| Affect imagery consciousness: Volume I: The positive affects S Tomkins Springer publishing company, 1962 | 9611* | 1962 |
| Script theory: differential magnification of affects. SS Tomkins Nebraska symposium on motivation, 1978 | 1584 | 1978 |
| Affect theory SS Tomkins Approaches to emotion, 163-195, 2014 | 1553 | 2014 |
| Affect imagery consciousness: the complete edition: two volumes SS Tomkins Springer publishing company, 2008 | 1003* | 2008 |
| What and where are the primary affects? Some evidence for a theory SS Tomkins, R McCarter Perceptual and motor skills 18 (1), 119-158, 1964 | 829 | 1964 |
| Exploring affect: the selected writings of Silvan S Tomkins SS Tomkins Cambridge University Press, 1995 | 755* | 1995 |
| Facial affect scoring technique: A first validity study P Ekman, WV Friesen, SS Tomkins Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 3 (1), 37-58, 1971 | 709 | 1971 |
| Scripting the macho man: Hypermasculine socialization and enculturation DL Mosher, SS Tomkins Journal of Sex Research 25 (1), 60-84, 1988 | 595 | 1988 |
| The quest for primary motives: Biography and autobiography of an idea. SS Tomkins Journal of personality and social psychology 41 (2), 306, 1981 | 558 | 1981 |
| Shame and its sisters: A Silvan Tomkins reader SS Tomkins Duke University Press, 1995 | 522 | 1995 |
| Shame. SS Tomkins The Guilford Press, 1987 | 487 | 1987 |
| Affect as amplification: Some modifications in theory SS Tomkins Theories of emotion, 141-164, 1980 | 477 | 1980 |
| Left and right: A basic dimension of ideology and personality. S Tomkins Atherton Press, 1963 | 422 | 1963 |
| History and Development of the Thematic Apperception Test. SS Tomkins, EJ Tomkins Grune & Stratton, 1947 | 412 | 1947 |
| Psychological model for smoking behavior. SS Tomkins American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health 56 (12_Suppl), 17-20, 1966 | 372 | 1966 |
| Affect as the primary motivational system SS Tomkins Feelings and emotions, 101-110, 1970 | 360 | 1970 |
| Affect and the psychology of knowledge SS Tomkins Affect, cognition, and personality: Empirical studies, 72-97, 1965 | 343 | 1965 |
| The Negro Personality: A rigorous investigation of the effects of culture. By Bertram P. Karon. Forew. by Silvan S. Tomkins BP Karon, SS Tomkins Springer, 1958 | 252 | 1958 |
| Affect, cognition, and personality: empirical studies. SS Tomkins, CE Izard Springer, 1965 | 247 | 1965 |
| The experience of affect as a determinant of smoking behavior: a series of validity studies. FF Ikard, S Tomkins Journal of abnormal psychology 81 (2), 172, 1973 | 243 | 1973 |