Journal of Research in Personality

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Research in 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Moral Chameleons: The positive association between materialism and self-interest-triggered moral flexibility62
There are a million ways to be a woman and a million ways to be a man: Gender differences across personality nuances and nations54
Honesty-humility and criminal behavior among imprisoned criminal offenders43
Transgenerational Transmission: An Investigation of Parents’ Achievement Motives, Achievement Imagery in Children’s Books and Children’s Academic Performance43
On rhetoric and ratings: II. Requesting redemptive stories and continuous ratings42
How secure and preoccupied attachment relate to offence-specific forgiveness in couples32
Who do you trust? The role of level and change in trust and personality across young to middle adulthood for political interest and voting intentions31
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Who scapegoats? Individual differences moderate the dual-motive model of scapegoating27
Age differences in personality traits and social desirability: A multi-rater multi-sample study24
“O’er the hilltops is the word of God” – Abraham Joshua Heschel’s prototypical self-defining memory and its relationship to his vision of the good life23
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The impact of trait introversion-extraversion and identity on state authenticity: Debating the benefits of extraversion21
The effect of trait anger and impulsiveness on ethical leadership and support for organizational change20
Personality and migration in Japan: Examining the tendency of extroverted and open people to migrate to Tokyo20
Accounting for the evaluative factor in self-ratings provides a more accurate estimate of the relationship between personality traits and well-being20
Gender differences in the relationship between self-esteem and depression among college students: A cross-lagged study from China18
The role of purpose in the stress process: A homeostatic account18
Does personality predict traveling abroad as indicated by mobile phone data? The idea of the mobile personality revisited18
Comparison of the relations between three dimensional personality frameworks and intra- and inter-personal functioning18
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Why does sadism troll? The role of negative emotional reactions from others17
A comprehensive examination of personality factor and facet associations with daily stress processes17
Incorporating prosocial vs. antisocial trait content in Big Five measurement: Lessons from the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2)17
Personal relative deprivation and moral self-judgments: The moderating role of sense of control17
A domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) model of triarchic psychopathy factors: Development and initial validation of the CAT-Tri+ questionnaire17
Localizing gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism in domains and facets of maladaptive personality traits: A multi-study report using self- and informant ratings16
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Non-verbal expressivity in alexithymia: A study on emoji use in text messaging across varying levels of alexithymia15
Profile similarities among romantic partners’ character strengths and their associations with relationship- and life satisfaction15
Stockpiling during the COVID-19 pandemic as a real-life social dilemma: A person-situation perspective15
A direct comparison of the temporal stability and criterion validities of experiential and retrospective global measures of subjective well-being14
Multitrait Multimethod validation of Implicit Association Test as a measure of individual differences in personality: Is there personality at all?14
The implicit measurement of psychopathy14
Multi-method longitudinal investigation of the general factor of child temperament (GFT): Substantive phenomenon or methodological artifact?14
Who uses what and how often?: Personality predictors of multiplatform social media use among young adults14
Trait and facet personality similarity and relationship and life satisfaction in romantic couples14
Measuring honesty-humility with an implicit association test (IAT): Construct and criterion validity12
Motivated but not engaged: The implicit achievement motive requires difficult or unclear task difficulty conditions to exert an impact on effort12
A Social Relations Model of need supportiveness12
Narcissus locked in the past: Vulnerable narcissism and the negative views of the past12
Stories off the beaten path: Exploring the content and correlates of cultural deviation narratives11
A longitudinal, multimethod study of children’s early emerging maladaptive personality traits: Stress sensitivity as a protective factor11
Is my attachment style showing? Perceptions of a date’s attachment anxiety and avoidance and dating interest during a speed-dating event11
Caveats of non-ipsatization of basic values: A review of issues and a simulation study11
Prevention focus and conscientiousness drive accurate responding in stimulus detection11
