Publications
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In press
Kaspi, L., Hu, D., Miyamoto, Y., Okuyama, T., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., & Tamir, M. (in press). Americans want to make themselves feel better more than Japanese do: Cultural differences in prohedonic emotion regulation goals in daily life. Affective Science.
Maor, O., Millgram, Y., Goldenberg, A., Cunningham, W. A., & Tamir, M. (in press). Learning affect norms: Implications for predictions, experiences and social judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Mizrahi Lakan, S., Hu, D., Millgram, Y., Nahum, M., Shimony, O., Zlotnic, E., & Tamir, M. (in press). Depressed individuals want to feel more unpleasant emotions in daily life, but try harder to decrease them. Emotion.
Hu, D., Miyamoto, Y., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Kaspi, L., Thompson, R. J., Okuyama, T., & Tamir, M. (in press). Rumination in daily life is linked to poorer psychological health in the U.S. than in Japan. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Hu, D., Tauber, Y., Cunningham, W., & Tamir, M. (in press). Ghosts of emotional others: Prior exposure to others shapes interpretations of emotional facial expressions. Affective Science.
Uchida, A., Greenaway, K. H., O’Brien, S. T., Erbas, Y., Tamir, M., & Kalokerinos, E. K. (in press). Trait emotion differentiation is associated with more instrumental emotion regulation motives when people feel negative in daily life. Emotion.
Ginosar Yaari, S., Pauw, L., Milek, A., Greenwald, Y., Katsoty, D., Greenaway, K. H., & Tamir, M. (in press). Do unto others: People use similar strategies to regulate their own emotions and the emotions of others. Emotion.
Meyers, S., Hu, D., & Tamir, M. (in press). Cognitive reappraisal is more effective for regulating emotions than moods. Affective Science.
Miyamoto, Y., Tamir, M., & Choi, J. H. (in press). Culture and emotion regulation. In J. Dr Leersnyder (ed.), The Socio-Cultural Shaping of Emotion, Cambridge University Press.
2026
Gutentag, T., Kalokerinos, E. K., Millgram, Y., Garrett, P. M., Sobel, R., & Tamir, M. (2026). Motivational intensity in emotion regulation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 52(1), 212-226. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241273273
2025
Hu, D., Gutentag, T., Mauss, I. B., & Tamir, M. (2025). The Critical (and Neglected) Role of Effort in Emotion Regulation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 34(4), 240-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214251318294
Hu, D. & Tamir, M. (2025). Variability in emotion regulation strategy use in major depressive disorder: Flexibility or volatility? Journal of Affective Disorders. 372, 306-313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.12.027
Kaspi, L., Hu, D., Vishkin, A., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Miyamoto, Y., Cieciuch, J., Cohen, A., Uchida, Y., Kim, M. Y., Wang, X., Qiu, J., Riediger, M., Rauers, A., Hanoch, Y., & Tamir, M. (2025). Motivated to feel better and doing something about it: Cross-cultural differences in motivated emotion regulation during COVID-19. Emotion, 25(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001403 Editor's Choice
2024
Tamir, M., Ito, A., Miyamoto, Y., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Choi, J. H., Cieciuch, J., Riediger, M., Rauers, A., Padun. M., Kim, M. Y., Solak, N., Qiu, J., Wang, X., Alvarez-Risco, A., Hanoch, Y., Uchida, Y., Torres, C., Nascimento, T. G., Jahanshahi, A. A., Singh, R., Kamble, S. V., An, S., Dzokoto, V., Anum, A., Singh, B., Casternuovo, G., Pietrabissa, G., Huerta-Carvaja, M. I., Galindo-Bello, E., Ibarra, V. G. (2024). Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures. American Psychologist, 79(5), 748–764. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001237
Meyers, S., & Tamir, M. (2024). Emotion regulation versus mood regulation. Emotion Review, 16(3), 151-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/17540739241259559
Hu, D., Mizrahi Lakan, S., Kalokerinos, E., & Tamir, M. (2024). Stuck with the foot on the pedal: Depression and motivated emotion regulation in daily life. Emotion, 24(5), 1299–1311. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001351
Boker Segal, N., Hu, D., Ginosar Yaari, S., & Tamir, M. (2024). Knowing me, knowing you: Are people good at regulating their emotions good at regulating another’s emotions? Emotion, 24(5), 1137–1148. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001305
Millgram, Y., Tamir, M., Bruck, S., & Ben-Arieh, A. (2024). Better relationships do not always feel better: Social relationships interact in predicting negative emotions in early adolescence. Emotion, 24(5), 1259–1272. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001334
Hu, D., Kalokerinos, E. K., & Tamir, M. (2024). Flexibility or instability? Emotion goal dynamics and mental health. Emotion, 24(4), 1078–1091. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001318.
