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in press
Millgram, Y., Mizrahi Lakan, S., Joormann, J., Nahum, M., Shimony, O., & Tamir, M. (in press). Choosing to Avoid the Positive? Emotion Regulation Strategy Choice in Depression. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.
Vishkin, A., Kitayama, S., Berg, M. K., Diener, E., Gross-Manos, D., Ben-Arieh, A., & Tamir, M. (in press). Adherence to emotion norms is greater in individualist cultures than in collectivist cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000409 View
Boker Segal, N., Ran, S., Hu, D., Halperin, E., Tamir, M., Reifen-Tagar, M. (in press). Mothers' Motivation to Encourge Group-Based Empathy in thier Children as a Function of Type and Extent of Group Identification. Journal of Social Psychology.
Willroth, E.C., Young, G., Tamir, M., & Mauss, I.B. (in press). Judging emotions as good or bad: Individual differences and associations with psychological health. Emotion.
Gutentag, T., Kalokerinos, E. K., & Tamir, M. (in press). Beliefs about the ability to control specific emotions. Motivation and Emotion. View
Tamir, M. & Hu, D. (in press). Emotion goals. In J.J. Gross & B.Q. Ford (Eds.). Handbook of emotion regulation (3rd edition). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
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.
Mizrahi Lakan, S., Millgram, Y., & Tamir, M. (in press). Desired Sadness. Happiness, Fear and Calmness in Depression: The Potential Roles of Valence and Arousal. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001120
2023
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211047373
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. View
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420917713 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167219895140 View
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 View
Tamir, M., Vishkin, A., & Gutentag, T. (2020). Emotion regulation is motivated. Emotion, 20(1), 115-119.
https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000635 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167219861432. View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2019.1568143 View
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430218769744 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21774-3 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.06.038 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167218769867 View
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 View
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 View
Tamir, M., & Bigman, Y. E. (2018). Expectations Influence How Emotions Shape Behavior. Emotion, 18(1), 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000351 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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. View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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).
https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.adms.2016.12.001 View
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1067188 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002714564431 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000072 View
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1521/ijct_2016_09_10
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 View
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000043 View
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 View
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000108 View
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550615584198 View
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
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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.
https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000021 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8950-9_13 View
Tamir, M., & Bigman, Y. (2014). Why might people want to feel bad? Motives in contrahedonic emotion regulation. In W. G. Parrott (Ed.), The Positive Side of Negative Emotions (pp. 201-223). New York, NY: Guilford Press. View
Mauss, I. B., & Tamir, M. (2014). Emotion goals: How their content, structure, and operation shape emotion regulation. In J. J. Gross (Ed.), The Handbook of Emotion Regulation, 2nd Ed (pp. 361-375). New York, NY: Guilford Press. View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797612452572 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
Tamir, M. (2011). The maturing field of emotion regulation. Emotion Review, 3(1), 3–7.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1754073910388685 View
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 View
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
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6953-8_3 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610375450 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014755 View
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 View
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 View
2008
Tamir, M., & Diener, E. (2008). Approach-avoidance goals and well-being: One size does not fit all. In A. J. Elliot (Ed.), Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation (pp. 415-430). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2006.00417.x View
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-005-7226-8 View
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 View
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 View
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.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167203259934 View
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00713.x
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 View
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 View
Clore, G. L., & Tamir, M. (2002). Affect as embodied information. Psychological Inquiry, 13(1), 37-45. View