Journal of Personality

Papers
(The median citation count of 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Consensus, controversy, and chaos in the attribution of characteristics to the morally exceptional44
It's about time: Emphasizing temporal dynamics in dynamic personality regulation36
Correction to “Going It Alone: Examining Interpersonal Sensitivity and Hostility as Mediators of the Link Between Perfectionism and Social Disconnection”34
Corrigendum34
Life events sometimes alter the trajectory of personality development: Effect sizes for 25 life events estimated using a large, frequently assessed sample33
Which leadership style do more narcissistic subordinates prefer in supervisors?29
Are Wednesday's Children Full of Woe? Children's Differences in Personality Are Independent of Day of Birth28
The Temperament Metadimensions Model: A Complex Framework for Formal Characteristics of Behavior as Composed of Energetic, Temporal, and Autoregulatory Facets of Reactivity and Activity27
Are perfectionistic strivings beneficial or detrimental to well‐being and achievement? Tests of procrastination and emotion regulation as moderators27
Rethinking aversive personality: Decomposing the Dark Triad traits into their common core and unique flavors26
Autonomy Support, Personality Traits, and Subjective Well‐Being24
Everyday State Attachment: Dynamic Features and Role of Trait Attachment23
“I want to lift my people up”: Exploring the psychological correlates of racial themes within the life stories of midlife Black Americans22
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Moral characteristics predicting COVID‐19 vaccination21
The “teacher” and martial arts: A psychobiographical analysis of Jack Ma as a business change agent20
From adversity to activism: A psychobiographical case study of Cori Bush20
Predicting Big Five personality traits from smartphone data: A meta‐analysis on the potential of digital phenotyping20
Personal Relative Deprivation and Locus of Control19
Momentary assessment of the relations between narcissistic traits, interpersonal behaviors, and aggression19
How Childhood Shapes Adolescents' Belief in Justice: A Longitudinal Study Examining the Link Between Childhood Stressful Environment and Belief in a Just World18
Daily associations between global self‐esteem and self‐concept clarity and their relationships with subjective well‐being in a sample of adult workers18
The Connection Between Dark Traits and Emotional Intelligence: A Multistudy Person‐Centered Approach17
The happy personality revisited: Re‐examining associations between Big Five personality traits and subjective well‐being using meta‐analytic structural equation modeling17
Accommodativeself‐regulation: The sample case of imprisonment in young adulthood17
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Effect of social class on personal control beliefs17
Everyday Stressors and Sense of Purpose: The Role of Stressor‐Related Opportunities for Goal Pursuit16
Beyond the brain localization of complex traits: Distributed white matter markers of personality16
How does it feel to be greedy? The role of pride in avaricious acquisition16
The Relationship Between Global and Domain‐Specific Evaluations of Life Satisfaction: A Feedback Loop Theory16
Prolonged unemployment is associated with control loss and personal as well as social disengagement16
The effects of socioeconomic status on personality development in adulthood and aging16
Competing Models of the Structure of Subjective Well‐Being: Have All Won and Must All Have Prizes?16
Correction to “Comparing NIRA and Traditional Network Approaches: A Study Case With Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits”15
Personality processes of everyday moral courage15
Future‐oriented temporal perspective promotes wise reasoning14
Psychobiography: In Search of the Inner Life. By James W.Anderson, New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 202414
Surfing the OCEAN: The machine learning psycholexical approach 2.0 to detect personality traits in texts14
Negative Emotion (dys)regulation Predicts Distorted Time Perception: Preliminary Experimental Evidence and Implications for Psychopathology14
A serial cascade effect of cybervictimization and hostile rumination on the within‐person change of moral disengagement14
Do Narcissistic People Have More Dating Success? Evidence From a Speed‐Dating Study13
Mapping Life Satisfaction Over the First Years of Cohabitation Among Former Singles Living Alone in UK and Germany13
A reciprocal perspective on the differential associations between personality traits and multiple indicators of academic achievement13
How Well Do We Know How Others See Us? A Systematic Review of Meta‐Accuracy Across Relational Contexts, Research Foci, Attribute Domains, and Measurement Approaches13
The (Un)Attractiveness of Dark Triad Personalities: Assessing Fictitious Characters for Short‐ and Long‐Term Relationships13
Self‐concealment, secrecy, and guilt13
Networking trait resilience: Unifying fragmented trait resilience systems from an ecological systems theory perspective13
Is Virtue Good for You?13
From Personality to Pour: How Consumer Traits Shape Wine Preferences and Alcohol Choices12
Development of Self‐Reported Reward Responsiveness and Inhibitory Control and the Role of Clinical and Neural Predictors12
