Personality and Individual Differences

Papers
(The TQCC of Personality and Individual Differences is 8. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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The ick: Disgust sensitivity, narcissism, and perfectionism in mate choice thresholds81
Linking self-compassion to helping behavior: The moderating effect of supervisor bottom-line mentality81
Corrigendum to “‘Title’ Volume, Page: Liao, Y. H., Chen, Y. H., & Chen, H. C. (2024). Laughing matters: Exploring ridicule-related traits, personality, and well-being.” [Pers. Individ. Differ. 22777
Expressing and negotiating identities in social media ecosystems: A typology of users and their associated personality profiles76
Does compassion for oneself extend to prosocial behavior for others? Examining the relationship between self-compassion and prosocial behavior using multilevel meta-analysis66
Confidence does not equal competence: Socially dominant individuals are more confident in their decisions without being more accurate60
Gender swapping in massively multiplayer online role-playing games in China: Relationship to gender nonconformity and gender dysphoria59
Strive to fit: Person, vocation, and organization strivings' impact on employee engagement and job performance58
Associations between the dark tetrad and political orientation: A systematic review with meta-analysis50
Individual and group differences in multivariate domains: What happens when the number of traits increases?49
Intellectual humility and responsiveness to public health recommendations49
The influence of life narrative themes on resilience and life outcomes48
Known by the company she keeps: Women's friendship preferences influence interpersonal evaluations47
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Predicting altruism with personality “beyond” the Big Five44
Effects of maximizing on choosing a product and using it over 1 month44
Perfectionism: A network analysis of relationships between the Big Three Perfectionism dimensions and the Big Five Personality traits43
Technical comment on Jonason, P. K., & Luoto, S. (2021). The dark side of the rainbow: Homosexuals and bisexuals have higher Dark Triad traits than heterosexuals. Personality and Individual Differ43
Trait irritability in adults is unrelated to face emotion identification42
Need for emotional closure scale: Testing for measurement invariance in Turkish and English versions41
`Association study of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, impulsivity personality traits and moderate alcohol consumption in men41
Does the association between self-focus and life satisfaction depend on the levels of perceived societal injustice?40
The effect of self-esteem on combat stress in engagement: An XR simulator study40
No trait anxiety linked differences in affective and non-affective task-switching40
Occupational intelligence as a measure of occupational complexity39
Beyond vanilla: Sexual fantasies and the need for uniqueness38
Linking trait gratitude to employees' performance and work motivation: A two-wave longitudinal study38
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Laughing all the way to the lockdown: On humor, optimism, and well-being during COVID-1937
Embracing “COVID-normal”: Positive Personality and Posttraumatic Growth in the COVID-19 Pandemic36
Exploring the dynamics of academic procrastination in junior high school students: Examining predictors using latent transition analysis36
The role of trait self-control, healthy eating habits and decentering ability in response conflict35
The relationships between masculine gender role discrepancy, discrepancy stress and men's health-related behavior35
Socio-emotional stress regulation in infants with visual impairment: Exploring the role of maternal vocal and tactile behavior34
Conformity to gender norms and denial of LGBTQ+ discrimination: The mediating role of anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy beliefs34
Toward controlling of a pandemic: How self-control ability influences willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine34
Intellectual giftedness in adult lifespan: just a dimensional account or are there areas especially sensitive to high potential?34
The relationship between task value, mental fatigue, and motivation: The role of trait mindfulness34
A psychometric exploration of the specificity of reinforcement sensitivity and social needs34
Observing psychopathy promptly, reliably, and validly: Development and validation of the Short Psychopathy Rating Scale (SPRS)34
Consumers' love for technological gadgets is linked to personal growth34
One, two, three, sit next to me: Personality and physical distance33
Breaking down power distance into 5 dimensions33
“Even a broken clock is right twice a day”: The case of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory33
Grit as a predictor of academic performance: Not much more than conscientiousness33
What can I be when I grow up? Parental support and career exploration among teenagers: The moderating role of dispositional optimism32
Personality and burglary: A virtual reality study32
The development and validation of a multi-dimensional Job Interview Self-efficacy scale32
