| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 1978 | 6,162 |
| 2 | Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2007 | 3,692 |
| 3 | Positive psychology: An introduction. | American Psychologist | 2000 | 3,054 |
| 4 | The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission | Evolution and Human Behavior | 2001 | 2,090 |
| 5 | Beyond mind-reading: multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2006 | 2,083 |
| 6 | The epidemiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication | Molecular Psychiatry | 2010 | 1,995 |
| 7 | The four elementary forms of sociality: Framework for a unified theory of social relations. | Psychological Review | 1992 | 1,976 |
| 8 | Role of left inferior prefrontal cortex in retrieval of semantic knowledge: A reevaluation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1997 | 1,819 |
| 9 | Development and Validation of the Short Grit Scale (Grit–S) | Journal of Personality Assessment | 2009 | 1,810 |
| 10 | Antidepressant Drug Effects and Depression Severity | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2010 | 1,616 |
| 11 | The valuation system: A coordinate-based meta-analysis of BOLD fMRI experiments examining neural correlates of subjective value | NeuroImage | 2013 | 1,572 |
| 12 | How Does the Brain Solve Visual Object Recognition? | Neuron | 2012 | 1,390 |
| 13 | Individual differences in sensitivity to disgust: A scale sampling seven domains of disgust elicitors | Personality and Individual Differences | 1994 | 1,389 |
| 14 | Oxytocin is associated with human trustworthiness | Hormones and Behavior | 2005 | 1,318 |
| 15 | The relationship between cognition and action: performance of children 312–7 years old on a stroop- like day-night test | Cognition | 1994 | 1,232 |
| 16 | Socioeconomic status and the developing brain | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2009 | 1,215 |
| 17 | What is "special" about face perception? | Psychological Review | 1998 | 1,170 |
| 18 | Mindfulness training modifies subsystems of attention | Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience | 2007 | 1,122 |
| 19 | Exploiting moral wiggle room: experiments demonstrating an illusory preference for fairness | Economic Theory | 2007 | 1,039 |
| 20 | The Neurobiology of Trust | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2004 | 1,033 |
| 21 | Socioeconomic status and the brain: mechanistic insights from human and animal research | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2010 | 1,029 |
| 22 | Sleep Deprivation and Vigilant Attention | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2008 | 935 |
| 23 | Modularity in cognition: Framing the debate. | Psychological Review | 2006 | 879 |
| 24 | What some concepts might not be | Cognition | 1983 | 866 |
| 25 | An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 2013 | 855 |
| 26 | Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) | Molecular Metabolism | 2019 | 850 |
| 27 | Ghrelin | Molecular Metabolism | 2015 | 810 |
| 28 | Cognitive Therapy vs Medications in the Treatment of Moderate to Severe Depression | Archives of General Psychiatry | 2005 | 806 |
| 29 | The epidemiology of traumatic event exposure worldwide: results from the World Mental Health Survey Consortium | Psychological Medicine | 2016 | 777 |
| 30 | The Neurobiology of Decision: Consensus and Controversy | Neuron | 2009 | 765 |
| 31 | A meta-analysis of the effect of cognitive bias modification on anxiety and depression. | Psychological Bulletin | 2011 | 719 |
| 32 | A meta-analysis of the convergent validity of self-control measures | Journal of Research in Personality | 2011 | 703 |
| 33 | Behavioral Studies of Pavlovian Conditioning | Annual Review of Neuroscience | 1988 | 700 |
| 34 | Intentional communication in the chimpanzee: The development of deception | Cognition | 1979 | 696 |
| 35 | Sensitivity to grammatical structure in so-called agrammatic aphasics | Cognition | 1983 | 696 |
| 36 | The essence of innocence: Consequences of dehumanizing Black children. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2014 | 676 |
| 37 | Posttraumatic stress disorder in the World Mental Health Surveys | Psychological Medicine | 2017 | 675 |
| 38 | Examining the protective effects of mindfulness training on working memory capacity and affective experience. | Emotion | 2010 | 657 |
| 39 | Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams | Nature | 2020 | 634 |
| 40 | Social fears and social phobia in the USA: results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication | Psychological Medicine | 2008 | 621 |
| 41 | Prevention of Relapse Following Cognitive Therapy vs Medications in Moderate to Severe Depression | Archives of General Psychiatry | 2005 | 619 |
| 42 | At 6–9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 609 |
| 43 | Strong and Consistent Social Bonds Enhance the Longevity of Female Baboons | Current Biology | 2010 | 605 |
| 44 | Transportation Into Narrative Worlds: The Role of Prior Knowledge and Perceived Realism | Discourse Processes | 2004 | 602 |
| 45 | The evolution of self-control | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 602 |
| 46 | Human simulations of vocabulary learning | Cognition | 1999 | 578 |
| 47 | Category-Specific Cortical Activity Precedes Retrieval During Memory Search | Science | 2005 | 576 |
| 48 | A deep learning framework for neuroscience | Nature Neuroscience | 2019 | 563 |
| 49 | Amplification and kinetics of the activation steps in phototransduction | Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics | 1993 | 562 |
| 50 | Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 562 |
