Journal of Research in Personality

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Research in 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Intellectual humility in romantic relationships: Implications for relationship satisfaction, argument frequency, and conflict behaviors80
Why does sadism troll? The role of negative emotional reactions from others69
Low modesty linked to feeling deprived within advantaged (but not disadvantaged) groups55
People “fake-good” on personality self-reports more strongly in a job context than in a dating context38
Corrigendum to “The network structure of impulsive personality and temporal discounting” [J. Res. Pers. 96 (2022) 104166]33
Who scapegoats? Individual differences moderate the dual-motive model of scapegoating31
The implicit measurement of psychopathy30
There are a million ways to be a woman and a million ways to be a man: Gender differences across personality nuances and nations28
The role of purpose in the stress process: A homeostatic account28
Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms25
Too tempting to resist? Self-control moderates the relationship between narcissism and antisocial tendencies24
What’s in a name? Exploring overlap among self-belief constructs24
Avoidant individuals are more affected by ostracism attribution24
Neuroticism, urbanization, and the state prevalence of Parkinson’s disease in the USA23
Psychosis and the challenges to narrative identity and the good life: Advances from research on the integrated model of metacognition22
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Tendency to share positive emotions buffers loneliness-related negativity in the context of shared adversity21
Future self-continuity promotes meaning in life through authenticity20
Improving self-knowledge: How performance feedback impacts individuals’ self-estimates of their cognitive abilities20
I want it that way: Exploring the role of desire intolerance in emotion-related impulsivity via ecological momentary assessment19
The Dark Triad predicts public display of offensive political products19
Profiling narcissism: Evidence for grandiose-vulnerable and other subtypes19
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A tribute to Will Dunlop16
Neuroticism, emotional stress reactivity and recovery in daily life: Examining extraversion and openness as moderators15
Large language models can replicate cross-cultural differences in personality15
Personality expression in body motion dynamics: An enactive, embodied, and complex systems perspective14
Distress tolerance and stress-induced emotion regulation behavior14
What’s “moral” in moral impressions? Exploring self-other agreement about the trait-specific component of moral impressions14
Extraversion and adult attachment dimensions predict attitudes towards social touch14
Inquisitive but not discerning: Deprivation curiosity is associated with excessive openness to inaccurate information14
What happy people do: The behavioral correlates of happiness in everyday situations14
Loneliness and time alone in everyday life: A descriptive-exploratory study of subjective and objective social isolation14
Exploring the dynamics of volitional personality change: A psychoeducational intervention study with young adults transitioning to the workforce14
Affective preferences in benign masochism13
Meaning in life and psychological distress: A meta-analysis13
Malevolent vs. benevolent dispositions and conservative political ideology in the Trump era13
The relationship between life events and sense of coherence in adolescence. A longitudinal twin study13
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Personality change profiles and changes in cognition among middle-aged and older adults12
Devilish details: The importance of marginalia in personality research12
An ego effectiveness perspective of successful self-control: An individual difference and its links to social functioning and well-being12
Extending the self-other knowledge asymmetry (SOKA) model to pathological traits12
“Feeling Powerful” versus “Desiring Power”: A pervasive and problematic conflation in personality assessment?12
Personality Traits and Narrative Identity: Changes in Mid-Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood in Relation to Well-Being12
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Personality, political party identification, and partisan news consumption: A replication and extension in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic11
Transgenerational Transmission: An Investigation of Parents’ Achievement Motives, Achievement Imagery in Children’s Books and Children’s Academic Performance11
Ink and Identity: Personality perceptions based on tattoos11
Agency, communion, and the shifting gender norms in American society? A registered report11
The role of temperament traits as predictors of depressive symptoms and resilience in adolescents11
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Distracted by the mirror? Associations between narcissism, self-esteem and gaze behavior during self-face viewing11
From war-related trauma exposure to PTSD and depression: A personality perspective10
A direct comparison of the temporal stability and criterion validities of experiential and retrospective global measures of subjective well-being10
Is my attachment style showing? Perceptions of a date’s attachment anxiety and avoidance and dating interest during a speed-dating event10
Personality, workstation type, task focus, and happiness in the workplace10
Gender differences in the relationship between self-esteem and depression among college students: A cross-lagged study from China10
Trait and facet personality similarity and relationship and life satisfaction in romantic couples10
Compensatory couple effects: How a spouse’s life goals impact one’s own career and health outcomes10
Meaning making about and across self-relevant experiences: Links with identity commitment and exploration processes and satisfaction with life in adolescence10
Characterizing stress processes by linking big five personality states, traits, and day-to-day stressors10
