OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Personality is 4. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Psychological and behavioural responses to Coronavirus disease 2019: The role of personality	141
A Psychometric Network Perspective on the Validity and Validation of Personality Trait Questionnaires	95
Objections to the HEXACO Model of Personality Structure—and why those Objections Fail	88
Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move beyond the Big Few Traits	68
Trajectories of Big Five Personality Traits: A Coordinated Analysis of 16 Longitudinal Samples	63
Longitudinal Experience–Wide Association Studies—A Framework for Studying Personality Change	58
Personality Research and Assessment in the Era of Machine Learning	50
Assessing Personality States: What to Consider when Constructing Personality State Measures	46
Becoming More Conscientious or More Open to Experience? Effects of a Two–Week Smartphone–Based Intervention for Personality Change	43
Men, women and STEM: Why the differences and what should be done?	40
Psychological Comparison Processes and Self–Concept in Relation to Five Distinct Frame–Of–Reference Effects: Pan–Human Cross–Cultural Generalizability over 68 Countries	39
The Dynamics of Personality Approach (DPA): 20 Tenets for Uncovering the Causal Mechanisms of Personality	37
On the Comparability of Basic Personality Models: Meta-Analytic Correspondence, Scope, and Orthogonality of the Big Five and HEXACO Dimensions	33
An Adaptationist Framework for Personality Science	33
Indicators of Affect Dynamics: Structure, Reliability, and Personality Correlates	32
On the Trail of Creativity: Dimensionality of Divergent Thinking and its Relation with Cognitive Abilities, Personality, and Insight	30
Psychometric and Validity Issues in Machine Learning Approaches to Personality Assessment: A Focus on Social Media Text Mining	30
Are value–behavior relations stronger than previously thought? It depends on value importance	28
Does personality predict responses to the COVID-19 crisis? Evidence from a prospective large-scale study	27
Moral Foundations Theory and the Psychology of Charitable Giving	27
Investigating the Relationships between Mobility Behaviours and Indicators of Subjective Well–Being Using Smartphone–Based Experience Sampling and GPS Tracking	27
Personality Sensing for Theory Development and Assessment in the Digital Age	23
Does neuroticism disrupt the psychological benefits of nostalgia? a meta-analytic test	23
Development and Validation of the Personal Values Dictionary: A Theory–Driven Tool for Investigating References to Basic Human Values in Text	23
To Challenge the Morning Lark and the Night Owl: Using Smartphone Sensing Data to Investigate Day–Night Behaviour Patterns	21

Personality Development from Age 12 to 25 and its Links with Life Transitions	20
Modelling the incremental value of personality facets: the domains-incremental facets-acquiescence bifactor showmodel	20
General causality orientations in self-determination theory: Meta-analysis and test of a process model	20
Age and gender differences in socially aversive (“dark”) personality traits	18
Personality, Resilience, and Psychopathology: A Model for the Interaction between Slow and Fast Network Processes in the Context of Mental Health	18
Moments that Matter? On the Complexity of using Triggers Based on Skin Conductance to Sample Arousing Events within an Experience Sampling Framework	17
Traits and Adaptations: A Theoretical Examination and New Empirical Evidence	17
Using Big Data and Machine Learning in Personality Measurement: Opportunities and Challenges	17
Work Experiences and Self-Esteem Development: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies	17
Getting along And/Or Getting Ahead: Differential Hexaco Personality Correlates of Likeability and Popularity among Adolescents	16
Correlations between person-descriptive items are predictable from the product of their mid-point-centered social desirability values	16
How Are Personality States Associated with Smartphone Data?	16
Flexibility in using self-regulatory strategies to manage self-control conflicts: The role of metacognitive knowledge, strategy repertoire, and feedback monitoring	16
When Good Feelings Turn Mixed: Affective Dynamics and Big Five Trait Predictors of Mixed Emotions in Daily Life	15
The Personality Panorama: Conceptualizing Personality through Big Behavioural Data	15
Testing the social investment principle around childbirth: little evidence for personality maturation before and after becoming a parent	15
Testing the Information‐Seeking Theory of Openness/Intellect	14
The longitudinal interplay between personal values and subjective well-being: A registered report	14
Beyond ‘Liberals’ and ‘Conservatives’: Complexity in Ideology, Moral Intuitions, and Worldview among Swedish Voters	14
Compiling Measurement Invariant Short Scales in Cross–Cultural Personality Assessment Using Ant Colony Optimization	14
Equilibria in Personality States: A Conceptual Primer for Dynamics in Personality States	13
A (More) Behavioural Science of Personality in the Age of Multi–Modal Sensing, Big Data, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence	13
Daily Responsiveness, Expectations, and Self–disclosure: How the Average Levels and Within–person Variability of Three Relationship Components Mediate Personality–Relationship Transactions in Romantic	13
