicting negative affect variability and spontaneous emotion regulation: Can working memory span tasks estimate emotion regulatory capacity?	13
Awe, ideological conviction, and perceptions of ideological opponents.	13
On thanksgiving: Cultural variation in gratitude demonstrations and perceptions between the United States and Taiwan.	13
How task-unrelated and freely moving thought relate to affect: Evidence for dissociable patterns in everyday life.	13
Bugs are blech, butterflies are beautiful, but both are bad to bite: Admired animals are disgusting to eat but are themselves neither disgusting nor contaminating.	13
Daily dyadic coping during COVID-19 among Israeli couples.	13
Emotion experience and expression goals shape emotion regulation strategy choice.	13
Affective modulation of memory-based guidance in visual search: Dissociative role of positive and negative emotions.	13
More than one kind: Different sensory signatures and functions divide affectionate touch.	12
Performance and belief-based emotion regulation capacity and tendency: Mapping links with cognitive flexibility and perceived stress.	12
Why do bilinguals code-switch when emotional? Insights from immigrant parent–child interactions.	12
Does negative emotion differentiation influence how people choose to regulate their distress after stressful events? A four-year daily diary study.	12
The mediating role of emotion regulation strategies on the association between rejection sensitivity, aggression, withdrawal, and prosociality.	12
Investigating appraisal-driven facial expression and inference in emotion communication.	12
Cognitive and emotional correlates of belief in political misinformation: Who endorses partisan misbeliefs?	12
Intersectionality in emotion signaling and recognition: The influence of gender, ethnicity, and social class.	12
Emotion perception in habitual players of action video games.	12
Infant fecal microbiota composition and attention to emotional faces.	12
Interoceptive cardiac expectations to emotional stimuli predict visual perception.	11
Testing theoretical assumptions underlying the relation between anxiety, mind wandering, and task-switching: A diffusion model analysis.	11
Effects of hunger on emotional arousal responses and attention/memory biases.	11
Testing a goal-driven account of involuntary attentional capture by threat.	11
Action opportunities modulate attention allocation under social threat.	11
From values to emotions: Cognitive appraisal mediates the impact of core values on emotional experience.	11
Negative emotion and perceived social class.	11
Moral outrage drives the interaction of harm and culpable intent in third-party punishment decisions.	11
Expanding context in the role of emotion regulation in mental health: How socioeconomic status (SES) and developmental stage matter.	11
I’ve seen enough! Prolonged and repeated exposure to disgusting stimuli increases oculomotor avoidance.	11
Affective dynamics among veterans: Associations with distress tolerance and posttraumatic stress symptoms.	11
Third-party punishment following observed social rejection.	11
Physical and social warmth: Warmer daily body temperature is associated with greater feelings of social connection.	11
Childhood anxiety sensitivity, fear downregulation, and anxious behaviors: Vagal suppression as a moderator of risk.	11
The Interpersonal Regulation Interaction Scale (IRIS): A multistudy investigation of receivers’ retrospective evaluations of interpersonal emotion regulation interactions.	11
Suggestion of cognitive enhancement improves emotion regulation.	10
Be here now: Perceptions of uncertainty enhance savoring.	10
Empathy-mediated altruism in intergroup contexts: The roles of posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth.	10
Childhood adversity and emotion regulation strategies as predictors of psychological stress and mental health in American Indian adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.	10
No one is an island: Awe encourages global citizenship identification.	10
Sour sleep, sweet revenge? Aggressive pleasure as a potential mechanism underlying poor sleep quality’s link to aggression.	10
Gratitude reduces consumption of depleting resources.	10
The role of reappraisal success in emotional and memory outcomes.	10
Indirect effect of family climate on adolescent depression through emotion regulatory processes.	10
Emotion regulation dynamics in daily life: Adaptive strategy use may be variable without being unstable and predictable without being autoregressive.	10
The curious case of threat-awe: A theoretical and empirical reconceptualization.	10
Processing emotional expressions under fear of rejection: Findings from diffusion model analyses.	10
Relational savoring intervention: Positive impacts for mothers and evidence of cultural compatibility for Latinas.	10
Hate: Toward understanding its distinctive features across interpersonal and intergroup targets.	10
Regaining control of your emotions? Investigating the mechanisms underlying effects of cognitive control training for remitted depressed patients.	9
Do people choose the same strategies to regulate other people’s emotions as they choose to regulate their own?	9
The generality of effects of emotional experience on emotion-regulation choice.	9
