Journal of Personality

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Personality is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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The association between facets of conscientiousness and performance‐based and informant‐rated cognition, affect, and activities in older adults184
Are perfectionistic strivings beneficial or detrimental to well‐being and achievement? Tests of procrastination and emotion regulation as moderators79
Consensus, controversy, and chaos in the attribution of characteristics to the morally exceptional50
It's about time: Emphasizing temporal dynamics in dynamic personality regulation44
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“I want to lift my people up”: Exploring the psychological correlates of racial themes within the life stories of midlife Black Americans27
The personality meta‐trait of stability and carotid artery atherosclerosis27
Everyday State Attachment: Dynamic Features and Role of Trait Attachment26
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Correction to “Going It Alone: Examining Interpersonal Sensitivity and Hostility as Mediators of the Link Between Perfectionism and Social Disconnection”26
Looks and status are still essential: Testing the mate preference priority model with the profile‐based experimental paradigm24
Which leadership style do more narcissistic subordinates prefer in supervisors?24
Empathy and authenticity online: The roles of moral identity, moral disengagement, and parenting style21
Rethinking aversive personality: Decomposing the Dark Triad traits into their common core and unique flavors18
Life events sometimes alter the trajectory of personality development: Effect sizes for 25 life events estimated using a large, frequently assessed sample18
From adversity to activism: A psychobiographical case study of Cori Bush17
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Momentary assessment of the relations between narcissistic traits, interpersonal behaviors, and aggression15
Narcissistic individuals exhibit poor recognition memory15
Predicting Big Five personality traits from smartphone data: A meta‐analysis on the potential of digital phenotyping14
Effect of social class on personal control beliefs14
Daily associations between global self‐esteem and self‐concept clarity and their relationships with subjective well‐being in a sample of adult workers14
The “teacher” and martial arts: A psychobiographical analysis of Jack Ma as a business change agent13
Moral characteristics predicting COVID‐19 vaccination13
The happy personality revisited: Re‐examining associations between Big Five personality traits and subjective well‐being using meta‐analytic structural equation modeling13
Personal Relative Deprivation and Locus of Control13
Structural differences in life satisfaction in a U.S. adult sample across age13
The Connection Between Dark Traits and Emotional Intelligence: A Multistudy Person‐Centered Approach13
Pathological personality, situations, and their joint influences on daily emotional symptoms12
Accommodativeself‐regulation: The sample case of imprisonment in young adulthood12
Prolonged unemployment is associated with control loss and personal as well as social disengagement12
Structural brain differences do not mediate the relations between sex and personality or psychopathology12
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Narrative identity informs psychological adjustment: Considering three themes captured across five time points and two event valences12
How does it feel to be greedy? The role of pride in avaricious acquisition11
Mapping political trust and involvement in the personality space—A meta‐analysis and new evidence11
Personality processes of everyday moral courage11
Lighten the darkness: Personality interventions targeting agreeableness also reduce participants' levels of the dark triad11
The effects of socioeconomic status on personality development in adulthood and aging10
When intelligence hurts and ignorance is bliss: Global pandemic as an evolutionarily novel threat to happiness10
Competing Models of the Structure of Subjective Well‐Being: Have All Won and Must All Have Prizes?10
Beyond the brain localization of complex traits: Distributed white matter markers of personality10
A serial cascade effect of cybervictimization and hostile rumination on the within‐person change of moral disengagement10
Networking trait resilience: Unifying fragmented trait resilience systems from an ecological systems theory perspective9
Surfing the OCEAN: The machine learning psycholexical approach 2.0 to detect personality traits in texts9
Development of intraindividual value structures in middle childhood: A multicultural and longitudinal investigation9
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How many and what mechanisms are needed to explain self‐regulatory functions in personality dynamics: Toward a model based on the Circumplex of Personality Metatraits9
