| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Anxiety and cognitive performance: Attentional control theory. | Emotion | 2007 | 3,429 |
| 2 | Emotion and motivation I: Defensive and appetitive reactions in picture processing. | Emotion | 2001 | 1,766 |
| 3 | Measuring emotional intelligence with the MSCEIT V2.0. | Emotion | 2003 | 1,149 |
| 4 | The social consequences of expressive suppression. | Emotion | 2003 | 1,073 |
| 5 | Happiness unpacked: Positive emotions increase life satisfaction by building resilience. | Emotion | 2009 | 987 |
| 6 | Effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on emotion regulation in social anxiety disorder. | Emotion | 2010 | 890 |
| 7 | The Tie That Binds? Coherence Among Emotion Experience, Behavior, and Physiology. | Emotion | 2005 | 880 |
| 8 | Emotions evoked by the sound of music: Characterization, classification, and measurement. | Emotion | 2008 | 844 |
| 9 | Emotion and motivation II: Sex differences in picture processing. | Emotion | 2001 | 777 |
| 10 | Emotion regulation and culture: Are the social consequences of emotion suppression culture-specific? | Emotion | 2007 | 709 |
| 11 | The Facilitated Processing of Threatening Faces: An ERP Analysis. | Emotion | 2004 | 680 |
| 12 | Examining the protective effects of mindfulness training on working memory capacity and affective experience. | Emotion | 2010 | 657 |
| 13 | Negative Affects Deriving From the Behavioral Approach System. | Emotion | 2004 | 620 |
| 14 | Emotional intelligence as a standard intelligence. | Emotion | 2001 | 613 |
| 15 | Emotion Regulation Abilities and the Quality of Social Interaction. | Emotion | 2005 | 603 |
| 16 | A functional MRI study of human amygdala responses to facial expressions of fear versus anger. | Emotion | 2001 | 586 |
| 17 | Emotion regulation: Taking stock and moving forward. | Emotion | 2013 | 585 |
| 18 | Touch communicates distinct emotions. | Emotion | 2006 | 570 |
| 19 | Interpersonal emotion regulation. | Emotion | 2013 | 564 |
| 20 | Beyond reciprocity: Gratitude and relationships in everyday life. | Emotion | 2008 | 544 |
| 21 | Loving-kindness meditation increases social connectedness. | Emotion | 2008 | 532 |
| 22 | Becoming happier takes both a will and a proper way: An experimental longitudinal intervention to boost well-being. | Emotion | 2011 | 515 |
| 23 | Very first impressions. | Emotion | 2006 | 510 |
| 24 | Emotion and motivation I: defensive and appetitive reactions in picture processing | Emotion | 2001 | 505 |
| 25 | Effects of Direct and Averted Gaze on the Perception of Facially Communicated Emotion. | Emotion | 2005 | 503 |
| 26 | Rumination as a common mechanism relating depressive risk factors to depression. | Emotion | 2001 | 501 |
| 27 | Synchrony and the social tuning of compassion. | Emotion | 2011 | 486 |
| 28 | What Is Interesting? Exploring the Appraisal Structure of Interest. | Emotion | 2005 | 477 |
| 29 | Mental Imagery and Emotion: A Special Relationship? | Emotion | 2005 | 469 |
| 30 | Fundamental dimensions of subjective state in performance settings: Task engagement, distress, and worry. | Emotion | 2002 | 465 |
| 31 | Leveling up and down: The experiences of benign and malicious envy. | Emotion | 2009 | 460 |
| 32 | Toward an Understanding of the Determinants of Anger. | Emotion | 2004 | 449 |
| 33 | Parental Socialization of Emotion Expression: Gender Differences and Relations to Child Adjustment. | Emotion | 2005 | 439 |
| 34 | Emotion regulation and vulnerability to depression: Spontaneous versus instructed use of emotion suppression and reappraisal. | Emotion | 2010 | 439 |
| 35 | Does emotional intelligence meet traditional standards for an intelligence? Some new data and conclusions. | Emotion | 2001 | 433 |
| 36 | The Effects of Fear and Anger Facial Expressions on Approach- and Avoidance-Related Behaviors. | Emotion | 2005 | 432 |
| 37 | Mindfulness and mind-wandering: Finding convergence through opposing constructs. | Emotion | 2012 | 430 |
| 38 | Acceptability and suppression of negative emotion in anxiety and mood disorders. | Emotion | 2006 | 423 |
| 39 | Happiness and unhappiness in east and west: Themes and variations. | Emotion | 2009 | 423 |
| 40 | The developmental origins of a disposition toward empathy: Genetic and environmental contributions. | Emotion | 2008 | 410 |
| 41 | Gender and Culture Differences in Emotion. | Emotion | 2004 | 402 |
| 42 | Minding one’s emotions: Mindfulness training alters the neural expression of sadness. | Emotion | 2010 | 399 |
| 43 | Disgust sensitivity predicts intuitive disapproval of gays. | Emotion | 2009 | 390 |
| 44 | Mindfulness and its relationship to emotional regulation. | Emotion | 2012 | 385 |
| 45 | Decreases in psychological well-being among American adolescents after 2012 and links to screen time during the rise of smartphone technology. | Emotion | 2018 | 381 |
| 46 | The communication of emotion via touch. | Emotion | 2009 | 380 |
| 47 | Shifting moods, wandering minds: Negative moods lead the mind to wander. | Emotion | 2009 | 379 |
| 48 | Gender Differences in Judgments of Multiple Emotions From Facial Expressions. | Emotion | 2004 | 377 |
| 49 | Moving faces, looking places: Validation of the Amsterdam Dynamic Facial Expression Set (ADFES). | Emotion | 2011 | 377 |
| 50 | A 12-point circumplex structure of core affect. | Emotion | 2011 | 374 |
