OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Personality is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
Speed-dating and simulation data explain the discrepancy between stated and revealed mate preferences	61
Perception of major life events and personality trait change	53
Motive-Specific Affective Contingencies and Their Relevance for Personality and Motivated Behavior	41
Probing the predictive validity of ideal partner preferences for future partner traits and relationship outcomes across 13 years	25
Personality Traits and Perceptions of Major Life Events	22
I am who I am with: The link between different types of social interaction partners and personality in adolescence	22
Values across adolescence: a four-year longitudinal study. The predictive role of community violence and parental acceptance-rejection	20
The quest for genuine self-knowledge: An investigation into individual differences in the self-insight motive	18
The development of trait greed during young adulthood: A simultaneous investigation of environmental effects and negative core beliefs	17
Lifespan trajectories of negative and positive affect: A coordinated analysis of 14 longitudinal studies	17
Stability and change in dispositional envy: Longitudinal evidence on envy as a stable trait	17
I feel smart today! A daily diary study on narcissism and self-assessed intelligence	16
When do we put things off? A volitional-task attractiveness framework of personality and task-related factors in predicting procrastinatory behavior	16
Conceptualizing and Studying Characteristics, Units, and Fits of Persons and Environments: A Coherent Synthesis	15
Life events and life satisfaction: Estimating effects of multiple life events in combined models	14
Corrigendum to: Does neuroticism disrupt the psychological benefits of nostalgia? a meta-analytic test	14
The factor structure of Big Five personality trait measures at the between- and within-person levels	14
Bad news first—Neuroticism, negative expectations, and preference for negative information	14
Trajectories of temperament from late childhood through adolescence and associations with anxiety and depression in young adulthood	14
Short-term dynamics of pride and state self-esteem change during the university-to-work transition	13
How was your child’s temperament today and last week? Considering within-person variability in the measurement of infant temperament	13
Filling in the missing pieces: Personality traits (un)related to dishonest behavior	13
Interindividual age differences in personality structure	12
Moving towards darkness: The personality-environment association between the Dark Triad and residential mobility	12
Developmental trajectories of ethnic and national identities in adolescents from migrant families: The role of social identification with family and classmates	11

Long-Term Advantages of Adolescent Optimism: Nonlinear Associations With Adult Outcomes and its Protective Role in Buffering Socioeconomic Risk	11
Examining the Longitudinal Associations Between Repeated Narration of Recent Transgressions Within Individuals’ Romantic Relationships and Character Growth in Empathy, Humility, and Compassion	11
Gender and values in 20 years of the European Social Survey: Are gender-typical values linked to parenthood?	11
How are common major life events perceived? Exploring differences between and variability of different typical event profiles and raters	10
Prosociality Beyond Big Five Agreeableness and HEXACO Honesty-Humility: Is Openness/Intellect Associated With Cooperativeness in the Public Goods Game?	10
Character Growth Following Collective Life Events: A Study on Perceived and Measured Changes in Character Strengths During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
State investigative interest varies across daily life and predicts academic engagement: Replication and extension of the nomological network	10
Does realizing strengths, insight, and behavioral practice through a psychological intervention promote personality change? An intensive longitudinal study	10
Longitudinal associations between personality traits and cognitive complaints in midlife and older age across 20 years	10
Reciprocal associations between sense of purpose and subjective well-being in old age	9
Predicting romantic interest during early relationship development: A preregistered investigation using machine learning	9
The development and correlated change of narcissism and self-esteem in adulthood	9
Spurious prospective effects between work experiences and self-esteem: A reanalysis of a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	9
MIsgivings about measurement invariance	9
Codevelopment of the dark triad and depressiveness from emerging adulthood to midlife	9
Life Events and Personality Change: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	8
Initiation of drug and alcohol use and personality development during adolescence	8
Structural and Inter-individual Differentiation in Personality Traits Across the Adult Lifespan	8
Personality development in adolescence: Examining big five trait trajectories in differential learning environments	8
Do you mind a closer look? A jingle-jangle fallacy perspective on mindfulness	8
The language of power: Interpersonal perceptions of sense of power, dominance, and prestige based on word usage	8
In good times and in bad: A longitudinal analysis of the impact of bereavement on self-esteem and life satisfaction in couples	7
The inertia of anger and sadness among adolescents and adults: The role of self-efficacy in regulating negative emotions	7
Developing, evaluating, and interpreting personality state measures: A framework based on the revised latent state-trait theory	7
The complexity of the pursuit of happiness is associated with the success of well-being related behaviors in everyday life	7
What does a personality science approach to post-traumatic growth reveal?	6
Personality coherence in acts and texts: Searching for coherence within and beyond trait categories	6
Not all flowers bloom in April: Self-esteem development surrounding the first romantic relationship during adolescence and emerging adulthood	6
How much can personality predict prosocial behavior?	6
Basic personal values and vote choice in 20 European countries	6
The concert of personality: Explaining personality functioning and coherence by personality systems interactions	6
Detecting spurious effects in cross-lagged panel models: Triangulation is not a valid test	6
What defines Traits, Reputations, and Identity? Personality item content in multi-rater judgments	5
