Personality and Individual Differences

Papers
(The median citation count of Personality and Individual Differences 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Trait irritability in adults is unrelated to face emotion identification255
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Need for emotional closure scale: Testing for measurement invariance in Turkish and English versions83
Book Review80
The influence of life narrative themes on resilience and life outcomes78
`Association study of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, impulsivity personality traits and moderate alcohol consumption in men78
One, two, three, sit next to me: Personality and physical distance76
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Toward controlling of a pandemic: How self-control ability influences willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine65
Corrigendum to “‘Title’ Volume, Page: Liao, Y. H., Chen, Y. H., & Chen, H. C. (2024). Laughing matters: Exploring ridicule-related traits, personality, and well-being.” [Pers. Individ. Differ. 22762
“Even a broken clock is right twice a day”: The case of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory60
Linking self-compassion to helping behavior: The moderating effect of supervisor bottom-line mentality58
The ick: Disgust sensitivity, narcissism, and perfectionism in mate choice thresholds57
Does the association between self-focus and life satisfaction depend on the levels of perceived societal injustice?55
The association between adverse childhood experiences and early adulthood social mindfulness: The mediating role of daily stress54
The effect of self-esteem on combat stress in engagement: An XR simulator study54
How did Tunisian university students cope with fear of COVID-19? A comparison across schizotypy features53
Does compassion for oneself extend to prosocial behavior for others? Examining the relationship between self-compassion and prosocial behavior using multilevel meta-analysis52
Confidence does not equal competence: Socially dominant individuals are more confident in their decisions without being more accurate50
Vulnerable narcissism and the dark factor of personality: Insights from a cross-validated item-level and scale-level factor-analytic approach49
Perfectionism: A network analysis of relationships between the Big Three Perfectionism dimensions and the Big Five Personality traits46
Expressing and negotiating identities in social media ecosystems: A typology of users and their associated personality profiles45
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A psychometric exploration of the specificity of reinforcement sensitivity and social needs44
Observing psychopathy promptly, reliably, and validly: Development and validation of the Short Psychopathy Rating Scale (SPRS)43
Exploring the dynamics of academic procrastination in junior high school students: Examining predictors using latent transition analysis43
No trait anxiety linked differences in affective and non-affective task-switching42
The relationships between masculine gender role discrepancy, discrepancy stress and men's health-related behavior41
Gender swapping in massively multiplayer online role-playing games in China: Relationship to gender nonconformity and gender dysphoria41
Socio-emotional stress regulation in infants with visual impairment: Exploring the role of maternal vocal and tactile behavior41
Grit as a predictor of academic performance: Not much more than conscientiousness40
The relationship between smartphone addiction and procrastination among students: A systematic review and meta-analysis40
Individual and group differences in multivariate domains: What happens when the number of traits increases?40
Embracing “COVID-normal”: Positive Personality and Posttraumatic Growth in the COVID-19 Pandemic40
Developing a novel assessment of interpretation flexibility: Reliability, validity and clinical implications40
Breaking down power distance into 5 dimensions39
Known by the company she keeps: Women's friendship preferences influence interpersonal evaluations38
Consumers' love for technological gadgets is linked to personal growth38
Personality and burglary: A virtual reality study38
Beyond vanilla: Sexual fantasies and the need for uniqueness38
Linking classmate autonomy support with prosocial behavior in Chinese left-behind adolescents: The moderating role of self-esteem and grit37
The development and validation of a multi-dimensional Job Interview Self-efficacy scale37
Intellectual humility and responsiveness to public health recommendations37
What can I be when I grow up? Parental support and career exploration among teenagers: The moderating role of dispositional optimism36
Technical comment on Jonason, P. K., & Luoto, S. (2021). The dark side of the rainbow: Homosexuals and bisexuals have higher Dark Triad traits than heterosexuals. Personality and Individual Differ36
The role of trait self-control, healthy eating habits and decentering ability in response conflict36
Effects of maximizing on choosing a product and using it over 1 month34
Predicting altruism with personality “beyond” the Big Five34
Occupational intelligence as a measure of occupational complexity34
Associations between the dark tetrad and political orientation: A systematic review with meta-analysis33
