Trait Theories of Personality

Childhood and Society

1950 • 11,683 citations

THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS AND JOB PERFORMANCE: A META‐ANALYSIS

1991 • 8,475 citations

Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model

1990 • 6,329 citations

Personality and Assessment

1968 • 4,495 citations

The structure of phenotypic personality traits.

1993 • 3,470 citations

Personality: A Psychological Interpretation

1938 • 3,283 citations

The structure of phenotypic personality traits.

1993 • 3,060 citations

Influence of extraversion and neuroticism on subjective well-being: Happy and unhappy people.

1980 • 2,043 citations

Motivated closing of the mind: "Seizing" and "freezing."

1996 • 2,015 citations

The handbook of Chinese psychology

1996 • 1,883 citations

Trait-names: A psycho-lexical study.

1936 • 1,814 citations

Influence of extraversion and neuroticism on subjective well-being: Happy and unhappy people.

1980 • 1,808 citations

Individual differences in need for cognitive closure.

1994 • 1,729 citations

Adaptors and innovators: A description and measure.

1976 • 1,633 citations

Personality Disorders and The Five-Factor Model of Personality

1990 • 1,625 citations

The Five-factor model of personality: theoretical perspectives

1996 • 1,624 citations

Individual differences in need for cognitive closure.

1994 • 1,617 citations

A contrarian view of the five-factor approach to personality description.

1995 • 1,586 citations

The stability of behavior: I. On predicting most of the people much of the time.

1979 • 1,433 citations

The structure of human personality

1953 • 1,417 citations

Why are children in the same family so different from one another?

1987 • 1,350 citations

Personality similarity in twins reared apart and together.

1988 • 1,340 citations

Personality in adulthood

1990 • 1,339 citations

Facet Scales for Agreeableness and Conscientiousness: A Revision of the NEO Personality Inventory

1991 • 1,245 citations

Population and familial association between the D4 dopamine receptor gene and measures of Novelty Seeking

1996 • 1,207 citations

Personality, Modernity, and the Storied Self: A Contemporary Framework for Studying Persons

1996 • 1,148 citations

Temperament and Behavior Disorders in Children

1968 • 1,123 citations

Personality similarity in twins reared apart and together.

1988 • 1,066 citations

Social consequences of experiential openness.

1996 • 1,046 citations

The Developing Structure of Temperament and Personality From Infancy To Adulthood

2014 • 986 citations

On the Universality of Human Nature and the Uniqueness of the Individual: The Role of Genetics and Adaptation

1990 • 976 citations

Dimensions of personality: 16, 5 or 3?—Criteria for a taxonomic paradigm

1991 • 840 citations

Profiting from controversy: Lessons from the person-situation debate.

1988 • 830 citations

Genes and environment in personality development

1992 • 822 citations

Normal Human Aging: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging

1984 • 702 citations

Personality in adulthood

1991 • 687 citations

Perspectives on personality

1989 • 679 citations

Adaptational Style and Dispositional Structure: Coping in the Context of the Five‐Factor Model

1996 • 627 citations

Exploring careers with a typology: What we have learned and some new directions.

1996 • 534 citations

The Neuropsychology of Temperament

1991 • 516 citations

The "Little Five": Exploring the Nomological Network of the Five-Factor Model of Personality in Adolescent Boys

1994 • 471 citations

Personality-intelligence relations: Assessment of typical intellectual engagement.

1992 • 451 citations

Heritability of facet-level traits in a cross-cultural twin sample: Support for a hierarchical model of personality.

1998 • 435 citations

Recent advances in social psychology : an international perspective

1989 • 435 citations

Trait explanations in personality psychology

1995 • 410 citations

Personality and vocational interests in an adult sample.

1984 • 409 citations

The "Little Five": Exploring the Nomological Network of the Five-Factor Model of Personality in Adolescent Boys

1994 • 401 citations

Heritability of facet-level traits in a cross-cultural twin sample: Support for a hierarchical model of personality.

