| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Changing AIDS-risk behavior. | Psychological Bulletin | 1992 | 1,943 |
| 2 | The Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers: an initial study investigating the early detection of autism and pervasive developmental disorders | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | 2001 | 1,193 |
| 3 | The Mysterious Motivational Functions of Mesolimbic Dopamine | Neuron | 2012 | 1,077 |
| 4 | Effort-related functions of nucleus accumbens dopamine and associated forebrain circuits | Psychopharmacology | 2007 | 913 |
| 5 | Treating stimuli as a random factor in social psychology: A new and comprehensive solution to a pervasive but largely ignored problem. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2012 | 867 |
| 6 | The Occurrence of Clustering in the Recall of Randomly Arranged Associates | Journal of General Psychology | 1953 | 850 |
| 7 | From Censure to Reinforcement: Developmental Changes in the Association Between Aggression and Social Status | Child Development | 2004 | 825 |
| 8 | From Conceptualizing to Measuring HIV Stigma: A Review of HIV Stigma Mechanism Measures | AIDS and Behavior | 2009 | 804 |
| 9 | Prolonged institutional rearing is associated with atypically large amygdala volume and difficulties in emotion regulation | Developmental Science | 2010 | 740 |
| 10 | Motivational views of reinforcement: implications for understanding the behavioral functions of nucleus accumbens dopamine | Behavioural Brain Research | 2002 | 702 |
| 11 | Plasma oxytocin levels in autistic children | Biological Psychiatry | 1998 | 696 |
| 12 | Predicting ethnic and racial discrimination: A meta-analysis of IAT criterion studies. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2013 | 661 |
| 13 | Bilingual advantages in executive functioning either do not exist or are restricted to very specific and undetermined circumstances | Cortex | 2015 | 606 |
| 14 | Sexual double standards: A review and methodological critique of two decades of research | Journal of Sex Research | 2003 | 605 |
| 15 | Personal and workgroup incivility: Impact on work and health outcomes. | Journal of Applied Psychology | 2008 | 604 |
| 16 | The nature of social dominance orientation: Theorizing and measuring preferences for intergroup inequality using the new SDO₇ scale. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2015 | 604 |
| 17 | Living with a concealable stigmatized identity: The impact of anticipated stigma, centrality, salience, and cultural stigma on psychological distress and health. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2009 | 602 |
| 18 | The disclosure processes model: Understanding disclosure decision making and postdisclosure outcomes among people living with a concealable stigmatized identity. | Psychological Bulletin | 2010 | 598 |
| 19 | Self-organization of cognitive performance. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2003 | 586 |
| 20 | HIV testing attitudes, AIDS stigma, and voluntary HIV counselling and testing in a black township in Cape Town, South Africa | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2003 | 579 |
| 21 | An information-motivation-behavioral skills model of adherence to antiretroviral therapy. | Health Psychology | 2006 | 555 |
| 22 | Lower level mediation in multilevel models. | Psychological Methods | 2003 | 541 |
| 23 | HIV Stigma Mechanisms and Well-Being Among PLWH: A Test of the HIV Stigma Framework | AIDS and Behavior | 2013 | 532 |
| 24 | The involvement of nucleus accumbens dopamine in appetitive and aversive motivation | Behavioural Brain Research | 1994 | 530 |
| 25 | Early Intervention for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Under 3 Years of Age: Recommendations for Practice and Research | Pediatrics | 2015 | 510 |
| 26 | Statistical power and optimal design in experiments in which samples of participants respond to samples of stimuli. | Journal of Experimental Psychology: General | 2014 | 506 |
| 27 | Behavioral functions of nucleus accumbens dopamine: Empirical and conceptual problems with the anhedonia hypothesis | Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | 1997 | 489 |
| 28 | Internalized stigma, discrimination, and depression among men and women living with HIV/AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa | Social Science and Medicine | 2007 | 486 |
| 29 | An analysis of factors that contribute to the magnitude of placebo analgesia in an experimental paradigm | Pain | 1999 | 482 |
| 30 | Alcohol Use and Sexual Risks for HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic Review of Empirical Findings | Prevention Science | 2007 | 472 |
| 31 | Optimal outcome in individuals with a history of autism | Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines | 2013 | 447 |
| 32 | The Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Well-Being: Psychometric properties, demographic comparisons, and evidence of validity | Journal of Positive Psychology | 2010 | 439 |
| 33 | Anhedonia or anergia? Effects of haloperidol and nucleus accumbens dopamine depletion on instrumental response selection in a T-maze cost/benefit procedure | Behavioural Brain Research | 1994 | 420 |
| 34 | The impact of 'bursting' thalamic impulses at a neocortical synapse | Nature Neuroscience | 2001 | 418 |
| 35 | Do people know how others view them? An empirical and theoretical account. | Psychological Bulletin | 1993 | 417 |
| 36 | Chapter 4 The Reading Process is Different for Different Orthographies: The Orthographic Depth Hypothesis | Advances in Psychology | 1992 | 415 |
| 37 | Aggressive behavioral phenotypes in mice | Behavioural Brain Research | 2001 | 403 |
| 38 | Detecting, measuring, and testing dyadic patterns in the actor–partner interdependence model. | Journal of Family Psychology | 2010 | 399 |
| 39 | The role of the fusiform face area in social cognition: implications for the pathobiology of autism | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2003 | 398 |
| 40 | Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine and the Regulation of Effort in Food-Seeking Behavior: Implications for Studies of Natural Motivation, Psychiatry, and Drug Abuse | Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics | 2003 | 397 |
| 41 | Measuring AIDS stigmas in people living with HIV/AIDS: the Internalized AIDS-Related Stigma Scale | AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV | 2009 | 391 |
| 42 | Classical conditioning and the placebo effect | Pain | 1997 | 389 |
| 43 | Accuracy and bias in the perception of the partner in a close relationship. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2001 | 383 |
| 44 | The measurement of psychological maltreatment: Early data on the child abuse and trauma scale | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1995 | 375 |
| 45 | Haloperidol and nucleus accumbens dopamine depletion suppress lever pressing for food but increase free food consumption in a novel food choice procedure | Psychopharmacology | 1991 | 373 |
| 46 | Social Dominance Theory: Its Agenda and Method | Political Psychology | 2004 | 368 |
| 47 | A pandemic of the poor: Social disadvantage and the U.S. HIV epidemic. | American Psychologist | 2013 | 360 |
| 48 | Close Relationships and Elevated HIV Risk Behavior: Evidence and Possible Underlying Psychological Processes | Review of General Psychology | 1997 | 354 |
| 49 | Statistical and computational models of the visual world paradigm: Growth curves and individual differences | Journal of Memory and Language | 2008 | 351 |
| 50 | Development of a Brief Scale to Measure AIDS-Related Stigma in South Africa | AIDS and Behavior | 2005 | 322 |
