Journal of Personality

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Personality is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Issue Information195
Corrigendum83
Are perfectionistic strivings beneficial or detrimental to well‐being and achievement? Tests of procrastination and emotion regulation as moderators51
Which leadership style do more narcissistic subordinates prefer in supervisors?48
“I want to lift my people up”: Exploring the psychological correlates of racial themes within the life stories of midlife Black Americans44
Looks and status are still essential: Testing the mate preference priority model with the profile‐based experimental paradigm32
The association between facets of conscientiousness and performance‐based and informant‐rated cognition, affect, and activities in older adults30
The personality meta‐trait of stability and carotid artery atherosclerosis28
Life events sometimes alter the trajectory of personality development: Effect sizes for 25 life events estimated using a large, frequently assessed sample27
It's about time: Emphasizing temporal dynamics in dynamic personality regulation27
Consensus, controversy, and chaos in the attribution of characteristics to the morally exceptional26
Correction to “Going It Alone: Examining Interpersonal Sensitivity and Hostility as Mediators of the Link Between Perfectionism and Social Disconnection”26
Everyday State Attachment: Dynamic Features and Role of Trait Attachment24
Rethinking aversive personality: Decomposing the Dark Triad traits into their common core and unique flavors19
18
Empathy and authenticity online: The roles of moral identity, moral disengagement, and parenting style18
17
How Childhood Shapes Adolescents' Belief in Justice: A Longitudinal Study Examining the Link Between Childhood Stressful Environment and Belief in a Just World17
Issue Information17
Moral characteristics predicting COVID‐19 vaccination16
The Connection Between Dark Traits and Emotional Intelligence: A Multistudy Person‐Centered Approach16
The “teacher” and martial arts: A psychobiographical analysis of Jack Ma as a business change agent16
Personal Relative Deprivation and Locus of Control15
Daily associations between global self‐esteem and self‐concept clarity and their relationships with subjective well‐being in a sample of adult workers15
Accommodativeself‐regulation: The sample case of imprisonment in young adulthood14
Momentary assessment of the relations between narcissistic traits, interpersonal behaviors, and aggression14
Narcissistic individuals exhibit poor recognition memory14
Effect of social class on personal control beliefs14
Predicting Big Five personality traits from smartphone data: A meta‐analysis on the potential of digital phenotyping13
The happy personality revisited: Re‐examining associations between Big Five personality traits and subjective well‐being using meta‐analytic structural equation modeling13
Narrative identity informs psychological adjustment: Considering three themes captured across five time points and two event valences13
Structural differences in life satisfaction in a U.S. adult sample across age13
From adversity to activism: A psychobiographical case study of Cori Bush13
Competing Models of the Structure of Subjective Well‐Being: Have All Won and Must All Have Prizes?12
Structural brain differences do not mediate the relations between sex and personality or psychopathology12
Beyond the brain localization of complex traits: Distributed white matter markers of personality12
Issue Information12
Prolonged unemployment is associated with control loss and personal as well as social disengagement11
The effects of socioeconomic status on personality development in adulthood and aging11
Lighten the darkness: Personality interventions targeting agreeableness also reduce participants' levels of the dark triad11
When intelligence hurts and ignorance is bliss: Global pandemic as an evolutionarily novel threat to happiness11
How does it feel to be greedy? The role of pride in avaricious acquisition11
Pathological personality, situations, and their joint influences on daily emotional symptoms11
Personality processes of everyday moral courage10
How many and what mechanisms are needed to explain self‐regulatory functions in personality dynamics: Toward a model based on the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits10
Mapping political trust and involvement in the personality space—A meta‐analysis and new evidence10
Announcement10
The (Un)Attractiveness of Dark Triad Personalities: Assessing Fictitious Characters for Short‐ and Long‐Term Relationships9
A serial cascade effect of cybervictimization and hostile rumination on the within‐person change of moral disengagement9
Surfing the OCEAN: The machine learning psycholexical approach 2.0 to detect personality traits in texts9
Negative Emotion (dys)regulation Predicts Distorted Time Perception: Preliminary Experimental Evidence and Implications for Psychopathology9
9
Big Five personality traits and academic performance: A meta‐analysis9
Development of intraindividual value structures in middle childhood: A multicultural and longitudinal investigation9
Future‐oriented temporal perspective promotes wise reasoning9
Networking trait resilience: Unifying fragmented trait resilience systems from an ecological systems theory perspective9
