| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The weirdest people in the world? | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 2010 | 8,390 |
| 2 | The Dark Triad of personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy | Journal of Research in Personality | 2002 | 3,270 |
| 3 | Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 3,200 |
| 4 | Psychological Stress and the Human Immune System: A Meta-Analytic Study of 30 Years of Inquiry. | Psychological Bulletin | 2004 | 2,478 |
| 5 | Psychological Stress and Disease | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2007 | 2,102 |
| 6 | Most people are not WEIRD | Nature | 2010 | 2,076 |
| 7 | Redefine statistical significance | Nature Human Behaviour | 2018 | 1,763 |
| 8 | When can categorical variables be treated as continuous? A comparison of robust continuous and categorical SEM estimation methods under suboptimal conditions. | Psychological Methods | 2012 | 1,531 |
| 9 | Experience sampling during fMRI reveals default network and executive system contributions to mind wandering | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 1,493 |
| 10 | Psychological stress in childhood and susceptibility to the chronic diseases of aging: Moving toward a model of behavioral and biological mechanisms. | Psychological Bulletin | 2011 | 1,433 |
| 11 | Is there universal recognition of emotion from facial expression? A review of the cross-cultural studies. | Psychological Bulletin | 1994 | 1,408 |
| 12 | Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment | Science | 2010 | 1,212 |
| 13 | Habituation revisited: An updated and revised description of the behavioral characteristics of habituation | Neurobiology of Learning and Memory | 2009 | 1,167 |
| 14 | Spending Money on Others Promotes Happiness | Science | 2008 | 1,166 |
| 15 | On the bipolarity of positive and negative affect. | Psychological Bulletin | 1999 | 1,147 |
| 16 | God Is Watching You | Psychological Science | 2007 | 1,102 |
| 17 | Culture and the categorization of emotions. | Psychological Bulletin | 1991 | 1,052 |
| 18 | Coding of facial expressions of pain in the laboratory mouse | Nature Methods | 2010 | 1,024 |
| 19 | The Meaning Maintenance Model: On the Coherence of Social Motivations | Personality and Social Psychology Review | 2006 | 1,002 |
| 20 | Chronic stress, glucocorticoid receptor resistance, inflammation, and disease risk | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 947 |
| 21 | Renovating the Pyramid of Needs | Perspectives on Psychological Science | 2010 | 944 |
| 22 | Suicide, Suicide Attempts, and Suicidal Ideation | Annual Review of Clinical Psychology | 2016 | 914 |
| 23 | The Moral Machine experiment | Nature | 2018 | 891 |
| 24 | Regulation of firing of dopaminergic neurons and control of goal-directed behaviors | Trends in Neurosciences | 2007 | 883 |
| 25 | Change Detection | Annual Review of Psychology | 2002 | 877 |
| 26 | Families of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: review and recommendations for future research | Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review | 2001 | 875 |
| 27 | Does social exclusion motivate interpersonal reconnection? Resolving the "porcupine problem." | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2007 | 871 |
| 28 | Anxiety and depression after cancer diagnosis: Prevalence rates by cancer type, gender, and age | Journal of Affective Disorders | 2012 | 871 |
| 29 | Religion's evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 2004 | 864 |
| 30 | Why are small and large numbers enumerated differently? A limited-capacity preattentive stage in vision. | Psychological Review | 1994 | 849 |
| 31 | Synchronous neural oscillations and cognitive processes | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2003 | 848 |
| 32 | Mind-wandering as spontaneous thought: a dynamic framework | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2016 | 848 |
| 33 | The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality | Science | 2008 | 822 |
| 34 | A YAC Mouse Model for Huntington’s Disease with Full-Length Mutant Huntingtin, Cytoplasmic Toxicity, and Selective Striatal Neurodegeneration | Neuron | 1999 | 789 |
| 35 | Socioeconomic Status and Health Behaviors in Adolescence: A Review of the Literature | Journal of Behavioral Medicine | 2007 | 775 |
| 36 | Word learning as Bayesian inference. | Psychological Review | 2007 | 766 |
| 37 | Core affect, prototypical emotional episodes, and other things called emotion: dissecting the elephant | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1999 | 753 |
| 38 | Depression as a predictor of disease progression and mortality in cancer patients | Cancer | 2009 | 749 |
| 39 | Inspired by Distraction | Psychological Science | 2012 | 737 |
| 40 | Two ways to the top: Evidence that dominance and prestige are distinct yet viable avenues to social rank and influence. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2013 | 726 |
| 41 | Effects of voluntary exercise on synaptic plasticity and gene expression in the dentate gyrus of adult male sprague–dawley rats in vivo | Neuroscience | 2004 | 714 |
| 42 | The Structure of Current Affect | Current Directions in Psychological Science | 1999 | 706 |
| 43 | The psychological structure of pride: A tale of two facets. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2007 | 699 |
| 44 | The evolution of costly displays, cooperation and religion | Evolution and Human Behavior | 2009 | 695 |
| 45 | Pathogens, personality, and culture: Disease prevalence predicts worldwide variability in sociosexuality, extraversion, and openness to experience. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2008 | 686 |
| 46 | Psychological Universals: What Are They and How Can We Know? | Psychological Bulletin | 2005 | 670 |
| 47 | Selective Roles for Hippocampal, Prefrontal Cortical, and Ventral Striatal Circuits in Radial-Arm Maze Tasks With or Without a Delay | Journal of Neuroscience | 1997 | 662 |
| 48 | Vegetarianism. A blossoming field of study | Appetite | 2012 | 631 |
| 49 | Social support interventions | Clinical Psychology Review | 2002 | 627 |
| 50 | Culture–gene coevolution, norm-psychology and the emergence of human prosociality | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2011 | 621 |
