Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Article	Citations
Testing prospective effects in longitudinal research: Comparing seven competing cross-lagged models.	253
The link between self-esteem and social relationships: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.	181
The empirical structure of narrative identity: The initial Big Three.	145
Meaning is about mattering: Evaluating coherence, purpose, and existential mattering as precursors of meaning in life judgments.	130
Is well-being associated with the quantity and quality of social interactions?	121
Sex, status, competition, and exclusion: Intraminority stress from within the gay community and gay and bisexual men’s mental health.	89
What breeds conspiracy antisemitism? The role of political uncontrollability and uncertainty in the belief in Jewish conspiracy.	82
Clarifying the structure and nature of left-wing authoritarianism.	76
Access is not enough: Cultural mismatch persists to limit first-generation students’ opportunities for achievement throughout college.	75
Does spending money on others promote happiness?: A registered replication report.	74
A dimensional taxonomy of perceived characteristics of major life events.	73
The activist’s dilemma: Extreme protest actions reduce popular support for social movements.	73
Sensing sociability: Individual differences in young adults’ conversation, calling, texting, and app use behaviors in daily life.	70
Merged minds: Generalized shared reality in dyadic relationships.	64
Low self-esteem predicts out-group derogation via collective narcissism, but this relationship is obscured by in-group satisfaction.	64
Family environment and self-esteem development: A longitudinal study from age 10 to 16.	61
Using 26,000 diary entries to show ovulatory changes in sexual desire and behavior.	58
When every day is a high school reunion: Social media comparisons and self-esteem.	58
Social context moderates the effects of quest for significance on violent extremism.	57
When trust goes wrong: A social identity model of risk taking.	56
A new perspective on the social functions of emotions: Gratitude and the witnessing effect.	49
Consistency and change in idiographic personality: A longitudinal ESM network study.	48
Reasoning supports utilitarian resolutions to moral dilemmas across diverse measures.	47
How the voice persuades.	46
Life lacks meaning without acceptance: Ostracism triggers suicidal thoughts.	46

Achievement is not class-neutral: Working together benefits people from working-class contexts.	45
Who gets ostracized? A personality perspective on risk and protective factors of ostracism.	44
Through the looking glass: A lens-based account of intersectional stereotyping.	43
On the relation of boredom and sadistic aggression.	43
Resistance in repressive contexts: A comprehensive test of psychological predictors.	43
The role of sensation seeking in political violence: An extension of the Significance Quest Theory.	42
A three-dimensional taxonomy of achievement emotions.	41
Salience theory of mere exposure: Relative exposure increases liking, extremity, and emotional intensity.	40
Race–status associations: Distinct effects of three novel measures among White and Black perceivers.	39
Human status criteria: Sex differences and similarities across 14 nations.	39
Identifying robust correlates of risk preference: A systematic approach using specification curve analysis.	39
Social identification with animals: Unpacking our psychological connection with other animals.	39
The development of effortful control from late childhood to young adulthood.	38
The healthy personality from a basic trait perspective.	37
A direct comparison of the day reconstruction method (DRM) and the experience sampling method (ESM).	36
How was your day? Convergence of aggregated momentary and retrospective end-of-day affect ratings across the adult life span.	36
Awe, daily stress, and elevated life satisfaction.	36
Evaluating the Big Five as an organizing framework for commonly used psychological trait scales.	35
Awe motivates authentic-self pursuit via self-transcendence: Implications for prosociality.	35
Development is in the details: Age differences in the Big Five domains, facets, and nuances.	34
Episodic simulation reduces intergroup bias in prosocial intentions and behavior.	34
Is Martin Luther King or Malcolm X the more acceptable face of protest? High-status groups’ reactions to low-status groups’ collective action.	34
Interdependence and cooperation in daily life.	33
Political psycholinguistics: A comprehensive analysis of the language habits of liberal and conservative social media users.	33
An integrative framework for conceptualizing and assessing social, emotional, and behavioral skills: The BESSI.	33
