Personality and Individual Differences

Papers
(The TQCC of Personality and Individual Differences is 8. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Vulnerable narcissism and the dark factor of personality: Insights from a cross-validated item-level and scale-level factor-analytic approach248
Trait irritability in adults is unrelated to face emotion identification138
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Need for emotional closure scale: Testing for measurement invariance in Turkish and English versions88
Book Review76
The influence of life narrative themes on resilience and life outcomes75
`Association study of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, impulsivity personality traits and moderate alcohol consumption in men74
Breaking down power distance into 5 dimensions74
One, two, three, sit next to me: Personality and physical distance71
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Toward controlling of a pandemic: How self-control ability influences willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine68
Socio-emotional stress regulation in infants with visual impairment: Exploring the role of maternal vocal and tactile behavior68
“Even a broken clock is right twice a day”: The case of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory65
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. 22765
Linking self-compassion to helping behavior: The moderating effect of supervisor bottom-line mentality61
The ick: Disgust sensitivity, narcissism, and perfectionism in mate choice thresholds60
Does the association between self-focus and life satisfaction depend on the levels of perceived societal injustice?59
The effect of self-esteem on combat stress in engagement: An XR simulator study58
The association between adverse childhood experiences and early adulthood social mindfulness: The mediating role of daily stress56
How did Tunisian university students cope with fear of COVID-19? A comparison across schizotypy features55
Does compassion for oneself extend to prosocial behavior for others? Examining the relationship between self-compassion and prosocial behavior using multilevel meta-analysis54
Confidence does not equal competence: Socially dominant individuals are more confident in their decisions without being more accurate53
Known by the company she keeps: Women's friendship preferences influence interpersonal evaluations52
The relationship between task value, mental fatigue, and motivation: The role of trait mindfulness52
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A psychometric exploration of the specificity of reinforcement sensitivity and social needs51
Exploring the dynamics of academic procrastination in junior high school students: Examining predictors using latent transition analysis51
Perfectionism: A network analysis of relationships between the Big Three Perfectionism dimensions and the Big Five Personality traits50
Occupational intelligence as a measure of occupational complexity49
Observing psychopathy promptly, reliably, and validly: Development and validation of the Short Psychopathy Rating Scale (SPRS)47
No trait anxiety linked differences in affective and non-affective task-switching47
Gender swapping in massively multiplayer online role-playing games in China: Relationship to gender nonconformity and gender dysphoria46
Beyond vanilla: Sexual fantasies and the need for uniqueness46
The relationships between masculine gender role discrepancy, discrepancy stress and men's health-related behavior44
Predicting altruism with personality “beyond” the Big Five44
Personality and burglary: A virtual reality study44
The effect of ego-resiliency and COVID-19-related stress on mental health among the Japanese population43
Laughing all the way to the lockdown: On humor, optimism, and well-being during COVID-1943
What can I be when I grow up? Parental support and career exploration among teenagers: The moderating role of dispositional optimism42
Individual and group differences in multivariate domains: What happens when the number of traits increases?42
Intellectual humility and responsiveness to public health recommendations42
Consumers' love for technological gadgets is linked to personal growth41
The development and validation of a multi-dimensional Job Interview Self-efficacy scale40
Embracing “COVID-normal”: Positive Personality and Posttraumatic Growth in the COVID-19 Pandemic40
Expressing and negotiating identities in social media ecosystems: A typology of users and their associated personality profiles39
The association between objective and subjective financial literacy: Failure to observe the Dunning-Kruger effect39
Grit as a predictor of academic performance: Not much more than conscientiousness39
Developing a novel assessment of interpretation flexibility: Reliability, validity and clinical implications38
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 Differ38
Linking classmate autonomy support with prosocial behavior in Chinese left-behind adolescents: The moderating role of self-esteem and grit38
The relationship between smartphone addiction and procrastination among students: A systematic review and meta-analysis38