The association between adverse childhood experiences and early adulthood social mindfulness: The mediating role of daily stress31
The Big Five and divergent thinking: A meta-analysis31
Book Review31
Vulnerable narcissism and the dark factor of personality: Insights from a cross-validated item-level and scale-level factor-analytic approach30
Linking classmate autonomy support with prosocial behavior in Chinese left-behind adolescents: The moderating role of self-esteem and grit30
Developing a novel assessment of interpretation flexibility: Reliability, validity and clinical implications30
Perfectionism profiles and school-related stress associations: Examining the 2 × 2 model of dispositional perfectionism in children29
Bringing personality into ethics: Is a moral identity mainly a desire to be agreeable?29
The relationship between smartphone addiction and procrastination among students: A systematic review and meta-analysis29
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Resolving the equivocal relationship of Machiavellianism and job performance: A socioanalytic perspective employing reputation, political skill, and five-factor Machiavellianism29
The association between objective and subjective financial literacy: Failure to observe the Dunning-Kruger effect29
Longitudinal analysis of the relation between changes in human values and social attitudes29
The interplay between parental perfectionism, emotional intelligence, and parental burnout28
Shyness, sociability, and empathy for others' physical pain28
Does childhood adversity make adolescents more morally disengaged? The effect of life history strategy and self-compassion28
Defining alexithymia: The clinical relevance of cognitive behavioral vs psychoanalytic conceptualizations28
Practically perfect in every way: Perfectionism and evaluations of perfect performances in sport27
Technical comment on Pu, J., & Gan, X. (2025). When love constrains: The impact of parental psychological control on dark personality development in adolescents. Personality and Individual Differe27
Come closer if you dare: A validation of the revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory by behavioral responses to positive and negative stimuli26
Academic procrastination and emotion regulation: Parallel trajectories and reciprocal influences over an academic semester26
Conscientiousness and health outcomes: The moderating role of general mental ability and the mediating role of internal health locus of control26
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Some rules should be broken: Developing a measure of constructive rule beliefs25
To achieve and to conform: Motivational values predict social comparison orientation25
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Blatant sexual deception: Content, individual differences, and implications25
A time-lagged study of two possible routes from personal innovativeness to life satisfaction in adolescents: Learning and social interaction on mobile phones25
Subclinical sadism: Examining temperamental predispositions and emotional processing25
Psychometric properties of the Icelandic version of HEXACO-60: Cognitive interviews and confirmatory factor analysis25
Recollected caregiver sensitivity and adult attachment interact to predict mental health and coping24
The causal relationship between perfectionism and negative affect: Two experimental studies24
Reactivity and Activity as dimensions capturing both energetic and temporal aspects of behavior: Towards a reconceptualization of Jan Strelau's basic temperament dimensions based on the Circumplex of 24
Spurious correlations in research on ability tilt24
Predictive validity of two conceptualizations of basic temperament dimensions24
Lordosis in humans: women's accurate perceptions of men's context-dependent preferences24
The dark side of belief in Covid-19 scientists and scientific evidence24
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Exploring the relationship between trait emotional intelligence and adaptive performance: the role of situational strength and self-efficacy24
Self–other moral bias: Evidence from implicit measures and the Word-Embedding Association Test24
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Not completely unusable: Procedures to rescue the Big-Five personality data in the World Values Survey wave 624
“On the roots of interpersonal strain at work: The role of burnout and social self-efficacy”23
What is wrong with individual differences research?23
How does identifying with one's nation predict support for wars? The role of secure national identification and national narcissism23
Individual differences in moral judgment predict attitudes towards mandatory vaccinations23
Social interpretation bias and inflexibility: Mapping indirect pathways from pathological personality traits to symptom clusters of anxiety and depression23
The influence of temporal focus on individual intertemporal decision-making in life history strategy framework23
The effect of acute psychosocial stress on salivary cortisol and testosterone responses in men and women: The role of impulsivity23
Unfavorable prison social climate links dark tetrad traits with self-reported institutional misconduct23
The longitudinal relationship between future time perspective and life satisfaction among Chinese adolescents23
