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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Are perfectionistic strivings beneficial or detrimental to well‐being and achievement? Tests of procrastination and emotion regulation as moderators41
Are Wednesday's Children Full of Woe? Children's Differences in Personality Are Independent of Day of Birth36
Consensus, controversy, and chaos in the attribution of characteristics to the morally exceptional35
Rethinking aversive personality: Decomposing the Dark Triad traits into their common core and unique flavors30
Everyday State Attachment: Dynamic Features and Role of Trait Attachment30
It's about time: Emphasizing temporal dynamics in dynamic personality regulation28
Corrigendum25
Correction to “Going It Alone: Examining Interpersonal Sensitivity and Hostility as Mediators of the Link Between Perfectionism and Social Disconnection”25
Autonomy Support, Personality Traits, and Subjective Well‐Being25
Life events sometimes alter the trajectory of personality development: Effect sizes for 25 life events estimated using a large, frequently assessed sample24
Which leadership style do more narcissistic subordinates prefer in supervisors?24
The Temperament Metadimensions Model: A Complex Framework for Formal Characteristics of Behavior as Composed of Energetic, Temporal, and Autoregulatory Facets of Reactivity and Activity21
“I want to lift my people up”: Exploring the psychological correlates of racial themes within the life stories of midlife Black Americans21
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The Connection Between Dark Traits and Emotional Intelligence: A Multistudy Person‐Centered Approach20
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Predicting Big Five personality traits from smartphone data: A meta‐analysis on the potential of digital phenotyping19
Moral characteristics predicting COVID‐19 vaccination19
From adversity to activism: A psychobiographical case study of Cori Bush18
Daily associations between global self‐esteem and self‐concept clarity and their relationships with subjective well‐being in a sample of adult workers18
Accommodativeself‐regulation: The sample case of imprisonment in young adulthood18
Effect of social class on personal control beliefs17
How Childhood Shapes Adolescents' Belief in Justice: A Longitudinal Study Examining the Link Between Childhood Stressful Environment and Belief in a Just World17
The “teacher” and martial arts: A psychobiographical analysis of Jack Ma as a business change agent16
Personal Relative Deprivation and Locus of Control16
The happy personality revisited: Re‐examining associations between Big Five personality traits and subjective well‐being using meta‐analytic structural equation modeling15
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Beyond the brain localization of complex traits: Distributed white matter markers of personality15
Momentary assessment of the relations between narcissistic traits, interpersonal behaviors, and aggression15
Correction to “Comparing NIRA and Traditional Network Approaches: A Study Case With Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits”15
Competing Models of the Structure of Subjective Well‐Being: Have All Won and Must All Have Prizes?15
Prolonged unemployment is associated with control loss and personal as well as social disengagement15
The Relationship Between Global and Domain‐Specific Evaluations of Life Satisfaction: A Feedback Loop Theory15
How does it feel to be greedy? The role of pride in avaricious acquisition15
The effects of socioeconomic status on personality development in adulthood and aging14
Development of intraindividual value structures in middle childhood: A multicultural and longitudinal investigation14
Personality processes of everyday moral courage14
Psychobiography: In Search of the Inner Life. By James W.Anderson, New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 202414
Negative Emotion (dys)regulation Predicts Distorted Time Perception: Preliminary Experimental Evidence and Implications for Psychopathology13
Do Narcissistic People Have More Dating Success? Evidence From a Speed‐Dating Study13
A serial cascade effect of cybervictimization and hostile rumination on the within‐person change of moral disengagement13
Future‐oriented temporal perspective promotes wise reasoning13
How many and what mechanisms are needed to explain self‐regulatory functions in personality dynamics: Toward a model based on the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits13
Does dispositional preference for solitude predict better psychological outcomes during times of social distancing? Beliefs and reality12
Networking trait resilience: Unifying fragmented trait resilience systems from an ecological systems theory perspective12
Middle childhood development in personal values12
