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(The median citation count of Motivation Science is 0. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Supplemental Material for Role of Contingency in Reward–Emotion Interactions During the Categorization of Emotional Facial Expressions	76
Supplemental Material for Missing Out by Pursuing Rewarding Outcomes: Why Initial Biases Can Lead to Persistent Suboptimal Choices	54
Batson on prosocial motivation. Commentary on Batson (2022).	28
Aggressive motivation: An introduction and overview.	23
Ramadan fasting as a goal-pursuit: Why people fast, and how motives affect their experience.	23
Which insights can research on achievement motivation gain from network analysis? Comparing different network methods empirically.	22
What is next for situated expectancy-value theory? A reply to our commentators.	21
Supplemental Material for Measuring Subjective Mental Effort as an Aversive and Enjoyable Phenomenon	21
Goal motives, mental contrasting with implementation intentions, and the self-regulation of saving goals: A longitudinal investigation.	20
Supplemental Material for Pushing Reactance Theory: An Examination of the Reactance Process in the Context of Advice	20
Understanding aggression in adolescence by studying the neurobiological stress system: A systematic review.	18
The force of craving: Approach movements relate to lateralized P3 amplitudes and sensation seeking.	18
Supplemental Material for Motive-Modulated Attentional Orienting: Implicit Power Motive Predicts Attentional Avoidance of Signals of Interpersonal Dominance	14
Emotional learning and psychopathic personality traits: The role of attentional focus and intention to learn.	14
Supplemental Material for Episodic Binding of Approach–Avoidance Goals to Stimuli: On the Microgenesis of Stimulus-Motivated Action Tendencies to Approach and Avoid	13
The uncertainty-dissuasion model of reactance inhibition.	13
Supplemental Material for Leave to Fight Another Day: Having the Option to Switch Promotes a Persistence Trade-Off	13
Does exposure to sedentary temptations activate physical activity goals? A high-powered replication study.	11
Using dynamic item response theory and machine learning based on natural language processing to improve the reliability of the Operant Motive Test.	10
Self-regulatory processes in striving for identity goals: Self-incompleteness shields eco-friendly vegans from temptations.	9
A fictional discussion between the late B. F. Skinner and Edwin A. Locke.	9
A mastery-oriented (and masterful) career: Some reflections on Carol Dweck’s legacy article.	9
Supplemental Material for Dyadic Motive Fit: How Individual Differences in Dyads’ Motives Predict Performance and Communication in Joint Action	9
Individual concerns modulate reward-related learning and behaviors involving sexual outcomes.	8
The legacies of the neuropsychology of anxiety for Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory.	8

The homunculus in the room: A reply to Kunde and Janczyk (2024) and Hommel and Eder (2024).	8
Empowering change: A self-control perspective on how choice architecture interventions can promote sustainable behavior change.	7
Congratulations, so happy for you! Promotion motivation predicts social support for positive events.	7
It is time to stop using the terminology “passive” fatigue.	7
Supplemental Material for Metacognitive Awareness of Subjective Difficulty, Effort, and Frustration in Cognitive Conflict Contexts	7
Emotions, action tendencies, and the reinforcement sensitivity theory.	7
Episodic binding of approach–avoidance goals to stimuli: On the microgenesis of stimulus-motivated action tendencies to approach and avoid.	7
From feeling to doing in social dilemmas: Emotional and behavioral responses to climate change.	7
Supplemental Material for The Two Faces of Persistence: How Harmonious and Obsessive Passion Shape Goal Pursuit	7
Understanding the desire to play violent video games: An integrative motivational theory.	6
Supplemental Material for Poor Sleep Quality Is Significantly Associated With Effort but Not Temporal Discounting of Monetary Rewards	6
Motive-modulated attentional orienting: Implicit power motive predicts attentional avoidance of signals of interpersonal dominance.	6
Latent profiles of high school academic intrinsic motivation: Relations to educational attainment, curiosity, and work and leadership motivation in adulthood.	6
Beyond counterarguing? Comparing multiple measures of cognitive resistance for psychological reactance using the avoidance, contesting, and empowering (ACE) resistance typology.	5