Attachment theory, organizational identification, and communication engagement strategies of successful college students: A retention study22
Embracing the enhanced self now and in the future: The impact of temporal focus, age, and sex on cyborg products use intention22
Adolescent narcissism: A network analysis22
Measurement precision and user experience with adaptive versus non-adaptive psychometric tests22
A holistic view of gender traits and personality traits predict human health22
Personality and pro-environmental engagements: The role of the Dark Triad, the Light Triad, and value orientations22
Development and validation of the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-Being 18 item version (MI-RSWB-18)22
Extraverts suffer from social distancing: A 30-day diary study22
The experience of loneliness: The role of fears of compassion and social safeness22
United States adults' social media use and digital emotion regulation in everyday life: The potential of social media to be harnessed for mental health22
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The Dark Triad of personality and criminal and delinquent behavior: Preregistered systematic review and three-level meta-analysis22
Honesty-Humility, the Dark Tetrad, and ideological beliefs: Their incremental validity in predicting explicit prejudice toward asylum seekers21
Mental toughness, rather than self-esteem, moderates effects of grandiose narcissism on aggression under conditions of ego-threat21
Erratum to “A meta-analytic review of the relationship between dispositional gratitude and well-being” [Personality and Individual Differences. 64 (2020) 110101]21
Appreciation and rumination, not problem solving and avoidance, mediate the effect of optimism on emotional wellbeing21
Two sides of the same coin? On the common etiology of Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation21
Pandemic stressors and depressive symptoms: Examining within- and between-person effects of neuroticism21
Trait anxiety negatively affected creative discovery under pressure conditions: Evidence from behavioral responses and ERPs21
Rewriting the script: How COVID-19 affected the relation between intrinsic aspirations and depressive symptoms21
Differences in moral judgment predict behavior in a Covid triage game scenario21
Applicant faking warnings: Are they really effective?21
Dark traits, social motives, and apps used: A life history approach21
Living fast and driving fast. Life history strategies, personality, and aggressive driving20
Voters' HEXACO personality traits as predictors of their presidential leadership style preferences20
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Children's values in early childhood: Age differences in structure and priorities20
Ecologically contingent preferences for formidable coalitional allies as a function of conservative ideologies20
AWOKE: A theory of representation and process in intelligence as adaptation to the environment20
Birth order, personality, and tattoos: A pre-registered empirical test of the ‘born to rebel’ hypothesis20
Retraction notice to “Socially dominant women strategically build coalitions of strong men in resource-rich environments” [Personal. Individ. Differ. 171 (2021) 110496]20
What kind of Dr do you want to be?: A cross-sectional study measuring personality and sex effects of medical students20
Spurious correlations in research on the effects of specific cognitive abilities20
Editorial Board/Publication Information20
Multimodal assessment of social anxiety among international students19
Exploring the associations among relationship-related attitudes, affection deprivation, and faking orgasm among heterosexual women in the United States19
A call for action! Examining national diversity in PAID authorship (2020−2023)19
Proving my creativity: When and why leaders' idea rejection leads to employees' creative deviance?19
Different shades of narcissism at work: The relationships of narcissism dimensions with work-related outcomes19
Burnout, work engagement and life satisfaction among Spanish teachers: The unique contribution of core self-evaluations19
The predictive role of working memory and impulsivity in internet addiction, an investigation about the mediating role of time perception19
Self-efficacy and nontask performance at work. A meta-analytic summary19
Dating in a digital world: The role of pathological personality traits in psychological reactions to direct and ambiguous rejection19
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Indirect effects of parental and peer attachment on Internet Gaming Disorder among adolescents: The role of negative automatic thoughts19
Hybrid is here to stay: Critical behaviors for success in the new world of work19
The psychology of morbid curiosity: Development and initial validation of the morbid curiosity scale18
An assessment of self and informant data for measuring intellectual humility18
They will (not) deceive us! The role of agentic and communal national narcissism in shaping the attitudes to Ukrainian refugees in Poland18
A study of trickle-down effects of leader Machiavellianism on follower unethical behaviour: A social learning perspective18
Exploring the links between personality and immune function18