Surfing the OCEAN: The machine learning psycholexical approach 2.0 to detect personality traits in texts12
Investing in resources: An interaction model of personal resources, commitment, and work achievement12
The personality of violent Jihadists: Examining violent and nonviolent defense of Muslims12
Longitudinal associations of neuroticism with life satisfaction and social adaptation in a nationally representative adult sample12
The (Un)Attractiveness of Dark Triad Personalities: Assessing Fictitious Characters for Short‐ and Long‐Term Relationships12
Agreeableness and adolescents' cyberbullying perpetration: A longitudinal moderated mediation model of moral disengagement and empathy12
Self‐concealment, secrecy, and guilt12
Development of Self‐Reported Reward Responsiveness and Inhibitory Control and the Role of Clinical and Neural Predictors11
The Jeffrey S. Tanaka Occasional Papers in Quantitative Methods for Personality11
From Personality to Pour: How Consumer Traits Shape Wine Preferences and Alcohol Choices11
Is Virtue Good for You?11
A reciprocal perspective on the differential associations between personality traits and multiple indicators of academic achievement11
Mapping Life Satisfaction Over the First Years of Cohabitation Among Former Singles Living Alone in UK and Germany11
Big Five Personality Traits and Trajectories of Fertility Expectations Across the Reproductive Age Period11
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An examination of personality expression in everyday life in a Canadian sample of racialized undergraduate students10
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Perils of Partialing: Can Scholars Predict Residualized Variables' Nomological Nets?10
Defense styles, well‐being, and functional disability in the African context: A structured interview‐based study10
Effects of Reflective Processes on Social–Emotional Trait Development in Adulthood: Insights From Two Multi‐Method Studies10
Priming Need–Frustrating Memories Sparks Conspiracy Beliefs: A Self‐Determination Theory Perspective10
Correlates of Borderline Personality Disorder Traits and Internet Gaming Disorder in College Students10
Dispositional Traits, Characteristic Adaptations, and Narrative Identity Reconstructions in Individuals With Depersonalization and Derealization10
Hiding in plain view: An historical perspective on the study of morality in personality psychology10
Solitude can be good—If you see it as such: Reappraisal helps lonely people experience solitude more positively10
Interpersonal Perception of Adult Playfulness at Zero‐Acquaintance: A Conceptual Replication Study of Self‐Other Agreement and Consensus, and an Extension to Two Accuracy Criteria9
Leadership in the eye of the beholder: Follower self‐esteem is associated with divergent perceptions of leadership ability for dominant and prestigious leaders9
Distress tolerance is linked with substance use motivations and problems in young adults across four continents9
Self‐control in adolescence predicts forgivingness in middle adulthood9
Value fulfillment and well‐being: Clarifying directions over time9
Measuring the rate of psychological growth and examining its antecedents: A growth curve modeling approach9
Genetics, parenting, and family functioning—What drives the development of self‐control from adolescence to adulthood?9
Individual differences in spite predict costly third‐party punishment9
Purpose and goal pursuit as a self‐sustaining system: Evidence of daily within‐person reciprocity among adolescents in self‐driven learning9
Trait Neuroticism and the Nocebo Effect: The Mediating Role of Side‐Effect Expectations9
Do Predictors of Life Satisfaction Change in the Last Years Leading Up to Retirement? The Case of Job Satisfaction and Leisure Satisfaction8
Correction to “Neural Processing of Personal, Relational, and Collective Self‐Worth Reflected Individual Differences of Self‐Esteem”8
Introversion and the frequency and intensity of daily uplifts and hassles8
Combining novel trait and neurocognitive frameworks to parse heterogeneity in borderline personality disorder8
Unveiling the Heterogeneity of Sensation Seeking and Collectivism Development in Chinese Adolescents8
Behavioral genetics of temporal framing: Heritability of time perspective and its common genetic bases with major personality traits8
Personality coherence as a personality dynamics‐related concept8
Personal values and sustained attention as predictors of children's helping behavior in middle childhood8
Attachment style and attention bias to emotional information: The moderating effect of stress, stimulus characteristics, and attention stage8
Using Intersectionality to Understand How Structural Domains Are Embedded in Life Narratives8
Distress prospectively predicts higher nostalgia, and nostalgia prospectively predicts lower distress8