Personality change and sustainability attitudes and behaviors	13
Bringing Back the Person into Behavioural Personality Science Using Big Data	12
New Directions in the Conceptualization and Assessment of Personality—A Dynamic Systems Approach	12
The longitudinal interplay of personality and school experiences in adolescence	12
The Effect of Self–Awareness on the Identification of Goal–Related Obstacles	12
‘Personality in its Natural Habitat’ Revisited: A Pooled, Multi–sample Examination of the Relationships between the Big Five Personality Traits and Daily Behaviour and Language Use	12
None the wiser: Year-long longitudinal study on effects of adversity on wisdom	12
Character Growth Following Collective Life Events: A Study on Perceived and Measured Changes in Character Strengths During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
The concert of personality: Explaining personality functioning and coherence by personality systems interactions	11
Personality Traits and Perceptions of Major Life Events	11
Analysing effects of birth order on intelligence, educational attainment, big five and risk aversion in an Indonesian sample	11
Intraindividual Variability in Narrative Identity: Complexities, Garden Paths, and Untapped Research Potential	11
Uncovering the Motivational Core of Traits: The Case of Conscientiousness	11
Advancing a Three-Tier Personality Framework for Posttraumatic Growth	11
What teachers and parents can add to personality ratings of children: Unique associations with academic performance in elementary school	11
Inhibition Tasks are not Associated with a Variety of Behaviours in College Students	11
Experiences associated with psychological richness	11
Comparing predictive validity in a community sample: High–dimensionality and traditional domain–and–facet structures of personality variation	10
Perception of major life events and personality trait change	10
Becoming a perfectionistic adolescent: Perceived parental behaviors involved in developmental trajectories of perfectionism	10
Perceived Characteristics of Life Events—Short-Term Changes in Prosociality and Empathy?	10
Developmental pathways of preadolescents' intrinsic and extrinsic values: The role of basic psychological needs satisfaction	10
Subjectifying the Personality State: Theoretical Underpinnings and an Empirical Example	10
Do Sojourn Effects on Personality Trait Changes Last? A Five–Year Longitudinal Study	10
Emotion information processing as a new component of emotional intelligence: Theoretical framework and empirical evidence	10
Self–Esteem among Chinese Cohorts: Its Temporal Trend and Its Relationships with Socioecological Factors, 1993–2016	10
Fit gets better: A longitudinal study of changes in interest fit in educational and work environments	10

Conceptualizing and Studying Characteristics, Units, and Fits of Persons and Environments: A Coherent Synthesis	10
Beyond biology: The importance of cultural factors in explaining gender disparities in STEM preferences	9
Dark, gray, or bright creativity? (Re)investigating the link between creativity and dishonesty	9
Correlated personality change across time and age	9
Revisiting the hierarchical structure of the 24 VIA character strengths: Three global dimensions may suffice to capture their essence	9
The affiliative role of empathy in everyday interpersonal interactions	9
When impulsive behaviours do not equal self-control failures: the (added) value of temptation enactments	9
When a Truly Positive Correlation Turns Negative: How Different Approaches to Model Hierarchically Structured Constructs Affect Estimated Correlations to Covariates	8
Self–other agreement in personality development in romantic couples	8
Stability and change in vocational interest profiles and interest congruence over the course of vocational education and training	8
Targeting Item–level Nuances Leads to Small but Robust Improvements in Personality Prediction from Digital Footprints	8
Personality-informed intervention design: Examining how trait regulation can inform efforts to change behavior	8
Your Personality does not Care Whether you Believe it Can Change: Beliefs about Whether Personality can Change do not Predict Trait Change among Emerging Adults	8
Life Events and Personality Change: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	8
Idiographic personality coherence: A quasi experimental longitudinal ESM study	8
Relations between HEXACO personality and ideology variables are mostly genetic in nature	8
Open Peer Commentary and Author's Response	8
In good times and in bad: A longitudinal analysis of the impact of bereavement on self-esteem and life satisfaction in couples	8
How are common major life events perceived? Exploring differences between and variability of different typical event profiles and raters	8
Growth all along the road? Personality development and international contacts of (in)experienced sojourners	8
The joint power of personality and motivation dynamics for occupational success: Bridging two largely separated fields	7
The Network Constellation of Personality and Substance Use: Evolution from Early to Late Adolescence	7
Coffee or tea? Examining cross-cultural differences in personality nuances across former colonies of the British Empire	7