The (Un)Attractiveness of Dark Triad Personalities: Assessing Fictitious Characters for Short‐ and Long‐Term Relationships9
Negative Emotion (dys)regulation Predicts Distorted Time Perception: Preliminary Experimental Evidence and Implications for Psychopathology9
Future‐oriented temporal perspective promotes wise reasoning8
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Development of Self‐Reported Reward Responsiveness and Inhibitory Control and the Role of Clinical and Neural Predictors8
Personality differences in the occurrence and affective correlates of daily positive events8
Longitudinal associations of neuroticism with life satisfaction and social adaptation in a nationally representative adult sample8
Big Five personality traits and academic performance: A meta‐analysis8
Investing in resources: An interaction model of personal resources, commitment, and work achievement8
Does dispositional preference for solitude predict better psychological outcomes during times of social distancing? Beliefs and reality8
The personality of violent Jihadists: Examining violent and nonviolent defense of Muslims8
Middle childhood development in personal values8
Can exposure to arguments pro and contra extraversion affect self‐reports of the trait and the attitude toward it?8
A reciprocal perspective on the differential associations between personality traits and multiple indicators of academic achievement8
Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political tolerance8
Self‐concealment, secrecy, and guilt8
Interpersonal Perception of Adult Playfulness at Zero‐Acquaintance: A Conceptual Replication Study of Self‐Other Agreement and Consensus, and an Extension to Two Accuracy Criteria7
What is the “opposite” of a value? A lexical investigation into the structure of generally undesirable goal content7
Are they out to get me? Individual differences in nonclinical paranoia as a function of narcissism and defensive self‐protection7
Agreeableness and adolescents' cyberbullying perpetration: A longitudinal moderated mediation model of moral disengagement and empathy7
Latent classes of maladaptive personality traits exhibit differences in social processing7
Defense styles, well‐being, and functional disability in the African context: A structured interview‐based study7
Hiding in plain view: An historical perspective on the study of morality in personality psychology7
Genetics, parenting, and family functioning—What drives the development of self‐control from adolescence to adulthood?7
Are you laughing with me or at me? Psychopathic traits and the ability to distinguish between affiliation and dominance laughter cues7
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Correlates of Borderline Personality Disorder Traits and Internet Gaming Disorder in College Students7
Dispositional Traits, Characteristic Adaptations, and Narrative Identity Reconstructions in Individuals With Depersonalization and Derealization6
Crimes of passion: When romantic obsession leads to abusive relationships6
An examination of personality expression in everyday life in a Canadian sample of racialized undergraduate students6
Individual differences in spite predict costly third‐party punishment6
Perils of Partialing: Can Scholars Predict Residualized Variables' Nomological Nets?6
Self‐control in adolescence predicts forgivingness in middle adulthood6
My problem or yours? Interpersonal problems and marital quality6
Solitude can be good—If you see it as such: Reappraisal helps lonely people experience solitude more positively6
Effects of Reflective Processes on Social–Emotional Trait Development in Adulthood: Insights From Two Multi‐Method Studies6
Growing Memories: Coaching mothers in elaborative reminiscing with toddlers benefits adolescents' turning‐point narratives and wellbeing5
Leadership in the eye of the beholder: Follower self‐esteem is associated with divergent perceptions of leadership ability for dominant and prestigious leaders5
Behavioral genetics of temporal framing: Heritability of time perspective and its common genetic bases with major personality traits5
Optimism, pessimism and support in older couples: A longitudinal study5
Trauma exposure and short‐term volitional personality trait change5
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Evidence for the additive effects of dispositional negative mood regulation expectancies and placebo‐induced expectancies on mood recovery5
The relations among prosocial behavior, hedonic, and eudaimonic well‐being in everyday life5
Purpose and goal pursuit as a self‐sustaining system: Evidence of daily within‐person reciprocity among adolescents in self‐driven learning5
A Farewell to the Narcissism Epidemic? A Cross‐Temporal Meta‐Analysis of Global NPI Scores (1982–2023)5
Personality coherence as a personality dynamics‐related concept5
Value fulfillment and well‐being: Clarifying directions over time5
Personality, self‐knowledge, and meat reduction intentions5
Introversion and the frequency and intensity of daily uplifts and hassles5
