| # | 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 | The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1986 | 22,262 |
| 4 | Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: the PANAS scales | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1988 | 12,000 |
| 5 | A circumplex model of affect. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1980 | 10,473 |
| 6 | Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1989 | 8,716 |
| 7 | The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 8,519 |
| 8 | Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: The implicit association test. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1998 | 8,119 |
| 9 | Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: Implications for affect, relationships, and well-being. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 7,425 |
| 10 | Assessing coping strategies: A theoretically based approach. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1989 | 7,102 |
| 11 | Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1983 | 6,948 |
| 12 | A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2006 | 5,947 |
| 13 | Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1987 | 5,717 |
| 14 | Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1995 | 5,654 |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | The structure of psychological well-being revisited. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1995 | 5,325 |
| 17 | Attachment styles among young adults: A test of a four-category model. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1991 | 5,038 |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Attitudinal effects of mere exposure. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1968 | 4,542 |
| 22 | Validation of the five-factor model of personality across instruments and observers. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1987 | 4,370 |
| 23 | Understanding and using the Implicit Association Test: I. An improved scoring algorithm. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 4,225 |
| 24 | An alternative "description of personality": The Big-Five factor structure. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1990 | 4,168 |
| 25 | The Aggression Questionnaire. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1992 | 4,160 |
| 26 | Stereotypes and prejudice: Their automatic and controlled components. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1989 | 3,992 |
| 27 | Heuristic versus systematic information processing and the use of source versus message cues in persuasion. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1980 | 3,876 |
| 28 | The need for cognition. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1982 | 3,874 |
| 29 | Constants across cultures in the face and emotion. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1971 | 3,814 |
| 30 | Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2007 | 3,692 |
| 31 | 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 |
| 32 | Ego depletion: Is the active self a limited resource? | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1998 | 3,605 |
| 33 | Mood, misattribution, and judgments of well-being: Informative and directive functions of affective states. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1983 | 3,519 |
| 34 | Social dominance orientation: A personality variable predicting social and political attitudes. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1994 | 3,490 |
| 35 | The revised UCLA Loneliness Scale: Concurrent and discriminant validity evidence. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1980 | 3,443 |
| 36 | The chameleon effect: The perception–behavior link and social interaction. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1999 | 3,371 |
| 37 | Unrealistic optimism about future life events. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1980 | 3,358 |
| 38 | Development and validation of ego-identity status. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1966 | 3,345 |
| 39 | Assessing coping strategies: a theoretically based approach | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1989 | 3,272 |
| 40 | Personal religious orientation and prejudice. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1967 | 3,262 |
| 41 | Inclusion of Other in the Self Scale and the structure of interpersonal closeness. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1992 | 3,230 |
| 42 | Self-schemata and processing information about the self. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1977 | 3,187 |
| 43 | Antecedent- and response-focused emotion regulation: Divergent consequences for experience, expression, and physiology. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1998 | 3,115 |
| 44 | 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 |
| 45 | Biased assimilation and attitude polarization: The effects of prior theories on subsequently considered evidence. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1979 | 3,031 |
| 46 | Patterns of cognitive appraisal in emotion. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1985 | 3,023 |
| 47 | An item response theory analysis of self-report measures of adult attachment. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2000 | 3,021 |
| 48 | The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: Differentiating hostile and benevolent sexism. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1996 | 2,974 |
| 49 | Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2009 | 2,944 |
| 50 | Self-monitoring of expressive behavior. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1974 | 2,917 |