1998 • 386 citations

Personality: A Systematic, Theoretical, and Factual Study

1951 • 368 citations

Environmental and dispositional influences on well‐being: Longitudinal follow‐up of an American national sample

1987 • 349 citations

Personality: A systematic theoretical and factual study, 1st ed.

1950 • 337 citations

Personality. A Psychological Interpretation

1938 • 320 citations

Consensual validation of personality traits: Evidence from self-reports and ratings.

1982 • 317 citations

Studies in Deceit.

1929 • 312 citations

Further explorations in personality

1981 • 301 citations

Personality: A biosocial approach to origins and structure.

1947 • 298 citations

Personality: A Biosocial Approach to Origins and Structure.

1948 • 274 citations

The Psychotherapeutic Utility of the Five-Factor Model of Personality: A Clinician's Experience

1991 • 269 citations

What the Need for Closure Scale measures and what it does not: Toward differentiating among related epistemic motives.

1997 • 266 citations

Agreement among judges of personality: Interpersonal relations, similarity, and acquaintanceship.

1995 • 251 citations

Agreement among judges of personality: Interpersonal relations, similarity, and acquaintanceship.

1995 • 249 citations

Theories of Personality.

1957 • 246 citations

Multiple determinants and effect size.

1989 • 239 citations

The association between the dopamine D4 receptor (D4DR) 16 amino acid repeat polymorphism and novelty seeking.

1996 • 233 citations

Enduring dispositions in adult males.

1980 • 224 citations

Theories of personality.

1959 • 220 citations

The Structure of Human Personality

1955 • 215 citations

Why I Advocate the Five-Factor Model: Joint Factor Analyses of the NEO-PI with Other Instruments

1989 • 205 citations

Stability and change in personality from adolescence through adulthood.

1994 • 195 citations

The five-factor model of personality as a framework for personality-health research.

1994 • 190 citations

Objective Personality Assessment

1978 • 184 citations

The five-factor model of personality as a framework for personality-health research.

1994 • 182 citations

Comparison of the MMPI-2 Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5), the NEO-PI, and the NEO-PI—R.

1995 • 117 citations

Universal Aspects of Chinese Personality Structure

1996 • 116 citations

Cross-Cultural Generalizability of the Five-Factor Model of Personality

1997 • 115 citations

The Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory, Rev. ed., 2nd printing

1943 • 111 citations

Mischel and the concept of personality

1980 • 109 citations

Ratings of Personality Change in Patients Being Evaluated for Memory Disorders

1991 • 108 citations

A unified biosocial theory of personality and its role in the development of anxiety states: a reply to commentaries.

1988 • 108 citations

The Guilford-Zimmerman temperament survey handbook : twenty-five years of research and application

1976 • 103 citations

DIMENSIONS USED IN PERCEIVING PEERS: CROSS‐CULTURAL COMPARISONS OF HONG KONG, JAPANESE, AMERICAN AND FILIPINO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

1979 • 92 citations

Multiple uses for longitudinal personality data

1992 • 88 citations

The Two Disciplines of Personality Psychology

1991 • 79 citations

Temperament and the Big Five factors of personality.

1994 • 77 citations

A Clinical‐Empirical Model of Personality: Life after the Mischelian Ice Age and the NEO‐Lithic Era

1995 • 74 citations

Personality : dynamics, development, and assessment

1969 • 72 citations

Age Changes, Cohort Differences, and Cultural Change on the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey

1978 • 60 citations

One approach to cross-cultural studies of personality

1983 • 59 citations

Lay Conceptions of the Five-Factor Model and its Indicators

1998 • 56 citations

A caution on the use of the MMPI K-correction in research on psychosomatic medicine.

1989 • 55 citations

The five‐factor personality model in applied settings

1994 • 53 citations

A Framework for the Classification of Personality Components

1995 • 46 citations

Distinctive environments depend on genotypes

1987 • 42 citations

Judgments as data for personality and developmental psychology: Error versus accuracy.

1993 • 22 citations

On the construct validity of self-reports: What do the data say?

1990 • 17 citations

It’s Time to Put Theories of Personality in Their Place, or, Allport and Stagner Got It Right, Why Can’t We?

1993 • 15 citations