| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Optimism, coping, and health: Assessment and implications of generalized outcome expectancies. | Health Psychology | 1985 | 4,655 |
| 2 | Relationship of subjective and objective social status with psychological and physiological functioning: Preliminary data in healthy, White women. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 2,768 |
| 3 | A taxonomy of behavior change techniques used in interventions. | Health Psychology | 2008 | 2,089 |
| 4 | Optimism, coping, and health: assessment and implications of generalized outcome expectancies | Health Psychology | 1985 | 1,927 |
| 5 | Stages of change and decisional balance for 12 problem behaviors. | Health Psychology | 1994 | 1,916 |
| 6 | Enhancing Treatment Fidelity in Health Behavior Change Studies: Best Practices and Recommendations From the NIH Behavior Change Consortium. | Health Psychology | 2004 | 1,879 |
| 7 | Effective techniques in healthy eating and physical activity interventions: A meta-regression. | Health Psychology | 2009 | 1,775 |
| 8 | Social Support and Patient Adherence to Medical Treatment: A Meta-Analysis. | Health Psychology | 2004 | 1,583 |
| 9 | Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: The example of vaccination. | Health Psychology | 2007 | 1,487 |
| 10 | Psychosocial models of the role of social support in the etiology of physical disease. | Health Psychology | 1988 | 1,263 |
| 11 | The precaution adoption process. | Health Psychology | 1988 | 1,077 |
| 12 | Relationship of subjective and objective social status with psychological and physiological functioning: preliminary data in healthy white women | Health Psychology | 2000 | 1,017 |
| 13 | Relationship of daily hassles, uplifts, and major life events to health status. | Health Psychology | 1982 | 949 |
| 14 | The Contemplation Ladder: Validation of a measure of readiness to consider smoking cessation. | Health Psychology | 1991 | 923 |
| 15 | Long-term maintenance of weight loss: Current status. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 918 |
| 16 | The relative efficacy of avoidant and nonavoidant coping strategies: A meta-analysis. | Health Psychology | 1985 | 915 |
| 17 | Testing four competing theories of health-protective behavior. | Health Psychology | 1993 | 900 |
| 18 | Validation of susceptibility as a predictor of which adolescents take up smoking in the United States. | Health Psychology | 1996 | 879 |
| 19 | The novel coronavirus (COVID-2019) outbreak: Amplification of public health consequences by media exposure. | Health Psychology | 2020 | 826 |
| 20 | Religious involvement and mortality: A meta-analytic review. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 824 |
| 21 | Understanding associations among race, socioeconomic status, and health: Patterns and prospects. | Health Psychology | 2016 | 777 |
| 22 | Why it won't happen to me: Perceptions of risk factors and susceptibility. | Health Psychology | 1984 | 772 |
| 23 | Cognitive-behavioral stress management intervention decreases the prevalence of depression and enhances benefit finding among women under treatment for early-stage breast cancer. | Health Psychology | 2001 | 767 |
| 24 | Posttraumatic growth following breast cancer: A controlled comparison study. | Health Psychology | 2001 | 752 |
| 25 | Effects of psychosocial interventions with adult cancer patients: A meta-analysis of randomized experiments. | Health Psychology | 1995 | 748 |
| 26 | Affect, risk, and decision making. | Health Psychology | 2005 | 741 |
| 27 | From ideas to efficacy: The ORBIT model for developing behavioral treatments for chronic diseases. | Health Psychology | 2015 | 739 |
| 28 | Ten-year outcomes of behavioral family-based treatment for childhood obesity. | Health Psychology | 1994 | 738 |
| 29 | Loneliness, social isolation, and behavioral and biological health indicators in older adults. | Health Psychology | 2011 | 729 |
| 30 | Meta-analysis of psychological interventions for chronic low back pain. | Health Psychology | 2007 | 727 |
| 31 | Chronic psychological stress and the regulation of pro-inflammatory cytokines: A glucocorticoid-resistance model. | Health Psychology | 2002 | 717 |
| 32 | Priming effects of television food advertising on eating behavior. | Health Psychology | 2009 | 715 |
| 33 | Physicians' characteristics influence patients' adherence to medical treatment: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study. | Health Psychology | 1993 | 693 |
| 34 | Risk factors for binge eating onset in adolescent girls: A 2-year prospective investigation. | Health Psychology | 2002 | 683 |
| 35 | Physical activity and sedentary behavior: A population-based study of barriers, enjoyment, and preference. | Health Psychology | 2003 | 682 |
| 36 | The impact of changing attitudes, norms, and self-efficacy on health-related intentions and behavior: A meta-analysis. | Health Psychology | 2016 | 667 |
| 37 | The yellow brick road and the emerald city: Benefit finding, positive reappraisal coping and posttraumatic growth in women with early-stage breast cancer. | Health Psychology | 2003 | 653 |
| 38 | Standardized, individualized, interactive, and personalized self-help programs for smoking cessation. | Health Psychology | 1993 | 649 |
| 39 | Social relationships, social support, and patterns of cognitive aging in healthy, high-functioning older adults: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. | Health Psychology | 2001 | 643 |
| 40 | Exercise improves executive function and achievement and alters brain activation in overweight children: A randomized, controlled trial. | Health Psychology | 2011 | 636 |
| 41 | Personal and environmental factors associated with physical inactivity among different racial–ethnic groups of U.S. middle-aged and older-aged women. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 634 |
| 42 | Are interventions theory-based? Development of a theory coding scheme. | Health Psychology | 2010 | 634 |
| 43 | Social-cognitive predictors of health behavior: Action self-efficacy and coping self-efficacy. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 627 |
| 44 | The stages and processes of exercise adoption and maintenance in a worksite sample. | Health Psychology | 1992 | 626 |
| 45 | Toward a theory-based analysis of behavioral maintenance. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 625 |
| 46 | Stages of change and decisional balance for 12 problem behaviors | Health Psychology | 1994 | 625 |
| 47 | Hostility and health: Current status of a psychosomatic hypothesis. | Health Psychology | 1992 | 596 |
| 48 | Patterns, correlates, and barriers to medication adherence among persons prescribed new treatments for HIV disease. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 594 |
| 49 | Psychosocial models of the role of social support in the etiology of physical disease | Health Psychology | 1988 | 594 |
| 50 | Health-related quality of life measurement for evaluation research and policy analysis. | Health Psychology | 1982 | 587 |
