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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Low modesty linked to feeling deprived within advantaged (but not disadvantaged) groups101
Corrigendum to “The network structure of impulsive personality and temporal discounting” [J. Res. Pers. 96 (2022) 104166]95
The implicit measurement of psychopathy54
Why does sadism troll? The role of negative emotional reactions from others49
Intellectual humility in romantic relationships: Implications for relationship satisfaction, argument frequency, and conflict behaviors41
People “fake-good” on personality self-reports more strongly in a job context than in a dating context41
Who scapegoats? Individual differences moderate the dual-motive model of scapegoating41
There are a million ways to be a woman and a million ways to be a man: Gender differences across personality nuances and nations36
The role of purpose in the stress process: A homeostatic account34
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I want it that way: Exploring the role of desire intolerance in emotion-related impulsivity via ecological momentary assessment30
Tendency to share positive emotions buffers loneliness-related negativity in the context of shared adversity28
Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms28
Improving self-knowledge: How performance feedback impacts individuals’ self-estimates of their cognitive abilities24
Patiently waiting: The role of trait patience during stressful waiting periods24
Psychosis and the challenges to narrative identity and the good life: Advances from research on the integrated model of metacognition23
Neuroticism, urbanization, and the state prevalence of Parkinson’s disease in the USA23
Future self-continuity promotes meaning in life through authenticity22
What’s in a name? Exploring overlap among self-belief constructs22
The Dark Triad predicts public display of offensive political products20
Extraversion and adult attachment dimensions predict attitudes towards social touch20
A tribute to Will Dunlop18
What happy people do: The behavioral correlates of happiness in everyday situations18
Distress tolerance and stress-induced emotion regulation behavior18
Large language models can replicate cross-cultural differences in personality17
Intelligence, conscientiousness and extraversion moderate the house money effect in real-life financial decision-making17
Profiling narcissism: Evidence for grandiose-vulnerable and other subtypes17
Personality expression in body motion dynamics: An enactive, embodied, and complex systems perspective16
Neuroticism, emotional stress reactivity and recovery in daily life: Examining extraversion and openness as moderators16
Inquisitive but not discerning: Deprivation curiosity is associated with excessive openness to inaccurate information16
Extending the self-other knowledge asymmetry (SOKA) model to pathological traits15
Loneliness and time alone in everyday life: A descriptive-exploratory study of subjective and objective social isolation15
“Feeling Powerful” versus “Desiring Power”: A pervasive and problematic conflation in personality assessment?15
Affective preferences in benign masochism15
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What’s “moral” in moral impressions? Exploring self-other agreement about the trait-specific component of moral impressions15
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Exploring the dynamics of volitional personality change: A psychoeducational intervention study with young adults transitioning to the workforce14
Malevolent vs. benevolent dispositions and conservative political ideology in the Trump era14
Agency, communion, and the shifting gender norms in American society? A registered report14
The relationship between life events and sense of coherence in adolescence. A longitudinal twin study14
Meaning in life and psychological distress: A meta-analysis14
Distracted by the mirror? Associations between narcissism, self-esteem and gaze behavior during self-face viewing13
Personality Traits and Narrative Identity: Changes in Mid-Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood in Relation to Well-Being13
Behavioral tendencies of hostility: A new approach to personality assessment based on person-in-context units13
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Sensation seeking, impulsivity, COVID-19 stress, and drinking among emerging adults12
What do agreeable people think about? spontaneous thoughts as a component of personality12
The emotional complexity of musical experiences: Cultural and individual factors12
The interplay between gender and personality in relationship outcomes: Satisfaction across domains and partnership status12
Personality, political party identification, and partisan news consumption: A replication and extension in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic12
Personality, workstation type, task focus, and happiness in the workplace11
Meaning making about and across self-relevant experiences: Links with identity commitment and exploration processes and satisfaction with life in adolescence11
Registered Report Stage II: Does personality vary by relationship power? An investigation of satisfaction in diverse romantic partnerships11
Ink and Identity: Personality perceptions based on tattoos11
A direct comparison of the temporal stability and criterion validities of experiential and retrospective global measures of subjective well-being11
Trait and facet personality similarity and relationship and life satisfaction in romantic couples10
Is my attachment style showing? Perceptions of a date’s attachment anxiety and avoidance and dating interest during a speed-dating event10
Transgenerational Transmission: An Investigation of Parents’ Achievement Motives, Achievement Imagery in Children’s Books and Children’s Academic Performance10
Characterizing stress processes by linking big five personality states, traits, and day-to-day stressors10
Compensatory couple effects: How a spouse’s life goals impact one’s own career and health outcomes10
