| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Towards an understanding of inequity. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1963 | 3,667 |
| 2 | Behavioral Study of obedience. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1963 | 3,616 |
| 3 | A study of normative and informational social influences upon individual judgment. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1955 | 3,614 |
| 4 | A personality scale of manifest anxiety. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1953 | 2,852 |
| 5 | Forming impressions of personality. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1946 | 2,289 |
| 6 | Cognitive consequences of forced compliance. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1959 | 2,107 |
| 7 | Toward an adequate taxonomy of personality attributes: Replicated factor structure in peer nomination personality ratings. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1963 | 1,945 |
| 8 | The statistical power of abnormal-social psychological research: A review. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1962 | 1,441 |
| 9 | Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1961 | 1,351 |
| 10 | Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1963 | 1,190 |
| 11 | Racial stereotypes of one hundred college students. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1933 | 1,154 |
| 12 | A study of anxiety in the sociopathic personality. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1957 | 1,130 |
| 13 | Evaluational reactions to spoken languages. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1960 | 1,130 |
| 14 | Some effects of certain communication patterns on group performance. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1951 | 1,101 |
| 15 | Deviation, rejection, and communication. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1951 | 1,075 |
| 16 | Value and need as organizing factors in perception. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1947 | 1,037 |
| 17 | Social participation among pre-school children. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1932 | 991 |
| 18 | The effect of severity of initiation on liking for a group. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1959 | 971 |
| 19 | Postdecision changes in the desirability of alternatives. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1956 | 910 |
| 20 | The nature of hypnosis: Artifact and essence. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1959 | 893 |
| 21 | Interpersonal attraction and attitude similarity. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1961 | 881 |
| 22 | A study of anxiety and learning. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1952 | 877 |
| 23 | Cognitive structure and attitudinal affect. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1956 | 835 |
| 24 | They saw a game; a case study. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1954 | 804 |
| 25 | Anxiety in academic achievement situations. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1960 | 795 |
| 26 | Effects of fear-arousing communications. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1953 | 737 |
| 27 | Consistency of the factorial structures of personality ratings from different sources. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1949 | 715 |
| 28 | A study in language and cognition. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1954 | 676 |
| 29 | The description of personality: basic traits resolved into clusters. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1943 | 671 |
| 30 | Dream reports from different stages of sleep. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1962 | 645 |
| 31 | Short-circuiting of threat by experimentally altering cognitive appraisal. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1964 | 626 |
| 32 | Some factors in self-disclosure. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1958 | 611 |
| 33 | Yeasayers and naysayers: Agreeing response set as a personality variable. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1960 | 601 |
| 34 | Attitudes toward old people: The development of a scale and an examination of correlates. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1961 | 587 |
| 35 | Vicarious reinforcement and imitative learning. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1963 | 563 |
| 36 | Assimilation and contrast effects in reactions to communication and attitude change. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1957 | 542 |
| 37 | Quality and acceptance of problem solutions by members of homogeneous and heterogeneous groups. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1961 | 519 |
| 38 | A circumplex model for maternal behavior. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1959 | 517 |
| 39 | Some consequences of de-individuation in a group. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1952 | 516 |
| 40 | Phases in group problem-solving. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1951 | 515 |
| 41 | An analysis of mood in neurotics. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1964 | 505 |
| 42 | Experimental desensitization of phobia. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1963 | 490 |
| 43 | The disposition toward originality. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1955 | 461 |
| 44 | Traumatic avoidance learning: the outcomes of several extinction procedures with dogs. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1953 | 454 |
| 45 | Cognitive complexity-simplicity and predictive behavior. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1955 | 450 |
| 46 | Opinions about mental illness in the personnel of two large mental hospitals. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1962 | 448 |
| 47 | Linguistic determinism and the part of speech. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1957 | 425 |
| 48 | The measurement of social attitudes. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1931 | 410 |
| 49 | Achievement motive and test anxiety conceived as motive to approach success and motive to avoid failure. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1960 | 406 |
| 50 | Performance expectancy as a determinant of actual performance. | Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology | 1962 | 402 |