Are some people more accurate than others about the unique impressions they make on close others?10
A multi-method study of interpersonal complementarity and mentalization10
Academic performance through multiple lenses: Intelligence, conscientiousness, and achievement striving motivation as differential predictors of objective and subjective measures of academic achieveme10
Meaning making about and across self-relevant experiences: Links with identity commitment and exploration processes and satisfaction with life in adolescence10
Even the good life has an ending: Virtue in the face of finitude10
Subtypes of social withdrawal and mental health trajectories during COVID-19 pandemic10
Towards integration of communal narcissism within the structure of the narcissistic personality traits10
From war-related trauma exposure to PTSD and depression: A personality perspective10
Low modesty linked to feeling deprived within advantaged (but not disadvantaged) groups9
Personality, workstation type, task focus, and happiness in the workplace9
Neural basis responsible for self-control association with procrastination: Right MFC and bilateral OFC functional connectivity with left dlPFC9
Comparability of personality facets between men and women: A test of measurement invariance in IPIP-NEO facets in 49 countries9
Quantifying the psychopathic stare: Automated assessment of head motion is related to antisocial traits in forensic interviews9
Compensatory couple effects: How a spouse’s life goals impact one’s own career and health outcomes9
Corrigendum to “The network structure of impulsive personality and temporal discounting” [J. Res. Pers. 96 (2022) 104166]9
The generic conspiracist beliefs scale – 5: A short-form measure of conspiracist ideation8
Theoretical and empirical dissociations between the Dark Factor of Personality and low Honesty-Humility8
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Facets of trait impulsivity and their relationships to developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors from childhood into early adolescence8
Character strengths and health-related quality of life in a large international sample: A cross-sectional analysis8
Characterizing stress processes by linking big five personality states, traits, and day-to-day stressors8
The cost of giving: Examining the relationship between narcissistic, self-sacrificing, and empathetic traits on effortful versus effortless prosocial behavior8
Clarifying the relations between intellectual humility and pseudoscience beliefs, conspiratorial ideation, and susceptibility to fake news8
Is risk propensity unique from the big five factors of personality? A meta-analytic investigation8
Who gets to live the good life? Master Narratives, identity, and well-being within a marginalizing society8
Linking adolescent and adult narcissism research: A contribution by the narcissistic admiration and rivalry concept8
Disorganized schizotypy and neuroticism in daily life: Examining their overlap and differentiation8
Do experiences during the transition to working life Matter? the role of mastery and psychological commitment in personality trait change7
Avoidant individuals are more affected by ostracism attribution7
Psychopathic traits predict reduced social punishment: Evidence from a large-sample survey and an experimental study7
Psychopathy, charisma, and success: A moderation modeling approach to successful psychopathy7
On the way to adult identity: An evaluation of identity status and narrative identity models of development7
Disentangling stable and malleable components—A latent state-trait analysis of vocational interests7
Is peoples’ belief in a just world associated with (dis)honesty in romantic relationships?7
Too tempting to resist? Self-control moderates the relationship between narcissism and antisocial tendencies6
Why does the trait-state relation in vocational interests differ from that in personality? Exploring interest variability in daily life6
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Psychosis and the challenges to narrative identity and the good life: Advances from research on the integrated model of metacognition6
Personality and individual differences in the relationship between hedonic and eudaimonic motives and well-being in daily life6
The Goal breakthrough model of goal reorientation: Explicit questions drive implicit processes6
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Broadening our understanding of adversarial growth: The contribution of narrative methods6
Who knows what we are good at? Unique insights of the self, knowledgeable informants, and strangers into a person’s abilities6
Dispositional optimism as a buffer against emotional reactivity to daily stressors: A daily diary approach6
Resuming social contact after months of contact restrictions: Social traits moderate associations between changes in social contact and well-being6
Trait anger and approach motivation are related to higher endorsement of specific and generic conspiracy beliefs6
There is no temporal relationship between hedonic values and life satisfaction: A longitudinal study spanning 13 years6
Affective correlates of negative mood regulation expectancies: A systematic review and meta-analysis6
