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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
There are a million ways to be a woman and a million ways to be a man: Gender differences across personality nuances and nations100
Corrigendum to “The network structure of impulsive personality and temporal discounting” [J. Res. Pers. 96 (2022) 104166]92
Low modesty linked to feeling deprived within advantaged (but not disadvantaged) groups50
People “fake-good” on personality self-reports more strongly in a job context than in a dating context47
The implicit measurement of psychopathy41
The role of purpose in the stress process: A homeostatic account40
Why does sadism troll? The role of negative emotional reactions from others39
Who scapegoats? Individual differences moderate the dual-motive model of scapegoating33
Intellectual humility in romantic relationships: Implications for relationship satisfaction, argument frequency, and conflict behaviors33
Tendency to share positive emotions buffers loneliness-related negativity in the context of shared adversity30
Neuroticism, urbanization, and the state prevalence of Parkinson’s disease in the USA29
Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms28
I want it that way: Exploring the role of desire intolerance in emotion-related impulsivity via ecological momentary assessment26
Patiently waiting: The role of trait patience during stressful waiting periods24
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What’s in a name? Exploring overlap among self-belief constructs23
Psychosis and the challenges to narrative identity and the good life: Advances from research on the integrated model of metacognition23
Future self-continuity promotes meaning in life through authenticity22
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The Dark Triad predicts public display of offensive political products20
Improving self-knowledge: How performance feedback impacts individuals’ self-estimates of their cognitive abilities20
What happy people do: The behavioral correlates of happiness in everyday situations18
A tribute to Will Dunlop18
Personality expression in body motion dynamics: An enactive, embodied, and complex systems perspective17
Distress tolerance and stress-induced emotion regulation behavior17
Extraversion and adult attachment dimensions predict attitudes towards social touch17
Intelligence, conscientiousness and extraversion moderate the house money effect in real-life financial decision-making17
Neuroticism, emotional stress reactivity and recovery in daily life: Examining extraversion and openness as moderators15
Exploring the dynamics of volitional personality change: A psychoeducational intervention study with young adults transitioning to the workforce15
Profiling narcissism: Evidence for grandiose-vulnerable and other subtypes15
Loneliness and time alone in everyday life: A descriptive-exploratory study of subjective and objective social isolation15
“Feeling Powerful” versus “Desiring Power”: A pervasive and problematic conflation in personality assessment?15
Large language models can replicate cross-cultural differences in personality15
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Inquisitive but not discerning: Deprivation curiosity is associated with excessive openness to inaccurate information15
Extending the self-other knowledge asymmetry (SOKA) model to pathological traits14
Malevolent vs. benevolent dispositions and conservative political ideology in the Trump era14
Affective preferences in benign masochism14
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
Distracted by the mirror? Associations between narcissism, self-esteem and gaze behavior during self-face viewing13
Agency, communion, and the shifting gender norms in American society? A registered report13
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Meaning in life and psychological distress: A meta-analysis13
Behavioral tendencies of hostility: A new approach to personality assessment based on person-in-context units13
What do agreeable people think about? spontaneous thoughts as a component of personality12
Personality, political party identification, and partisan news consumption: A replication and extension in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic12
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Personality Traits and Narrative Identity: Changes in Mid-Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood in Relation to Well-Being12
The interplay between gender and personality in relationship outcomes: Satisfaction across domains and partnership status12
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A direct comparison of the temporal stability and criterion validities of experiential and retrospective global measures of subjective well-being11
Sensation seeking, impulsivity, COVID-19 stress, and drinking among emerging adults11
Meaning making about and across self-relevant experiences: Links with identity commitment and exploration processes and satisfaction with life in adolescence11
The emotional complexity of musical experiences: Cultural and individual factors11
Personality, workstation type, task focus, and happiness in the workplace11
Ink and Identity: Personality perceptions based on tattoos11
Compensatory couple effects: How a spouse’s life goals impact one’s own career and health outcomes10
Characterizing stress processes by linking big five personality states, traits, and day-to-day stressors10
Trait and facet personality similarity and relationship and life satisfaction in romantic couples10
Transgenerational Transmission: An Investigation of Parents’ Achievement Motives, Achievement Imagery in Children’s Books and Children’s Academic Performance10
