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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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The relationship between task value, mental fatigue, and motivation: The role of trait mindfulness69
Gender swapping in massively multiplayer online role-playing games in China: Relationship to gender nonconformity and gender dysphoria68
`Association study of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, impulsivity personality traits and moderate alcohol consumption in men59
Does the association between self-focus and life satisfaction depend on the levels of perceived societal injustice?57
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Beyond vanilla: Sexual fantasies and the need for uniqueness48
Social jetlag and insomnia in the framework of personality traits: The mediating roles of general procrastination, problematic social media use, and bedtime procrastination47
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Is romantic nostalgia beneficial to relationship quality? Moderation by avoidance temperament46
Conformity to gender norms and denial of LGBTQ+ discrimination: The mediating role of anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy beliefs45
Corrigendum to “Balanced time perspective and psychological distress across cultures: The mediating role of self-concept clarity” [Personality and Individual Differences 249 (2026) 113517]45
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Perfectionism: A network analysis of relationships between the Big Three Perfectionism dimensions and the Big Five Personality traits44
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. 22742
No trait anxiety linked differences in affective and non-affective task-switching41
The ick: Disgust sensitivity, narcissism, and perfectionism in mate choice thresholds41
One, two, three, sit next to me: Personality and physical distance40
The association between adverse childhood experiences and early adulthood social mindfulness: The mediating role of daily stress39
Need for emotional closure scale: Testing for measurement invariance in Turkish and English versions38
Measurement of sensation seeking through self-directed emergent behavioral tasks38
Consumers' love for technological gadgets is linked to personal growth37
The effects of secure attachment priming on risk-taking behavior in the context of ostracism37
The development of the daughter-guarding scale: An exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic study37
Linking self-compassion to helping behavior: The moderating effect of supervisor bottom-line mentality37
Personality and burglary: A virtual reality study36
More than personality: How emotional intelligence moderates the association of personality traits and adolescents' pro-environmental behaviour36
Linking trait gratitude to employees' performance and work motivation: A two-wave longitudinal study36
Grit as a predictor of academic performance: Not much more than conscientiousness35
Socio-emotional stress regulation in infants with visual impairment: Exploring the role of maternal vocal and tactile behavior35
Beliefs about a brighter future for all humanity as an evolutionary adaptation to pathogen prevalence35
Linking classmate autonomy support with prosocial behavior in Chinese left-behind adolescents: The moderating role of self-esteem and grit35
Observing psychopathy promptly, reliably, and validly: Development and validation of the Short Psychopathy Rating Scale (SPRS)35
Associations between the dark tetrad and political orientation: A systematic review with meta-analysis34
Individual and group differences in multivariate domains: What happens when the number of traits increases?34
Does compassion for oneself extend to prosocial behavior for others? Examining the relationship between self-compassion and prosocial behavior using multilevel meta-analysis34
A psychometric exploration of the specificity of reinforcement sensitivity and social needs33
Entitled to reject in the digital age: The detrimental impact of psychological entitlement on AI acceptance32
Anger, cynical distrust, and election-related anxiety in presidential leadership selection32
Personality traits are associated with human cortical structural development during the transition from late adolescence to young adulthood: A longitudinal structural MRI study32
Intellectual humility and responsiveness to public health recommendations31
The words can harm scale: Measuring beliefs about harmful speech31
Embracing “COVID-normal”: Positive Personality and Posttraumatic Growth in the COVID-19 Pandemic31
Intellectual giftedness in adult lifespan: just a dimensional account or are there areas especially sensitive to high potential?31
Adaptation and validation of the spanish version of the moral attentiveness scale30
The relationship between smartphone addiction and procrastination among students: A systematic review and meta-analysis30
Exploring the dynamics of academic procrastination in junior high school students: Examining predictors using latent transition analysis30
Editorial to special issue “Parent-offspring traits, context and outcomes”30
