Personality and Individual Differences

Papers
(The TQCC of Personality and Individual Differences 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Confidence does not equal competence: Socially dominant individuals are more confident in their decisions without being more accurate61
Adaptation and validation of the spanish version of the moral attentiveness scale60
Observing psychopathy promptly, reliably, and validly: Development and validation of the Short Psychopathy Rating Scale (SPRS)54
Embracing “COVID-normal”: Positive Personality and Posttraumatic Growth in the COVID-19 Pandemic53
The relationship between task value, mental fatigue, and motivation: The role of trait mindfulness51
The effect of self-esteem on combat stress in engagement: An XR simulator study47
Gender swapping in massively multiplayer online role-playing games in China: Relationship to gender nonconformity and gender dysphoria46
Exploring the dynamics of academic procrastination in junior high school students: Examining predictors using latent transition analysis46
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`Association study of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, impulsivity personality traits and moderate alcohol consumption in men44
Does the association between self-focus and life satisfaction depend on the levels of perceived societal injustice?43
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Beyond vanilla: Sexual fantasies and the need for uniqueness40
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Expressing and negotiating identities in social media ecosystems: A typology of users and their associated personality profiles39
Editorial to special issue “Parent-offspring traits, context and outcomes”38
Intellectual giftedness in adult lifespan: just a dimensional account or are there areas especially sensitive to high potential?38
Is romantic nostalgia beneficial to relationship quality? Moderation by avoidance temperament37
Social jetlag and insomnia in the framework of personality traits: The mediating roles of general procrastination, problematic social media use, and bedtime procrastination37
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Individual and group differences in multivariate domains: What happens when the number of traits increases?35
Effects of maximizing on choosing a product and using it over 1 month35
Corrigendum to “Balanced time perspective and psychological distress across cultures: The mediating role of self-concept clarity” [Personality and Individual Differences 249 (2026) 113517]35
Conformity to gender norms and denial of LGBTQ+ discrimination: The mediating role of anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy beliefs34
Grit as a predictor of academic performance: Not much more than conscientiousness34
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. 22733
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Perfectionism: A network analysis of relationships between the Big Three Perfectionism dimensions and the Big Five Personality traits33
No trait anxiety linked differences in affective and non-affective task-switching32
Strive to fit: Person, vocation, and organization strivings' impact on employee engagement and job performance32
What can I be when I grow up? Parental support and career exploration among teenagers: The moderating role of dispositional optimism32
Consumers' love for technological gadgets is linked to personal growth31
Occupational intelligence as a measure of occupational complexity31
Associations between the dark tetrad and political orientation: A systematic review with meta-analysis31
A psychometric exploration of the specificity of reinforcement sensitivity and social needs30
Linking classmate autonomy support with prosocial behavior in Chinese left-behind adolescents: The moderating role of self-esteem and grit30
Linking trait gratitude to employees' performance and work motivation: A two-wave longitudinal study30
Beliefs about a brighter future for all humanity as an evolutionary adaptation to pathogen prevalence30
Personality and burglary: A virtual reality study30
Does compassion for oneself extend to prosocial behavior for others? Examining the relationship between self-compassion and prosocial behavior using multilevel meta-analysis29
Measurement of sensation seeking through self-directed emergent behavioral tasks29
Developing a novel assessment of interpretation flexibility: Reliability, validity and clinical implications28
Linking self-compassion to helping behavior: The moderating effect of supervisor bottom-line mentality28
The association between adverse childhood experiences and early adulthood social mindfulness: The mediating role of daily stress28
The ick: Disgust sensitivity, narcissism, and perfectionism in mate choice thresholds28
Breaking down power distance into 5 dimensions28
Need for emotional closure scale: Testing for measurement invariance in Turkish and English versions28
Intellectual humility and responsiveness to public health recommendations28
Socio-emotional stress regulation in infants with visual impairment: Exploring the role of maternal vocal and tactile behavior28
One, two, three, sit next to me: Personality and physical distance28