The association between objective and subjective financial literacy: Failure to observe the Dunning-Kruger effect33
The effect of acute psychosocial stress on salivary cortisol and testosterone responses in men and women: The role of impulsivity32
Laughing all the way to the lockdown: On humor, optimism, and well-being during COVID-1932
The Big Five and divergent thinking: A meta-analysis32
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The relationship between task value, mental fatigue, and motivation: The role of trait mindfulness32
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Recollected caregiver sensitivity and adult attachment interact to predict mental health and coping31
Perfectionism and disordered eating cognitions with women of color: The moderating role of self-compassion31
Lordosis in humans: women's accurate perceptions of men's context-dependent preferences30
Perfectionism profiles and school-related stress associations: Examining the 2 × 2 model of dispositional perfectionism in children30
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Come closer if you dare: A validation of the revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory by behavioral responses to positive and negative stimuli29
Unfavorable prison social climate links dark tetrad traits with self-reported institutional misconduct29
Social interpretation bias and inflexibility: Mapping indirect pathways from pathological personality traits to symptom clusters of anxiety and depression29
How does identifying with one's nation predict support for wars? The role of secure national identification and national narcissism29
Conscientiousness and health outcomes: The moderating role of general mental ability and the mediating role of internal health locus of control29
Individual differences in moral judgment predict attitudes towards mandatory vaccinations29
To achieve and to conform: Motivational values predict social comparison orientation28
The causal relationship between perfectionism and negative affect: Two experimental studies28
Practically perfect in every way: Perfectionism and evaluations of perfect performances in sport28
“On the roots of interpersonal strain at work: The role of burnout and social self-efficacy”28
Technical comment on Pu, J., & Gan, X. (2025). When love constrains: The impact of parental psychological control on dark personality development in adolescents. Personality and Individual Differe28
Predictive validity of two conceptualizations of basic temperament dimensions27
The longitudinal relationship between future time perspective and life satisfaction among Chinese adolescents27
The interplay between parental perfectionism, emotional intelligence, and parental burnout27
Reactivity and Activity as dimensions capturing both energetic and temporal aspects of behavior: Towards a reconceptualization of Jan Strelau's basic temperament dimensions based on the Circumplex of 27
Does childhood adversity make adolescents more morally disengaged? The effect of life history strategy and self-compassion27
Exploring the relationship between trait emotional intelligence and adaptive performance: the role of situational strength and self-efficacy27
Longitudinal analysis of the relation between changes in human values and social attitudes26
Not completely unusable: Procedures to rescue the Big-Five personality data in the World Values Survey wave 626
Resolving the equivocal relationship of Machiavellianism and job performance: A socioanalytic perspective employing reputation, political skill, and five-factor Machiavellianism26
Academic procrastination and emotion regulation: Parallel trajectories and reciprocal influences over an academic semester26
A holistic view of gender traits and personality traits predict human health26
The influence of temporal focus on individual intertemporal decision-making in life history strategy framework26
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Attachment theory, organizational identification, and communication engagement strategies of successful college students: A retention study26
Blatant sexual deception: Content, individual differences, and implications26
Development and validation of the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-Being 18 item version (MI-RSWB-18)25
Some rules should be broken: Developing a measure of constructive rule beliefs25
Psychometric properties of the Icelandic version of HEXACO-60: Cognitive interviews and confirmatory factor analysis25
What is wrong with individual differences research?24
Spurious correlations in research on ability tilt24
Subclinical sadism: Examining temperamental predispositions and emotional processing24
A time-lagged study of two possible routes from personal innovativeness to life satisfaction in adolescents: Learning and social interaction on mobile phones24
Effects of sexual imprinting on partner preference for personality traits in Chinese gay men24
Personality and pro-environmental engagements: The role of the Dark Triad, the Light Triad, and value orientations24
The dark side of belief in Covid-19 scientists and scientific evidence24
Self–other moral bias: Evidence from implicit measures and the Word-Embedding Association Test24
Defining alexithymia: The clinical relevance of cognitive behavioral vs psychoanalytic conceptualizations24
