Journal of Personality

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Personality is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Psychobiographical trends: Untold stories and international voices in the context of social change139
Beyond Big Five trait domains: Stability and change in personality facets across midlife and old age51
Mindful of personality trait change: Are treatment effects on personality trait change ephemeral and attributable to changes in states?51
The personality meta‐trait of stability and carotid artery atherosclerosis44
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Better to brag: Underestimating the risks of avoiding positive self‐disclosures in close relationships36
Measuring the rate of psychological growth and examining its antecedents: A growth curve modeling approach25
Marital quality improves self‐ and partner‐reported psychopathy among Chinese couples: A longitudinal study21
Distress tolerance is linked with substance use motivations and problems in young adults across four continents21
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The association between facets of conscientiousness and performance‐based and informant‐rated cognition, affect, and activities in older adults20
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It's about time: Emphasizing temporal dynamics in dynamic personality regulation18
Autonomous motivation and support flourishes for individuals higher in collaborative personality factors: Agreeableness, assisted autonomy striving, and secure attachment18
Life events sometimes alter the trajectory of personality development: Effect sizes for 25 life events estimated using a large, frequently assessed sample17
Introversion and the frequency and intensity of daily uplifts and hassles17
Cheating to benefit others? On the relation between Honesty‐Humility and prosocial lies16
“I want to lift my people up”: Exploring the psychological correlates of racial themes within the life stories of midlife Black Americans15
Aligning the self and reaping the benefits: Ego effectiveness in romantic relationships14
No elephant in the room: The incremental validity of implicit self‐esteem measures13
Everyday State Attachment: Dynamic Features and Role of Trait Attachment13
Power motives, personality correlates, and leadership outcomes: A person‐centered approach12
Individual differences in emotional reactions to bistable perception12
Age and gender differences in personality traits from early childhood through adolescence12
A Farewell to the Narcissism Epidemic? A Cross‐Temporal Meta‐Analysis of Global NPI Scores (1982–2023)12
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A prospective study of relationship and sexual satisfaction during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of dispositional vulnerabilities and external stressors11
Leadership in the eye of the beholder: Follower self‐esteem is associated with divergent perceptions of leadership ability for dominant and prestigious leaders11
Self‐esteem development during the transition to work: A 14‐year longitudinal study from adolescence to young adulthood10
Consensus, controversy, and chaos in the attribution of characteristics to the morally exceptional10
Empathy and authenticity online: The roles of moral identity, moral disengagement, and parenting style10
Proximal and distal honor fit and subjective well‐being in the Mediterranean region10
What is the moral person like? An examination of the shared and unique perspectives on moral character10
Which leadership style do more narcissistic subordinates prefer in supervisors?10
Self‐defining memories—Narrative features in relation to adaptive and maladaptive personality traits (replication and extension of Blagov & Singer, 2004)10
Personality dynamics: Regulatory mechanisms and processes9
Looks and status are still essential: Testing the mate preference priority model with the profile‐based experimental paradigm9
Optimism, pessimism and support in older couples: A longitudinal study9
Conceptualizing “positive attributes” across psychological perspectives9
Are perfectionistic strivings beneficial or detrimental to well‐being and achievement? Tests of procrastination and emotion regulation as moderators9
Effects of an intergenerational program on adolescent self‐concept clarity: A pilot study9
Notes from the Underground: Seeking the top personality correlates of self‐referencing9
Personality coherence as a personality dynamics‐related concept8
Clarifying the connection between parental conditional regard and contingent self‐esteem: An examination of cross‐lagged relations in early adolescence8
Despite popular intuition, positive world beliefs poorly reflect several objective indicators of privilege, including wealth, health, sex, and neighborhood safety8
Are social desirability scales desirable? A meta‐analytic test of the validity of social desirability scales in the context of prosocial behavior8