Bringing personality into ethics: Is a moral identity mainly a desire to be agreeable?27
Longitudinal analysis of the relation between changes in human values and social attitudes27
The Big Five and divergent thinking: A meta-analysis27
“On the roots of interpersonal strain at work: The role of burnout and social self-efficacy”27
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Shyness, sociability, and empathy for others' physical pain27
The relationship between smartphone addiction and procrastination among students: A systematic review and meta-analysis27
Practically perfect in every way: Perfectionism and evaluations of perfect performances in sport26
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 Differe26
Conscientiousness and health outcomes: The moderating role of general mental ability and the mediating role of internal health locus of control25
Exploring the relationship between trait emotional intelligence and adaptive performance: the role of situational strength and self-efficacy25
Resolving the equivocal relationship of Machiavellianism and job performance: A socioanalytic perspective employing reputation, political skill, and five-factor Machiavellianism25
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Come closer if you dare: A validation of the revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory by behavioral responses to positive and negative stimuli25
The longitudinal relationship between future time perspective and life satisfaction among Chinese adolescents25
Subclinical sadism: Examining temperamental predispositions and emotional processing24
Predictive validity of two conceptualizations of basic temperament dimensions24
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Lordosis in humans: women's accurate perceptions of men's context-dependent preferences24
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Development and validation of the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-Being 18 item version (MI-RSWB-18)24
The effect of acute psychosocial stress on salivary cortisol and testosterone responses in men and women: The role of impulsivity23
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The dark side of belief in Covid-19 scientists and scientific evidence22
Does psychological distress weaken belief in a just world? A longitudinal cross-lagged analysis of BJW and psychological well-being22
Psychometric properties of the Icelandic version of HEXACO-60: Cognitive interviews and confirmatory factor analysis22
Social interpretation bias and inflexibility: Mapping indirect pathways from pathological personality traits to symptom clusters of anxiety and depression22
A holistic view of gender traits and personality traits predict human health22
Attachment theory, organizational identification, and communication engagement strategies of successful college students: A retention study22
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The causal relationship between perfectionism and negative affect: Two experimental studies22
Not completely unusable: Procedures to rescue the Big-Five personality data in the World Values Survey wave 621
Academic procrastination and emotion regulation: Parallel trajectories and reciprocal influences over an academic semester21
Does childhood adversity make adolescents more morally disengaged? The effect of life history strategy and self-compassion21
Perfectionism profiles and school-related stress associations: Examining the 2 × 2 model of dispositional perfectionism in children21
How does identifying with one's nation predict support for wars? The role of secure national identification and national narcissism21
Some rules should be broken: Developing a measure of constructive rule beliefs20
What is wrong with individual differences research?20
The influence of temporal focus on individual intertemporal decision-making in life history strategy framework20
Unfavorable prison social climate links dark tetrad traits with self-reported institutional misconduct20
Defining alexithymia: The clinical relevance of cognitive behavioral vs psychoanalytic conceptualizations20
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Ecologically contingent preferences for formidable coalitional allies as a function of conservative ideologies19
Applicant faking warnings: Are they really effective?19
Differences in moral judgment predict behavior in a Covid triage game scenario19
Living fast and driving fast. Life history strategies, personality, and aggressive driving19
The interplay between parental perfectionism, emotional intelligence, and parental burnout19
What kind of Dr do you want to be?: A cross-sectional study measuring personality and sex effects of medical students19
Rewriting the script: How COVID-19 affected the relation between intrinsic aspirations and depressive symptoms19
Personality and pro-environmental engagements: The role of the Dark Triad, the Light Triad, and value orientations19
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Dark traits, social motives, and apps used: A life history approach19
Measurement precision and user experience with adaptive versus non-adaptive psychometric tests18
Assessing daily decision-making behavior: A two-dimensional orientation–intensity framework linking dual-process theory and psychological states18
