Toward the self-regulation of mood: Theory and research

An Inventory for Measuring Depression

1961 • 36,954 citations

Stress, appraisal, and coping

1985 • 30,896 citations

Stress: Appraisal and Coping

2013 • 28,392 citations

Advances In Experimental Social Psychology

2022 • 21,549 citations

The social readjustment rating scale

1967 • 10,950 citations

Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences.

1980 • 7,533 citations

Psychological stress and the coping process

1966 • 7,053 citations

The structure of coping.

1978 • 6,799 citations

Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state.

1962 • 5,942 citations

Mood and memory.

1981 • 5,114 citations

The Structure of Coping

1978 • 5,086 citations

Depression. Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Aspects.

1968 • 5,068 citations

Mood, misattribution, and judgments of well-being: Informative and directive functions of affective states.

1983 • 4,531 citations

Negative affectivity: The disposition to experience aversive emotional states.

1984 • 4,455 citations

Toward a consensual structure of mood.

1985 • 4,159 citations

Handbook of Social Cognition

2014 • 4,146 citations

Mood and memory.

1981 • 3,889 citations

If it changes it must be a process: Study of emotion and coping during three stages of a college examination.

1985 • 3,847 citations

Public and private self-consciousness: Assessment and theory.

1975 • 3,631 citations

Stress, Appraisal, and Coping. New York, NY: Springer;

1984 • 3,606 citations

The Ego and the Id

1923 • 3,551 citations

Psychotherapy by reciprocal inhibition

1968 • 3,389 citations

Review of personality and social psychology

1983 • 3,371 citations

If it changes it must be a process: Study of emotion and coping during three stages of a college examination.

1985 • 3,169 citations

Self-perception: An alternative interpretation of cognitive dissonance phenomena.

1967 • 2,877 citations

Attention and Self-Regulation : A Control-Theory Approach to Human Behavior

1981 • 2,645 citations

Downward comparison principles in social psychology.

1981 • 2,456 citations

Control theory: A useful conceptual framework for personality–social, clinical, and health psychology.

1982 • 2,323 citations

Human Associative Memory

2013 • 2,084 citations

Attention and Self-Regulation

1981 • 1,938 citations

Affect, generalization, and the perception of risk.

1983 • 1,792 citations

Affect and memory: A review.

1986 • 1,676 citations

An opponent-process theory of motivation: I. Temporal dynamics of affect.

1974 • 1,644 citations

Unmasking the face

1975 • 1,599 citations

The Psychology of affiliation

1963 • 1,552 citations

Human associative memory

1974 • 1,440 citations

Stressful Life Events: Their Nature and Effects.

1976 • 1,427 citations

Depression and the response of others.

1976 • 1,401 citations

Judgment of contingency in depressed and nondepressed students: Sadder but wiser?

1979 • 1,340 citations

Cognitive and attentional mechanisms in delay of gratification.

1972 • 1,313 citations

Stressful Life Events: Their Nature and Effects

1975 • 1,277 citations

Affect, accessibility of material in memory, and behavior: A cognitive loop?

1978 • 1,257 citations

A laboratory task for induction of mood states

1968 • 1,198 citations

New Directions in Attribution Research

2018 • 1,189 citations

Effect of feeling good on helping: Cookies and kindness.

1972 • 1,161 citations

Judgment of contingency in depressed and nondepressed students: Sadder but wiser?

1979 • 1,153 citations

Attribution of success and failure revisited, or: The motivational bias is alive and well in attribution theory

1979 • 1,138 citations

Affect, imagery, consciousness, Vol. 1: The positive affects.

1992 • 1,128 citations

Depression: Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Aspects

1968 • 1,112 citations

Relationship of daily hassles, uplifts, and major life events to health status.

1982 • 1,109 citations

Depressive attributional style.

1979 • 1,078 citations

A behavioral approach to depression.

1974 • 1,049 citations

Cognitive social psychology

1982 • 1,036 citations

Experiences of depression in normal young adults.

1976 • 958 citations

The opponent-process theory of acquired motivation: The costs of pleasure and the benefits of pain.

