OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Personality is 7. 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
I am who I am with: The link between different types of social interaction partners and personality in adolescence	22
Personality Traits and Perceptions of Major Life Events	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
Stability and change in dispositional envy: Longitudinal evidence on envy as a stable trait	17
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
When do we put things off? A volitional-task attractiveness framework of personality and task-related factors in predicting procrastinatory behavior	16
I feel smart today! A daily diary study on narcissism and self-assessed intelligence	16
Conceptualizing and Studying Characteristics, Units, and Fits of Persons and Environments: A Coherent Synthesis	15
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
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
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
Short-term dynamics of pride and state self-esteem change during the university-to-work transition	13
Moving towards darkness: The personality-environment association between the Dark Triad and residential mobility	12
Interindividual age differences in personality structure	12
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
Developmental trajectories of ethnic and national identities in adolescents from migrant families: The role of social identification with family and classmates	11
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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