Big Five Personality Traits and Trajectories of Fertility Expectations Across the Reproductive Age Period12
Longitudinal associations of neuroticism with life satisfaction and social adaptation in a nationally representative adult sample12
Middle childhood development in personal values12
Does dispositional preference for solitude predict better psychological outcomes during times of social distancing? Beliefs and reality12
Investing in resources: An interaction model of personal resources, commitment, and work achievement12
Agreeableness and adolescents' cyberbullying perpetration: A longitudinal moderated mediation model of moral disengagement and empathy12
The Jeffrey S. Tanaka Occasional Papers in Quantitative Methods for Personality12
The personality of violent Jihadists: Examining violent and nonviolent defense of Muslims12
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Perils of Partialing: Can Scholars Predict Residualized Variables' Nomological Nets?11
The Association Between Trait Anger and Hostile Attribution Bias: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis11
Hiding in plain view: An historical perspective on the study of morality in personality psychology11
Dispositional Traits, Characteristic Adaptations, and Narrative Identity Reconstructions in Individuals With Depersonalization and Derealization11
Interpersonal Perception of Adult Playfulness at Zero‐Acquaintance: A Conceptual Replication Study of Self‐Other Agreement and Consensus, and an Extension to Two Accuracy Criteria11
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Effects of Reflective Processes on Social–Emotional Trait Development in Adulthood: Insights From Two Multi‐Method Studies10
An examination of personality expression in everyday life in a Canadian sample of racialized undergraduate students10
Defense styles, well‐being, and functional disability in the African context: A structured interview‐based study10
Solitude can be good—If you see it as such: Reappraisal helps lonely people experience solitude more positively10
Correlates of Borderline Personality Disorder Traits and Internet Gaming Disorder in College Students10
Value fulfillment and well‐being: Clarifying directions over time10
Priming Need–Frustrating Memories Sparks Conspiracy Beliefs: A Self‐Determination Theory Perspective10
Dispositional compassion shifts social preferences in systematic ways9
Trait Neuroticism and the Nocebo Effect: The Mediating Role of Side‐Effect Expectations9
Attachment style and attention bias to emotional information: The moderating effect of stress, stimulus characteristics, and attention stage9
Individual differences in spite predict costly third‐party punishment9
Correction to “Neural Processing of Personal, Relational, and Collective Self‐Worth Reflected Individual Differences of Self‐Esteem”9
Measuring the rate of psychological growth and examining its antecedents: A growth curve modeling approach9
Behavioral genetics of temporal framing: Heritability of time perspective and its common genetic bases with major personality traits9
Leadership in the eye of the beholder: Follower self‐esteem is associated with divergent perceptions of leadership ability for dominant and prestigious leaders9
A Farewell to the Narcissism Epidemic? A Cross‐Temporal Meta‐Analysis of Global NPI Scores (1982–2023)9
Purpose and goal pursuit as a self‐sustaining system: Evidence of daily within‐person reciprocity among adolescents in self‐driven learning9
Narrating the Dark Night of the Soul: The Psychosocial Study of Low Point Stories8
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How Users' Personality Traits Predict Sentiment Tendencies of User‐Generated Content in Social Media: A Mixed Method of Configuration Analysis and Machine Learning8
Personality Constructs Predictions Beyond FFM /Big5: A Digital Phenotyping‐Based Exploration8
Using Intersectionality to Understand How Structural Domains Are Embedded in Life Narratives8
How and why people want to be more moral8
Unveiling the Heterogeneity of Sensation Seeking and Collectivism Development in Chinese Adolescents8
The relations among prosocial behavior, hedonic, and eudaimonic well‐being in everyday life8
Job characteristics and personality change in young adulthood: A 12‐year longitudinal study and replication8
Investigating solitude as a tool for downregulation of daily arousal using ecological momentary assessments8
Untying a Gordian knot: Exploring the nomological network of resilience8
Personal values and sustained attention as predictors of children's helping behavior in middle childhood8
Distress tolerance is linked with substance use motivations and problems in young adults across four continents8
Trauma exposure and short‐term volitional personality trait change8
Distress prospectively predicts higher nostalgia, and nostalgia prospectively predicts lower distress8
Personality, self‐knowledge, and meat reduction intentions8
Developing a different voice: The life and work of Carol Gilligan7
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Empathy to Creativity: The Associations Between Empathy and Everyday Creativity7
A cybernetic theory of autism: Autism as a consequence of low trait plasticity7