Overly shallow?: Miscalibrated expectations create a barrier to deeper conversation.	32
(Un)happiness and voting in U.S. presidential elections.	32
Fluctuations in grandiose and vulnerable narcissistic states: A momentary perspective.	32
Who shines most among the brightest?: A 25-year longitudinal study of elite STEM graduate students.	31
“They just don't understand us”: The role of felt understanding in intergroup relations.	31
Trust in everyday life.	30
Signaling virtuous victimhood as indicators of Dark Triad personalities.	30
Religious residue: Cross-cultural evidence that religious psychology and behavior persist following deidentification.	30
The business case for diversity backfires: Detrimental effects of organizations’ instrumental diversity rhetoric for underrepresented group members’ sense of belonging.	30
A motivational framework of social comparison.	29
What is the structure of perceiver effects? On the importance of global positivity and trait-specificity across personality domains and judgment contexts.	29
I ain’t no fortunate one: On the motivated denial of class privilege.	29
Do life events lead to enduring changes in adult attachment styles? A naturalistic longitudinal investigation.	29
Equality for (almost) all: Egalitarian advocacy predicts lower endorsement of sexism and racism, but not ageism.	29
Life satisfaction trajectories during adolescence and the transition to young adulthood: Findings from a longitudinal study of Mexican-origin youth.	29
A mega-analysis of personality prediction: Robustness and boundary conditions.	29
Disrupting the system constructively: Testing the effectiveness of nonnormative nonviolent collective action.	28
The dynamic relationship between contact opportunities, positive and negative intergroup contact, and prejudice: A longitudinal investigation.	28
Narrative identity processes and patterns of adjustment across the transition to college: A developmentally contextualized approach.	27
Mindfulness meditation reduces guilt and prosocial reparation.	27
Personality structure in east and west Africa: Lexical studies of personality in Maa and Supyire-Senufo.	27
Personality–place transactions: Mapping the relationships between Big Five personality traits, states, and daily places.	27
Tell it like it is: When politically incorrect language promotes authenticity.	27
A propensity-score matched study of changes in loneliness surrounding major life events.	27
Longitudinal coupling of momentary stress reactivity and trait neuroticism: Specificity of states, traits, and age period.	26

Genetic and environmental variation in political orientation in adolescence and early adulthood: A Nuclear Twin Family analysis.	26
Mobilized or marginalized? Understanding low-status groups’ responses to social justice efforts led by high-status groups.	26
Unveiling an exclusive link: Predicting behavior with personality, situation perception, and affect in a preregistered experience sampling study.	26
You’re still so vain: Changes in narcissism from young adulthood to middle age.	25
Out of place: Socioeconomic status, use of public space, and belonging in higher education.	25
Self-concept clarity lays the foundation for self-continuity: The restorative function of autobiographical memory.	25
Personality, intelligence, and counterproductive academic behaviors: A meta-analysis.	25
Disentangling stereotypes from social reality: Astrological stereotypes and discrimination in China.	25
God as a White man: A psychological barrier to conceptualizing Black people and women as leadership worthy.	25
Human “resources”? Objectification at work.	25
Political differences in free will belief are associated with differences in moralization.	25
The occurrence and correlates of emotional interdependence in romantic relationships.	24
Frustration-affirmation? Thwarted goals motivate compliance with social norms for violence and nonviolence.	24
Owner of a lonely heart: The stability of loneliness across the life span.	24
The beauty myth: Prescriptive beauty norms for women reflect hierarchy-enhancing motivations leading to discriminatory employment practices.	23
Breaking the glass ceiling: For one and all?	23
Who wants to change and how? On the trait-specificity of personality change goals.	23
Spending reflects not only who we are but also who we are around: The joint effects of individual and geographic personality on consumption.	23
Smile pretty and watch your back: Personal safety anxiety and vigilance in objectification theory.	23
How language shapes prejudice against women: An examination across 45 world languages.	23
Having too little or too much time is linked to lower subjective well-being.	23
Physiological linkage during shared positive and shared negative emotion.	23
Trajectories of life satisfaction before, upon, and after divorce: Evidence from a new matching approach.	22
