| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The neural basis of drug craving: An incentive-sensitization theory of addiction | Brain Research Reviews | 1993 | 6,464 |
| 2 | The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework | Journal of Environmental Psychology | 1995 | 3,937 |
| 3 | Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 1989 | 3,867 |
| 4 | Sexual Strategies Theory: An evolutionary perspective on human mating. | Psychological Review | 1993 | 3,687 |
| 5 | Culture and systems of thought: Holistic versus analytic cognition. | Psychological Review | 2001 | 3,480 |
| 6 | What is the role of dopamine in reward: hedonic impact, reward learning, or incentive salience? | Brain Research Reviews | 1998 | 3,468 |
| 7 | Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 3,200 |
| 8 | Functional Neuroanatomy of Emotion: A Meta-Analysis of Emotion Activation Studies in PET and fMRI | NeuroImage | 2002 | 3,120 |
| 9 | Toward discovery science of human brain function | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 2,703 |
| 10 | Storage and Executive Processes in the Frontal Lobes | Science | 1999 | 2,497 |
| 11 | The broaden–and–build theory of positive emotions | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2004 | 2,169 |
| 12 | The Adaptive Brain: Aging and Neurocognitive Scaffolding | Annual Review of Psychology | 2009 | 2,045 |
| 13 | The debate over dopamine’s role in reward: the case for incentive salience | Psychopharmacology | 2007 | 1,919 |
| 14 | Positive Emotions Trigger Upward Spirals Toward Emotional Well-Being | Psychological Science | 2002 | 1,873 |
| 15 | Temporal dynamics of brain activation during a working memory task | Nature | 1997 | 1,861 |
| 16 | Redefine statistical significance | Nature Human Behaviour | 2018 | 1,763 |
| 17 | Placebo-Induced Changes in fMRI in the Anticipation and Experience of Pain | Science | 2004 | 1,731 |
| 18 | Open hearts build lives: Positive emotions, induced through loving-kindness meditation, build consequential personal resources. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2008 | 1,716 |
| 19 | Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 1,699 |
| 20 | Positive Affect and the Complex Dynamics of Human Flourishing. | American Psychologist | 2005 | 1,613 |
| 21 | Food reward: Brain substrates of wanting and liking | Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | 1996 | 1,612 |
| 22 | The Medial Frontal Cortex and the Rapid Processing of Monetary Gains and Losses | Science | 2002 | 1,600 |
| 23 | The Impact of Economic Hardship on Black Families and Children: Psychological Distress, Parenting, and Socioemotional Development | Child Development | 1990 | 1,599 |
| 24 | A Parametric Study of Prefrontal Cortex Involvement in Human Working Memory | NeuroImage | 1997 | 1,564 |
| 25 | The Cognitive Benefits of Interacting With Nature | Psychological Science | 2008 | 1,563 |
| 26 | Dissecting components of reward: ‘liking’, ‘wanting’, and learning | Current Opinion in Pharmacology | 2009 | 1,530 |
| 27 | Disruption of Large-Scale Brain Systems in Advanced Aging | Neuron | 2007 | 1,421 |
| 28 | The role of the media in body image concerns among women: A meta-analysis of experimental and correlational studies. | Psychological Bulletin | 2008 | 1,337 |
| 29 | Motor control and aging: Links to age-related brain structural, functional, and biochemical effects | Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | 2010 | 1,251 |
| 30 | The Neuroscience of Natural Rewards: Relevance to Addictive Drugs | Journal of Neuroscience | 2002 | 1,246 |
| 31 | Attentive Turkers: MTurk participants perform better on online attention checks than do subject pool participants | Behavior Research Methods | 2016 | 1,211 |
| 32 | A computational theory of executive cognitive processes and multiple-task performance: Part I. Basic mechanisms. | Psychological Review | 1997 | 1,208 |
| 33 | Multidimensional Model of Racial Identity: A Reconceptualization of African American Racial Identity | Personality and Social Psychology Review | 1998 | 1,194 |
| 34 | Contingencies of self-worth. | Psychological Review | 2001 | 1,183 |
| 35 | Spatial working memory in humans as revealed by PET | Nature | 1993 | 1,140 |
| 36 | Links between behavioral regulation and preschoolers' literacy, vocabulary, and math skills. | Developmental Psychology | 2007 | 1,108 |
| 37 | Cultures and Selves | Perspectives on Psychological Science | 2010 | 1,082 |
| 38 | Valence, gender, and lateralization of functional brain anatomy in emotion: a meta-analysis of findings from neuroimaging | NeuroImage | 2003 | 1,061 |
| 39 | Does culture influence what and how we think? Effects of priming individualism and collectivism. | Psychological Bulletin | 2008 | 1,056 |
| 40 | On the Shape of the Probability Weighting Function | Cognitive Psychology | 1999 | 1,053 |
| 41 | Pleasure Systems in the Brain | Neuron | 2015 | 1,040 |
| 42 | Motivation concepts in behavioral neuroscience | Physiology and Behavior | 2004 | 1,038 |
| 43 | Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals | Psychopharmacology | 2008 | 1,011 |
| 44 | Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction: the full life versus the empty life | Journal of Happiness Studies | 2005 | 993 |
| 45 | Working Memory: A View from Neuroimaging | Cognitive Psychology | 1997 | 970 |
| 46 | The role of racial identity in perceived racial discrimination. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 956 |
| 47 | Gender Differences in Depression | Current Directions in Psychological Science | 2001 | 933 |
| 48 | The Undoing Effect of Positive Emotions | Motivation and Emotion | 2000 | 923 |
| 49 | Using Mechanical Turk to Study Clinical Populations | Clinical Psychological Science | 2013 | 916 |
| 50 | ‘Liking’ and ‘wanting’ food rewards: Brain substrates and roles in eating disorders | Physiology and Behavior | 2009 | 904 |
