OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Personality is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Perception of major life events and personality trait change	71
Speed-dating and simulation data explain the discrepancy between stated and revealed mate preferences	27
Motive-Specific Affective Contingencies and Their Relevance for Personality and Motivated Behavior	23
Probing the predictive validity of ideal partner preferences for future partner traits and relationship outcomes across 13 years	22
I am who I am with: The link between different types of social interaction partners and personality in adolescence	21
Values across adolescence: a four-year longitudinal study. The predictive role of community violence and parental acceptance-rejection	20
The development of trait greed during young adulthood: A simultaneous investigation of environmental effects and negative core beliefs	19
Personality Traits and Perceptions of Major Life Events	19
The quest for genuine self-knowledge: An investigation into individual differences in the self-insight motive	18
Lifespan trajectories of negative and positive affect: A coordinated analysis of 14 longitudinal studies	18
Stability and change in dispositional envy: Longitudinal evidence on envy as a stable trait	18
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	18
Conceptualizing and Studying Characteristics, Units, and Fits of Persons and Environments: A Coherent Synthesis	17
Stability and change of basic personal values in mid-to-late adolescence: A 4-year longitudinal study	16
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	15
Life events and life satisfaction: Estimating effects of multiple life events in combined models	15
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
Revisiting the IPIP-NEO personality hierarchy with taxonomic graph analysis	13
Filling in the missing pieces: Personality traits (un)related to dishonest behavior	13
The factor structure of Big Five personality trait measures at the between- and within-person levels	13
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	12
Long-Term Advantages of Adolescent Optimism: Nonlinear Associations With Adult Outcomes and its Protective Role in Buffering Socioeconomic Risk	12

Moving towards darkness: The personality-environment association between the Dark Triad and residential mobility	11
Gender and values in 20 years of the European Social Survey: Are gender-typical values linked to parenthood?	10
Interindividual age differences in personality structure	10
Developmental trajectories of ethnic and national identities in adolescents from migrant families: The role of social identification with family and classmates	10
State investigative interest varies across daily life and predicts academic engagement: Replication and extension of the nomological network	9
The development and correlated change of narcissism and self-esteem in adulthood	9
Longitudinal associations between personality traits and cognitive complaints in midlife and older age across 20 years	9
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	9
How are common major life events perceived? Exploring differences between and variability of different typical event profiles and raters	9
Does realizing strengths, insight, and behavioral practice through a psychological intervention promote personality change? An intensive longitudinal study	9
Predicting romantic interest during early relationship development: A preregistered investigation using machine learning	8
Codevelopment of the dark triad and depressiveness from emerging adulthood to midlife	8
Initiation of drug and alcohol use and personality development during adolescence	8
MIsgivings about measurement invariance	8
Life Events and Personality Change: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	8
Spurious prospective effects between work experiences and self-esteem: A reanalysis of a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	8
Reciprocal associations between sense of purpose and subjective well-being in old age	7
The language of power: Interpersonal perceptions of sense of power, dominance, and prestige based on word usage	7
Do you mind a closer look? A jingle-jangle fallacy perspective on mindfulness	7
Personality development in adolescence: Examining big five trait trajectories in differential learning environments	7
Basic personal values and vote choice in 20 European countries	6
What does a personality science approach to post-traumatic growth reveal?	6
Developing, evaluating, and interpreting personality state measures: A framework based on the revised latent state-trait theory	6
How much can personality predict prosocial behavior?	6
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	6
Not all flowers bloom in April: Self-esteem development surrounding the first romantic relationship during adolescence and emerging adulthood	6
The complexity of the pursuit of happiness is associated with the success of well-being related behaviors in everyday life	6
In good times and in bad: A longitudinal analysis of the impact of bereavement on self-esteem and life satisfaction in couples	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
The concert of personality: Explaining personality functioning and coherence by personality systems interactions	6
The inertia of anger and sadness among adolescents and adults: The role of self-efficacy in regulating negative emotions	6
Structural and Inter-individual Differentiation in Personality Traits Across the Adult Lifespan	6