Registered Report Stage II: Does personality vary by relationship power? An investigation of satisfaction in diverse romantic partnerships10
Is my attachment style showing? Perceptions of a date’s attachment anxiety and avoidance and dating interest during a speed-dating event10
Trait anger and approach motivation are related to higher endorsement of specific and generic conspiracy beliefs10
Personality adjectives in the digital world: A natural language processing study of Big Five adjectives and their usage on Reddit9
Facets of trait impulsivity and their relationships to developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors from childhood into early adolescence9
An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits9
Temporal mood dynamics and individual heterogeneity: a computational framework for human-environment affective dynamics9
Sentence completion test defensiveness and success in US military personnel selection9
The cognitive complexity of a happy life, a meaningful life, and a psychologically rich life9
Attachment orientation and dynamics of negative and positive emotions in daily life9
Emotion-Triggered impulsivity relates to speech dysfluency during high arousal states9
Hurricane exposure, personality traits, and perceived changes in health and health behaviors8
Do religious practices improve one’s mood? Daily religious behaviors are associated with daily wellbeing and buffer against hassles and uplifts8
Impairment in personality functioning throughout adolescence and co-development with personality traits, emotion regulation strategies, and psychopathology8
The relationship between narcissism and empathy: A meta-analytic review8
Elusive specific variance: A marginal effect on the accuracy of personality judgment8
A framework for the initial phases of personality test development using large language models and artificial personas8
Fibbing friends: self and friend perceptions of honesty and honesty-adjacent characteristics8
Experiencing obstacles during goal pursuit: The role of goal motivation and trait self-control7
Narrative identity among people with disabilities in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic: The interdependent self7
Using Whole Trait Theory to unite trait and state mindfulness7
Personality differences between children and adults over the past two centuries: Evidence from corpus linguistics7
Romantic competence in established relationships: Perceptual, behavioral, interactive, and assortative components7
Why does Creativity Foster Well-Being? Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness during Everyday Creative Activities7
Idiographic personality networks: Stability, variability and when they become problematic7
Daily self-esteem and relationship quality in first-time parents7
Family environment and self-esteem development in adolescence: A replication and extension7
Are changes in the perception of major life events associated with changes in subjective well-being?7
Re-assessing communal narcissism: the narcissistic sanctity and heroism concept7
People differ in their sensitivity to the environment: An integrated theory, measurement and empirical evidence6
Revisiting the relationship between team members’ personality and their team’s performance: A meta-analysis6
Optimism and pessimism were prospectively associated with adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic6
A social relations perspective on attachment orientations and judgments of relationship quality in friendships6
Pornography and pride: Antagonism drives links between narcissism and perceived addiction to pornography6
Personality, culture and extreme response style: A multilevel modelling analysis6
Personality and cognitive errors in the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span study6
Personality and conceptions of religiosity across the world’s religions6
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 America6
Introduction to the special issue on “Storying the good life: Pathways and pitfalls to adaptive narrative identity”6
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Self-knowledge of perceiver effects: Do people know how positively they tend to view targets relative to other people?5
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Does personality predict traveling abroad as indicated by mobile phone data? The idea of the mobile personality revisited5
Localizing gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism in domains and facets of maladaptive personality traits: A multi-study report using self- and informant ratings5
Family experiences while growing up, personality traits, and well-being: A mediation analysis5
Towards integration of communal narcissism within the structure of the narcissistic personality traits5
Broadening our understanding of adversarial growth: The contribution of narrative methods5
Why does the trait-state relation in vocational interests differ from that in personality? Exploring interest variability in daily life5
Vulgarity and hilarity: The dark tetrad and HEXACO as predictors of creating aggressive, obscene, and otherwise offensive humor5
Too proud to doubt? The relationship between narcissism and intellectual humility5
Is risk propensity unique from the big five factors of personality? A meta-analytic investigation5
Age differences in personality traits and social desirability: A multi-rater multi-sample study5
Examining the Conscientiousness × Interest Compensation (CONIC) model with similar constructs in high school and college students5
Prevention focus and conscientiousness drive accurate responding in stimulus detection5
Who gets to live the good life? Master Narratives, identity, and well-being within a marginalizing society5
Who knows what we are good at? Unique insights of the self, knowledgeable informants, and strangers into a person’s abilities5
