OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Research in Personality is 7. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Why does sadism troll? The role of negative emotional reactions from others	89
Corrigendum to “The network structure of impulsive personality and temporal discounting” [J. Res. Pers. 96 (2022) 104166]	75
Who scapegoats? Individual differences moderate the dual-motive model of scapegoating	57
The implicit measurement of psychopathy	44
Low modesty linked to feeling deprived within advantaged (but not disadvantaged) groups	36
People “fake-good” on personality self-reports more strongly in a job context than in a dating context	34
There are a million ways to be a woman and a million ways to be a man: Gender differences across personality nuances and nations	31
Intellectual humility in romantic relationships: Implications for relationship satisfaction, argument frequency, and conflict behaviors	30
The role of purpose in the stress process: A homeostatic account	30
What’s in a name? Exploring overlap among self-belief constructs	29
Improving self-knowledge: How performance feedback impacts individuals’ self-estimates of their cognitive abilities	29
Psychosis and the challenges to narrative identity and the good life: Advances from research on the integrated model of metacognition	26
Avoidant individuals are more affected by ostracism attribution	25
Neuroticism, urbanization, and the state prevalence of Parkinson’s disease in the USA	25
Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms	23
Editorial Board	22
I want it that way: Exploring the role of desire intolerance in emotion-related impulsivity via ecological momentary assessment	22
Future self-continuity promotes meaning in life through authenticity	21
Tendency to share positive emotions buffers loneliness-related negativity in the context of shared adversity	21
Too tempting to resist? Self-control moderates the relationship between narcissism and antisocial tendencies	21
The Dark Triad predicts public display of offensive political products	20
A tribute to Will Dunlop	19
Editorial Board	19
Neuroticism, emotional stress reactivity and recovery in daily life: Examining extraversion and openness as moderators	19
Profiling narcissism: Evidence for grandiose-vulnerable and other subtypes	19

What happy people do: The behavioral correlates of happiness in everyday situations	17
Large language models can replicate cross-cultural differences in personality	17
Distress tolerance and stress-induced emotion regulation behavior	16
Intelligence, conscientiousness and extraversion moderate the house money effect in real-life financial decision-making	16
Personality expression in body motion dynamics: An enactive, embodied, and complex systems perspective	16
Extraversion and adult attachment dimensions predict attitudes towards social touch	15
Inquisitive but not discerning: Deprivation curiosity is associated with excessive openness to inaccurate information	15
Loneliness and time alone in everyday life: A descriptive-exploratory study of subjective and objective social isolation	15
What’s “moral” in moral impressions? Exploring self-other agreement about the trait-specific component of moral impressions	14
Malevolent vs. benevolent dispositions and conservative political ideology in the Trump era	14
Affective preferences in benign masochism	14
Editorial Board	14
Exploring the dynamics of volitional personality change: A psychoeducational intervention study with young adults transitioning to the workforce	13
The relationship between life events and sense of coherence in adolescence. A longitudinal twin study	13
Extending the self-other knowledge asymmetry (SOKA) model to pathological traits	13
An ego effectiveness perspective of successful self-control: An individual difference and its links to social functioning and well-being	12
Behavioral tendencies of hostility: A new approach to personality assessment based on person-in-context units	12
Editorial Board	12
Personality Traits and Narrative Identity: Changes in Mid-Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood in Relation to Well-Being	12
“Feeling Powerful” versus “Desiring Power”: A pervasive and problematic conflation in personality assessment?	12
Devilish details: The importance of marginalia in personality research	12
Agency, communion, and the shifting gender norms in American society? A registered report	12
Editorial Board	12
Meaning in life and psychological distress: A meta-analysis	12
Distracted by the mirror? Associations between narcissism, self-esteem and gaze behavior during self-face viewing	12
Personality, political party identification, and partisan news consumption: A replication and extension in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Sensation seeking, impulsivity, COVID-19 stress, and drinking among emerging adults	12
The interplay between gender and personality in relationship outcomes: Satisfaction across domains and partnership status	11