Supplemental Material for Goal Motives, Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions, and the Self-Regulation of Saving Goals: A Longitudinal Investigation	5
Where are anxiety and personality in the brain?	5
Effects of habit and intention on behavior: Meta-analysis and test of key moderators.	5
Supplemental Material for Does Exposure to Sedentary Temptations Activate Physical Activity Goals? A High-Powered Replication Study	5
Why motivation for adhering to COVID-19 measures matters: Investigating time-lagged associations with epidemiological indicators.	5
Rebels for a reason: How psychological reactance is goal-directed.	4
Supplemental Material for The Differential Effects of Reward Prospect and Reward Reception: Dynamic Performance Adjustment Versus Stable Performance	4
On the nature, predictors, and outcomes of longitudinal work passion profiles.	4
Cognitive mastery motivation antecedents of academic intrinsic motivation latent profiles: A longitudinal study from preschool to adolescence.	4
School context and academic engagement: A longitudinal study on the mediating effect of the motivational self system.	4
Transtheoretical model technology-based interventions to improve health behaviors in veterans.	4
Expectancy, value, . . . And more.	4
Candidate antecedents of need supportive and need thwarting interpersonal styles: A systematic review and meta-analysis.	4
Implications of psychological reactance for clinical practice in psychiatry including a systematic review.	4
Supplemental Material for Mentalizing in Reactance: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Freedom Threats	4
Supplemental Material for Candidate Antecedents of Need Supportive and Need Thwarting Interpersonal Styles: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	4
Supplemental Material for Motives and Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions Predict Progress and Management of Goals in Parents	4
Defeminizing sustainability: How to boost men’s motivation for proenvironmental behavior.	4
Measuring avoidance-related trait anger: American and Polish versions of the Avoidance Motivated Response to Anger Scale (AMRAS).	3
Role of contingency in reward–emotion interactions during the categorization of emotional facial expressions.	3
Supplemental Material for Learning Contexts Matter: Having Value-Supportive Instructors Moderates the Efficacy of a Utility-Value Intervention in Community College Math	3
Student attributions about interest-value shape academic decisions and recommendations.	3
The cerebellum in aggression: Extending the cortico-limbic dual-route model of motivation and emotion.	3
Metacognitive awareness of subjective difficulty, effort, and frustration in cognitive conflict contexts.	3
Placing motivation again at the heart of psychology: Commentary on Dweck’s contributions.	3
The utility value of a broad, comprehensive theory of motivation.	3
Supplemental Material for You Can(’t) Always Get What You Want: When Goal Persistence Requires Flexibility	3
Supplemental Material for Effects of Habit and Intention on Behavior: Meta-Analysis and Test of Key Moderators	2
Goal shelving can both undermine and support prioritized goals: The role of opportunity costs.	2
A tale of two influences: Commonalities and distinctions of the influences of habit and hedonic motivation on health behaviors.	2
The reactive spiral: An initial empirical assessment.	2
Supplemental Material for Managing the Motivation of Others: Do Managers Recognize How to Manage Regulatory Focus in Subordinates?	2
Attitude-based self-regulation: A diary study on the role of attitudes in the experience and resolution of self-control conflicts in the context of vegetarians.	2
Beyond achievement: Transformation mindset enhances authenticity after goal success.	2
The value of progress feedback in physical effort-based decision making.	2
Supplemental Material for Self-Regulatory Thought Across Time and Domains	2

Autonomous versus controlled goal motivation differentially predicts goal progress and well-being through emotion regulation styles.	2
Learning from failure.	2
The context-sensitive use of task enrichment to promote self-control: The role of metacognition and trait self-control.	2
The reflection of motive dispositions in everyday agentic motivational states.	2
Goal-colored glasses: Goal instrumentality shapes when and with whom shared reality emerges.	2
Supplemental Material for Congratulations, So Happy for You! Promotion Motivation Predicts Social Support for Positive Events	2