Self/spouse agreement, similarity, and assumed similarity in the HEXACO personality factors10
Impairment in personality functioning throughout adolescence and co-development with personality traits, emotion regulation strategies, and psychopathology10
Sentence completion test defensiveness and success in US military personnel selection10
Attachment orientation and dynamics of negative and positive emotions in daily life9
Fibbing friends: self and friend perceptions of honesty and honesty-adjacent characteristics9
Emotion-Triggered impulsivity relates to speech dysfluency during high arousal states9
Facets of trait impulsivity and their relationships to developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors from childhood into early adolescence9
Personality adjectives in the digital world: A natural language processing study of Big Five adjectives and their usage on Reddit9
Trait anger and approach motivation are related to higher endorsement of specific and generic conspiracy beliefs9
An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits9
Elusive specific variance: A marginal effect on the accuracy of personality judgment9
The cognitive complexity of a happy life, a meaningful life, and a psychologically rich life9
Temporal mood dynamics and individual heterogeneity: a computational framework for human-environment affective dynamics9
Do religious practices improve one’s mood? Daily religious behaviors are associated with daily wellbeing and buffer against hassles and uplifts8
Narrative identity among people with disabilities in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic: The interdependent self8
A framework for the initial phases of personality test development using large language models and artificial personas8
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Maternal narcissism during childhood and adolescent narcissism: The moderating influences of child sex and self-esteem8
The relationship between narcissism and empathy: A meta-analytic review8
Hurricane exposure, personality traits, and perceived changes in health and health behaviors8
Daily self-esteem and relationship quality in first-time parents7
Experiencing obstacles during goal pursuit: The role of goal motivation and trait self-control7
Romantic competence in established relationships: Perceptual, behavioral, interactive, and assortative components7
Why does Creativity Foster Well-Being? Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness during Everyday Creative Activities7
Idiographic personality networks: Stability, variability and when they become problematic7
Are changes in the perception of major life events associated with changes in subjective well-being?7
Personality differences between children and adults over the past two centuries: Evidence from corpus linguistics7
People differ in their sensitivity to the environment: An integrated theory, measurement and empirical evidence6
Using Whole Trait Theory to unite trait and state mindfulness6
Pornography and pride: Antagonism drives links between narcissism and perceived addiction to pornography6
Optimism and pessimism were prospectively associated with adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Revisiting the relationship between team members’ personality and their team’s performance: A meta-analysis6
Re-assessing communal narcissism: the narcissistic sanctity and heroism concept6
Personality, culture and extreme response style: A multilevel modelling analysis6
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
Family environment and self-esteem development in adolescence: A replication and extension6
Personality and conceptions of religiosity across the world’s religions6
A social relations perspective on attachment orientations and judgments of relationship quality in friendships6
Family experiences while growing up, personality traits, and well-being: A mediation analysis5
Introduction to the special issue on “Storying the good life: Pathways and pitfalls to adaptive narrative identity”5
Development and validation of the Moral Character Questionnaire5
Age differences in personality traits and social desirability: A multi-rater multi-sample study5
Localizing gelotophobia, gelotophilia, and katagelasticism in domains and facets of maladaptive personality traits: A multi-study report using self- and informant ratings5
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Who knows what we are good at? Unique insights of the self, knowledgeable informants, and strangers into a person’s abilities5
Who gets to live the good life? Master Narratives, identity, and well-being within a marginalizing society5
Does personality predict traveling abroad as indicated by mobile phone data? The idea of the mobile personality revisited5
Is risk propensity unique from the big five factors of personality? A meta-analytic investigation5
Examining the Conscientiousness × Interest Compensation (CONIC) model with similar constructs in high school and college students5
Personality and cognitive errors in the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span study5
Too proud to doubt? The relationship between narcissism and intellectual humility5
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Vulgarity and hilarity: The dark tetrad and HEXACO as predictors of creating aggressive, obscene, and otherwise offensive humor5
Self-knowledge of perceiver effects: Do people know how positively they tend to view targets relative to other people?5
Even the good life has an ending: Virtue in the face of finitude5
Towards integration of communal narcissism within the structure of the narcissistic personality traits5
Does narrating the life story predict changes in personality traits and characteristics?5
Prevention focus and conscientiousness drive accurate responding in stimulus detection5
Profile similarities among romantic partners’ character strengths and their associations with relationship- and life satisfaction5