Predicting attitudes toward cryptocurrencies and stocks: The divergent roles of narcissism, intelligence and financial literacy17
Happiness is associated with higher narcissism but lower psychopathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between happiness and the Dark Triad17
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A study of trickle-down effects of leader Machiavellianism on follower unethical behaviour: A social learning perspective17
Birth order, personality, and tattoos: A pre-registered empirical test of the ‘born to rebel’ hypothesis17
Leader honesty-humility, political skill, and leadership effectiveness: The mediating role of employee extra effort17
Indirect effects of parental and peer attachment on Internet Gaming Disorder among adolescents: The role of negative automatic thoughts17
The bidirectional dynamic relationship between physical exercise and interpersonal competence in college students: A four-wave longitudinal study17
Network-based meta-analysis of sensory processing sensitivity: Exploring its relations with personality and temperament traits17
Network analysis links problematic internet use with family health and personality traits: A national-based study17
A call for action! Examining national diversity in PAID authorship (2020−2023)17
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Is free will belief a positive predictor of well-being? The evidence of the cross-lagged examination17
The effect of instrumental harm on bystander cooperation behaviour: The roles of social perception and instrumental harm personality16
The effects of two individual differences in emotional process on psychological problems: The mediating role of emotion dysregulation between emotional reactivity and distress16
The Dark Triad of personality and criminal and delinquent behavior: Preregistered systematic review and three-level meta-analysis16
Trait anxiety negatively affected creative discovery under pressure conditions: Evidence from behavioral responses and ERPs16
Retraction notice to “Socially dominant women strategically build coalitions of strong men in resource-rich environments” [Personal. Individ. Differ. 171 (2021) 110496]16
Honesty-Humility, the Dark Tetrad, and ideological beliefs: Their incremental validity in predicting explicit prejudice toward asylum seekers16
Multimodal assessment of social anxiety among international students16
Pandemic stressors and depressive symptoms: Examining within- and between-person effects of neuroticism16
Burnout, work engagement and life satisfaction among Spanish teachers: The unique contribution of core self-evaluations16
Daily dynamics of rest intolerance, anxiety, and problematic smartphone use: Insights from 14-day intensive longitudinal study16
Adolescent narcissism: A network analysis16
Different shades of narcissism at work: The relationships of narcissism dimensions with work-related outcomes16
They will (not) deceive us! The role of agentic and communal national narcissism in shaping the attitudes to Ukrainian refugees in Poland16
Analytic adolescents prevail over fake news – A large-scale preregistered study16
United States adults' social media use and digital emotion regulation in everyday life: The potential of social media to be harnessed for mental health16
Proving my creativity: When and why leaders' idea rejection leads to employees' creative deviance?16
The next distinction without a difference: Do psychopathy and sadism scales assess the same construct?16
Voters' HEXACO personality traits as predictors of their presidential leadership style preferences16
Vulnerable women and grandiose men? A 2D:4D study on the links between narcissism and prenatal estrogen/testosterone exposure in women and men16
Appreciation and rumination, not problem solving and avoidance, mediate the effect of optimism on emotional wellbeing16
Two sides of the same coin? On the common etiology of Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation16
Considering sadism in the shadow of the Dark Triad traits: A meta-analytic review of the Dark Tetrad16
Extraverts suffer from social distancing: A 30-day diary study15
Direct effect of personality traits and work engagement on job crafting: A structural model15
Balancing light and dark: personality profiles derived from the Big Five and Dark Tetrad Traits15
How followers' neuroticism buffers the role of the leader in their daily mental health via daily positive affect: A multilevel approach15
Financial literacy mediates the effect between verbal intelligence and financial anxiety15
Infection changes social orientations: The effect of disease salience on shifts in individualism and collectivism15
Embracing the enhanced self now and in the future: The impact of temporal focus, age, and sex on cyborg products use intention15
The Hedonic and Arousal Affect Scale (HAAS): A brief adjective checklist to assess affect states15
The five factors of personality and personal values: An update with the refined theory15
Dating in a digital world: The role of pathological personality traits in psychological reactions to direct and ambiguous rejection15
The network structure of life history strategy, personality, and sociosexuality in an Iranian sample15