Mind the unknown: Conceptual development and validation of the uncertainty mindset30
What can I be when I grow up? Parental support and career exploration among teenagers: The moderating role of dispositional optimism30
Strive to fit: Person, vocation, and organization strivings' impact on employee engagement and job performance30
Effects of maximizing on choosing a product and using it over 1 month29
Occupational intelligence as a measure of occupational complexity29
Expressing and negotiating identities in social media ecosystems: A typology of users and their associated personality profiles28
Moral foundations in the 2020s: Advancements in measurement, genetics, brain science, and real-world impact28
Breaking down power distance into 5 dimensions28
Bringing personality into ethics: Is a moral identity mainly a desire to be agreeable?27
The Big Five and divergent thinking: A meta-analysis27
Shyness, sociability, and empathy for others' physical pain27
Confidence does not equal competence: Socially dominant individuals are more confident in their decisions without being more accurate27
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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
Exploring the relationship between trait emotional intelligence and adaptive performance: the role of situational strength and self-efficacy26
Predictive validity of two conceptualizations of basic temperament dimensions26
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Lordosis in humans: women's accurate perceptions of men's context-dependent preferences26
Some rules should be broken: Developing a measure of constructive rule beliefs25
Do the morally permissive reproduce more? Sex differences and cross-national variation in 51 countries25
What is wrong with individual differences research?25
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Does psychological distress weaken belief in a just world? A longitudinal cross-lagged analysis of BJW and psychological well-being23
Subclinical sadism: Examining temperamental predispositions and emotional processing23
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(A)moral underpinnings of militant extremist thinking pattern: The role of moral foundations and Dark Tetrad22
Between ego and faith: Motivational, affective, and cognitive dimensions of religious engagement in narcissism22
How does identifying with one's nation predict support for wars? The role of secure national identification and national narcissism22
Development and validation of the Adolescent Social Goal Questionnaire among Chinese adolescents22
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Defining alexithymia: The clinical relevance of cognitive behavioral vs psychoanalytic conceptualizations21
The interplay between parental perfectionism, emotional intelligence, and parental burnout21
The effect of acute psychosocial stress on salivary cortisol and testosterone responses in men and women: The role of impulsivity21
Psychometric properties of the Icelandic version of HEXACO-60: Cognitive interviews and confirmatory factor analysis21
Does childhood adversity make adolescents more morally disengaged? The effect of life history strategy and self-compassion21
Social interpretation bias and inflexibility: Mapping indirect pathways from pathological personality traits to symptom clusters of anxiety and depression21
Attachment theory, organizational identification, and communication engagement strategies of successful college students: A retention study21
The causal relationship between perfectionism and negative affect: Two experimental studies21
Longitudinal analysis of the relation between changes in human values and social attitudes21
The influence of temporal focus on individual intertemporal decision-making in life history strategy framework21
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Personality and pro-environmental engagements: The role of the Dark Triad, the Light Triad, and value orientations20
Unfavorable prison social climate links dark tetrad traits with self-reported institutional misconduct20
Development and validation of the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-Being 18 item version (MI-RSWB-18)20
Perfectionism profiles and school-related stress associations: Examining the 2 × 2 model of dispositional perfectionism in children20
“On the roots of interpersonal strain at work: The role of burnout and social self-efficacy”20
Practically perfect in every way: Perfectionism and evaluations of perfect performances in sport20
Resolving the equivocal relationship of Machiavellianism and job performance: A socioanalytic perspective employing reputation, political skill, and five-factor Machiavellianism19
Academic procrastination and emotion regulation: Parallel trajectories and reciprocal influences over an academic semester19
Humor styles and emotional manipulation: A person-centered perspective18
Rejection sensitivity and risky mating tactics: Mate poaching and mate retention18
Conscientiousness and health outcomes: The moderating role of general mental ability and the mediating role of internal health locus of control18
