| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Investment Model Scale: Measuring commitment level, satisfaction level, quality of alternatives, and investment size | Personal Relationships | 1998 | 1,533 |
| 2 | Sexual satisfaction in long-term heterosexual relationships: The interpersonal exchange model of sexual satisfaction | Personal Relationships | 1995 | 634 |
| 3 | Commitment and its theorized determinants: A meta-analysis of the Investment Model | Personal Relationships | 2003 | 567 |
| 4 | Estimating Actor, Partner, and Interaction Effects for Dyadic Data Using PROC MIXED and HLM: A User-Friendly Guide | Personal Relationships | 2002 | 534 |
| 5 | Attachment formation and transfer in young adults'close friendships and romantic relationships | Personal Relationships | 1997 | 524 |
| 6 | Partner effects in relationship research: Conceptual issues, analytic difficulties, and illustrations | Personal Relationships | 1999 | 519 |
| 7 | Reliability and stability of adult attachment patterns | Personal Relationships | 1994 | 465 |
| 8 | Attachment styles and close relationships: A four-year prospective study | Personal Relationships | 1994 | 394 |
| 9 | Attachment theory and emotions in close relationships: Exploring the attachment-related dynamics of emotional reactions to relational events | Personal Relationships | 2005 | 389 |
| 10 | Predicting nonmarital romantic relationship dissolution: A meta-analytic synthesis | Personal Relationships | 2010 | 383 |
| 11 | Adult attachment, sexual satisfaction, and relationship satisfaction: A study of married couples | Personal Relationships | 2008 | 336 |
| 12 | The kiss of the porcupines: From attributing responsibility to forgiving | Personal Relationships | 2000 | 306 |
| 13 | It's the little things: Everyday gratitude as a booster shot for romantic relationships | Personal Relationships | 2010 | 306 |
| 14 | Gender differences in empathic accuracy: Differential ability or differential motivation? | Personal Relationships | 2000 | 279 |
| 15 | Jealousy and the nature of beliefs about infidelity: Tests of competing hypotheses about sex differences in the United States, Korea, and Japan | Personal Relationships | 1999 | 266 |
| 16 | Romantic relationships and the physical and mental health of college students | Personal Relationships | 2010 | 249 |
| 17 | The experience and effects of emotional support: What the study of cultural and gender differences can tell us about close relationships, emotion, and interpersonal communication | Personal Relationships | 2003 | 246 |
| 18 | Forgiveness in marriage: The role of relationship quality, attributions, and empathy | Personal Relationships | 2002 | 239 |
| 19 | Adult attachment and sexual behavior | Personal Relationships | 2002 | 238 |
| 20 | The effect of nonindependence on significance testing in dyadic research | Personal Relationships | 1995 | 228 |
| 21 | The adult attachment interview and self-reports of romantic attachment: Associations across domains and methods | Personal Relationships | 2000 | 227 |
| 22 | On the instability of attachment style ratings | Personal Relationships | 1995 | 222 |
| 23 | Attachment dimensions and sexual motives | Personal Relationships | 2004 | 221 |
| 24 | Distress about mating rivals | Personal Relationships | 2000 | 220 |
| 25 | The composition of attachment networks throughout the adult years | Personal Relationships | 2004 | 219 |
| 26 | Respect in close relationships: Prototype definition, self-report assessment, and initial correlates | Personal Relationships | 2002 | 213 |
| 27 | Love and expansion of the self: The state of the model | Personal Relationships | 1996 | 211 |
| 28 | Stress, sex, and satisfaction in marriage | Personal Relationships | 2007 | 201 |
| 29 | Love: American style, Russian style, and Japanese style | Personal Relationships | 1994 | 199 |
| 30 | Age and Gender Differences in Mate Selection Criteria for Various Involvement Levels | Personal Relationships | 2002 | 199 |
| 31 | Rejection sensitivity and male violence in romantic relationships | Personal Relationships | 2000 | 194 |
| 32 | On the interpersonal regulation of emotions: Emotional reliance across gender, relationships, and cultures | Personal Relationships | 2005 | 194 |
| 33 | The social relations model for family data: A multilevel approach | Personal Relationships | 1999 | 192 |
| 34 | Associations between insecure attachment and sexual experiences | Personal Relationships | 2004 | 187 |
| 35 | Relationships as dialogues | Personal Relationships | 2004 | 183 |
| 36 | Difference score correlations in relationship research: A conceptual primer | Personal Relationships | 1999 | 181 |
| 37 | "I'll never be in a relationship like that again": Personal growth following romantic relationship breakups | Personal Relationships | 2003 | 181 |
| 38 | Are men universally more dismissing than women? Gender differences in romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions | Personal Relationships | 2003 | 181 |
| 39 | Measurement of communal strength | Personal Relationships | 2004 | 181 |
| 40 | Approach and avoidance sexual motives: Implications for personal and interpersonal well-being | Personal Relationships | 2005 | 181 |
| 41 | The emotional sequelae of nonmarital relationship dissolution: Analysis of change and intraindividual variability over time | Personal Relationships | 2005 | 177 |
| 42 | Effective social support: Antecedents and consequences of partner support during pregnancy | Personal Relationships | 2006 | 177 |
| 43 | The cultural grounding of personal relationship: Friendship in North American and West African worlds | Personal Relationships | 2003 | 175 |
| 44 | The costs and benefits of practical and emotional support on adjustment: A daily diary study of couples experiencing acute stress | Personal Relationships | 2006 | 174 |
| 45 | Interpersonal Expectations as the Building Blocks of Social Cognition: An Interdependence Theory Perspective | Personal Relationships | 2002 | 170 |
| 46 | Attachment style, communication patterns, and satisfaction across the life cycle of marriage | Personal Relationships | 1994 | 169 |
| 47 | Attachment, sexual experience, and sexual pressure in romantic relationships: A dyadic approach | Personal Relationships | 2007 | 168 |
| 48 | Flexibility, friendship, and family | Personal Relationships | 2008 | 167 |
| 49 | Communication in social networks: Effects of kinship, network size, and emotional closeness | Personal Relationships | 2011 | 167 |
| 50 | Losing a self-expanding relationship: Implications for the self-concept | Personal Relationships | 2006 | 161 |