Burnout, work engagement and life satisfaction among Spanish teachers: The unique contribution of core self-evaluations23
Financial literacy mediates the effect between verbal intelligence and financial anxiety23
Ostracized and unreal: Does cyberostracism affect authenticity?23
The next distinction without a difference: Do psychopathy and sadism scales assess the same construct?23
The experience of loneliness: The role of fears of compassion and social safeness23
Leader honesty-humility, political skill, and leadership effectiveness: The mediating role of employee extra effort22
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Erratum to “A meta-analytic review of the relationship between dispositional gratitude and well-being” [Personality and Individual Differences. 64 (2020) 110101]22
Honesty-Humility, the Dark Tetrad, and ideological beliefs: Their incremental validity in predicting explicit prejudice toward asylum seekers22
Multimodal assessment of social anxiety among international students22
United States adults' social media use and digital emotion regulation in everyday life: The potential of social media to be harnessed for mental health22
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Retraction notice to “Socially dominant women strategically build coalitions of strong men in resource-rich environments” [Personal. Individ. Differ. 171 (2021) 110496]22
Exploring the associations among relationship-related attitudes, affection deprivation, and faking orgasm among heterosexual women in the United States22
Proving my creativity: When and why leaders' idea rejection leads to employees' creative deviance?22
Children's values in early childhood: Age differences in structure and priorities22
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Birth order, personality, and tattoos: A pre-registered empirical test of the ‘born to rebel’ hypothesis22
Dispositional mindfulness as a mediator between basic psychological needs and dark triad traits21
Sex differences in maladaptive emotional and behavioral responses to COVID-19: What is the role of personality?21
What kind of Dr do you want to be?: A cross-sectional study measuring personality and sex effects of medical students21
Living fast and driving fast. Life history strategies, personality, and aggressive driving21
Differences in moral judgment predict behavior in a Covid triage game scenario21
Pandemic stressors and depressive symptoms: Examining within- and between-person effects of neuroticism21
Rewriting the script: How COVID-19 affected the relation between intrinsic aspirations and depressive symptoms21
Dark traits, social motives, and apps used: A life history approach21
The psychology of morbid curiosity: Development and initial validation of the morbid curiosity scale21
Trait anxiety negatively affected creative discovery under pressure conditions: Evidence from behavioral responses and ERPs21
The effects of two individual differences in emotional process on psychological problems: The mediating role of emotion dysregulation between emotional reactivity and distress21
They will (not) deceive us! The role of agentic and communal national narcissism in shaping the attitudes to Ukrainian refugees in Poland21
Self-efficacy and nontask performance at work. A meta-analytic summary20
Appreciation and rumination, not problem solving and avoidance, mediate the effect of optimism on emotional wellbeing20
Narcissism and personal values: Investigation into agentic, antagonistic, communal and neurotic facets of narcissism20
Mental toughness, rather than self-esteem, moderates effects of grandiose narcissism on aggression under conditions of ego-threat20
An assessment of self and informant data for measuring intellectual humility20
Being future-conscious during a global crisis: The protective effect of heightened Futures Consciousness in the COVID-19 pandemic20
Indirect effects of parental and peer attachment on Internet Gaming Disorder among adolescents: The role of negative automatic thoughts20
Analytic adolescents prevail over fake news – A large-scale preregistered study20
Future-oriented coping: Dispositional influence and relevance for adolescent subjective wellbeing, depression, and anxiety20
Applicant faking warnings: Are they really effective?19
Extraverts suffer from social distancing: A 30-day diary study19
Different shades of narcissism at work: The relationships of narcissism dimensions with work-related outcomes19
AWOKE: A theory of representation and process in intelligence as adaptation to the environment19
Happiness is associated with higher narcissism but lower psychopathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between happiness and the Dark Triad19
Voters' HEXACO personality traits as predictors of their presidential leadership style preferences19
A call for action! Examining national diversity in PAID authorship (2020−2023)19
The predictive role of working memory and impulsivity in internet addiction, an investigation about the mediating role of time perception19
Direct effect of personality traits and work engagement on job crafting: A structural model19
A study of trickle-down effects of leader Machiavellianism on follower unethical behaviour: A social learning perspective19
