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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Accounting for the evaluative factor in self-ratings provides a more accurate estimate of the relationship between personality traits and well-being	69
Corrigendum to “The network structure of impulsive personality and temporal discounting” [J. Res. Pers. 96 (2022) 104166]	59
The implicit measurement of psychopathy	56
Intellectual humility in romantic relationships: Implications for relationship satisfaction, argument frequency, and conflict behaviors	51
The role of purpose in the stress process: A homeostatic account	39
Why does sadism troll? The role of negative emotional reactions from others	37
There are a million ways to be a woman and a million ways to be a man: Gender differences across personality nuances and nations	32
Low modesty linked to feeling deprived within advantaged (but not disadvantaged) groups	31
Who scapegoats? Individual differences moderate the dual-motive model of scapegoating	29
People “fake-good” on personality self-reports more strongly in a job context than in a dating context	27
A Social Relations Model of need supportiveness	26
Editorial Board	25
Tendency to share positive emotions buffers loneliness-related negativity in the context of shared adversity	25
Avoidant individuals are more affected by ostracism attribution	23
Too tempting to resist? Self-control moderates the relationship between narcissism and antisocial tendencies	23
Psychosis and the challenges to narrative identity and the good life: Advances from research on the integrated model of metacognition	23
If giving money to the Red Cross increases well-being, does taking money from the Red Cross increase ill-being? – Evidence from three experiments	22
Future self-continuity promotes meaning in life through authenticity	22
Neuroticism, urbanization, and the state prevalence of Parkinson’s disease in the USA	21
Further exploring the impact of cumulative lifetime adversity on life satisfaction, psychological flourishing, and depressive symptoms	21
Improving self-knowledge: How performance feedback impacts individuals’ self-estimates of their cognitive abilities	20
What’s in a name? Exploring overlap among self-belief constructs	20
Neuroticism, emotional stress reactivity and recovery in daily life: Examining extraversion and openness as moderators	19
The Dark Triad predicts public display of offensive political products	19
Personality expression in body motion dynamics: An enactive, embodied, and complex systems perspective	19

Editorial Board	17
Loneliness and time alone in everyday life: A descriptive-exploratory study of subjective and objective social isolation	17
Distress tolerance and stress-induced emotion regulation behavior	17
Extraversion and adult attachment dimensions predict attitudes towards social touch	16
A tribute to Will Dunlop	16
Inquisitive but not discerning: Deprivation curiosity is associated with excessive openness to inaccurate information	14
Large language models can replicate cross-cultural differences in personality	14
What happy people do: The behavioral correlates of happiness in everyday situations	14
Lead us not into temptation: Differential associations of religious identification with self-regulatory traits and abilities	13
Exploring the dynamics of volitional personality change: A psychoeducational intervention study with young adults transitioning to the workforce	13
Profiling narcissism: Evidence for grandiose-vulnerable and other subtypes	13
Editorial Board	13
The relationship between life events and sense of coherence in adolescence. A longitudinal twin study	12
Personality Traits and Narrative Identity: Changes in Mid-Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood in Relation to Well-Being	12
Meaning in life and psychological distress: A meta-analysis	12
Extending the self-other knowledge asymmetry (SOKA) model to pathological traits	12
What’s “moral” in moral impressions? Exploring self-other agreement about the trait-specific component of moral impressions	12
An ego effectiveness perspective of successful self-control: An individual difference and its links to social functioning and well-being	12
“Feeling Powerful” versus “Desiring Power”: A pervasive and problematic conflation in personality assessment?	12
Affective preferences in benign masochism	12
Distracted by the mirror? Associations between narcissism, self-esteem and gaze behavior during self-face viewing	12
The role of temperament traits as predictors of depressive symptoms and resilience in adolescents	11
Editorial Board	11
Devilish details: The importance of marginalia in personality research	11
Editorial Board	11
Personality change profiles and changes in cognition among middle-aged and older adults	11
Personality, political party identification, and partisan news consumption: A replication and extension in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Agency, communion, and the shifting gender norms in American society? A registered report	11
