| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior | Psychological Inquiry | 2000 | 18,673 |
| 2 | TARGET ARTICLE: "Posttraumatic Growth: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence" | Psychological Inquiry | 2004 | 4,525 |
| 3 | Mindfulness: Theoretical Foundations and Evidence for its Salutary Effects | Psychological Inquiry | 2007 | 2,417 |
| 4 | TARGET ARTICLE: Hope Theory: Rainbows in the Mind | Psychological Inquiry | 2002 | 2,315 |
| 5 | Emotion Regulation: Current Status and Future Prospects | Psychological Inquiry | 2015 | 2,233 |
| 6 | The Contours of Positive Human Health | Psychological Inquiry | 1998 | 1,768 |
| 7 | Parental Socialization of Emotion | Psychological Inquiry | 1998 | 1,742 |
| 8 | Self-Regulation Failure: An Overview | Psychological Inquiry | 1996 | 1,692 |
| 9 | Implicit Theories and Their Role in Judgments and Reactions: A Word From Two Perspectives | Psychological Inquiry | 1995 | 1,680 |
| 10 | Unraveling the Paradoxes of Narcissism: A Dynamic Self-Regulatory Processing Model | Psychological Inquiry | 2001 | 1,561 |
| 11 | Attachment as an Organizational Framework for Research on Close Relationships | Psychological Inquiry | 1994 | 1,370 |
| 12 | TARGET ARTICLES: "Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Findings, and Implications" | Psychological Inquiry | 2004 | 1,316 |
| 13 | TARGET ARTICLE: Toward a Conceptualization of Optimal Self-Esteem | Psychological Inquiry | 2003 | 1,255 |
| 14 | Evolutionary Psychology: A New Paradigm for Psychological Science | Psychological Inquiry | 1995 | 1,150 |
| 15 | TARGET ARTICLE: "Putting the Self Into Self-Conscious Emotions: A Theoretical Model" | Psychological Inquiry | 2004 | 1,052 |
| 16 | Personality, Modernity, and the Storied Self: A Contemporary Framework for Studying Persons | Psychological Inquiry | 1996 | 927 |
| 17 | TARGET ARTICLE: Immersive Virtual Environment Technology as a Methodological Tool for Social Psychology | Psychological Inquiry | 2002 | 922 |
| 18 | Evidence for Altruism: Toward a Pluralism of Prosocial Motives | Psychological Inquiry | 1991 | 919 |
| 19 | The Darker and Brighter Sides of Human Existence: Basic Psychological Needs as a Unifying Concept | Psychological Inquiry | 2000 | 917 |
| 20 | TARGET ARTICLE: Explaining the Relationships Between Religious Involvement and Health | Psychological Inquiry | 2002 | 733 |
| 21 | Toward a Science of Mood Regulation | Psychological Inquiry | 2000 | 704 |
| 22 | The Nature of Rapport and Its Nonverbal Correlates | Psychological Inquiry | 1990 | 660 |
| 23 | Personality Development Across the Life Course:The Argument for Change and Continuity | Psychological Inquiry | 2001 | 658 |
| 24 | Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality | Psychological Inquiry | 2012 | 614 |
| 25 | Theory-Based Stress Measurement | Psychological Inquiry | 1990 | 593 |
| 26 | Externalizing Behavior Problems and Discipline Revisited: Nonlinear Effects and Variation by Culture, Context, and Gender | Psychological Inquiry | 1997 | 586 |
| 27 | Creativity and Personality: Suggestions for a Theory | Psychological Inquiry | 1993 | 574 |
| 28 | Boosting Attachment Security to Promote Mental Health, Prosocial Values, and Inter-Group Tolerance | Psychological Inquiry | 2007 | 555 |
| 29 | Appraising and Amending Theories: The Strategy of Lakatosian Defense and Two Principles that Warrant It | Psychological Inquiry | 1990 | 499 |
| 30 | TARGET ARTICLE: The Bitter and the Sweet: An Evaluation of the Costs and Benefits of Religiousness | Psychological Inquiry | 2002 | 465 |
| 31 | Mood as Information: 20 Years Later | Psychological Inquiry | 2003 | 465 |
| 32 | Mindfulness Broadens Awareness and Builds Eudaimonic Meaning: A Process Model of Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation | Psychological Inquiry | 2015 | 454 |
| 33 | Variation in Susceptibility to Environmental Influence: An Evolutionary Argument | Psychological Inquiry | 1997 | 413 |
| 34 | The Return of the Repressed: Dissonance Theory Makes a Comeback | Psychological Inquiry | 1992 | 409 |
| 35 | A Theory of Blame | Psychological Inquiry | 2014 | 408 |
| 36 | Why Do We Need What We Need? A Terror Management Perspective on the Roots of Human Social Motivation | Psychological Inquiry | 1997 | 405 |
| 37 | Persuasion by a Single Route: A View From the Unimodel | Psychological Inquiry | 1999 | 404 |
| 38 | A Critical Analysis of Current Trait Theory | Psychological Inquiry | 1994 | 388 |
| 39 | Mood as Information: 20 Years Later | Psychological Inquiry | 2003 | 383 |
| 40 | Giving in to Feel Good: The Place of Emotion Regulation in the Context of General Self-Control | Psychological Inquiry | 2000 | 382 |
| 41 | Subjective Well-Being Is Essential to Well-Being | Psychological Inquiry | 1998 | 372 |
| 42 | When Do Individual Differences Matter? A Paradoxical Theory of Personality Coherence | Psychological Inquiry | 1993 | 365 |
| 43 | The Temporal Elements of Psychological Resilience: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Individuals, Families, and Communities | Psychological Inquiry | 2015 | 349 |
| 44 | A Dual-Process Motivational Model of Ideology, Politics, and Prejudice | Psychological Inquiry | 2009 | 344 |
| 45 | The Extended Process Model of Emotion Regulation: Elaborations, Applications, and Future Directions | Psychological Inquiry | 2015 | 335 |
| 46 | Some Costs of American Corporate Capitalism: A Psychological Exploration of Value and Goal Conflicts | Psychological Inquiry | 2007 | 333 |
| 47 | Feeling and Doing: Affective Influences on Interpersonal Behavior | Psychological Inquiry | 2002 | 327 |
| 48 | TARGET ARTICLE | Psychological Inquiry | 1999 | 317 |
| 49 | Implicit Theories: Elaboration and Extension of the Model | Psychological Inquiry | 1995 | 310 |
| 50 | TARGET ARTICLE: Attributions of Implicit Prejudice, or "Would Jesse Jackson 'Fail' the Implicit Association Test?" | Psychological Inquiry | 2004 | 300 |
