| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Attention System of the Human Brain | Annual Review of Neuroscience | 1990 | 6,835 |
| 2 | The Attention System of the Human Brain: 20 Years After | Annual Review of Neuroscience | 2012 | 2,350 |
| 3 | Investigations of Temperament at Three to Seven Years: The Children's Behavior Questionnaire | Child Development | 2001 | 1,901 |
| 4 | Neurobiology of the structure of personality: Dopamine, facilitation of incentive motivation, and extraversion | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 1999 | 1,764 |
| 5 | The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2015 | 1,701 |
| 6 | Diathesis-stress theories in the context of life stress research: Implications for the depressive disorders. | Psychological Bulletin | 1991 | 1,609 |
| 7 | Neural activity predicts individual differences in visual working memory capacity | Nature | 2004 | 1,497 |
| 8 | The structure of phenotypic personality traits. | American Psychologist | 1993 | 1,277 |
| 9 | Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 1,173 |
| 10 | EEG coherency | Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology | 1997 | 1,136 |
| 11 | Top-down versus bottom-up attentional control: a failed theoretical dichotomy | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2012 | 1,123 |
| 12 | Neural measures reveal individual differences in controlling access to working memory | Nature | 2005 | 1,072 |
| 13 | Parental monitoring and the prevention of child and adolescent problem behavior: a conceptual and empirical formulation | Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review | 1998 | 997 |
| 14 | Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories | Science | 2004 | 964 |
| 15 | The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles | Science | 2016 | 963 |
| 16 | Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 945 |
| 17 | Suppressing unwanted memories by executive control | Nature | 2001 | 858 |
| 18 | Neural Responses to Taxation and Voluntary Giving Reveal Motives for Charitable Donations | Science | 2007 | 819 |
| 19 | Visual working memory capacity: from psychophysics and neurobiology to individual differences | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2013 | 769 |
| 20 | Global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors for young people's health during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 | Lancet, The | 2016 | 710 |
| 21 | Attention, self–regulation and consciousness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1998 | 675 |
| 22 | Spatial sampling of head electrical fields: the geodesic sensor net | Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology | 1993 | 667 |
| 23 | Dissociation of the lateral and medial cerebellum in movement timing and movement execution | Experimental Brain Research | 1988 | 656 |
| 24 | Conflict adaptation effects in the absence of executive control | Nature Neuroscience | 2003 | 645 |
| 25 | Measurement of fine-grained aspects of toddler temperament: The Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire | | 2006 | 635 |
| 26 | Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams | Nature | 2020 | 634 |
| 27 | Importance of investing in adolescence from a developmental science perspective | Nature | 2018 | 614 |
| 28 | Temperament and personality: Origins and outcomes. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2000 | 581 |
| 29 | Improved auditory spatial tuning in blind humans | Nature | 1999 | 568 |
| 30 | Infants Parse Dynamic Action | Child Development | 2001 | 539 |
| 31 | Life Stress, the "Kindling" Hypothesis, and the Recurrence of Depression: Considerations From a Life Stress Perspective. | Psychological Review | 2005 | 526 |
| 32 | Development of the Cerebral Cortex across Adolescence: A Multisample Study of Inter-Related Longitudinal Changes in Cortical Volume, Surface Area, and Thickness | Journal of Neuroscience | 2017 | 496 |
| 33 | A Distributed Left Hemisphere Network Active During Planning of Everyday Tool Use Skills | Cerebral Cortex | 2005 | 492 |
| 34 | The standardization of an inventory of child conduct problem behaviors | Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology | 1980 | 481 |
| 35 | The Family Check‐Up With High‐Risk Indigent Families: Preventing Problem Behavior by Increasing Parents’ Positive Behavior Support in Early Childhood | Child Development | 2008 | 467 |
| 36 | The Case for Cultural Competency in Psychotherapeutic Interventions | Annual Review of Psychology | 2009 | 467 |
| 37 | A meta-analytic review of depression prevention programs for children and adolescents: Factors that predict magnitude of intervention effects. | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 2009 | 457 |
| 38 | The cultural evolution of prosocial religions | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 2016 | 457 |
| 39 | Inflammation-Induced Anhedonia: Endotoxin Reduces Ventral Striatum Responses to Reward | Biological Psychiatry | 2010 | 452 |
| 40 | Components of Visual Orienting in Early Infancy: Contingency Learning, Anticipatory Looking, and Disengaging | Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience | 1991 | 450 |
| 41 | Total domination in graphs | Networks | 1980 | 442 |
| 42 | The cognitive and neural architecture of sequence representation. | Psychological Review | 2003 | 439 |
| 43 | Implicit theories of emotion: Affective and social outcomes across a major life transition. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2007 | 420 |
| 44 | Climate change and moral judgement | Nature Climate Change | 2012 | 418 |
| 45 | Trajectories of classroom externalizing behavior: Contributions of child characteristics, family characteristics, and the teacher–child relationship during the school transition | Journal of School Psychology | 2005 | 412 |
| 46 | Developing Mechanisms of Self-Regulation in Early Life | Emotion Review | 2011 | 412 |
| 47 | The Role of Inhibitory Processes in Young Children's Difficulties with Deception and False Belief | Child Development | 1998 | 409 |
| 48 | Mental health and clinical psychological science in the time of COVID-19: Challenges, opportunities, and a call to action. | American Psychologist | 2021 | 408 |
| 49 | How People Explain Behavior: A New Theoretical Framework | Personality and Social Psychology Review | 1999 | 407 |
| 50 | Short-term meditation induces white matter changes in the anterior cingulate | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 404 |