1980 • 932 citations

Affect, accessibility of material in memory, and behavior: A cognitive loop?

1978 • 928 citations

Expression and the Nature of Emotion

1984 • 926 citations

A New Look at Dissonance Theory

1984 • 904 citations

Mind and emotion

1975 • 887 citations

The communication of emotion

1984 • 885 citations

The opponent-process theory of acquired motivation: The costs of pleasure and the benefits of pain.

1980 • 853 citations

Emotions—Their Parameters and Measurement

1976 • 845 citations

Experiences of depression in normal young adults.

1976 • 779 citations

Toward understanding the role of affect in cognition.

1984 • 771 citations

Distraction and coping with pain.

1984 • 666 citations

Emotions in Personality and Psychopathology

1979 • 665 citations

Social competence and depression: The role of illusory self-perceptions.

1980 • 621 citations

Dissonance and the pill: An attribution approach to studying the arousal properties of dissonance.

1974 • 559 citations

Research with the mood adjective checklist

1965 • 524 citations

Pleasant activities and depression.

1973 • 523 citations

Transgression and altruism: A case for hedonism

1973 • 510 citations

Social and behavioral consequences of alcohol consumption and expectancy: A meta-analysis.

1986 • 495 citations

Depression and general psychopathology in university students.

1984 • 485 citations

The Psychology of Depression: Contemporary Theory and Research

1975 • 474 citations

Success, failure, attention, and reaction to others: The warm glow of success.

1970 • 443 citations

A self-awareness model of the causes and effects of alcohol consumption.

1981 • 433 citations

Locus of control, cognitive appraisal, and coping in stressful episodes.

1984 • 432 citations

Social competence and depression: The role of illusory self-perceptions.

1980 • 421 citations

Adjective Checklists for Measurement of Depression

1965 • 414 citations

Locus of control, coping behaviors, and performance in a stress setting: A longitudinal study.

1977 • 387 citations

Self-focused attention and the experience of emotion: Attraction, repulsion, elation, and depression.

1977 • 382 citations

A self-awareness model of the causes and effects of alcohol consumption.

1981 • 371 citations

Puzzles in the study of daily hassles

1984 • 364 citations

Pleasant events, activity schedules, and depressions.

1972 • 357 citations

A behavioral paradigm for identifying persons at risk for bipolar depressive disorder: A conceptual framework and five validation studies.

1981 • 350 citations

Testing the Self-Perception Explanation of Dissonance Phenomena: On the Salience of Premanipulation Attitudes.

1970 • 348 citations

Antidepressant effects of light in seasonal affective disorder

1985 • 337 citations

Impact of causal attributions on affective reactions to success and failure.

1982 • 332 citations

Altruism as hedonism: A social development perspective on the relationship of negative mood state and helping.

1976 • 331 citations

Depression and general psychopathology in university students.

1984 • 331 citations

Physical posture: Could it have regulatory or feedback effects on motivation and emotion?

1982 • 330 citations

Social-environmental factors in unipolar depression: Comparisons of depressed patients and nondepressed controls.

1983 • 329 citations

THE DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF MOOD

1956 • 328 citations

Mood and Personality

1967 • 324 citations

The Effect of Feeling Good on a Helping Task that is Incompatible with Good Mood

1978 • 322 citations

Helping Behavior and Altruism: An Empirical and Conceptual Overview

1984 • 319 citations

Selective attention to the self: Situational and dispositional determinants.

1973 • 318 citations

The influence of mood on perceptions of social interactions

1984 • 314 citations

The Psychobiology of the Depressive Disorders: Implications for the Effects of Stress

1980 • 314 citations

Category accessibility: Some theoretical and empirical issues concerning the processing of social stimulus information

1981 • 312 citations

Dissonance and self-perception: An integrative view of each theory's proper domain of application

1977 • 303 citations

Environmental effects on interpersonal affective behavior: Ambient effective temperature and attraction.

1970 • 288 citations

Altruism as hedonism: A social development perspective on the relationship of negative mood state and helping.

