Journal of Research in Personality

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Research in 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Moral Chameleons: The positive association between materialism and self-interest-triggered moral flexibility53
Disorganized schizotypy and neuroticism in daily life: Examining their overlap and differentiation43
Honesty-humility and criminal behavior among imprisoned criminal offenders38
On rhetoric and ratings: II. Requesting redemptive stories and continuous ratings37
How secure and preoccupied attachment relate to offence-specific forgiveness in couples29
Who do you trust? The role of level and change in trust and personality across young to middle adulthood for political interest and voting intentions26
Prevention focus and conscientiousness drive accurate responding in stimulus detection25
Meaning making about and across self-relevant experiences: Links with identity commitment and exploration processes and satisfaction with life in adolescence22
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Who scapegoats? Individual differences moderate the dual-motive model of scapegoating21
A multi-method study of interpersonal complementarity and mentalization20
The implicit measurement of psychopathy20
Age differences in personality traits and social desirability: A multi-rater multi-sample study19
Is my attachment style showing? Perceptions of a date’s attachment anxiety and avoidance and dating interest during a speed-dating event18
“O’er the hilltops is the word of God” – Abraham Joshua Heschel’s prototypical self-defining memory and its relationship to his vision of the good life18
Towards integration of communal narcissism within the structure of the narcissistic personality traits17
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The impact of trait introversion-extraversion and identity on state authenticity: Debating the benefits of extraversion16
Compensatory couple effects: How a spouse’s life goals impact one’s own career and health outcomes16
Multi-method longitudinal investigation of the general factor of child temperament (GFT): Substantive phenomenon or methodological artifact?16
Low modesty linked to feeling deprived within advantaged (but not disadvantaged) groups16
Even the good life has an ending: Virtue in the face of finitude15
Accounting for the evaluative factor in self-ratings provides a more accurate estimate of the relationship between personality traits and well-being15
Quantifying the psychopathic stare: Automated assessment of head motion is related to antisocial traits in forensic interviews15
A Social Relations Model of need supportiveness15
Personality and migration in Japan: Examining the tendency of extroverted and open people to migrate to Tokyo15
Motivated but not engaged: The implicit achievement motive requires difficult or unclear task difficulty conditions to exert an impact on effort15
Adult attachment and Mindfulness: Examining directionality, causality, and theoretical implications14
Are some people more accurate than others about the unique impressions they make on close others?14
Multitrait Multimethod validation of Implicit Association Test as a measure of individual differences in personality: Is there personality at all?14
Comparison of the relations between three dimensional personality frameworks and intra- and inter-personal functioning14
The effect of trait anger and impulsiveness on ethical leadership and support for organizational change14
On the relationship between explicit and implicit self-concept of extraversion and neuroticism13
Stories off the beaten path: Exploring the content and correlates of cultural deviation narratives13
A comprehensive examination of personality factor and facet associations with daily stress processes12
A longitudinal, multimethod study of children’s early emerging maladaptive personality traits: Stress sensitivity as a protective factor12
Does personality predict traveling abroad as indicated by mobile phone data? The idea of the mobile personality revisited12
Personal relative deprivation and moral self-judgments: The moderating role of sense of control11
Characterizing stress processes by linking big five personality states, traits, and day-to-day stressors11
Neural basis responsible for self-control association with procrastination: Right MFC and bilateral OFC functional connectivity with left dlPFC10
The role of purpose in the stress process: A homeostatic account10
The generic conspiracist beliefs scale – 5: A short-form measure of conspiracist ideation10
Incorporating prosocial vs. antisocial trait content in Big Five measurement: Lessons from the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2)10
Perceived willpower self-efficacy fluctuates dynamically with affect and distress intolerance9
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Localizing gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism in domains and facets of maladaptive personality traits: A multi-study report using self- and informant ratings9
A domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) model of triarchic psychopathy factors: Development and initial validation of the CAT-Tri+ questionnaire9
Why does sadism troll? The role of negative emotional reactions from others9
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Linking adolescent and adult narcissism research: A contribution by the narcissistic admiration and rivalry concept9
Narcissus locked in the past: Vulnerable narcissism and the negative views of the past9
Non-verbal expressivity in alexithymia: A study on emoji use in text messaging across varying levels of alexithymia8
From war-related trauma exposure to PTSD and depression: A personality perspective8
Gender differences in the relationship between self-esteem and depression among college students: A cross-lagged study from China8
A direct comparison of the temporal stability and criterion validities of experiential and retrospective global measures of subjective well-being8
Trait and facet personality similarity and relationship and life satisfaction in romantic couples8
Who gets to live the good life? Master Narratives, identity, and well-being within a marginalizing society8
Who uses what and how often?: Personality predictors of multiplatform social media use among young adults8
Why is personality tied to sleep quality? A biometric analysis of twins8
Profile similarities among romantic partners’ character strengths and their associations with relationship- and life satisfaction8
Stockpiling during the COVID-19 pandemic as a real-life social dilemma: A person-situation perspective8
Character strengths and health-related quality of life in a large international sample: A cross-sectional analysis8
Measuring honesty-humility with an implicit association test (IAT): Construct and criterion validity8
The cost of giving: Examining the relationship between narcissistic, self-sacrificing, and empathetic traits on effortful versus effortless prosocial behavior7
Academic performance through multiple lenses: Intelligence, conscientiousness, and achievement striving motivation as differential predictors of objective and subjective measures of academic achieveme7
Corrigendum to “The network structure of impulsive personality and temporal discounting” [J. Res. Pers. 96 (2022) 104166]7
Subtypes of social withdrawal and mental health trajectories during COVID-19 pandemic7
Comparability of personality facets between men and women: A test of measurement invariance in IPIP-NEO facets in 49 countries7
Personality, workstation type, task focus, and happiness in the workplace7
Caveats of non-ipsatization of basic values: A review of issues and a simulation study7
Is risk propensity unique from the big five factors of personality? A meta-analytic investigation7
Theoretical and empirical dissociations between the Dark Factor of Personality and low Honesty-Humility7
Self-knowledge of perceiver effects: Do people know how positively they tend to view targets relative to other people?6
Impairment in personality functioning throughout adolescence and co-development with personality traits, emotion regulation strategies, and psychopathology6
Too tempting to resist? Self-control moderates the relationship between narcissism and antisocial tendencies6
A good life story: Deconstructing (and integrating) elements of narrative identity and a good life, featuring themes of humanistic growth6
Avoidant individuals are more affected by ostracism attribution6
Disentangling stable and malleable components—A latent state-trait analysis of vocational interests6
Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms6
There is no temporal relationship between hedonic values and life satisfaction: A longitudinal study spanning 13 years6
Why does the trait-state relation in vocational interests differ from that in personality? Exploring interest variability in daily life6
Daily and Trait personality Assessments’ relationship with Daily experiences of stress risk and resilience factors6
Tendency to share positive emotions buffers loneliness-related negativity in the context of shared adversity6
Etiology of basic psychological needs and their association with personality: A twin study6
Psychosis and the challenges to narrative identity and the good life: Advances from research on the integrated model of metacognition6
The big five inventory (BFI-2): Psychometric properties and validation in Serbian language6
Neuroticism, urbanization, and the state prevalence of Parkinson’s disease in the USA5
Examining the possibilities for volitional character change in compassion and intellectual humility through a three-month online intervention5
Psychopathy, charisma, and success: A moderation modeling approach to successful psychopathy5
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Resuming social contact after months of contact restrictions: Social traits moderate associations between changes in social contact and well-being5
Caught on camera: Cross-race interactions captured in daily life5