Narrow prototypes and neglected victims: Understanding perceptions of sexual harassment.	22
The relationship between adult attachment and mental health: A meta-analysis.	22
Forgiveness takes place on an attitudinal continuum from hostility to friendliness: Toward a closer union of forgiveness theory and measurement.	22
Friendship jealousy: One tool for maintaining friendships in the face of third-party threats?	22
Acquiring group bias: Observing other people’s nonverbal signals can create social group biases.	21
Daily life processes predict long-term development in explicit and implicit representations of Big Five traits: Testing predictions from the TESSERA (Triggering situations, Expectancies, States and St	21
Demeaning: Dehumanizing others by minimizing the importance of their psychological needs.	21
Regulatory effectiveness of social support.	21
Partisan ideological attitudes: Liberals are tolerant; the intelligent are intolerant.	21
Development of domain-specific self-evaluations: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.	21
Moral cleansing as hypocrisy: When private acts of charity make you feel better than you deserve.	21
Counterfeit diversity: How strategically misrepresenting gender diversity dampens organizations’ perceived sincerity and elevates women’s identity threat concerns.	21
Universals and variations in musical preferences: A study of preferential reactions to Western music in 53 countries.	20
The roles of social–emotional skills in students’ academic and life success: A multi-informant and multicohort perspective.	20
The thin blue waveform: Racial disparities in officer prosody undermine institutional trust in the police.	20
Intergroup contact, social dominance, and environmental concern: A test of the cognitive-liberalization hypothesis.	20
Need satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multinational study of pathways toward social change.	19
Moderators of intergroup evaluation in disadvantaged groups: A comprehensive test of predictions from system justification theory.	19
Jumping to conclusions: Implications for reasoning errors, false belief, knowledge corruption, and impeded learning.	19
The behavioral ecology of moral dilemmas: Childhood unpredictability, but not harshness, predicts less deontological and utilitarian responding.	19
Insufficiently complimentary?: Underestimating the positive impact of compliments creates a barrier to expressing them.	19
Religious people only live longer in religious cultural contexts: A gravestone analysis.	19
The economic and interpersonal consequences of deflecting direct questions.	19
Big Five facets and religiosity: Three large-scale, cross-cultural, theory-driven, and process-attentive tests.	19
Behavioral variability reduces the harmful longitudinal effects of partners’ negative-direct behavior on relationship problems.	18
Determining our destiny: Do restrictions to collective autonomy fuel collective action?	18
Facet-level personality development in the transition to adolescence: Maturity, disruption, and gender differences.	18
Personal echo chambers: Openness-to-experience is linked to higher levels of psychological interest diversity in large-scale behavioral data.	18
Normative appeals motivate people to contribute to collective action problems more when they invite people to work together toward a common goal.	18
Understanding short-term variability in life satisfaction: The Individual Differences in Evaluating Life Satisfaction (IDELS) model.	18
The new identity theft: Perceptions of cultural appropriation in intergroup contexts.	17
When the ones we love misbehave: Exploring moral processes within intimate bonds.	17
Embodied remorse: Physical displays of remorse increase positive responses to public apologies, but have negligible effects on forgiveness.	17
Unraveling the complex relationship between work transitions and self-esteem and life satisfaction.	17
Refining the maturity principle of personality development by examining facets, close others, and comaturation.	17
Two large-scale global studies on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy over time: Culture, uncertainty avoidance, and vaccine side-effect concerns.	17
Development and change in attachment: A multiwave assessment of attachment and its correlates across childhood and adolescence.	17
Rehumanizing the self after victimization: The roles of forgiveness versus revenge.	17
Developmental structure of personality and interests: A four-wave, 8-year longitudinal study.	17
Nonlinear effect of social interaction quantity on psychological well-being: Diminishing returns or inverted U?	17
Brokering orientations and social capital: Influencing others’ relationships shapes status and trust.	17
