Mitja D. Back

14.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
182 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

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Mitja D. Back is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mitja D. Back has authored 182 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Clinical Psychology, 74 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 74 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Mitja D. Back's work include Personality Traits and Psychology (94 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (43 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (36 papers). Mitja D. Back is often cited by papers focused on Personality Traits and Psychology (94 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (43 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (36 papers). Mitja D. Back collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Mitja D. Back's co-authors include Boris Egloff, Stefan C. Schmukle, Steffen Nestler, Albrecht C. P. Küfner, Jaap J. A. Denissen, Michael Dufner, Katharina Geukes, Tanja M. Gerlach, Simine Vazire and John F. Rauthmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Bulletin and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Mitja D. Back

172 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Facebook Profiles Reflect Actual Personality, Not Self-Idealization

2010 778 citations Mitja D. Back, Samuel D. Gosling et al. profile →
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 →
Response Surface Analysis in Personality and Social Psychology: Checklist and Clarifications for the Case of Congruence Hypotheses

2018 219 citations Sarah Humberg, Steffen Nestler et al. Social Psychological and Personality Science profile →
Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn

2021 161 citations Joshua D. Miller, Mitja D. Back et al. Current Directions in Psychological Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mitja D. Back Germany	46	4.5k	3.0k	2.9k	2.5k	916	182	7.7k
Paul D. Trapnell Canada	30	3.6k 0.8×	2.8k 1.0×	2.3k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	914 1.0×	44	7.3k
Christopher J. Soto United States	34	3.9k 0.9×	3.0k 1.0×	1.8k 0.6×	2.5k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	73	7.8k
Virgil Zeigler‐Hill United States	44	4.8k 1.1×	3.4k 1.1×	2.2k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	774 0.8×	255	8.1k
Peter K. Jonason Australia	56	8.2k 1.8×	3.9k 1.3×	3.4k 1.2×	4.0k 1.6×	652 0.7×	234	11.1k
Stefan C. Schmukle Germany	37	2.1k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	812 0.9×	89	5.4k
David C. Funder United States	39	3.9k 0.9×	3.2k 1.1×	2.5k 0.9×	2.7k 1.1×	1.7k 1.9×	69	8.4k
William Ickes United States	50	2.4k 0.5×	4.9k 1.6×	3.0k 1.1×	2.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	148	9.3k
Eli J. Finkel United States	61	3.5k 0.8×	6.9k 2.3×	4.7k 1.6×	3.7k 1.5×	2.0k 2.2×	155	12.2k
Stephen J. Read United States	37	2.4k 0.5×	3.8k 1.3×	2.1k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	875 1.0×	123	7.7k
Elizabeth W. Dunn Canada	45	1.6k 0.4×	3.8k 1.3×	2.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	1.7k 1.8×	104	7.5k

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Vaid, Sumer S., Lara Kroencke, Sanaz Talaifar, et al.. (2024). Variation in social media sensitivity across people and contexts. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 6571–6571. 9 indexed citations

Back, Mitja D., et al.. (2024). ‘ LinkedIn , LinkedIn on the screen, who is the greatest and smartest ever seen?’: A machine learning approach using valid LinkedIn cues to predict narcissism and intelligence. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. 97(4). 1572–1602. 3 indexed citations

Stachl, Clemens, et al.. (2024). Predicting and Explaining Assessment Center Judgments: A Cross‐Validated Behavioral Approach to Performance Judgments in Interpersonal Assessment Center Exercises. Human Resource Management. 64(2). 423–445.

Kroencke, Lara, et al.. (2024). Narcissists’ affective well-being: Associations of grandiose narcissism with state affect level and variability.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 127(1). 153–175. 5 indexed citations

Vecchione, Michele, Mariacarolina Vacca, Francesco Dentale, et al.. (2023). The associations between grandiose narcissism and perfectionism: New insights into an old debate. Personality and Individual Differences. 215. 112395–112395.

Kroencke, Lara, et al.. (2023). Narcissistic status pursuit in everyday social life: A within-person process approach to the behavioral and emotional dynamics of narcissism.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 125(6). 1519–1541. 11 indexed citations

Breil, Simon Mats, Katharina Geukes, Jeremy C. Biesanz, et al.. (2022). The incremental validity of average states: A replication and extension of Finnigan and Vazire (2018).. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 123(3). e23–e37. 11 indexed citations

Ziegler, Matthias, et al.. (2021). The Nomological Network of the Short Dark Tetrad Scale (SD4). European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 38(3). 187–197. 44 indexed citations

Grosz, Michael P., et al.. (2021). Toward a Differentiated Assessment of Narcissism in Forensic Contexts: Validating the Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire–Short Scale (NARQ-S) in a Forensic Sample. Assessment. 29(4). 731–747. 4 indexed citations

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Geukes, Katharina, et al.. (2021). Disentangling the contributions of agentic, antagonistic, and neurotic narcissism to drive for thinness and drive for muscularity. PLoS ONE. 16(6). e0253187–e0253187. 2 indexed citations

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Miller, Joshua D., Mitja D. Back, Donald R. Lynam, & Aidan G.C. Wright. (2021). Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 30(6). 519–525. 161 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wetzel, Eunike, et al.. (2020). Measurement Invariance of Three Narcissism Questionnaires Across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Assessment. 28(1). 29–43. 16 indexed citations

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Geukes, Katharina, Simon Mats Breil, Roos Hutteman, et al.. (2019). Explaining the longitudinal interplay of personality and social relationships in the laboratory and in the field: The PILS and the CONNECT study. PLoS ONE. 14(1). e0210424–e0210424. 32 indexed citations

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Human, Lauren J., Erika N. Carlson, Katharina Geukes, Steffen Nestler, & Mitja D. Back. (2018). Do accurate personality impressions benefit early relationship development? The bidirectional associations between accuracy and liking.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 118(1). 199–212. 36 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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Biesanz, Jeremy C., et al.. (2017). Teacher judgment accuracy at zero-acquaintance: A social accuracy analysis. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Hall, Judith A., Tanja Bänziger, William Ickes, et al.. (2016). The Social Psychology of Perceiving Others Accurately. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 73 indexed citations

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Back, Mitja D., et al.. (2016). Date me for Science Speed-Dating Study. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

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Srivastava, Sanjay, et al.. (2015). Who Attains Status? Similarities and Differences Across Social Contexts. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 6(6). 692–700. 27 indexed citations

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Back, Mitja D., et al.. (2014). Effects of concentrations of Brassica napus (L.) water extracts on the germination and growth of weed species. Harper Adams University Repository (GuildHE Research). 7 indexed citations

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