The Big Five and divergent thinking: A meta-analysis37
Effects of maximizing on choosing a product and using it over 1 month37
The effect of acute psychosocial stress on salivary cortisol and testosterone responses in men and women: The role of impulsivity37
The role of trait self-control, healthy eating habits and decentering ability in response conflict37
The influence of temporal focus on individual intertemporal decision-making in life history strategy framework37
Associations between the dark tetrad and political orientation: A systematic review with meta-analysis37
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Recollected caregiver sensitivity and adult attachment interact to predict mental health and coping36
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Perfectionism and disordered eating cognitions with women of color: The moderating role of self-compassion35
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Lordosis in humans: women's accurate perceptions of men's context-dependent preferences34
Spurious correlations in research on ability tilt34
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Perfectionism profiles and school-related stress associations: Examining the 2 × 2 model of dispositional perfectionism in children34
Can personality traits be measured analyzing written language? A meta-analytic study on computational methods33
Some rules should be broken: Developing a measure of constructive rule beliefs32
Unfavorable prison social climate links dark tetrad traits with self-reported institutional misconduct32
Effects of sexual imprinting on partner preference for personality traits in Chinese gay men32
Social interpretation bias and inflexibility: Mapping indirect pathways from pathological personality traits to symptom clusters of anxiety and depression32
How does identifying with one's nation predict support for wars? The role of secure national identification and national narcissism32
Individual differences in moral judgment predict attitudes towards mandatory vaccinations32
A holistic view of gender traits and personality traits predict human health32
Come closer if you dare: A validation of the revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory by behavioral responses to positive and negative stimuli31
Does childhood adversity make adolescents more morally disengaged? The effect of life history strategy and self-compassion30
Conscientiousness and health outcomes: The moderating role of general mental ability and the mediating role of internal health locus of control30
Psychometric properties of the Icelandic version of HEXACO-60: Cognitive interviews and confirmatory factor analysis30
“On the roots of interpersonal strain at work: The role of burnout and social self-efficacy”30
To achieve and to conform: Motivational values predict social comparison orientation29
The causal relationship between perfectionism and negative affect: Two experimental studies29
Practically perfect in every way: Perfectionism and evaluations of perfect performances in sport29
Development and validation of the Multidimensional Inventory for Religious/Spiritual Well-Being 18 item version (MI-RSWB-18)29
Academic procrastination and emotion regulation: Parallel trajectories and reciprocal influences over an academic semester28
Predictive validity of two conceptualizations of basic temperament dimensions28
Longitudinal analysis of the relation between changes in human values and social attitudes28
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 28
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The experience of loneliness: The role of fears of compassion and social safeness28
Attachment theory, organizational identification, and communication engagement strategies of successful college students: A retention study27
Exploring the relationship between trait emotional intelligence and adaptive performance: the role of situational strength and self-efficacy27
The dark side of belief in Covid-19 scientists and scientific evidence27
The longitudinal relationship between future time perspective and life satisfaction among Chinese adolescents27
Blatant sexual deception: Content, individual differences, and implications27
What is wrong with individual differences research?27
Not completely unusable: Procedures to rescue the Big-Five personality data in the World Values Survey wave 627
Subclinical sadism: Examining temperamental predispositions and emotional processing26
Defining alexithymia: The clinical relevance of cognitive behavioral vs psychoanalytic conceptualizations26
A time-lagged study of two possible routes from personal innovativeness to life satisfaction in adolescents: Learning and social interaction on mobile phones26
Self–other moral bias: Evidence from implicit measures and the Word-Embedding Association Test26
Resolving the equivocal relationship of Machiavellianism and job performance: A socioanalytic perspective employing reputation, political skill, and five-factor Machiavellianism26
Dark Tetrad personality traits and the propensity to lie across multiple contexts26
