| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion | Advances in Experimental Social Psychology | 1986 | 3,718 |
| 2 | Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change | Review of General Psychology | 2005 | 2,148 |
| 3 | Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11 | PLoS Medicine | 2009 | 1,320 |
| 4 | Basic psychological need satisfaction, need frustration, and need strength across four cultures | Motivation and Emotion | 2015 | 1,255 |
| 5 | What is satisfying about satisfying events? Testing 10 candidate psychological needs. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2001 | 1,172 |
| 6 | Effectiveness of Mentoring Programs for Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review | American Journal of Community Psychology | 2002 | 936 |
| 7 | Mathematical disabilities: Cognitive, neuropsychological, and genetic components. | Psychological Bulletin | 1993 | 866 |
| 8 | Positive affect and the experience of meaning in life. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2006 | 857 |
| 9 | Plate tectonics in the classification of personality disorder: Shifting to a dimensional model. | American Psychologist | 2007 | 799 |
| 10 | Gender differences in aggression as a function of provocation: A meta-analysis. | Psychological Bulletin | 1996 | 778 |
| 11 | Alcohol use and risky sexual behavior among college students and youth: evaluating the evidence. | Journal of Studies on Alcohol Supplement | 2002 | 741 |
| 12 | Autonomic characteristics of generalized anxiety disorder and worry | Biological Psychiatry | 1996 | 722 |
| 13 | Reconsidering happiness: the costs of distinguishing between hedonics and eudaimonia | Journal of Positive Psychology | 2008 | 689 |
| 14 | Evolution and proximate expression of human paternal investment. | Psychological Bulletin | 2000 | 649 |
| 15 | Effects of alcohol on human aggression: An intergrative research review. | Psychological Bulletin | 1990 | 634 |
| 16 | The relation between alcohol problems and the anxiety disorders | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1990 | 622 |
| 17 | The Structure of Goal Contents Across 15 Cultures. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2005 | 542 |
| 18 | Autonomic balance revisited: Panic anxiety and heart rate variability | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 1998 | 509 |
| 19 | Numerical and Arithmetical Cognition: A Longitudinal Study of Process and Concept Deficits in Children with Learning Disability | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology | 2000 | 508 |
| 20 | Categorical and Dimensional Models of Personality Disorder | Annual Review of Clinical Psychology | 2005 | 494 |
| 21 | Goal striving, need satisfaction, and longitudinal well-being: the self-concordance model | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1999 | 494 |
| 22 | Interactions between BDNF Val66Met polymorphism and early life stress predict brain and arousal pathways to syndromal depression and anxiety | Molecular Psychiatry | 2009 | 478 |
| 23 | Research in the Psychological Laboratory | Current Directions in Psychological Science | 1999 | 454 |
| 24 | Status differences and in-group bias: A meta-analytic examination of the effects of status stability, status legitimacy, and group permeability. | Psychological Bulletin | 2001 | 453 |
| 25 | A Motivational Perspective on Risky Behaviors: The Role of Personality and Affect Regulatory Processes | Journal of Personality | 2000 | 448 |
| 26 | Borderline personality disorder and substance use disorders A review and integration | Clinical Psychology Review | 2000 | 445 |
| 27 | Cognitive processing therapy for sexual assault victims | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1992 | 426 |
| 28 | External Validity of “Trivial” Experiments: The Case of Laboratory Aggression | Review of General Psychology | 1997 | 422 |
| 29 | Norms for word lists that create false memories | Memory and Cognition | 1999 | 403 |
| 30 | Multisystemic Treatment of Adolescent Sexual Offenders | International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology | 1990 | 393 |
| 31 | Ego Identity | International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology | 1993 | 392 |
| 32 | Video games and aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behavior in the laboratory and in life | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2000 | 391 |
| 33 | Assessing Alcohol Problems in College Students | Journal of American College Health | 1992 | 374 |
| 34 | A two-process view of Facebook use and relatedness need-satisfaction: Disconnection drives use, and connection rewards it. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2011 | 356 |
| 35 | A meta-analysis of fibromyalgia treatment interventions | Annals of Behavioral Medicine | 1999 | 355 |
| 36 | The Effects of Channel-Selective Attention on the Mismatch Negativity Wave Elicited by Deviant Tones | Psychophysiology | 1991 | 322 |
| 37 | Effects of presentation rate and individual differences in short-term memory capacity on an indirect measure of serial learning | Memory and Cognition | 1994 | 321 |
| 38 | It's not just the amount that counts: Balanced need satisfaction also affects well-being. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2006 | 302 |
| 39 | Common genetic risk factors for conduct disorder and alcohol dependence. | Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 1998 | 298 |
| 40 | Objective assessment of peritraumatic dissociation: psychophysiological indicators | American Journal of Psychiatry | 1997 | 288 |
| 41 | Sexual selection and sex differences in mathematical abilities | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 1996 | 285 |
| 42 | Personality and disinhibitory psychopathology: alcoholism and antisocial personality disorder | Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 1994 | 285 |
| 43 | The Adult Sensory Profile: Measuring Patterns of Sensory Processing | American Journal of Occupational Therapy | 2001 | 284 |
| 44 | Characteristics of children of alcoholics: putative risk factors, substance use and abuse, and psychopathology | Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 1991 | 282 |
| 45 | Thine own self: True self-concept accessibility and meaning in life. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2009 | 271 |
| 46 | Information Processing Models: Microscopes of the Mind | Annual Review of Psychology | 1993 | 261 |
| 47 | Long-Term Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Psychological Outcomes | Preventive Medicine | 1999 | 260 |
| 48 | Evolutionary Developmental Psychology | Child Development | 2000 | 259 |
| 49 | Manipulating autonomy, competence, and relatedness support in a game‐learning context: New evidence that all three needs matter | British Journal of Social Psychology | 2008 | 258 |
| 50 | Genetic influences on handedness: Data from 25,732 Australian and Dutch twin families | Neuropsychologia | 2009 | 252 |