Meaning making about and across self-relevant experiences: Links with identity commitment and exploration processes and satisfaction with life in adolescence	10
Compensatory couple effects: How a spouse’s life goals impact one’s own career and health outcomes	10
A direct comparison of the temporal stability and criterion validities of experiential and retrospective global measures of subjective well-being	10
Ink and Identity: Personality perceptions based on tattoos	10
Trait and facet personality similarity and relationship and life satisfaction in romantic couples	10
Transgenerational Transmission: An Investigation of Parents’ Achievement Motives, Achievement Imagery in Children’s Books and Children’s Academic Performance	10
From war-related trauma exposure to PTSD and depression: A personality perspective	10
Registered Report Stage II: Does personality vary by relationship power? An investigation of satisfaction in diverse romantic partnerships	9
Is my attachment style showing? Perceptions of a date’s attachment anxiety and avoidance and dating interest during a speed-dating event	9
Emotion-Triggered impulsivity relates to speech dysfluency during high arousal states	9
Sentence completion test defensiveness and success in US military personnel selection	9
The cognitive complexity of a happy life, a meaningful life, and a psychologically rich life	9
Personality, workstation type, task focus, and happiness in the workplace	9
Gender differences in the relationship between self-esteem and depression among college students: A cross-lagged study from China	9
Attachment orientation and dynamics of negative and positive emotions in daily life	9
Trait anger and approach motivation are related to higher endorsement of specific and generic conspiracy beliefs	9
Characterizing stress processes by linking big five personality states, traits, and day-to-day stressors	9
Facets of trait impulsivity and their relationships to developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors from childhood into early adolescence	9
An investigation testing the perceptual advantage of Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its associations with the Big Five personality traits	9
Impairment in personality functioning throughout adolescence and co-development with personality traits, emotion regulation strategies, and psychopathology	9
Temporal dynamics of interpersonal trust during the transition to parenthood	8
Do religious practices improve one’s mood? Daily religious behaviors are associated with daily wellbeing and buffer against hassles and uplifts	8

A framework for the initial phases of personality test development using large language models and artificial personas	8
Why does Creativity Foster Well-Being? Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness during Everyday Creative Activities	8
Elusive specific variance: A marginal effect on the accuracy of personality judgment	8
Fibbing friends: self and friend perceptions of honesty and honesty-adjacent characteristics	8
On a slippery slope to intolerance: Individual difference in slippery slope beliefs predict outgroup negativity	8
Hurricane exposure, personality traits, and perceived changes in health and health behaviors	8
Narrative identity among people with disabilities in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic: The interdependent self	8
Does successfully changing personality traits via intervention require that participants be autonomously motivated to change?	8
The relationship between narcissism and empathy: A meta-analytic review	8
Is personality stable and symptoms fleeting? A longitudinal comparison in adolescence	8
Daily self-esteem and relationship quality in first-time parents	8
Are changes in the perception of major life events associated with changes in subjective well-being?	8
Personality differences between children and adults over the past two centuries: Evidence from corpus linguistics	7
People differ in their sensitivity to the environment: An integrated theory, measurement and empirical evidence	7
Pornography and pride: Antagonism drives links between narcissism and perceived addiction to pornography	7
Romantic competence in established relationships: Perceptual, behavioral, interactive, and assortative components	7
Experiencing obstacles during goal pursuit: The role of goal motivation and trait self-control	7
Using Whole Trait Theory to unite trait and state mindfulness	7
Idiographic personality networks: Stability, variability and when they become problematic	7
Revisiting the relationship between team members’ personality and their team’s performance: A meta-analysis	7
Family environment and self-esteem development in adolescence: A replication and extension	7
Personality and reasoning ability during retirement age: Report from a Swedish population-based longitudinal study	7