An assessment of self and informant data for measuring intellectual humility26
Personality and pro-environmental engagements: The role of the Dark Triad, the Light Triad, and value orientations26
Being future-conscious during a global crisis: The protective effect of heightened Futures Consciousness in the COVID-19 pandemic25
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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]25
The five factors of personality and personal values: An update with the refined theory25
The Hedonic and Arousal Affect Scale (HAAS): A brief adjective checklist to assess affect states25
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Children's values in early childhood: Age differences in structure and priorities25
Spurious correlations in research on the effects of specific cognitive abilities25
Multimodal assessment of social anxiety among international students24
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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]24
Are narcissistic hiring managers more susceptible to candidate flattery? A within-subjects experimental simulation24
Embracing the enhanced self now and in the future: The impact of temporal focus, age, and sex on cyborg products use intention23
Trait anxiety negatively affected creative discovery under pressure conditions: Evidence from behavioral responses and ERPs23
Dark traits, social motives, and apps used: A life history approach23
Honesty-Humility, the Dark Tetrad, and ideological beliefs: Their incremental validity in predicting explicit prejudice toward asylum seekers23
Birth order, personality, and tattoos: A pre-registered empirical test of the ‘born to rebel’ hypothesis23
Rewriting the script: How COVID-19 affected the relation between intrinsic aspirations and depressive symptoms23
Ostracized and unreal: Does cyberostracism affect authenticity?23
Exploring the associations among relationship-related attitudes, affection deprivation, and faking orgasm among heterosexual women in the United States23
Sex differences in maladaptive emotional and behavioral responses to COVID-19: What is the role of personality?23
What kind of Dr do you want to be?: A cross-sectional study measuring personality and sex effects of medical students22
Is free will belief a positive predictor of well-being? The evidence of the cross-lagged examination22
The effects of two individual differences in emotional process on psychological problems: The mediating role of emotion dysregulation between emotional reactivity and distress22
Differences in moral judgment predict behavior in a Covid triage game scenario22
Pandemic stressors and depressive symptoms: Examining within- and between-person effects of neuroticism22
They will (not) deceive us! The role of agentic and communal national narcissism in shaping the attitudes to Ukrainian refugees in Poland22
How followers' neuroticism buffers the role of the leader in their daily mental health via daily positive affect: A multilevel approach22
Narcissism and personal values: Investigation into agentic, antagonistic, communal and neurotic facets of narcissism21
Dispositional mindfulness as a mediator between basic psychological needs and dark triad traits21
Future-oriented coping: Dispositional influence and relevance for adolescent subjective wellbeing, depression, and anxiety21
Voters' HEXACO personality traits as predictors of their presidential leadership style preferences21
A call for action! Examining national diversity in PAID authorship (2020−2023)21
The next distinction without a difference: Do psychopathy and sadism scales assess the same construct?21
AWOKE: A theory of representation and process in intelligence as adaptation to the environment21
Two sides of the same coin? On the common etiology of Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation21
Direct effect of personality traits and work engagement on job crafting: A structural model21
A study of trickle-down effects of leader Machiavellianism on follower unethical behaviour: A social learning perspective21
Appreciation and rumination, not problem solving and avoidance, mediate the effect of optimism on emotional wellbeing21
Predicting attitudes toward cryptocurrencies and stocks: The divergent roles of narcissism, intelligence and financial literacy21
Living fast and driving fast. Life history strategies, personality, and aggressive driving21
Proving my creativity: When and why leaders' idea rejection leads to employees' creative deviance?21
Financial literacy mediates the effect between verbal intelligence and financial anxiety21
Extraverts suffer from social distancing: A 30-day diary study21
The predictive role of working memory and impulsivity in internet addiction, an investigation about the mediating role of time perception20
Ecologically contingent preferences for formidable coalitional allies as a function of conservative ideologies20
Hybrid is here to stay: Critical behaviors for success in the new world of work20
Vulnerable women and grandiose men? A 2D:4D study on the links between narcissism and prenatal estrogen/testosterone exposure in women and men20
