Journal of Research in Personality

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Research in Personality is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Who scapegoats? Individual differences moderate the dual-motive model of scapegoating105
People “fake-good” on personality self-reports more strongly in a job context than in a dating context62
Intellectual humility in romantic relationships: Implications for relationship satisfaction, argument frequency, and conflict behaviors53
Low modesty linked to feeling deprived within advantaged (but not disadvantaged) groups44
There are a million ways to be a woman and a million ways to be a man: Gender differences across personality nuances and nations42
The implicit measurement of psychopathy41
The role of purpose in the stress process: A homeostatic account33
Why does sadism troll? The role of negative emotional reactions from others32
I want it that way: Exploring the role of desire intolerance in emotion-related impulsivity via ecological momentary assessment30
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Improving self-knowledge: How performance feedback impacts individuals’ self-estimates of their cognitive abilities25
Tendency to share positive emotions buffers loneliness-related negativity in the context of shared adversity24
Neuroticism, urbanization, and the state prevalence of Parkinson’s disease in the USA24
Patiently waiting: The role of trait patience during stressful waiting periods24
Future self-continuity promotes meaning in life through authenticity20
Psychosis and the challenges to narrative identity and the good life: Advances from research on the integrated model of metacognition20
Profiling narcissism: Evidence for grandiose-vulnerable and other subtypes20
What’s in a name? Exploring overlap among self-belief constructs20
The Dark Triad predicts public display of offensive political products20
Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms20
Large language models can replicate cross-cultural differences in personality18
A tribute to Will Dunlop18
What happy people do: The behavioral correlates of happiness in everyday situations18
Extraversion and adult attachment dimensions predict attitudes towards social touch18
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Personality expression in body motion dynamics: An enactive, embodied, and complex systems perspective17
Intelligence, conscientiousness and extraversion moderate the house money effect in real-life financial decision-making17
Corrigendum to “Status-driven risk taking and the major dimensions of personality” [J. Res. Personal. 44(6) (2010) 734–737]16
Neuroticism, emotional stress reactivity and recovery in daily life: Examining extraversion and openness as moderators16
Distress tolerance and stress-induced emotion regulation behavior16
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Affective preferences in benign masochism15
Loneliness and time alone in everyday life: A descriptive-exploratory study of subjective and objective social isolation15
Extending the self-other knowledge asymmetry (SOKA) model to pathological traits15
Exploring the dynamics of volitional personality change: A psychoeducational intervention study with young adults transitioning to the workforce14
The relationship between life events and sense of coherence in adolescence. A longitudinal twin study14
What’s “moral” in moral impressions? Exploring self-other agreement about the trait-specific component of moral impressions14
Individual differences in sensitivity to threat predict greater moral condemnation14
Malevolent vs. benevolent dispositions and conservative political ideology in the Trump era14
The bright and dark sides of leadership: A Socioanalytic Circumplex perspective14
“Feeling Powerful” versus “Desiring Power”: A pervasive and problematic conflation in personality assessment?14
Personality Traits and Narrative Identity: Changes in Mid-Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood in Relation to Well-Being13
Meaning in life and psychological distress: A meta-analysis13
Distracted by the mirror? Associations between narcissism, self-esteem and gaze behavior during self-face viewing13
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The interplay between gender and personality in relationship outcomes: Satisfaction across domains and partnership status12
Agency, communion, and the shifting gender norms in American society? A registered report12
Personality, political party identification, and partisan news consumption: A replication and extension in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic12
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Behavioral tendencies of hostility: A new approach to personality assessment based on person-in-context units12
Sensation seeking, impulsivity, COVID-19 stress, and drinking among emerging adults12
The strategically migrating self: self-location flexibility as a model of social competence12
Goal and Emotional Clarity: Associations with Goal Effort, Progress, and Attainment in Daily Life11
The emotional complexity of musical experiences: Cultural and individual factors11
Registered Report Stage II: Does personality vary by relationship power? An investigation of satisfaction in diverse romantic partnerships11
Ink and Identity: Personality perceptions based on tattoos11
Meaning making about and across self-relevant experiences: Links with identity commitment and exploration processes and satisfaction with life in adolescence11
What do agreeable people think about? spontaneous thoughts as a component of personality11
Self/spouse agreement, similarity, and assumed similarity in the HEXACO personality factors10
Trait and facet personality similarity and relationship and life satisfaction in romantic couples10
Is my attachment style showing? Perceptions of a date’s attachment anxiety and avoidance and dating interest during a speed-dating event10
Personality, workstation type, task focus, and happiness in the workplace10
Transgenerational Transmission: An Investigation of Parents’ Achievement Motives, Achievement Imagery in Children’s Books and Children’s Academic Performance10
