OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Personality is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Do you understand what I experienced? Self- and informant-perception of major life events	46
Personality change through a digital-coaching intervention: Using measurement invariance testing to distinguish between trait domain, facet, and nuance change	41
Speed-dating and simulation data explain the discrepancy between stated and revealed mate preferences	37
A person-centered approach to understanding child temperament at ages 3 and 6	33
Personality Change Across Four Years in World Trade Center Responders	27
Growth all along the road? Personality development and international contacts of (in)experienced sojourners	27
Detecting spurious effects in cross-lagged panel models: Triangulation is not a valid test	26
Perception of major life events and personality trait change	21
What if there were no personality factors? Comparing the predictability of behavioral act frequencies from a big-five and a maximal-dimensional item set	21
Personality coherence in acts and texts: Searching for coherence within and beyond trait categories	21
Longitudinal Links Between Self-Esteem and the Importance of Self-Direction Values During Adolescence	19
Is it all in the eye of the beholder? Examining the affective consequences of direct and indirect measures of counterdispositional extraversion	18
Work Experiences and Self-Esteem Development: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies	18
Personality coherence: Advances in theory, assessment, and research	17
Open peer commentary and author response regarding ‘Reconsidering normative interpretations in personality research’	17
Person × domain interactions in resisting desires in daily life	15
Longitudinal associations between borderline personality disorder and five-factor model traits over 24 years	14
Fit gets better: A longitudinal study of changes in interest fit in educational and work environments	14
Erratum to: When impulsive behaviours do not equal self-control failures: the (added) value of temptation enactments	14
Facet-level changes in mothers’ neuroticism and extraversion from early pregnancy to 6 months post-partum	13
The factor structure of Big Five personality trait measures at the between- and within-person levels	13
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	13
Basic personal values and vote choice in 20 European countries	13
Filling in the missing pieces: Personality traits (un)related to dishonest behavior	13
Integrating state dynamics and trait change: A tutorial using the example of stress reactivity and change in well-being	13

Revisiting the hierarchical structure of the 24 VIA character strengths: Three global dimensions may suffice to capture their essence	13
Relating within-person personality variability to organizational citizenship behavior and counterproductive work behavior: A resource-based perspective	12
Examining interindividual differences in unemployment-related changes in subjective well-being: The role of psychological well-being and re-employment expectations	12
Relations between HEXACO personality and ideology variables are mostly genetic in nature	12
Distinguishing simple and residual consistencies in functionally equivalent and non-equivalent situations: Evidence from experimental and observational longitudinal data	12
The Development of Vocational Interests in Early Adolescence: Stability, Change, and State-Trait Components	12
Pathways From Narcissism to Leadership Emergence in Social Groups	12
Short-term dynamics of pride and state self-esteem change during the university-to-work transition	11
Open Peer Commentary and Author Response Regarding ‘Life Events and Personality Change: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis’	11
Motive-Specific Affective Contingencies and Their Relevance for Personality and Motivated Behavior	11
Educational identity statuses: Stability and change across the secondary school transition	11
Do the Big Five personality traits interact to predict life outcomes? Systematically testing the prevalence, nature, and effect size of trait-by-trait moderation	11
Examining the structure of narcissism and its relationship with aggression in Chinese community and offender samples	10
A developmental approach to youth maladaptive personality traits: Variable- versus person-centered change in the transition from childhood to adolescence	10
Sense of purpose and meaning in life during the transition to grandparenthood	10
Self-reported aggression is related to oxidative stress in men and women	10
Advancing a Three-Tier Personality Framework for Posttraumatic Growth	10
Interdependent transformations: Integrating insights from relationship science to advance post-traumatic growth and personality change research	10
What defines Traits, Reputations, and Identity? Personality item content in multi-rater judgments	10
The role of relationship beliefs in predicting levels and changes of relationship satisfaction	9