Registered Report Stage II: Does personality vary by relationship power? An investigation of satisfaction in diverse romantic partnerships10
Facets of trait impulsivity and their relationships to developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors from childhood into early adolescence10
An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits9
Emotion-Triggered impulsivity relates to speech dysfluency during high arousal states9
Impairment in personality functioning throughout adolescence and co-development with personality traits, emotion regulation strategies, and psychopathology9
Is personality stable and symptoms fleeting? A longitudinal comparison in adolescence9
Trait anger and approach motivation are related to higher endorsement of specific and generic conspiracy beliefs9
Sentence completion test defensiveness and success in US military personnel selection9
A framework for the initial phases of personality test development using large language models and artificial personas9
Do religious practices improve one’s mood? Daily religious behaviors are associated with daily wellbeing and buffer against hassles and uplifts9
Personality adjectives in the digital world: A natural language processing study of Big Five adjectives and their usage on Reddit9
The cognitive complexity of a happy life, a meaningful life, and a psychologically rich life9
Attachment orientation and dynamics of negative and positive emotions in daily life9
Temporal dynamics of interpersonal trust during the transition to parenthood9
Fibbing friends: self and friend perceptions of honesty and honesty-adjacent characteristics8
The relationship between narcissism and empathy: A meta-analytic review8
Narrative identity among people with disabilities in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic: The interdependent self8
Daily self-esteem and relationship quality in first-time parents8
Does successfully changing personality traits via intervention require that participants be autonomously motivated to change?8
Why does Creativity Foster Well-Being? Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness during Everyday Creative Activities8
Experiencing obstacles during goal pursuit: The role of goal motivation and trait self-control8
Elusive specific variance: A marginal effect on the accuracy of personality judgment8
Hurricane exposure, personality traits, and perceived changes in health and health behaviors8
Personality differences between children and adults over the past two centuries: Evidence from corpus linguistics8
Are changes in the perception of major life events associated with changes in subjective well-being?7
Revisiting the relationship between team members’ personality and their team’s performance: A meta-analysis7
Romantic competence in established relationships: Perceptual, behavioral, interactive, and assortative components7
Personality and conceptions of religiosity across the world’s religions7
People differ in their sensitivity to the environment: An integrated theory, measurement and empirical evidence7
Using Whole Trait Theory to unite trait and state mindfulness7
Development and validation of the Moral Character Questionnaire7
Idiographic personality networks: Stability, variability and when they become problematic7
Family environment and self-esteem development in adolescence: A replication and extension7
Pornography and pride: Antagonism drives links between narcissism and perceived addiction to pornography7
Does narrating the life story predict changes in personality traits and characteristics?7
Open laptops, open minds: Consensus and accuracy in big five personality perception from laptop stickers7
Does personality predict traveling abroad as indicated by mobile phone data? The idea of the mobile personality revisited6
Who gets to live the good life? Master Narratives, identity, and well-being within a marginalizing society6
The good and the bad in black and white: Stories of life’s high and low points told by black and white midlife adults in America6
Optimism and pessimism were prospectively associated with adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Vulnerable Isolation and Enmity Concept: Disentangling the blue and dark face of vulnerable narcissism6
Profile similarities among romantic partners’ character strengths and their associations with relationship- and life satisfaction6
Even the good life has an ending: Virtue in the face of finitude6
Family experiences while growing up, personality traits, and well-being: A mediation analysis6
Examining the Conscientiousness × Interest Compensation (CONIC) model with similar constructs in high school and college students6
Personality, culture and extreme response style: A multilevel modelling analysis6
Personality and cognitive errors in the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span study6
Prevention focus and conscientiousness drive accurate responding in stimulus detection6
Towards integration of communal narcissism within the structure of the narcissistic personality traits6
A social relations perspective on attachment orientations and judgments of relationship quality in friendships6
The awesome as well as the awful: Heightened sensory sensitivity predicts the presence and intensity of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR)6
Introduction to the special issue on “Storying the good life: Pathways and pitfalls to adaptive narrative identity”6
Localizing gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism in domains and facets of maladaptive personality traits: A multi-study report using self- and informant ratings5
Is risk propensity unique from the big five factors of personality? A meta-analytic investigation5
Why does the trait-state relation in vocational interests differ from that in personality? Exploring interest variability in daily life5
Character strengths and health-related quality of life in a large international sample: A cross-sectional analysis5
Age differences in personality traits and social desirability: A multi-rater multi-sample study5
Psychopathy, charisma, and success: A moderation modeling approach to successful psychopathy5