Social expectations as a possible mechanism for adult personality change: Limited empirical evidence for the social investment principle7
Analyzing the Temporal Structure of Proactive Coping: An Integrative Approach7
Do Predictors of Life Satisfaction Change in the Last Years Leading Up to Retirement? The Case of Job Satisfaction and Leisure Satisfaction7
Maladaptive personality traits and older adult relationship satisfaction: A co‐twin control approach to understanding associations7
Religious Dones Become More Politically Liberal After Leaving Religion7
The Big Five model in rural Southeast Asia: Validation, stability, and its role in household income*7
Why moral psychology needs personality psychology7
When Self‐Compassion Lacks Ferocity: Anger and Responding to False Accusations7
Combining novel trait and neurocognitive frameworks to parse heterogeneity in borderline personality disorder7
Which emotion regulation strategy is efficient for whom? Reappraisal and suppression efficiency for adaptive and maladaptive personality profiles7
The Positive Effect of pro‐Environmental Behavior on Eudaimonic Well‐Being in Young Adults: A Daily Diary Study Using the Within‐Person Encouragement Design7
Winning isn't everything: Guilt proneness and competitive vs. non‐competitive motivation7
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Narcissism Is Associated With Blunted Error‐Related Brain Activity6
Resilience of primal world beliefs to the initial shock of the COVID ‐19 pandemic6
Body mass predicts personality development across 18 years in middle to older adulthood6
Psychological change before and after religious conversion and deconversion6
Rural–urban differences in personality traits and well‐being in adulthood6
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Comparing associations between personality and loneliness at midlife across three cultural groups6
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The Relationship Between Cognitive and Emotional Abilities and Ideological Attitudes Among Adolescents6
Individual differences in dissimilation: Do some people make more distinctions among targets' personalities than others?6
Everyday heroes: Graphical life stories and self‐defining memories inCOVID‐19 medical volunteers6
Comparing NIRA and Traditional Network Approaches: A Study Case With Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits6
Social expectations and abilities to meet them as possible mechanisms of youth personality development6
Behavioral adjustment moderates the effect of neuroticism on brain volume relative to intracranial volume6
Emotion regulation and self‐control: Same same but different… and even incompatible?5
Themes of trust, identity, intimacy, and generativity in important autobiographical memories: Associations with life periods and life satisfaction5
A Meta‐Analytic Review of Personality and Teacher–Student Relationships5
The connections between personality, ideology and (counter‐)empathic emotions depend on the target5
Despite popular intuition, positive world beliefs poorly reflect several objective indicators of privilege, including wealth, health, sex, and neighborhood safety5
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Explicating narrow and broad conceptualizations of environmental influences on personality5
The psychological imprint of inequality: Economic inequality shapes achievement and power values in human life5
The genetic underpinnings of right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain political attitudes beyond Big Five personality5
Explicit Beliefs About Nonverbal Behavior and the Big Five Traits5
Can an Algorithm Tell How Spiritual You Are? Using Generative Pretrained Transformers for Sophisticated Forms of Text Analysis5
Alone but flowing: The effects of autotelic personality and extraversion on solitary flow5
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Black dreams matter: Exploring the polyphonic realms of the Black Radical Imaginary5
Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross‐lagged effects and their moderation by culture5
Disentangling Counter‐Empathy: Developing a Three‐Dimensional Model and Measure of Dispositional Counter‐Empathy5
Personality dynamics: Regulatory mechanisms and processes5
Attachment, Perceived Partner Phubbing, and Retaliation: A Daily Diary Study5
The Relation Between Psychopathy and Sexual Aggression: A Meta‐Analysis5
Marital quality improves self‐ and partner‐reported psychopathy among Chinese couples: A longitudinal study5
Individual differences in revising the life story—Personality and event characteristics influence change in the autobiographical meaning of life events5
Father Trait Anger and Exposure to Infant Cry: Effects on Emotion, Appraisals of Infants, and Cognitive Performance5
World Beliefs Moderate the Effects of Trauma and Severe Illness on Emotional Distress5
Beyond Big Five trait domains: Stability and change in personality facets across midlife and old age5
Purpose maintained: Adverse childhood experiences and meaning in life4
A developmental perspective on personality–relationship transactions: Evidence from three nationally representative samples4
Perceived Control and Future Orientation: How Construal Level and Cultural Tightness Shape the Relationship4
The associations between life events and person‐centered personality consistency4
