OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Speed-dating and simulation data explain the discrepancy between stated and revealed mate preferences	127
Motive-Specific Affective Contingencies and Their Relevance for Personality and Motivated Behavior	41
Wanting More, Caring Less: Greed Promotes Objectification by Enhancing Self-Enhancement Values and Undermining Self-Transcendence Values	37
Probing the predictive validity of ideal partner preferences for future partner traits and relationship outcomes across 13 years	32
I am who I am with: The link between different types of social interaction partners and personality in adolescence	31
Personality Characteristics of Morally Courageous Individuals: Evidence From Group Comparisons	29
Historical Changes in Control Belief Trajectories	29
Dispositional Optimism and Daily Stressor Reactivity: Trait Positive Affect as a Mediator of Affective, Behavioural, and Cognitive Outcomes	28
Values across adolescence: a four-year longitudinal study. The predictive role of community violence and parental acceptance-rejection	27
Associations of common mental disorders with personality traits over a 17-year period	25
The quest for genuine self-knowledge: An investigation into individual differences in the self-insight motive	22
Stability and change in dispositional envy: Longitudinal evidence on envy as a stable trait	22
What is common may be as important as what is different: Examining the general factor shared by dispositional shame and guilt using bi-factor models	21
Lifespan trajectories of negative and positive affect: A coordinated analysis of 14 longitudinal studies	18
I feel smart today! A daily diary study on narcissism and self-assessed intelligence	17
Epigenetic aging and personality differences: Latent change analyses of twin data	16
Stability and change of basic personal values in mid-to-late adolescence: A 4-year longitudinal study	16
Revisiting the IPIP-NEO personality hierarchy with taxonomic graph analysis	14
Life events and life satisfaction: Estimating effects of multiple life events in combined models	14
When do we put things off? A volitional-task attractiveness framework of personality and task-related factors in predicting procrastinatory behavior	14
Reciprocal effects between self-esteem and work experiences: A reanalysis of two longitudinal studies	13
Bad news first—Neuroticism, negative expectations, and preference for negative information	12
Trajectories of temperament from late childhood through adolescence and associations with anxiety and depression in young adulthood	12
Filling in the missing pieces: Personality traits (un)related to dishonest behavior	11
Exploring individual differences in volitional personality state and trait change: The role of motivation and engagement during a 12-week intervention	11

Short-term dynamics of pride and state self-esteem change during the university-to-work transition	11
The factor structure of Big Five personality trait measures at the between- and within-person levels	11
Long-Term Advantages of Adolescent Optimism: Nonlinear Associations With Adult Outcomes and its Protective Role in Buffering Socioeconomic Risk	10
Differentiating narcissism modes in everyday life: The role of situation perception	10
Moving towards darkness: The personality-environment association between the Dark Triad and residential mobility	10
How was your child’s temperament today and last week? Considering within-person variability in the measurement of infant temperament	10
Gender and values in 20 years of the European Social Survey: Are gender-typical values linked to parenthood?	10
Item Features Affect How Well People Can Predict Self-Reported Personality Traces of Strangers	10
Developmental trajectories of ethnic and national identities in adolescents from migrant families: The role of social identification with family and classmates	9
Does realizing strengths, insight, and behavioral practice through a psychological intervention promote personality change? An intensive longitudinal study	9
The development and correlated change of narcissism and self-esteem in adulthood	9
State investigative interest varies across daily life and predicts academic engagement: Replication and extension of the nomological network	9
Transactions between the Big Five personality traits and first sexual experiences in adolescence and emerging adulthood	9
Personality development in adolescence: Examining big five trait trajectories in differential learning environments	8
The language of power: Interpersonal perceptions of sense of power, dominance, and prestige based on word usage	8
MIsgivings about measurement invariance	8
Codevelopment of the dark triad and depressiveness from emerging adulthood to midlife	8
Structural and Inter-individual Differentiation in Personality Traits Across the Adult Lifespan	8
Do you mind a closer look? A jingle-jangle fallacy perspective on mindfulness	8
Predicting Scientific and Artistic Creative Achievements in Adolescence: A Comprehensive Approach Integrating Personality, Motivation, and Cognitive Ability	8
Spurious prospective effects between work experiences and self-esteem: A reanalysis of a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	8
Developing, evaluating, and interpreting personality state measures: A framework based on the revised latent state-trait theory	8
Life Events and Personality Change: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	8
Reciprocal associations between sense of purpose and subjective well-being in old age	8
Longitudinal associations between personality traits and cognitive complaints in midlife and older age across 20 years	8
A lexical examination of the facets of honesty-humility: The adjective checklist of honesty	8
Teachers With Personality: General Traits versus Social-Emotional Characteristics and Instructional Competencies in Brazilian Teachers	8
The complexity of the pursuit of happiness is associated with the success of well-being related behaviors in everyday life	7