Self-Regulatory Strategy Use, Efficacy, and Strategy-Situation-Fit in Self-Control Conflicts of Initiation, Persistence, and Inhibition	9
Long-Term Advantages of Adolescent Optimism: Nonlinear Associations With Adult Outcomes and its Protective Role in Buffering Socioeconomic Risk	9
Daily dynamics of grandiose narcissism: distribution, stability, and trait relations of admiration and rivalry states and state contingencies	9
Development of adolescents’ self-esteem and general academic self-concept: perceived classroom climate makes a difference	9
Interindividual age differences in personality structure	9
Examining the Longitudinal Associations Between Repeated Narration of Recent Transgressions Within Individuals’ Romantic Relationships and Character Growth in Empathy, Humility, and Compassion	9
The longitudinal interplay of personality and school experiences in adolescence	9
From MIsgivings to MIse-en-scène: The role of invariance in personality science	9
Interdependencies between family and friends in daily life: Personality differences and associations with affective well-being across the lifespan	8
Personality and psychosocial functioning in early adolescence: Age-differential associations from the self- and parent perspective	8
Moving towards darkness: The personality-environment association between the Dark Triad and residential mobility	8
Associations between a multifaceted personality and academic performance in secondary school	7
Corrigendum to “Personality research and assessment in the era of machine learning”	7
Filling gaps in the nomological networks for dominance and affiliation by examining self-informant agreement on momentary interpersonal behavior	7
How do intellectually curious and interested people learn and attain knowledge? A focus on behavioral traces of information seeking	7
Five paths to personality coherence: Integrative implications of the Knowledge-and-Appraisal Personality Architecture	7
A teacher like me? Different approaches to examining personality similarity between teachers and students	7
Self-esteem and social interactions in daily life: An experience sampling study	7
The development of social value orientation: Attachment styles, number of siblings, age, and a comparison of measures	7
Personality and limitations in instrumental activities of daily living in old age: Reciprocal associations across 12 years	7
How was your child’s temperament today and last week? Considering within-person variability in the measurement of infant temperament	7
Unraveling the Relation Between Personality and Well-Being in a Genetically Informative Design	6
On the Construct-Related Validity of Implicit Trait Policies	6
Reconsidering normative interpretations in personality research	6
Developmental trajectories of ethnic and national identities in adolescents from migrant families: The role of social identification with family and classmates	6
What are agile, flexible, or adaptable employees and students? A typology of dynamic individual differences in applied settings	6
Probing the predictive validity of ideal partner preferences for future partner traits and relationship outcomes across 13 years	6
How Is Variety in Daily Life Related to the Expression of Personality States? An Ambulatory Assessment Study	6
Stability and change in major life goals during the transition to parenthood	5
Idiographic personality coherence: A quasi experimental longitudinal ESM study	5

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	5
Perceptions of a good life: Associations with culture, age, wellbeing, and health	5
State investigative interest varies across daily life and predicts academic engagement: Replication and extension of the nomological network	5
On the Comparability of Basic Personality Models: Meta-Analytic Correspondence, Scope, and Orthogonality of the Big Five and HEXACO Dimensions	5
Longitudinal associations between personality traits and cognitive complaints in midlife and older age across 20 years	5
Bidirectional associations between self-esteem and relational aggression from 5th to 11th grade	4
Does realizing strengths, insight, and behavioral practice through a psychological intervention promote personality change? An intensive longitudinal study	4
The longitudinal interplay between personal values and subjective well-being: A registered report	4
Mental Representations of Values and Behaviors	4
Which positive personality traits do people want to change?	4
Prosociality Beyond Big Five Agreeableness and HEXACO Honesty-Humility: Is Openness/Intellect Associated With Cooperativeness in the Public Goods Game?	4
Value incoherence precedes value change: Evidence from value development in childhood and adolescence across cultures	4
Linking the Momentary Processing of Injustice to Intraindividual Change in Dispositional Victim Sensitivity	4
Emotional responses to a global stressor: Average patterns and individual differences	4
Does it pay off to act conscientiously, both now and later? Examining concurrent, lagged, and cumulative effects of state conscientiousness	4
