OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Personality 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.)

Article	Citations
Motive-Specific Affective Contingencies and Their Relevance for Personality and Motivated Behavior	116
Perception of major life events and personality trait change	35
Speed-dating and simulation data explain the discrepancy between stated and revealed mate preferences	35
Personality Characteristics of Morally Courageous Individuals: Evidence From Group Comparisons	35
Probing the predictive validity of ideal partner preferences for future partner traits and relationship outcomes across 13 years	29
I am who I am with: The link between different types of social interaction partners and personality in adolescence	28
Associations of common mental disorders with personality traits over a 17-year period	26
Lifespan trajectories of negative and positive affect: A coordinated analysis of 14 longitudinal studies	25
The quest for genuine self-knowledge: An investigation into individual differences in the self-insight motive	25
Values across adolescence: a four-year longitudinal study. The predictive role of community violence and parental acceptance-rejection	25
Stability and change in dispositional envy: Longitudinal evidence on envy as a stable trait	24
The development of trait greed during young adulthood: A simultaneous investigation of environmental effects and negative core beliefs	23
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	20
Epigenetic aging and personality differences: Latent change analyses of twin data	19
When do we put things off? A volitional-task attractiveness framework of personality and task-related factors in predicting procrastinatory behavior	18
Stability and change of basic personal values in mid-to-late adolescence: A 4-year longitudinal study	17
Life events and life satisfaction: Estimating effects of multiple life events in combined models	16
I feel smart today! A daily diary study on narcissism and self-assessed intelligence	15
Trajectories of temperament from late childhood through adolescence and associations with anxiety and depression in young adulthood	14
Reciprocal effects between self-esteem and work experiences: A reanalysis of two longitudinal studies	14
Bad news first—Neuroticism, negative expectations, and preference for negative information	13
Exploring individual differences in volitional personality state and trait change: The role of motivation and engagement during a 12-week intervention	12
Filling in the missing pieces: Personality traits (un)related to dishonest behavior	12
Revisiting the IPIP-NEO personality hierarchy with taxonomic graph analysis	12
Differentiating narcissism modes in everyday life: The role of situation perception	11

The factor structure of Big Five personality trait measures at the between- and within-person levels	11
Transactions between the Big Five personality traits and first sexual experiences in adolescence and emerging adulthood	11
Short-term dynamics of pride and state self-esteem change during the university-to-work transition	11
How was your child’s temperament today and last week? Considering within-person variability in the measurement of infant temperament	10
Long-Term Advantages of Adolescent Optimism: Nonlinear Associations With Adult Outcomes and its Protective Role in Buffering Socioeconomic Risk	10
Developmental trajectories of ethnic and national identities in adolescents from migrant families: The role of social identification with family and classmates	10
Moving towards darkness: The personality-environment association between the Dark Triad and residential mobility	10
Life Events and Personality Change: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	9
The development and correlated change of narcissism and self-esteem in adulthood	9
Does realizing strengths, insight, and behavioral practice through a psychological intervention promote personality change? An intensive longitudinal study	9
Interindividual age differences in personality structure	9
Reciprocal associations between sense of purpose and subjective well-being in old age	9
State investigative interest varies across daily life and predicts academic engagement: Replication and extension of the nomological network	9
MIsgivings about measurement invariance	9
The language of power: Interpersonal perceptions of sense of power, dominance, and prestige based on word usage	9
Longitudinal associations between personality traits and cognitive complaints in midlife and older age across 20 years	9
Gender and values in 20 years of the European Social Survey: Are gender-typical values linked to parenthood?	9
Spurious prospective effects between work experiences and self-esteem: A reanalysis of a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	8
Do you mind a closer look? A jingle-jangle fallacy perspective on mindfulness	8
Predicting romantic interest during early relationship development: A preregistered investigation using machine learning	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	8
Revisiting regulatory fit and its effect on honesty: A replication attempt	7
The inertia of anger and sadness among adolescents and adults: The role of self-efficacy in regulating negative emotions	7
Structural and Inter-individual Differentiation in Personality Traits Across the Adult Lifespan	7
A lexical examination of the facets of honesty-humility: The adjective checklist of honesty	7
Developing, evaluating, and interpreting personality state measures: A framework based on the revised latent state-trait theory	7
Initiation of drug and alcohol use and personality development during adolescence	7