Unveiling the Heterogeneity of Sensation Seeking and Collectivism Development in Chinese Adolescents5
Using Intersectionality to Understand How Structural Domains Are Embedded in Life Narratives5
Leveraging economic games to integrate and differentiate personality and psychopathology5
Measuring the rate of psychological growth and examining its antecedents: A growth curve modeling approach5
Attachment style and attention bias to emotional information: The moderating effect of stress, stimulus characteristics, and attention stage5
Distress tolerance is linked with substance use motivations and problems in young adults across four continents5
Dispositional compassion shifts social preferences in systematic ways5
How Users' Personality Traits Predict Sentiment Tendencies of User‐Generated Content in Social Media: A Mixed Method of Configuration Analysis and Machine Learning5
Untying a Gordian knot: Exploring the nomological network of resilience5
Distress prospectively predicts higher nostalgia, and nostalgia prospectively predicts lower distress5
Combining novel trait and neurocognitive frameworks to parse heterogeneity in borderline personality disorder4
A cybernetic theory of autism: Autism as a consequence of low trait plasticity4
Maladaptive personality traits and older adult relationship satisfaction: A co‐twin control approach to understanding associations4
The Positive Effect of pro‐Environmental Behavior on Eudaimonic Well‐Being in Young Adults: A Daily Diary Study Using the Within‐Person Encouragement Design4
Longitudinal bidirectional associations between personality and becoming a leader4
Winning isn't everything: Guilt proneness and competitive vs. non‐competitive motivation4
Personality maturation and personality relaxation: Differences of the Big Five personality traits in the years around the beginning and ending of working life4
Developing a different voice: The life and work of Carol Gilligan4
The Big Five model in rural Southeast Asia: Validation, stability, and its role in household income*4
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Social expectations as a possible mechanism for adult personality change: Limited empirical evidence for the social investment principle4
Empathy to Creativity: The Associations Between Empathy and Everyday Creativity4
Investigating solitude as a tool for downregulation of daily arousal using ecological momentary assessments4
When Self‐Compassion Lacks Ferocity: Anger and Responding to False Accusations4
How and why people want to be more moral4
Personal values and sustained attention as predictors of children's helping behavior in middle childhood4
Which emotion regulation strategy is efficient for whom? Reappraisal and suppression efficiency for adaptive and maladaptive personality profiles4
No relation of Need for Cognition to basic executive functions4
Why moral psychology needs personality psychology4
Job characteristics and personality change in young adulthood: A 12‐year longitudinal study and replication4
Behavioral and neural correlates of social network size: The unique and common contributions of face recognition and extraversion4
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Psychological change before and after religious conversion and deconversion3
Everyday heroes: Graphical life stories and self‐defining memories inCOVID‐19 medical volunteers3
A Meta‐Analytic Review of Personality and Teacher–Student Relationships3
Despite popular intuition, positive world beliefs poorly reflect several objective indicators of privilege, including wealth, health, sex, and neighborhood safety3
Alone but flowing: The effects of autotelic personality and extraversion on solitary flow3
Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross‐lagged effects and their moderation by culture3
Gratitude and patience moderate meaning struggles and suicidal risk in a cross‐sectional study of inpatients at a Christian psychiatric hospital3
Themes of trust, identity, intimacy, and generativity in important autobiographical memories: Associations with life periods and life satisfaction3
Individual differences in dissimilation: Do some people make more distinctions among targets' personalities than others?3
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Social expectations and abilities to meet them as possible mechanisms of youth personality development3
Behavioral adjustment moderates the effect of neuroticism on brain volume relative to intracranial volume3
Individual differences in social power: Links with beliefs about emotion and emotion regulation3
Self as both target and judge: Who has an easier time knowing their own personality?3
Are social desirability scales desirable? A meta‐analytic test of the validity of social desirability scales in the context of prosocial behavior3
Personality dynamics: Regulatory mechanisms and processes3
Individual differences in revising the life story—Personality and event characteristics influence change in the autobiographical meaning of life events3