(Un)Locking self-motivation: Action versus state orientation moderates the effect of demanding conditions on self-regulatory performance5
Subtypes of social withdrawal and mental health trajectories during COVID-19 pandemic5
The impact of trait introversion-extraversion and identity on state authenticity: Debating the benefits of extraversion5
Self-knowledge of perceiver effects: Do people know how positively they tend to view targets relative to other people?5
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Self-expression can be authentic or inauthentic, with differential outcomes for well-being: Development of the authentic and inauthentic expression scale (AIES)4
Three facets of narcissism in their relations to the experienced emotions and their variability4
Big Six Personality Traits in the Africa Long Life Study4
Shyness, self-focused attention, and behavioral mimicry during social interaction4
Corrigendum to “The impact of suppressing and amplifying expressions on personality judgments” [J. Res. Pers. 105 (2023) 104399]4
Who knows what we are good at? Unique insights of the self, knowledgeable informants, and strangers into a person’s abilities4
Personality and individual differences in the relationship between hedonic and eudaimonic motives and well-being in daily life4
Age and gender differences in the value development of Dutch adults in 11 years of longitudinal data4
Pirates with psychopathic personalities? The role of sub-clinical and normative traits in illegal streaming and downloading of media4
Trait empathy predicts a preference for the spirit of the law: Nationally representative survey evidence4
Assessing the temporal stability of psychological constructs: An illustration of Type D personality, anxiety and depression4
Personality heterogeneity in adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders: A conceptual replication study4
Broadening our understanding of adversarial growth: The contribution of narrative methods4
On being and feeling transparent: Examining expressive accuracy awareness in first impressions of personality and links to well-being4
Close replication of : Who tells prosocial lies?4
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Paradise for the self-interested? The association between economic inequality and the Dark Triad4
Is it really empathy? The potentially confounding role of mental imagery in self-reports of empathy4
Does insecurity lead to envy? The longitudinal interplay between dispositional envy and self-esteem4
Measuring personality Traits:Simulations Exploring (Mis)Alignment between methods and measurands4
Environmental sensitivity predicts interpersonal sensitivity above and beyond Big Five personality traits4
Etiology of basic psychological needs and their association with personality: A twin study4
Predicting openness to experience via a multiplex cognitive network approach3
Cross-cultural evidence for an association between agreeableness and sweet taste preferences3
Maladaptive conscientiousness is still conscientiousness3
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Perfectionistic strivings and conscientiousness as differential predictors of goal setting (in)flexibility in real-life situations: A mixture latent Markov approach3
Early predictors of sensory processing sensitivity in members of the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort3
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Cognition and the development of temperament from late childhood to early adolescence3
Moral grandstanding, narcissism, and self-reported responses to the COVID-19 crisis3
The relation between Honesty-Humility and moral concerns as expressed in language3
Special issue: Personality in stress risk and resilience3
Parenting behaviors and trait perfectionism: A meta-analytic test of the social expectations and social learning models3
The Three Nonnormative Traits (TNT) and (Dis-)liking in work and nonwork settings3
Schizotypal ambivalence is associated with schizophrenia-spectrum and borderline personality traits in young adults: Converging results from three interview studies3
Disorganized schizotypy and neuroticism in daily life: Examining their overlap and differentiation3
Evaluating evidence for a global mindset factor across multiple ability domains3
What I Do and What I Can Do: Testing the convergence and incremental validity of social, emotional, and behavioral skills vs. traits for predicting academic success3
Personality/cognitive ability relations with and without the Project Talent Longitudinal Sample3
The structure of everyday happiness is best captured by a latent subjective well-being factor3
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the healthiest of them all – The surprising role of narcissism in state-level health outcomes3
Associations of aversive (‘dark’) traits and affiliative (‘light’) traits with moral-dilemma judgments: A preregistered exploratory analysis using the CNI model3
Personality development and its associations with the bifactor model of psychopathology in adolescence3
Comparability of personality facets between men and women: A test of measurement invariance in IPIP-NEO facets in 49 countries3
Academic performance through multiple lenses: Intelligence, conscientiousness, and achievement striving motivation as differential predictors of objective and subjective measures of academic achieveme3
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The autobiographical critic within: Perceiving oneself as a major character in one’s life story predicts well-being3
Approaches to modeling interpersonal complementarity in intensive longitudinal data3
Erratum to “(Un)Locking self-motivation: Action versus state orientation moderates the effect of demanding conditions on self-regulatory performance” [J. Res. Pers. 104 (2023) 104361]3
How to measure and model personality traits in everyday life: A qualitative analysis of 300 big five personality items3
Who tells prosocial lies? A HEXACO model investigation3
Do gifted individuals exhibit higher levels of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and what role do openness and neuroticism play in this regard?3
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