Exploring the associations among relationship-related attitudes, affection deprivation, and faking orgasm among heterosexual women in the United States15
Self-efficacy and nontask performance at work. A meta-analytic summary15
Self-determination buffers the association between negative motivations for solitude and maladjustment among older adults14
Hybrid is here to stay: Critical behaviors for success in the new world of work14
From trait to transformation: Integrating Zimbardo's Time Perspective Theory and the Sphere Model of Consciousness14
Seeking or giving help? Linkages between the Dark Triad traits and adolescents' help seeking and giving orientations: The role of zero-sum mindset14
Perceived threats, trust in authorities, and well-being: The role of responsibility attribution14
Mortality, self-interest, and fairness: The differential impact of death-related news on advantageous inequity aversion14
Conflict moderates the longitudinal association between aggression with classmates and popularity: Leveraging disagreements into peer status14
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The Human Values Scales: Detecting value structure and variability across cultures14
The effect of consumers' implicit theory of personality and product feedback in self-directed consumer contexts14
Time to look at self-rated health: Do time attitudes scores explain variance in self-rated health beyond health indicators?14
Dark Triad traits and short-form video addiction in adolescents: Longitudinal mediation by future time perspective and moderation by mindfulness14
Positive and spontaneous facial expressions convey kindness and competence personality traits: Visual reasoning in personality attribution to faces14
The effect of trustworthiness impressions on individual investment decisions from the perspective of information source monitoring14
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Narcissism and self-estimated intelligence: New insights from multidimensional assessments14
The effects of benevolent vs. corrective humor on interpersonal liking and behavioral compliance14
Personality's dual lens: Dark–light traits bound and channel the manipulation–moral emotions link under acute physical exhaustion14
The relationship between negative life events and problematic mobile phone use: Evidence from a daily diary study13
Emotional blur as an individual difference variable: Prospective associations with alexithymia and neuroticism13
Association of life history strategy and mate retention behavior in men and women13
Anxious and status signaling: Examining the link between attachment style and status consumption and the mediating role of materialistic values13
Self-comparison versus social-comparison: The impact of imperfection on executive function in perfectionists13
No man is an island: A study of the interplay between individual ethics and shared cultural values in influencing happiness13
Down to the core: The role of the common core of dark traits for aversive relationship behaviors13
Insecure attachment and PTSD: The mediating role of narcissistic traits13
NCAA student-athletes' personality traits in relation to work readiness13
Relations between a self-defeating interpersonal style and trait emotional intelligence13
Latent profiles of perfectionism, unconditional self-acceptance, strengths use, and deficit correction: Associations with well-being in South Korean undergraduates13
Who understands irony? The relationship between cognitive flexibility, trait anger, and irony comprehension13
Getting crafty when you're bored: The interaction between personality and boredom13
COVID-19 and friendships: Agreeableness and neuroticism are associated with more concern about COVID-19 and friends' risky behaviors13
Personality traits and long-term care financial risks among older Americans13
Dark Triad traits and relationship dissolution13
The valence-specific empathy imbalance hypothesis of autism: The role of autistic traits, alexithymia, emotion dysregulation, and gender differences13
Decoding the personality correlates of adverse childhood experiences: A five-factor model facet-level analysis with a U.S. sample13
Development and validation of the highly sensitive child interview for the assessment of environmental sensitivity in primary school children13
Neural rhythm processing predicts later executive functions and self-regulation in early adolescence13
Extraversion, workplace support, and burnout: The moderating role of neuroticism13
Nostalgia enhances gratitude by fostering social connectedness13
Laughing matters: Exploring ridicule-related traits, personality, and well-being13
Identifying the individual differences of trait self-control: Evidence from voxel-based morphometry13
Work ethic and grit: Explaining responses to dissatisfaction at work13
It's not just a piece of paper: University education signals status and personality12
Vulnerable dark traits mediate the association between childhood adversity and suicidal ideation12
Reward sensitivity across the lifespan in males and females and its associations with psychopathology12
Following your heart: Cardiac autonomic modulation as a feature of decision-making under ambiguity and risk12