Tran, A., Greenaway, K. H., Kostopoulos, J., Tamir, M., Gutentag, T., & Kalokerinos, E. K. (2024). Does interpersonal emotion regulation effort pay off? Emotion, 24(2), 345–356. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001289
Tamir, M., & Hu, D. (2024). Emotion goals. In J. J. Gross & B. Q. Ford (Eds.), Handbook of emotion regulation (3rd ed., pp. 258–264). The Guilford Press.
Chentsova Dutton, Y., Tuna, E., & Tamir, M. (2024). Emotion regulation and psychopathology across cultures. In J. J. Gross & B. Q. Ford (Eds.), Handbook of emotion regulation (3rd ed., pp. 322–328). The Guilford Press.
2023
Gutentag, T., Kalokerinos, E. K., & Tamir, M. (2023). Beliefs about the ability to control specific emotions. Motivation and Emotion, 47, 448-460. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-022-09991-w
Boker Segal, N., Ran, S., Hu, D., Halperin, E., Tamir, M., Reifen-Tagar, M. (2023). Mothers' Motivation to Encourge Group-Based Empathy in thier Children as a Function of Type and Extent of Group Identification. Journal of Social Psychology, 54, 218-224. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000523
Vishkin, A., & Tamir, M. (2023). Emotions Norms are Unique. Affective Science, 4, 453-457. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-023-00188-z
Willroth, E.C., Young, G., Tamir, M., & Mauss, I.B. (2023). Judging emotions as good or bad: Individual differences and associations with psychological health. Emotion, 23(7), 1876-1890. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001220
Mizrahi Lakan, S., Millgram, Y., & Tamir, M. (2023). Desired Sadness, Happiness, Fear and Calmness in Depression: The Potential Roles of Valence and Arousal. Emotion, 23(4), 1130–1140. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001120
Millgram, Y., Mizrahi Lakan, S., Joormann, J., Nahum, M., Shimony, O., & Tamir, M. (2023). Choosing to avoid the positive? Emotion regulation strategy choice in depression. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 132(6), 669–680. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000835
Vishkin, A., Kitayama, S., Berg, M. K., Diener, E., Gross-Manos, D., Ben-Arieh, A., & Tamir, M. (2023). Adherence to emotion norms is greater in individualist cultures than in collectivist cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124(6), 1256–1276. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000409
López-Pérez, B., Gummerum, M., Jimenez, M., & Tamir, M. (2023). What do I want to feel? Emotion goals in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Child Development, 94, 315-328. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13845
Yik, M., Mues, C., Sze, I. N. L., Kuppens, P., Tuerlinckx, F., De Roover, K., Kwok, F. H. C., Schwartz, S. H., Abu-Hilal, M., Adebayo, D. F., Aguilar, P., Al-Bahrani, M., Anderson, M. H., Andrade, L., Bratko, D., Bushina, E., Choi, J. W., Cieciuch, J., Dru, V., . . . Russell, J. A. (2023). On the relationship between valence and arousal in samples across the globe. Emotion, 23(2), 332–344. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001095
2022
Gutentag, T., & Tamir, M. (2022). Putting effort into emotion regulation: Manipulating desirability and motivational strength. Affective Science, 3, 878-893. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00155-0
Ran, S., Reifen Tagar, M., Tamir, M., & Halperin, E. (2022). The Apple Doesn’t “Feel” Far from the Tree: Mother-Child Socialization of Intergroup Empathy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(1), 3-19.