Negotiating with yourself and winning: The dual commitment model for intrapersonal sustainability goal conflicts.	2
Blind to threat: The presence of temporary goals prevents attention to imminent threat already at early stages of attention allocation.	1
Supplemental Material for Exploring the Role of Goal-Dependent Processes in Action Slips Under Time Pressure	1
Mentalizing in reactance: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of freedom threats.	1
Choosing task characteristics oneself justifies effort: A study on cardiac response and the critical role of task difficulty.	1
Q: What is the recipe for defense? A: Threat, anxiety, and approach motivation.	1
Breaking down silos in motivation science.	1
Supplemental Material for Just Be Yourself? Regulatory Focus Moderates the Effects of Societal Standards Attainment on Personal Well-Being	1
Exploring the role of goal-dependent processes in action slips under time pressure.	1
Moral self-regulation and recycling: Does feeling guilty make us want to recycle more?	1
Supplemental Material for Developing a Causally Valid Picture-Story Measure of Sexual Motivation: II. Effects of Film Clips	1
Supplemental Material for Which Insights Can Research on Achievement Motivation Gain From Network Analysis? Comparing Different Network Methods Empirically	1
The role of metamotivational knowledge in the regulation of motivation.	1
Goal motives, approach/avoidance appraisals, psychological needs, and well-being: A systematic review and meta-analysis.	1
The differential effects of reward prospect and reward reception: Dynamic performance adjustment versus stable performance.	1
From ego depletion to self-control fatigue: A review of criticisms along with new perspectives for the investigation and replication of a multicomponent phenomenon.	1
Why do I act for the environment? Socioeconomic status moderates the relationship between climate change beliefs and sustainable actions.	1
Do I want this job? Integrating research across psychological subfields to examine how individuals think about perceived values during career decision making.	1
Psychological reactance theory: An introduction and overview.	1
Mapping the dose–response relationship between monetary reward and cognitive performance.	1
Supplemental Material for Exploring Effects of Mixed Mindset Messages From Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Instructors	1
The motivation of aggression: A cognitive neuroscience approach and neurochemical speculations.	1
Supplemental Material for Choosing Task Characteristics Oneself Justifies Effort: A Study on Cardiac Response and the Critical Role of Task Difficulty	1
Thoughts on a thoughtful theory of prosocial motivation. Commentary on Batson (2022).	1
Disentangling the impact of instructor mindset and demeanor on student experiences.	1
Is task switching avoided to save effort or time? Shorter intertrial durations following task switches increase the willingness to switch tasks.	1
Personal perspectives on mindsets, motivation, and psychology.	1
Supplemental Material for Sign Tracking and Alcohol Consumption: A Translational Computerized Task Assessing Individual Differences in Humans	1
Using norm networks to map cultural differences in predictors of proenvironmental behavior in the United States and India.	1
Supplemental Material for What Matters More for Work Motivation? Compensation or Work Design?	1
Metamotivational knowledge of others’ achievement goals in a work context.	1
Supplemental Material for When Facilitating a Group Member’s (Versus One’s Own) Progress Increases Motivation in Group-Level Goal Pursuit	1
Supplemental Material for Goal Motives, Approach/Avoidance Appraisals, Psychological Needs, and Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	1
Supplemental Material for Unpacking Motivational Culture: Diverging Emphasis on Communality and Agency Across STEM Domains	0
Managing the motivation of others: Do managers recognize how to manage regulatory focus in subordinates?	0
Poor sleep quality is significantly associated with effort but not temporal discounting of monetary rewards.	0
When facilitating a group member’s (versus one’s own) progress increases motivation in group-level goal pursuit.	0
Supplemental Material for Motives and Gonadal Steroid Hormones Across the Menstrual Cycle: A Longitudinal Replication Study	0
Committed professionals who are also engaged parents: Can they self-symbolize across identity goals?	0