A multidimensional approach to acting out of character: How deviating from one’s personality profile relates to resource depletion and affect5
Finding better raters: The role of observer personality on the validity of observer-reported personality in predicting job performance5
Future self-continuity promotes meaning in life through authenticity5
Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms5
Emotion-Triggered impulsivity relates to speech dysfluency during high arousal states5
The big five inventory (BFI-2): Psychometric properties and validation in Serbian language5
Tendency to share positive emotions buffers loneliness-related negativity in the context of shared adversity5
Attachment orientation and dynamics of negative and positive emotions in daily life5
Caught on camera: Cross-race interactions captured in daily life5
If giving money to the Red Cross increases well-being, does taking money from the Red Cross increase ill-being? – Evidence from three experiments5
Definitional ambiguities in character strengths: A comparative analysis with personality and other psychobiological attributes5
Etiology of basic psychological needs and their association with personality: A twin study5
Self-knowledge of perceiver effects: Do people know how positively they tend to view targets relative to other people?5
Testing the personality differentiation by intelligence hypothesis in a representative sample of Swedish hexagenerians5
Environmental sensitivity predicts interpersonal sensitivity above and beyond Big Five personality traits5
The good life in cultural context: Examining Asian young adults’ psychological well-being and narratives of negative experiences5
Does Emotional Stability Form the Core of Self-Evaluations? A Multi-Rater Cross-Lagged Panel Study5
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Sentence completion test defensiveness and success in US military personnel selection5
The impact of suppressing and amplifying expressions on personality judgments5
Three personality facets can relate to increased academic output5
Impairment in personality functioning throughout adolescence and co-development with personality traits, emotion regulation strategies, and psychopathology5
A good life story: Deconstructing (and integrating) elements of narrative identity and a good life, featuring themes of humanistic growth5
Lonely but not alone: Loneliness and social positive valence sensitivity in emerging adults' everyday lives5
Examining the possibilities for volitional character change in compassion and intellectual humility through a three-month online intervention5
Misperceptions in a post-truth world: Effects of subjectivism and cultural relativism on bullshit receptivity and conspiracist ideation4
Beyond the redemptive self: Narratives of acceptance in later life (and in Other Contexts)4
Less is more. Discovering the latent factors of trait resilience4
Storying endometriosis: Examining relationships between narrative identity, mental health, and pain4
Chasing the “How” and “Why” of goal pursuit: A multimethod approach to the study of goal focus4
Daily and Trait personality Assessments’ relationship with Daily experiences of stress risk and resilience factors4
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An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits4
Value change across adolescent years: How do adolescents’ intrinsic and extrinsic values develop?4
A tribute to Will Dunlop4
Temporal dynamics of interpersonal trust during the transition to parenthood4
Personality expression in body motion dynamics: An enactive, embodied, and complex systems perspective4
On being and feeling transparent: Examining expressive accuracy awareness in first impressions of personality and links to well-being4
The Dark Triad traits and suicidal ideation in Chinese adolescents: Mediation by social alienation4
Neuroticism, urbanization, and the state prevalence of Parkinson’s disease in the USA4
The challenges of the experimental paradigm in narrative identity research4
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Pirates with psychopathic personalities? The role of sub-clinical and normative traits in illegal streaming and downloading of media4
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The relationship between narcissism and empathy: A meta-analytic review4
The cognitive complexity of a happy life, a meaningful life, and a psychologically rich life4
The targets of all treachery: Delusional ideation, paranoia, and the need for uniqueness as mediators between two forms of narcissism and conspiracy beliefs4
(Un)Locking self-motivation: Action versus state orientation moderates the effect of demanding conditions on self-regulatory performance4
Self-expression can be authentic or inauthentic, with differential outcomes for well-being: Development of the authentic and inauthentic expression scale (AIES)3
Do religious practices improve one’s mood? Daily religious behaviors are associated with daily wellbeing and buffer against hassles and uplifts3
Age and gender differences in the value development of Dutch adults in 11 years of longitudinal data3
A comprehensive taxonomy and structure of Lithuanian personality-descriptive terms3
On a slippery slope to intolerance: Individual difference in slippery slope beliefs predict outgroup negativity3