The connections between personality, ideology and (counter‐)empathic emotions depend on the target3
Can an Algorithm Tell How Spiritual You Are? Using Generative Pretrained Transformers for Sophisticated Forms of Text Analysis3
Comparing NIRA and Traditional Network Approaches: A Study Case With Antisocial Personality Disorder Traits3
The Relationship Between Cognitive and Emotional Abilities and Ideological Attitudes Among Adolescents3
Body mass predicts personality development across 18 years in middle to older adulthood3
The finer details? The predictability of life outcomes from Big Five domains, facets, and nuances3
The genetic underpinnings of right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain political attitudes beyond Big Five personality3
Rural–urban differences in personality traits and well‐being in adulthood3
The psychological imprint of inequality: Economic inequality shapes achievement and power values in human life3
Beyond Big Five trait domains: Stability and change in personality facets across midlife and old age3
Emotion regulation and self‐control: Same same but different… and even incompatible?3
Marital quality improves self‐ and partner‐reported psychopathy among Chinese couples: A longitudinal study3
Resilience of primal world beliefs to the initial shock of the COVID‐19 pandemic3
Comparing associations between personality and loneliness at midlife across three cultural groups3
Attitudes toward children: Distinguishing affection and stress2
Meta‐analytic evidence that attachment insecurity is associated with less frequent experiences of discrete positive emotions2
Who gives? Characteristics of those who have taken the Giving What We Can pledge2
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Seeking solitude skills: Do memories of intrinsic goals enhance enjoyment of alone time?2
A developmental perspective on personality–relationship transactions: Evidence from three nationally representative samples2
Examining intra‐ and inter‐personal health effects of optimism and pessimism: The role of subjective well‐being in romantic couples2
Psychopathic traits and reinforcement learning under acute stress2
Routes to momentary self‐esteem in adolescence: Links with interpersonal perceptions of liking and personality metaperceptions within social interactions2
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The empathic personality profile: Using personality characteristics to reveal genetic, environmental, and developmental patterns of adolescents' empathy2
Four types of change and self‐other agreement on change in personality traits during college years: A multi‐informant longitudinal study2
Becoming as Open‐Minded and Organized as My Classmates? Peer Effects on Self‐Reported Personality Trait Development in the Classroom2
The Central Role of Daily Hopeful Feelings in Predicting Well‐Being: A Network Perspective2
Primary affective systems and personality: Disentangling the within‐person reciprocal relationships2
Pitfalls of self‐reported measures of self‐control: Surprising insights from extreme debtors2
Is “sadistic pleasure” a contrived process of signaling one's antagonism?2
Integrating and differentiating personality and psychopathology: A psychodynamic perspective2
The dark triad traits and relationship satisfaction: Dyadic response surface analysis2
Moral beacons: Understanding moral character and moral influence2
Corrigendum to “Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross‐lagged effects and their moderation by culture”2
The social side of personality: Do affiliation and intimacy motives moderate associations of personal relationships with well‐being?2
Partialing alters interpersonal correlates of negative affective symptoms and traits: A circumplex illustration2
Black dreams matter: Exploring the polyphonic realms of the Black Radical Imaginary2
Becoming Jane Barney: Developing a generative identity as an engaged citizen2
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Personality traits relate to chronotype at both the phenotypic and genetic level2
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Stability and change in autobiographical reasoning: A 4‐year longitudinal study of narrative identity development2
Defining distress tolerance in a structural model of Big Five personality domains2
Embodied Cognition and the Structure of Personality: An Exploratory Study of Longitudinal Pathways From Early Psychomotor Function2
Purpose maintained: Adverse childhood experiences and meaning in life2
The evolution of narrative identity in a “returning home” man: The psychological and cultural place of farming in the Chinese psyche2
Does narcissus prefer to be alone? Narcissistic personality features and the preference for solitude2
The associations between life events and person‐centered personality consistency2
When meaning in life protects against fear of death: The moderating role of self‐alienation2
