Michael Dufner

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Dufner is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Dufner has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Clinical Psychology, 28 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 24 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael Dufner's work include Personality Traits and Psychology (33 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (18 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (15 papers). Michael Dufner is often cited by papers focused on Personality Traits and Psychology (33 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (18 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (15 papers). Michael Dufner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Poland. Michael Dufner's co-authors include Jaap J. A. Denissen, Mitja D. Back, Albrecht C. P. Küfner, John F. Rauthmann, Tanja M. Gerlach, Anna Z. Czarna, Constantine Sedikides, Jochen E. Gebauer, Steffen Nestler and Katharina Geukes and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Michael Dufner

53 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Narcissistic admiration and rivalry: Disentangling the bright and dark sides of narcissism.

2013 777 citations Mitja D. Back, Albrecht C. P. Küfner et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Dufner Germany	21	1.6k	1.1k	752	682	255	60	2.3k
Michela Schröder–Abé Germany	25	1.1k 0.7×	825 0.8×	450 0.6×	526 0.8×	214 0.8×	54	1.8k
Erika N. Carlson Canada	20	884 0.5×	744 0.7×	466 0.6×	519 0.8×	258 1.0×	55	1.6k
Beth A. Visser Canada	22	1.3k 0.8×	669 0.6×	511 0.7×	498 0.7×	108 0.4×	43	1.8k
Robert A. Ackerman United States	25	1.4k 0.9×	797 0.8×	536 0.7×	499 0.7×	192 0.8×	78	2.3k
Kenneth D. Locke United States	25	882 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	485 0.6×	760 1.1×	363 1.4×	69	2.2k
Erik E. Noftle United States	15	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	786 1.0×	378 0.6×	293 1.1×	20	2.0k
David J. Disabato United States	19	786 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	641 0.9×	290 0.4×	330 1.3×	40	1.9k
Chad E. Lakey United States	16	1.1k 0.7×	742 0.7×	513 0.7×	358 0.5×	231 0.9×	18	1.8k
Radosław Rogoza Poland	26	1.5k 0.9×	701 0.7×	428 0.6×	372 0.5×	153 0.6×	118	1.9k
Elise K. Kalokerinos Australia	24	675 0.4×	632 0.6×	793 1.1×	379 0.6×	313 1.2×	65	1.8k

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Czarna, Anna Z., et al.. (2025). Who is moved to tears easily? Individual differences in Kama Muta proneness and their relation to personality. Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz). 6.

Rogoza, Radosław, Georg Krammer, Emanuel Jauk, et al.. (2024). The peaks and valleys of narcissism: The factor structure of narcissistic states and their relations to trait measures.. Psychological Assessment. 36(2). 147–161. 6 indexed citations

Dufner, Michael, et al.. (2024). Beyond the Lab: Validating Personality Impressions and Behavioral Observations in Online Video Calls. Collabra Psychology. 10(1).

Schmukle, Stefan C., et al.. (2024). The quest for genuine self-knowledge: An investigation into individual differences in the self-insight motive. European Journal of Personality. 39(4). 455–477. 1 indexed citations

Dufner, Michael, et al.. (2024). Our versus their narcissist: Are narcissistic persons more popular in their ingroup than in a competing outgroup?. Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz). 5. 1 indexed citations

Czarna, Anna Z., et al.. (2024). Do Objective and Peer-perceived Qualities Moderate the Effect of Narcissism on Social Outcomes?. Collabra Psychology. 10(1).

Dufner, Michael, et al.. (2023). An EMG-based approach toward the assessment of implicit self-esteem. Acta Psychologica. 234. 103868–103868. 5 indexed citations

Dufner, Michael, et al.. (2022). Do Agency and Communion Explain the Relationship Between Perceiver and Target Effects in Interpersonal Perception? A Meta-Analysis on Generalized Reciprocity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 49(10). 1479–1494. 4 indexed citations

Rau, Richard, Erika N. Carlson, Michael Dufner, et al.. (2022). Positivity in peer perceptions over time: Personality explains variation at zero-acquaintance, popularity explains differential change.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 123(2). 423–443. 9 indexed citations

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Humberg, Sarah, Michael Dufner, Felix D. Schönbrodt, et al.. (2022). The true role that suppressor effects play in condition-based regression analysis: None. A reply to Fiedler (2021).. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 123(4). 884–888. 1 indexed citations

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Grapsas, Stathis, Eddie Brummelman, Michael Dufner, & Jaap J. A. Denissen. (2022). Affective contingencies of narcissism.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 123(2). 444–462. 10 indexed citations

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Rau, Richard, Steffen Nestler, Katharina Geukes, Mitja D. Back, & Michael Dufner. (2019). Can other-derogation be beneficial? Seeing others as low in agency can lead to an agentic reputation in newly formed face-to-face groups.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 117(1). 201–227. 14 indexed citations

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Humberg, Sarah, Michael Dufner, Felix D. Schönbrodt, et al.. (2018). Is accurate, positive, or inflated self-perception most advantageous for psychological adjustment? A competitive test of key hypotheses.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 116(5). 835–859. 47 indexed citations

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Humberg, Sarah, Michael Dufner, Felix D. Schönbrodt, et al.. (2017). Enhanced versus simply positive: A new condition-based regression analysis to disentangle effects of self-enhancement from effects of positivity of self-view.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 114(2). 303–322. 48 indexed citations

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Heß, Ursula, Ruben C. Arslan, Christophe Blaison, et al.. (2016). Reliability of surface facial electromyography. Psychophysiology. 54(1). 12–23. 61 indexed citations

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Geukes, Katharina, Steffen Nestler, Roos Hutteman, et al.. (2016). Puffed-up but shaky selves: State self-esteem level and variability in narcissists.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 112(5). 769–786. 144 indexed citations

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Dufner, Michael, Daniel Leising, & Jochen E. Gebauer. (2016). Which Basic Rules Underlie Social Judgments? Agency Follows a Zero-Sum Principle and Communion Follows a Non-Zero-Sum Principle. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 42(5). 677–687. 15 indexed citations

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Czarna, Anna Z., Peter K. Jonason, Michael Dufner, & Małgorzata Kossowska. (2016). The Dirty Dozen Scale: Validation of a Polish Version and Extension of the Nomological Net. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 445–445. 80 indexed citations

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Sedikides, Constantine, Vera Hoorens, & Michael Dufner. (2015). Self-Enhancing Self-Presentation: Interpersonal, Relational, and Organizational Implications. VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet). 29–55. 21 indexed citations

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Dufner, Michael, Ruben C. Arslan, Birk Hagemeyer, Felix D. Schönbrodt, & Jaap J. A. Denissen. (2015). Affective contingencies in the affiliative domain: Physiological assessment, associations with the affiliation motive, and prediction of behavior.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 109(4). 662–676. 57 indexed citations

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