Even the stars think that I am superior: Personality, intelligence and belief in astrology18
The Hedonic and Arousal Affect Scale (HAAS): A brief adjective checklist to assess affect states18
The five factors of personality and personal values: An update with the refined theory18
Balancing light and dark: personality profiles derived from the Big Five and Dark Tetrad Traits18
Leader honesty-humility, political skill, and leadership effectiveness: The mediating role of employee extra effort18
Vulnerable women and grandiose men? A 2D:4D study on the links between narcissism and prenatal estrogen/testosterone exposure in women and men18
Ostracized and unreal: Does cyberostracism affect authenticity?18
How followers' neuroticism buffers the role of the leader in their daily mental health via daily positive affect: A multilevel approach18
Predicting attitudes toward cryptocurrencies and stocks: The divergent roles of narcissism, intelligence and financial literacy18
The next distinction without a difference: Do psychopathy and sadism scales assess the same construct?18
Considering sadism in the shadow of the Dark Triad traits: A meta-analytic review of the Dark Tetrad18
Happiness is associated with higher narcissism but lower psychopathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between happiness and the Dark Triad17
Financial literacy mediates the effect between verbal intelligence and financial anxiety17
Self-comparison versus social-comparison: The impact of imperfection on executive function in perfectionists17
Analytic adolescents prevail over fake news – A large-scale preregistered study17
The relationship between negative life events and problematic mobile phone use: Evidence from a daily diary study17
Direct effect of personality traits and work engagement on job crafting: A structural model17
Seeing workplace bullying through a glass darkly: The illuminating role of organizational and individual ethics17
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Association of life history strategy and mate retention behavior in men and women17
Laughing matters: Exploring ridicule-related traits, personality, and well-being17
Narcissism and personal values: Investigation into agentic, antagonistic, communal and neurotic facets of narcissism17
Perceived threats, trust in authorities, and well-being: The role of responsibility attribution17
Is free will belief a positive predictor of well-being? The evidence of the cross-lagged examination17
Extraversion, workplace support, and burnout: The moderating role of neuroticism17
Rethinking alexithymia in athletes: Barriers to help-seeking and opportunities for intervention17
Modeling consumers' information acquisition and 5G technology utilization: Is personality relevant?17
Narcissism and self-estimated intelligence: New insights from multidimensional assessments17
The effects of two individual differences in emotional process on psychological problems: The mediating role of emotion dysregulation between emotional reactivity and distress17
The effect of trustworthiness impressions on individual investment decisions from the perspective of information source monitoring17
Neural rhythm processing predicts later executive functions and self-regulation in early adolescence17
NCAA student-athletes' personality traits in relation to work readiness17
Beware the inexperienced financial advisor with a high trait emotional intelligence: Psychological determinants of the misperception of the risk-return relationship16
Work ethic and grit: Explaining responses to dissatisfaction at work16
Exploring the mediator role of self-critical rumination between emotion regulation and psychopathology: A validation study of the Self-Critical Rumination Scale (SCRS) in a Spanish-speaking sample16
Conflict moderates the longitudinal association between aggression with classmates and popularity: Leveraging disagreements into peer status16
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The dark core of personality predicts mate poaching, jealousy, sociosexual orientation, ambivalent sexism, and attitudes toward sexual harassment16
The effect of consumers' implicit theory of personality and product feedback in self-directed consumer contexts16
Relations between a self-defeating interpersonal style and trait emotional intelligence16
Getting crafty when you're bored: The interaction between personality and boredom16
Narcissistic admiration and rivalry and reactions to romantic breakup16
The effects of benevolent vs. corrective humor on interpersonal liking and behavioral compliance16
Who understands irony? The relationship between cognitive flexibility, trait anger, and irony comprehension16
Positive and spontaneous facial expressions convey kindness and competence personality traits: Visual reasoning in personality attribution to faces16
Down to the core: The role of the common core of dark traits for aversive relationship behaviors16
Self-determination buffers the association between negative motivations for solitude and maladjustment among older adults16
Coordinated condemnation in women's intrasexual competition16
Anxious and status signaling: Examining the link between attachment style and status consumption and the mediating role of materialistic values15
When do creative people engage in malevolent behaviors? The moderating role of moral reasoning15
