| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The cognitive control of emotion | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2005 | 3,591 |
| 2 | A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure. | Psychological Review | 1995 | 2,916 |
| 3 | Delay of Gratification in Children | Science | 1989 | 2,737 |
| 4 | A hot/cool-system analysis of delay of gratification: Dynamics of willpower. | Psychological Review | 1999 | 2,355 |
| 5 | For better or for worse: neural systems supporting the cognitive down- and up-regulation of negative emotion | NeuroImage | 2004 | 1,847 |
| 6 | Valid conjunction inference with the minimum statistic | NeuroImage | 2005 | 1,743 |
| 7 | Neuroimaging studies of working memory: | Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience | 2003 | 1,635 |
| 8 | Beyond pleasure and pain. | American Psychologist | 1997 | 1,511 |
| 9 | Prefrontal-Subcortical Pathways Mediating Successful Emotion Regulation | Neuron | 2008 | 1,471 |
| 10 | Cognitive Reappraisal of Emotion: A Meta-Analysis of Human Neuroimaging Studies | Cerebral Cortex | 2014 | 1,391 |
| 11 | Scalar Timing in Memory | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 1984 | 1,370 |
| 12 | Functional imaging studies of emotion regulation: a synthetic review and evolving model of the cognitive control of emotion | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2012 | 1,364 |
| 13 | Social effects of oxytocin in humans: context and person matter | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2011 | 1,136 |
| 14 | The Experience of Emotion | Annual Review of Psychology | 2007 | 1,110 |
| 15 | Functional grouping and cortical–subcortical interactions in emotion: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies | NeuroImage | 2008 | 1,010 |
| 16 | Mesolimbocortical and nigrostriatal dopamine responses to salient non-reward events | Neuroscience | 2000 | 976 |
| 17 | Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 945 |
| 18 | Clarifying Achievement Goals and Their Impact. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 944 |
| 19 | Google Effects on Memory: Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips | Science | 2011 | 859 |
| 20 | The neuroscience of empathy: progress, pitfalls and promise | Nature Neuroscience | 2012 | 831 |
| 21 | Reflecting upon Feelings: An fMRI Study of Neural Systems Supporting the Attribution of Emotion to Self and Other | Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience | 2004 | 775 |
| 22 | Regulatory Fit and Persuasion: Transfer From "Feeling Right." | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2004 | 749 |
| 23 | Cerebral Dominance in Musicians and Nonmusicians | Science | 1974 | 738 |
| 24 | Toward an Integrative Science of the Person | Annual Review of Psychology | 2004 | 738 |
| 25 | Improving adolescents' standardized test performance: An intervention to reduce the effects of stereotype threat | Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology | 2003 | 718 |
| 26 | Speech perception without traditional speech cues | Science | 1981 | 710 |
| 27 | Ventromedial prefrontal-subcortical systems and the generation of affective meaning | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2012 | 705 |
| 28 | Glaucomatous damage of the macula | Progress in Retinal and Eye Research | 2013 | 687 |
| 29 | Toward a neurobiology of temporal cognition: advances and challenges | Current Opinion in Neurobiology | 1997 | 683 |
| 30 | A Meta-analysis of Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Self- and Other Judgments Reveals a Spatial Gradient for Mentalizing in Medial Prefrontal Cortex | Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience | 2012 | 671 |
| 31 | Epigenetic mechanisms and the transgenerational effects of maternal care | Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology | 2008 | 661 |
| 32 | Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams | Nature | 2020 | 634 |
| 33 | Value from hedonic experience and engagement. | Psychological Review | 2006 | 629 |
| 34 | Beyond DNA: integrating inclusive inheritance into an extended theory of evolution | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2011 | 613 |
| 35 | Probability summation and regional variation in contrast sensitivity across the visual field | Vision Research | 1981 | 597 |
| 36 | Recursive Processes in Self-Affirmation: Intervening to Close the Minority Achievement Gap | Science | 2009 | 595 |
| 37 | Effects of social support visibility on adjustment to stress: Experimental evidence. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2007 | 594 |
| 38 | A framework for comparing structural and functional measures of glaucomatous damage | Progress in Retinal and Eye Research | 2007 | 594 |
| 39 | RECONCILING PROCESSING DYNAMICS AND PERSONALITY DISPOSITIONS | Annual Review of Psychology | 1998 | 591 |
| 40 | A signal detection theoretic approach for estimating metacognitive sensitivity from confidence ratings | Consciousness and Cognition | 2012 | 591 |
| 41 | Prefrontal–striatal pathway underlies cognitive regulation of craving | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 585 |
| 42 | Behavioral and neural correlates of delay of gratification 40 years later | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 572 |
| 43 | Dopamine and adaptive memory | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2010 | 551 |
| 44 | The development of epistemological understanding | Cognitive Development | 2000 | 546 |
| 45 | Implications of rejection sensitivity for intimate relationships. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1996 | 544 |
| 46 | Empirical support for higher-order theories of conscious awareness | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2011 | 540 |
| 47 | Ordering of the Numerosities 1 to 9 by Monkeys | | 1998 | 532 |
| 48 | Transfer of value from fit. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 522 |
| 49 | Placebo effects on human μ-opioid activity during pain | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 516 |
| 50 | The neural correlates of direct and reflected self-knowledge | NeuroImage | 2005 | 510 |
