OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Research in Personality is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
Who scapegoats? Individual differences moderate the dual-motive model of scapegoating	105
People “fake-good” on personality self-reports more strongly in a job context than in a dating context	62
Intellectual humility in romantic relationships: Implications for relationship satisfaction, argument frequency, and conflict behaviors	53
Low modesty linked to feeling deprived within advantaged (but not disadvantaged) groups	44
There are a million ways to be a woman and a million ways to be a man: Gender differences across personality nuances and nations	42
The implicit measurement of psychopathy	41
The role of purpose in the stress process: A homeostatic account	33
Why does sadism troll? The role of negative emotional reactions from others	32
I want it that way: Exploring the role of desire intolerance in emotion-related impulsivity via ecological momentary assessment	30
Editorial Board	26
Improving self-knowledge: How performance feedback impacts individuals’ self-estimates of their cognitive abilities	25
Tendency to share positive emotions buffers loneliness-related negativity in the context of shared adversity	24
Neuroticism, urbanization, and the state prevalence of Parkinson’s disease in the USA	24
Patiently waiting: The role of trait patience during stressful waiting periods	24
Future self-continuity promotes meaning in life through authenticity	20
Psychosis and the challenges to narrative identity and the good life: Advances from research on the integrated model of metacognition	20
Profiling narcissism: Evidence for grandiose-vulnerable and other subtypes	20
What’s in a name? Exploring overlap among self-belief constructs	20
The Dark Triad predicts public display of offensive political products	20
Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms	20
Large language models can replicate cross-cultural differences in personality	18
A tribute to Will Dunlop	18
What happy people do: The behavioral correlates of happiness in everyday situations	18
Extraversion and adult attachment dimensions predict attitudes towards social touch	18
Editorial Board	17

Personality expression in body motion dynamics: An enactive, embodied, and complex systems perspective	17
Intelligence, conscientiousness and extraversion moderate the house money effect in real-life financial decision-making	17
Neuroticism, emotional stress reactivity and recovery in daily life: Examining extraversion and openness as moderators	16
Distress tolerance and stress-induced emotion regulation behavior	16
Corrigendum to “Status-driven risk taking and the major dimensions of personality” [J. Res. Personal. 44(6) (2010) 734–737]	16
Affective preferences in benign masochism	15
Loneliness and time alone in everyday life: A descriptive-exploratory study of subjective and objective social isolation	15
Extending the self-other knowledge asymmetry (SOKA) model to pathological traits	15
Editorial Board	15
Exploring the dynamics of volitional personality change: A psychoeducational intervention study with young adults transitioning to the workforce	14
The relationship between life events and sense of coherence in adolescence. A longitudinal twin study	14
What’s “moral” in moral impressions? Exploring self-other agreement about the trait-specific component of moral impressions	14
Individual differences in sensitivity to threat predict greater moral condemnation	14
Malevolent vs. benevolent dispositions and conservative political ideology in the Trump era	14
The bright and dark sides of leadership: A Socioanalytic Circumplex perspective	14
“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-Being	13
Meaning in life and psychological distress: A meta-analysis	13
Distracted by the mirror? Associations between narcissism, self-esteem and gaze behavior during self-face viewing	13
Editorial Board	13
The interplay between gender and personality in relationship outcomes: Satisfaction across domains and partnership status	12
Agency, communion, and the shifting gender norms in American society? A registered report	12
Personality, political party identification, and partisan news consumption: A replication and extension in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Editorial Board	12
Behavioral tendencies of hostility: A new approach to personality assessment based on person-in-context units	12
Sensation seeking, impulsivity, COVID-19 stress, and drinking among emerging adults	12
The strategically migrating self: self-location flexibility as a model of social competence	12
Goal and Emotional Clarity: Associations with Goal Effort, Progress, and Attainment in Daily Life	11
The emotional complexity of musical experiences: Cultural and individual factors	11
Registered Report Stage II: Does personality vary by relationship power? An investigation of satisfaction in diverse romantic partnerships	11
Ink and Identity: Personality perceptions based on tattoos	11
Meaning making about and across self-relevant experiences: Links with identity commitment and exploration processes and satisfaction with life in adolescence	11
What do agreeable people think about? spontaneous thoughts as a component of personality	11
Trait and facet personality similarity and relationship and life satisfaction in romantic couples	10
Is my attachment style showing? Perceptions of a date’s attachment anxiety and avoidance and dating interest during a speed-dating event	10
Personality, workstation type, task focus, and happiness in the workplace	10
Transgenerational Transmission: An Investigation of Parents’ Achievement Motives, Achievement Imagery in Children’s Books and Children’s Academic Performance	10
Characterizing stress processes by linking big five personality states, traits, and day-to-day stressors	10
Self/spouse agreement, similarity, and assumed similarity in the HEXACO personality factors	10
Emotion-Triggered impulsivity relates to speech dysfluency during high arousal states	9
Trait anger and approach motivation are related to higher endorsement of specific and generic conspiracy beliefs	9
Temporal mood dynamics and individual heterogeneity: a computational framework for human-environment affective dynamics	9
Compensatory couple effects: How a spouse’s life goals impact one’s own career and health outcomes	9
Sentence completion test defensiveness and success in US military personnel selection	8
Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is not a sensory ability: Examining the relationship of SPS with objectively and subjectively measured sensory sensitivity	8
The cognitive complexity of a happy life, a meaningful life, and a psychologically rich life	8
Editorial Board	8
Personality adjectives in the digital world: A natural language processing study of Big Five adjectives and their usage on Reddit	8
An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits	8
Elusive specific variance: A marginal effect on the accuracy of personality judgment	8

Impairment in personality functioning throughout adolescence and co-development with personality traits, emotion regulation strategies, and psychopathology	8
Facets of trait impulsivity and their relationships to developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors from childhood into early adolescence	8
Attachment orientation and dynamics of negative and positive emotions in daily life	8
Fibbing friends: self and friend perceptions of honesty and honesty-adjacent characteristics	8
Do religious practices improve one’s mood? Daily religious behaviors are associated with daily wellbeing and buffer against hassles and uplifts	7
Idiographic personality networks: Stability, variability and when they become problematic	7
The relationship between narcissism and empathy: A meta-analytic review	7
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-esteem	7
A framework for the initial phases of personality test development using large language models and artificial personas	7
Hurricane exposure, personality traits, and perceived changes in health and health behaviors	7
Personality, culture and extreme response style: A multilevel modelling analysis	6
A social relations perspective on attachment orientations and judgments of relationship quality in friendships	6
Daily self-esteem and relationship quality in first-time parents	6
Experiencing obstacles during goal pursuit: The role of goal motivation and trait self-control	6
Re-assessing communal narcissism: the narcissistic sanctity and heroism concept	6
Personality and conceptions of religiosity across the world’s religions	6
Pornography and pride: Antagonism drives links between narcissism and perceived addiction to pornography	6
Personality differences between children and adults over the past two centuries: Evidence from corpus linguistics	6
Revisiting the relationship between team members’ personality and their team’s performance: A meta-analysis	6
Family environment and self-esteem development in adolescence: A replication and extension	6
People differ in their sensitivity to the environment: An integrated theory, measurement and empirical evidence	6
Romantic competence in established relationships: Perceptual, behavioral, interactive, and assortative components	6
Narrative identity among people with disabilities in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic: The interdependent self	6
Why does Creativity Foster Well-Being? Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness during Everyday Creative Activities	6
Using Whole Trait Theory to unite trait and state mindfulness	6