Missing out by pursuing rewarding outcomes: Why initial biases can lead to persistent suboptimal choices.	0
Resolving incompleteness on social media: Online self-symbolizing reduces the orienting effects of incomplete identity goals.	0
Harnessing regulatory focus and regulatory fit to improve educational outcomes.	0
Modern ideomotor theory of goal-directed action is not what you think: A commentary on Custers (2023).	0
Thoughts about actions and outcomes (and what they lead to).	0
Inhibitory control elicited by physical activity and inactivity stimuli: An electroencephalography study.	0
Developing a causally valid picture-story measure of sexual motivation: I. Effects of priming.	0
Supplemental Material for Developing a Causally Valid Picture-Story Measure of Sexual Motivation: I. Effects of Priming	0
What matters more for work motivation? Compensation or work design?	0
Supplemental Material for Emotional Learning and Psychopathic Personality Traits: The Role of Attentional Focus and Intention to Learn	0
Supplemental Material for Fostering Preservice Teachers’ Research-Related Beliefs and Motivation With Growth Mindset and Utility Value Interventions	0
Help is needed. Commentary on Batson (2022).	0
Supplemental Material for Why Do I Act for the Environment? Socioeconomic Status Moderates the Relationship Between Climate Change Beliefs and Sustainable Actions	0
You can(’t) always get what you want: When goal persistence requires flexibility.	0
Supplemental Material for From Action Initiation to Persistence: A Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer Analysis for Cue-Based Goal Pursuit	0
Supplemental Material for Freedom Under Constraints: Accentuating the Positive in the Time of Corona	0
Fostering preservice teachers’ research-related beliefs and motivation with growth mindset and utility value interventions.	0
Acknowledgment	0
Supplemental Material for When Will We Join the Road Blockade? (Non)Conformity to Radical Climate Protest Norms Under Salient Threat to Personal Control	0
Saving the environment? That is beyond my (will)power!	0
Pushing reactance theory: An examination of the reactance process in the context of advice.	0
On being warm-hearted: Daily diary investigations of self-location and social functioning.	0
Does the expression of personality traits in daily life satisfy psychological needs of older adults?	0
Just be yourself? Regulatory focus moderates the effects of societal standards attainment on personal well-being.	0
Individualizing proenvironmental behavior in the context of structural impediments.	0
Acknowledgment	0
Flexible control: Conflict mindsets reduce the association between trait measures of self-control decision-making and delay discounting.	0
Psilocybin legalization in the United States and psychological reactance: A test of evidence uncertainty, controlling language, and an ambiguous call to action.	0
Learning contexts matter: Having value-supportive instructors moderates the efficacy of a utility-value intervention in community college math.	0
A fresh term of service at Motivation Science.	0
Supplemental Material for Metamotivational Knowledge of Others’ Achievement Goals in a Work Context	0
Supplemental Material for Is Task Switching Avoided to Save Effort or Time? Shorter Intertrial Durations Following Task Switches Increase the Willingness to Switch Tasks	0
Supplemental Material for Understanding Aggression in Adolescence by Studying the Neurobiological Stress System: A Systematic Review	0
Supplemental Material for On the Nature, Predictors, and Outcomes of Longitudinal Work Passion Profiles	0
Your prosody matters! The effect of controlling tone of voice on listeners’ experienced pressure, closeness, and intention to collaborate with the speaker.	0

Supplemental Material for The Force of Craving: Approach Movements Relate to Lateralized P3 Amplitudes and Sensation Seeking	0
Supplemental Material for Harming in Order to Help: An Empirical Characterization of Prosocial Aggression	0
Interpersonal relations, group processes, and prosocial motivation: Expanding the perspective. Commentary on Batson (2022).	0
The ulna-to-fibula ratio as a marker of organizational hormone effects on implicit motive development: A high-powered preregistered replication.	0
Expressing and developing wisdom: A self-determination theory approach.	0
Motivation matters: Autonomous motivation sustains the happiness from prosocial behavior.	0
Valid replications require valid methods: Recommendations for best methodological practices with lab experiments.	0