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The Dark Triad of personality and criminal and delinquent behavior: Preregistered systematic review and three-level meta-analysis18
Revisiting gender differences in personality: New evidence on big five domains and facets with large-scale samples from 27 nations18
Interpersonal stressors, interpersonal sensitivity, and loneliness among college students: Disentangling between- and within-person associations18
The longitudinal relationship between future time perspective and life satisfaction among Chinese adolescents18
United States adults' social media use and digital emotion regulation in everyday life: The potential of social media to be harnessed for mental health18
Not completely unusable: Procedures to rescue the Big-Five personality data in the World Values Survey wave 618
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Come closer if you dare: A validation of the revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory by behavioral responses to positive and negative stimuli18
A holistic view of gender traits and personality traits predict human health18
Financial literacy mediates the effect between verbal intelligence and financial anxiety18
Daily dynamics of rest intolerance, anxiety, and problematic smartphone use: Insights from 14-day intensive longitudinal study17
What kind of Dr do you want to be?: A cross-sectional study measuring personality and sex effects of medical students17
Living fast and driving fast. Life history strategies, personality, and aggressive driving17
Embracing the enhanced self now and in the future: The impact of temporal focus, age, and sex on cyborg products use intention17
Hybrid is here to stay: Critical behaviors for success in the new world of work17
Factor structure of the Climate Change Anxiety Scale: An individual participant data meta-analysis17
The allure of a slow life strategy: How mating context and ecological harshness shape mate preferences17
Differences in moral judgment predict behavior in a Covid triage game scenario17
Assessing daily decision-making behavior: A two-dimensional orientation–intensity framework linking dual-process theory and psychological states17
Analytic adolescents prevail over fake news – A large-scale preregistered study17
Applicant faking warnings: Are they really effective?17
Psychometric properties of a Persian adaptation of the Emotional Manipulation Scale in an Iranian sample: Who can vs. who will engage in emotional manipulation?17
The effects of two individual differences in emotional process on psychological problems: The mediating role of emotion dysregulation between emotional reactivity and distress17
Ecologically contingent preferences for formidable coalitional allies as a function of conservative ideologies17
Dark traits, social motives, and apps used: A life history approach17
Leader honesty-humility, political skill, and leadership effectiveness: The mediating role of employee extra effort17
Rewriting the script: How COVID-19 affected the relation between intrinsic aspirations and depressive symptoms17
Happiness is associated with higher narcissism but lower psychopathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between happiness and the Dark Triad17
Time psychology is existential: Attitudes toward death, nature, and time are intertwined17
Balancing light and dark: personality profiles derived from the Big Five and Dark Tetrad Traits16
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Voters' HEXACO personality traits as predictors of their presidential leadership style preferences16
Proving my creativity: When and why leaders' idea rejection leads to employees' creative deviance?16
Retraction notice to “Socially dominant women strategically build coalitions of strong men in resource-rich environments” [Personal. Individ. Differ. 171 (2021) 110496]16
The effect of instrumental harm on bystander cooperation behaviour: The roles of social perception and instrumental harm personality16
Exploring the associations among relationship-related attitudes, affection deprivation, and faking orgasm among heterosexual women in the United States16
Birth order, personality, and tattoos: A pre-registered empirical test of the ‘born to rebel’ hypothesis16
Honesty-Humility, the Dark Tetrad, and ideological beliefs: Their incremental validity in predicting explicit prejudice toward asylum seekers16
Pandemic stressors and depressive symptoms: Examining within- and between-person effects of neuroticism16
Adolescent narcissism: A network analysis16
Network analysis links problematic internet use with family health and personality traits: A national-based study16
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They will (not) deceive us! The role of agentic and communal national narcissism in shaping the attitudes to Ukrainian refugees in Poland16
Appreciation and rumination, not problem solving and avoidance, mediate the effect of optimism on emotional wellbeing16
The next distinction without a difference: Do psychopathy and sadism scales assess the same construct?16
Two sides of the same coin? On the common etiology of Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation15
A call for action! Examining national diversity in PAID authorship (2020−2023)15
