| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. | Psychological Review | 1977 | 33,345 |
| 2 | The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information. | Psychological Review | 1956 | 16,720 |
| 3 | Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. | Psychological Review | 1991 | 16,023 |
| 4 | Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change | Psychological Review | 1977 | 13,407 |
| 5 | A theory of human motivation. | Psychological Review | 1943 | 13,352 |
| 6 | Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes. | Psychological Review | 1977 | 9,602 |
| 7 | Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behavior: A developmental taxonomy. | Psychological Review | 1993 | 8,058 |
| 8 | The perceptron: A probabilistic model for information storage and organization in the brain. | Psychological Review | 1958 | 7,182 |
| 9 | The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance. | Psychological Review | 1993 | 6,492 |
| 10 | The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. | Psychological Review | 2001 | 6,082 |
| 11 | A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing. | Psychological Review | 1975 | 5,912 |
| 12 | Conflict monitoring and cognitive control. | Psychological Review | 2001 | 5,904 |
| 13 | A social^cognitive approach to motivation and personality. | Psychological Review | 1988 | 5,891 |
| 14 | Controlled and automatic human information processing: II. Perceptual learning, automatic attending and a general theory. | Psychological Review | 1977 | 5,621 |
| 15 | Features of similarity. | Psychological Review | 1977 | 5,613 |
| 16 | Controlled and automatic human information processing: I. Detection, search, and attention. | Psychological Review | 1977 | 5,446 |
| 17 | An attributional theory of achievement motivation and emotion. | Psychological Review | 1985 | 5,309 |
| 18 | Cognitive maps in rats and men. | Psychological Review | 1948 | 5,184 |
| 19 | Self-discrepancy: A theory relating self and affect. | Psychological Review | 1987 | 5,084 |
| 20 | Memory and the hippocampus: A synthesis from findings with rats, monkeys, and humans. | Psychological Review | 1992 | 5,029 |
| 21 | Implicit social cognition: Attitudes, self-esteem, and stereotypes. | Psychological Review | 1995 | 4,951 |
| 22 | Recognition-by-components: A theory of human image understanding. | Psychological Review | 1987 | 4,803 |
| 23 | Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: Insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. | Psychological Review | 1995 | 4,586 |
| 24 | Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state. | Psychological Review | 1962 | 4,575 |
| 25 | The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. | Psychological Review | 1994 | 4,535 |
| 26 | On the psychology of prediction. | Psychological Review | 1973 | 4,502 |
| 27 | An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: I. An account of basic findings. | Psychological Review | 1981 | 4,483 |
| 28 | A solution to Plato's problem: The latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge. | Psychological Review | 1997 | 4,465 |
| 29 | The processing-speed theory of adult age differences in cognition. | Psychological Review | 1996 | 4,462 |
| 30 | Motivation reconsidered: The concept of competence. | Psychological Review | 1959 | 4,368 |
| 31 | Core affect and the psychological construction of emotion. | Psychological Review | 2003 | 4,255 |
| 32 | Rational choice and the structure of the environment. | Psychological Review | 1956 | 4,231 |
| 33 | Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders. | Psychological Review | 2002 | 4,215 |
| 34 | Construal-level theory of psychological distance. | Psychological Review | 2010 | 4,079 |
| 35 | A law of comparative judgment. | Psychological Review | 1927 | 3,975 |
| 36 | The self and social behavior in differing cultural contexts. | Psychological Review | 1989 | 3,913 |
| 37 | Sexual Strategies Theory: An evolutionary perspective on human mating. | Psychological Review | 1993 | 3,687 |
| 38 | Encoding specificity and retrieval processes in episodic memory. | Psychological Review | 1973 | 3,532 |
| 39 | A distributed, developmental model of word recognition and naming. | Psychological Review | 1989 | 3,516 |
| 40 | Perception of the speech code. | Psychological Review | 1967 | 3,496 |
| 41 | Culture and systems of thought: Holistic versus analytic cognition. | Psychological Review | 2001 | 3,480 |
| 42 | Toward a model of text comprehension and production. | Psychological Review | 1978 | 3,463 |
| 43 | The interpersonal theory of suicide. | Psychological Review | 2010 | 3,406 |
| 44 | The neural basis of human error processing: Reinforcement learning, dopamine, and the error-related negativity. | Psychological Review | 2002 | 3,370 |
| 45 | A theory of memory retrieval. | Psychological Review | 1978 | 3,314 |
| 46 | Visual search and stimulus similarity. | Psychological Review | 1989 | 3,306 |
| 47 | A capacity theory of comprehension: Individual differences in working memory. | Psychological Review | 1992 | 3,270 |
| 48 | On the psychophysical law. | Psychological Review | 1957 | 3,228 |
| 49 | The role of knowledge in discourse comprehension: A construction-integration model. | Psychological Review | 1988 | 3,208 |
| 50 | Verbal reports as data. | Psychological Review | 1980 | 3,159 |
