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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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Are perfectionistic strivings beneficial or detrimental to well‐being and achievement? Tests of procrastination and emotion regulation as moderators35
Are Wednesday's Children Full of Woe? Children's Differences in Personality Are Independent of Day of Birth35
Looks and status are still essential: Testing the mate preference priority model with the profile‐based experimental paradigm28
The personality meta‐trait of stability and carotid artery atherosclerosis26
Which leadership style do more narcissistic subordinates prefer in supervisors?26
“I want to lift my people up”: Exploring the psychological correlates of racial themes within the life stories of midlife Black Americans25
Correction to “Going It Alone: Examining Interpersonal Sensitivity and Hostility as Mediators of the Link Between Perfectionism and Social Disconnection”24
Consensus, controversy, and chaos in the attribution of characteristics to the morally exceptional22
It's about time: Emphasizing temporal dynamics in dynamic personality regulation22
Everyday State Attachment: Dynamic Features and Role of Trait Attachment21
Life events sometimes alter the trajectory of personality development: Effect sizes for 25 life events estimated using a large, frequently assessed sample19
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Rethinking aversive personality: Decomposing the Dark Triad traits into their common core and unique flavors18
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Moral characteristics predicting COVID‐19 vaccination18
Personal Relative Deprivation and Locus of Control18
The Connection Between Dark Traits and Emotional Intelligence: A Multistudy Person‐Centered Approach17
The “teacher” and martial arts: A psychobiographical analysis of Jack Ma as a business change agent16
Accommodativeself‐regulation: The sample case of imprisonment in young adulthood16
Predicting Big Five personality traits from smartphone data: A meta‐analysis on the potential of digital phenotyping15
How Childhood Shapes Adolescents' Belief in Justice: A Longitudinal Study Examining the Link Between Childhood Stressful Environment and Belief in a Just World15
From adversity to activism: A psychobiographical case study of Cori Bush15
Daily associations between global self‐esteem and self‐concept clarity and their relationships with subjective well‐being in a sample of adult workers15
Effect of social class on personal control beliefs14
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The happy personality revisited: Re‐examining associations between Big Five personality traits and subjective well‐being using meta‐analytic structural equation modeling14
Momentary assessment of the relations between narcissistic traits, interpersonal behaviors, and aggression14
Mapping political trust and involvement in the personality space—A meta‐analysis and new evidence13
Beyond the brain localization of complex traits: Distributed white matter markers of personality13
Competing Models of the Structure of Subjective Well‐Being: Have All Won and Must All Have Prizes?13
When intelligence hurts and ignorance is bliss: Global pandemic as an evolutionarily novel threat to happiness13
Personality processes of everyday moral courage13
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The effects of socioeconomic status on personality development in adulthood and aging13
Structural brain differences do not mediate the relations between sex and personality or psychopathology13
Prolonged unemployment is associated with control loss and personal as well as social disengagement13
How does it feel to be greedy? The role of pride in avaricious acquisition12
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Lighten the darkness: Personality interventions targeting agreeableness also reduce participants' levels of the dark triad12
The (Un)Attractiveness of Dark Triad Personalities: Assessing Fictitious Characters for Short‐ and Long‐Term Relationships12
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Development of intraindividual value structures in middle childhood: A multicultural and longitudinal investigation11
Surfing the OCEAN: The machine learning psycholexical approach 2.0 to detect personality traits in texts11
How many and what mechanisms are needed to explain self‐regulatory functions in personality dynamics: Toward a model based on the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits11
Networking trait resilience: Unifying fragmented trait resilience systems from an ecological systems theory perspective11
Negative Emotion (dys)regulation Predicts Distorted Time Perception: Preliminary Experimental Evidence and Implications for Psychopathology11
A serial cascade effect of cybervictimization and hostile rumination on the within‐person change of moral disengagement11
Future‐oriented temporal perspective promotes wise reasoning11
Psychobiography: In Search of the Inner Life. By James W.Anderson, New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 202411
Longitudinal associations of neuroticism with life satisfaction and social adaptation in a nationally representative adult sample10
Development of Self‐Reported Reward Responsiveness and Inhibitory Control and the Role of Clinical and Neural Predictors10
A reciprocal perspective on the differential associations between personality traits and multiple indicators of academic achievement10
Self‐concealment, secrecy, and guilt10
