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  1. Author Reply: Why goal-directed cycles still explain most phenomena called emotions

    Article • Emotion Review, March 2026, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  2. Beyond Approach and Avoidance: Ecological Evidence for Three Fundamentally Distinct Goals in Daily Life

    Article • March 2026, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  3. Emotions as High-Impact Decisions: A Goal-Directed Theory

    Article • Emotion Review, March 2026, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  4. A goal-directed perspective on dampening of positive affect.

    Article • Psychological Review, February 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Agnes Moors, Liesbeth Bogaert

  5. What Is an Emotion?

    Article • January 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  6. Does the Value of a Response Always Reflect its Expected Utility or Can it be Influenced by Mere Co-occurrences with Past Outcomes?

    Article • January 2026, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  7. A Ternary Framework of Basic Goal Types: Changing, Protecting, and Maintaining What We Have

    Article • June 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  8. Critical Review of the Habit Theory in Substance Use Disorder and Application of Moors' Goal-Directed Theory

    Article • Current Addiction Reports, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  9. How the Goal-Directed Theory of Emotions Can Account for Valence and Irrationality: Reply to Objections

    Article • Acta Analytica, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  10. When unpacking the black box of motivation invites three forms of reductionism

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  11. Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide

    Article • June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  12. No Role for Outcomes in Definitions of Impulsive Actions

    Article • Current Addiction Reports, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  13. Vindicating the scientific status of emotions and other affective phenomena: A teleological approach to the rescue

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, April 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  14. A goal-discrepancy account of restorative nature experiences

    Article • Journal of Environmental Psychology, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  15. Exploring the role of goal-dependent processes in action slips under time pressure.

    Article • Motivation Science, January 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  16. On the Interplay Between Stimulus-driven and Goal-directed Processes in the Decision to Fight or Flee

    Article • Collabra Psychology, January 2024, University of California Press

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  17. Chasing consistency: On the measurement error in self-reported affect in experiments

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  18. Implicit Bias, Fiction, and Belief

    Article • November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  19. Varieties of instrumental theories of emotional action: commentary on “a perceptual control theory of emotional action”

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  20. Exploring the Role of Goal-Dependent Processes in Action Slips under Time Pressure

    Article • August 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  21. Poor Reliability and Validity of Habit Effects in Substance Use and Novel Insights From a Goal-Directed Perspective

    Article • July 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  22. Poor Reliability and Validity of Habit Effects in Substance Use and Novel Insights from a Goal-Directed Perspective

    Article • July 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  23. A Goal-Discrepancy Account of Restorative Nature Experiences

    Article • April 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  24. A value accumulation account of unhealthy food choices: testing the influence of outcome salience under varying time constraints

    Article • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  25. Reasons to Remain Critical About the Literature on Habits: A Commentary on Wood et al. (2022)

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, November 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  26. Preferences need inferences

    Article • October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  27. A Ternary Framework of Basic Goal Types: Changing, Protecting, and Maintaining What We Have

    Article • October 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  28. The role of goal-directed and habitual processes in food consumption under stress after outcome devaluation with taste aversion.

    Article • Behavioral Neuroscience, October 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Eike Buabang, Dr. Agnes Moors

  29. Commentary: Connecting Müller's Philosophical Position-Taking Theory of Emotional Feelings to Mechanistic Emotion Theories in Psychology

    Article • Emotion Review, September 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  30. A goal-directed account of action slips: The reliance on old contingencies.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, September 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  31. A Value Accumulation Account of Unhealthy Food Choices: Testing the Influence of Outcome Salience Under Varying Time Constraints

    Article • August 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  32. Demystifying Emotions

    Article • August 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  33. The Role of Goal-Directed and Habitual Processes in Food Consumption Under Stress After Outcome Devaluation with Taste Aversion

    Article • August 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  34. Stimulus-Driven Affective Change: Evaluating Computational Models of Affect Dynamics in Conjunction with Input

    Article • Affective Science, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  35. Behavior prediction requires implicit measures of stimulus‐goal discrepancies and expected utilities of behavior options rather than of attitudes toward objects

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science, July 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  36. Comment: Old Wine in New Bags—Suri and Gross's Connectionist Theory of Emotion is Another Type of Network Theory

    Article • Emotion Review, March 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  37. Preferences need inferences: Learning, valuation, and curiosity in aesthetic experience

    Article • November 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  38. A Goal-Directed Account of Action Slips: The Reliance on Old Contingencies

    Article • October 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  39. The goal-directed model as an alternative to reductionist and network approaches of psychopathology

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychology, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  40. Don’t make a habit out of it: Impaired learning conditions can make goal-directed behavior seem habitual.

