Most cited papers in Personality Traits and Psychology
What are the most cited papers in Personality Traits and Psychology?
The most cited paper in Personality Traits and Psychology is "THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS AND JOB PERFORMANCE: A META‐ANALYSIS" (Murray R. Barrick, Michael Kelly Mount, 1991), with 8,760 citations. Next come "Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: The implicit association test." (8,378) and "The Experiential Aspects of Consumption: Consumer Fantasies, Feelings, and Fun" (8,178).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 1,675 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS AND JOB PERFORMANCE: A META‐ANALYSIS Murray R. Barrick, Michael Kelly Mount · Personnel Psychology | Mar 1991 | 8,760 |
| 2 | Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: The implicit association test. Anthony G. Greenwald, Debbie E. McGhee, Jordan L. K. Schwartz · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1998 | 8,378 |
| 3 | The Experiential Aspects of Consumption: Consumer Fantasies, Feelings, and Fun Morris B. Holbrook, Elizabeth C. Hirschman · Journal of Consumer Research | Sep 1982 | 8,178 |
| 4 | An Introduction to the Five‐Factor Model and Its Applications Robert R. McCrae, Oliver P. John · Journal of Personality | Jun 1992 | 6,884 |
| 5 | Transformational leader behaviors and their effects on followers' trust in leader, satisfaction, and organizational citizenship behaviors Philip M. Podsakoff, SCOTT B. MACKENZIE, Robert H. Moorman et al. · The Leadership Quarterly | Jun 1990 | 5,655 |
| 6 | A Psychobiological Model of Temperament and Character Claude Robert Cloninger · Archives of General Psychiatry | Dec 1993 | 5,517 |
| 7 | The development of markers for the Big-Five factor structure. Lewis R. Goldberg · Psychological Assessment | Mar 1992 | 5,305 |
| 8 | The Dark Triad of personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy Delroy L. Paulhus, Kevin M. Williams · Journal of Research in Personality | Dec 2002 | 5,296 |
| 9 | Dimensions of Brand Personality Jennifer Lynn Aaker · Journal of Marketing Research | Aug 1997 | 4,715 |
| 10 | Measuring personality in one minute or less: A 10-item short version of the Big Five Inventory in English and German Beatrice Rammstedt, Oliver P. John · Journal of Research in Personality | 5 Apr 2006 | 4,330 |
| 11 | An alternative "description of personality": The Big-Five factor structure. Lewis R. Goldberg · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1990 | 4,259 |
| 12 | The Online Disinhibition Effect John R. Suler · CyberPsychology & Behavior | Jun 2004 | 4,185 |
| 13 | The Five Factor Model and impulsivity: using a structural model of personality to understand impulsivity Stephen P. Whiteside, Donald R. Lynam · Personality and Individual Differences | Mar 2001 | 4,185 |
| 14 | The validity and utility of selection methods in personnel psychology: Practical and theoretical implications of 85 years of research findings. Frank L. Schmidt, John E. Hunter · Psychological Bulletin | Sep 1998 | 4,076 |
| 15 | Construction and Validation of a Scale to Measure Celebrity Endorsers' Perceived Expertise, Trustworthiness, and Attractiveness Roobina Ohanian · Journal of Advertising | Oct 1990 | 3,983 |
| 16 | Personality trait structure as a human universal. Robert R. McCrae, Paul T. Costa · American Psychologist | May 1997 | 3,920 |
| 17 | Does High Self-Esteem Cause Better Performance, Interpersonal Success, Happiness, or Healthier Lifestyles? Roy Frederick Baumeister, Jennifer D. Campbell, Joachim Israel Krueger et al. · Gothic.net | May 2003 | 3,888 |
| 18 | Development and validation of a measure of emotional intelligence Nicola S. Schutte, John M. Malouff, Lena Hall et al. · Personality and Individual Differences | Aug 1998 | 3,861 |
| 19 | A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure. Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda · Psychological Review | 1995 | 3,802 |
| 20 | Human Aggression Craig A. Anderson, Brad J. Bushman · Annual Review of Psychology | Feb 2002 | 3,723 |
| 21 | The structure of phenotypic personality traits. L. Goldberg · American Psychologist | 1993 | 3,454 |
| 22 | Relationship of core self-evaluations traits—self-esteem, generalized self-efficacy, locus of control, and emotional stability—with job satisfaction and job performance: A meta-analysis. Timothy A. Judge, Joyce E. Bono · Journal of Applied Psychology | 2001 | 3,437 |
| 23 | Four ways five factors are basic Paul T. Costa, Robert R. McCrae · Personality and Individual Differences | Jun 1992 | 3,401 |
| 24 | Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across the life course: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Brent W. Roberts, Kate E. Walton, Wolfgang Viechtbauer · Psychological Bulletin | 2006 | 3,349 |
| 25 | Normal personality assessment in clinical practice: The NEO Personality Inventory. Paul T. Costa, Robert R. McCrae · Psychological Assessment | Mar 1992 | 3,250 |
