| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Advances in prospect theory: Cumulative representation of uncertainty | Journal of Risk and Uncertainty | 1992 | 11,310 |
| 2 | Should We Trust Web-Based Studies? A Comparative Analysis of Six Preconceptions About Internet Questionnaires. | American Psychologist | 2004 | 2,269 |
| 3 | Compassion: An evolutionary analysis and empirical review. | Psychological Bulletin | 2010 | 1,435 |
| 4 | Sparse Coding and Decorrelation in Primary Visual Cortex During Natural Vision | Science | 2000 | 1,110 |
| 5 | Social class, solipsism, and contextualism: How the rich are different from the poor. | Psychological Review | 2012 | 864 |
| 6 | Goal Theory, Motivation, and School Achievement: An Integrative Review | Annual Review of Psychology | 2000 | 792 |
| 7 | Anticipatory and consummatory components of the experience of pleasure: A scale development study | Journal of Research in Personality | 2006 | 743 |
| 8 | How persuasive is a good fit? A comment on theory testing. | Psychological Review | 2000 | 688 |
| 9 | Upward spirals of positive emotions counter downward spirals of negativity: Insights from the broaden-and-build theory and affective neuroscience on the treatment of emotion dysfunctions and deficits in psychopathology | Clinical Psychology Review | 2010 | 682 |
| 10 | Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort | Annual Review of Neuroscience | 2017 | 590 |
| 11 | Touch communicates distinct emotions. | Emotion | 2006 | 570 |
| 12 | Embarrassment: Its distinct form and appeasement functions. | Psychological Bulletin | 1997 | 569 |
| 13 | In Defense of the Internet: The Relationship between Internet Communication and Depression, Loneliness, Self-Esteem, and Perceived Social Support | Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking | 2002 | 525 |
| 14 | Disorganized Infant, Child, and Adult Attachment: Collapse in Behavioral and Attentional Strategies | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 2000 | 450 |
| 15 | The structure and function of explanations | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2006 | 445 |
| 16 | Sleep disturbance as transdiagnostic: Consideration of neurobiological mechanisms | Clinical Psychology Review | 2011 | 440 |
| 17 | Reconstructing constructivism: Causal models, Bayesian learning mechanisms, and the theory theory. | Psychological Bulletin | 2012 | 431 |
| 18 | Grammatical transformations and sentence comprehension in childhood and adulthood | Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior | 1966 | 421 |
| 19 | Beyond eye gaze: What else can eyetracking reveal about cognition and cognitive development? | Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience | 2017 | 412 |
| 20 | Double dissociation of value computations in orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate neurons | Nature Neuroscience | 2011 | 408 |
| 21 | Functional boundaries in the human cerebellum revealed by a multi-domain task battery | Nature Neuroscience | 2019 | 406 |
| 22 | Prefrontal modulation of visual processing in humans | Nature Neuroscience | 2000 | 403 |
| 23 | The Timing of Divorce: Predicting When a Couple Will Divorce Over a 14-Year Period | Journal of Marriage and Family | 2000 | 393 |
| 24 | Attention and stimulus characteristics determine the locus of motor- sequence encoding. A PET study | Brain | 1997 | 392 |
| 25 | Prefrontal activity associated with working memory and episodic long-term memory | Neuropsychologia | 2003 | 391 |
| 26 | The Local-Ladder Effect | Psychological Science | 2012 | 391 |
| 27 | Detecting Blickets: How Young Children Use Information about Novel Causal Powers in Categorization and Induction | Child Development | 2000 | 386 |
| 28 | The burn-out syndrome in the day care setting | Child Care Quarterly | 1977 | 374 |
| 29 | Frightened, threatening, and dissociative parental behavior in low-risk samples: Description, discussion, and interpretations | Development and Psychopathology | 2006 | 368 |
| 30 | Just teasing: A conceptual analysis and empirical review. | Psychological Bulletin | 2001 | 367 |
| 31 | Questions and controversies in the study of time-varying functional connectivity in resting fMRI | Network Neuroscience | 2020 | 364 |
| 32 | Systematicity and Surface Similarity in the Development of Analogy | Cognitive Science | 1986 | 352 |
| 33 | The developmental psychometrics of big five self-reports: Acquiescence, factor structure, coherence, and differentiation from ages 10 to 20. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2008 | 351 |
| 34 | Biological conceptions of race and the motivation to cross racial boundaries. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2008 | 351 |
| 35 | Narrative ability in high-functioning children with autism or Asperger's syndrome | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | 2003 | 350 |
| 36 | Insights into Human Behavior from Lesions to the Prefrontal Cortex | Neuron | 2014 | 348 |
| 37 | Individual differences in reappraisal ability: Links to reappraisal frequency, well-being, and cognitive control | Journal of Research in Personality | 2012 | 321 |
| 38 | Cross-species studies of orbitofrontal cortex and value-based decision-making | Nature Neuroscience | 2012 | 313 |
| 39 | Abstract and Effector-Specific Representations of Motor Sequences Identified with PET | Journal of Neuroscience | 1998 | 309 |
| 40 | High Gamma Activity in Response to Deviant Auditory Stimuli Recorded Directly From Human Cortex | Journal of Neurophysiology | 2005 | 300 |
| 41 | Estimating spatio-temporal receptive fields of auditory and visual neurons from their responses to natural stimuli | Network: Computation in Neural Systems | 2001 | 294 |
| 42 | Toward a Unified Theory of Visual Area V4 | Neuron | 2012 | 291 |
| 43 | Flexible Cognitive Strategies during Motor Learning | PLoS Computational Biology | 2011 | 278 |
| 44 | What is eating you? Stress and the drive to eat | Appetite | 2012 | 278 |
| 45 | The role of sleep in false memory formation | Neurobiology of Learning and Memory | 2009 | 273 |
| 46 | Dissociable contributions of the prefrontal and neocerebellar cortex to time perception | Cognitive Brain Research | 1998 | 270 |
| 47 | Self-Perceptions of Competence in Children With ADHD and Comparison Children. | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 2004 | 267 |
| 48 | Source memory enhancement for emotional words. | Emotion | 2001 | 262 |
| 49 | The role of the suprachiasmatic nuclei in the generation of circadian rhythms in the golden hamster,Mesocricetus auratus | Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology | 1977 | 251 |
| 50 | One and Done? Optimal Decisions From Very Few Samples | Cognitive Science | 2014 | 244 |