    Article • Motivation Science, September 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Agnes Moors, Eike Buabang, Dr. Agnes Moors

  41. The rise of affectivism

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Tim Wharton, Dr. Agnes Moors

  42. Comparison of the determinants for positive and negative affect proposed by appraisal theories, goal-directed theories, and predictive processing theories

    Article • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, June 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  43. Behavioral Reluctance in Adopting Open Access Publishing: Insights From a Goal-Directed Perspective

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2021, Frontiers

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  44. Testing a computational model of subjective well-being: a preregistered replication of Rutledge et al. (2014)

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, February 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  45. Neurophysiological evidence for evaluative feedback processing depending on goal relevance

    Article • NeuroImage, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  46. Support from a TMS/MEP study for a direct link between positive/negative stimuli and approach/avoidance tendencies

    Article • Neuropsychologia, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  47. Tackling fear: Beyond associative memory activation as the only determinant of fear responding

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, May 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  48. Early Approach and Avoidance Tendencies can be Goal-Directed: Support from a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study

    Article • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  49. When socially excluded people prefer moralizing to anti- and prosocial behavior: Support for a goal-directed account

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  50. Support from a TMS/MEP study for a direct link between positive/negative stimuli and approach/avoidance tendencies

    Article • January 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  51. Learning Habits: Does Overtraining Lead to Resistance to New Learning?

    Article • Collabra Psychology, January 2020, University of California Press

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  52. Appraisal Theory of Emotion

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  53. When the outcome is different than expected: Subjective expectancy shapes reward prediction error at the FRN level

    Article • Psychophysiology, August 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  54. The role of stimulus-driven versus goal-directed processes in fight and flight tendencies measured with motor evoked potentials induced by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

    Article • PLOS One, May 2019, PLOS

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  55. The Emotion Process: Event Appraisal and Component Differentiation

    Article • Annual Review of Psychology, January 2019, Annual Reviews

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  56. Goals matter: Amplification of the motivational significance of the feedback when goal impact is increased

    Article • Brain and Cognition, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  57. Relevance and uncertainty jointly influence reward anticipation at the level of the SPN ERP component

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, October 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  58. The influence of threat on perceived spatial distance to out-group members

    Article • Psychological Research, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  59. Demystifying the role of emotion in behaviour: toward a goal-directed account

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  60. Interaction and threshold effects of appraisal on componential patterns of emotion: A study using cross-cultural semantic data.

    Article • Emotion, June 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  61. Kicking the habit: Why evidence for habits in humans might be overestimated.

    Article • Motivation Science, March 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  62. Paul Eelen: Reflections on Life and Work

    Article • Psychologica Belgica, January 2018, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  63. Goal impact influences the evaluative component of performance monitoring: Evidence from ERPs

    Article • Biological Psychology, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  64. Author Reply: Emotional Episodes Are Action Episodes

    Article • Emotion Review, August 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  65. The Power of Goal-Directed Processes in the Causation of Emotional and Other Actions

    Article • Emotion Review, August 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  66. Emotion Meets Action: Towards an Integration of Research and Theory

    Article • Emotion Review, August 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  67. Current Emotion Research in Economics

    Article • Emotion Review, April 2017, SAGE Publications

    Klaus Wälde, Dr. Agnes Moors

  68. Integration of Two Skeptical Emotion Theories: Dimensional Appraisal Theory and Russell's Psychological Construction Theory

    Article • Psychological Inquiry, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  69. The Integrated Theory of Emotional Behavior Follows a Radically Goal-Directed Approach

    Article • Psychological Inquiry, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  70. Appraisal Theory of Emotion

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  71. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the inferior frontal cortex affects the “social scaling” of extrapersonal space depending on perspective-taking ability

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  72. EFT‐C's understanding of couple distress: an overview of evidence from couple and emotion research