Just Because I'm Great (and You're Not): When, Why, and How Narcissistic Individuals Give Gifts to Others8
The psychological imprint of inequality: Economic inequality shapes achievement and power values in human life8
A trans agent of social change in incarceration: A psychobiographical study of Natasha Keating8
The joy of being frightened: Fear experience in psychopathy8
Behavioral genetics of temporal framing: Heritability of time perspective and its common genetic bases with major personality traits8
College students in the western world are becoming less emotionally intelligent: A cross‐temporal meta‐analysis of trait emotional intelligence8
Alone but flowing: The effects of autotelic personality and extraversion on solitary flow8
Rethinking aversive personality: Decomposing the Dark Triad traits into their common core and unique flavors8
Correction to “Going It Alone: Examining Interpersonal Sensitivity and Hostility as Mediators of the Link Between Perfectionism and Social Disconnection”7
Paragons of character—Character strengths and well‐being of moral, creative, and religious exemplars7
Emotion regulation and self‐control: Same same but different… and even incompatible?7
Individual differences in revising the life story—Personality and event characteristics influence change in the autobiographical meaning of life events7
Acting impulsively when “upset”: Examining associations among negative urgency, undifferentiated negative affect, and impulsivity using momentary and experimental methods7
Dispositional compassion shifts social preferences in systematic ways7
Communal collective narcissism7
Purpose and goal pursuit as a self‐sustaining system: Evidence of daily within‐person reciprocity among adolescents in self‐driven learning7
Attachment style and attention bias to emotional information: The moderating effect of stress, stimulus characteristics, and attention stage7
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Black dreams matter: Exploring the polyphonic realms of the Black Radical Imaginary6
Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross‐lagged effects and their moderation by culture6
Origins ofantiminingresistance in the life of a grassroots American Indian leader: Prospects for Indigenizing psychobiography6
Childhood personality and academic performance: A sibling fixed‐effects study6
Measures of Subclinical Psychopathy and Everyday Sadism are Still Redundant: A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Blötner and Mokros (2023)6
Momentary assessment of the relations between narcissistic traits, interpersonal behaviors, and aggression6
Four types of change and self‐other agreement on change in personality traits during college years: A multi‐informant longitudinal study5
Religious fundamentalism, right‐wing authoritarianism, and meaning in life5
Growing Memories: Coaching mothers in elaborative reminiscing with toddlers benefits adolescents' turning‐point narratives and wellbeing5
Agency, communion, and pubertal status: Separating between‐ and within‐person associations to examine social goals development5
Dynamics of personality: The Zurich model of motivation revived, extended, and applied to personality5
Integration and expression: The complementary functions of self‐reflection5
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Ready for the worst? Negative affect in anticipation of a stressor does not protect against affective reactivity5
Unveiling the Heterogeneity of Sensation Seeking and Collectivism Development in Chinese Adolescents5
Regional personality assessment through social media language5
Differing worldviews: The politics of happiness, meaning, and psychological richness5
Evidence for the additive effects of dispositional negative mood regulation expectancies and placebo‐induced expectancies on mood recovery5
Narrative identity informs psychological adjustment: Considering three themes captured across five time points and two event valences5
Authenticity, meaning in life, and life satisfaction: A multicomponent investigation of relationships at the trait and state levels5
Attitudes toward children: Distinguishing affection and stress5
Self as both target and judge: Who has an easier time knowing their own personality?5
Transparency and Open Science at the Journal of Personality5
Untying a Gordian knot: Exploring the nomological network of resilience5
On the link of self‐esteem, life satisfaction, and Neuroticism5
The “teacher” and martial arts: A psychobiographical analysis of Jack Ma as a business change agent5
Narcissistic individuals exhibit poor recognition memory5
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From adversity to activism: A psychobiographical case study of Cori Bush4
The core tendencies underlying prosocial behavior: Testing a person–situation framework4
Structural differences in life satisfaction in a U.S. adult sample across age4
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Personality traits relate to chronotype at both the phenotypic and genetic level4
