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Emotions and Moral Behavior

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Laura Silva
Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia
2
Jeongmin Ham
African University College of Communications
3
Kat Roemmich
University of Michigan
4
Tuerxunbieke Tuerlan
Xiamen University
5
Jiemin Zhang
Yunnan Normal University
6
Stefanie Wannow
Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center
7
Francisco Gallegos
Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
8
Eva Weber‐Guskar
Ruhr University Bochum
9
Coltan Scrivner
University of Chicago
10
Slawa Loev
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Rising Stars Papers

1
Virtual humans as social actors: Investigating user perceptions of virtual humans’ emotional expression on social media
Computers in Human Behavior|2024
108 cit.
2
Emotion AI Use in U.S. Mental Healthcare: Potentially Unjust and Techno-Solutionist
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction|2024
14 cit.
3
Are Virtual Influencers More Effective In Real-World Advertisement Settings?
Journal of Advertising Research|2024
9 cit.
4
Overworking in HCI: A Reflection on Why We Are Burned Out, Stressed, and Out of Control; and What We Can Do About It
Unknown Journal|2024
8 cit.
5
Bleeding-Heart Horror Fans
Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications|2024
5 cit.
6
Behavioral attraction predicts morbidly curious women's mating interest in men with dark personalities
Personality and Individual Differences|2024
4 cit.
7
Psychology needs philosophy
Nature Reviews Psychology|2024
3 cit.
8
Quest for connection: Motives and gamified approaches to continued and compulsive dating app engagement
Atlantic Journal of Communication|2025
3 cit.
9
Lessons From the Margins: Contextualizing, Reimagining, and Hacking Generative AI in the Global South
Harvard Data Science Review|2025
2 cit.
10
Digital Emotion Detection, Privacy, and the Law
Philosophy & Technology|2025
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Teague R. Henry
University of Virginia
2
Galen D. McNeil
University of California, Berkeley
3
Alan Cowen
University of California, Berkeley
4
George Stock
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
5
Allon Vishkin
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
6
Panos Paris
Cardiff University
7
Anne Remillieux
Institut Mines-Télécom
8
Camila Valenzuela-Moguillansky
Universidad Diego Portales
9
Philipp Wüschner
Freie Universität Berlin
10
Alba Jasini
KU Leuven

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The ACII 2022 Affective Vocal Bursts Workshop & Competition
Unknown Journal|2022
66 cit.
2
Adherence to emotion norms is greater in individualist cultures than in collectivist cultures.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|2022
60 cit.
3
How emotions, relationships, and culture constitute each other: advances in social functionalist theory
Cognition & Emotion|2022
51 cit.
4
Putting leader (follower) behavior back into transformational leadership: A theoretical and empirical course correction
The Leadership Quarterly|2022
46 cit.
5
Deep learning reveals what vocal bursts express in different cultures
Nature Human Behaviour|2022
29 cit.
6
Emotion Norms Are Unique
Affective Science|2023
25 cit.
7
Queen’s Gambit Declined: The Gender-Equality Paradox in Chess Participation Across 160 Countries
Psychological Science|2022
22 cit.
8
Semantic Space Theory: Data-Driven Insights Into Basic Emotions
Current Directions in Psychological Science|2023
21 cit.
9
Emotional palette: a computational mapping of aesthetic experiences evoked by visual art
Scientific Reports|2024
20 cit.
10
How emotion is experienced and expressed in multiple cultures: a large-scale experiment across North America, Europe, and Japan
Frontiers in Psychology|2024
19 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Shinobu Kitayama
University of Michigan
2
Oliver P. John
University of California, Berkeley
3
James J. Gross
Stanford University
4
Dacher Keltner
Berkeley College
5
Phoebe C. Ellsworth
University of Michigan
6
Jonathan Haidt
New York University
7
Richard W. Robins
University of California, Davis
8
Robert W. Levenson
University of California System
9
James A. Russell
Boston College
10
Michael E. McCullough
University of California San Diego

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation.
Psychological Review|1991
20.8k cit.
2
A circumplex model of affect.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1980
16k cit.
3
Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: Implications for affect, relationships, and well-being.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|2003
11.7k cit.
4
The Emerging Field of Emotion Regulation: An Integrative Review
Review of General Psychology|1998
9k cit.
5
The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment.
Psychological Review|2001
7.9k cit.
6
The Big Five Trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives.
Unknown Journal|1999
7.8k cit.
7
Emotion Regulation: Current Status and Future Prospects
Psychological Inquiry|2015
4.8k cit.
8
Measuring personality in one minute or less: A 10-item short version of the Big Five Inventory in English and German
Journal of Research in Personality|2006
4.2k cit.
9
Patterns of cognitive appraisal in emotion.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1985
3.8k cit.
10
Antecedent- and response-focused emotion regulation: Divergent consequences for experience, expression, and physiology.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|1998
3.6k cit.

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