The Goal breakthrough model of goal reorientation: Explicit questions drive implicit processes5
Emotion-Triggered impulsivity relates to speech dysfluency during high arousal states5
On the way to adult identity: An evaluation of identity status and narrative identity models of development5
Personality and individual differences in the relationship between hedonic and eudaimonic motives and well-being in daily life5
Attachment orientation and dynamics of negative and positive emotions in daily life5
Three personality facets can relate to increased academic output5
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Affective correlates of negative mood regulation expectancies: A systematic review and meta-analysis5
Who knows what we are good at? Unique insights of the self, knowledgeable informants, and strangers into a person’s abilities5
Trait anger and approach motivation are related to higher endorsement of specific and generic conspiracy beliefs5
Facets of trait impulsivity and their relationships to developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors from childhood into early adolescence5
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Is peoples’ belief in a just world associated with (dis)honesty in romantic relationships?5
International comparison of gender differences in the five-factor model of personality: An investigation across 105 countries5
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The good life in cultural context: Examining Asian young adults’ psychological well-being and narratives of negative experiences4
Clarifying the relations between intellectual humility and pseudoscience beliefs, conspiratorial ideation, and susceptibility to fake news4
Dispositional optimism as a buffer against emotional reactivity to daily stressors: A daily diary approach4
Testing the personality differentiation by intelligence hypothesis in a representative sample of Swedish hexagenerians4
If giving money to the Red Cross increases well-being, does taking money from the Red Cross increase ill-being? – Evidence from three experiments4
Finding better raters: The role of observer personality on the validity of observer-reported personality in predicting job performance4
The cognitive complexity of a happy life, a meaningful life, and a psychologically rich life4
Do experiences during the transition to working life Matter? the role of mastery and psychological commitment in personality trait change4
Misperceptions in a post-truth world: Effects of subjectivism and cultural relativism on bullshit receptivity and conspiracist ideation4
(Un)Locking self-motivation: Action versus state orientation moderates the effect of demanding conditions on self-regulatory performance4
A multidimensional approach to acting out of character: How deviating from one’s personality profile relates to resource depletion and affect4
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Does Emotional Stability Form the Core of Self-Evaluations? A Multi-Rater Cross-Lagged Panel Study4
Broadening our understanding of adversarial growth: The contribution of narrative methods4
The Dark Triad traits and suicidal ideation in Chinese adolescents: Mediation by social alienation4
An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits4
Future self-continuity promotes meaning in life through authenticity4
Sentence completion test defensiveness and success in US military personnel selection4
Lonely but not alone: Loneliness and social positive valence sensitivity in emerging adults' everyday lives4
Definitional ambiguities in character strengths: A comparative analysis with personality and other psychobiological attributes4
The impact of suppressing and amplifying expressions on personality judgments3
Less is more. Discovering the latent factors of trait resilience3
Narcissism and partner-enhancement at different relationship stages3
Does successfully changing personality traits via intervention require that participants be autonomously motivated to change?3
Secular changes in personality: An age-period-cohort analysis3
If you’re funny and you know it: Personality, gender, and people’s ratings of their attempts at humor3
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Storying endometriosis: Examining relationships between narrative identity, mental health, and pain3
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On being and feeling transparent: Examining expressive accuracy awareness in first impressions of personality and links to well-being3
The targets of all treachery: Delusional ideation, paranoia, and the need for uniqueness as mediators between two forms of narcissism and conspiracy beliefs3
Chasing the “How” and “Why” of goal pursuit: A multimethod approach to the study of goal focus3
On a slippery slope to intolerance: Individual difference in slippery slope beliefs predict outgroup negativity3
Self-expression can be authentic or inauthentic, with differential outcomes for well-being: Development of the authentic and inauthentic expression scale (AIES)3