Modeling consumers' information acquisition and 5G technology utilization: Is personality relevant?20
Happiness is associated with higher narcissism but lower psychopathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between happiness and the Dark Triad20
Dating in a digital world: The role of pathological personality traits in psychological reactions to direct and ambiguous rejection20
Considering sadism in the shadow of the Dark Triad traits: A meta-analytic review of the Dark Tetrad20
Mental toughness, rather than self-esteem, moderates effects of grandiose narcissism on aggression under conditions of ego-threat20
The psychology of morbid curiosity: Development and initial validation of the morbid curiosity scale20
Exploring the links between personality and immune function20
Predicting compulsive buying from pathological personality traits, stressors, and purchasing behavior20
Analytic adolescents prevail over fake news – A large-scale preregistered study20
Measurement precision and user experience with adaptive versus non-adaptive psychometric tests20
Applicant faking warnings: Are they really effective?20
Even the stars think that I am superior: Personality, intelligence and belief in astrology20
Individual differences in social distancing and mask-wearing in the pandemic of COVID-19: The role of need for cognition, self-control and risk attitude20
Laughing matters: Exploring ridicule-related traits, personality, and well-being20
Different shades of narcissism at work: The relationships of narcissism dimensions with work-related outcomes20
Burnout, work engagement and life satisfaction among Spanish teachers: The unique contribution of core self-evaluations20
Anxious and status signaling: Examining the link between attachment style and status consumption and the mediating role of materialistic values19
Association of life history strategy and mate retention behavior in men and women19
Emotion theories as a scoring rationale for tests of emotional understanding19
Relations between a self-defeating interpersonal style and trait emotional intelligence19
How do people think about understanding personality—And what do such thoughts reflect?19
Development and validation of the highly sensitive child interview for the assessment of environmental sensitivity in primary school children19
The dark core of personality predicts mate poaching, jealousy, sociosexual orientation, ambivalent sexism, and attitudes toward sexual harassment19
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COVID-19 and friendships: Agreeableness and neuroticism are associated with more concern about COVID-19 and friends' risky behaviors19
Neural rhythm processing predicts later executive functions and self-regulation in early adolescence19
Identifying the individual differences of trait self-control: Evidence from voxel-based morphometry19
The effect of consumers' implicit theory of personality and product feedback in self-directed consumer contexts18
Beware the inexperienced financial advisor with a high trait emotional intelligence: Psychological determinants of the misperception of the risk-return relationship18
Effect of mindful with your baby training on infant temperament: What parental factors are at play?18
Coordinated condemnation in women's intrasexual competition18
Who understands irony? The relationship between cognitive flexibility, trait anger, and irony comprehension18
Who doesn't read online consumer reviews, and why?18
Narcissistic admiration and rivalry and reactions to romantic breakup18
Conflict moderates the longitudinal association between aggression with classmates and popularity: Leveraging disagreements into peer status18
The effect of trustworthiness impressions on individual investment decisions from the perspective of information source monitoring18
Mortality, self-interest, and fairness: The differential impact of death-related news on advantageous inequity aversion18
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Insecure attachment and PTSD: The mediating role of narcissistic traits18
Rethinking alexithymia in athletes: Barriers to help-seeking and opportunities for intervention18
Seeing workplace bullying through a glass darkly: The illuminating role of organizational and individual ethics18
Self-comparison versus social-comparison: The impact of imperfection on executive function in perfectionists17
Personality traits and long-term care financial risks among older Americans17
The effects of benevolent vs. corrective humor on interpersonal liking and behavioral compliance17
Public attention about COVID-19 on social media: An investigation based on data mining and text analysis17
Extraversion, workplace support, and burnout: The moderating role of neuroticism17
Gender differences in alexithymia: Insights from an Updated Meta-Analysis17
Getting crafty when you're bored: The interaction between personality and boredom17
Dark Triad traits and relationship dissolution17
Seeking or giving help? Linkages between the Dark Triad traits and adolescents' help seeking and giving orientations: The role of zero-sum mindset17