Dating in a digital world: The role of pathological personality traits in psychological reactions to direct and ambiguous rejection19
Ecologically contingent preferences for formidable coalitional allies as a function of conservative ideologies19
Vulnerable women and grandiose men? A 2D:4D study on the links between narcissism and prenatal estrogen/testosterone exposure in women and men19
Spurious correlations in research on the effects of specific cognitive abilities18
Is free will belief a positive predictor of well-being? The evidence of the cross-lagged examination18
Even the stars think that I am superior: Personality, intelligence and belief in astrology18
The Hedonic and Arousal Affect Scale (HAAS): A brief adjective checklist to assess affect states18
How do people think about understanding personality—And what do such thoughts reflect?18
Association of life history strategy and mate retention behavior in men and women18
Measurement precision and user experience with adaptive versus non-adaptive psychometric tests18
Modeling consumers' information acquisition and 5G technology utilization: Is personality relevant?18
Hybrid is here to stay: Critical behaviors for success in the new world of work18
The five factors of personality and personal values: An update with the refined theory18
Embracing the enhanced self now and in the future: The impact of temporal focus, age, and sex on cyborg products use intention18
COVID-19 and friendships: Agreeableness and neuroticism are associated with more concern about COVID-19 and friends' risky behaviors18
Development and validation of the highly sensitive child interview for the assessment of environmental sensitivity in primary school children18
How followers' neuroticism buffers the role of the leader in their daily mental health via daily positive affect: A multilevel approach18
Predicting attitudes toward cryptocurrencies and stocks: The divergent roles of narcissism, intelligence and financial literacy18
Exploring the links between personality and immune function18
Considering sadism in the shadow of the Dark Triad traits: A meta-analytic review of the Dark Tetrad18
Two sides of the same coin? On the common etiology of Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation18
The dark core of personality predicts mate poaching, jealousy, sociosexual orientation, ambivalent sexism, and attitudes toward sexual harassment18
Personality traits and long-term care financial risks among older Americans17
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Mortality, self-interest, and fairness: The differential impact of death-related news on advantageous inequity aversion17
The effect of trustworthiness impressions on individual investment decisions from the perspective of information source monitoring17
Self-comparison versus social-comparison: The impact of imperfection on executive function in perfectionists17
Narcissistic admiration and rivalry and reactions to romantic breakup17
Conflict moderates the longitudinal association between aggression with classmates and popularity: Leveraging disagreements into peer status17
Neural rhythm processing predicts later executive functions and self-regulation in early adolescence17
Seeing workplace bullying through a glass darkly: The illuminating role of organizational and individual ethics17
Rethinking alexithymia in athletes: Barriers to help-seeking and opportunities for intervention17
Beware the inexperienced financial advisor with a high trait emotional intelligence: Psychological determinants of the misperception of the risk-return relationship17
Positive and spontaneous facial expressions convey kindness and competence personality traits: Visual reasoning in personality attribution to faces17
Effect of mindful with your baby training on infant temperament: What parental factors are at play?17
Who doesn't read online consumer reviews, and why?17
Coordinated condemnation in women's intrasexual competition17
Who understands irony? The relationship between cognitive flexibility, trait anger, and irony comprehension17
Identifying the individual differences of trait self-control: Evidence from voxel-based morphometry16
Extraversion, workplace support, and burnout: The moderating role of neuroticism16
Time to look at self-rated health: Do time attitudes scores explain variance in self-rated health beyond health indicators?16
Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives! Confidence in government moderates the negative effects of staying at home on mental health16
The effects of benevolent vs. corrective humor on interpersonal liking and behavioral compliance16
Seeking or giving help? Linkages between the Dark Triad traits and adolescents' help seeking and giving orientations: The role of zero-sum mindset16
Reckless ambition: How implusivity moderates the effect of ambition on transformational leadership16
Anxious and status signaling: Examining the link between attachment style and status consumption and the mediating role of materialistic values16
The self-concepts of people with Dark Triad traits tend to be weaker, less clearly defined, and more state-related16
Narcissism and self-estimated intelligence: New insights from multidimensional assessments16
Testing the BFI-2 in a non-WEIRD community sample16
Insecure attachment and PTSD: The mediating role of narcissistic traits16