Gutentag, T., John, O. P., Gross, J. J., & Tamir, M. (2022). Incremental Theories of Emotion Across Time: Temporal Dynamics and Correlates of Change. Emotion. 22(6), 1137–1147. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000945
Kirby, K. D., Qian, W., Adiguzel, Z., Jahanshahi, A. A., Bakracheva, M., Ballestas, M. C. O., Cruz, J. F. A., Dash, A., Dias, C., Ferreira, M. J., Goosen, J. G., Kamble, S. V., Mihaylov, N. L., Pan, F., Sofia, R., Stallen, M., Tamir, M., van Dijk, W. W., Vitterso, J., & Smith, C. A., (2022). Appraisal and coping predict health and well-being during the covid-19 pandemic: An international approach. International Journal of Psychology, 57(1), 49-62. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12770
Hasson, Y., Amir, E., Sobol-Sarag, D., Tamir, M., Halperin, E. (2022). Using performance art to promote intergroup prosociality by cultivating the belief that empathy is unlimited. Nature Communications, 13, 7786-7801. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35235-z
2021
Solak N., Tamir M., Sümer, N., Jost, J. T., & Halperin, E. (2021). Expressive suppression as an obstacle to social change: Linking system justification, emotion regulation, and collective action. Motivation and Emotion, 45(5), 661–682. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-021-09883-5
Tamir, M. (2021). Effortful emotion regulation as a unique form of cybernetic control. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(1), 94-117. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620922199
Millgram, Y., Gruber, J., Villanueva, C. M., Rapoport, A., & Tamir, M, (2021). Motivations for Emotions in Bipolar Disorder. Clinical Psychological Science, 9(4), 666-685. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702620979583
2020
Millgram, Y., Huppert, J. D., & Tamir, M. (2020). Emotion Goals in Psychopathology: A New Perspective on Dysfunctional Emotion Regulation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(3), 242-247.
Vishkin, A., Schwartz, S. H., Ben-Nun Bloom, P., Solak, N., & Tamir, M. (2020). Religiosity and desired emotions: Belief maintenance or prosocial facilitation? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(7), 1090-1106.
Vishkin, A., & Tamir, M. (2020). Fear not: Religion and emotion regulation in coping with existential concerns. In K. E. Vail III & C. Routledge (Eds.), The Science of Religion, Spirituality, and Existentialism (pp. 325-338). Oxford, UK: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817204-9.00023-8
Tamir, M., Vishkin, A., & Gutentag, T. (2020). Emotion regulation is motivated. Emotion, 20(1), 115-119.
Vishkin, A., Hasson, Y., Millgram, Y., & Tamir, M. (2020). One Size Does Not Fit All: Tailoring Cognitive Reappraisal to Different Emotions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(3), 469–484.
Porat, R., Tamir, M., & Halperin, E. (2020). Group-Based Emotion Regulation: A Motivated Approach. Emotion, 20(1), 16–20. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000639
Garofalo, C., López-Pérez, B., Gummerum, M., Hanoch, Y., & Tamir, M. (2020). Emotion Goals: What do Sexual Offenders Want to Feel? International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 63(15-16), 2611–2629. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X19866114
Netzer, L., Halperin, E., & Tamir, M. (2020). Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid! Motivated Intergroup Emotion Regulation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(11), 1596-1613. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220910833
2019
Vishkin, A., Ben-Nun Bloom, P., Schwartz, S., Solak, N., & Tamir, M. (2019). Religiosity and emotion regulation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 50(9), 1050–1074. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022119880341
Benita, M., Kehat, R., Zaba, R., Blumenkrantz, Y., Kessler, G., Bar-Sella, A., & Tamir, M. (2019). Choosing to regulate emotions: Pursuing emotion goals in autonomy supportive and controlling contexts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45(12), 1666–1680. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167219838557
Tamir, M., Halperin, E., Porat, R., Bigman, Y., & Hasson, Y. (2019). When there's a will, there's a way: Disentangling the effects of goals and means in emotion regulation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116(5), 795–816. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000232
Vishkin, A., Bloom, P. B. N., & Tamir, M. (2019). Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: Religiosity, Emotion Regulation and Well-Being in a Jewish and Christian Sample. Journal of Happiness Studies, 20, 427-447. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-017-9956-9
Ben-Nun Bloom P., Vishkin, A., Ben-Nun, P., Korenman, M. & Tamir, M. (2019). Religion and Anti-Immigration Sentiments in Context: Field Studies in Jerusalem. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 29(2), 77-93.
