Academic Journal
Q1Emotion
About Emotion
Emotion is a scholarly journal published by American Psychological Association. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 1.961 and H-index of 190.
Coverage: 2001-2026. Research categories: Medicine (miscellaneous) (Q1); Psychology (miscellaneous) (Q1).
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Topics in published research
Mental Health Research Topics; Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development; Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes; Face Recognition and Perception; Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies; Emotions and Moral Behavior.
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Anh Tran, Katharine H. Greenaway, Elise K. Kalokerinos
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2026-10 · DOI: 10.1037/emo0001687Examining distinctions between polyregulation and single-strategy emotion regulation.
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2026-10 · DOI: 10.1037/emo0001684Ideal affect outside the head: Popular song lyrics emphasize low-arousal positive affect in Japan and high-arousal positive affect in the United States.
Beth Morling, Hiroki Masui, Yuri Miyamoto
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1037/emo0001688Integrating emotion beliefs and emotion regulation into the pathway from emotional awareness to affective distress.
Joshua Shulkin, Andrew Lac, Kristen L. Rudd, Michael A. Kisley et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1037/emo0001671Affective intensity of enacted stigma events and emotion regulation strategy use among sexual and gender minorities.
Christina Dyar
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1037/emo0001697Disgust reactions to a remembered trauma analogue are similarly persistent to fear reactions.
Sasha Cox, Lucy A. Matson, Melanie K. T. Takarangi
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1037/emo0001673Asymmetry in updating of emotion inferences from faces and situations.
Srishti Goel, Jennifer Guadalupe Duenas, Maria Gendron
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1037/emo0001660Mapping emotional components in daily parent–child interactions: A multilevel psychological network approach.
Ziwen Teuber, Sonsoles López-Pernas, Gesine Jordan, Anke Maria Weber et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1037/emo0001678Enhanced autonomic fear conditioning at age 3 in successful adult criminal offenders.
Adrian Raine, Yu Gao, Olivia Choy
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Julia Nolte, Justine L. Lewis, Corinna E. Löckenhoff
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1037/emo0001672Supplemental Material for Hostile Attribution Biases Are Resistant to Manipulations of Momentary Loneliness
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