Investing in resources: An interaction model of personal resources, commitment, and work achievement8
Development of Self‐Reported Reward Responsiveness and Inhibitory Control and the Role of Clinical and Neural Predictors8
Can exposure to arguments pro and contra extraversion affect self‐reports of the trait and the attitude toward it?8
A reciprocal perspective on the differential associations between personality traits and multiple indicators of academic achievement8
Longitudinal associations of neuroticism with life satisfaction and social adaptation in a nationally representative adult sample8
The personality of violent Jihadists: Examining violent and nonviolent defense of Muslims8
Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political tolerance8
What is the “opposite” of a value? A lexical investigation into the structure of generally undesirable goal content8
Self‐concealment, secrecy, and guilt8
Middle childhood development in personal values8
Personality differences in the occurrence and affective correlates of daily positive events8
Does dispositional preference for solitude predict better psychological outcomes during times of social distancing? Beliefs and reality8
Agreeableness and adolescents' cyberbullying perpetration: A longitudinal moderated mediation model of moral disengagement and empathy8
Genetics, parenting, and family functioning—What drives the development of self‐control from adolescence to adulthood?7
Individual differences in spite predict costly third‐party punishment7
Are you laughing with me or at me? Psychopathic traits and the ability to distinguish between affiliation and dominance laughter cues7
Are they out to get me? Individual differences in nonclinical paranoia as a function of narcissism and defensive self‐protection7
Correlates of Borderline Personality Disorder Traits and Internet Gaming Disorder in College Students7
Effects of Reflective Processes on Social–Emotional Trait Development in Adulthood: Insights From Two Multi‐Method Studies7
An examination of personality expression in everyday life in a Canadian sample of racialized undergraduate students7
Interpersonal Perception of Adult Playfulness at Zero‐Acquaintance: A Conceptual Replication Study of Self‐Other Agreement and Consensus, and an Extension to Two Accuracy Criteria7
Latent classes of maladaptive personality traits exhibit differences in social processing7
Value fulfillment and well‐being: Clarifying directions over time7
7
Perils of Partialing: Can Scholars Predict Residualized Variables' Nomological Nets?7
Defense styles, well‐being, and functional disability in the African context: A structured interview‐based study7
Dispositional Traits, Characteristic Adaptations, and Narrative Identity Reconstructions in Individuals With Depersonalization and Derealization7
Self‐control in adolescence predicts forgivingness in middle adulthood7
Hiding in plain view: An historical perspective on the study of morality in personality psychology7
My problem or yours? Interpersonal problems and marital quality7
Personality coherence as a personality dynamics‐related concept6
Measuring the rate of psychological growth and examining its antecedents: A growth curve modeling approach6
Unveiling the Heterogeneity of Sensation Seeking and Collectivism Development in Chinese Adolescents6
Behavioral genetics of temporal framing: Heritability of time perspective and its common genetic bases with major personality traits6
Optimism, pessimism and support in older couples: A longitudinal study6
Introversion and the frequency and intensity of daily uplifts and hassles6
Distress tolerance is linked with substance use motivations and problems in young adults across four continents6
Dispositional compassion shifts social preferences in systematic ways6
How Users' Personality Traits Predict Sentiment Tendencies of User‐Generated Content in Social Media: A Mixed Method of Configuration Analysis and Machine Learning6
Issue Information6
Solitude can be good—If you see it as such: Reappraisal helps lonely people experience solitude more positively6
Leadership in the eye of the beholder: Follower self‐esteem is associated with divergent perceptions of leadership ability for dominant and prestigious leaders6
Purpose and goal pursuit as a self‐sustaining system: Evidence of daily within‐person reciprocity among adolescents in self‐driven learning6
Attachment style and attention bias to emotional information: The moderating effect of stress, stimulus characteristics, and attention stage6
A Farewell to the Narcissism Epidemic? A Cross‐Temporal Meta‐Analysis of Global NPI Scores (1982–2023)6
Personality, self‐knowledge, and meat reduction intentions5
Empathy to Creativity: The Associations Between Empathy and Everyday Creativity5
Behavioral and neural correlates of social network size: The unique and common contributions of face recognition and extraversion5
5
Investigating solitude as a tool for downregulation of daily arousal using ecological momentary assessments5
Growing Memories: Coaching mothers in elaborative reminiscing with toddlers benefits adolescents' turning‐point narratives and wellbeing5
Using Intersectionality to Understand How Structural Domains Are Embedded in Life Narratives5