Porat, R., Tamir, M., Wohl, M., Gur, T & Halperin, E. (2019). Motivated emotion and the rally around the flag effect: Liberals are motivated to feel collective angst (like Conservatives) when faced with existential threat. Cognition and Emotion, 33(3), 480–491. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1460321
Millgram, Y., & Tamir, M. (2019). Positive and Negative Emotion Regulation Goals in Psychopathology. In Gruber, J. (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Positive Emotion and Psychopathology. Oxford University Press.
Hasan-Aslih, S., Netzer, L., Tamir, M., Saguy, T., Van Zomeren, M., Halperin, E. (2019). When we want them to fear us: the motivation to influence outgroup emotions in collective action. Group Processes & Intergroup relations, 22(5), 724-245.
Millgram, Y., Joormann, J., Huppert, J. D., Lampert, A., & Tamir, M. (2019). Motivations to experience happiness and sadness in depression: Temporal stability and implications for coping with stress. Clinical Psychological Science, 7(1), 143-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702618797937
Millgram, Y., Sheppes, G., Kalokerinos, E., Kuppens P., & Tamir, M. (2019). Do the ends dictate the means in emotion regulation? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(1), 80-96. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000477
2018
Schwartz, A., Eyal, T., & Tamir, M. (2018). Emotions and the big picture: The effects of construal level on emotional preferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 78, 55-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2018.05.005
Salomon, T., Botvinik-Nezer, R., Gutentag, T., Gera, R., Iwanir, R., Tamir, M., & Schonberg, T. (2018). The cue-approach task as a general mechanism for long-term non-reinforced behavioral change. Scientific Reports, 8, 3614.
Netzer, L., Gutentag, T., Kim, M. Y., Solak, N., & Tamir, M. (2018). Evaluations of emotions: Distinguishing between affective, behavioral and cognitive components. Personality and Individual Differences, 135, 13-24.
Hasson, Y., Tamir, M., Brahms, K.S., Cohrs, J.C., & Halperin, E. (2018). Are liberals and conservatives equally motivated to feel empathy toward others? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(10), 1449-1459.
De Castella, Platow, Tamir, & Gross (2018). Beliefs about emotion: Implications for avoidance-based emotion regulation and psychological health. Cognition and Emotion, 32(4), 773–795. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2017.1353485
Tamir, M. (2018). Commentary on Jamieson, Hangen, Lee and Yaeager: What Should We Regulate to Promote Adaptive Functioning and How? Emotion Review, 10(1), 65–67. https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073917719328
Tamir, M., & Bigman, Y. E. (2018). Expectations Influence How Emotions Shape Behavior. Emotion, 18(1), 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000351
Ma, X., Tamir, M. & Miyamoto, Y. (2018). A socio-cultural instrumental approach to emotion regulation: Culture and the regulation of positive emotions. Emotion, 18(1), 138-152. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000315
Shoval, N., Schvimer, Y., & Tamir, M. (2018). Real-time measurement of tourists' objective and subjective emotions in time and space. Journal of Travel Research, 57(1), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047287517691155
2017
Tamir, M., Schwartz, S. H., Oishi, S., & Kim, M. (2017). The secret to happiness: Feeling good or feeling right? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(10), 1448-1459. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000303
Bigman, Y. E., Sheppes, G., & Tamir, M. (2017). Less is more in emotion regulation: The availability of regulation options impairs efficacy. Emotion, 17(6), 993-1006. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000303
Tamir, M., & Gutentag, T. (2017). Desired Emotional States: Their Nature, Causes, and Implications for Emotion Regulation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, 84-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.06.014.