From action initiation to persistence: A Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer analysis for cue-based goal pursuit.	0
Freedom under constraints: Accentuating the positive in the time of corona.	0
Supplemental Material for Saving the Environment? That Is Beyond My (Will)Power!	0
Supplemental Material for Autonomous Versus Controlled Goal Motivation Differentially Predicts Goal Progress and Well-Being Through Emotion Regulation Styles	0
Supplemental Material for Useful and Affordable? How Costs and Benefits Uniquely Shape Motivated Emotion Regulation	0
"Measuring avoidance-related trait anger: American and Polish versions of the Avoidance Motivated Response to Anger Scale (AMRAS)": Correction.	0
Self-regulatory thought across time and domains.	0
The effect of the intensity of withdrawal-motivation emotion on time perception: Evidence based on the five temporal tasks.	0
Supplemental Material for Beyond Achievement: Transformation Mindset Enhances Authenticity After Goal Success	0
Steroid hormones and severity of psychopathy in forensic patients.	0
Towards a more complex, dynamic, and personalized perspective on development.	0
Supplemental Material for Disentangling the Impact of Instructor Mindset and Demeanor on Student Experiences	0
Economic inequality and student outcomes: What we know and where to go from here.	0
The comprehensive mindfulness experience: A typological approach to the potential benefits of mindfulness for dealing with motivational conflicts.	0
On the multiplicity of prosocial motives. Commentary on Batson (2022).	0
I had coffee (actually tea) with Clark Hull.	0
Exploring effects of mixed mindset messages from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics instructors.	0
A supine body posture reduces the error-related negativity: A test of a dissonance theory prediction.	0
Leave to fight another day: Having the option to switch promotes a persistence trade-off.	0
Unpacking motivational culture: Diverging emphasis on communality and agency across STEM domains.	0
Adherence to COVID-19 measures: The critical role of autonomous motivation on a short- and long-term basis.	0
Supplemental Material for Mental Contrasting of a Feared Future and Uptake of Initial COVID-19 Vaccines and Bivalent Booster Shots: Two Randomized Controlled Trials	0
Thoughts about “Thoughts about actions and outcomes”: Comment on Custers (2023).	0
Supplemental Material for From Ego Depletion to Self-Control Fatigue: A Review of Criticisms Along With New Perspectives for the Investigation and Replication of a Multicomponent Phenomenon	0
Motives and mental contrasting with implementation intentions predict progress and management of goals in parents.	0
Supplemental Material for The Amygdala and Appraised Concern-Relevance: Initial Evidence That Intrinsic Motivation Modulates Amygdala Response to Otherwise Neutral Stimuli	0
Useful and affordable? How costs and benefits uniquely shape motivated emotion regulation.	0
Social motivations’ limited influence on habitual behavior: Tests from social media engagement.	0
Metamotivational beliefs about to-date and to-go progress framing.	0
In it to win it? Comparative evaluation increases zero-sum beliefs.	0
The two faces of persistence: How harmonious and obsessive passion shape goal pursuit.	0
Supplemental Material for Self-Regulatory Processes in Striving for Identity Goals: Self-Incompleteness Shields Eco-Friendly Vegans From Temptations	0
Scientist’s progress: A comment on Carol Dweck’s legacy.	0
Pavlovian cues boost self-regulation: Predicting success with conditioned stimuli.	0
Embodied anger management: Approach-oriented postures moderate whether trait anger becomes translated into state anger and aggression.	0
Prosocial motivation: A Lewinian approach.	0
When will we join the road blockade? (non)conformity to radical climate protest norms under salient threat to personal control.	0
Supplemental Material for Self-Concordant Goal-Striving as Internalized Motivation: Benefits Beyond Person-Goal Fit	0
Self-concordant goal-striving as internalized motivation: Benefits beyond person-goal fit.	0
Supplemental Material for It Is Time to Stop Using the Terminology “Passive” Fatigue	0
“Don’t cross the streams”: How regulatory modes relate to task performance that benefits from either reflective or intuitive thinking.	0
The desire for governmental support as a motivational foundation of climate policy acceptance.	0
Supplemental Material for How Valid Are Self-Reports of Sexual Motivation? Using the Item Sum Technique to Examine Socially Desirable Responding in Online Research	0