A multiwave study on changes in narcissism	7
How much can personality predict prosocial behavior?	7
Revisiting regulatory fit and its effect on honesty: A replication attempt	7
Unveiling the Dynamics of Narcissistic Fluctuations and the Affective Cycles in Narcissism	7
The inertia of anger and sadness among adolescents and adults: The role of self-efficacy in regulating negative emotions	7
Not all flowers bloom in April: Self-esteem development surrounding the first romantic relationship during adolescence and emerging adulthood	7
Personality in the classroom: Interactions of parental SES and students’ Big Five in predicting school performance	6
What if there were no personality factors? Comparing the predictability of behavioral act frequencies from a big-five and a maximal-dimensional item set	6
Cognitive mechanisms underlying within-person changes in aggression among adolescents: The roles of positive outcome expectancies and moral disengagement	6
Basic personal values and vote choice in 20 European countries	6
Do you understand what I experienced? Self- and informant-perception of major life events	6
Personality psychology is getting personal: Advancing the field through personalization	6
Detecting spurious effects in cross-lagged panel models: Triangulation is not a valid test	6
Changes in social, emotional, and behavioral skills are associated with changes in secondary school students’ important outcomes	6
Which positive personality traits do people want to change?	5
Bidirectional associations between self-esteem and relational aggression from 5th to 11th grade	5
Self-Regulatory Strategy Use, Efficacy, and Strategy-Situation-Fit in Self-Control Conflicts of Initiation, Persistence, and Inhibition	5
How Is Variety in Daily Life Related to the Expression of Personality States? An Ambulatory Assessment Study	5
Examining everyday emotion regulation as an ability: Emotion regulation monitoring, but not general strategy implementation ability, is significantly associated with affective well-being in daily life	5
Adolescence as a peak period of borderline personality features? A meta-analytic approach	5
Examining personality psychology to unpack the peer review system: Towards a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable psychological science	5
What defines Traits, Reputations, and Identity? Personality item content in multi-rater judgments	5

Over Fifteen Years of Confusion: How the Big Five Inventory Mismeasures Openness	5
Empirical Findings on the Accuracy of Intellectual Self-Perceptions Depend on the Method Used to Assess Self-Perceived Ability	5
The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Emotion Regulation: A Meta-Analysis	5
The Living SEB Skills Project: A Living Resource for Review and Meta-Analysis of Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills	5
How spousal bereavement shapes life satisfaction: Stability and change across historical time	5
Unraveling the Relation Between Personality and Well-Being in a Genetically Informative Design	5
When and why do individuals high in narcissistic rivalry attain social status?	4
Towards a taxonomy of personality facets	4
Personality Change After Spousal Loss: Re-Examining the Posttraumatic Growth Framework Using a Matched Longitudinal Design	4
My willpower belief and yours: Investigating dyadic associations between willpower beliefs, social support, and relationship satisfaction in couples	4
Corrigendum to “Life Events and Personality Trait Change: A Coordinated Data Analysis”	4
Bridges over troubled water: A meta-analysis of the associations of character strengths with well-being and common mental health disorders	4
Between- and within-person longitudinal associations between personality traits and social support across relationships during older adulthood	4
Investigating the patterns and measurement of general trust across disciplines, methods, and levels of analysis	4
Tracing the evolution of personality cognition in early human civilisations: A computational analysis of the Gilgamesh epic	4
The structure of Japanese personality-descriptive terms	4
Structure and Sources of Core Self-Evaluations: Construct Validation Using Multi-Rater and Genetically Informative Designs	4
Personality Development Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood: The Role of Life Transitions and Self-Concept Clarity	4
Construal and Contact in Person–Situation Relations: Evidence from Controlled and Naturalistic Designs	4
A partner in crime: Revisiting the dispositional basis of unethical loyalty	4
Longitudinal Relationships Between Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Self-Esteem Among Chinese Children: Between-Person and Within-Person Effects	4
The effect of very preterm birth on the Five-Factor Model of personality traits: A meta-analysis of individual participant data	4
The Roles of Early Life Stress and Peer Relationships in Adolescents’ Relationship-Specific Attachments	3
Self-reported aggression is related to oxidative stress in men and women	3
Associations between a multifaceted personality and academic performance in secondary school	3
Editorial policies in times of humanitarian crisis: When academic neutrality is challenged	3
Examining the structure of narcissism and its relationship with aggression in Chinese community and offender samples	3
If you were happy and you know it, clap your hands! Testing the peak-end rule for retrospective judgments of well-being in everyday life	3
Corrigendum to “Personality research and assessment in the era of machine learning”	3
Tuned Out, Not Drawn In: Blunted Neural Sensitivity to Social Reward in Narcissism	3
Mapping temperament and personality in middle and late childhood: Combined structures and network patterns	3
Personality is (so much) more than just self-reported Big Five traits	3
How do intellectually curious and interested people learn and attain knowledge? A focus on behavioral traces of information seeking	3