Estimating the replicability of statistically significant moderation effects in personality research using z-curve analysis3
Using multi-rater and test-retest data to detect overlap within and between psychological scales3
Large language models can replicate cross-cultural differences in personality3
Profiling narcissism: Evidence for grandiose-vulnerable and other subtypes3
If you’re funny and you know it: Personality, gender, and people’s ratings of their attempts at humor3
Dark tetrad traits in politicians and voter behavior: Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election3
Agentic collective narcissism and communal collective narcissism: Do they predict COVID-19 pandemic-related beliefs and behaviors?3
Narcissism and partner-enhancement at different relationship stages3
Beliefs about humanity, not higher power, predict extraordinary altruism3
Loneliness and time alone in everyday life: A descriptive-exploratory study of subjective and objective social isolation3
Semantic meaning means a lot: Exploring the role of semantics in the development of a Big Five taxonomy3
Secular changes in personality: An age-period-cohort analysis3
Personality heterogeneity in adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders: A conceptual replication study3
Elusive specific variance: A marginal effect on the accuracy of personality judgment3
Shyness, self-focused attention, and behavioral mimicry during social interaction3
Is personality stable and symptoms fleeting? A longitudinal comparison in adolescence3
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Neuroticism, emotional stress reactivity and recovery in daily life: Examining extraversion and openness as moderators2
Distress tolerance and stress-induced emotion regulation behavior2
Looking through a glass onion: Exploring the validity of eye-tracking technology in capturing self-directed attention2
A South Korean study of age trends in HEXACO-PI-R self-reports2
Corrigendum to “The impact of suppressing and amplifying expressions on personality judgments” [J. Res. Pers. 105 (2023) 104399]2
Why does Creativity Foster Well-Being? Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness during Everyday Creative Activities2
Corrigendum to “Theoretical and Empirical dissociations between the Dark Factor of Personality and low Honesty-Humility” [J. Res. Pers. 95 (2021) 104154]2
From Intellectual Investment Trait Theory to Dynamic Intellectual Investment Trait and State Theory: Theory extension, methodological advancement, and empirical illustration2
Does successfully changing personality traits via intervention require that participants be autonomously motivated to change?2
Is it really empathy? The potentially confounding role of mental imagery in self-reports of empathy2
Investigating everyday sadistic consumption within dark tetrad2
Classify with caution: An illustrative example using mixture models and machine learning2
What happy people do: The behavioral correlates of happiness in everyday situations2
Inquisitive but not discerning: Deprivation curiosity is associated with excessive openness to inaccurate information2
Measuring personality Traits:Simulations Exploring (Mis)Alignment between methods and measurands2
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the healthiest of them all – The surprising role of narcissism in state-level health outcomes2
Self/observer agreement in personality assessment by observers’ relationship types2
“High empathic response but low interest”: Machiavellianism and its neurostructural basis relate to perceived risk of social exclusion and workplace deviance2
Extraversion and adult attachment dimensions predict attitudes towards social touch2
Hurricane exposure, personality traits, and perceived changes in health and health behaviors2
The Dark Triad predicts public display of offensive political products2
Associations Among the Big Five, Health Values, and Health Behaviors2
Love is not blind: What romantic partners know about our abilities compared to ourselves, our close friends, and our acquaintances2
Who believes in conspiracy theories? A meta-analysis on personality correlates2
Personality across diverse sexual orientations and gender identities in an online convenience sample2
Does counter-habitual behavior carry psychological costs?2
Agency and communion ratings do not suggest shifting gender norms in American Society: A registered report2
Narcissistic traits and romantic relationship outcomes: A short daily diary investigation2
Does insecurity lead to envy? The longitudinal interplay between dispositional envy and self-esteem2
Corrigendum to “The Big Five personality traits, Big Two metatraits and social media: A meta-analysis” [J. Res. Pers. 70 (2017) 229–240]2
Big Five personality traits predicting active procrastination at work: When self- and supervisor-ratings tell different stories2
Affective preferences in benign masochism2
For whom is mind wandering stressful: The moderating role of dispositional emotionality and personality in predicting emotional experiences in everyday life2
Meaning in life and psychological distress: A meta-analysis2
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