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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Motive-Specific Affective Contingencies and Their Relevance for Personality and Motivated Behavior	116
Speed-dating and simulation data explain the discrepancy between stated and revealed mate preferences	35
Personality Characteristics of Morally Courageous Individuals: Evidence From Group Comparisons	35
Perception of major life events and personality trait change	35
Probing the predictive validity of ideal partner preferences for future partner traits and relationship outcomes across 13 years	29
I am who I am with: The link between different types of social interaction partners and personality in adolescence	28
Associations of common mental disorders with personality traits over a 17-year period	26
Values across adolescence: a four-year longitudinal study. The predictive role of community violence and parental acceptance-rejection	25
Lifespan trajectories of negative and positive affect: A coordinated analysis of 14 longitudinal studies	25
The quest for genuine self-knowledge: An investigation into individual differences in the self-insight motive	25
Stability and change in dispositional envy: Longitudinal evidence on envy as a stable trait	24
The development of trait greed during young adulthood: A simultaneous investigation of environmental effects and negative core beliefs	23
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	20
Epigenetic aging and personality differences: Latent change analyses of twin data	19
When do we put things off? A volitional-task attractiveness framework of personality and task-related factors in predicting procrastinatory behavior	18
Stability and change of basic personal values in mid-to-late adolescence: A 4-year longitudinal study	17
Life events and life satisfaction: Estimating effects of multiple life events in combined models	16
I feel smart today! A daily diary study on narcissism and self-assessed intelligence	15
Trajectories of temperament from late childhood through adolescence and associations with anxiety and depression in young adulthood	14
Reciprocal effects between self-esteem and work experiences: A reanalysis of two longitudinal studies	14
Bad news first—Neuroticism, negative expectations, and preference for negative information	13
Filling in the missing pieces: Personality traits (un)related to dishonest behavior	12
Revisiting the IPIP-NEO personality hierarchy with taxonomic graph analysis	12
Exploring individual differences in volitional personality state and trait change: The role of motivation and engagement during a 12-week intervention	12
The factor structure of Big Five personality trait measures at the between- and within-person levels	11

Transactions between the Big Five personality traits and first sexual experiences in adolescence and emerging adulthood	11
Short-term dynamics of pride and state self-esteem change during the university-to-work transition	11
Differentiating narcissism modes in everyday life: The role of situation perception	11
Long-Term Advantages of Adolescent Optimism: Nonlinear Associations With Adult Outcomes and its Protective Role in Buffering Socioeconomic Risk	10
Developmental trajectories of ethnic and national identities in adolescents from migrant families: The role of social identification with family and classmates	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
MIsgivings about measurement invariance	9
The language of power: Interpersonal perceptions of sense of power, dominance, and prestige based on word usage	9
Longitudinal associations between personality traits and cognitive complaints in midlife and older age across 20 years	9
Gender and values in 20 years of the European Social Survey: Are gender-typical values linked to parenthood?	9
Life Events and Personality Change: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	9
The development and correlated change of narcissism and self-esteem in adulthood	9
Does realizing strengths, insight, and behavioral practice through a psychological intervention promote personality change? An intensive longitudinal study	9
Interindividual age differences in personality structure	9
Reciprocal associations between sense of purpose and subjective well-being in old age	9
State investigative interest varies across daily life and predicts academic engagement: Replication and extension of the nomological network	9
Codevelopment of the dark triad and depressiveness from emerging adulthood to midlife	8
Personality development in adolescence: Examining big five trait trajectories in differential learning environments	8
Spurious prospective effects between work experiences and self-esteem: A reanalysis of a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	8
Do you mind a closer look? A jingle-jangle fallacy perspective on mindfulness	8
Predicting romantic interest during early relationship development: A preregistered investigation using machine learning	8
Structural and Inter-individual Differentiation in Personality Traits Across the Adult Lifespan	7
A lexical examination of the facets of honesty-humility: The adjective checklist of honesty	7
Developing, evaluating, and interpreting personality state measures: A framework based on the revised latent state-trait theory	7
Initiation of drug and alcohol use and personality development during adolescence	7
Revisiting regulatory fit and its effect on honesty: A replication attempt	7
The inertia of anger and sadness among adolescents and adults: The role of self-efficacy in regulating negative emotions	7
The complexity of the pursuit of happiness is associated with the success of well-being related behaviors in everyday life	6
Basic personal values and vote choice in 20 European countries	6
Not all flowers bloom in April: Self-esteem development surrounding the first romantic relationship during adolescence and emerging adulthood	6
