OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Research in Personality is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Who scapegoats? Individual differences moderate the dual-motive model of scapegoating	63
Accounting for the evaluative factor in self-ratings provides a more accurate estimate of the relationship between personality traits and well-being	54
Corrigendum to “The network structure of impulsive personality and temporal discounting” [J. Res. Pers. 96 (2022) 104166]	48
There are a million ways to be a woman and a million ways to be a man: Gender differences across personality nuances and nations	46
The implicit measurement of psychopathy	44
A Social Relations Model of need supportiveness	33
Why does sadism troll? The role of negative emotional reactions from others	32
Low modesty linked to feeling deprived within advantaged (but not disadvantaged) groups	30
The role of purpose in the stress process: A homeostatic account	29
Editorial Board	28
If giving money to the Red Cross increases well-being, does taking money from the Red Cross increase ill-being? – Evidence from three experiments	25
Tendency to share positive emotions buffers loneliness-related negativity in the context of shared adversity	24
Psychosis and the challenges to narrative identity and the good life: Advances from research on the integrated model of metacognition	24
Too tempting to resist? Self-control moderates the relationship between narcissism and antisocial tendencies	23
Improving self-knowledge: How performance feedback impacts individuals’ self-estimates of their cognitive abilities	22
Avoidant individuals are more affected by ostracism attribution	21
Future self-continuity promotes meaning in life through authenticity	21
Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms	20
The Dark Triad predicts public display of offensive political products	20
Neuroticism, urbanization, and the state prevalence of Parkinson’s disease in the USA	20
Personality expression in body motion dynamics: An enactive, embodied, and complex systems perspective	19
Loneliness and time alone in everyday life: A descriptive-exploratory study of subjective and objective social isolation	19
Inquisitive but not discerning: Deprivation curiosity is associated with excessive openness to inaccurate information	19
Extraversion and adult attachment dimensions predict attitudes towards social touch	19
Profiling narcissism: Evidence for grandiose-vulnerable and other subtypes	18

Large language models can replicate cross-cultural differences in personality	18
Neuroticism, emotional stress reactivity and recovery in daily life: Examining extraversion and openness as moderators	17
What happy people do: The behavioral correlates of happiness in everyday situations	17
A tribute to Will Dunlop	16
Distress tolerance and stress-induced emotion regulation behavior	16
Extending the self-other knowledge asymmetry (SOKA) model to pathological traits	16
Meaning in life and psychological distress: A meta-analysis	15
Exploring the dynamics of volitional personality change: A psychoeducational intervention study with young adults transitioning to the workforce	14
Lead us not into temptation: Differential associations of religious identification with self-regulatory traits and abilities	14
Editorial Board	14
What’s “moral” in moral impressions? Exploring self-other agreement about the trait-specific component of moral impressions	14
“Feeling Powerful” versus “Desiring Power”: A pervasive and problematic conflation in personality assessment?	13
The relationship between life events and sense of coherence in adolescence. A longitudinal twin study	13
Basic value orientations and moral foundations: Convergent or discriminant constructs?	12
An ego effectiveness perspective of successful self-control: An individual difference and its links to social functioning and well-being	12
Personality change profiles and changes in cognition among middle-aged and older adults	12
Agency, communion, and the shifting gender norms in American society? A registered report	12
Devilish details: The importance of marginalia in personality research	12
Personality Traits and Narrative Identity: Changes in Mid-Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood in Relation to Well-Being	12
Affective preferences in benign masochism	12
Editorial Board	11
The role of temperament traits as predictors of depressive symptoms and resilience in adolescents	11
Personality, political party identification, and partisan news consumption: A replication and extension in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Editorial Board	11
A coordinated analysis of the associations among personality traits, cognitive decline, and dementia in older adulthood	11
Compensatory couple effects: How a spouse’s life goals impact one’s own career and health outcomes	10
Transgenerational Transmission: An Investigation of Parents’ Achievement Motives, Achievement Imagery in Children’s Books and Children’s Academic Performance	10
From war-related trauma exposure to PTSD and depression: A personality perspective	10
Characterizing stress processes by linking big five personality states, traits, and day-to-day stressors	10
Quantifying the psychopathic stare: Automated assessment of head motion is related to antisocial traits in forensic interviews	10
Personality, workstation type, task focus, and happiness in the workplace	10
A direct comparison of the temporal stability and criterion validities of experiential and retrospective global measures of subjective well-being	10
Is my attachment style showing? Perceptions of a date’s attachment anxiety and avoidance and dating interest during a speed-dating event	10
Meaning making about and across self-relevant experiences: Links with identity commitment and exploration processes and satisfaction with life in adolescence	10
Sentence completion test defensiveness and success in US military personnel selection	9
Gender differences in the relationship between self-esteem and depression among college students: A cross-lagged study from China	9
An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits	9
Trait and facet personality similarity and relationship and life satisfaction in romantic couples	9
Does successfully changing personality traits via intervention require that participants be autonomously motivated to change?	8
Attachment orientation and dynamics of negative and positive emotions in daily life	8
Trait anger and approach motivation are related to higher endorsement of specific and generic conspiracy beliefs	8
Elusive specific variance: A marginal effect on the accuracy of personality judgment	8
The relationship between narcissism and empathy: A meta-analytic review	8
The cognitive complexity of a happy life, a meaningful life, and a psychologically rich life	8
Emotion-Triggered impulsivity relates to speech dysfluency during high arousal states	8
Temporal dynamics of interpersonal trust during the transition to parenthood	8
On a slippery slope to intolerance: Individual difference in slippery slope beliefs predict outgroup negativity	8
Facets of trait impulsivity and their relationships to developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors from childhood into early adolescence	8
Impairment in personality functioning throughout adolescence and co-development with personality traits, emotion regulation strategies, and psychopathology	8
Do religious practices improve one’s mood? Daily religious behaviors are associated with daily wellbeing and buffer against hassles and uplifts	8

Is personality stable and symptoms fleeting? A longitudinal comparison in adolescence	7
Why does Creativity Foster Well-Being? Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness during Everyday Creative Activities	7
Hard-working in general but lazy at home? Generalized Big Five traits and relationship-specific traits in romantic couples over time	7
Revisiting the relationship between team members’ personality and their team’s performance: A meta-analysis	7
Are changes in the perception of major life events associated with changes in subjective well-being?	7
Open laptops, open minds: Consensus and accuracy in big five personality perception from laptop stickers	7
Personality differences between children and adults over the past two centuries: Evidence from corpus linguistics	7
Daily self-esteem and relationship quality in first-time parents	7
Idiographic personality networks: Stability, variability and when they become problematic	7
Personality and reasoning ability during retirement age: Report from a Swedish population-based longitudinal study	7
Hurricane exposure, personality traits, and perceived changes in health and health behaviors	7
Narrative identity among people with disabilities in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic: The interdependent self	7
Romantic competence in established relationships: Perceptual, behavioral, interactive, and assortative components	7
Experiencing obstacles during goal pursuit: The role of goal motivation and trait self-control	7