The Development of Vocational Interests in Early Adolescence: Stability, Change, and State-Trait Components	5
Integrating state dynamics and trait change: A tutorial using the example of stress reactivity and change in well-being	5
Personality psychology is getting personal: Advancing the field through personalization	5
Unraveling the Relation Between Personality and Well-Being in a Genetically Informative Design	5
Is there a g-factor of genderedness? Using a continuous measure of genderedness to assess sex differences in personality, values, cognitive ability, school grades, and educational track	5
Interdependent transformations: Integrating insights from relationship science to advance post-traumatic growth and personality change research	5
Daily dynamics of grandiose narcissism: distribution, stability, and trait relations of admiration and rivalry states and state contingencies	5
Changes in social, emotional, and behavioral skills are associated with changes in secondary school students’ important outcomes	5
Do you understand what I experienced? Self- and informant-perception of major life events	5
What if there were no personality factors? Comparing the predictability of behavioral act frequencies from a big-five and a maximal-dimensional item set	5
Interdependencies between family and friends in daily life: Personality differences and associations with affective well-being across the lifespan	4
Self-Regulatory Strategy Use, Efficacy, and Strategy-Situation-Fit in Self-Control Conflicts of Initiation, Persistence, and Inhibition	4
Bidirectional associations between self-esteem and relational aggression from 5th to 11th grade	4
Which positive personality traits do people want to change?	4
How Is Variety in Daily Life Related to the Expression of Personality States? An Ambulatory Assessment Study	4
Emotional responses to a global stressor: Average patterns and individual differences	4
Not biology or culture alone: Response to El-Hout et al. (2021)	4

Adolescence as a peak period of borderline personality features? A meta-analytic approach	4
On the Construct-Related Validity of Implicit Trait Policies	4
How spousal bereavement shapes life satisfaction: Stability and change across historical time	4
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	4
Taking risks to feel excitement: Detailed personality profile and genetic associations	3
Revisiting Values and Self-Esteem: A Large-Scale Study in the United States	3
Personality Development Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood: The Role of Life Transitions and Self-Concept Clarity	3
When and why do individuals high in narcissistic rivalry attain social status?	3
Big five personality traits and physician-certified sickness absence	3
Examining the structure of narcissism and its relationship with aggression in Chinese community and offender samples	3
The effect of very preterm birth on the Five-Factor Model of personality traits: A meta-analysis of individual participant data	3
Structure and Sources of Core Self-Evaluations: Construct Validation Using Multi-Rater and Genetically Informative Designs	3
A partner in crime: Revisiting the dispositional basis of unethical loyalty	3
My willpower belief and yours: Investigating dyadic associations between willpower beliefs, social support, and relationship satisfaction in couples	3
Towards a taxonomy of personality facets	3
Investigating Posttraumatic Growth in Midlife Using an Intensive Longitudinal Research Design: Posttraumatic Growth Is Not as Prevalent as Previously Considered	3
The structure of Japanese personality-descriptive terms	3
Between- and within-person longitudinal associations between personality traits and social support across relationships during older adulthood	3
Examining personality psychology to unpack the peer review system: Towards a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable psychological science	3
Tracing the evolution of personality cognition in early human civilisations: A computational analysis of the Gilgamesh epic	3
Personality coherence: Advances in theory, assessment, and research	3
Testing heritability of moral foundations: Common pathway models support strong heritability for the five moral foundations	2
Conscientiousness and Cognitive Ability as Predictors of Academic Achievement: Evidence of Synergistic Effects From Integrative Data Analysis	2
Personality is (so much) more than just self-reported Big Five traits	2
The Big Five and Collaborative Problem Solving: A Narrative Systematic Review	2
The development of social value orientation: Attachment styles, number of siblings, age, and a comparison of measures	2
Self-reported aggression is related to oxidative stress in men and women	2
Longitudinal Links Between Self-Esteem and the Importance of Self-Direction Values During Adolescence	2
Does it pay off to act conscientiously, both now and later? Examining concurrent, lagged, and cumulative effects of state conscientiousness	2
Addressing ethnic prejudice in youth: Developmental trajectories and associations with educational identity	2
Wherefore art thou competitors? How situational affordances help differentiate among prosociality, individualism, and competition	2
Clinical Application of Social Cognitive Theory: A Novel Personality Assessment Procedure and a Case Study of Personality Coherence	2
Mental Representations of Values and Behaviors	2
Corrigendum to “Personality research and assessment in the era of machine learning”	2
Linking the Momentary Processing of Injustice to Intraindividual Change in Dispositional Victim Sensitivity	2
Facet-level changes in mothers’ neuroticism and extraversion from early pregnancy to 6 months post-partum	2
Advancing a Three-Tier Personality Framework for Posttraumatic Growth	2
The transition to grandparenthood: No consistent evidence for change in the Big Five personality traits and life satisfaction	2
Openness to experience is stable following adversity: A case-control longitudinal investigation	2
Testing perceivers’ accuracy and accuracy awareness when forming personality impressions from faces	2
Whose self-control development suffers or benefits in the face of adversity? A longitudinal study of Mexican-origin youth followed from age 10 to 16	2
Associations between a multifaceted personality and academic performance in secondary school	2
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	2
How do intellectually curious and interested people learn and attain knowledge? A focus on behavioral traces of information seeking	2