(Un)Locking self-motivation: Action versus state orientation moderates the effect of demanding conditions on self-regulatory performance5
Character strengths and health-related quality of life in a large international sample: A cross-sectional analysis5
Even the good life has an ending: Virtue in the face of finitude5
Development and validation of the Moral Character Questionnaire5
Does narrating the life story predict changes in personality traits and characteristics?5
Profile similarities among romantic partners’ character strengths and their associations with relationship- and life satisfaction5
Personality heterogeneity in adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders: A conceptual replication study4
Personality and individual differences in the relationship between hedonic and eudaimonic motives and well-being in daily life4
Close replication of : Who tells prosocial lies?4
Is it really empathy? The potentially confounding role of mental imagery in self-reports of empathy4
Three facets of narcissism in their relations to the experienced emotions and their variability4
The relation between Honesty-Humility and moral concerns as expressed in language4
Does insecurity lead to envy? The longitudinal interplay between dispositional envy and self-esteem4
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
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Trait empathy predicts a preference for the spirit of the law: Nationally representative survey evidence4
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the healthiest of them all – The surprising role of narcissism in state-level health outcomes4
Assessing the temporal stability of psychological constructs: An illustration of Type D personality, anxiety and depression4
Do gifted individuals exhibit higher levels of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and what role do openness and neuroticism play in this regard?4
Shyness, self-focused attention, and behavioral mimicry during social interaction4
Hormonal underpinnings of narcissism in women: The role of estradiol measured from blood and self-report4
Environmental sensitivity predicts interpersonal sensitivity above and beyond Big Five personality traits4
You are what you read: Antagonistic narcissism predicts increased preference for antisocial and reduced preference for prosocial information4
Big Six Personality Traits in the Africa Long Life Study4
Paradise for the self-interested? The association between economic inequality and the Dark Triad4
Special issue: Personality in stress risk and resilience4
Who tells prosocial lies? A HEXACO model investigation4
Age and gender differences in the value development of Dutch adults in 11 years of longitudinal data4
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How to measure and model personality traits in everyday life: A qualitative analysis of 300 big five personality items3
Cross-cultural evidence for an association between agreeableness and sweet taste preferences3
Predicting openness to experience via a multiplex cognitive network approach3
Moral Chameleons: The positive association between materialism and self-interest-triggered moral flexibility3
On rhetoric and ratings: II. Requesting redemptive stories and continuous ratings3
A comprehensive examination of personality factor and facet associations with daily stress processes3
Perfectionistic strivings and conscientiousness as differential predictors of goal setting (in)flexibility in real-life situations: A mixture latent Markov approach3
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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
Schizotypal ambivalence is associated with schizophrenia-spectrum and borderline personality traits in young adults: Converging results from three interview studies3
The autobiographical critic within: Perceiving oneself as a major character in one’s life story predicts well-being3
Associations of aversive (‘dark’) traits and affiliative (‘light’) traits with moral-dilemma judgments: A preregistered exploratory analysis using the CNI model3
The effects of specific and common variance on test–retest and self-other correlations: Another perspective on personality nuances3
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The Three Nonnormative Traits (TNT) and (Dis-)liking in work and nonwork settings3
Experiental features of volunteering predict changes in college students’ social, emotional, and behavioral skills3
Stories off the beaten path: Exploring the content and correlates of cultural deviation narratives3
Comparability of personality facets between men and women: A test of measurement invariance in IPIP-NEO facets in 49 countries3
Personality/cognitive ability relations with and without the Project Talent Longitudinal Sample3
Early predictors of sensory processing sensitivity in members of the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort3
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
Tradeoffs of humility in the face of existential concerns3
Maladaptive conscientiousness is still conscientiousness3
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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
Academic performance through multiple lenses: Intelligence, conscientiousness, and achievement striving motivation as differential predictors of objective and subjective measures of academic achieveme3
Honesty-humility and criminal behavior among imprisoned criminal offenders3
Disorganized schizotypy and neuroticism in daily life: Examining their overlap and differentiation3
Approaches to modeling interpersonal complementarity in intensive longitudinal data3
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