Combining novel trait and neurocognitive frameworks to parse heterogeneity in borderline personality disorder5
Developing a different voice: The life and work of Carol Gilligan5
The Positive Effect of pro‐Environmental Behavior on Eudaimonic Well‐Being in Young Adults: A Daily Diary Study Using the Within‐Person Encouragement Design5
How and why people want to be more moral5
When Self‐Compassion Lacks Ferocity: Anger and Responding to False Accusations5
The relations among prosocial behavior, hedonic, and eudaimonic well‐being in everyday life5
Distress prospectively predicts higher nostalgia, and nostalgia prospectively predicts lower distress5
Job characteristics and personality change in young adulthood: A 12‐year longitudinal study and replication5
Winning isn't everything: Guilt proneness and competitive vs. non‐competitive motivation5
Why moral psychology needs personality psychology5
Personal values and sustained attention as predictors of children's helping behavior in middle childhood5
Leveraging economic games to integrate and differentiate personality and psychopathology5
Untying a Gordian knot: Exploring the nomological network of resilience5
Evidence for the additive effects of dispositional negative mood regulation expectancies and placebo‐induced expectancies on mood recovery5
Trauma exposure and short‐term volitional personality trait change5
The Relationship Between Cognitive and Emotional Abilities and Ideological Attitudes Among Adolescents4
Longitudinal bidirectional associations between personality and becoming a leader4
4
The Big Five model in rural Southeast Asia: Validation, stability, and its role in household income*4
Social expectations and abilities to meet them as possible mechanisms of youth personality development4
Resilience of primal world beliefs to the initial shock of the COVID‐19 pandemic4
Individual differences in social power: Links with beliefs about emotion and emotion regulation4
Which emotion regulation strategy is efficient for whom? Reappraisal and suppression efficiency for adaptive and maladaptive personality profiles4
The finer details? The predictability of life outcomes from Big Five domains, facets, and nuances4
A cybernetic theory of autism: Autism as a consequence of low trait plasticity4
Comparing associations between personality and loneliness at midlife across three cultural groups4
Body mass predicts personality development across 18 years in middle to older adulthood4
Can an Algorithm Tell How Spiritual You Are? Using Generative Pretrained Transformers for Sophisticated Forms of Text Analysis4
Individual differences in dissimilation: Do some people make more distinctions among targets' personalities than others?4
Issue Information4
Maladaptive personality traits and older adult relationship satisfaction: A co‐twin control approach to understanding associations4
Social expectations as a possible mechanism for adult personality change: Limited empirical evidence for the social investment principle4
Comparing NIRA and Traditional Network Approaches: A Study Case With Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits4
Everyday heroes: Graphical life stories and self‐defining memories inCOVID‐19 medical volunteers4
Psychological change before and after religious conversion and deconversion4
Behavioral adjustment moderates the effect of neuroticism on brain volume relative to intracranial volume4
3
Personality dynamics: Regulatory mechanisms and processes3
Rural–urban differences in personality traits and well‐being in adulthood3
Emotion regulation and self‐control: Same same but different… and even incompatible?3
3
Black dreams matter: Exploring the polyphonic realms of the Black Radical Imaginary3
A Meta‐Analytic Review of Personality and Teacher–Student Relationships3
Routes to momentary self‐esteem in adolescence: Links with interpersonal perceptions of liking and personality metaperceptions within social interactions3
The associations between life events and person‐centered personality consistency3
Becoming as Open‐Minded and Organized as My Classmates? Peer Effects on Self‐Reported Personality Trait Development in the Classroom3
Issue Information3
Self as both target and judge: Who has an easier time knowing their own personality?3
Four types of change and self‐other agreement on change in personality traits during college years: A multi‐informant longitudinal study3
Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross‐lagged effects and their moderation by culture3
Individual differences in revising the life story—Personality and event characteristics influence change in the autobiographical meaning of life events3
Despite popular intuition, positive world beliefs poorly reflect several objective indicators of privilege, including wealth, health, sex, and neighborhood safety3
The genetic underpinnings of right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain political attitudes beyond Big Five personality3
Are social desirability scales desirable? A meta‐analytic test of the validity of social desirability scales in the context of prosocial behavior3
Marital quality improves self‐ and partner‐reported psychopathy among Chinese couples: A longitudinal study3
Negative internal working models as mechanisms that link mothers’ and fathers’ personality with their parenting: A short‐term longitudinal study3