Markovitch, N., Netzer, L., & Tamir, M. (2017). What You Like is What You Try to Get: Attitudes toward Emotions and Situation Selection. Emotion, 17(4), 728–739. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000272
Kalokerinos, E. K., Tamir, M., & Kuppens, p. (2017). Instrumental motives in negative emotion regulation in daily life: Frequency, consistency, and predictors. Emotion, 17(4), 648-657. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000269
Gutentag, T., Halperin, E., Porat, R., Bigman, Y & Tamir, M (2017). Successful emotion regulation requires both conviction and skill: Beliefs about the controllability of emotions, reappraisal, and regulation success. Cognition and Emotion, 31(6), 1225-1233. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1213704
Tamir, M., & Millgram, Y. (2017). Motivated Emotion Regulation: Principles, Lessons, and Implications of a Motivational Analysis of Emotion Regulation. In A. J. Elliot (Ed.), Advances in Motivation Science (pp. 207-247).
2016
Bigman, Y. E., & Tamir, M. (2016). The Road to Heaven is Paved with Effort: Perceived Effort Amplifies Moral Judgment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(12), 1654–1669. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000230
Bigman, Y., Mauss, I. B., Gross, J. J., & Tamir, M. (2016). Yes I can: Self-efficacy beliefs promote successful emotion regulation. Cognition and Emotion, 30(7), 1380-1387.
Wayne, C., Porat, R., Tamir, M., & Halperin, E. (2016). Rationalizing conflict: The polarizing role of accountability in ideological decision-making. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 60(8), 1473-1502.
Tamir, M., Schwartz, S. H., Cieciuch, J., Riediger, M., Torres, C., Scollon, C., Dzokoto, V., Zhou, X., Vishkin, A. (2016). Desired emotions across cultures: A value-based account. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111(1), 67-82.
Tamir, M. (2016). Why do people regulate their emotions? A taxonomy of motives in emotion regulation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 20(3), 199-222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868315586325
Kivity, Y., Tamir, M., & Huppert, J. D. (2016). Self-acceptance of negative emotions: The positive relationship with effective cognitive reappraisal. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 9(4), 279-294.
Porat, R., Halperin, E., Mannheim, I., & Tamir, M. (2016). Together we cry: Social motives and preferences for group-based sadness. Cognition and Emotion, 30(1), 66-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1039495
Markovitch, N., Netzer, L., & Tamir, M. (2016). Will you touch a dirty diaper? Attitudes toward emotions and behavior. Cognition and Emotion, 30(3), 592-602. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1020049
Porat, R., Halperin, E., & Tamir, M. (2016). What we want is what we get: Group-based emotional preferences and conflict resolution. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110(2), 167-190.
Vishkin, A., Bigman, Y. E., Porat, R., Solak, N., Halperin, E., & Tamir, M. (2016). God rest our hearts: Religiosity and cognitive reappraisal. Emotion, 16(2), 252–262. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000108
2015
Millgram, Y., Joormann, J., Huppert, J. D., & Tamir, M. (2015). Sad as a Matter of Choice? Emotion Regulation Goals in Depression. Psychological Science, 26(8), 1216-1228. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615583295
Ford, B. Q., Dmitrieva, J. O., Heller, D., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Grossmann, I., Tamir, M., Uchida, Y., Koopmann-Holm, B., Uhrig, M., Floerke, V., Bokhan, T., & Mauss, I. B. (2015). Culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness predicts higher or lower well-being. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(6), 1053-1062.
Netzer, L., Van Kleef, G. A., Tamir, M. (2015). Interpersonal Instrumental Emotion Regulation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 58, 124-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.01.006
Netzer, L., Igra, L., Bar Anan, Y., & Tamir, M. (2015). When Bad Emotions seem Better: Experience Changes the Automatic Evaluation of Anger. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6(7), 797-804.
Kim, M. Y., Ford, B. Q., Mauss, I. B., Tamir, M. (2015). Knowing when to seek anger: Psychological health and context-sensitive emotional preferences. Cognition and Emotion, 29(6),1126-1136. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2014.970519
Kim, M. Y., Bigman, Y., & Tamir, M. (2015). Emotion regulation. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Ed (pp. 452– 456). Oxford, England: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.25055-1
Tamir, M., Bigman, Y., Rhodes, E., Salerno, J., & Schreier, J. (2015). An expectancy-value model of emotion regulation: Implications for motivation, emotional experience, and decision-making. Emotion, 15(1), 90–103.