Getting crafty when you're bored: The interaction between personality and boredom16
Work ethic and grit: Explaining responses to dissatisfaction at work16
The effect of consumers' implicit theory of personality and product feedback in self-directed consumer contexts16
The valence-specific empathy imbalance hypothesis of autism: The role of autistic traits, alexithymia, emotion dysregulation, and gender differences16
Self-determination buffers the association between negative motivations for solitude and maladjustment among older adults16
The boredom proneness levels of Chinese college students increased over time: A meta-analysis of birth cohort differences from 2009 to 202016
Dark Triad traits and relationship dissolution16
Laughing matters: Exploring ridicule-related traits, personality, and well-being16
Latent profiles of perfectionism, unconditional self-acceptance, strengths use, and deficit correction: Associations with well-being in South Korean undergraduates16
Emotion theories as a scoring rationale for tests of emotional understanding16
Gender differences in alexithymia: Insights from an Updated Meta-Analysis15
Exploring the mediator role of self-critical rumination between emotion regulation and psychopathology: A validation study of the Self-Critical Rumination Scale (SCRS) in a Spanish-speaking sample15
Relationships between Dark Tetrad traits and beliefs in conspiracy theories: Mediation effects of cognitive styles15
I saw him first: Competitive nonverbal flirting among women, the tactics used and their perceived effectiveness15
Re-exploring the relationships of humor styles with dark triad and self-esteem using structural equation modelling15
Shedding light on the Light Triad: Further evidence on structural, construct, and predictive validity of the Light Triad15
Bystander barriers in sexual harassment - Associations with the Dark Triad and social anxiety15
Down to the core: The role of the common core of dark traits for aversive relationship behaviors15
Relations between a self-defeating interpersonal style and trait emotional intelligence15
Big Five traits, approach-avoidance motivation, concerns and adherence with COVID-19 prevention guidelines during the peak of pandemic in Croatia15
Psychometrics vs neurochemistry: A controversy around mobility-like scales of temperament15
Getting to the bargaining table: The role of explicit motives and traits in negotiation initiation15
Integrating the approach/avoidance framework with multidimensional persistence: Identifying novel mediating effects and outcomes15
Don't tell me what to do! Narcissism and advice taking: A meta-analysis and future research directions15
The Dark Triad of personality and folk intuitions about free will and moral responsibility15
When do creative people engage in malevolent behaviors? The moderating role of moral reasoning15
Too little, just right or too much? Assessing how people evaluate their conscientiousness levels15
When and how does social curiosity trait lead to interpersonal citizenship behaviors?15
Lord's paradox in latent change score modeling: An example involving facilitating longitudinal effects between intelligence and academic achievement15
Corrigendum to “Personality traits and conflict resolution styles: A meta-analysis” [Personality and Individual Differences volume 157, 15 April 2020, 109794]15
Children's shyness, emotional intelligence, and internalizing behaviors15
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Subjective Memory Complaints in young and older healthy people: Importance of anxiety, positivity, and cortisol indexes15
Reflection moderates the link between loneliness and eudaimonic well-being in mothers of young children: A COVID-19 pandemic study14
How to get things done: Tight linkage of conscientiousness with twelve mechanisms of Goal Setting Theory14
Beauty and riches: People who think they are attractive are more materialistic, the mediating role of social comparison orientation and the buffering role of self-affirmation14
Following your heart: Cardiac autonomic modulation as a feature of decision-making under ambiguity and risk14
Vulnerable dark traits mediate the association between childhood adversity and suicidal ideation14
Concern about salient pathogen threats increases sensitivity to disgust14
Covariation between formidability inferences and perceptions of men's preferred humor styles14
Effects of death anxiety and aggression on life satisfaction in the COVID-19 era: Comparisons between different generations and different socioeconomic statuses in Thailand14
Stability and change in adults' literacy and numeracy skills: Evidence from two large-scale panel studies14
Police employees working from home during COVID-19 lockdown: Those with higher score on extraversion miss their colleagues more and are more likely to socialize with colleagues outside work14
Purpose in life, stress mindset, and perceived stress: Test of a mediational model14
The role of conscientiousness in meeting psychological needs: A whole trait theory perspective14
Self-identity processing and grief: The role of avoidance and flexibility14
Age metastereotypes at work: The influence of individual differences on age metastereotype consciousness, accessibility, and activation14
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