Are we happier with others? An investigation of the links between spending time with others and subjective well-being.	17
Personality change: Longitudinal self-other agreement and convergence with retrospective-reports.	17
Neither Eastern nor Western: Patterns of independence and interdependence in Mediterranean societies.	17
The role of effortful control in the development of ADHD, ODD, and CD symptoms.	16
Understanding responses to an organizational takeover: Introducing the social identity model of organizational change.	16
Because excellencism is more than good enough: On the need to distinguish the pursuit of excellence from the pursuit of perfection.	16
Internal motivation to respond without prejudice fosters respectful responses in interracial interactions.	16
Is LGBT progress seen as an attack on Christians?: Examining Christian/sexual orientation zero-sum beliefs.	16
High-dimensionality personality structure in the natural language: Further analyses of classic sets of English-language trait-adjectives.	16
Positivity resonance in long-term married couples: Multimodal characteristics and consequences for health and longevity.	15
The codevelopment of extraversion and friendships: Bonding and behavioral interaction mechanisms in friendship networks.	15
Self-esteem and satisfaction with social relationships across time.	15
A threatening opportunity: The prospect of conversations about race-related experiences between Black and White friends.	15
Trading in search of structure: Market relationships as a compensatory control tool.	15
Are work activities related to interest change over time? A 22-year longitudinal study.	15
The social-safety system: Fortifying relationships in the face of the unforeseeable.	15

Growing desire or growing apart? Consequences of personal self-expansion for romantic passion.	14
The relevance appraisal matrix: Evaluating others’ relevance.	14
Meta-humanization reduces prejudice, even under high intergroup threat.	14
Reducing implicit racial preferences: III. A process-level examination of changes in implicit preferences.	14
Cross-cultural variation in cooperation: A meta-analysis.	14
Television consumption drives perceptions of female body attractiveness in a population undergoing technological transition.	14
Hiding success.	14
Does parental education influence child educational outcomes? A developmental analysis in a full-population sample and adoptee design.	14
How individuals react emotionally to others’ (mis)fortunes: A social comparison framework.	14
Front in the mouth, front in the word: The driving mechanisms of the in-out effect.	14
I’m up here! Sexual objectification leads to feeling ostracized.	14
Food restriction and the experience of social isolation.	14
Majority members misperceive even “win-win” diversity policies as unbeneficial to them.	14
The misjudgment of men: Does pluralistic ignorance inhibit allyship?	14
Influences of source bias that differ from source untrustworthiness: When flip-flopping is more and less surprising.	14
Social anxiety and liking: Towards understanding the role of metaperceptions in first impressions.	14
Theories of power: Perceived strategies for gaining and maintaining power.	14
ǂŪsigu: A mixed-method lexical study of character description in Khoekhoegowab.	13
Stability and change in vocational interests after graduation from high school: A six-wave longitudinal study.	13
The straight categorization bias: A motivated and altruistic reasoning account.	13
Seeing meaning even when none may exist: Collectivism increases belief in empty claims.	13
The self-congruity effect of music.	13
On the effectiveness of approach-avoidance instructions and training for changing evaluations of social groups.	13
Social media users produce more affect that supports cultural values, but are more influenced by affect that violates cultural values.	13
Psychological affordances help explain where a self-transcendent purpose intervention improves performance.	13
Choice changes preferences, not merely reflects them: A meta-analysis of the artifact-free free-choice paradigm.	13
Morality beyond the WEIRD: How the nomological network of morality varies across cultures.	13
Between-person methods provide limited insight about within-person belief systems.	13
Getting to know me better: An fMRI study of intimate and superficial self-disclosure to friends during adolescence.	13
The role of temperament in the onset of suicidal ideation and behaviors across adolescence: Findings from a 10-year longitudinal study of Mexican-origin youth.	13
New parental positivity: The role of positive emotions in promoting relational adjustment during the transition to parenthood.	13
Policies and prejudice: Integration policies moderate the link between immigrant presence and anti-immigrant prejudice.	13