The dark triad traits and relationship satisfaction: Dyadic response surface analysis3
The evolution of narrative identity in a “returning home” man: The psychological and cultural place of farming in the Chinese psyche3
Meta‐analytic evidence that attachment insecurity is associated with less frequent experiences of discrete positive emotions3
Explicating narrow and broad conceptualizations of environmental influences on personality3
Becoming Jane Barney: Developing a generative identity as an engaged citizen3
Beyond Big Five trait domains: Stability and change in personality facets across midlife and old age3
The connections between personality, ideology and (counter‐)empathic emotions depend on the target3
Alone but flowing: The effects of autotelic personality and extraversion on solitary flow3
The psychological imprint of inequality: Economic inequality shapes achievement and power values in human life3
Themes of trust, identity, intimacy, and generativity in important autobiographical memories: Associations with life periods and life satisfaction3
The empathic personality profile: Using personality characteristics to reveal genetic, environmental, and developmental patterns of adolescents' empathy3
Father Trait Anger and Exposure to Infant Cry: Effects on Emotion, Appraisals of Infants, and Cognitive Performance3
Personality traits relate to chronotype at both the phenotypic and genetic level3
Who gives? Characteristics of those who have taken the Giving What We Can pledge3
Examining intra‐ and inter‐personal health effects of optimism and pessimism: The role of subjective well‐being in romantic couples3
Partialing alters interpersonal correlates of negative affective symptoms and traits: A circumplex illustration3
Attitudes toward children: Distinguishing affection and stress3
Corrigendum to “Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross‐lagged effects and their moderation by culture”3
Thoughts Falling Apart: Disorganized Schizotypy Specifically Predicts Both Psychotic‐ and Stress‐Reactivity in Daily Life2
The Role of World Beliefs in Loneliness: Implications for Daily Social Interaction and Persistence of Loneliness Over Time2
Seeking solitude skills: Do memories of intrinsic goals enhance enjoyment of alone time?2
Recent stressful life events and identity development in emerging adults: An examination of within‐person effects2
2
Psychopathic traits and reinforcement learning under acute stress2
Integrating and differentiating personality and psychopathology: A psychodynamic perspective2
Associations between daily affective experiences, trait and daily rumination on negative and positive affect: a diary study2
Moral beacons: Understanding moral character and moral influence2
Pitfalls of self‐reported measures of self‐control: Surprising insights from extreme debtors2
Individual differences in emotional reactions to bistable perception2
Clarifying the relationship between trait aggression and self‐control using random item slope regression2
Inter‐ and Intraindividual Relations Between Agentic, Communal Self‐Enhancement and Hedonic, Eudaimonic Well‐Being: Feedback and Mediation Mechanisms2
Person‐specific priorities in solitude2
Purpose maintained: Adverse childhood experiences and meaning in life2
Is “sadistic pleasure” a contrived process of signaling one's antagonism?2
Beyond the Moderating Role of Neuroticism on Evaluative Conditioning: Threat Appraisal2
Embodied Cognition and the Structure of Personality: An Exploratory Study of Longitudinal Pathways From Early Psychomotor Function2
The social side of personality: Do affiliation and intimacy motives moderate associations of personal relationships with well‐being?2
Does narcissus prefer to be alone? Narcissistic personality features and the preference for solitude2
The Central Role of Daily Hopeful Feelings in Predicting Well‐Being: A Network Perspective2
Stability and change in autobiographical reasoning: A 4‐year longitudinal study of narrative identity development2
Mindful of personality trait change: Are treatment effects on personality trait change ephemeral and attributable to changes in states?2
Childhood personality and academic performance: A sibling fixed‐effects study2
The interacting partner as the immediate environment: Personality, interpersonal dynamics, and bodily synchronization2
Exploring the structure of fearlessness using self‐report measures2
2
Primary affective systems and personality: Disentangling the within‐person reciprocal relationships2
Common genetic and environmental bases of the mental disorders and personality traits: Special focus on the hierarchical model of psychopathology and NEO‐PI‐R facets2
Issue Information2
When meaning in life protects against fear of death: The moderating role of self‐alienation2
A developmental perspective on personality–relationship transactions: Evidence from three nationally representative samples2
Issue Information2
Defining distress tolerance in a structural model of Big Five personality domains2
2
Notes from the Underground: Seeking the top personality correlates of self‐referencing2
Narrative Self‐Transcendence: Decreased Regret and Increased Acceptance Over Late Midlife2
What do people find most meaningful? How representations of the self and the world provide meaning in life2
0.1411988735199