Mothers’ and fathers’ reflective functioning and its association with parenting behaviors and cortisol reactivity during a conflict interaction with their adolescent children.	9
An elusive deficit: Psychopathic personality traits and aberrant attention to emotional stimuli.	9
The variably intense vocalizations of affect and emotion (VIVAE) corpus prompts new perspective on nonspeech perception.	9
The level of construal involved in the elicitation of core versus moral disgust.	9
Variations in the regulation of affective neural responses across three cultures.	9
Are you looking or looking away? Visual exploration and avoidance of disgust- and fear-stimuli: An eye-tracking study.	9
Implicit induction of emotional control—A comparative fMRI investigation of self-control and reappraisal goal pursuit.	9
Learning biases to angry and happy faces during Pavlovian aversive conditioning.	9
Using crying to cope: Physiological responses to stress following tears of sadness.	9
Emotion-focused teaching practices and preschool children’s social and learning behaviors.	9
The role of imagery in threat-related perceptual decision making.	9

Soundtrack to the social world: Emotional music enhances empathy, compassion, and prosocial decisions but not theory of mind.	9
Increases in loneliness during medical school are associated with increases in individuals’ likelihood of mislabeling emotions as negative.	9
The goods in everyday love: Positivity resonance builds prosociality.	9
Expressive enhancement, suppression, and flexibility in childhood and adolescence: Longitudinal links with peer relations.	9
Testing the impact of emotional mood and cue characteristics on detailed autobiographical memory retrieval.	9
The functions of anger in moral courage—Insights from a behavioral study.	9
Optimistic expectations have benefits for effort and emotion with little cost.	9
Different bumps in the road: The emotional dynamics of couple disagreements in Belgium and Japan.	9
Neuroanatomy of expressive suppression: The role of the insula.	9
Morality is relative: Anger, disgust, and aggression as contingent responses to sibling versus acquaintance harm.	9
Contrast effects in backward evaluative conditioning: Exploring effects of affective relief/disappointment versus instructional information.	8
Emotional expressions as appeals to recipients.	8
Self-efficacy moderates the relationship between avoidance intentions and anxiety.	8
Culturally valued facial expressions enhance loan request success.	8
Feeling proud today may lead people to coast tomorrow: Daily intraindividual associations between emotion and effort in academic goal striving.	8
Emotion regulation in the face of loss: How detachment, positive reappraisal, and acceptance shape experiences, physiology, and perceptions in late life.	8
Incremental theories of emotion across time: Temporal dynamics and correlates of change.	8
Advanced emotion understanding: Children’s and adults’ knowledge that minds generalize from prior emotional events.	8
Longitudinal associations between positive affect and relationship quality among children and adolescents: Examining patterns of co-occurring change.	8
Individual differences in sadness coherence: Associations with dispositional affect and age.	8
Altering emotions near the hand: Approach–avoidance swipe interactions modulate the perceived valence of emotional pictures.	8
People respond with different moral emotions to violations in different relational models: A cross-cultural comparison.	8
Within- and between-group heterogeneity in cultural models of emotion among people of European, Asian, and Latino heritage in the United States.	8
Modeling heterogeneity in the simultaneous emotional costs and social benefits of co-rumination.	8
Prospective associations between emotion regulation and depressive symptoms among Mexican-origin adolescents.	8
Influencing emotion: Social anxiety and comparisons on Instagram.	8
The momentary benefits of positive events for individuals with elevated social anxiety.	8
Momentary emotion regulation strategy use and success: Testing the influences of emotion intensity and habitual strategy use.	8
How individuals perceive time in an anxious state: The mediating effect of attentional bias.	8
Emotion regulation self-efficacy mediates the relation between happiness emotion goals and depressive symptoms: A cross-lagged panel design.	8
Counterfactual thoughts distinguish benign and malicious envy.	8
Perceptions of romantic partners’ emotional suppression are more biased than accurate.	8
Emotional arousal influences remembrance of goal-relevant stimuli.	8
Accurate emotion prediction in dyads and groups and its potential social benefits.	7
An investigation of the impact of encounters with artistic imagination on well-being.	7
Demonstrate values: Behavioral displays of moral outrage as a cue to long-term mate potential.	7
Attentional bias to fearful faces in infants at high risk for autism spectrum disorder.	7
The role of facial coloration in emotion disambiguation.	7
Executive function moderates the effect of reappraisal on life satisfaction: A latent variable analysis.	7
Not to worry: Episodic retrieval impacts emotion regulation in older adults.	7
Leveraging facial expressions and contextual information to investigate opaque representations of emotions.	7
Heterogeneity in affective complexity among men and women.	7
