| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1986 | 61,996 |
| 2 | Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1988 | 27,410 |
| 3 | Naturalistic inquiry | International Journal of Intercultural Relations | 1985 | 23,540 |
| 4 | The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1986 | 22,262 |
| 5 | A Global Measure of Perceived Stress | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1983 | 21,013 |
| 6 | Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: the PANAS scales | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1988 | 12,000 |
| 7 | A circumplex model of affect. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1980 | 10,473 |
| 8 | Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1989 | 8,716 |
| 9 | Back-Translation for Cross-Cultural Research | Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology | 1970 | 8,601 |
| 10 | The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 8,519 |
| 11 | Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: The implicit association test. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1998 | 8,119 |
| 12 | A global measure of perceived stress | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1983 | 7,571 |
| 13 | Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: Implications for affect, relationships, and well-being. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 7,425 |
| 14 | Assessing coping strategies: A theoretically based approach. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1989 | 7,102 |
| 15 | Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1983 | 6,948 |
| 16 | Universals in the Content and Structure of Values: Theoretical Advances and Empirical Tests in 20 Countries | Advances in Experimental Social Psychology | 1992 | 6,912 |
| 17 | The Job Demands‐Resources model: state of the art | Journal of Managerial Psychology | 2007 | 6,813 |
| 18 | Efficacy of the Theory of Planned Behaviour: A meta-analytic review | British Journal of Social Psychology | 2001 | 6,675 |
| 19 | Revisiting the Behavioral Model and Access to Medical Care: Does it Matter? | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1995 | 6,672 |
| 20 | A General Inductive Approach for Analyzing Qualitative Evaluation Data | American Journal of Evaluation | 2006 | 6,603 |
| 21 | Self-Rated Health and Mortality: A Review of Twenty-Seven Community Studies | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1997 | 6,576 |
| 22 | Inequity In Social Exchange | Advances in Experimental Social Psychology | 1965 | 6,423 |
| 23 | A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2006 | 5,947 |
| 24 | Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1987 | 5,717 |
| 25 | Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1995 | 5,654 |
| 26 | Behavioral inhibition, behavioral activation, and affective responses to impending reward and punishment: The BIS/BAS Scales. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1994 | 5,620 |
| 27 | A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains | Journal of Research in Personality | 2003 | 5,553 |
| 28 | Reflecting on reflexive thematic analysis | Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health | 2019 | 5,395 |
| 29 | New Environmental Theories: Toward a Coherent Theory of Environmentally Significant Behavior | Journal of Social Issues | 2000 | 5,361 |
| 30 | The structure of psychological well-being revisited. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1995 | 5,325 |
| 31 | Attachment styles among young adults: A test of a four-category model. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1991 | 5,038 |
| 32 | Distinguishing optimism from neuroticism (and trait anxiety, self-mastery, and self-esteem): A reevaluation of the Life Orientation Test. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1994 | 5,006 |
| 33 | The Structure of Coping | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1978 | 4,886 |
| 34 | A model of (often mixed) stereotype content: Competence and warmth respectively follow from perceived status and competition. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2002 | 4,760 |
| 35 | Perceived Behavioral Control, Self-Efficacy, Locus of Control, and the Theory of Planned Behavior1 | Journal of Applied Social Psychology | 2002 | 4,733 |
| 36 | An Introduction to the Five-Factor Model and Its Applications | Journal of Personality | 1992 | 4,657 |
| 37 | Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1999 | 4,648 |
| 38 | 9/Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) | Clinical Gerontologist | 1986 | 4,551 |
| 39 | Attitudinal effects of mere exposure. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1968 | 4,542 |
| 40 | High Self-Control Predicts Good Adjustment, Less Pathology, Better Grades, and Interpersonal Success | Journal of Personality | 2004 | 4,436 |
| 41 | Necropolitics | Public Culture | 2003 | 4,375 |
| 42 | Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation to Use Computers in the Workplace1 | Journal of Applied Social Psychology | 1992 | 4,374 |
| 43 | Validation of the five-factor model of personality across instruments and observers. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1987 | 4,370 |
| 44 | Understanding and using the Implicit Association Test: I. An improved scoring algorithm. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 4,225 |
| 45 | An Analysis of Coping in a Middle-Aged Community Sample | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1980 | 4,209 |
| 46 | An alternative "description of personality": The Big-Five factor structure. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1990 | 4,168 |
| 47 | The Aggression Questionnaire. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1992 | 4,160 |
| 48 | Working Memory | Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory | 1974 | 4,155 |
| 49 | Social categorization and intergroup behaviour | European Journal of Social Psychology | 1971 | 4,091 |
| 50 | Prediction of goal-directed behavior: Attitudes, intentions, and perceived behavioral control | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | 1986 | 4,010 |
| 51 | Stereotypes and prejudice: Their automatic and controlled components. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1989 | 3,992 |
| 52 | Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook | Journal of Environmental Psychology | 1994 | 3,987 |
