OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Personality is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Perception of major life events and personality trait change	79
Speed-dating and simulation data explain the discrepancy between stated and revealed mate preferences	27
Motive-Specific Affective Contingencies and Their Relevance for Personality and Motivated Behavior	22
Probing the predictive validity of ideal partner preferences for future partner traits and relationship outcomes across 13 years	22
Personality Traits and Perceptions of Major Life Events	20
I am who I am with: The link between different types of social interaction partners and personality in adolescence	20
Associations of common mental disorders with personality traits over a 17-year period	20
The quest for genuine self-knowledge: An investigation into individual differences in the self-insight motive	19
Values across adolescence: a four-year longitudinal study. The predictive role of community violence and parental acceptance-rejection	19
What is common may be as important as what is different: Examining the general factor shared by dispositional shame and guilt using bi-factor models	18
Stability and change in dispositional envy: Longitudinal evidence on envy as a stable trait	18
Lifespan trajectories of negative and positive affect: A coordinated analysis of 14 longitudinal studies	16
The development of trait greed during young adulthood: A simultaneous investigation of environmental effects and negative core beliefs	16
Stability and change of basic personal values in mid-to-late adolescence: A 4-year longitudinal study	15
Revisiting the IPIP-NEO personality hierarchy with taxonomic graph analysis	14
When do we put things off? A volitional-task attractiveness framework of personality and task-related factors in predicting procrastinatory behavior	14
Bad news first—Neuroticism, negative expectations, and preference for negative information	14
Conceptualizing and Studying Characteristics, Units, and Fits of Persons and Environments: A Coherent Synthesis	14
I feel smart today! A daily diary study on narcissism and self-assessed intelligence	14
Life events and life satisfaction: Estimating effects of multiple life events in combined models	14
Trajectories of temperament from late childhood through adolescence and associations with anxiety and depression in young adulthood	13
The factor structure of Big Five personality trait measures at the between- and within-person levels	12
Filling in the missing pieces: Personality traits (un)related to dishonest behavior	11
Gender and values in 20 years of the European Social Survey: Are gender-typical values linked to parenthood?	10
Short-term dynamics of pride and state self-esteem change during the university-to-work transition	10

Longitudinal associations between personality traits and cognitive complaints in midlife and older age across 20 years	9
Interindividual age differences in personality structure	9
How was your child’s temperament today and last week? Considering within-person variability in the measurement of infant temperament	9
State investigative interest varies across daily life and predicts academic engagement: Replication and extension of the nomological network	9
Developmental trajectories of ethnic and national identities in adolescents from migrant families: The role of social identification with family and classmates	9
Long-Term Advantages of Adolescent Optimism: Nonlinear Associations With Adult Outcomes and its Protective Role in Buffering Socioeconomic Risk	9
Moving towards darkness: The personality-environment association between the Dark Triad and residential mobility	9
MIsgivings about measurement invariance	8
The development and correlated change of narcissism and self-esteem in adulthood	8
How are common major life events perceived? Exploring differences between and variability of different typical event profiles and raters	8
Does realizing strengths, insight, and behavioral practice through a psychological intervention promote personality change? An intensive longitudinal study	8
Codevelopment of the dark triad and depressiveness from emerging adulthood to midlife	8
Personality development in adolescence: Examining big five trait trajectories in differential learning environments	7
Initiation of drug and alcohol use and personality development during adolescence	7
Reciprocal associations between sense of purpose and subjective well-being in old age	7
Predicting romantic interest during early relationship development: A preregistered investigation using machine learning	7
The language of power: Interpersonal perceptions of sense of power, dominance, and prestige based on word usage	7
In good times and in bad: A longitudinal analysis of the impact of bereavement on self-esteem and life satisfaction in couples	6
Structural and Inter-individual Differentiation in Personality Traits Across the Adult Lifespan	6
The complexity of the pursuit of happiness is associated with the success of well-being related behaviors in everyday life	6
The inertia of anger and sadness among adolescents and adults: The role of self-efficacy in regulating negative emotions	6
Life Events and Personality Change: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	6
