NEW: In "A Goal by Any Other Name: Effects of Different Goal Elicitation Methods on Goal Pursuit" (, @MarinaMilyav et al. examined effects of different elicitation methods used in goal pursuit research (personal projects, personal goals, open-ended goals).

NEW: In "Fast, but not so Furious. On the Distinctiveness of a Fast Life History Strategy and the Common Core of Aversive Traits" (, Horsten et al. found only weak correlations of a Fast Life History Strategy with 12 aversive traits and their common core.

NEW: In "Stimulus Evaluation in the Eye of the Beholder: Big Five Personality Traits Explain Variance in Normed Picture Sets" (, @moritzingendahl & Vogel showed in a large prereg. study that B5 N, E, & A related to ind. diffs. in picture evaluations.

Correction published: (original article at

The entire Theme Bundle was guest-edited by and coordinated with @MarioGollwitzer. Thank you for your services!

Last year, we published 17 articles (which you can find here: . We're proud of these, and we have several more great ones in the pipeline! THANK YOU to all readers, authors, reviewers, and editors of the journal for your interest, expertise, and support.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎆🍀 May it be an excellent for you.

NEW: In "The Unified Narcissism Scale: Moving Towards an Integrated Measure of Narcissism" (, Sivanathan et al. developed - based on NPI & PNI items - a concise 29-item measure with 5 factors, tapping vulnerable and grandiose narcissism, with CTT & IRT.

NEW: In "Authoring Esteem: Writing About Vicarious and Personal Life Story Chapters Boosts State Self-Esteem" (, Thomsen et al. found in 3 studies that authoring life stories for both oneself and close others carry benefits for psychological adjustment.

NEW: In "Person-Situation Navigation Mechanisms at Work" (, Leyens et al. (@LeyensTheresa) provide a basis for integrating person-situation interplay at work into an overarching process model and position research on I/O constructs within their framework.

This is the first accepted paper (out of more to come) for the Theme Bundle "Intranational Variation in Personality", guest edited by Ebert (@EbertTobi) and Götz (@FriedrichMGoetz). The full bundle can be found at

NEW: In "What Does Your Favourite Colour Say About Your Personality? Not Much" (, Jonauskaite (@Dr_D_J) et al. found that favourite colours appeared unrelated to traits, failing to support the practical utility of colour-based personality assessments.

NEW: In "Personality Predictors of Emergency Department Post-Discharge Outcomes" (, @0liviaAtherton et al. highlight utility of personality information in emergency medicine settings, studying associations of B5 domains & items w/ post-discharge outcomes.

NEW: In "Unraveling Resilience: Personality Predicts Exposure and Reaction to Stressful Life Events " (, Asselmann et al. longitudinally examined whether internalizing symptom changes around life events differed btw. resilients & non-resilients (N=12,551).

NEW PUBLICATION: In "Testing the Relationships Between Narcissism, Risk Attitude, and Income With Data From a Representative German Sample" (, Leder et al. examined how narcissistic admiration & rivalry and risk attitude predict income (N = 14,473).