A direct comparison of the temporal stability and criterion validities of experiential and retrospective global measures of subjective well-being	11
From war-related trauma exposure to PTSD and depression: A personality perspective	11
What do agreeable people think about? spontaneous thoughts as a component of personality	11
Transgenerational Transmission: An Investigation of Parents’ Achievement Motives, Achievement Imagery in Children’s Books and Children’s Academic Performance	11
Ink and Identity: Personality perceptions based on tattoos	11
Registered Report Stage II: Does personality vary by relationship power? An investigation of satisfaction in diverse romantic partnerships	11
Characterizing stress processes by linking big five personality states, traits, and day-to-day stressors	11
Personality, workstation type, task focus, and happiness in the workplace	10
Meaning making about and across self-relevant experiences: Links with identity commitment and exploration processes and satisfaction with life in adolescence	10
Sentence completion test defensiveness and success in US military personnel selection	10
Emotion-Triggered impulsivity relates to speech dysfluency during high arousal states	10
Compensatory couple effects: How a spouse’s life goals impact one’s own career and health outcomes	10
Gender differences in the relationship between self-esteem and depression among college students: A cross-lagged study from China	10
Impairment in personality functioning throughout adolescence and co-development with personality traits, emotion regulation strategies, and psychopathology	10
Is my attachment style showing? Perceptions of a date’s attachment anxiety and avoidance and dating interest during a speed-dating event	10
Trait and facet personality similarity and relationship and life satisfaction in romantic couples	10
Attachment orientation and dynamics of negative and positive emotions in daily life	10
Personality adjectives in the digital world: A natural language processing study of Big Five adjectives and their usage on Reddit	10
The cognitive complexity of a happy life, a meaningful life, and a psychologically rich life	9
An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits	9
Trait anger and approach motivation are related to higher endorsement of specific and generic conspiracy beliefs	9
Facets of trait impulsivity and their relationships to developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors from childhood into early adolescence	9

Elusive specific variance: A marginal effect on the accuracy of personality judgment	8
Is personality stable and symptoms fleeting? A longitudinal comparison in adolescence	8
A framework for the initial phases of personality test development using large language models and artificial personas	8
Do religious practices improve one’s mood? Daily religious behaviors are associated with daily wellbeing and buffer against hassles and uplifts	8
The relationship between narcissism and empathy: A meta-analytic review	8
Temporal dynamics of interpersonal trust during the transition to parenthood	8
Fibbing friends: self and friend perceptions of honesty and honesty-adjacent characteristics	8
Hurricane exposure, personality traits, and perceived changes in health and health behaviors	8
Open laptops, open minds: Consensus and accuracy in big five personality perception from laptop stickers	7
Using Whole Trait Theory to unite trait and state mindfulness	7
Daily self-esteem and relationship quality in first-time parents	7
Are changes in the perception of major life events associated with changes in subjective well-being?	7
Experiencing obstacles during goal pursuit: The role of goal motivation and trait self-control	7
Family environment and self-esteem development in adolescence: A replication and extension	7
Revisiting the relationship between team members’ personality and their team’s performance: A meta-analysis	7
People differ in their sensitivity to the environment: An integrated theory, measurement and empirical evidence	7
Romantic competence in established relationships: Perceptual, behavioral, interactive, and assortative components	7
Idiographic personality networks: Stability, variability and when they become problematic	7
Why does Creativity Foster Well-Being? Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness during Everyday Creative Activities	7
Pornography and pride: Antagonism drives links between narcissism and perceived addiction to pornography	7
Re-assessing communal narcissism: the narcissistic sanctity and heroism concept	7
Does narrating the life story predict changes in personality traits and characteristics?	7
Personality differences between children and adults over the past two centuries: Evidence from corpus linguistics	7
Narrative identity among people with disabilities in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic: The interdependent self	7
Personality and conceptions of religiosity across the world’s religions	7