| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Satisfaction With Life Scale | Journal of Personality Assessment | 1985 | 21,076 |
| 2 | Principles and practice in reporting structural equation analyses. | Psychological Methods | 2002 | 3,316 |
| 3 | The Satisfaction With Life Scale and the emerging construct of life satisfaction | Journal of Positive Psychology | 2008 | 1,377 |
| 4 | Beyond the hedonic treadmill: Revising the adaptation theory of well-being. | American Psychologist | 2006 | 1,299 |
| 5 | Conscientiousness and Health-Related Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis of the Leading Behavioral Contributors to Mortality. | Psychological Bulletin | 2004 | 1,289 |
| 6 | Two functional components of the hippocampal memory system | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 1994 | 1,135 |
| 7 | Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines | Science | 2015 | 916 |
| 8 | Information processing in visual search: A continuous flow conception and experimental results | Perception & Psychophysics | 1979 | 877 |
| 9 | The empowering leadership questionnaire: the construction and validation of a new scale for measuring leader behaviors | Journal of Organizational Behavior | 2000 | 840 |
| 10 | The hippocampus—what does it do? | Behavioral and Neural Biology | 1992 | 824 |
| 11 | Needs and subjective well-being around the world. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2011 | 810 |
| 12 | Do “Brain-Training” Programs Work? | Psychological Science in the Public Interest: A Journal of the American Psychological Society | 2016 | 810 |
| 13 | Appealing to fear: A meta-analysis of fear appeal effectiveness and theories. | Psychological Bulletin | 2015 | 739 |
| 14 | Factor Analysis and Construct Validity of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory\ | Journal of Personality Assessment | 1984 | 711 |
| 15 | Antecedents and consequences of sexual harassment in organizations: A test of an integrated model. | Journal of Applied Psychology | 1997 | 709 |
| 16 | Early developmental emergence of human amygdala–prefrontal connectivity after maternal deprivation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 695 |
| 17 | Can training in a real-time strategy video game attenuate cognitive decline in older adults? | Psychology and Aging | 2008 | 683 |
| 18 | Academic Performance, Career Potential, Creativity, and Job Performance: Can One Construct Predict Them All? | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2004 | 659 |
| 19 | Our Eyes do Not Always Go Where we Want Them to Go: Capture of the Eyes by New Objects | Psychological Science | 1998 | 632 |
| 20 | Taking a Multifoci Approach to the Study of Justice, Social Exchange, and Citizenship Behavior: The Target Similarity Model† | Journal of Management | 2007 | 630 |
| 21 | Wealth and happiness across the world: Material prosperity predicts life evaluation, whereas psychosocial prosperity predicts positive feeling. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2010 | 610 |
| 22 | Heritability of nociception I: Responses of 11 inbred mouse strains on 12 measures of nociception | Pain | 1999 | 581 |
| 23 | THE STRUCTURE OF CONSCIENTIOUSNESS: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION BASED ON SEVEN MAJOR PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRES | Personnel Psychology | 2005 | 581 |
| 24 | The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking | Personality and Social Psychology Review | 2008 | 578 |
| 25 | Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 562 |
| 26 | Toward a theory of individual differences and leadership: Understanding the motivation to lead. | Journal of Applied Psychology | 2001 | 544 |
| 27 | Salient and Emerging Developmental Tasks in the Transition to Adulthood | Child Development | 2004 | 510 |
| 28 | Behavioral Problems After Early Life Stress: Contributions of the Hippocampus and Amygdala | Biological Psychiatry | 2015 | 504 |
| 29 | Committee report: Publication guidelines and recommendations for studies using electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography | Psychophysiology | 2014 | 485 |
| 30 | A Potential Natural Treatment for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Evidence From a National Study | American Journal of Public Health | 2004 | 465 |
| 31 | Properties of the Hubert-Arable Adjusted Rand Index. | Psychological Methods | 2004 | 456 |
| 32 | Exercise, experience and the aging brain1 | Neurobiology of Aging | 2002 | 442 |
| 33 | Distinguishing differential susceptibility from diathesis–stress: Recommendations for evaluating interaction effects | Development and Psychopathology | 2012 | 440 |
| 34 | GWAS of lifetime cannabis use reveals new risk loci, genetic overlap with psychiatric traits, and a causal effect of schizophrenia liability | Nature Neuroscience | 2018 | 436 |
| 35 | The religion paradox: If religion makes people happy, why are so many dropping out? | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2011 | 430 |
| 36 | Debunking: A Meta-Analysis of the Psychological Efficacy of Messages Countering Misinformation | Psychological Science | 2017 | 429 |
| 37 | What is autobiographical memory? | | 1986 | 412 |
| 38 | Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility: a comparative analysis of the UK and the US* | Corporate Governance: an International Review | 2006 | 410 |
| 39 | Discriminant validity of well-being measures. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1996 | 400 |
| 40 | Why is there an ERN/Ne on correct trials? Response representations, stimulus-related components, and the theory of error-processing | Biological Psychology | 2001 | 398 |
| 41 | Exercise, brain, and cognition across the life span | Journal of Applied Physiology | 2011 | 397 |
| 42 | Lactate Produced by Glycogenolysis in Astrocytes Regulates Memory Processing | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 392 |
| 43 | Children's goals and strategies in response to conflicts within a friendship. | Developmental Psychology | 1999 | 378 |
| 44 | Pulsed Out of Awareness: EEG Alpha Oscillations Represent a Pulsed-Inhibition of Ongoing Cortical Processing | Frontiers in Psychology | 2011 | 376 |
| 45 | The Study of Groups: Past, Present, and Future | Personality and Social Psychology Review | 2000 | 369 |
| 46 | Are expert athletes ‘expert’ in the cognitive laboratory? A meta‐analytic review of cognition and sport expertise | Applied Cognitive Psychology | 2010 | 365 |
| 47 | Empowerment meets narrative: Listening to stories and creating settings | American Journal of Community Psychology | 1995 | 361 |
| 48 | What is conscientiousness and how can it be assessed? | Developmental Psychology | 2014 | 346 |
| 49 | Compatibility and Resource Competition between Modalities of Input, Central Processing, and Output | Human Factors | 1983 | 343 |
| 50 | Subsynaptic plate perforations: changes with age and experience in the rat | Science | 1978 | 324 |