Does dispositional preference for solitude predict better psychological outcomes during times of social distancing? Beliefs and reality10
Middle childhood development in personal values10
The personality of violent Jihadists: Examining violent and nonviolent defense of Muslims10
Investing in resources: An interaction model of personal resources, commitment, and work achievement10
Big Five Personality Traits and Trajectories of Fertility Expectations Across the Reproductive Age Period10
The Jeffrey S. Tanaka Occasional Papers in Quantitative Methods for Personality10
Agreeableness and adolescents' cyberbullying perpetration: A longitudinal moderated mediation model of moral disengagement and empathy10
Mapping Life Satisfaction Over the First Years of Cohabitation Among Former Singles Living Alone in UK and Germany10
Dispositional Traits, Characteristic Adaptations, and Narrative Identity Reconstructions in Individuals With Depersonalization and Derealization9
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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
Individual differences in spite predict costly third‐party punishment9
Hiding in plain view: An historical perspective on the study of morality in personality psychology9
An examination of personality expression in everyday life in a Canadian sample of racialized undergraduate students9
From Personality to Pour: How Consumer Traits Shape Wine Preferences and Alcohol Choices9
Defense styles, well‐being, and functional disability in the African context: A structured interview‐based study9
Correlates of Borderline Personality Disorder Traits and Internet Gaming Disorder in College Students9
Perils of Partialing: Can Scholars Predict Residualized Variables' Nomological Nets?9
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Self‐control in adolescence predicts forgivingness in middle adulthood8
Priming Need–Frustrating Memories Sparks Conspiracy Beliefs: A Self‐Determination Theory Perspective8
Dispositional compassion shifts social preferences in systematic ways8
Attachment style and attention bias to emotional information: The moderating effect of stress, stimulus characteristics, and attention stage8
Solitude can be good—If you see it as such: Reappraisal helps lonely people experience solitude more positively8
Value fulfillment and well‐being: Clarifying directions over time8
Introversion and the frequency and intensity of daily uplifts and hassles8
Purpose and goal pursuit as a self‐sustaining system: Evidence of daily within‐person reciprocity among adolescents in self‐driven learning8
Are they out to get me? Individual differences in nonclinical paranoia as a function of narcissism and defensive self‐protection8
Effects of Reflective Processes on Social–Emotional Trait Development in Adulthood: Insights From Two Multi‐Method Studies8
Genetics, parenting, and family functioning—What drives the development of self‐control from adolescence to adulthood?8
A Farewell to the Narcissism Epidemic? A Cross‐Temporal Meta‐Analysis of Global NPI Scores (1982–2023)8
Leadership in the eye of the beholder: Follower self‐esteem is associated with divergent perceptions of leadership ability for dominant and prestigious leaders8
Measuring the rate of psychological growth and examining its antecedents: A growth curve modeling approach7
Untying a Gordian knot: Exploring the nomological network of resilience7
How Users' Personality Traits Predict Sentiment Tendencies of User‐Generated Content in Social Media: A Mixed Method of Configuration Analysis and Machine Learning7
Behavioral genetics of temporal framing: Heritability of time perspective and its common genetic bases with major personality traits7
Distress tolerance is linked with substance use motivations and problems in young adults across four continents7
Using Intersectionality to Understand How Structural Domains Are Embedded in Life Narratives7
Personality Constructs Predictions Beyond FFM/Big5: A Digital Phenotyping‐Based Exploration7
Personality coherence as a personality dynamics‐related concept7
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Trauma exposure and short‐term volitional personality trait change7
The Big Five model in rural Southeast Asia: Validation, stability, and its role in household income*6
Investigating solitude as a tool for downregulation of daily arousal using ecological momentary assessments6
Personal values and sustained attention as predictors of children's helping behavior in middle childhood6
Do Predictors of Life Satisfaction Change in the Last Years Leading Up to Retirement? The Case of Job Satisfaction and Leisure Satisfaction6
Unveiling the Heterogeneity of Sensation Seeking and Collectivism Development in Chinese Adolescents6
How and why people want to be more moral6
Social expectations as a possible mechanism for adult personality change: Limited empirical evidence for the social investment principle6
Maladaptive personality traits and older adult relationship satisfaction: A co‐twin control approach to understanding associations6
Empathy to Creativity: The Associations Between Empathy and Everyday Creativity6
Combining novel trait and neurocognitive frameworks to parse heterogeneity in borderline personality disorder6
Growing Memories: Coaching mothers in elaborative reminiscing with toddlers benefits adolescents' turning‐point narratives and wellbeing6
Personality, self‐knowledge, and meat reduction intentions6
Developing a different voice: The life and work of Carol Gilligan6
Religious Dones Become More Politically Liberal After Leaving Religion6
Why moral psychology needs personality psychology6
Longitudinal bidirectional associations between personality and becoming a leader6