Testing the BFI-2 in a non-WEIRD community sample15
Too little, just right or too much? Assessing how people evaluate their conscientiousness levels15
Seeking or giving help? Linkages between the Dark Triad traits and adolescents' help seeking and giving orientations: The role of zero-sum mindset15
The valence-specific empathy imbalance hypothesis of autism: The role of autistic traits, alexithymia, emotion dysregulation, and gender differences15
Identifying the individual differences of trait self-control: Evidence from voxel-based morphometry15
Corrigendum to “Personality traits and conflict resolution styles: A meta-analysis” [Personality and Individual Differences volume 157, 15 April 2020, 109794]15
Don't tell me what to do! Narcissism and advice taking: A meta-analysis and future research directions15
The Dark Triad of personality and folk intuitions about free will and moral responsibility15
Development and validation of the highly sensitive child interview for the assessment of environmental sensitivity in primary school children15
Effect of mindful with your baby training on infant temperament: What parental factors are at play?15
Insecure attachment and PTSD: The mediating role of narcissistic traits15
COVID-19 and friendships: Agreeableness and neuroticism are associated with more concern about COVID-19 and friends' risky behaviors15
Gender differences in alexithymia: Insights from an Updated Meta-Analysis15
Relationships between Dark Tetrad traits and beliefs in conspiracy theories: Mediation effects of cognitive styles15
The boredom proneness levels of Chinese college students increased over time: A meta-analysis of birth cohort differences from 2009 to 202015
When and how does social curiosity trait lead to interpersonal citizenship behaviors?15
Mortality, self-interest, and fairness: The differential impact of death-related news on advantageous inequity aversion15
Dark Triad traits and relationship dissolution15
Reckless ambition: How implusivity moderates the effect of ambition on transformational leadership15
Latent profiles of perfectionism, unconditional self-acceptance, strengths use, and deficit correction: Associations with well-being in South Korean undergraduates15
Time to look at self-rated health: Do time attitudes scores explain variance in self-rated health beyond health indicators?15
Personality traits and long-term care financial risks among older Americans15
Lord's paradox in latent change score modeling: An example involving facilitating longitudinal effects between intelligence and academic achievement15
Re-exploring the relationships of humor styles with dark triad and self-esteem using structural equation modelling15
Reflection moderates the link between loneliness and eudaimonic well-being in mothers of young children: A COVID-19 pandemic study15
Getting to the bargaining table: The role of explicit motives and traits in negotiation initiation15
Integrating the approach/avoidance framework with multidimensional persistence: Identifying novel mediating effects and outcomes14
The interaction between clinically-elevated maladaptive personality traits and global emotion dysregulation elucidates individual differences in mood disorders: Findings from a non-Western clinical sa14
Concern about salient pathogen threats increases sensitivity to disgust14
Purpose in life, stress mindset, and perceived stress: Test of a mediational model14
Who experiences work as meaningful? A meta-analysis of individual differences and work meaningfulness14
It's not just a piece of paper: University education signals status and personality14
Vulnerable dark traits mediate the association between childhood adversity and suicidal ideation14
Effects of death anxiety and aggression on life satisfaction in the COVID-19 era: Comparisons between different generations and different socioeconomic statuses in Thailand14
Age metastereotypes at work: The influence of individual differences on age metastereotype consciousness, accessibility, and activation14
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Reward sensitivity across the lifespan in males and females and its associations with psychopathology14
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Character strength-based attributes as explanatory factors in the wellbeing benefits of music14
Meaning in life profiles across adolescence and their impact on mental health: A population-based cross-sectional developmental study in China14
Bystander barriers in sexual harassment - Associations with the Dark Triad and social anxiety14
Subjective Memory Complaints in young and older healthy people: Importance of anxiety, positivity, and cortisol indexes14
The role of conscientiousness in meeting psychological needs: A whole trait theory perspective14
Covariation between formidability inferences and perceptions of men's preferred humor styles14
Parental emotion regulation and children's mental health: Longitudinal mediation by parenting stress and sensitive challenging parenting14
Getting things done: Conscientiousness enables physical effort by reducing frustration14
From abstraction to action: The effect of construal level and future focus on employee voice14
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