    Article • Journal of Family Therapy, July 2016, Wiley

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  73. Goal relevance influences performance monitoring at the level of the FRN and P3 components

    Article • Psychophysiology, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  74. Automaticity

    Article • Annual Review of Psychology, January 2016, Annual Reviews

    Professor Agnes Moors, Dr. Agnes Moors

  75. Current Emotion Research in Economics

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  76. Flavors of Appraisal Theories of Emotion

    Article • Emotion Review, September 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  77. Author Reply: Toward a Multilevel Mechanistic Explanation of Complex Regularities Between Environment and Emotional Components

    Article • Emotion Review, September 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  78. Emotion regulatory function of parent attention to child pain and associated implications for parental pain control behaviour

    Article • Pain, August 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Stefan Sütterlin, Dr. Agnes Moors

  79. Exploring the Relations between Regret, Self-agency, and the Tendency to Repair Using Experimental Methods and Structural Equation Modeling

    Article • The Psychological Record, June 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  80. On angry approach and fearful avoidance: The goal-dependent nature of emotional approach and avoidance tendencies

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  81. Unexpected and just missed: The separate influence of the appraisals of expectancy and proximity on negative emotions.

    Article • Emotion, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  82. On the Causal Role of Appraisal in Emotion

    Article • Emotion Review, March 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  83. Appraisal Theories of Emotion: State of the Art and Future Development

    Article • Emotion Review, March 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  84. Author Reply: Appraisal is Transactional, Not All-Inclusive, and Cognitive in a Broad Sense

    Article • Emotion Review, March 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  85. Automaticity

    Article • March 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  86. Changing Emotions

    Article • February 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors, James Byron Nelson, Dr Dario Paez

  87. Understanding emotion change requires an understanding of emotion causation agnes moors

    Article • February 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  88. Emotional acculturation jozeFien De LeersnyDer, Batja mesquita, anD Heejung kim

    Article • February 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  89. What is learning? On the nature and merits of a functional definition of learning

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  90. Norms of valence, arousal, dominance, and age of acquisition for 4,300 Dutch words

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, September 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  91. How to Define and Examine Implicit Processes?

    Article • July 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  92. 13. Comparison of affect program theories, appraisal theories, and psychological construction theories

    Article • January 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  93. Strengths and Limitations of Theoretical Explanations in Psychology

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, March 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  94. Unintended Allocation of Spatial Attention to Goal-Relevant but Not to Goal-Related Events

    Article • Social Psychology, January 2011, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  95. The automatic orienting of attention to goal-relevant stimuli

    Article • Acta Psychologica, May 2010, Elsevier

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  96. Automatic Constructive Appraisal: A Reply to the Commentaries of Parkinson and Kuppens

    Article • Emotion Review, March 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  97. Automatic Constructive Appraisal as a Candidate Cause of Emotion

    Article • Emotion Review, February 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  98. comparison of emotion theories

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  99. Theoretical claims necessitate basic research: Reply to Gawronski, Lebel, Peters, and Banse (2009) and Nosek and Greenwald (2009).

    Article • Psychological Bulletin, May 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  100. Implicit measures: A normative analysis and review.

    Article • Psychological Bulletin, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  101. Distinguishing between two types of musical emotions and reconsidering the role of appraisal

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, October 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  102. Novel attitudes can be faked on the Implicit Association Test

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, November 2007, Elsevier

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  103. Can cognitive methods be used to study the unique aspect of emotion: An appraisal theorist's answer

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, September 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  104. Offline and online automatic number comparison

    Article • Psychological Research, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  105. Offline and online automatic number comparison

    Article • Psychological Research, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  106. Automaticity: A Theoretical and Conceptual Analysis.

    Article • Psychological Bulletin, January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  107. Unintentional Processing of Motivational Valence

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, August 2005, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  108. Automatic Processing of Dominance and Submissiveness

    Article • Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie), January 2005, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  109. Automatic stimulus‐goal comparisons: Support from motivational affective priming studies

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  110. Automatic appraisal of motivational valence: Motivational affective priming and Simon effects

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, November 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  111. On the causal role of appraisal in emotion: Objections and replies

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  112. On the automaticity of language processing.

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Agnes Moors

  113. A psychological perspective on the reluctance of researchers to adopt open access publishing

    Article • PubPub

    Dr. Agnes Moors