Agnes Moors

8.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
84 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Agnes Moors is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Agnes Moors has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Social Psychology, 44 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 22 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Agnes Moors's work include Emotions and Moral Behavior (28 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (18 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (17 papers). Agnes Moors is often cited by papers focused on Emotions and Moral Behavior (28 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (18 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (17 papers). Agnes Moors collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Germany. Agnes Moors's co-authors include Jan De Houwer, Klaus R. Scherer, Phoebe C. Ellsworth, Nico H. Frijda, Adriaan Spruyt, Sarah Teige‐Mocigemba, Yvonne Barnes‐Holmes, Yannick Boddez, Dirk Hermans and Gilles Pourtois and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Agnes Moors

77 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

Appraisal Theories of Emotion: State of the Art and Futu... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2013 2006 2009 2018 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Appraisal Theories of Emotion: State of the Art and Future Development
    2013 881 citations Agnes Moors, Klaus R. Scherer et al. Emotion Review profile →
  2. Automaticity: A Theoretical and Conceptual Analysis.
    2006 860 citations Agnes Moors, Jan De Houwer Psychological Bulletin profile →
  3. Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review.
    2009 614 citations Jan De Houwer, Sarah Teige‐Mocigemba et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →
  4. The Emotion Process: Event Appraisal and Component Differentiation
    2018 323 citations Klaus R. Scherer, Agnes Moors profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Agnes Moors Belgium 26 2.0k 1.9k 1.4k 1.2k 719 84 4.9k
Felix D. Schönbrodt Germany 29 1.1k 0.6× 1.7k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 681 0.9× 108 5.2k
Jacob B. Hirsh Canada 33 2.0k 1.0× 2.0k 1.0× 1.9k 1.3× 1.5k 1.3× 943 1.3× 44 6.7k
Jeff T. Larsen United States 29 2.7k 1.4× 2.0k 1.0× 1.8k 1.2× 980 0.8× 541 0.8× 54 5.8k
Jonathan B. Freeman United States 40 2.7k 1.4× 1.7k 0.9× 2.0k 1.4× 1.7k 1.4× 326 0.5× 94 5.1k
Rick B. van Baaren Netherlands 34 1.6k 0.8× 2.0k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 1.2k 1.0× 593 0.8× 68 4.7k
Rob W. Holland Netherlands 37 1.3k 0.7× 2.1k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 1.6k 1.4× 1.2k 1.7× 91 5.5k
Daniël Wigboldus Netherlands 36 2.2k 1.1× 2.1k 1.1× 1.8k 1.3× 1.9k 1.5× 447 0.6× 77 5.7k
Joseph A. Mikels United States 26 1.5k 0.7× 1.6k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 439 0.4× 639 0.9× 56 4.7k
Emily B. Falk United States 39 1.7k 0.9× 1.2k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 1.4k 1.1× 1.2k 1.7× 145 5.0k
David DeSteno United States 37 2.1k 1.0× 3.8k 2.0× 1.6k 1.1× 2.2k 1.9× 838 1.2× 61 7.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Dessel, Pieter Van, et al.. (2024). Exploring the role of goal-dependent processes in action slips under time pressure.. Motivation Science. 10(2). 128–137. 6 indexed citations
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Moors, Agnes. (2023). Varieties of instrumental theories of emotional action: commentary on “a perceptual control theory of emotional action”. Cognition & Emotion. 37(7). 1185–1192. 2 indexed citations
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Buabang, Eike Kofi, et al.. (2022). A goal-directed account of action slips: The reliance on old contingencies.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(2). 496–508. 21 indexed citations
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Vanpaemel, Wolf, et al.. (2022). Stimulus-Driven Affective Change: Evaluating Computational Models of Affect Dynamics in Conjunction with Input. Affective Science. 3(3). 559–576. 4 indexed citations
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Moors, Agnes. (2022). Comment: Old Wine in New Bags—Suri and Gross's Connectionist Theory of Emotion is Another Type of Network Theory. Emotion Review. 14(2). 111–113. 1 indexed citations
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Buabang, Eike Kofi, Yannick Boddez, Oliver T. Wolf, & Agnes Moors. (2022). The role of goal-directed and habitual processes in food consumption under stress after outcome devaluation with taste aversion.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 137(1). 1–14. 14 indexed citations
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Moors, Agnes, et al.. (2022). Behavior prediction requires implicit measures of stimulus‐goal discrepancies and expected utilities of behavior options rather than of attitudes toward objects. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science. 13(5). e1611–e1611. 3 indexed citations
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Moors, Agnes & Yannick Boddez. (2021). The goal-directed model as an alternative to reductionist and network approaches of psychopathology. Current Opinion in Psychology. 41. 84–87. 3 indexed citations
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Moors, Agnes, Sander Van de Cruys, & Gilles Pourtois. (2021). Comparison of the determinants for positive and negative affect proposed by appraisal theories, goal-directed theories, and predictive processing theories. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 39. 147–152. 19 indexed citations
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Buabang, Eike Kofi, Yannick Boddez, Jan De Houwer, & Agnes Moors. (2021). Don’t make a habit out of it: Impaired learning conditions can make goal-directed behavior seem habitual.. Motivation Science. 7(3). 252–263. 13 indexed citations
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Meuleman, Ben, Agnes Moors, Johnny R. J. Fontaine, Olivier Renaud, & Klaus R. Scherer. (2018). Interaction and threshold effects of appraisal on componential patterns of emotion: A study using cross-cultural semantic data.. Emotion. 19(3). 425–442. 14 indexed citations
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Moors, Agnes, et al.. (2018). Demystifying the role of emotion in behaviour: toward a goal-directed account. Cognition & Emotion. 33(1). 94–100. 53 indexed citations
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Moors, Agnes. (2013). Understanding emotion change requires an understanding of emotion causation. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations
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Houwer, Jan De, Sarah Teige‐Mocigemba, Adriaan Spruyt, & Agnes Moors. (2009). Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review.. Psychological Bulletin. 135(3). 347–368. 614 indexed citations breakdown →
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Moors, Agnes. (2006). Investigating the automaticity of constructive appraisals. Cybernetics & Systems. 36(2). 18–21. 2 indexed citations
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Moors, Agnes & Jan De Houwer. (2006). Problems with dividing the realm of processes. Psychological Inquiry. 17(3). 199–204. 20 indexed citations

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