Gloria Steinem: The childhood foundations of a feminist4
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Trauma exposure and short‐term volitional personality trait change4
There is a party in my head and no one is invited: Resting‐state electrocortical activity and solitude4
Daily associations between global self‐esteem and self‐concept clarity and their relationships with subjective well‐being in a sample of adult workers4
Effect of social class on personal control beliefs4
Misremembering Solitude: The Role of Personality and Cultural Self‐Concepts in Shaping Discrepancies Between Recalled and Concurrent Affect in Solitude4
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Explicating narrow and broad conceptualizations of environmental influences on personality4
The Many Ways of Experiencing Solitude: Personality Processes, in Context, as Predictors of Time Alone4
Becoming Jane Barney: Developing a generative identity as an engaged citizen4
The lay of the land: Associations between environmental features and personality4
Open‐hearted: Preferences for openness in the agreeableness domain4
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What is boredom proneness? A comparison of three characterizations3
Moral characteristics predicting COVID‐19 vaccination3
Distress prospectively predicts higher nostalgia, and nostalgia prospectively predicts lower distress3
The happy personality revisited: Re‐examining associations between Big Five personality traits and subjective well‐being using meta‐analytic structural equation modeling3
Understanding the association between normal and maladaptive personality traits: Replication and extension of Morey et al. (2020)3
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Personality, self‐knowledge, and meat reduction intentions3
Personal Values and Cognitive Biases3
Livin’ La Vida Sola: Network Diversity and Well‐Being in Middle‐Aged Adults Living Alone3
#Insta personality: Personality expression in Instagram accounts, impression formation, and accuracy of personality judgments at zero acquaintance3
How Users' Personality Traits Predict Sentiment Tendencies of User‐Generated Content in Social Media: A Mixed Method of Configuration Analysis and Machine Learning3
A Fundamental Difference in the Nature of Personal Values and Personality Traits Revealed Through Different Patterns of Stability Across Their Distributions3
Using Intersectionality to Understand How Structural Domains Are Embedded in Life Narratives3
Personal Relative Deprivation and Locus of Control3
Agency and Communion in Brief Entire Life Narratives Across the Life Span3
Personal values and career‐related preferences among young adults3
Developing a different voice: The life and work of Carol Gilligan3
The empathic personality profile: Using personality characteristics to reveal genetic, environmental, and developmental patterns of adolescents' empathy3
Character strengths and fluid intelligence3
The complex story of educational identity in adolescence: Longitudinal relations with academic achievement and perfectionism3
Predicting Big Five personality traits from smartphone data: A meta‐analysis on the potential of digital phenotyping3
Accommodativeself‐regulation: The sample case of imprisonment in young adulthood3
Negative internal working models as mechanisms that link mothers’ and fathers’ personality with their parenting: A short‐term longitudinal study3
The relations among prosocial behavior, hedonic, and eudaimonic well‐being in everyday life3
Partialing alters interpersonal correlates of negative affective symptoms and traits: A circumplex illustration3
Leveraging economic games to integrate and differentiate personality and psychopathology3
Inconsistent and very weak evidence for a direct association between childhood personality and adult ideology3
The evolution of narrative identity in a “returning home” man: The psychological and cultural place of farming in the Chinese psyche3
The Connection Between Dark Traits and Emotional Intelligence: A Multistudy Person‐Centered Approach3
The clashing nature of rebelliousness: Nontraditional attitudes and counter‐normative behaviors show divergent associations with intelligence3
Outsider at home: Reading Babasaheb Ambedkar as a radical, decolonial psychologist2
Personality processes of everyday moral courage2
How does it feel to be greedy? The role of pride in avaricious acquisition2
The relevance of perceived work environment and work activities for personality trajectories in midlife2
Routes to momentary self‐esteem in adolescence: Links with interpersonal perceptions of liking and personality metaperceptions within social interactions2
Prolonged unemployment is associated with control loss and personal as well as social disengagement2
Using structural topic modeling to understand ethnicity‐related narratives2
Combining novel trait and neurocognitive frameworks to parse heterogeneity in borderline personality disorder2
How and why people want to be more moral2