Big Five personality traits predicting active procrastination at work: When self- and supervisor-ratings tell different stories3
Neuroticism, emotional stress reactivity and recovery in daily life: Examining extraversion and openness as moderators3
Personality heterogeneity in adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders: A conceptual replication study3
Pirates with psychopathic personalities? The role of sub-clinical and normative traits in illegal streaming and downloading of media3
The challenges of the experimental paradigm in narrative identity research3
Value change across adolescent years: How do adolescents’ intrinsic and extrinsic values develop?3
Environmental sensitivity predicts interpersonal sensitivity above and beyond Big Five personality traits3
Is personality stable and symptoms fleeting? A longitudinal comparison in adolescence3
Temporal dynamics of interpersonal trust during the transition to parenthood3
Personality expression in body motion dynamics: An enactive, embodied, and complex systems perspective3
Loneliness and time alone in everyday life: A descriptive-exploratory study of subjective and objective social isolation3
Elusive specific variance: A marginal effect on the accuracy of personality judgment3
Does counter-habitual behavior carry psychological costs?3
A comprehensive taxonomy and structure of Lithuanian personality-descriptive terms3
A tribute to Will Dunlop3
Beyond the redemptive self: Narratives of acceptance in later life (and in Other Contexts)3
Inquisitive but not discerning: Deprivation curiosity is associated with excessive openness to inaccurate information2
Distress tolerance and stress-induced emotion regulation behavior2
Does insecurity lead to envy? The longitudinal interplay between dispositional envy and self-esteem2
Agentic collective narcissism and communal collective narcissism: Do they predict COVID-19 pandemic-related beliefs and behaviors?2
Affective preferences in benign masochism2
Purpose in daily life: Considering within-person sense of purpose variability2
Close replication of : Who tells prosocial lies?2
Profiling narcissism: Evidence for grandiose-vulnerable and other subtypes2
Self/observer agreement in personality assessment by observers’ relationship types2
Corrigendum to “Theoretical and Empirical dissociations between the Dark Factor of Personality and low Honesty-Humility” [J. Res. Pers. 95 (2021) 104154]2
Shyness, self-focused attention, and behavioral mimicry during social interaction2
Love is not blind: What romantic partners know about our abilities compared to ourselves, our close friends, and our acquaintances2
Beliefs about humanity, not higher power, predict extraordinary altruism2
For whom is mind wandering stressful: The moderating role of dispositional emotionality and personality in predicting emotional experiences in everyday life2
Narcissistic traits and romantic relationship outcomes: A short daily diary investigation2
From Intellectual Investment Trait Theory to Dynamic Intellectual Investment Trait and State Theory: Theory extension, methodological advancement, and empirical illustration2
On the longitudinal interplay between perfectionism and general affect in adolescents2
Within-individual relations of emotional, social, and work self-efficacy beliefs to organizational citizenship behaviors2
Is it really empathy? The potentially confounding role of mental imagery in self-reports of empathy2
Using multi-rater and test-retest data to detect overlap within and between psychological scales2
Who likes whom? The interaction between perceiver personality and target look2
Personality across diverse sexual orientations and gender identities in an online convenience sample2
The relationship between narcissism and empathy: A meta-analytic review2
Extraversion and adult attachment dimensions predict attitudes towards social touch2
Do religious practices improve one’s mood? Daily religious behaviors are associated with daily wellbeing and buffer against hassles and uplifts2
What happy people do: The behavioral correlates of happiness in everyday situations2
Corrigendum to “The impact of suppressing and amplifying expressions on personality judgments” [J. Res. Pers. 105 (2023) 104399]2
Age and gender differences in the value development of Dutch adults in 11 years of longitudinal data2
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“Feeling Powerful” versus “Desiring Power”: A pervasive and problematic conflation in personality assessment?2
Creativity and the Dark Triad: A meta-analysis2
Meaning in life and psychological distress: A meta-analysis2
Who believes in conspiracy theories? A meta-analysis on personality correlates2
The Dark Triad predicts public display of offensive political products2
Estimating the replicability of statistically significant moderation effects in personality research using z-curve analysis2
Investigating everyday sadistic consumption within dark tetrad2
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