| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Bad is Stronger than Good | Review of General Psychology | 2001 | 5,044 |
| 2 | High Self-Control Predicts Good Adjustment, Less Pathology, Better Grades, and Interpersonal Success | Journal of Personality | 2004 | 4,436 |
| 3 | Self-regulation and depletion of limited resources: Does self-control resemble a muscle? | Psychological Bulletin | 2000 | 3,349 |
| 4 | The need to belong: desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation | Psychological Bulletin | 1995 | 2,318 |
| 5 | Maternal Depression and Child Psychopathology: A Meta-Analytic Review | Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review | 2011 | 1,976 |
| 6 | Relation of threatened egotism to violence and aggression: The dark side of high self-esteem. | Psychological Review | 1996 | 1,757 |
| 7 | Guilt: An interpersonal approach. | Psychological Bulletin | 1994 | 1,472 |
| 8 | Morphometric evidence for neuronal and glial prefrontal cell pathology in major depression∗∗See accompanying Editorial, in this issue. | Biological Psychiatry | 1999 | 1,395 |
| 9 | Suicide as escape from self. | Psychological Review | 1990 | 1,383 |
| 10 | Ego depletion: is the active self a limited resource? | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1998 | 893 |
| 11 | Is There a Gender Difference in Strength of Sex Drive? Theoretical Views, Conceptual Distinctions, and a Review of Relevant Evidence | Personality and Social Psychology Review | 2001 | 673 |
| 12 | Writing Narrative Literature Reviews | Review of General Psychology | 1997 | 667 |
| 13 | Gender differences in erotic plasticity: The female sex drive as socially flexible and responsive. | Psychological Bulletin | 2000 | 651 |
| 14 | Cellular changes in the postmortem hippocampus in major depression | Biological Psychiatry | 2004 | 633 |
| 15 | Intellectual performance and ego depletion: Role of the self in logical reasoning and other information processing. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 628 |
| 16 | Meta-Analysis of Intellectual and Neuropsychological Test Performance in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. | Neuropsychology | 2004 | 606 |
| 17 | Longitudinal Improvement of Self-Regulation Through Practice: Building Self-Control Strength Through Repeated Exercise | Journal of Social Psychology | 1999 | 595 |
| 18 | Pattern Vision in Newborn Infants | Science | 1963 | 553 |
| 19 | Social Exclusion and the Deconstructed State: Time Perception, Meaninglessness, Lethargy, Lack of Emotion, and Self-Awareness. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 518 |
| 20 | The heritability of general cognitive ability increases linearly from childhood to young adulthood | Molecular Psychiatry | 2010 | 492 |
| 21 | What do men want? Gender differences and two spheres of belongingness: Comment on Cross and Madson (1997). | Psychological Bulletin | 1997 | 452 |
| 22 | Working memory capacity and the self-regulation of emotional expression and experience. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2008 | 417 |
| 23 | Ego Depletion and Self-Control Failure: An Energy Model of the Self's Executive Function | Self and Identity | 2002 | 413 |
| 24 | Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Aggression | Current Directions in Psychological Science | 2000 | 405 |
| 25 | Gossip as Cultural Learning | Review of General Psychology | 2004 | 389 |
| 26 | Guilt, discord, and alienation: The role of religious strain in depression and suicidality | Journal of Clinical Psychology | 2000 | 370 |
| 27 | Too Proud to Let Go: Narcissistic Entitlement as a Barrier to Forgiveness. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2004 | 367 |
| 28 | Virtue, Personality, and Social Relations: Self-Control as the Moral Muscle | Journal of Personality | 1999 | 347 |
| 29 | Self-control as limited resource: regulatory depletion patterns | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1998 | 344 |
| 30 | Forgiveness and Justice: A Research Agenda for Social and Personality Psychology | Personality and Social Psychology Review | 2003 | 343 |
| 31 | Behavioral Outcomes and Evidence of Psychopathology Among Very Low Birth Weight Infants at Age 20 Years | Pediatrics | 2004 | 333 |
| 32 | Cognitive and Academic Consequences of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and Very Low Birth Weight: 8-Year-Old Outcomes | Pediatrics | 2003 | 318 |
| 33 | A meta-analytic review of the influence of pediatric cancer on parent and family functioning. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2007 | 306 |
| 34 | Religion/spirituality and adolescent health outcomes: a review | Journal of Adolescent Health | 2006 | 305 |
| 35 | Review and meta-analysis of the phenomenology and clinical characteristics of mania in children and adolescents | Bipolar Disorders | 2005 | 296 |
| 36 | Anger toward God: Social-cognitive predictors, prevalence, and links with adjustment to bereavement and cancer. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2011 | 296 |
| 37 | Worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Review and Theoretical Synthesis of Evidence on Nature, Etiology, Mechanisms, and Treatment | Annual Review of Clinical Psychology | 2013 | 295 |
| 38 | Cultural Suppression of Female Sexuality | Review of General Psychology | 2002 | 285 |
| 39 | Rapid, continuous cycling and psychiatric co-morbidity in pediatric bipolar I disorder | Bipolar Disorders | 2001 | 281 |
| 40 | It's Beyond My Control: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of Increasing Externality in Locus of Control, 1960-2002 | Personality and Social Psychology Review | 2004 | 272 |
| 41 | Neuroanatomical Correlates of Veridical and Illusory Recognition Memory: Evidence from Positron Emission Tomography | Neuron | 1996 | 258 |
| 42 | Long-Term Behavior Problems Following Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Prevalence, Predictors, and Correlates | Journal of Pediatric Psychology | 2003 | 253 |
| 43 | Religious and spiritual struggles. | Journal of Pediatric Psychology | 2013 | 244 |
| 44 | Altered expression of synapse and glutamate related genes in post-mortem hippocampus of depressed subjects | International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology | 2013 | 240 |
| 45 | Patterns and correlates of agreement between parent, teacher, and male adolescent ratings of externalizing and internalizing problems | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 2000 | 233 |
| 46 | The age of anxiety? Birth cohort change in anxiety and neuroticism, 1952-1993 | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2000 | 226 |
| 47 | Infant recognition memory and later intelligence | Intelligence | 1981 | 223 |
| 48 | Passion, Intimacy, and Time: Passionate Love as a Function of Change in Intimacy | Personality and Social Psychology Review | 1999 | 214 |
| 49 | Effects of social exclusion on cognitive processes: anticipated aloneness reduces intelligent thought | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2002 | 210 |
| 50 | ACT and general cognitive ability | Intelligence | 2008 | 205 |