Personality Constructs Predictions Beyond FFM/Big5: A Digital Phenotyping‐Based Exploration8
A Farewell to the Narcissism Epidemic? A Cross‐Temporal Meta‐Analysis of Global NPI Scores (1982–2023)8
The relations among prosocial behavior, hedonic, and eudaimonic well‐being in everyday life8
Trauma exposure and short‐term volitional personality trait change8
How Users' Personality Traits Predict Sentiment Tendencies of User‐Generated Content in Social Media: A Mixed Method of Configuration Analysis and Machine Learning8
Investigating solitude as a tool for downregulation of daily arousal using ecological momentary assessments8
Untying a Gordian knot: Exploring the nomological network of resilience8
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Dispositional compassion shifts social preferences in systematic ways8
The Positive Effect of pro‐Environmental Behavior on Eudaimonic Well‐Being in Young Adults: A Daily Diary Study Using the Within‐Person Encouragement Design7
When Self‐Compassion Lacks Ferocity: Anger and Responding to False Accusations7
Job characteristics and personality change in young adulthood: A 12‐year longitudinal study and replication7
The Big Five model in rural Southeast Asia: Validation, stability, and its role in household income*7
Winning isn't everything: Guilt proneness and competitive vs. non‐competitive motivation7
Religious Dones Become More Politically Liberal After Leaving Religion7
Personality, self‐knowledge, and meat reduction intentions7
How and why people want to be more moral7
Social expectations as a possible mechanism for adult personality change: Limited empirical evidence for the social investment principle7
A cybernetic theory of autism: Autism as a consequence of low trait plasticity7
Longitudinal bidirectional associations between personality and becoming a leader7
Developing a different voice: The life and work of Carol Gilligan7
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Maladaptive personality traits and older adult relationship satisfaction: A co‐twin control approach to understanding associations7
Why moral psychology needs personality psychology7
Empathy to Creativity: The Associations Between Empathy and Everyday Creativity7
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Resilience of primal world beliefs to the initial shock of the COVID ‐19 pandemic6
Narcissism Is Associated With Blunted Error‐Related Brain Activity6
Analyzing the Temporal Structure of Proactive Coping: An Integrative Approach6
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Body mass predicts personality development across 18 years in middle to older adulthood6
Social expectations and abilities to meet them as possible mechanisms of youth personality development6
Which emotion regulation strategy is efficient for whom? Reappraisal and suppression efficiency for adaptive and maladaptive personality profiles6
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Comparing NIRA and Traditional Network Approaches: A Study Case With Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits6
Individual differences in dissimilation: Do some people make more distinctions among targets' personalities than others?6
Comparing associations between personality and loneliness at midlife across three cultural groups6
Everyday heroes: Graphical life stories and self‐defining memories inCOVID‐19 medical volunteers6
The genetic underpinnings of right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain political attitudes beyond Big Five personality5
Psychological change before and after religious conversion and deconversion5
The Relationship Between Cognitive and Emotional Abilities and Ideological Attitudes Among Adolescents5
Can an Algorithm Tell How Spiritual You Are? Using Generative Pretrained Transformers for Sophisticated Forms of Text Analysis5
Marital quality improves self‐ and partner‐reported psychopathy among Chinese couples: A longitudinal study5
Beyond Big Five trait domains: Stability and change in personality facets across midlife and old age5
Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross‐lagged effects and their moderation by culture5
Personality dynamics: Regulatory mechanisms and processes5
The Relation Between Psychopathy and Sexual Aggression: A Meta‐Analysis5
Explicit Beliefs About Nonverbal Behavior and the Big Five Traits5
Attachment, Perceived Partner Phubbing, and Retaliation: A Daily Diary Study5
Rural–urban differences in personality traits and well‐being in adulthood5
Individual differences in social power: Links with beliefs about emotion and emotion regulation5
The psychological imprint of inequality: Economic inequality shapes achievement and power values in human life5
Individual differences in revising the life story—Personality and event characteristics influence change in the autobiographical meaning of life events5
