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Papers

(The median citation count of Emotion Review is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Shame is Personal, Not Ontological	212
Imagining Neo-Emotions: Historical Perspectives	58
Fairness, Hierarchy, and Moral Rationalization, or What's Wrong With Paradise Lost ?	35
Empathy & Literature	30
Contradictions at the Heart of Compassion	29
How Awe Shaped Us: An Evolutionary Perspective	23
Call for Nominations	23
The Evolutionary Function of Awe: A Review and Integrated Model of Seven Theoretical Perspectives	19
Enhancing Emotional Intelligence With the Positive Humanities: A Narrative Review and Proposal for Well-Being Interventions	19
Apprehending Value, Position-Taking and the Manifest Image of Emotion: Responses to Commentators	18
Specificity Versus Generality: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Association Between Trait Disgust Sensitivity and Moral Judgment	17
Author Reply: Why goal-directed cycles still explain most phenomena called emotions	17
Incorporating Consciousness into an Understanding of Emotion and Nonverbal Behavior	16
Emotion in Nonverbal Communication: Comparing Animal and Human Vocalizations and Human Text Messages	16
On the Invalidity of Neta and Kim's Argument That Surprise is Always Valenced	15
Why We Mimic Emotions Even When No One is Watching: Limited Visual Contact and Emotional Mimicry	15
Music as an Evolved Tool for Socio-Affective Fiction	14
Understanding the Relationship Between the Big Five Personality Traits and the Cognitive Appraisals Leading to Emotions: An Integrative Narrative Review	13
Moors’ Eliminativism Cross-Examined: Why Emotions Are Not Goal-Directed Cycles	13
CORRIGENDUM to “Does Music Training Improve Emotion Recognition Abilities? A Critical Review”	13
Comment: Getting Our Affect Together: Shared Representations as the Core of Empathy	10
Why We Should Reject the Restrictive Isomorphic Matching Definition of Empathy	10
Cross-Cultural Calibration of Words and Emotions: Referential, Constructionist, and Pragmatic Perspectives	10
Introduction to the Special Issue: “Literature and Emotion”	9
Affect Theory and Literary Criticism	9

Editorial	8
Looking at Emotions to Understand Responses to Environmental Challenges	8
On How to Develop Emotion Taxonomies	8
Emotional Feelings: Evaluative Perceptions or Position-Takings? Introduction to the Special Section	7
Contempt and Righteous Anger: A Gendered Perspective From a Classical Indian Epic	7
Dhaniya's Anger in Premchand's Godan: Emotion System Activation and Affective Marxism	7
Authors Reply: Empathy and Creativity: Dangers of the Methodological Tail Wagging the Conceptual Dog	7
Philosophical Insights for a Science of Long-Term Affect Dynamics	6
Emotion Regulation Versus Mood Regulation	6
Less Is More: How the Language of Fiction Fosters Emotion Recognition	6
A Multi-Component Model of Emotion Response Convergence: Implications for the Development of Psychopathology	6
Emotional Self-Dissonance	6
Empathic Perception: A Neutral Framework for Understanding Empathy	6
Migration as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy: What Role do Emotions Play?	6
Situated Affectivity and Mind Shaping: Lessons from Social Psychology	6
Expressing Contempt in Rome—Language, Rhetoric, and Critique	5
Skin Complexion and the Blush	5
Introduction: Contempt, Ancient and Modern	5
Analysis and Classification of Music-Induced States of Sadness	5
The Architecture of Happiness	5
Contempt, Withdrawal and Equanimity in the Zhuangzi	5
Narrating Anger Appropriately: Implications for Narrative Form and Successful Coping	5
Nostalgia for the Past, Present and Future	4
Collective Emotion: A Framework for Experimental Research	4
On the Nature of Nostalgia: A Psychological Perspective	4
Somatovisceral Influences on Emotional Development	4
Kant's Concept of Nostalgia	4
Emotions as the Enforcers of Norms	4
Yearning for the Irretrievable: Nostalgia and Time	3
The Feeling “Without Any Name”	3
Demystifying the Role of Goal-Related Processes in Explaining the Effects of Emotion on Information-Seeking Decisions	3
Comment: Debating Empathy: Historical Awareness and Conceptual Precision	3
Emotionally Intelligent Behavior in Organizations: When Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity Meet	3
Comment: Empathy as a Flexible and Fundamentally Interpersonal Phenomenon: Comment on “Why We Should Reject the Restrictive Isomorphic Matching Definition of Empathy”	3
Exploring Emotions Through Co-speech Gestures: The Caveats and New Directions	2
Emotional Appraisal, Psychological Distance and Construal Level: Implications for Cognitive Reappraisal	2
Contempt in Seneca's Dialogue “On the Firmness of the Wise”	2
From Emotional Labour to Affectual Bodies: Moving Towards an ‘Affective Ethnography’ of the Criminal Court Space	2
Climate Anxiety: A Research Agenda Inspired by Emotion Research	2
The Nature of Horror	2
An Emotional Road to Sustainability: How Affective Science Can Support pro-Climate Action	2
The Wages of Contempt	2
Resolving Sequential Self-Control Dilemmas: The Role of Pride and Guilt	2
A Person-Specific Emotion Regulation Flexibility Framework: Taking an Integrative Approach	2
Affective Ruptures: A Pragmatist Approach	2
A Motivational Account of Convergence in Emotion Expressions Within Groups: The Emotional Conformity Framework	2