| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Emerging Field of Emotion Regulation: An Integrative Review | Review of General Psychology | 1998 | 5,909 |
| 2 | Bad is Stronger than Good | Review of General Psychology | 2001 | 5,044 |
| 3 | Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises | Review of General Psychology | 1998 | 4,798 |
| 4 | What Good Are Positive Emotions? | Review of General Psychology | 1998 | 4,396 |
| 5 | Bad is Stronger than Good | Review of General Psychology | 2001 | 3,299 |
| 6 | Social and Psychological Resources and Adaptation | Review of General Psychology | 2002 | 3,097 |
| 7 | Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change | Review of General Psychology | 2005 | 2,148 |
| 8 | The Psychology of Life Stories | Review of General Psychology | 2001 | 1,741 |
| 9 | Beyond Big and Little: The Four C Model of Creativity | Review of General Psychology | 2009 | 1,525 |
| 10 | Sex Differences in Aggression in Real-World Settings: A Meta-Analytic Review | Review of General Psychology | 2004 | 1,501 |
| 11 | Heart Rate Variability as an Index of Regulated Emotional Responding | Review of General Psychology | 2006 | 1,346 |
| 12 | Meaning in the Context of Stress and Coping | Review of General Psychology | 1997 | 1,251 |
| 13 | The State of Psychological Ownership: Integrating and Extending a Century of Research | Review of General Psychology | 2003 | 1,175 |
| 14 | One Hundred Years of Social Psychology Quantitatively Described | Review of General Psychology | 2003 | 1,151 |
| 15 | What (and Why) is Positive Psychology? | Review of General Psychology | 2005 | 1,102 |
| 16 | Adult Romantic Attachment: Theoretical Developments, Emerging Controversies, and Unanswered Questions | Review of General Psychology | 2000 | 1,082 |
| 17 | A Motivational Model of Video Game Engagement | Review of General Psychology | 2010 | 901 |
| 18 | Shall we Really do it Again? The Powerful Concept of Replication is Neglected in the Social Sciences | Review of General Psychology | 2009 | 775 |
| 19 | A Balance Theory of Wisdom | Review of General Psychology | 1998 | 712 |
| 20 | Gossip in Evolutionary Perspective | Review of General Psychology | 2004 | 679 |
| 21 | Writing Narrative Literature Reviews | Review of General Psychology | 1997 | 667 |
| 22 | What we know about Leadership | Review of General Psychology | 2005 | 659 |
| 23 | Self-Threat Magnifies the Self-Serving Bias: A Meta-Analytic Integration | Review of General Psychology | 1999 | 628 |
| 24 | Positive Adjustment to Threatening Events: An Organismic Valuing Theory of Growth through Adversity | Review of General Psychology | 2005 | 616 |
| 25 | Emotion, Social Function, and Psychopathology | Review of General Psychology | 1998 | 609 |
| 26 | Purpose in Life as a System that Creates and Sustains Health and Well-Being: An Integrative, Testable Theory | Review of General Psychology | 2009 | 577 |
| 27 | Self-Compassion: Conceptualizations, Correlates, & Interventions | Review of General Psychology | 2011 | 573 |
| 28 | Critical History of the Acculturation Psychology of Assimilation, Separation, Integration, and Marginalization | Review of General Psychology | 2003 | 561 |
| 29 | Early Development of Executive Function: A Problem-Solving Framework | Review of General Psychology | 1997 | 545 |
| 30 | The Psychology of Worldviews | Review of General Psychology | 2004 | 508 |
| 31 | Life is Pleasant—and Memory Helps to Keep it that Way! | Review of General Psychology | 2003 | 502 |
| 32 | Why Fiction May be Twice as True as Fact: Fiction as Cognitive and Emotional Simulation | Review of General Psychology | 1999 | 476 |
| 33 | Rediscovering the Later Version of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Self-Transcendence and Opportunities for Theory, Research, and Unification | Review of General Psychology | 2006 | 446 |
| 34 | Levels of Analysis and the Organization of Affect | Review of General Psychology | 1998 | 423 |
| 35 | External Validity of “Trivial” Experiments: The Case of Laboratory Aggression | Review of General Psychology | 1997 | 422 |
| 36 | Shared Virtue: The Convergence of Valued Human Strengths across Culture and History | Review of General Psychology | 2005 | 419 |
| 37 | Sexual Hookup Culture: A Review | Review of General Psychology | 2012 | 412 |
| 38 | Research on Gossip: Taxonomy, Methods, and Future Directions | Review of General Psychology | 2004 | 411 |
| 39 | The Theory of Successful Intelligence | Review of General Psychology | 1999 | 408 |
| 40 | Gossip as Cultural Learning | Review of General Psychology | 2004 | 389 |
| 41 | Information Avoidance: Who, What, When, and Why | Review of General Psychology | 2010 | 381 |
| 42 | The Internal Working Models Concept: What do we Really know about the Self in Relation to Others? | Review of General Psychology | 2000 | 374 |
| 43 | Video Games in Health Care: Closing the Gap | Review of General Psychology | 2010 | 366 |
| 44 | Rewriting the Language of Creativity: The Five A's Framework | Review of General Psychology | 2013 | 363 |
| 45 | Emotion and Rationality: A Critical Review and Interpretation of Empirical Evidence | Review of General Psychology | 2007 | 360 |
| 46 | Video Games and Spatial Cognition | Review of General Psychology | 2010 | 360 |
| 47 | Multifaceted Nature of Intrinsic Motivation: The Theory of 16 Basic Desires | Review of General Psychology | 2004 | 359 |
| 48 | Meaning in Life as Comprehension, Purpose, and Mattering: Toward Integration and New Research Questions | Review of General Psychology | 2016 | 358 |
| 49 | Close Relationships and Elevated HIV Risk Behavior: Evidence and Possible Underlying Psychological Processes | Review of General Psychology | 1997 | 354 |
| 50 | Children's Motivations for Video Game Play in the Context of Normal Development | Review of General Psychology | 2010 | 342 |