| 26 | The international personality item pool and the future of public-domain personality measures Lewis R. Goldberg, John Anthony Johnson, Herbert W. Eber et al. · Journal of Research in Personality | 26 Oct 2005 | 3,236 |
| 27 | Toward a cognitive social learning reconceptualization of personality. Walter Mischel · Psychological Review | 1973 | 3,219 |
| 28 | The rank-order consistency of personality traits from childhood to old age: A quantitative review of longitudinal studies. Brent W. Roberts, Wendy F. DelVecchio · Psychological Bulletin | 2000 | 3,161 |
| 29 | The proactive component of organizational behavior: A measure and correlates Thomas S. Bateman, J. Michael Crant · Journal of Organizational Behavior | Mar 1993 | 3,118 |
| 30 | Personality and leadership: A qualitative and quantitative review. Timothy A. Judge, Joyce E. Bono, Remus Ionuț Ilieș et al. · Journal of Applied Psychology | 2002 | 3,035 |
| 31 | Gender differences in personality traits across cultures: Robust and surprising findings. Paul T. Costa, Antonio Terracciano, Robert R. McCrae · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Aug 2001 | 2,997 |
| 32 | Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior Michał Kosiński, David J. Stillwell, Thore Graepel · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 11 Mar 2013 | 2,888 |
| 33 | Emotional intelligence meets traditional standards for an intelligence John D. Mayer, David R. A. Caruso, Peter Salovey · Intelligence | Dec 1999 | 2,877 |
| 34 | The happy personality: A meta-analysis of 137 personality traits and subjective well-being. Kristina M. DeNeve, Harris Cooper · Psychological Bulletin | 1998 | 2,780 |
| 35 | A meta-analysis of the five-factor model of personality and academic performance. Arthur E. Poropat · Psychological Bulletin | Mar 2009 | 2,741 |
| 36 | Further Examining the American Dream: Differential Correlates of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Goals Tim Kasser, Richard M. Ryan · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin | Mar 1996 | 2,730 |
| 37 | Development of reliable and valid short forms of the marlowe-crowne social desirability scale William M. Reynolds · Journal of Clinical Psychology | 1982 | 2,728 |
| 38 | Linking “big” personality traits to anxiety, depressive, and substance use disorders: A meta-analysis. Roman Kotov, Wakiza Gámez, Frank Martin Schmidt et al. · Psychological Bulletin | 30 Aug 2010 | 2,717 |
| 39 | Personality Development: Stability and Change Avshalom Caspi, Brent W. Roberts, Rebecca L. Shiner · Annual Review of Psychology | 13 Jan 2005 | 2,716 |
| 40 | Psychological Aspects of Natural Language Use: Our Words, Our Selves James W. Pennebaker, Matthias R. Mehl, Kate G. Niederhoffer · Annual Review of Psychology | 23 Dec 2002 | 2,647 |
| 41 | Mechanisms of moral disengagement in the exercise of moral agency. Albert Bandura, Claudio Barbaranelli, Gian Vittorio Caprara et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Aug 1996 | 2,626 |
| 42 | Toward an adequate taxonomy of personality attributes: Replicated factor structure in peer nomination personality ratings. Warren T. Norman · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology | Jun 1963 | 2,529 |
| 43 | The Mini-IPIP Scales: Tiny-yet-effective measures of the Big Five Factors of Personality. M. Brent Donnellan, Frederick Louis Oswald, Brendan M. Baird et al. · Psychological Assessment | 2006 | 2,487 |
| 44 | Personality and Coping Charles S. Carver, Jennifer K. Connor-Smith · Annual Review of Psychology | 2 Jul 2009 | 2,415 |
| 45 | The role of factor analysis in the development and evaluation of personality scales Stephen R. Briggs, Jonathan M. Cheek · Journal of Personality | Mar 1986 | 2,397 |
| 46 | The Power of Personality: The Comparative Validity of Personality Traits, Socioeconomic Status, and Cognitive Ability for Predicting Important Life Outcomes Brent W. Roberts, Nathan R. Kuncel, Rebecca L. Shiner et al. · Perspectives on Psychological Science | 21 Nov 2007 | 2,389 |
| 47 | Proactive Behavior in Organizations J. Michael Crant · Journal of Management | Jun 2000 | 2,375 |
| 48 | Personality and Performance at the Beginning of the New Millennium: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go Next? Murray R. Barrick, Michael Kelly Mount, Timothy A. Judge · International Journal of Selection and Assessment | Mar 2001 | 2,373 |
| 49 | TARGET ARTICLES: "Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Findings, and Implications" John D. Mayer, Peter Salovey, David R. A. Caruso · Psychological Inquiry | Jul 2004 | 2,323 |
| 50 | Relation of threatened egotism to violence and aggression: The dark side of high self-esteem. Roy Frederick Baumeister, Laura S. Smart, Joseph M. Boden · Psychological Review | 1996 | 2,318 |
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