Daily dynamics of grandiose narcissism: distribution, stability, and trait relations of admiration and rivalry states and state contingencies	6
Personality in the classroom: Interactions of parental SES and students’ Big Five in predicting school performance	6
Detecting spurious effects in cross-lagged panel models: Triangulation is not a valid test	6
How much can personality predict prosocial behavior?	6
Personality psychology is getting personal: Advancing the field through personalization	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
How spousal bereavement shapes life satisfaction: Stability and change across historical time	6
A multiwave study on changes in narcissism	6
What does a personality science approach to post-traumatic growth reveal?	6
Do you understand what I experienced? Self- and informant-perception of major life events	6
Unraveling the Relation Between Personality and Well-Being in a Genetically Informative Design	6
Changes in social, emotional, and behavioral skills are associated with changes in secondary school students’ important outcomes	6
What defines Traits, Reputations, and Identity? Personality item content in multi-rater judgments	5
Bidirectional associations between self-esteem and relational aggression from 5th to 11th grade	5
Examining personality psychology to unpack the peer review system: Towards a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable psychological science	5
Between- and within-person longitudinal associations between personality traits and social support across relationships during older adulthood	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

Emotional responses to a global stressor: Average patterns and individual differences	5
The structure of Japanese personality-descriptive terms	5
Bridges over troubled water: A meta-analysis of the associations of character strengths with well-being and common mental health disorders	5
Self-Regulatory Strategy Use, Efficacy, and Strategy-Situation-Fit in Self-Control Conflicts of Initiation, Persistence, and Inhibition	5
Which positive personality traits do people want to change?	5
Adolescence as a peak period of borderline personality features? A meta-analytic approach	5
Corrigendum to “Life Events and Personality Trait Change: A Coordinated Data Analysis”	5
The effect of very preterm birth on the Five-Factor Model of personality traits: A meta-analysis of individual participant data	5
My willpower belief and yours: Investigating dyadic associations between willpower beliefs, social support, and relationship satisfaction in couples	4
Facet-level changes in mothers’ neuroticism and extraversion from early pregnancy to 6 months post-partum	4
Corrigendum to “Personality research and assessment in the era of machine learning”	4
Associations between a multifaceted personality and academic performance in secondary school	4
Examining the structure of narcissism and its relationship with aggression in Chinese community and offender samples	4
Personality Development Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood: The Role of Life Transitions and Self-Concept Clarity	4
Tracing the evolution of personality cognition in early human civilisations: A computational analysis of the Gilgamesh epic	4
Mapping temperament and personality in middle and late childhood: Combined structures and network patterns	4
The development of social value orientation: Attachment styles, number of siblings, age, and a comparison of measures	4
How do intellectually curious and interested people learn and attain knowledge? A focus on behavioral traces of information seeking	4
When and why do individuals high in narcissistic rivalry attain social status?	4
A partner in crime: Revisiting the dispositional basis of unethical loyalty	4
Investigating the patterns and measurement of general trust across disciplines, methods, and levels of analysis	4
Structure and Sources of Core Self-Evaluations: Construct Validation Using Multi-Rater and Genetically Informative Designs	4
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	4
Self-reported aggression is related to oxidative stress in men and women	4
Editorial policies in times of humanitarian crisis: When academic neutrality is challenged	4
Towards a taxonomy of personality facets	4
Testing heritability of moral foundations: Common pathway models support strong heritability for the five moral foundations	3
Does inequality really shape human character? Multilevel evidence from 39 societies	3
The Big Five and Collaborative Problem Solving: A Narrative Systematic Review	3
Conscientiousness and Cognitive Ability as Predictors of Academic Achievement: Evidence of Synergistic Effects From Integrative Data Analysis	3
Addressing ethnic prejudice in youth: Developmental trajectories and associations with educational identity	3
Wherefore art thou competitors? How situational affordances help differentiate among prosociality, individualism, and competition	3
Does it pay off to act conscientiously, both now and later? Examining concurrent, lagged, and cumulative effects of state conscientiousness	3
The dispositional basis of deviance: A multivariate approach to crime and other deviant acts	3
Testing perceivers’ accuracy and accuracy awareness when forming personality impressions from faces	3
Examining individual differences in personality trait changes after negative life events	3
From well-being to values or from values to well-being? Three longitudinal studies in the East and West on the same life transition	3
Linking the Momentary Processing of Injustice to Intraindividual Change in Dispositional Victim Sensitivity	3
Personality is (so much) more than just self-reported Big Five traits	3
The transition to grandparenthood: No consistent evidence for change in the Big Five personality traits and life satisfaction	3
Who is healthier? A meta-analysis of the relations between the HEXACO personality domains and health outcomes	3