| 53 | The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework | Journal of Environmental Psychology | 1995 | 3,937 |
| 54 | Heuristic versus systematic information processing and the use of source versus message cues in persuasion. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1980 | 3,876 |
| 55 | The need for cognition. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1982 | 3,874 |
| 56 | The Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Self-Compassion | Self and Identity | 2003 | 3,836 |
| 57 | The Stress Process | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1981 | 3,821 |
| 58 | Constants across cultures in the face and emotion. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1971 | 3,814 |
| 59 | Are There Universal Aspects in the Structure and Contents of Human Values? | Journal of Social Issues | 1994 | 3,812 |
| 60 | New Trends in Measuring Environmental Attitudes: Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale | Journal of Social Issues | 2000 | 3,791 |
| 61 | Social Conditions As Fundamental Causes of Disease | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1995 | 3,790 |
| 62 | The Psychological Meaning of Words: LIWC and Computerized Text Analysis Methods | Journal of Language and Social Psychology | 2010 | 3,755 |
| 63 | The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion | Advances in Experimental Social Psychology | 1986 | 3,718 |
| 64 | Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2007 | 3,692 |
| 65 | Sense of community: A definition and theory | Journal of Community Psychology | 1986 | 3,690 |
| 66 | A focus theory of normative conduct: Recycling the concept of norms to reduce littering in public places. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1990 | 3,680 |
| 67 | Towards an understanding of inequity. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1963 | 3,667 |
| 68 | The Social Self: On Being the Same and Different at the Same Time | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin | 1991 | 3,663 |
| 69 | Action Research and Minority Problems | Journal of Social Issues | 1946 | 3,652 |
| 70 | Behavioral Study of obedience. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1963 | 3,616 |
| 71 | A study of normative and informational social influences upon individual judgment. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1955 | 3,614 |
| 72 | Ego depletion: Is the active self a limited resource? | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1998 | 3,605 |
| 73 | Mood, misattribution, and judgments of well-being: Informative and directive functions of affective states. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1983 | 3,519 |
| 74 | Social dominance orientation: A personality variable predicting social and political attitudes. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1994 | 3,490 |
| 75 | The revised UCLA Loneliness Scale: Concurrent and discriminant validity evidence. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1980 | 3,443 |
| 76 | The chameleon effect: The perception–behavior link and social interaction. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1999 | 3,371 |
| 77 | Unrealistic optimism about future life events. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1980 | 3,358 |
| 78 | Positioning: The Discursive Production of Selves | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour | 1990 | 3,350 |
| 79 | Development and validation of ego-identity status. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1966 | 3,345 |
| 80 | Stress recovery during exposure to natural and urban environments | Journal of Environmental Psychology | 1991 | 3,327 |
| 81 | Assessing coping strategies: a theoretically based approach | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1989 | 3,272 |
| 82 | The Dark Triad of personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy | Journal of Research in Personality | 2002 | 3,270 |
| 83 | Personal religious orientation and prejudice. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1967 | 3,262 |
| 84 | Inclusion of Other in the Self Scale and the structure of interpersonal closeness. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1992 | 3,230 |
| 85 | Reflective and Impulsive Determinants of Social Behavior | Personality and Social Psychology Review | 2004 | 3,209 |
| 86 | Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 3,200 |
| 87 | Self-schemata and processing information about the self. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1977 | 3,187 |
| 88 | Human Memory: A Proposed System and its Control Processes | Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory | 1968 | 3,174 |
| 89 | Staff Burn‐Out | Journal of Social Issues | 1974 | 3,129 |
| 90 | Antecedent- and response-focused emotion regulation: Divergent consequences for experience, expression, and physiology. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1998 | 3,115 |
| 91 | If it changes it must be a process: Study of emotion and coping during three stages of a college examination. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1985 | 3,109 |
| 92 | Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour: An integrative review and research agenda | Journal of Environmental Psychology | 2009 | 3,075 |
| 93 | Antecedents and consequences of employee engagement | Journal of Managerial Psychology | 2006 | 3,052 |
| 94 | Biased assimilation and attitude polarization: The effects of prior theories on subsequently considered evidence. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1979 | 3,031 |
| 95 | Patterns of cognitive appraisal in emotion. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1985 | 3,023 |
| 96 | An item response theory analysis of self-report measures of adult attachment. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2000 | 3,021 |
| 97 | Revisiting the behavioral model and access to medical care: does it matter? | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1995 | 2,980 |
| 98 | The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: Differentiating hostile and benevolent sexism. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1996 | 2,974 |
| 99 | Self-Compassion: An Alternative Conceptualization of a Healthy Attitude Toward Oneself | Self and Identity | 2003 | 2,958 |
| 100 | Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2009 | 2,944 |