Developing, evaluating, and interpreting personality state measures: A framework based on the revised latent state-trait theory	6
What does a personality science approach to post-traumatic growth reveal?	6
Spurious prospective effects between work experiences and self-esteem: A reanalysis of a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	6
Do you mind a closer look? A jingle-jangle fallacy perspective on mindfulness	6
How much can personality predict prosocial behavior?	6
Not all flowers bloom in April: Self-esteem development surrounding the first romantic relationship during adolescence and emerging adulthood	5
What if there were no personality factors? Comparing the predictability of behavioral act frequencies from a big-five and a maximal-dimensional item set	5
Changes in social, emotional, and behavioral skills are associated with changes in secondary school students’ important outcomes	5
What defines Traits, Reputations, and Identity? Personality item content in multi-rater judgments	5
The concert of personality: Explaining personality functioning and coherence by personality systems interactions	5
Is there a g-factor of genderedness? Using a continuous measure of genderedness to assess sex differences in personality, values, cognitive ability, school grades, and educational track	5
Detecting spurious effects in cross-lagged panel models: Triangulation is not a valid test	5
Self-Regulatory Strategy Use, Efficacy, and Strategy-Situation-Fit in Self-Control Conflicts of Initiation, Persistence, and Inhibition	5
Basic personal values and vote choice in 20 European countries	5
Do you understand what I experienced? Self- and informant-perception of major life events	5
Unraveling the Relation Between Personality and Well-Being in a Genetically Informative Design	5
Personality psychology is getting personal: Advancing the field through personalization	5
Daily dynamics of grandiose narcissism: distribution, stability, and trait relations of admiration and rivalry states and state contingencies	4
How spousal bereavement shapes life satisfaction: Stability and change across historical time	4
Emotional responses to a global stressor: Average patterns and individual differences	4
Interdependencies between family and friends in daily life: Personality differences and associations with affective well-being across the lifespan	4
How Is Variety in Daily Life Related to the Expression of Personality States? An Ambulatory Assessment Study	4
Adolescence as a peak period of borderline personality features? A meta-analytic approach	4
The structure of Japanese personality-descriptive terms	4
On the Construct-Related Validity of Implicit Trait Policies	4
Bidirectional associations between self-esteem and relational aggression from 5th to 11th grade	4
Which positive personality traits do people want to change?	4
Examining everyday emotion regulation as an ability: Emotion regulation monitoring, but not general strategy implementation ability, is significantly associated with affective well-being in daily life	4

Personality Development Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood: The Role of Life Transitions and Self-Concept Clarity	3
Big five personality traits and physician-certified sickness absence	3
Examining the structure of narcissism and its relationship with aggression in Chinese community and offender samples	3
Between- and within-person longitudinal associations between personality traits and social support across relationships during older adulthood	3
Personality coherence: Advances in theory, assessment, and research	3
When and why do individuals high in narcissistic rivalry attain social status?	3
A partner in crime: Revisiting the dispositional basis of unethical loyalty	3
Tracing the evolution of personality cognition in early human civilisations: A computational analysis of the Gilgamesh epic	3
Towards a taxonomy of personality facets	3
Advancing a Three-Tier Personality Framework for Posttraumatic Growth	3
Structure and Sources of Core Self-Evaluations: Construct Validation Using Multi-Rater and Genetically Informative Designs	3
Self-reported aggression is related to oxidative stress in men and women	3
Examining personality psychology to unpack the peer review system: Towards a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable psychological science	3
Corrigendum to “Personality research and assessment in the era of machine learning”	3
My willpower belief and yours: Investigating dyadic associations between willpower beliefs, social support, and relationship satisfaction in couples	3
The development of social value orientation: Attachment styles, number of siblings, age, and a comparison of measures	3
Bridges over troubled water: A meta-analysis of the associations of character strengths with well-being and common mental health disorders	3
Facet-level changes in mothers’ neuroticism and extraversion from early pregnancy to 6 months post-partum	3
The effect of very preterm birth on the Five-Factor Model of personality traits: A meta-analysis of individual participant data	3
Associations between a multifaceted personality and academic performance in secondary school	3
If you were happy and you know it, clap your hands! Testing the peak-end rule for retrospective judgments of well-being in everyday life	3