A study of trickle-down effects of leader Machiavellianism on follower unethical behaviour: A social learning perspective15
Measurement precision and user experience with adaptive versus non-adaptive psychometric tests15
Infection changes social orientations: The effect of disease salience on shifts in individualism and collectivism15
Indirect effects of parental and peer attachment on Internet Gaming Disorder among adolescents: The role of negative automatic thoughts15
Vulnerable women and grandiose men? A 2D:4D study on the links between narcissism and prenatal estrogen/testosterone exposure in women and men15
The five factors of personality and personal values: An update with the refined theory15
How followers' neuroticism buffers the role of the leader in their daily mental health via daily positive affect: A multilevel approach15
Multimodal assessment of social anxiety among international students15
The network structure of life history strategy, personality, and sociosexuality in an Iranian sample15
Direct effect of personality traits and work engagement on job crafting: A structural model15
Predicting attitudes toward cryptocurrencies and stocks: The divergent roles of narcissism, intelligence and financial literacy15
Burnout, work engagement and life satisfaction among Spanish teachers: The unique contribution of core self-evaluations15
Trait anxiety negatively affected creative discovery under pressure conditions: Evidence from behavioral responses and ERPs15
Extraverts suffer from social distancing: A 30-day diary study15
Network-based meta-analysis of sensory processing sensitivity: Exploring its relations with personality and temperament traits15
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Different shades of narcissism at work: The relationships of narcissism dimensions with work-related outcomes14
The Human Values Scales: Detecting value structure and variability across cultures14
Development and validation of the highly sensitive child interview for the assessment of environmental sensitivity in primary school children14
Time to look at self-rated health: Do time attitudes scores explain variance in self-rated health beyond health indicators?14
Seeking or giving help? Linkages between the Dark Triad traits and adolescents' help seeking and giving orientations: The role of zero-sum mindset14
Decoding the personality correlates of adverse childhood experiences: A five-factor model facet-level analysis with a U.S. sample14
Narcissism and self-estimated intelligence: New insights from multidimensional assessments14
Considering sadism in the shadow of the Dark Triad traits: A meta-analytic review of the Dark Tetrad14
Dating in a digital world: The role of pathological personality traits in psychological reactions to direct and ambiguous rejection14
The Hedonic and Arousal Affect Scale (HAAS): A brief adjective checklist to assess affect states14
COVID-19 and friendships: Agreeableness and neuroticism are associated with more concern about COVID-19 and friends' risky behaviors14
Relations between a self-defeating interpersonal style and trait emotional intelligence14
Positive and spontaneous facial expressions convey kindness and competence personality traits: Visual reasoning in personality attribution to faces14
NCAA student-athletes' personality traits in relation to work readiness14
Insecure attachment and PTSD: The mediating role of narcissistic traits14
Identifying the individual differences of trait self-control: Evidence from voxel-based morphometry14
The bidirectional dynamic relationship between physical exercise and interpersonal competence in college students: A four-wave longitudinal study14
Self-efficacy and nontask performance at work. A meta-analytic summary14
From trait to transformation: Integrating Zimbardo's Time Perspective Theory and the Sphere Model of Consciousness14
Nostalgia enhances gratitude by fostering social connectedness14
Self-comparison versus social-comparison: The impact of imperfection on executive function in perfectionists14
Work ethic and grit: Explaining responses to dissatisfaction at work14
Self-determination buffers the association between negative motivations for solitude and maladjustment among older adults14
Getting crafty when you're bored: The interaction between personality and boredom14
The effect of trustworthiness impressions on individual investment decisions from the perspective of information source monitoring14
Who understands irony? The relationship between cognitive flexibility, trait anger, and irony comprehension13
Extraversion, workplace support, and burnout: The moderating role of neuroticism13
Mortality, self-interest, and fairness: The differential impact of death-related news on advantageous inequity aversion13
Dark Triad traits and short-form video addiction in adolescents: Longitudinal mediation by future time perspective and moderation by mindfulness13
How early psychological abuse predicts decreased relationship satisfaction via belongingness in adulthood: A longitudinal study13
Individual in online polarization: Development of the online polarized aggression scale (OPAS)13