Age metastereotypes at work: The influence of individual differences on age metastereotype consciousness, accessibility, and activation12
The creative thinking profile: Predicting intrinsic motivation based on preferences for different creative thinking styles12
The interaction between clinically-elevated maladaptive personality traits and global emotion dysregulation elucidates individual differences in mood disorders: Findings from a non-Western clinical sa12
Integrating the approach/avoidance framework with multidimensional persistence: Identifying novel mediating effects and outcomes12
Don't tell me what to do! Narcissism and advice taking: A meta-analysis and future research directions12
Seeing workplace bullying through a glass darkly: The illuminating role of organizational and individual ethics12
Too little, just right or too much? Assessing how people evaluate their conscientiousness levels12
The dark core of personality predicts mate poaching, jealousy, sociosexual orientation, ambivalent sexism, and attitudes toward sexual harassment12
Corrigendum to “Personality traits and conflict resolution styles: A meta-analysis” [Personality and Individual Differences volume 157, 15 April 2020, 109794]12
Parental emotion regulation and children's mental health: Longitudinal mediation by parenting stress and sensitive challenging parenting12
Examining the connections between boredom proneness, resilience, mental well-being, and rumination12
An evolutionary-developmental perspective on the relationship between childhood unpredictability and intellectual humility12
Beauty and riches: People who think they are attractive are more materialistic, the mediating role of social comparison orientation and the buffering role of self-affirmation12
From abstraction to action: The effect of construal level and future focus on employee voice12
Getting to the bargaining table: The role of explicit motives and traits in negotiation initiation12
When and how does social curiosity trait lead to interpersonal citizenship behaviors?12
Rethinking alexithymia in athletes: Barriers to help-seeking and opportunities for intervention12
Gender differences in alexithymia: Insights from an Updated Meta-Analysis12
Effect of mindful with your baby training on infant temperament: What parental factors are at play?12
Getting things done: Conscientiousness enables physical effort by reducing frustration12
How to get things done: Tight linkage of conscientiousness with twelve mechanisms of Goal Setting Theory12
Cross-context gaslighting and the role of victim personality12
Subjective Memory Complaints in young and older healthy people: Importance of anxiety, positivity, and cortisol indexes12
Children's shyness, emotional intelligence, and internalizing behaviors12
Re-exploring the relationships of humor styles with dark triad and self-esteem using structural equation modelling12
The Dark Triad of personality and folk intuitions about free will and moral responsibility12
Relationships between Dark Tetrad traits and beliefs in conspiracy theories: Mediation effects of cognitive styles12
The boredom proneness levels of Chinese college students increased over time: A meta-analysis of birth cohort differences from 2009 to 202012
Meaning in life profiles across adolescence and their impact on mental health: A population-based cross-sectional developmental study in China11
Aiming (too) high: Narcissism and unrealistic goal setting11
Manipulations in intergroup dynamics: Outgroup collective Machiavellianism polarizes intergroup attitudes11
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A multidimensional approach to sexual prejudice: Examining the unique roles of moral disapproval and outgroup antipathy11
The predictive role of personality traits and burnout on preservice teachers' future time perspectives: A hybrid SEM-ANN approach11
The importance of situation evaluation and the ability to identify criteria in a construct-driven situational judgment test11
Getting ahead in “murky waters”: Political skill, organizational politics, and leader-rated employee promotability11
An investigation of effects of instruction set on item desirability matching11
Socio-demographic correlates of subjective age in young and middle-aged adults11
Initial vs. retest GRE performance: A study of one million Graduate Record Examination test-retest observations11
Quick but not painless: Differential effects of relationship dissolution trajectory on self-concept clarity and psychological distress11
Mouth proximity influences perceived disgust of visual stimuli11
Amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex activations during emotional Stroop and self-negativity appraisal are associated with trait resilience11
Predicting depressive symptomatology and resiliency during COVID-19: An embodied attachment perspective11
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When core beliefs get stuck: Distinct routes to posttraumatic growth and depreciation11
Approaching the gateway to doping hypothesis through personality analysis11
Examining the longitudinal relationship between family conflict and bullying in Chinese children: The serial mediating roles of personal mastery and social anxiety11
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