Alone but flowing: The effects of autotelic personality and extraversion on solitary flow5
The connections between personality, ideology and (counter‐)empathic emotions depend on the target5
Themes of trust, identity, intimacy, and generativity in important autobiographical memories: Associations with life periods and life satisfaction5
Behavioral adjustment moderates the effect of neuroticism on brain volume relative to intracranial volume5
A Meta‐Analytic Review of Personality and Teacher–Student Relationships5
Emotion regulation and self‐control: Same same but different… and even incompatible?5
Despite popular intuition, positive world beliefs poorly reflect several objective indicators of privilege, including wealth, health, sex, and neighborhood safety5
World Beliefs Moderate the Effects of Trauma and Severe Illness on Emotional Distress5
Disentangling Counter‐Empathy: Developing a Three‐Dimensional Model and Measure of Dispositional Counter‐Empathy5
Examining intra‐ and inter‐personal health effects of optimism and pessimism: The role of subjective well‐being in romantic couples4
The dark triad traits and relationship satisfaction: Dyadic response surface analysis4
Father Trait Anger and Exposure to Infant Cry: Effects on Emotion, Appraisals of Infants, and Cognitive Performance4
Four types of change and self‐other agreement on change in personality traits during college years: A multi‐informant 4
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Black dreams matter: Exploring the polyphonic realms of the Black Radical Imaginary4
Partialing alters interpersonal correlates of negative affective symptoms and traits: A circumplex illustration4
The Central Role of Daily Hopeful Feelings in Predicting Well‐Being: A Network Perspective4
Becoming as Open‐Minded and Organized as My Classmates? Peer Effects on Self‐Reported Personality Trait Development in the Classroom4
Who gives? Characteristics of those who have taken the Giving What We Can pledge4
The empathic personality profile: Using personality characteristics to reveal genetic, environmental, and developmental patterns of adolescents' empathy4
Attitudes toward children: Distinguishing affection and stress4
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The evolution of narrative identity in a “returning home” man: The psychological and cultural place of farming in the Chinese psyche4
Routes to momentary self‐esteem in adolescence: Links with interpersonal perceptions of liking and personality metaperceptions within social interactions4
The associations between life events and person‐centered personality consistency4
Associations between daily affective experiences, trait and daily rumination on negative and positive affect: a diary study4
Self as both target and judge: Who has an easier time knowing their own personality?4
Explicating narrow and broad conceptualizations of environmental influences on personality4
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Becoming Jane Barney: Developing a generative identity as an engaged citizen4
Corrigendum to “Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross‐lagged effects and their moderation by culture”4
Meta‐analytic evidence that attachment insecurity is associated with less frequent experiences of discrete positive emotions4
Clarifying the relationship between trait aggression and self‐control using random item slope regression3
How Verbal Behavior During Self‐Presentation Is Associated With Self‐Esteem: A Computational Perspective on Lexical, Syntactic, and Semantic Levels3
When meaning in life protects against fear of death: The moderating role of self‐alienation3
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Does narcissus prefer to be alone? Narcissistic personality features and the preference for solitude3
Perceived Control and Future Orientation: How Construal Level and Cultural Tightness Shape the Relationship3
Moral beacons: Understanding moral character and moral influence3
Beyond the Moderating Role of Neuroticism on Evaluative Conditioning: Threat Appraisal3
Thoughts Falling Apart: Disorganized Schizotypy Specifically Predicts Both Psychotic‐ and Stress‐Reactivity in Daily Life3
Exploring the structure of fearlessness using self‐report measures3
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Recent stressful life events and identity development in emerging adults: An examination of within‐person effects3
Common genetic and environmental bases of the mental disorders and personality traits: Special focus on the hierarchical model of psychopathology and NEO‐PI‐R facets3
The social side of personality: Do affiliation and intimacy motives moderate associations of personal relationships with well‐being?3
Purpose maintained: Adverse childhood experiences and meaning in life3