(Un)Locking self-motivation: Action versus state orientation moderates the effect of demanding conditions on self-regulatory performance5
Broadening our understanding of adversarial growth: The contribution of narrative methods5
Personality and individual differences in the relationship between hedonic and eudaimonic motives and well-being in daily life5
Character strengths and health-related quality of life in a large international sample: A cross-sectional analysis5
Corrigendum to “The impact of suppressing and amplifying expressions on personality judgments” [J. Res. Pers. 105 (2023) 104399]4
Environmental sensitivity predicts interpersonal sensitivity above and beyond Big Five personality traits4
Does insecurity lead to envy? The longitudinal interplay between dispositional envy and self-esteem4
Three facets of narcissism in their relations to the experienced emotions and their variability4
Paradise for the self-interested? The association between economic inequality and the Dark Triad4
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the healthiest of them all – The surprising role of narcissism in state-level health outcomes4
The effects of specific and common variance on test–retest and self-other correlations: Another perspective on personality nuances4
Shyness, self-focused attention, and behavioral mimicry during social interaction4
You are what you read: Antagonistic narcissism predicts increased preference for antisocial and reduced preference for prosocial information4
Personality dynamics and trait change on the year abroad4
Personality heterogeneity in adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders: A conceptual replication study4
Big Six Personality Traits in the Africa Long Life Study4
Assessing the temporal stability of psychological constructs: An illustration of Type D personality, anxiety and depression4
Is it really empathy? The potentially confounding role of mental imagery in self-reports of empathy4
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Age and gender differences in the value development of Dutch adults in 11 years of longitudinal data4
Measuring personality Traits:Simulations Exploring (Mis)Alignment between methods and measurands4
Why does the trait-state relation in vocational interests differ from that in personality? Exploring interest variability in daily life4
Hormonal underpinnings of narcissism in women: The role of estradiol measured from blood and self-report4
Trait empathy predicts a preference for the spirit of the law: Nationally representative survey evidence4
Close replication of : Who tells prosocial lies?4
The (in)distinguishability of Machiavellianism and psychopathy? Discovering the daily dynamics4
Approaches to modeling interpersonal complementarity in intensive longitudinal data3
Disorganized schizotypy and neuroticism in daily life: Examining their overlap and differentiation3
Moral Chameleons: The positive association between materialism and self-interest-triggered moral flexibility3
On rhetoric and ratings: II. Requesting redemptive stories and continuous ratings3
Special issue: Personality in stress risk and resilience3
Cross-cultural evidence for an association between agreeableness and sweet taste preferences3
Who tells prosocial lies? A HEXACO model investigation3
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
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The Three Nonnormative Traits (TNT) and (Dis-)liking in work and nonwork settings3
Associations of aversive (‘dark’) traits and affiliative (‘light’) traits with moral-dilemma judgments: A preregistered exploratory analysis using the CNI model3
Who do you trust? The role of level and change in trust and personality across young to middle adulthood for political interest and voting intentions3
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Honesty-humility and criminal behavior among imprisoned criminal offenders3
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The relation between Honesty-Humility and moral concerns as expressed in language3
Tradeoffs of humility in the face of existential concerns3
Do gifted individuals exhibit higher levels of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and what role do openness and neuroticism play in this regard?3
Personality/cognitive ability relations with and without the Project Talent Longitudinal Sample3
Partners among Strangers: A social Relations perspective on personality and collaborative partner preferences in first encounters3
Early predictors of sensory processing sensitivity in members of the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort3
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
Perfectionistic strivings and conscientiousness as differential predictors of goal setting (in)flexibility in real-life situations: A mixture latent Markov approach3
Schizotypal ambivalence is associated with schizophrenia-spectrum and borderline personality traits in young adults: Converging results from three interview studies3
Stories off the beaten path: Exploring the content and correlates of cultural deviation narratives3
Comparability of personality facets between men and women: A test of measurement invariance in IPIP-NEO facets in 49 countries3
Maladaptive conscientiousness is still conscientiousness3
How to measure and model personality traits in everyday life: A qualitative analysis of 300 big five personality items3
Predicting openness to experience via a multiplex cognitive network approach3
The autobiographical critic within: Perceiving oneself as a major character in one’s life story predicts well-being3
Experiental features of volunteering predict changes in college students’ social, emotional, and behavioral skills3
Academic performance through multiple lenses: Intelligence, conscientiousness, and achievement striving motivation as differential predictors of objective and subjective measures of academic achieveme3
A comprehensive examination of personality factor and facet associations with daily stress processes3
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