Reckless ambition: How implusivity moderates the effect of ambition on transformational leadership17
Narcissism and self-estimated intelligence: New insights from multidimensional assessments17
Time to look at self-rated health: Do time attitudes scores explain variance in self-rated health beyond health indicators?17
Down to the core: The role of the common core of dark traits for aversive relationship behaviors17
Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives! Confidence in government moderates the negative effects of staying at home on mental health17
Positive and spontaneous facial expressions convey kindness and competence personality traits: Visual reasoning in personality attribution to faces17
Big Five traits, approach-avoidance motivation, concerns and adherence with COVID-19 prevention guidelines during the peak of pandemic in Croatia17
Self-determination buffers the association between negative motivations for solitude and maladjustment among older adults17
Lord's paradox in latent change score modeling: An example involving facilitating longitudinal effects between intelligence and academic achievement17
The boredom proneness levels of Chinese college students increased over time: A meta-analysis of birth cohort differences from 2009 to 202016
The self-concepts of people with Dark Triad traits tend to be weaker, less clearly defined, and more state-related16
Testing the BFI-2 in a non-WEIRD community sample16
When and how does social curiosity trait lead to interpersonal citizenship behaviors?16
Why does one want to feel socially engaging emotions? The role of self-transcendence values on desired emotions among adolescents16
Psychometrics vs neurochemistry: A controversy around mobility-like scales of temperament16
Relationships between Dark Tetrad traits and beliefs in conspiracy theories: Mediation effects of cognitive styles16
When do creative people engage in malevolent behaviors? The moderating role of moral reasoning16
Work ethic and grit: Explaining responses to dissatisfaction at work16
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Subjective Memory Complaints in young and older healthy people: Importance of anxiety, positivity, and cortisol indexes16
I saw him first: Competitive nonverbal flirting among women, the tactics used and their perceived effectiveness16
Too little, just right or too much? Assessing how people evaluate their conscientiousness levels16
The valence-specific empathy imbalance hypothesis of autism: The role of autistic traits, alexithymia, emotion dysregulation, and gender differences16
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 sample16
Bystander barriers in sexual harassment - Associations with the Dark Triad and social anxiety16
Getting to the bargaining table: The role of explicit motives and traits in negotiation initiation16
Re-exploring the relationships of humor styles with dark triad and self-esteem using structural equation modelling15
Self-identity processing and grief: The role of avoidance and flexibility15
Regulating regret via decreasing goal level: Comparing maximizers and satisficers15
How are you holding up? Personality, cognitive and social predictors of a perceived shift in subjective well-being during COVID-19 pandemic15
The role of ideological attitudes in responses to COVID-19 threat and government restrictions in Australia15
Trait anxiety moderates the effects of tDCS over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) on creativity15
The Dark Triad of personality and folk intuitions about free will and moral responsibility15
Less of a man? Masculine honor beliefs influence perceptions of hypothetical sons (and their fathers) coming out as gay15
Effects of death anxiety and aggression on life satisfaction in the COVID-19 era: Comparisons between different generations and different socioeconomic statuses in Thailand15
The creative thinking profile: Predicting intrinsic motivation based on preferences for different creative thinking styles15
Childhood resilient personality trajectories and associations with developmental trajectories of behavioral, social-emotional, and academic outcomes across childhood and adolescence: A longitudinal st15
Concern about salient pathogen threats increases sensitivity to disgust15
Integrating the approach/avoidance framework with multidimensional persistence: Identifying novel mediating effects and outcomes15
The importance of situation evaluation and the ability to identify criteria in a construct-driven situational judgment test15
Examining the connections between boredom proneness, resilience, mental well-being, and rumination15
Aggression in substance use treatment seekers15
Psychological flexibility and self-critical rumination: A serial mediation between adverse childhood experiences and mental well-being in adulthood15
Purpose in life, stress mindset, and perceived stress: Test of a mediational model15
Vulnerable dark traits mediate the association between childhood adversity and suicidal ideation15
Children's shyness, emotional intelligence, and internalizing behaviors15
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