Associations between daily affective experiences, trait and daily rumination on negative and positive affect: a diary study2
Negative internal working models as mechanisms that link mothers’ and fathers’ personality with their parenting: A short‐term longitudinal study2
Explicating narrow and broad conceptualizations of environmental influences on personality2
The Effects of Multifaceted Introversion and Sensory Processing Sensitivity on Solitude‐Seeking Behavior1
Trajectories of relationship and sexual satisfaction over 2 years in the Covid‐19 pandemic: A latent class analysis1
Power motives, personality correlates, and leadership outcomes: A person‐centered approach1
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Individual differences in emotional reactions to bistable perception1
The relevance of perceived work environment and work activities for personality trajectories in midlife1
Thoughts Falling Apart: Disorganized Schizotypy Specifically Predicts Both Psychotic‐ and Stress‐Reactivity in Daily Life1
Longitudinal Associations Among Trust, Loneliness, and Life Satisfaction Among University Students: A Between‐ and Within‐Person Analysis1
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The Role of World Beliefs in Loneliness: Implications for Daily Social Interaction and Persistence of Loneliness Over Time1
Negative urgency as a state‐level process1
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Short‐term personality development and early career success: Two longitudinal studies during the post‐graduation transition1
Exploring the stability of HEXACO‐60 structure and the association of gender, age, and social position with personality traits across 18 countries1
Synthesizing contemporary integrative interpersonal theory and the narrative identity approach to examine personality dynamics and regulatory processes1
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Actual and volitional personality change across study abroad1
Personal Values and Cognitive Biases1
A Fundamental Difference in the Nature of Personal Values and Personality Traits Revealed Through Different Patterns of Stability Across Their Distributions1
Exploring the structure of fearlessness using self‐report measures1
Regional personality assessment through social media language1
Person‐specific priorities in solitude1
Modeling dynamic personality theories in a continuous‐time framework: An illustration1
What do people find most meaningful? How representations of the self and the world provide meaning in life1
Common genetic and environmental bases of the mental disorders and personality traits: Special focus on the hierarchical model of psychopathology and NEO‐PI‐R facets1
A prospective study of relationship and sexual satisfaction during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic: The role of dispositional vulnerabilities and external stressors1
Agency and Communion in Brief Entire Life Narratives Across the Life Span1
#Insta personality: Personality expression in Instagram accounts, impression formation, and accuracy of personality judgments at zero acquaintance1
Personality, intelligence, and academic achievement: Charting their developmental interplay1
Social anhedonia, communication, and marital satisfaction in newlywed couples1
Social change at the local level: A psychobiography of Khali Sweeney from Detroit's downtown boxing gym1
Origins ofantiminingresistance in the life of a grassroots American Indian leader: Prospects for Indigenizing psychobiography1
The validity of the higher‐order structure of effortful control as defined by inhibitory control, attention shifting, and focusing: A longitudinal and multi‐informant study1
Mindful of personality trait change: Are treatment effects on personality trait change ephemeral and attributable to changes in states?1
Positive event diversity: Relationship with personality and well‐being1
The interacting partner as the immediate environment: Personality, interpersonal dynamics, and bodily synchronization1
Diversity in singlehood experiences: Testing an attachment theory model of sub‐groups of singles1
Recent stressful life events and identity development in emerging adults: An examination of within‐person effects1
Clarifying the relationship between trait aggression and self‐control using random item slope regression1
The nonlinear association between grandiose and vulnerable narcissism: An individual data meta‐analysis1
Beyond the Moderating Role of Neuroticism on Evaluative Conditioning: Threat Appraisal1
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Understanding Parenting Stress in Adoptive Parents: A Longitudinal Multilevel Study of Parents' Self‐Criticism, Child Negative Emotionality, and Child Age at Placement1
Do people diagnosed with psychosis spectrum disorders share the same personality space as the general population? Big Five complemented by the proneness to psychotic‐like experiences/behaviors1
Psychobiographies of social change agents: Introduction to the Special Issue1
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