Routes to momentary self‐esteem in adolescence: Links with interpersonal perceptions of liking and personality metaperceptions within social interactions4
Attitudes toward children: Distinguishing affection and stress4
The dark triad traits and relationship satisfaction: Dyadic response surface analysis4
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Is “sadistic pleasure” a contrived process of signaling one's antagonism?4
Humility Throughout the Lifespan and a Global Pandemic: Evidence From a Large‐Scale Cross‐Sectional Study4
Does narcissus prefer to be alone? Narcissistic personality features and the preference for solitude4
Who gives? Characteristics of those who have taken the Giving What We Can pledge4
Moral beacons: Understanding moral character and moral influence4
Becoming as Open‐Minded and Organized as My Classmates? Peer Effects on Self‐Reported Personality Trait Development in the Classroom4
Status and the Self: Socioeconomic Inequality in Core Beliefs4
Corrigendum to “Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross‐lagged effects and their moderation by culture”4
The empathic personality profile: Using personality characteristics to reveal genetic, environmental, and developmental patterns of adolescents' empathy4
Associations between daily affective experiences, trait and daily rumination on negative and positive affect: a diary study4
Embodied Cognition and the Structure of Personality: An Exploratory Study of Longitudinal Pathways From Early Psychomotor Function4
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Beyond the Moderating Role of Neuroticism on Evaluative Conditioning: Threat Appraisal4
Life Narratives and the Ten Aspects of the Big Five Across Open‐Ended and Targeted Prompts4
Examining intra‐ and inter‐personal health effects of optimism and pessimism: The role of subjective well‐being in romantic couples4
Partialing alters interpersonal correlates of negative affective symptoms and traits: A circumplex illustration4
Self as both target and judge: Who has an easier time knowing their own personality?4
Meta‐analytic evidence that attachment insecurity is associated with less frequent experiences of discrete positive emotions4
The Central Role of Daily Hopeful Feelings in Predicting Well‐Being: A Network Perspective4
How Verbal Behavior During Self‐Presentation Is Associated With Self‐Esteem: A Computational Perspective on Lexical, Syntactic, and Semantic Levels4
Identity‐Based Motivation: Testing Assumptions of Ecological Validity, Individual Differences and Within‐Person Fluctuations3
Life Stories Matter: The Contribution of Narrative Identity to Personality Functioning and Functional Impairment3
Recent stressful life events and identity development in emerging adults: An examination of within‐person effects3
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Common genetic and environmental bases of the mental disorders and personality traits: Special focus on the hierarchical model of psychopathology and NEO‐PI‐R facets3
Primary affective systems and personality: Disentangling the within‐person reciprocal relationships3
The Role of World Beliefs in Loneliness: Implications for Daily Social Interaction and Persistence of Loneliness Over Time3
Narrative Self‐Transcendence: Decreased Regret and Increased Acceptance Over Late Midlife3
Inter‐ and Intraindividual Relations Between Agentic, Communal Self‐Enhancement and Hedonic, Eudaimonic Well‐Being: Feedback and Mediation Mechanisms3
Childhood personality and academic performance: A sibling fixed‐effects study3
Clarifying the relationship between trait aggression and self‐control using random item slope regression3
Person‐specific priorities in solitude3
Defining distress tolerance in a structural model of Big Five personality domains3
When meaning in life protects against fear of death: The moderating role of self‐alienation3
Thoughts Falling Apart: Disorganized Schizotypy Specifically Predicts Both Psychotic‐ and Stress‐Reactivity in Daily Life3
Associations Between Individual‐ and Group‐Level Relational Mobility and Big Five Personality in Japan: A Multilevel Study of Prefectural Capitals3
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Power motives, personality correlates, and leadership outcomes: A person‐centered approach3
A prospective study of relationship and sexual satisfaction during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of dispositional vulnerabilities and external stressors3
Exploring the structure of fearlessness using self‐report measures3
Gen Z and FoMO : A Configurational Analysis of Psychological Factors and Digital Dependence3
Seeking solitude skills: Do memories of intrinsic goals enhance enjoyment of alone time?3
Do Locus of Control and Big Five Personality Traits Account for Individual Differences in Social Influence on Agency Judgments?3
What Is Maladaptive in the Emotion Regulation of Personality Pathology? Investigating the Regulation Patterns of Pathological Personality Profiles3
Cheating to benefit others? On the relation between Honesty‐Humility and prosocial lies3
The interacting partner as the immediate environment: Personality, interpersonal dynamics, and bodily synchronization3
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