2014
Vishkin, A., Bigman, Y., & Tamir, M. (2014). Religion, emotion regulation, and well-being. In C. Kim-Prieto (Ed.), Positive Psychology of Religion and Spirituality across Cultures (pp. 247-269). New York, NY: Springer.
Ford, B. Q., & Tamir, M. (2014). Preferring Familiar Emotions: As You Want (and Like) It? Cognition and Emotion, 28(2), 311-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2013.823381
2013
Tamir, M., Ford, B. Q., & Gilliam, M. (2013). Evidence for utilitarian motives in emotion regulation. Cognition and Emotion, 27(3), 483-491. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2012.715079
Goldstein, T. R., Tamir, M., & Winner, E. (2013). Expressive suppression and acting classes. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 7(2), 191-196. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030209
Tamir, M., Ford, B. Q., & Ryan, E. (2013). Nonconscious Goals Can Shape What People Want to Feel. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(2), 292-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2012.11.009
Halperin, E., Porat, R., Tamir, M., & Gross, J. J. (2013). Can emotion regulation change political attitudes in intractable conflict? From the laboratory to the field. Psychological Science, 24(1), 106-111.
2012
Tamir, M., & Ford, B. Q. (2012). Should people pursue feelings that feel good or feelings that do good? Emotional preferences and well-being. Emotion, 12(5), 1061-1070. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027223
Mauss, I. B., Savino, N. S., Anderson, C. L., Weisbuch, M., Tamir, M., & Laudenslager, M.L. (2012). The pursuit of happiness can be lonely. Emotion, 12(5), 908-912. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025299
Ford, B. Q. & Tamir, M. (2012). When getting angry is smart: Emotional preferences and emotional intelligence. Emotion, 12(4), 685-689. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027149
Tamir, M., & Ford, B. Q. (2012). When feeling bad is expected to be good: Emotion regulation and outcome expectancies in social conflicts. Emotion, 12(4), 807-816. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024443
Ford, B. Q., Tamir, M., Gagnon, S., Taylor, H., & Brunye, T. (2012). The angry spotlight: Trait anger and selective visual attention to rewards. European Journal of Personality, 26(2), 90-98. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.1840
2011
Mauss, I., B., Tamir, M., Anderson, C. L., & Savino, N. S. (2011). Can seeking happiness make people unhappy? Paradoxical effects of valuing happiness. Emotion, 11(4), 807-815. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022010
Rusk, N., Rothbaum, F., & Tamir, M. (2011). Performance and learning goals for emotion. Motivation and Emotion, 35, 444-460. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-011-9229-6
Tamir, M. (2011). The maturing field of emotion regulation. Emotion Review, 3(1), 3–7.
Gruber, J., Mauss, I. B., & Tamir, M. (2011). A dark side of happiness? How, when, and why happiness is not always good. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 6(3), 222-233. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691611406927
Tamir, M., & Mauss, I. B. (2011). Social cognitive factors in emotion regulation: Implications for well-being. In I. Nyklicek, A. Vingerhoets, M. Zeelenberg, & J. Donellet (Eds.), Emotion regulation and well-being (pp. 31-47). Springer.
Tamir, M., & Gross, J. J. (2011). Beyond pleasure and pain? Emotion regulation and positive psychology. In K. Sheldon, T. Kashdan, & M. Steger (Eds.), Designing the future of positive psychology: Taking stock and moving forward (pp.89-100). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195373585.003.0006
Robinson, M. D., & Tamir, M. (2011). A task-focused mind is a happy and productive mind: A processing perspective. In K. Sheldon, T. Kashdan, & M. Steger (Eds.), Designing the future of positive psychology: Taking stock and moving forward (pp.160-174). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195373585.003.0011
2010
Ford, B. Q., Tamir, M., Brunye, T. T., Shirer, W. R., Mahoney, C. R., & Taylor, H. A. (2010). Keeping your eyes on the prize: Anger and visual attention to threats and rewards. Psychological Science, 21(8), 1098-1105.
