| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Human Aggression | Annual Review of Psychology | 2002 | 2,974 |
| 2 | Models of the self: Self-construals and gender. | Psychological Bulletin | 1997 | 2,006 |
| 3 | Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggressive Behavior, Aggressive Cognition, Aggressive Affect, Physiological Arousal, and Prosocial Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Scientific Literature | Psychological Science | 2001 | 1,616 |
| 4 | Violent video game effects on aggression, empathy, and prosocial behavior in Eastern and Western countries: A meta-analytic review. | Psychological Bulletin | 2010 | 1,498 |
| 5 | Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: The example of vaccination. | Health Psychology | 2007 | 1,487 |
| 6 | Pathological Video Game Use Among Youths: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study | Pediatrics | 2011 | 924 |
| 7 | The Experiences in Close Relationship Scale (ECR)-Short Form: Reliability, Validity, and Factor Structure | Journal of Personality Assessment | 2007 | 882 |
| 8 | Much ado about grit: A meta-analytic synthesis of the grit literature. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2017 | 874 |
| 9 | Advances in testing the statistical significance of mediation effects. | Journal of Counseling Psychology | 2006 | 765 |
| 10 | Measuring the self-stigma associated with seeking psychological help. | Journal of Counseling Psychology | 2006 | 747 |
| 11 | The Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation (CSM): a dynamic framework for understanding illness self-management | Journal of Behavioral Medicine | 2016 | 688 |
| 12 | The Influence of Media Violence on Youth | Psychological Science in the Public Interest: A Journal of the American Psychological Society | 2003 | 664 |
| 13 | Is it time to pull the plug on hostile versus instrumental aggression dichotomy? | Psychological Review | 2001 | 636 |
| 14 | Social comparison: The end of a theory and the emergence of a field | Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes | 2007 | 627 |
| 15 | An update on the effects of playing violent video games | Journal of Adolescence | 2004 | 573 |
| 16 | Sex differences in mathematical reasoning ability in intellectually talented preadolescents: Their nature, effects, and possible causes | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 1988 | 481 |
| 17 | Perceived Discrimination and Substance Use in African American Parents and Their Children: A Panel Study. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2004 | 469 |
| 18 | The Internet Gaming Disorder Scale. | Psychological Assessment | 2015 | 467 |
| 19 | Research in the Psychological Laboratory | Current Directions in Psychological Science | 1999 | 454 |
| 20 | Adult Attachment, Social Self-Efficacy, Self-Disclosure, Loneliness, and Subsequent Depression for Freshman College Students: A Longitudinal Study. | Journal of Counseling Psychology | 2005 | 446 |
| 21 | External Validity of “Trivial” Experiments: The Case of Laboratory Aggression | Review of General Psychology | 1997 | 422 |
| 22 | Self-Esteem, Narcissism, and Aggression | Current Directions in Psychological Science | 2000 | 405 |
| 23 | Risk perceptions: Assessment and relationship to influenza vaccination. | Health Psychology | 2007 | 387 |
| 24 | Television and Video Game Exposure and the Development of Attention Problems | Pediatrics | 2010 | 375 |
| 25 | PSYCHOLOGY: The Effects of Media Violence on Society | Science | 2002 | 359 |
| 26 | Heat and Violence | Current Directions in Psychological Science | 2001 | 357 |
| 27 | The general aggression model: Theoretical extensions to violence. | Psychology of Violence | 2011 | 357 |
| 28 | “Boys don't cry”: Examination of the links between endorsement of masculine norms, self-stigma, and help-seeking attitudes for men from diverse backgrounds. | Journal of Counseling Psychology | 2011 | 357 |
| 29 | Exposure to violent media: The effects of songs with violent lyrics on aggressive thoughts and feelings. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 355 |
| 30 | Relation between perceived vulnerability to HIV and precautionary sexual behavior. | Psychological Bulletin | 1996 | 352 |
| 31 | Cue strength as a moderator of the testing effect: The benefits of elaborative retrieval. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition | 2009 | 342 |
| 32 | Individual differences in social comparison: development of a scale of social comparison orientation | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1999 | 336 |
| 33 | Chewing on It Can Chew You Up: Effects of Rumination on Triggered Displaced Aggression. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2005 | 333 |
| 34 | To seek help or not to seek help: The risks of self-disclosure. | Journal of Counseling Psychology | 2003 | 328 |
| 35 | Attachment, Self-Compassion, Empathy, and Subjective Well-Being Among College Students and Community Adults | Journal of Personality | 2011 | 303 |
| 36 | Evaluating gender similarities and differences using metasynthesis. | American Psychologist | 2015 | 290 |
| 37 | Using ERPs to dissociate recollection from familiarity in picture recognition | Cognitive Brain Research | 2003 | 289 |
| 38 | Does personality predict health and well-being? A metasynthesis. | Health Psychology | 2017 | 285 |
| 39 | The Relationship Between Eyewitness Confidence and Identification Accuracy: A New Synthesis | Psychological Science in the Public Interest: A Journal of the American Psychological Society | 2017 | 285 |
| 40 | Using Spacing to Enhance Diverse Forms of Learning: Review of Recent Research and Implications for Instruction | Educational Psychology Review | 2012 | 284 |
| 41 | Threatened egotism, narcissism, self-esteem, and direct and displaced aggression: does self-love or self-hate lead to violence? | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1998 | 279 |
| 42 | Seeking help from a mental health professional: The influence of one's social network | Journal of Clinical Psychology | 2007 | 274 |
| 43 | The Relational-Interdependent Self-Construal, Self-Concept Consistency, and Well-Being. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 270 |
| 44 | The Role of Outcome Expectations and Attitudes on Decisions to Seek Professional Help. | Journal of Counseling Psychology | 2005 | 266 |
| 45 | Adult Attachment, Shame, Depression, and Loneliness: The Mediation Role of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction. | Journal of Counseling Psychology | 2005 | 265 |
| 46 | Thankful for the little things: A meta-analysis of gratitude interventions. | Journal of Counseling Psychology | 2016 | 265 |
| 47 | The Effects of Reward and Punishment in Violent Video Games on Aggressive Affect, Cognition, and Behavior | Psychological Science | 2005 | 255 |
| 48 | Attachment, Social Competencies, Social Support, and Psychological Distress. | Journal of Counseling Psychology | 2005 | 238 |
| 49 | Rater bias in psychological research: When is it a problem and what can we do about it? | Psychological Methods | 2000 | 237 |
| 50 | Using computer simulations to enhance conceptual change: The roles of constructivist instruction and student epistemological beliefs | Journal of Research in Science Teaching | 1998 | 236 |
