| Emotion regulation: Conceptual foundations JJ Gross, RA Thompson Handbook of emotion regulation. New York: Guilford Pres, 2006 | 9187* | 2006 |
| Emotion regulation: A theme in search of definition RA Thompson Monographs of the society for research in child development 59 (2-3), 25-52, 1994 | 7167 | 1994 |
| Early attachment and later development: Familiar questions, new answers. RA Thompson The Guilford Press, 2008 | 1888 | 2008 |
| Emotional regulation and emotional development RA Thompson Educational Psychology Review 3 (4), 269-307, 1991 | 1178 | 1991 |
| Early sociopersonality development. RA Thompson John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998 | 880 | 1998 |
| Developmental science and the media: Early brain development. RA Thompson, CA Nelson American Psychologist 56 (1), 5, 2001 | 838 | 2001 |
| Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science: Theory and Method KE Adolph, DR Anderson, D Bartz, PPG Bateson, J Bechtold, AD Benner, ... John Wiley & Sons, 2015 | 837* | 2015 |
| Emotion and self RA Thompson Socioemotional development 36, 367, 1990 | 830* | 1990 |
| The double-edged sword: Emotional regulation for children at risk RA Thompson, SD Calkins Development and Psychopathology 8, 163-182, 1996 | 768 | 1996 |
| The legacy of early attachments RA Thompson Child development 71 (1), 145-152, 2000 | 732 | 2000 |
| The development of the person: Social understanding, relationships, conscience, self RA Thompson Handbook of child psychology 3, 2007 | 728* | 2007 |
| Infant-mother attachment: The origins and developmental significance of individual differences in strange situation behavior ME Lamb, RA Thompson, W Gardner, EL Charnov Routledge, 2013 | 696 | 2013 |
| Mother–child discourse, attachment security, shared positive affect, and early conscience development DJ Laible, RA Thompson Child development 71 (5), 1424-1440, 2000 | 596 | 2000 |
| Attachment and emotional understanding in preschool children. DJ Laible, RA Thompson Developmental psychology 34 (5), 1038, 1998 | 596 | 1998 |
| Efficacy and social support as predictors of parenting stress among families in poverty HA Raikes, RA Thompson Infant Mental Health Journal: Official Publication of The World Association …, 2005 | 539 | 2005 |
| Security of infantile attachment as assessed in the strange situation: its study and biological intrepretation ME Lamb, RA Thompson, WP Gardner, E Charnov, D Estes | 503 | 1984 |
| Emotion and emotion regulation: Two sides of the developing coin RA Thompson Emotion Review 3 (1), 53-61, 2011 | 496 | 2011 |
| Stability of infant-mother attachment and its relationship to changing life circumstances in an unselected middle-class sample RA Thompson, ME Lamb, D Estes Child Development, 144-148, 1982 | 437 | 1982 |
| Reassessing emotion regulation RA Thompson, MD Lewis, SD Calkins Child Development Perspectives 2 (3), 124-131, 2008 | 418 | 2008 |
| Preventing child maltreatment through social support: A critical analysis. RA Thompson Sage Publications, Inc, 1995 | 395 | 1995 |