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Seeking solitude skills: Do memories of intrinsic goals enhance enjoyment of alone time?3
Embodied Cognition and the Structure of Personality: An Exploratory Study of Longitudinal Pathways From Early Psychomotor Function3
Do Locus of Control and Big Five Personality Traits Account for Individual Differences in Social Influence on Agency Judgments?3
The interacting partner as the immediate environment: Personality, interpersonal dynamics, and bodily synchronization3
Pitfalls of self‐reported measures of self‐control: Surprising insights from extreme debtors3
Primary affective systems and personality: Disentangling the within‐person reciprocal relationships3
A developmental perspective on personality–relationship transactions: Evidence from three nationally representative samples3
Humility Throughout the Lifespan and a Global Pandemic: Evidence From a Large‐Scale Cross‐Sectional Study3
Defining distress tolerance in a structural model of Big Five personality domains3
Is “sadistic pleasure” a contrived process of signaling one's antagonism?3
Gen Z and FoMO : A Configurational Analysis of Psychological Factors and Digital Dependence3
The Role of World Beliefs in Loneliness: Implications for Daily Social Interaction and Persistence of Loneliness Over Time3
Origins ofantiminingresistance in the life of a grassroots American Indian leader: Prospects for Indigenizing psychobiography2
Identity‐Based Motivation: Testing Assumptions of Ecological Validity, Individual Differences and Within‐Person Fluctuations2
Negative urgency as a state‐level process2
Behavioral Tendencies of Happiness: A Person‐In‐Context Approach to Construct Measurement2
Personal Values and Cognitive Biases2
Power motives, personality correlates, and leadership outcomes: A person‐centered approach2
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Inter‐ and Intraindividual Relations Between Agentic, Communal Self‐Enhancement and Hedonic, Eudaimonic Well‐Being: Feedback and Mediation Mechanisms2
Person‐specific priorities in solitude2
#Insta personality: Personality expression in Instagram accounts, impression formation, and accuracy of personality judgments at zero acquaintance2
Making Multimethod Latent State–Trait Models for Random and Fixed Situations Accessible: A Tutorial2
Psychobiographies of social change agents: Introduction to the Special Issue2
Longitudinal Associations Among Trust, Loneliness, and Life Satisfaction Among University Students: A Between‐ and Within‐Person Analysis2
(In)congruence Between Justice Beliefs and Justice Experiences Predicts Adolescents' Prosocial Behaviors: Response Surface Analysis2
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The relevance of perceived work environment and work activities for personality trajectories in midlife2
Agency and Communion in Brief Entire Life Narratives Across the Life Span2
Dynamics of personality: The Zurich model of motivation revived, extended, and applied to personality2
Age Patterns in Dual‐Cycle Identity Processes and Their Associations With Life Satisfaction2
Cheating to benefit others? On the relation between Honesty‐Humility and prosocial lies2
Associations Between Individual‐ and Group‐Level Relational Mobility and Big Five Personality in Japan: A Multilevel Study of Prefectural Capitals2
Causal Effect of Psychopathy on Partner Well‐Being: A National Longitudinal Study2
Individual differences in emotional reactions to bistable perception2
Network Analysis of Triarchic Psychopathy Measure ( TriPM ) and Other Self Report Measures of Psychopathy2
Social anhedonia, communication, and marital satisfaction in newlywed couples2
Diversity in singlehood experiences: Testing an attachment theory model of sub‐groups of singles2
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Positive event diversity: Relationship with personality and well‐being2
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Perils of Partialing: Can Scholars Predict Residualized Variables' Nomological Nets?2
Narrative Self‐Transcendence: Decreased Regret and Increased Acceptance Over Late Midlife2
Notes from the Underground: Seeking the top personality correlates of self‐referencing2
A prospective study of relationship and sexual satisfaction during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of dispositional vulnerabilities and external stressors2
Childhood personality and academic performance: A sibling fixed‐effects study2
A Fundamental Difference in the Nature of Personal Values and Personality Traits Revealed Through Different Patterns of Stability Across Their Distributions2
Actual and volitional personality change across study abroad2
Modeling dynamic personality theories in a continuous‐time framework: An illustration2
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