Characterizing stress processes by linking big five personality states, traits, and day-to-day stressors10
Compensatory couple effects: How a spouse’s life goals impact one’s own career and health outcomes9
Emotion-Triggered impulsivity relates to speech dysfluency during high arousal states9
Trait anger and approach motivation are related to higher endorsement of specific and generic conspiracy beliefs9
Temporal mood dynamics and individual heterogeneity: a computational framework for human-environment affective dynamics9
Sentence completion test defensiveness and success in US military personnel selection8
Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is not a sensory ability: Examining the relationship of SPS with objectively and subjectively measured sensory sensitivity8
The cognitive complexity of a happy life, a meaningful life, and a psychologically rich life8
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Personality adjectives in the digital world: A natural language processing study of Big Five adjectives and their usage on Reddit8
An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits8
Elusive specific variance: A marginal effect on the accuracy of personality judgment8
Impairment in personality functioning throughout adolescence and co-development with personality traits, emotion regulation strategies, and psychopathology8
Facets of trait impulsivity and their relationships to developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors from childhood into early adolescence8
Attachment orientation and dynamics of negative and positive emotions in daily life8
Fibbing friends: self and friend perceptions of honesty and honesty-adjacent characteristics8
Do religious practices improve one’s mood? Daily religious behaviors are associated with daily wellbeing and buffer against hassles and uplifts7
Idiographic personality networks: Stability, variability and when they become problematic7
The relationship between narcissism and empathy: A meta-analytic review7
Are changes in the perception of major life events associated with changes in subjective well-being?7
Maternal narcissism during childhood and adolescent narcissism: The moderating influences of child sex and self-esteem7
A framework for the initial phases of personality test development using large language models and artificial personas7
Hurricane exposure, personality traits, and perceived changes in health and health behaviors7
A social relations perspective on attachment orientations and judgments of relationship quality in friendships6
Daily self-esteem and relationship quality in first-time parents6
Experiencing obstacles during goal pursuit: The role of goal motivation and trait self-control6
Re-assessing communal narcissism: the narcissistic sanctity and heroism concept6
Personality and conceptions of religiosity across the world’s religions6
Pornography and pride: Antagonism drives links between narcissism and perceived addiction to pornography6
Personality differences between children and adults over the past two centuries: Evidence from corpus linguistics6
Revisiting the relationship between team members’ personality and their team’s performance: A meta-analysis6
Family environment and self-esteem development in adolescence: A replication and extension6
People differ in their sensitivity to the environment: An integrated theory, measurement and empirical evidence6
Romantic competence in established relationships: Perceptual, behavioral, interactive, and assortative components6
Narrative identity among people with disabilities in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic: The interdependent self6
Why does Creativity Foster Well-Being? Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness during Everyday Creative Activities6
Using Whole Trait Theory to unite trait and state mindfulness6
Personality, culture and extreme response style: A multilevel modelling analysis6
The good and the bad in black and white: Stories of life’s high and low points told by black and white midlife adults in America5
Family experiences while growing up, personality traits, and well-being: A mediation analysis5
Character strengths and health-related quality of life in a large international sample: A cross-sectional analysis5
Who gets to live the good life? Master Narratives, identity, and well-being within a marginalizing society5
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Prevention focus and conscientiousness drive accurate responding in stimulus detection5
Optimism and pessimism were prospectively associated with adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Profile similarities among romantic partners’ character strengths and their associations with relationship- and life satisfaction5
Personality and cognitive errors in the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span study5
Age differences in personality traits and social desirability: A multi-rater multi-sample study5
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Even the good life has an ending: Virtue in the face of finitude5
Simulating narrative identity with large language models: a multi-study examination of linguistic and psychological patterns5
Introduction to the special issue on “Storying the good life: Pathways and pitfalls to adaptive narrative identity”5
Does narrating the life story predict changes in personality traits and characteristics?5
Does personality predict traveling abroad as indicated by mobile phone data? The idea of the mobile personality revisited5
Towards integration of communal narcissism within the structure of the narcissistic personality traits5
(Un)Locking self-motivation: Action versus state orientation moderates the effect of demanding conditions on self-regulatory performance5
Examining the Conscientiousness × Interest Compensation (CONIC) model with similar constructs in high school and college students5
Corrigendum to “The impact of suppressing and amplifying expressions on personality judgments” [J. Res. Pers. 105 (2023) 104399]4
Measuring personality Traits:Simulations Exploring (Mis)Alignment between methods and measurands4