Personality's dual lens: Dark–light traits bound and channel the manipulation–moral emotions link under acute physical exhaustion13
The effects of benevolent vs. corrective humor on interpersonal liking and behavioral compliance13
Laughing matters: Exploring ridicule-related traits, personality, and well-being13
The dark core of personality predicts mate poaching, jealousy, sociosexual orientation, ambivalent sexism, and attitudes toward sexual harassment13
Effect of mindful with your baby training on infant temperament: What parental factors are at play?13
Too little, just right or too much? Assessing how people evaluate their conscientiousness levels13
The boredom proneness levels of Chinese college students increased over time: A meta-analysis of birth cohort differences from 2009 to 202013
Perceived threats, trust in authorities, and well-being: The role of responsibility attribution13
Latent profiles of perfectionism, unconditional self-acceptance, strengths use, and deficit correction: Associations with well-being in South Korean undergraduates13
Studying the associations between adult playfulness and self-esteem: An exploratory study using two samples and a mini meta-analysis13
Neural rhythm processing predicts later executive functions and self-regulation in early adolescence13
Rethinking alexithymia in athletes: Barriers to help-seeking and opportunities for intervention13
Seeing workplace bullying through a glass darkly: The illuminating role of organizational and individual ethics13
Dark Triad traits and relationship dissolution13
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Subjective Memory Complaints in young and older healthy people: Importance of anxiety, positivity, and cortisol indexes12
The importance of situation evaluation and the ability to identify criteria in a construct-driven situational judgment test12
Re-exploring the relationships of humor styles with dark triad and self-esteem using structural equation modelling12
Vulnerable dark traits mediate the association between childhood adversity and suicidal ideation12
Down to the core: The role of the common core of dark traits for aversive relationship behaviors12
No man is an island: A study of the interplay between individual ethics and shared cultural values in influencing happiness12
Emotional blur as an individual difference variable: Prospective associations with alexithymia and neuroticism12
The creative thinking profile: Predicting intrinsic motivation based on preferences for different creative thinking styles12
Character strength-based attributes as explanatory factors in the wellbeing benefits of music12
The role of conscientiousness in meeting psychological needs: A whole trait theory perspective12
Don't tell me what to do! Narcissism and advice taking: A meta-analysis and future research directions12
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
Getting things done: Conscientiousness enables physical effort by reducing frustration12
It's not just a piece of paper: University education signals status and personality12
Association of life history strategy and mate retention behavior in men and women12
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
Children's shyness, emotional intelligence, and internalizing behaviors12
Bystander barriers in sexual harassment - Associations with the Dark Triad and social anxiety12
An evolutionary-developmental perspective on the relationship between childhood unpredictability and intellectual humility12
Getting ahead in “murky waters”: Political skill, organizational politics, and leader-rated employee promotability12
Reflection moderates the link between loneliness and eudaimonic well-being in mothers of young children: A COVID-19 pandemic study12
Corrigendum to “Personality traits and conflict resolution styles: A meta-analysis” [Personality and Individual Differences volume 157, 15 April 2020, 109794]12
Gender differences in alexithymia: Insights from an Updated Meta-Analysis12
The valence-specific empathy imbalance hypothesis of autism: The role of autistic traits, alexithymia, emotion dysregulation, and gender differences12
The relationship between negative life events and problematic mobile phone use: Evidence from a daily diary study12
Relationships between Dark Tetrad traits and beliefs in conspiracy theories: Mediation effects of cognitive styles12
Amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex activations during emotional Stroop and self-negativity appraisal are associated with trait resilience12
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Examining the connections between boredom proneness, resilience, mental well-being, and rumination11
Manipulations in intergroup dynamics: Outgroup collective Machiavellianism polarizes intergroup attitudes11
Covariation between formidability inferences and perceptions of men's preferred humor styles11
Aiming (too) high: Narcissism and unrealistic goal setting11
Getting to the bargaining table: The role of explicit motives and traits in negotiation initiation11
Predicting depressive symptomatology and resiliency during COVID-19: An embodied attachment perspective11
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