Supplemental Material for Autonomy Influences the Subjective Experience of Mental Effort During a Reading Comprehension Task	0
Expectancy-value theory to situated expectancy-value theory: Reflections on the legacy of 40+ years of working together.	0
Bibliometric review of attribution theory: Document cocitation analysis.	0
The measurement of goal dimensions: A critical review.	0
Supplemental Material for Social Motivations’ Limited Influence on Habitual Behavior: Tests From Social Media Engagement	0
Supplemental Material for Pavlovian Cues Boost Self-Regulation: Predicting Success With Conditioned Stimuli	0
Supplemental Material for Mapping the Dose–Response Relationship Between Monetary Reward and Cognitive Performance	0
Supplemental Material for Negotiating With Yourself and Winning: The Dual Commitment Model for Intrapersonal Sustainability Goal Conflicts	0
Control alters risk-taking: The motivating impact of action-effectiveness in different risk contexts.	0
Supplemental Material for Why Elusive Expectancy × Value Interactions May Be Critical for Theory and Intervention: A Simulated Power Analysis	0
Supplemental Material for Metamotivational Beliefs About To-Date and To-Go Progress Framing	0
Autonomy influences the subjective experience of mental effort during a reading comprehension task.	0
Supplemental Material for Goal-Colored Glasses: Goal Instrumentality Shapes When and With Whom Shared Reality Emerges	0
Commentary on Personal perspectives on mindsets, motivation, and psychology by Carol S. Dweck.	0
Supplemental Material for Whose Beliefs Matter? The Impact of Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions of Instructors’ and Peers’ Field-Specific Ability Beliefs	0
Acknowledgment	0
Supplemental Material for Q: What Is the Recipe for Defense? A: Threat, Anxiety, and Approach Motivation	0
Past due! Racializing aspects of situated expectancy-value theory through the lens of critical race theory.	0
Exploring the link between trait reactance and antiegalitarian beliefs.	0
Prosocial motivation can improve time-based prospective memory only under low cognitive load.	0
Retribution and utilitarianism as motives for children’s third-party punishment: An information-seeking approach.	0
Some revenge now or more revenge later? Applying an intertemporal framework to retaliatory aggression.	0
Closeness regulation in couples: The temporal dynamics and dissociations of closeness frustration and closeness surfeit.	0
A context's emphasis on intellectual ability discourages the expression of intellectual humility.	0
Supplemental Material for Why Motivation for Adhering to COVID-19 Measures Matters: Investigating Time-Lagged Associations With Epidemiological Indicators	0
Sign tracking and alcohol consumption: A translational computerized task assessing individual differences in humans.	0
Mental contrasting of a feared future and uptake of initial COVID-19 vaccines and bivalent booster shots: Two randomized controlled trials.	0
Neuroendocrine mechanisms of aggression in rodents.	0
Autonomous and controlled motivation in students: An experience sampling study on multitasking, concentration, and affect from a self-determination theory perspective.	0
Acknowledgment	0
The amygdala and appraised concern-relevance: Initial evidence that intrinsic motivation modulates amygdala response to otherwise neutral stimuli.	0
Agentic engagement: Transcending passive motivation.	0
Supplemental Material for Motivation Matters: Autonomous Motivation Sustains the Happiness From Prosocial Behavior	0
Society for the Science of Motivation Presidential Address: Can we harness motivation science to motivate ourselves?	0
Supplemental Material for Closeness Regulation in Couples: The Temporal Dynamics and Dissociations of Closeness Frustration and Closeness Surfeit	0
Considering the revisions of reinforcement sensitivity theory: Commentary on McNaughton (2025).	0
How valid are self-reports of sexual motivation? Using the item sum technique to examine socially desirable responding in online research.	0
Developing a causally valid picture-story measure of sexual motivation: II. Effects of film clips.	0
Supplemental Material for Autonomous and Controlled Motivation in Students: An Experience Sampling Study on Multitasking, Concentration, and Affect From a Self-Determination Theory Perspective	0
Development and validation of the Goal Dimensions Questionnaire.	0
Supplemental Material for Exploring the Link Between Trait Reactance and Antiegalitarian Beliefs	0