| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Behavioral Competence among Mothers of Infants in the First Year: The Mediational Role of Maternal Self-Efficacy | Child Development | 1991 | 617 |
| 2 | Pulse Pressure and Pulse Wave Velocity Are Related to Cognitive Decline in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging | Hypertension | 2008 | 382 |
| 3 | Gender differences in self-conscious emotional experience: A meta-analysis. | Psychological Bulletin | 2012 | 315 |
| 4 | Organizational characteristics of empowering community settings: A multiple case study approach | American Journal of Community Psychology | 1995 | 305 |
| 5 | Coronary Prone Behavior: Components of the Type A Pattern and Hostility | Journal of Personality | 1987 | 257 |
| 6 | Long-Term Follow-Up to a Randomized Clinical Trial of Multisystemic Therapy With Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders. | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 2005 | 246 |
| 7 | Contagious laughter: Laughter is a sufficient stimulus for laughs and smiles | Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society | 1992 | 231 |
| 8 | Modeling Growth in Boys' Aggressive Behavior Across Elementary School: Links to Later Criminal Involvement, Conduct Disorder, and Antisocial Personality Disorder. | Developmental Psychology | 2003 | 231 |
| 9 | The influence of home-based reading interactions on 5-year-olds’ reading motivations and early literacy development | Early Childhood Research Quarterly | 2002 | 228 |
| 10 | Making a Difference: The Social Ecology of Social Transformation | American Journal of Community Psychology | 2000 | 203 |
| 11 | Metacognition, comprehension monitoring, and the adult reader | Educational Psychology Review | 1989 | 188 |
| 12 | Association of catastrophizing with interleukin-6 responses to acute pain | Pain | 2008 | 172 |
| 13 | Laughter Punctuates Speech: Linguistic, Social and Gender Contexts of Laughter | Ethology | 1993 | 161 |
| 14 | Associations Between Catastrophizing and Endogenous Pain-Inhibitory Processes: Sex Differences | Journal of Pain | 2009 | 155 |
| 15 | Anger and post-traumatic stress disorder in female crime victims | Journal of Traumatic Stress | 1992 | 154 |
| 16 | Beneficial effects of fruit extracts on neuronal function and behavior in a rodent model of accelerated aging | Neurobiology of Aging | 2007 | 144 |
| 17 | Social support, organizational characteristics, psychological well-being, and group appraisal in three self-help group populations | American Journal of Community Psychology | 1988 | 142 |
| 18 | Understanding “tiger parenting” through the perceptions of Chinese immigrant mothers: Can Chinese and U.S. parenting coexist? | Asian American Journal of Psychology | 2013 | 137 |
| 19 | Active and passive distraction using a head-mounted display helmet: Effects on cold pressor pain in children. | Health Psychology | 2007 | 136 |
| 20 | Frontal electrocortical and cardiovascular reactivity during happiness and anger | Biological Psychology | 2000 | 134 |
| 21 | A comparison of girls' and boys' aggressive-disruptive behavior trajectories across elementary school: Prediction to young adult antisocial outcomes. | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 2006 | 133 |
| 22 | Infant feeding practices of low-income, African-American, adolescent mothers: an ecological, multigenerational perspective | Social Science and Medicine | 1999 | 130 |
| 23 | Maternal Over-Control Moderates the Association Between Early Childhood Behavioral Inhibition and Adolescent Social Anxiety Symptoms | Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology | 2012 | 130 |
| 24 | Challenge! Health Promotion/Obesity Prevention Mentorship Model Among Urban, Black Adolescents | Pediatrics | 2010 | 128 |
| 25 | The Transtheoretical Approach | Pediatrics | 2019 | 126 |
| 26 | Motivation and the stages of change among individuals with severe mental illness and substance abuse disorders | Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment | 2008 | 125 |
| 27 | Psychometric Limitations of the Mini-Mental State Examination Among Nondemented Older Adults: An Evaluation of Neurocognitive and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Correlates | Experimental Aging Research | 2013 | 120 |
| 28 | Well-Being and the Risk of Depression under Stress | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 119 |
| 29 | A Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience: Divergence, Convergence and Interactions in Kindred Community Concepts | American Journal of Community Psychology | 2013 | 113 |
| 30 | Child Neglect: Outcomes in High-Risk Urban Preschoolers | Pediatrics | 2002 | 111 |
| 31 | Delaying Second Births Among Adolescent Mothers: A Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Home-Based Mentoring Program | Pediatrics | 2006 | 111 |
| 32 | Laughter: A Stereotyped Human Vocalization | Ethology | 1991 | 110 |
| 33 | Psychosis risk screening: A systematic review | Schizophrenia Research | 2014 | 107 |
| 34 | Authoritative parenting among immigrant Chinese mothers of preschoolers. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2009 | 105 |
| 35 | Looking to happy tomorrows with friends: Best and close friendships as they predict happiness | Journal of Happiness Studies | 2007 | 104 |
| 36 | Laughing, Smiling, and Talking: Relation to Sleeping and Social Context in Humans | Ethology | 1989 | 103 |
| 37 | Defining child neglect based on child protective services data | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2005 | 101 |
| 38 | A Multihealth Behavior Intervention Integrating Physical Activity and Substance Use Prevention for Adolescents | Prevention Science | 2005 | 99 |
| 39 | Hypertension and neuropsychological function: A lifespan perspective | Experimental Aging Research | 1995 | 96 |
| 40 | Early Intervention and Recovery Among Children With Failure to Thrive: Follow-up at Age 8 | Pediatrics | 2007 | 96 |
| 41 | What good is five percent of a language competence? | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 1990 | 94 |
| 42 | Speech recognition at simulated soft, conversational, and raised-to-loud vocal efforts by adults with cochlear implants | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | 1997 | 94 |
| 43 | Social support, relationship quality, and well-being among pregnant adolescents | Journal of Adolescence | 1999 | 94 |
| 44 | A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of the Strength at Home Men’s Program for Partner Violence in Military Veterans | Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | 2016 | 92 |
| 45 | Yawning: Relation to Sleeping and Stretching in Humans | Ethology | 1987 | 88 |
| 46 | Yawning: No effect of 3–5% CO2, 100% O2, and exercise | Behavioral and Neural Biology | 1987 | 83 |
| 47 | Some goals just feel easier: Self-concordance leads to goal progress through subjective ease, not effort | Personality and Individual Differences | 2016 | 82 |
| 48 | Minority students of color and the psychology graduate pipeline: Disquieting and encouraging trends, 1989-2003. | American Psychologist | 2006 | 80 |
| 49 | Effects of Videogame Distraction using a Virtual Reality Type Head-Mounted Display Helmet on Cold Pressor Pain in Children | Journal of Pediatric Psychology | 2009 | 78 |
| 50 | Reexamining the circumplex model of affect | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2000 | 78 |
