| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 8,519 |
| 2 | Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being | American Psychologist | 2000 | 7,759 |
| 3 | On Happiness and Human Potentials: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being | Annual Review of Psychology | 2001 | 7,043 |
| 4 | A meta-analytic review of experiments examining the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation. | Psychological Bulletin | 1999 | 4,724 |
| 5 | Self-determination theory and work motivation | Journal of Organizational Behavior | 2005 | 4,363 |
| 6 | A 2 × 2 achievement goal framework. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2001 | 2,647 |
| 7 | Motivational, emotional, and behavioral correlates of fear of missing out | Computers in Human Behavior | 2013 | 1,635 |
| 8 | The effects of instructors' autonomy support and students' autonomous motivation on learning organic chemistry: A self-determination theory perspective | Science Education | 2000 | 1,293 |
| 9 | Self-Determination Theory in Work Organizations: The State of a Science | Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior | 2017 | 1,192 |
| 10 | Testing the ruler with item response theory: Increasing precision of measurement for relationship satisfaction with the Couples Satisfaction Index. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2007 | 1,184 |
| 11 | Self-Regulation and the Problem of Human Autonomy: Does Psychology Need Choice, Self-Determination, and Will? | Journal of Personality | 2006 | 990 |
| 12 | Approach-avoidance motivation in personality: approach and avoidance temperaments and goals | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2002 | 890 |
| 13 | Pursuing Pleasure or Virtue: The Differential and Overlapping Well-Being Benefits of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives | Journal of Happiness Studies | 2010 | 792 |
| 14 | The relationship context of human behavior and development. | Psychological Bulletin | 2000 | 685 |
| 15 | Reactive Aggression Among Maltreated Children: The Contributions of Attention and Emotion Dysregulation | Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology | 1998 | 499 |
| 16 | Retirement Transitions, Gender, and Psychological Well-Being: A Life-Course, Ecological Model | Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences | 2002 | 498 |
| 17 | Color and psychological functioning: The effect of red on performance attainment. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2007 | 484 |
| 18 | Color Psychology: Effects of Perceiving Color on Psychological Functioning in Humans | Annual Review of Psychology | 2014 | 476 |
| 19 | Inspiration as a psychological construct. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 448 |
| 20 | Vitalizing effects of being outdoors and in nature | Journal of Environmental Psychology | 2010 | 425 |
| 21 | Validation of the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale in a cancer population | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 2005 | 398 |
| 22 | Assessment of the Harmful Psychiatric and Behavioral Effects of Different Forms of Child Maltreatment | JAMA Psychiatry | 2015 | 359 |
| 23 | Annual Research Review: Suicide among youth – epidemiology, (potential) etiology, and treatment | Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines | 2018 | 341 |
| 24 | Within-person variation in security of attachment: a self-determination theory perspective on attachment, need fulfillment, and well-being | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2000 | 334 |
| 25 | The emotional and academic consequences of parental conditional regard: Comparing conditional positive regard, conditional negative regard, and autonomy support as parenting practices. | Developmental Psychology | 2009 | 320 |
| 26 | Romantic red: Red enhances men's attraction to women. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2008 | 319 |
| 27 | The path taken: Consequences of attaining intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations in post-college life | Journal of Research in Personality | 2009 | 318 |
| 28 | Extrinsic Life Goals and Health-Risk Behaviors in Adolescents1 | Journal of Applied Social Psychology | 2000 | 308 |
| 29 | The montreal cognitive assessment as a screening tool for cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease | Movement Disorders | 2008 | 299 |
| 30 | Domain-Specific Antecedents of Parental Psychological Control and Monitoring: The Role of Parenting Beliefs and Practices | Child Development | 2002 | 296 |
| 31 | Beyond Pragmatics: Morphosyntactic Development in Autism | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | 2007 | 274 |
| 32 | (null) | Social Indicators Research | 2000 | 263 |
| 33 | Are you happy for me? How sharing positive events with others provides personal and interpersonal benefits. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2010 | 263 |
| 34 | The antecedents and consequences of autonomous self-regulation for college: A self-determination theory perspective on socialization | Journal of Adolescence | 2006 | 256 |
| 35 | When rewards compete with nature | Journal of Adolescence | 2000 | 248 |
| 36 | Is Coming Out Always a “Good Thing”? Exploring the Relations of Autonomy Support, Outness, and Wellness for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals | Social Psychological and Personality Science | 2012 | 248 |
| 37 | Attachment and exploration in adulthood. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 220 |
| 38 | Proximal Job Characteristics, Feelings of Empowerment, and Intrinsic Motivation: A Multidimensional Model1 | Journal of Applied Social Psychology | 1997 | 213 |
| 39 | Impact of Hostility and Withdrawal in Interparental Conflict on Parental Emotional Unavailability and Children's Adjustment Difficulties | Child Development | 2006 | 213 |
| 40 | Implicit and Self-Attributed Achievement Motives: Concordance and Predictive Validity | Journal of Personality | 2002 | 211 |
| 41 | A hot new way to measure aggression: Hot sauce allocation | Aggressive Behavior | 1999 | 204 |
| 42 | Olfaction and Taste Processing in Autism | Biological Psychiatry | 2007 | 202 |
| 43 | Familiarity does indeed promote attraction in live interaction. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2011 | 200 |
| 44 | The power of anticipated feedback: Effects on students' achievement goals and achievement emotions | Learning and Instruction | 2014 | 194 |
| 45 | Interparental Conflict and Adolescent Adjustment: Why Does Gender Moderate Early Adolescent Vulnerability? | Journal of Family Psychology | 2004 | 191 |
| 46 | A Multiple-Levels-of-Analysis Perspective on Resilience: Implications for the Developing Brain, Neural Plasticity, and Preventive Interventions | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2006 | 189 |
| 47 | Being present in the face of existential threat: The role of trait mindfulness in reducing defensive responses to mortality salience. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2010 | 189 |
| 48 | Facilitating Acceptance of Organizational Change: The Importance of Self-Determination1 | Journal of Applied Social Psychology | 2000 | 188 |
| 49 | Adolescent-Parent Conflict in Middle-Class African American Families | Child Development | 1999 | 187 |
| 50 | Executive Functioning Deficits in Attention‐Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Are Independent of Oppositional Defiant or Reading Disorder | Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 1999 | 187 |