Testing the equivalence of the aversive core of personality and a blend of agreeableness(‐related) items2
Mapping political trust and involvement in the personality space—A meta‐analysis and new evidence2
Modeling dynamic personality theories in a continuous‐time framework: An illustration2
Testing the associations between dispositions toward ridicule and being laughed at and romantic jealousy in couples: An APIM analysis2
Positive and negative urgency as a single coherent construct: Evidence from a large‐scale network analysis in clinical and non‐clinical samples2
Behavioral and neural correlates of social network size: The unique and common contributions of face recognition and extraversion2
Beyond the brain localization of complex traits: Distributed white matter markers of personality2
The effects of socioeconomic status on personality development in adulthood and aging2
Knowing how you see me: Exploring meta‐accuracy of personality, emotions and values and their links with relationship well‐being among young adults2
Employee narcissism and promotability prospects2
Boredom belief moderates the mental health impact of boredom among young people: Correlational and multi‐wave longitudinal evidence gathered during the COVID‐19 pandemic2
The Central Role of Daily Hopeful Feelings in Predicting Well‐Being: A Network Perspective2
Associations between daily affective experiences, trait and daily rumination on negative and positive affect: a diary study2
Positive event diversity: Relationship with personality and well‐being2
Negative urgency as a state‐level process2
The links of subjective and psychological well‐being with the Dark Triad traits: A meta‐analysis2
When intelligence hurts and ignorance is bliss: Global pandemic as an evolutionarily novel threat to happiness2
A school rampage threatens beliefs in justice: A longitudinal study of the belief in a just world among Chinese adolescents2
Neural processing of personal, relational, and collective self‐worth reflected individual differences of self‐esteem2
The dark triad traits and relationship satisfaction: Dyadic response surface analysis2
Developmental trajectories of Big Five personality traits among adolescents and young adults: Differences by sex, alcohol use, and marijuana use2
Examining intra‐ and inter‐personal health effects of optimism and pessimism: The role of subjective well‐being in romantic couples2
Lighten the darkness: Personality interventions targeting agreeableness also reduce participants' levels of the dark triad2
Meta‐analytic evidence that attachment insecurity is associated with less frequent experiences of discrete positive emotions2
Structural brain differences do not mediate the relations between sex and personality or psychopathology2
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Who gives? Characteristics of those who have taken the Giving What We Can pledge2
The associations between life events and person‐centered personality consistency2
Competing Models of the Structure of Subjective Well‐Being: Have All Won and Must All Have Prizes?2
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Personality dynamics turn positive and negative mood into creativity2
Why do followers feel inauthentic and withdraw? The joint effect of leader Machiavellianism and perceived collectivistic work climate2
Global and domain‐specific self‐esteem from middle childhood to early adolescence: Co‐developmental trajectories and directional relations2
Creating something new from past experiences—The meaning of change in repeated narratives2
Personal values and sustained attention as predictors of children's helping behavior in middle childhood2
The nonlinear association between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: An individual data meta‐analysis2
Personality maturation and personality relaxation: Differences of the Big Five personality traits in the years around the beginning and ending of working life2
Feelings as a currency of care: A role for agreeableness in emotional reactivity2
Diversity in singlehood experiences: Testing an attachment theory model of sub‐groups of singles2
Pathological personality, situations, and their joint influences on daily emotional symptoms2
Job characteristics and personality change in young adulthood: A 12‐year longitudinal study and replication2
The social side of personality: Do affiliation and intimacy motives moderate associations of personal relationships with well‐being?1
Social expectations as a possible mechanism for adult personality change: Limited empirical evidence for the social investment principle1
Integrating and differentiating personality and psychopathology: A psychodynamic perspective1
Negative Emotion (dys)regulation Predicts Distorted Time Perception: Preliminary Experimental Evidence and Implications for Psychopathology1
Some habits are more work than others: Deliberate self‐regulation strategy use increases with behavioral complexity, even for established habits1
