| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Why Does Social Exclusion Hurt? The Relationship Between Social and Physical Pain. | Psychological Bulletin | 2005 | 1,197 |
| 2 | The Experience of Emotion | Annual Review of Psychology | 2007 | 1,110 |
| 3 | Committee report: Guidelines for human startle eyeblink electromyographic studies | Psychophysiology | 2005 | 958 |
| 4 | Writing Narrative Literature Reviews | Review of General Psychology | 1997 | 667 |
| 5 | Placing the face in context: Cultural differences in the perception of facial emotion. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2008 | 520 |
| 6 | Interpersonal Rejection as a Determinant of Anger and Aggression | Personality and Social Psychology Review | 2006 | 498 |
| 7 | The implications of Big Five standing for the distribution of trait manifestation in behavior: Fifteen experience-sampling studies and a meta-analysis. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2009 | 450 |
| 8 | Sociometer theory and the pursuit of relational value: Getting to the root of self-esteem | European Review of Social Psychology | 2005 | 382 |
| 9 | Reactions to acceptance and rejection: Effects of level and sequence of relational evaluation | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | 2004 | 369 |
| 10 | Situation‐Based Contingencies Underlying Trait‐Content Manifestation in Behavior | Journal of Personality | 2007 | 346 |
| 11 | Making Sense of Self-Esteem | Current Directions in Psychological Science | 1999 | 321 |
| 12 | Effect of a 24-Month Physical Activity Intervention vs Health Education on Cognitive Outcomes in Sedentary Older Adults | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2015 | 318 |
| 13 | A Framework for Profile Similarity: Integrating Similarity, Normativeness, and Distinctiveness | Journal of Personality | 2008 | 283 |
| 14 | The Engine of Well-Being | Review of General Psychology | 2012 | 275 |
| 15 | Anticipatory pleasure predicts motivation for reward in major depression. | Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 2012 | 261 |
| 16 | The causal effects of extraversion on positive affect and neuroticism on negative affect: Manipulating state extraversion and state neuroticism in an experimental approach | Journal of Research in Personality | 2006 | 245 |
| 17 | Toward a structure- and process-integrated view of personality: traits as density distribution of states | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2001 | 238 |
| 18 | Using network science to evaluate exercise-associated brain changes in older adults | Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience | 2010 | 223 |
| 19 | Cultural differences in emotions: a context for interpreting emotional experiences | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 2003 | 220 |
| 20 | Mothers' and Fathers' Knowledge of Adolescents' Daily Activities: Its Sources and Its Links With Adolescent Adjustment. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2004 | 203 |
| 21 | A peculiar prevalence of p values just below .05 | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology | 2012 | 198 |
| 22 | What do conscientious people do? Development and validation of the Behavioral Indicators of Conscientiousness (BIC) | Journal of Research in Personality | 2010 | 195 |
| 23 | Ethnic Identity and the Daily Psychological Well-Being of Adolescents From Mexican and Chinese Backgrounds | Child Development | 2006 | 194 |
| 24 | Personality psychology as a truly behavioural science | European Journal of Personality | 2009 | 189 |
| 25 | How functionalist and process approaches to behavior can explain trait covariation. | Psychological Review | 2015 | 166 |
| 26 | Mechanisms of health: Education and health-related behaviours partially mediate the relationship between conscientiousness and self-reported physical health | Psychology and Health | 2010 | 159 |
| 27 | The definition of sex stereotypes via the adjective check list | Sex Roles | 1975 | 157 |
| 28 | Perceiver effects as projective tests: What your perceptions of others say about you. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2010 | 155 |
| 29 | Social blushing. | Psychological Bulletin | 1992 | 152 |
| 30 | The Double-Entry Intraclass Correlation as an Index of Profile Similarity: Meaning, Limitations, and Alternatives | Journal of Personality Assessment | 2010 | 144 |
| 31 | Impulsivity, attention, memory, and decision-making among adolescent marijuana users | Psychopharmacology | 2013 | 144 |
| 32 | Are traits useful? Explaining trait manifestations as tools in the pursuit of goals. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2016 | 138 |
| 33 | Not all conscientiousness scales change alike: A multimethod, multisample study of age differences in the facets of conscientiousness. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2009 | 137 |
| 34 | Test–retest reliability of a group-administered paper–pencil measure of delay discounting. | Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology | 2009 | 135 |
| 35 | Emotions in collectivist and individualist contexts | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2001 | 134 |
| 36 | Age-Related Changes and the Attention Network Task: An Examination of Alerting, Orienting, and Executive Function | Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition | 2007 | 133 |
| 37 | Recollection- and familiarity-based memory in healthy aging and amnestic mild cognitive impairment. | Neuropsychology | 2008 | 128 |
| 38 | The Impostor Phenomenon: Self-Perceptions, Reflected Appraisals, and Interpersonal Strategies | Journal of Personality | 2000 | 123 |
| 39 | Children's use of frequency information for trait categorization and behavioral prediction. | Developmental Psychology | 2006 | 123 |
| 40 | Age differences in big five behavior averages and variabilities across the adult life span: Moving beyond retrospective, global summary accounts of personality. | Psychology and Aging | 2010 | 123 |
| 41 | Where Does Personality Have Its Influence? A Supermatrix of Consistency Concepts | Journal of Personality | 2008 | 120 |
| 42 | Superior colliculus lesions preferentially disrupt multisensory orientation | Neuroscience | 2004 | 115 |
| 43 | Finding pleasure in solitary activities: desire for aloneness or disinterest in social contact? | Personality and Individual Differences | 2003 | 111 |
| 44 | Do preschoolers remember what to do? Incentive and external cues in prospective memory | Cognitive Development | 2000 | 110 |
| 45 | Meaning and Health: A Systematic Review | Applied Research in Quality of Life | 2014 | 110 |
| 46 | Interoceptive awareness, positive affect, and decision making in Major Depressive Disorder | Journal of Affective Disorders | 2013 | 108 |
| 47 | Fixing the Growth Illusion: New Directions for Research in Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth | Current Directions in Psychological Science | 2019 | 106 |
| 48 | The organization of arithmetic facts in memory: Evidence from a brain-damaged patient | Brain and Cognition | 1992 | 104 |
| 49 | Meta-insight: Do people really know how others see them? | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2011 | 103 |
| 50 | Calibrating the sociometer: the relationship between interpersonal appraisals and state self-esteem | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1998 | 102 |