Distress prospectively predicts higher nostalgia, and nostalgia prospectively predicts lower distress6
When Self‐Compassion Lacks Ferocity: Anger and Responding to False Accusations6
The relations among prosocial behavior, hedonic, and eudaimonic well‐being in everyday life6
Job characteristics and personality change in young adulthood: A 12‐year longitudinal study and replication6
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A cybernetic theory of autism: Autism as a consequence of low trait plasticity6
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Social expectations and abilities to meet them as possible mechanisms of youth personality development5
Comparing NIRA and Traditional Network Approaches: A Study Case With Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits5
Behavioral adjustment moderates the effect of neuroticism on brain volume relative to intracranial volume5
The Relation Between Psychopathy and Sexual Aggression: A Meta‐Analysis5
Winning isn't everything: Guilt proneness and competitive vs. non‐competitive motivation5
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Psychological change before and after religious conversion and deconversion5
Comparing associations between personality and loneliness at midlife across three cultural groups5
Resilience of primal world beliefs to the initial shock of the COVID ‐19 pandemic5
Attachment, Perceived Partner Phubbing, and Retaliation: A Daily Diary Study5
The Relationship Between Cognitive and Emotional Abilities and Ideological Attitudes Among Adolescents5
Which emotion regulation strategy is efficient for whom? Reappraisal and suppression efficiency for adaptive and maladaptive personality profiles5
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Everyday heroes: Graphical life stories and self‐defining memories inCOVID‐19 medical volunteers5
Individual differences in dissimilation: Do some people make more distinctions among targets' personalities than others?5
Body mass predicts personality development across 18 years in middle to older adulthood5
A Meta‐Analytic Review of Personality and Teacher–Student Relationships5
The Positive Effect of pro‐Environmental Behavior on Eudaimonic Well‐Being in Young Adults: A Daily Diary Study Using the Within‐Person Encouragement Design5
Individual differences in revising the life story—Personality and event characteristics influence change in the autobiographical meaning of life events4
Rural–urban differences in personality traits and well‐being in adulthood4
The connections between personality, ideology and (counter‐)empathic emotions depend on the target4
Themes of trust, identity, intimacy, and generativity in important autobiographical memories: Associations with life periods and life satisfaction4
World Beliefs Moderate the Effects of Trauma and Severe Illness on Emotional Distress4
The empathic personality profile: Using personality characteristics to reveal genetic, environmental, and developmental patterns of adolescents' empathy4
Negative internal working models as mechanisms that link mothers’ and fathers’ personality with their parenting: A short‐term longitudinal study4
The psychological imprint of inequality: Economic inequality shapes achievement and power values in human life4
Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross‐lagged effects and their moderation by culture4
Disentangling Counter‐Empathy: Developing a Three‐Dimensional Model and Measure of Dispositional Counter‐Empathy4
The genetic underpinnings of right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain political attitudes beyond Big Five personality4
Individual differences in social power: Links with beliefs about emotion and emotion regulation4
Despite popular intuition, positive world beliefs poorly reflect several objective indicators of privilege, including wealth, health, sex, and neighborhood safety4
Four types of change and self‐other agreement on change in personality traits during college years: A multi‐informant 4
Becoming Jane Barney: Developing a generative identity as an engaged citizen4
Black dreams matter: Exploring the polyphonic realms of the Black Radical Imaginary4
Alone but flowing: The effects of autotelic personality and extraversion on solitary flow4
Personality dynamics: Regulatory mechanisms and processes4
Explicit Beliefs About Nonverbal Behavior and the Big Five Traits4
Can an Algorithm Tell How Spiritual You Are? Using Generative Pretrained Transformers for Sophisticated Forms of Text Analysis4
Beyond Big Five trait domains: Stability and change in personality facets across midlife and old age4
Father Trait Anger and Exposure to Infant Cry: Effects on Emotion, Appraisals of Infants, and Cognitive Performance4
Emotion regulation and self‐control: Same same but different… and even incompatible?4
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Marital quality improves self‐ and partner‐reported psychopathy among Chinese couples: A longitudinal study4
Self as both target and judge: Who has an easier time knowing their own personality?4
Is “sadistic pleasure” a contrived process of signaling one's antagonism?3
The evolution of narrative identity in a “returning home” man: The psychological and cultural place of farming in the Chinese psyche3
The dark triad traits and relationship satisfaction: Dyadic response surface analysis3
Corrigendum to “Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross‐lagged effects and their moderation by culture”3
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Partialing alters interpersonal correlates of negative affective symptoms and traits: A circumplex illustration3