Daily fluctuations in social status, self‐esteem, and clinically relevant emotions: Testing hierometer theory and social rank theory at a within‐person level1
Psychopathic traits and reinforcement learning under acute stress1
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Investigating solitude as a tool for downregulation of daily arousal using ecological momentary assessments1
Synthesizing contemporary integrative interpersonal theory and the narrative identity approach to examine personality dynamics and regulatory processes1
More Grateful Today, Less Depressive Tomorrow: The Day‐to‐Day Association Between Gratitude and Depressed Mood1
Beliefs about the nature of knowledge shape responses to the pandemic: Epistemic beliefs, the Dark Factor of Personality, and COVID‐19–related conspiracy ideation and behavior1
Personality traits as identity threat cues: Stigmatized perceivers infer prejudice from disagreeableness1
Online betting intensity is linked with Extraversion and Conscientiousness1
Will the Dark Triad Engender Psychopathological Symptoms or Vice Versa? A Three‐Wave Random Intercept Cross‐Lagged Panel Analysis1
Neuroticism is Associated With Greater Affective Variability at High Levels of Momentary Affective Well‐Being, but With Lower Affective Variability at Low Levels of Momentary Affective Well‐Being1
Social change at the local level: A psychobiography of Khali Sweeney from Detroit's downtown boxing gym1
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Investigating the role of adversity and benevolence beliefs in predicting prosociality1
Beyond (low) Agreeableness: Toward a more comprehensive understanding of antagonistic psychopathology1
Which emotion regulation strategy is efficient for whom? Reappraisal and suppression efficiency for adaptive and maladaptive personality profiles1
The Big Five model in rural Southeast Asia: Validation, stability, and its role in household income*1
Longitudinal bidirectional associations between personality and becoming a leader1
Winning isn't everything: Guilt proneness and competitive vs. non‐competitive motivation1
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How many and what mechanisms are needed to explain self‐regulatory functions in personality dynamics: Toward a model based on the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits1
A comprehensive item‐level examination of Conscientiousness' underlying structure across three large samples1
Becoming as Open‐Minded and Organized as My Classmates? Peer Effects on Self‐Reported Personality Trait Development in the Classroom1
No relation of Need for Cognition to basic executive functions1
When Self‐Compassion Lacks Ferocity: Anger and Responding to False Accusations1
A Bayesian network analysis to examine the effects of HIV stigma processes on self‐concept and depressive symptoms among persons living with HIV1
The (Un)Attractiveness of Dark Triad Personalities: Assessing Fictitious Characters for Short‐ and Long‐Term Relationships1
Actual and volitional personality change across study abroad1
Social anhedonia, communication, and marital satisfaction in newlywed couples1
Why moral psychology needs personality psychology1
Personality, intelligence, and academic achievement: Charting their developmental interplay1
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A cybernetic theory of autism: Autism as a consequence of low trait plasticity1
Networking trait resilience: Unifying fragmented trait resilience systems from an ecological systems theory perspective1
Dispositional forgiveness buffers paranoia following interpersonal transgression1
Purpose maintained: Adverse childhood experiences and meaning in life1
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Empathy During Crises: Investigating Attitudes, Tolerance, and Ingroup–Outgroup Dynamics in Response to Refugee Movements1
The validity of the higher‐order structure of effortful control as defined by inhibitory control, attention shifting, and focusing: A longitudinal and multi‐informant study1
Corrigendum to “Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross‐lagged effects and their moderation by culture”1
Maladaptive personality traits and older adult relationship satisfaction: A co‐twin control approach to understanding associations1
A developmental perspective on personality–relationship transactions: Evidence from three nationally representative samples1
Development of intraindividual value structures in middle childhood: A multicultural and longitudinal investigation1
Who believes in a just world? A multilevel latent profile analysis of Justice Capital using the European Social Survey1
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The values of religious nones, dones, and sacralized Americans: Links between changes in religious affiliation and Schwartz values1
Moral beacons: Understanding moral character and moral influence1
Future‐oriented temporal perspective promotes wise reasoning1
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