From theory to research: Interpretational guidelines, statistical guidance, and a shiny app for the model of excellencism and perfectionism	4
Flexibility in using self-regulatory strategies to manage self-control conflicts: The role of metacognitive knowledge, strategy repertoire, and feedback monitoring	4
Is what is beautiful good and still more accurately understood? A replication and extension of Lorenzo et al. (2010)	4
The development and correlated change of narcissism and self-esteem in adulthood	4
Relations among the trifurcated narcissism domains at trait and state level: Two of a kind?	4
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	4
Personality is (so much) more than just self-reported Big Five traits	4
Patterned person-situation fit in daily life: Examining magnitudes, stabilities, and correlates of trait-situation and state-situation fit	4
Testing heritability of moral foundations: Common pathway models support strong heritability for the five moral foundations	3
Not biology or culture alone: Response to El-Hout et al. (2021)	3
Neuroticism and satisfaction in romantic relationships: A systematic investigation of intra- and interpersonal processes with a longitudinal approach	3
Development of HEXACO Personality Traits and Their Relations With Socioeconomic Factors Among Chinese Adolescents: A Three-Wave Longitudinal Study	3
Stability and change in vocational interest profiles and interest congruence over the course of vocational education and training	3
Personality Traits and Perceptions of Major Life Events	3
MIsgivings about measurement invariance	3
How are common major life events perceived? Exploring differences between and variability of different typical event profiles and raters	3
Are value–behavior relations stronger than previously thought? It depends on value importance	3
Adolescence as a peak period of borderline personality features? A meta-analytic approach	3
Whose self-control development suffers or benefits in the face of adversity? A longitudinal study of Mexican-origin youth followed from age 10 to 16	3
Who Gets the Credit for Success and the Blame for Failure? On the Links Between Narcissism and Self- and Group-Serving Biases	3
Two Peas in a Pod? Development of Twin Relationships in Light of Twins’ Temperament Differences	3
Investigating Posttraumatic Growth in Midlife Using an Intensive Longitudinal Research Design: Posttraumatic Growth Is Not as Prevalent as Previously Considered	2
Initiation of drug and alcohol use and personality development during adolescence	2
Wherefore art thou competitors? How situational affordances help differentiate among prosociality, individualism, and competition	2
Personality, behavioral engagement, and psychological adaptation of high school students abroad: A longitudinal perspective on between- and within-person dynamics	2
Examining personality psychology to unpack the peer review system: Towards a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable psychological science	2
Lifespan trajectories of negative and positive affect: A coordinated analysis of 14 longitudinal studies	2
The language of power: Interpersonal perceptions of sense of power, dominance, and prestige based on word usage	2
Spurious prospective effects between work experiences and self-esteem: A reanalysis of a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	2
Birth order and personality: Evidence from a representative sample of Chinese	2
Clarifying the link between psychological need satisfaction and positive affect: Longitudinal within-person tests for bi-directional influence in two cultures	2
Individual and experiential predictors of character development across the deployment cycle	2
Codevelopment of the dark triad and depressiveness from emerging adulthood to midlife	2
The Big Five and Collaborative Problem Solving: A Narrative Systematic Review	2
Personality development in immigrant and non-immigrant adolescents: Disruption or maturation?	2
The base-rate and longer-term relevance of year-to-year change in personality traits	2
Moody and in love? The role of neuroticism and romantic relationships for momentary affect in adolescence	2
The toll of prejudice: The longitudinal interplay between ethnic prejudice and well-being in adolescence	2
Values across adolescence: a four-year longitudinal study. The predictive role of community violence and parental acceptance-rejection	2
Testing perceivers’ accuracy and accuracy awareness when forming personality impressions from faces	2
Predicting romantic interest during early relationship development: A preregistered investigation using machine learning	2
Revisiting Values and Self-Esteem: A Large-Scale Study in the United States	2
Self-Control Dynamics in Daily Life: The Importance of Variability Between Self-Regulatory Strategies and Strategy Differentiation	2
Do you mind a closer look? A jingle-jangle fallacy perspective on mindfulness	2
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	2