1976 • 283 citations

A behavioral paradigm for identifying persons at risk for bipolar depressive disorder: A conceptual framework and five validation studies.

1981 • 276 citations

The Effects of Alcohol on Conflict Behavior in the Albino Rat

1951 • 266 citations

Mood influences on helping: Direct effects or side effects?

1984 • 258 citations

Affect and altruism.

1973 • 256 citations

Altruism as hedonism: Helping and self-gratification as equivalent responses.

1981 • 255 citations

Duration of the effect of good mood on helping: "Footprints on the sands of time."

1976 • 254 citations

Affective consequences of inadequately explained physiological arousal.

1979 • 253 citations

Self-focused attention and the experience of emotion: Attraction, repulsion, elation, and depression.

1977 • 251 citations

Affective responses to the emotions of a protagonist

1977 • 244 citations

Induced mood and the illusion of control.

1981 • 236 citations

Negative emotional biasing of unexplained arousal.

1979 • 236 citations

Economic Strains and the Coping Function of Alcohol

1976 • 229 citations

Influence of affect on cognitive social learning person variables.

1982 • 229 citations

Social confirmation of dysphoria: Shared and private reactions to depression.

1983 • 229 citations

Induced affective states and interpersonal attraction.

1971 • 223 citations

The real role of facial response in the experience of emotion: A reply to Tourangeau and Ellsworth, and others.

1984 • 218 citations

Depression, alcohol use, and smoking over one year: A four-wave longitudinal causal model.

1983 • 214 citations

Reassertion and giving up: The interactive role of self-directed attention and outcome expectancy.

1979 • 212 citations

Emotion, Pain, and Physical Illness

1979 • 203 citations

Insights from sadness: A three-step model of the development of altruism as hedonism

1981 • 190 citations

Depression and internal versus external focus of attention

1984 • 189 citations

The Ego and the Id

1928 • 168 citations

They stoop to conquer: Guiding and self-regulatory functions of physical posture after success and failure.

1984 • 168 citations

Effects of being observed on expressive, subjective, and physiological responses to painful stimuli.

1976 • 168 citations

Anxiety, Fear, And Social Affiliation

2011 • 168 citations

Asymmetry of happiness and sadness in effects on memory in normal college students: Comment on Hasher, Rose, Zacks, Sanft, and Doren.

1985 • 167 citations

Depression, alcohol use, and smoking over one year: A four-wave longitudinal causal model.

1983 • 166 citations

‘What's the thing to do when you're feeling depressed?’ — a pilot study

1977 • 163 citations

Effects of mood states, costs, and benefits on helping.

1978 • 155 citations

Social confirmation of dysphoria: Shared and private reactions to depression.

1983 • 153 citations

Self-awareness-reducing effects of alcohol consumption.

1983 • 151 citations

Self-consciousness, self-esteem, and success-failure as determinants of alcohol consumption in male social drinkers.

1983 • 140 citations

The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.

1956 • 138 citations

Provocation to anger and opportunity for retaliation as determinants of alcohol consumption in social drinkers.

1975 • 137 citations

Good News‐Bad News: Affective and Interpersonal Effects¹

1976 • 137 citations

Effects of severe daily events on mood.

1984 • 133 citations

Anxiety, fear, and social isolation.

1961 • 129 citations

Coping Behaviors That Mediate Between Life Events and Depression

1982 • 128 citations

Depression, guilt, and self-management of pleasant and unpleasant events.

1983 • 126 citations

Effects of being observed on expressive, subjective, and physiological responses to painful stimuli.

1976 • 122 citations

The psychology of feeling and emotion.

1936 • 121 citations

Depression, restraint and eating behavior

1982 • 120 citations

A research paradigm for the study of personality and emotions.

1983 • 113 citations

Depression and the illusion of control.

1977 • 106 citations

Velten Mood Induction Procedure Effects

1982 • 105 citations

Affect and self-gratification.

1973 • 104 citations

Helping as a function of feeling state and nature of the helping behavior

1979 • 102 citations

The self-control of emotional reactions to a stressful film1

1972 • 101 citations

Self-consciousness, self-esteem, and success–failure as determinants of alcohol consumption in male social drinkers.