Primary affective systems and personality: Disentangling the within‐person reciprocal relationships3
Does narcissus prefer to be alone? Narcissistic personality features and the preference for solitude3
Beyond the Moderating Role of Neuroticism on Evaluative Conditioning: Threat Appraisal3
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Moral beacons: Understanding moral character and moral influence3
Becoming as Open‐Minded and Organized as My Classmates? Peer Effects on Self‐Reported Personality Trait Development in the Classroom3
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
The Central Role of Daily Hopeful Feelings in Predicting Well‐Being: A Network Perspective3
Explicating narrow and broad conceptualizations of environmental influences on personality3
Associations between daily affective experiences, trait and daily rumination on negative and positive affect: a diary study3
Embodied Cognition and the Structure of Personality: An Exploratory Study of Longitudinal Pathways From Early Psychomotor Function3
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
Seeking solitude skills: Do memories of intrinsic goals enhance enjoyment of alone time?3
The social side of personality: Do affiliation and intimacy motives moderate associations of personal relationships with well‐being?3
Humility Throughout the Lifespan and a Global Pandemic: Evidence From a Large‐Scale Cross‐Sectional Study3
Meta‐analytic evidence that attachment insecurity is associated with less frequent experiences of discrete positive emotions3
Routes to momentary self‐esteem in adolescence: Links with interpersonal perceptions of liking and personality metaperceptions within social interactions3
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Attitudes toward children: Distinguishing affection and stress3
The associations between life events and person‐centered personality consistency3
A developmental perspective on personality–relationship transactions: Evidence from three nationally representative samples3
When meaning in life protects against fear of death: The moderating role of self‐alienation3
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Defining distress tolerance in a structural model of Big Five personality domains3
Purpose maintained: Adverse childhood experiences and meaning in life3
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Behavioral Tendencies of Happiness: A Person‐In‐Context Approach to Construct Measurement2
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
Dynamics of personality: The Zurich model of motivation revived, extended, and applied to personality2
Inter‐ and Intraindividual Relations Between Agentic, Communal Self‐Enhancement and Hedonic, Eudaimonic Well‐Being: Feedback and Mediation Mechanisms2
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Do Locus of Control and Big Five Personality Traits Account for Individual Differences in Social Influence on Agency Judgments?2
Childhood personality and academic performance: A sibling fixed‐effects study2
The Role of World Beliefs in Loneliness: Implications for Daily Social Interaction and Persistence of Loneliness Over Time2
Longitudinal Associations Among Trust, Loneliness, and Life Satisfaction Among University Students: A Between‐ and Within‐Person Analysis2
Power motives, personality correlates, and leadership outcomes: A person‐centered approach2
Personal Values and Cognitive Biases2
A Fundamental Difference in the Nature of Personal Values and Personality Traits Revealed Through Different Patterns of Stability Across Their Distributions2
Exploring the structure of fearlessness using self‐report measures2
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Notes from the Underground: Seeking the top personality correlates of self‐referencing2
The interacting partner as the immediate environment: Personality, interpersonal dynamics, and bodily synchronization2
Recent stressful life events and identity development in emerging adults: An examination of within‐person effects2
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Thoughts Falling Apart: Disorganized Schizotypy Specifically Predicts Both Psychotic‐ and Stress‐Reactivity in Daily Life2
Associations Between Individual‐ and Group‐Level Relational Mobility and Big Five Personality in Japan: A Multilevel Study of Prefectural Capitals2
Positive event diversity: Relationship with personality and well‐being2
#Insta personality: Personality expression in Instagram accounts, impression formation, and accuracy of personality judgments at zero acquaintance2
The relevance of perceived work environment and work activities for personality trajectories in midlife2
Age Patterns in Dual‐Cycle Identity Processes and Their Associations With Life Satisfaction2
Individual differences in emotional reactions to bistable perception2
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Narrative Self‐Transcendence: Decreased Regret and Increased Acceptance Over Late Midlife2
Person‐specific priorities in solitude2
Clarifying the relationship between trait aggression and self‐control using random item slope regression2
Pitfalls of self‐reported measures of self‐control: Surprising insights from extreme debtors2
Cheating to benefit others? On the relation between Honesty‐Humility and prosocial lies2
Negative urgency as a state‐level process2
Agency and Communion in Brief Entire Life Narratives Across the Life Span2
Origins ofantiminingresistance in the life of a grassroots American Indian leader: Prospects for Indigenizing psychobiography2
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