Holland, A., Kensigner, E. A., & Tamir. M. (2010). The effect of regulation goals on emotional event-specific knowledge. Memory, 18(5), 504-521. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2010.481628
Hackenbracht, J. & Tamir. M. (2010). Preferences for sadness when eliciting help: Instrumental motives in sadness regulation. Motivation and Emotion, 34, 306-315. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-010-9180-y
2009
Tamir, M., & Ford, B. Q. (2009). Choosing to be afraid: Preferences for fear as a function of goal pursuit. Emotion, 9(4), 488-497. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0015882
Tamir, M. (2009). What do people want to feel and why? Pleasure and utility in emotion regulation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18(2), 101-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01617.x
Srivastava, S., Tamir, M., McGonical, K. M., John, O. P., & Gross, J. J. (2009). The social costs of emotional suppression: A prospective study of the transition to college. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(4), 883-897.
Tamir, M. (2009). Differential preferences for happiness; Extraversion and trait-consistent emotion regulation. Journal of Personality, 77(2), 447-470. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00554.x
Robinson, M. D., Meier, B. P., Tamir, M., Wilowski, B.M., & Ode, S. (2009). Behavioral facilitation: A cognitive model of individual differences in approach motivation. Emotion, 9(1), 70-82. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014519
2008
Tamir, M., Mitchell, C., & Gross, J. J. (2008). Hedonic and instrumental motives in anger regulation. Psychological Science, 19(4), 324-328. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02088.x
2007
Tamir, M., Chiu, C. Y., & Gross, J. J. (2007). Business or pleasure? Utilitarian versus hedonic considerations in emotion regulation. Emotion, 7(3), 546-554. https://doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.7.3.546
Tamir, M., & Robinson, M. D. (2007). The happy spotlight: Positive mood and selective attention to rewarding information. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33(8), 1124-1136. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167207301030
Tamir, M., John, O. P., Srivastava, S., & Gross, J. J. (2007). Implicit theories of emotion: Affective and social outcomes across a major life transition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(4), 731-744. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.92.4.731
2006
Tamir, M., Robinson, M. D., & Solberg, E. C. (2006). You may worry, but can you recognize threats when you see them?: Neuroticism, threat identifications, and negative affect. Journal of Personality, 74(5), 1481-1506.
Diener, E., Tamir, M., & Scollon, C. N. (2006). Happiness, life satisfaction, and fulfillment: The social psychology of subjective well-being. In P. Van Lange (Ed.), Bridging social psychology (pp. 319-324). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
2005
Tamir, M. (2005). Don't worry, be happy? Neuroticism, trait-consistent affect regulation, and performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89(3), 449-461. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.89.3.449
Kim-Prieto, C., Diener, E., Tamir, M., Scollon, C. N., & Diener, M. (2005). Integrating the diverse definitions of happiness: A time-sequential framework of subjective well-being. Journal of Happiness Studies, 6, 261-300.
Robinson, M. D., & Tamir, M. (2005). Neuroticism as mental noise: A relation between neuroticism and reaction time standard deviations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89(1), 107-114. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.89.1.107
pre-2005
Tamir, M., & Robinson, M. D. (2004). Knowing good from bad: The paradox of neuroticism, negative affect, and evaluative processing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87(6), 913-925. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.87.6.913
Tamir, M., Robinson, M. D., Clore, G. L., Martin, L. L., & Whitaker, D. (2004). Are we puppets on a string?: The contextual meaning of unconscious expressive cues. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30(2), 237-249.
Biswas-Diener, R., Diener, E., & Tamir, M. (2004). The psychology of subjective well-being. Daedalus, 133(2), 18-25. https://doi.org/10.1162/001152604323049352
Robinson, M. D., Vargas, P. T., Tamir, M., & Solberg, E. C. (2004). Using and being used by categories: The case of negative evaluations and daily well-being. Psychological Science, 15(8), 521-526.
Robinson, M. D., Solberg, E. C., Vargas, P., & Tamir, M. (2003). Trait as default: Extraversion, subjective well-being, and the distinction between neutral and positive events. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(3), 517-527. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.85.3.517
Robinson, M. D., Rokke, P. D., & Tamir, M. (2003). Feeling about thinking: The role(s) of affect in social cognition. Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 48(3), 356-358. https://doi.org/10.1037/000818
Tamir, M., Robinson, M. D., & Clore, G. L. (2002). The epistemic benefits of trait-consistent mood states: An analysis of extraversion and mood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(3), 663-677. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.83.3.663