1983 • 99 citations

Induction of depressive affect after prolonged exposure to a mildly depressed individual.

1985 • 95 citations

The Illusion of Control Among Depressed Patients.

1979 • 92 citations

Mood, pleasant events, and unpleasant events: Two pilot studies.

1978 • 88 citations

Depression, activity, and evaluation of reinforcement.

1975 • 83 citations

Activity valence as a function of mood change.

1980 • 82 citations

Induction of mood states and their effect on cognitive and social behaviors.

1976 • 82 citations

Effects of severe daily events on mood.

1984 • 81 citations

Pessimistic self-preoccupation, performance deficits, and depression.

1985 • 78 citations

Coping, social support, and psychological outcomes: The central role of emotion.

1984 • 78 citations

Normal and Pathological Moods: Their Nature and Functions

1957 • 76 citations

Self-focused attention and depression: Self-evaluation, affect, and life stress

1985 • 75 citations

Factors governing the effective remediation of negative affect and its cognitive and behavioral consequences.

1985 • 75 citations

Induction of depressive affect after prolonged exposure to a mildly depressed individual.

1985 • 74 citations

Effects of three social responses on vascular processes.

1966 • 71 citations

Depression and the illusion of control.

1977 • 70 citations

“Know thyself”: Stressful life changes and the ameliorative effect of private self-consciousness

1982 • 69 citations

Judging the predictors of one's own mood: Accuracy and the use of shared theories

1982 • 67 citations

Dissonance and alcohol: Drinking your troubles away.

1981 • 67 citations

Feelings as Monitors

1970 • 59 citations

Social and Personal Stress and Escape Television Viewing

1959 • 59 citations

Effects of induced elation-depression on speech in the initial interview.

1977 • 58 citations

Induction of mood states and their effect on cognitive and social behaviors.

1976 • 58 citations

Affect and delay of gratification

1977 • 58 citations

A step in the socialization of altruism as hedonism: Effects of negative mood on children's generosity under public and private conditions.

1979 • 56 citations

Activity valence as a function of mood change.

1980 • 55 citations

A step in the socialization of altruism as hedonism: Effects of negative mood on children's generosity under public and private conditions.

1979 • 55 citations

Depression, activity, and evaluation of reinforcement.

1975 • 54 citations

Affective state and preference for immediate versus delayed reward

1974 • 53 citations

Dissonance and alcohol: Drinking your troubles away.

1981 • 52 citations

Cumulative effects of induced affective states in children: Accentuation, inoculation, and remediation.

1981 • 51 citations

Mood Disorders

1984 • 50 citations

Effects of Altruism on Mood

1977 • 50 citations

Negative ions and behavior: Impact on mood, memory, and aggression among Type A and Type B persons.

1985 • 48 citations

Effects of induced elation-depression on speech in the initial interview.

1977 • 45 citations

Assessing Mood with Affect-Sensitive Tasks

1985 • 43 citations

Pessimistic self-preoccupation, performance deficits, and depression.

1985 • 42 citations

The Self-Regulation of Emotion

1973 • 35 citations

Anxiety, fear, and affiliation with similar-state versus dissimilar-state others: Misery sometimes loves nonmiserable company.

1973 • 33 citations

Collective coping with stress: Group reactions to fear, anxiety, and ambiguity.

1976 • 29 citations

Salience of arousal as a mediator of misattribution of transferred excitation

1982 • 28 citations

Preference for immediate reinforcement in depression

1975 • 28 citations

Depression, guilt, and self-management of pleasant and unpleasant events.

1983 • 27 citations

Collective coping with stress: Group reactions to fear, anxiety, and ambiguity.

1976 • 27 citations

Misattribution of Arousal as a Means of Dissonance Reduction

1976 • 24 citations

The effect of Velten's mood-induction procedure for depression on hand movement and head-down posture

1980 • 13 citations

Affective judgments, common sense, and Zajonc's thesis of independence

1986 • 12 citations

Life Stress Events and State-Trait Anxiety in Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Patients

1985 • 7 citations