Personality and individual differences in the relationship between hedonic and eudaimonic motives and well-being in daily life4
Hormonal underpinnings of narcissism in women: The role of estradiol measured from blood and self-report4
Broadening our understanding of adversarial growth: The contribution of narrative methods4
Three facets of narcissism in their relations to the experienced emotions and their variability4
Paradise for the self-interested? The association between economic inequality and the Dark Triad4
Assessing the temporal stability of psychological constructs: An illustration of Type D personality, anxiety and depression4
You are what you read: Antagonistic narcissism predicts increased preference for antisocial and reduced preference for prosocial information4
Too proud to doubt? The relationship between narcissism and intellectual humility4
Personality dynamics and trait change on the year abroad4
Why does the trait-state relation in vocational interests differ from that in personality? Exploring interest variability in daily life4
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Big Six Personality Traits in the Africa Long Life Study4
Close replication of : Who tells prosocial lies?4
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the healthiest of them all – The surprising role of narcissism in state-level health outcomes4
Personality heterogeneity in adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders: A conceptual replication study4
Self-knowledge of perceiver effects: Do people know how positively they tend to view targets relative to other people?4
Vulgarity and hilarity: The dark tetrad and HEXACO as predictors of creating aggressive, obscene, and otherwise offensive humor4
Age and gender differences in the value development of Dutch adults in 11 years of longitudinal data4
Is it really empathy? The potentially confounding role of mental imagery in self-reports of empathy4
Trait empathy predicts a preference for the spirit of the law: Nationally representative survey evidence4
The (in)distinguishability of Machiavellianism and psychopathy? Discovering the daily dynamics4
Does insecurity lead to envy? The longitudinal interplay between dispositional envy and self-esteem4
What I Do and What I Can Do: Testing the convergence and incremental validity of social, emotional, and behavioral skills vs. traits for predicting academic success3
Moral Chameleons: The positive association between materialism and self-interest-triggered moral flexibility3
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Early predictors of sensory processing sensitivity in members of the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort3
Tradeoffs of humility in the face of existential concerns3
Special issue: Personality in stress risk and resilience3
Personality/cognitive ability relations with and without the Project Talent Longitudinal Sample3
Disorganized schizotypy and neuroticism in daily life: Examining their overlap and differentiation3
Are there sex and grade differences in structure and levels of HEXACO-MSI-E personality traits in adolescents? A cross-sectional study3
Academic performance through multiple lenses: Intelligence, conscientiousness, and achievement striving motivation as differential predictors of objective and subjective measures of academic achieveme3
Testing the additive and interactive relations of personality and physical indicators of formidability with externalizing behaviors3
On rhetoric and ratings: II. Requesting redemptive stories and continuous ratings3
Erratum to “(Un)Locking self-motivation: Action versus state orientation moderates the effect of demanding conditions on self-regulatory performance” [J. Res. Pers. 104 (2023) 104361]3
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Schizotypal ambivalence is associated with schizophrenia-spectrum and borderline personality traits in young adults: Converging results from three interview studies3
Predicting openness to experience via a multiplex cognitive network approach3
Associations of aversive (‘dark’) traits and affiliative (‘light’) traits with moral-dilemma judgments: A preregistered exploratory analysis using the CNI model3
Cross-cultural evidence for an association between agreeableness and sweet taste preferences3
Do gifted individuals exhibit higher levels of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and what role do openness and neuroticism play in this regard?3
Comparability of personality facets between men and women: A test of measurement invariance in IPIP-NEO facets in 49 countries3
Who do you trust? The role of level and change in trust and personality across young to middle adulthood for political interest and voting intentions3
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The Three Nonnormative Traits (TNT) and (Dis-)liking in work and nonwork settings3
Honesty-humility and criminal behavior among imprisoned criminal offenders3
Maladaptive conscientiousness is still conscientiousness3
Perfectionistic strivings and conscientiousness as differential predictors of goal setting (in)flexibility in real-life situations: A mixture latent Markov approach3
Approaches to modeling interpersonal complementarity in intensive longitudinal data3
The effects of specific and common variance on test–retest and self-other correlations: Another perspective on personality nuances3
The relation between Honesty-Humility and moral concerns as expressed in language3
How to measure and model personality traits in everyday life: A qualitative analysis of 300 big five personality items3
The autobiographical critic within: Perceiving oneself as a major character in one’s life story predicts well-being3
Experiental features of volunteering predict changes in college students’ social, emotional, and behavioral skills3
Partners among Strangers: A social Relations perspective on personality and collaborative partner preferences in first encounters3
A comprehensive examination of personality factor and facet associations with daily stress processes3
Stories off the beaten path: Exploring the content and correlates of cultural deviation narratives3
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