A dyadic perspective of expressive suppression: Own or partner suppression weakens relationships.	7
Social emotion regulation strategies are differentially helpful for anxiety and sadness.	7
I know you so I will regulate you: Closeness but not target’s emotion type affects all stages of extrinsic emotion regulation.	7
One size does not fit all: Decomposing the implementation and differential benefits of social emotion regulation strategies.	7
Empathic accuracy: Associations with prosocial behavior and self-insecurity.	7
Hurts so good: Pain as an emotion regulation strategy.	7
PTSD in veterans, couple behavior, and cardiovascular response during marital conflict.	7
The impact of focused attention on emotional evaluation: An eye-tracking investigation.	7
Effectiveness of extrinsic emotion regulation strategies in text-based online communication.	7
Gratitude facilitates obedience: New evidence for the social alignment perspective.	7
Mixed and conflicted: The role of ambivalence in romantic relationships in light of attractive alternatives.	7
Lower emotional complexity as a prospective predictor of psychopathology in adolescents from the general population.	7
Evaluations of affective stimuli modulated by another person’s presence and affiliative touch.	7
Butchers’ and deli workers’ psychological adaptation to meat.	7
Nudging the better angels of our nature: A field experiment on morality and well-being.	7
Discrete negative emotions and goal disengagement in older adulthood: Context effects and associations with emotional well-being.	7
Emotionally intelligent people show more flexible regulation of emotions in daily life.	7
Thriving under pressure: The effects of stress-related wise interventions on affect, sleep, and exam performance for college students from disadvantaged backgrounds.	7
Perceiving acculturation from neutral and emotional faces.	7
Inferential emotion tracking (IET) reveals the critical role of context in emotion recognition.	7
Chronic pain patients low in social connectedness report higher pain and need deeper pressure for pain relief.	7
Emotion words link faces to emotional scenarios in early childhood.	7
Getting over it: Working memory capacity and affective responses to stressful events in daily life.	7
Neural processing of arousing emotional information is associated with executive functioning in older adults.	6
Within-person day-of-week effects on affective and evaluative/cognitive well-being among Koreans.	6
Emotion regulation and self-criticism in children and adolescence: Longitudinal networks of transdiagnostic risk factors.	6
The disgust traits: Self–other agreement in pathogen, sexual, and moral disgust sensitivity and their independence from HEXACO personality.	6
Observers perceive the Duchenne marker as signaling only intensity for sad expressions, not genuine emotion.	6
Age differences in emotion perception in a multiple target setting: An eye-tracking study.	6
The mixed benefits of a stressor-free life.	6
You do it to yourself: Attentional capture by threat-signaling stimuli persists even when entirely counterproductive.	6
Biased memories contribute to the links between stress and depressive symptoms.	6
Mood and judgment in a dyadic stress context.	6
Perceived social integration predicts future physical activity through positive affect and spontaneous thoughts.	6
Happy is stronger than sad: Emotional information modulates social attention.	6
Investigating the effects of perinatal status and gender on adults’ responses to infant and adult facial emotion.	6
Induced negative arousal modulates the speed of visual working memory consolidation.	6
Does motivational intensity exist distinct from valence and arousal?	6
A psychological flexibility perspective on well-being: Emotional reactivity, adaptive choices, and daily experiences.	6
Authoritarian attitudes are associated with higher autonomic reactivity to stress and lower recovery.	6
Dynamic, bidirectional influences of children’s emotions and maternal regulatory strategies.	6
Alterations in reward and emotional processing differentiate among adults with a history of childhood maltreatment: Implications for substance use behaviors.	6
The expanding class divide in happiness in the United States, 1972–2016.	6
Effect of mindfulness-based trauma recovery for refugees on shame and guilt in trauma recovery among African asylum-seekers.	6
Task-irrelevant threatening information is harder to ignore than other valences.	6
Never too late to plan: “Refocus on planning” as an effective way to lower symptoms and difficulties in emotion regulation during the COVID-19 first lockdown.	6
It is in your face—Alexithymia impairs facial mimicry.	6
Reading the mind with a mask? Improvement in reading the mind in the eyes during the COVID-19 pandemic.	6
Breakfast or bakery? The role of categorical ambiguity in overgeneralization of learned fear in trait anxiety.	6
Children’s emotion perception in context: The role of caregiver touch and relationship quality.	6
Associations between developmental patterns of negative parenting and emotion regulation development across adolescence.	6
Interpersonal emotion regulation flexibility: Effects on affect in daily life.	6
Anxious? Just Google it: Social ecological factors of internet search records on anxiety.	6