| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Cognitive representations of semantic categories. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1975 | 3,267 |
| 2 | Effect size estimates: Current use, calculations, and interpretation. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2012 | 3,194 |
| 3 | Attention and the detection of signals. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1980 | 3,183 |
| 4 | Depth of processing and the retention of words in episodic memory. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1975 | 3,154 |
| 5 | Costs of a predictible switch between simple cognitive tasks. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1995 | 2,602 |
| 6 | Pragmatics of measuring recognition memory: Applications to dementia and amnesia. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1988 | 2,469 |
| 7 | Working memory, short-term memory, and general fluid intelligence: A latent-variable approach. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1999 | 2,398 |
| 8 | Automatic and effortful processes in memory. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1979 | 2,262 |
| 9 | Semantic priming and retrieval from lexical memory: Roles of inhibitionless spreading activation and limited-capacity attention. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1977 | 2,215 |
| 10 | The mental representation of parity and number magnitude. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1993 | 2,147 |
| 11 | Attention, similarity, and the identification–categorization relationship. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1986 | 2,067 |
| 12 | On the relationship between autobiographical memory and perceptual learning. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1981 | 2,060 |
| 13 | Emotion drives attention: Detecting the snake in the grass. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2001 | 1,821 |
| 14 | Learned helplessness: Theory and evidence. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1976 | 1,785 |
| 15 | The Relations Among Inhibition and Interference Control Functions: A Latent-Variable Analysis. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2004 | 1,724 |
| 16 | Selective attention and the organization of visual information. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1984 | 1,702 |
| 17 | The information capacity of the human motor system in controlling the amplitude of movement. 1954 | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1992 | 1,624 |
| 18 | Implicit learning and tacit knowledge. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1989 | 1,567 |
| 19 | Heroin addicts have higher discount rates for delayed rewards than non-drug-using controls. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1999 | 1,555 |
| 20 | Why faces are and are not special: An effect of expertise. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1986 | 1,448 |
| 21 | Load Theory of Selective Attention and Cognitive Control. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2004 | 1,361 |
| 22 | Judgment of contingency in depressed and nondepressed students: Sadder but wiser? | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1979 | 1,323 |
| 23 | Optimizing the use of information: Strategic control of activation of responses. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1992 | 1,299 |
| 24 | Working-memory capacity and the control of attention: The contributions of goal neglect, response competition, and task set to Stroop interference. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2003 | 1,288 |
| 25 | The Generality of Working Memory Capacity: A Latent-Variable Approach to Verbal and Visuospatial Memory Span and Reasoning. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2004 | 1,288 |
| 26 | Pragmatics of measuring recognition memory: applications to dementia and amnesia | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1988 | 1,269 |
| 27 | Why faces are and are not special: an effect of expertise | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1986 | 1,228 |
| 28 | Do threatening stimuli draw or hold visual attention in subclinical anxiety? | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2001 | 1,213 |
| 29 | Individual differences in executive functions are almost entirely genetic in origin. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2008 | 1,137 |
| 30 | Bayesian estimation supersedes the t test. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2013 | 1,136 |
| 31 | On the relationship between autobiographical memory and perceptual learning | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1981 | 1,086 |
| 32 | A controlled-attention view of working-memory capacity. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2001 | 1,067 |
| 33 | P-curve: A key to the file-drawer. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2014 | 1,041 |
| 34 | Attention, similarity, and the identification-categorization relationship | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1986 | 997 |
| 35 | Monitoring one's own knowledge during study: A cue-utilization approach to judgments of learning. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1997 | 989 |
| 36 | Shifting visual attention between objects and locations: Evidence from normal and parietal lesion subjects. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1994 | 945 |
| 37 | Algorithm aversion: People erroneously avoid algorithms after seeing them err. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2015 | 938 |
| 38 | Distributed memory and the representation of general and specific information. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1985 | 930 |
| 39 | Heroin addicts have higher discount rates for delayed rewards than non-drug-using controls | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1999 | 897 |
| 40 | On the fragility of skilled performance: What governs choking under pressure? | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2001 | 885 |
| 41 | Phenomenal characteristics of memories for perceived and imagined autobiographical events. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1988 | 874 |
| 42 | The relationships among working memory, math anxiety, and performance. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2001 | 873 |
| 43 | Aging and emotional memory: The forgettable nature of negative images for older adults. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2003 | 871 |
| 44 | Separating conscious and unconscious influences of memory: Measuring recollection. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1993 | 862 |
| 45 | The effects of divided attention on encoding and retrieval processes in human memory. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1996 | 849 |
| 46 | Emotion drives attention: detecting the snake in the grass | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2001 | 840 |
| 47 | Bidding on the future: Evidence against normative discounting of delayed rewards. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1997 | 838 |
| 48 | Effects of color on emotions. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1994 | 813 |
| 49 | Search asymmetry: A diagnostic for preattentive processing of separable features. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1985 | 804 |
| 50 | Human movement initiation: Specification of arm, direction, and extent. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 1980 | 797 |