Fact or artifact? Demand characteristics and participants’ beliefs can moderate, but do not fully account for, the effects of facial feedback on emotional experience.	13
How leader gender influences external audience response to organizational failures.	13
Category salience and racial bias in weapon identification: A diffusion modeling approach.	13
More threatening and more diagnostic: How moral comparisons differ from social comparisons.	13
Who in the world is trying to change their personality traits? Volitional personality change among college students in six continents.	13
Why connect? Moral consequences of networking with a promotion or prevention focus.	13
How genetic and environmental variance in personality traits shift across the life span: Evidence from a cross-national twin study.	12
Minimal but not meaningless: Seemingly arbitrary category labels can imply more than group membership.	12
A configural approach to aspirations: The social breadth of aspiration profiles predicts well-being over and above the intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations that comprise the profiles.	12
What does it mean to be (seen as) human? The importance of gender in humanization.	12
Gain- but not loss-related self-perceptions of aging predict mortality over a period of 23 years: A multidimensional approach.	12
The impact of having children on domain-specific life satisfaction: A quasi-experimental longitudinal investigation using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data.	12
Individual differences in contingencies between situation characteristics and personality states.	12
Documenting individual differences in the propensity to hold attitudes with certainty.	12
Knowing where others stand: Accuracy and performance effects of individuals’ perceived status hierarchies.	12
Slow lies: Response delays promote perceptions of insincerity.	12
Envy and help giving.	12
Stability and change of perceived characteristics of major life events.	12
Benefits of daily support visibility versus invisibility across the adult life span.	11
The psychology of asymmetric zero-sum beliefs.	11
Mapping the self: A network approach for understanding psychological and neural representations of self-concept structure.	11
The effect of gender and male distinctiveness threat on prejudice against homosexuals.	11
Why benefiting from discrimination is less recognized as discrimination.	11
A matter of flexibility: Changing outgroup attitudes through messages with negations.	11
A sociocultural norm perspective on Big Five prediction.	11
Gendered racial boundary maintenance: Social penalties for White women in interracial relationships.	11
Open to offers, but resisting requests: How the framing of anchors affects motivation and negotiated outcomes.	11
Do people realize how their partners make them feel? Relationship enhancement motives and stress determine the link between implicitly assessed partner attitudes and relationship satisfaction.	11
Illusory gender-equality paradox, math self-concept, and frame-of-reference effects: New integrative explanations for multiple paradoxes.	11
Top down or bottom up? Evidence from the longitudinal development of global and domain-specific self-esteem in adulthood.	11
Better to give than reciprocate? Status and reciprocity in prosocial exchange.	11
“Mostly White, heterosexual couples”: Examining demographic diversity and reporting practices in relationship science research samples.	11
Attachment anxiety and the curvilinear effects of expressive suppression on individuals’ and partners’ outcomes.	10
Stability and change in the Big Five personality traits: Findings from a longitudinal study of Mexican-origin adults.	10
Identifying the dimensions of secrets to reduce their harms.	10
Perceptions of a romantic partner’s approach and avoidance motives: Accuracy, bias, and emotional cues.	10
Personality traits, cognitive states, and mortality in older adulthood.	10
It might become true: How prefactual thinking licenses dishonesty.	10
People judge others to have more voluntary control over beliefs than they themselves do.	10
A social network perspective on the Bamboo Ceiling: Ethnic homophily explains why East Asians but not South Asians are underrepresented in leadership in multiethnic environments.	10
Attitudes from mere co-occurrences are guided by differentiation.	10
Mapping principal dimensions of prejudice in the United States.	10
Is diversity enough? Cross-race and cross-class interactions in college occur less often than expected, but benefit members of lower status groups when they occur.	10
Well-being in social interactions: Examining personality-situation dynamics in face-to-face and computer-mediated communication.	10
A meta-analysis of the dark side of the American dream: Evidence for the universal wellness costs of prioritizing extrinsic over intrinsic goals.	10