Sometimes hot, sometimes not: the relations between selected situational vocational interests and situation perception	7
Personality dynamics at work: The effects of form, time, and context of variability	7
Five paths to personality coherence: Integrative implications of the Knowledge-and-Appraisal Personality Architecture	7
Self-Control Dynamics in Daily Life: The Importance of Variability Between Self-Regulatory Strategies and Strategy Differentiation	7
Neuroticism and satisfaction in romantic relationships: A systematic investigation of intra- and interpersonal processes with a longitudinal approach	7
Do the Big Five personality traits interact to predict life outcomes? Systematically testing the prevalence, nature, and effect size of trait-by-trait moderation	7
A less evaluative measure of Big Five personality: Comparison of structure and criterion validity	6
What makes for a pleasant social experience in adolescence? The role of perceived social interaction behavior in associations between personality traits and momentary social satisfaction	6
Morning resolutions, evening disillusions: Theories of willpower affect how health behaviours change across the day	6
What are agile, flexible, or adaptable employees and students? A typology of dynamic individual differences in applied settings	6
Person-situation dynamics in educational contexts: A self- and other-rated experience sampling study of teachers’ states, traits, and situations	6
Tracking Fluctuations in Psychological States using Social Media Language: A Case Study of Weekly Emotion	6
Investigating Posttraumatic Growth in Midlife Using an Intensive Longitudinal Research Design: Posttraumatic Growth Is Not as Prevalent as Previously Considered	6
Imitation of Goal Engagement and Disengagement Processes in Romantic Relationships	6
Integrating state dynamics and trait change: A tutorial using the example of stress reactivity and change in well-being	6
Understanding Personality through Patterns of Daily Socializing: Applying Recurrence Quantification Analysis to Naturalistically Observed Intensive Longitudinal Social Interaction Data	6
Addressing ethnic prejudice in youth: Developmental trajectories and associations with educational identity	6
Openness to experience is stable following adversity: A case-control longitudinal investigation	6
Examining the Longitudinal Associations Between Repeated Narration of Recent Transgressions Within Individuals’ Romantic Relationships and Character Growth in Empathy, Humility, and Compassion	6
The actor, agent, and author across the life span: interrelations between personality traits, life goals, and life narratives in an age-heterogeneous sample	6
Revisiting Values and Self-Esteem: A Large-Scale Study in the United States	5
Self-Regulatory Strategy Use, Efficacy, and Strategy-Situation-Fit in Self-Control Conflicts of Initiation, Persistence, and Inhibition	5
Pathways From Narcissism to Leadership Emergence in Social Groups	5
Stewart-Williams and Halsey argue persuasively that gender bias is just one of many causes of women’s underrepresentation in science	5
Clinical Application of Social Cognitive Theory: A Novel Personality Assessment Procedure and a Case Study of Personality Coherence	5
Personality and psychosocial functioning in early adolescence: Age-differential associations from the self- and parent perspective	5
Personality is dynamic and it matters: The role of personality dynamics in applied contexts	5
You can’t always get what you want: The role of change goal importance, goal feasibility and momentary experiences for volitional personality development	5
Developmental trajectories of ethnic and national identities in adolescents from migrant families: The role of social identification with family and classmates	5
In person, online, and up close: the cross‐contextual consistency of expressive accuracy	5
Personality states mediate the effect of a mindfulness intervention on employees’ work outcomes: A randomized controlled trial	5
Who Knows Best What the Next Year Will Hold for You? The Validity of Direct and Personality–based Predictions of Future Life Experiences across Different Perceivers	4
Predicting romantic interest during early relationship development: A preregistered investigation using machine learning	4
Mental Representations of Values and Behaviors	4
Relating within-person personality variability to organizational citizenship behavior and counterproductive work behavior: A resource-based perspective	4
Personality Development Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood: The Role of Life Transitions and Self-Concept Clarity	4
Merging Structural and Process–Related Approaches to the Study of Agreeableness: A Preregistered Replication and Extension Attempt	4
A teacher like me? Different approaches to examining personality similarity between teachers and students	4
What does a personality science approach to post-traumatic growth reveal?	4
Tracing Personality Structure in Narratives: A Computational Bottom–Up Approach to Unpack Writers, Characters, and Personality in Historical Context	4
Individual and experiential predictors of character development across the deployment cycle	4
Longitudinal Links Between Self-Esteem and the Importance of Self-Direction Values During Adolescence	4