Peter D. Harms

10.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
105 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Peter D. Harms is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter D. Harms has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Clinical Psychology, 46 papers in Social Psychology and 25 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Peter D. Harms's work include Personality Traits and Psychology (46 papers), Emotional Intelligence and Performance (20 papers) and Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (17 papers). Peter D. Harms is often cited by papers focused on Personality Traits and Psychology (46 papers), Emotional Intelligence and Performance (20 papers) and Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (17 papers). Peter D. Harms collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Peter D. Harms's co-authors include Marcus Credé, Michael Tynan, Dustin Wood, Fred Luthans, Justin A. DeSimone, Seth M. Spain, Emily Grijalva, Sean T. Hannah, Paul B. Lester and James M. LeBreton and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Peter D. Harms

103 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Much ado about grit: A meta-analytic synthesis of the grit literature.

2016 1.0k citations Marcus Credé, Michael Tynan et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology profile →
Narcissism and Leadership: A Meta‐Analytic Review of Linear and Nonlinear Relationships

2013 345 citations Peter D. Harms et al. profile →
Can resilience be developed at work? A meta‐analytic review of resilience‐building programme effectiveness

2015 283 citations Adam J. Vanhove, Peter D. Harms et al. profile →
Systems Perspective of Amazon Mechanical Turk for Organizational Research: Review and Recommendations

2017 235 citations Melissa G. Keith, Louis Tay et al. Frontiers in Psychology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter D. Harms United States	37	3.3k	2.7k	1.7k	1.5k	928	105	6.7k
Daniel A. Newman United States	31	2.9k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	2.1k 1.2×	1.5k 1.0×	889 1.0×	86	7.2k
Michael A. McDaniel United States	44	2.3k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	107	7.7k
Brian J. Hoffman United States	28	2.2k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	2.2k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	627 0.7×	49	6.0k
Jesús F. Salgado Spain	30	2.4k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	2.2k 1.3×	1.1k 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	98	6.2k
Adam W. Meade United States	31	1.9k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	2.1k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	67	7.3k
Robert P. Tett United States	21	3.0k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	4.3k 2.5×	1.9k 1.2×	895 1.0×	46	7.9k
Reinout E. de Vries Netherlands	42	2.3k 0.7×	3.1k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	151	6.4k
Daniel Heller Israel	30	2.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	2.1k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	725 0.8×	81	5.3k
Ann Marie Ryan United States	52	2.4k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	3.9k 2.3×	3.7k 2.4×	857 0.9×	195	9.1k
Geneviève A. Mageau Canada	35	4.8k 1.5×	2.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	999 1.1×	95	7.7k

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Harms, Peter D. & Alaric Bourgoin. (2025). A Commentary on Fezzey et al. (2025): The Overlooked Role of Personality in CEO Activism. Group & Organization Management. 2 indexed citations

Tuggle, Christopher S., et al.. (2024). Setting the tone to get their way: An attention‐based approach to how narcissistic CEOs influence the board of directors to take more risk. Strategic Management Journal. 45(10). 2095–2121. 9 indexed citations

Harms, Peter D., et al.. (2024). Illuminating Dark Careers: A Meta-Analysis of the Dark Triad and Vocational Interests. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2024(1).

Remmelzwaal, Sharon, Femke Rutters, Peter D. Harms, et al.. (2024). Type 2 diabetes complications in ethnic minority compared with European host populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care. 12(6). e004345–e004345. 2 indexed citations

Bourgoin, Alaric & Peter D. Harms. (2024). “It’s Not the CEOs, It’s Us”: On the Challenges of CEO Research and a Call for Deeper Engagement. Group & Organization Management. 51(2). 829–868. 1 indexed citations

Carter, Min Z., et al.. (2024). Rotten apples in bad barrels: Psychopathy, counterproductive work behavior, and the role of social context. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 45(6). 837–854. 4 indexed citations

Harms, Peter D., et al.. (2024). All the Working World’s A Stage: Narcissism, Work Values, and Vocational Preferences. 5.

Harms, Peter D., Jeffrey L. Foster, & Bradley J. Brummel. (2023). Ideal solutions don’t necessarily inform reality. Industrial and Organizational Psychology. 16(3). 313–316. 1 indexed citations

Harms, Peter D., et al.. (2023). Dark clouds on the horizon: Dark personality traits and the frontiers of the entrepreneurial economy. Journal of Business Research. 171. 114364–114364. 8 indexed citations

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Credé, Marcus, Michael Tynan, Peter D. Harms, & Paul B. Lester. (2023). Clarifying the association between adverse childhood experiences and postdeployment posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity: A meta‐analysis and large‐sample investigation. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 36(4). 700–711. 9 indexed citations

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Wright, Thomas A., Kyle J. Emich, Jone L. Pearce, et al.. (2023). Advocacy and the Search for Truth in Management Scholarship: Can the Twain Ever Meet?. Journal of Management Inquiry. 33(1). 11–25. 3 indexed citations

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Lester, Paul B., Peter D. Harms, & Justin A. DeSimone. (2022). Taken to the extreme: Transformational leadership, psychological capital, and follower health outcomes in extreme contexts. Military Psychology. 36(2). 137–147. 5 indexed citations

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Keith, Melissa G., Louis Tay, & Peter D. Harms. (2017). Systems Perspective of Amazon Mechanical Turk for Organizational Research: Review and Recommendations. Frontiers in Psychology. 8. 1359–1359. 235 indexed citations breakdown →

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Credé, Marcus, Peter D. Harms, Nikki Blacksmith, & Dustin Wood. (2016). Assessing the Utility of Compound Trait Estimates of Narrow Personality Traits. Journal of Personality Assessment. 98(5). 503–513. 13 indexed citations

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Hill, Patrick L., et al.. (2016). When Friends’ and Society’s Expectations Collide: A Longitudinal Study of Moral Decision-Making and Personality across College. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0146716–e0146716. 6 indexed citations

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Vanhove, Adam J., Peter D. Harms, & Justin A. DeSimone. (2016). The Abbreviated Character Strengths Test (ACST): A Preliminary Assessment of Test Validity. Journal of Personality Assessment. 98(5). 536–544. 11 indexed citations

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Spain, Seth M., Peter D. Harms, & James M. LeBreton. (2013). The Dark Side of Personality at Work. Insecta mundi. 1 indexed citations

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Jackson, Joshua J., Dustin Wood, Tim Bogg, et al.. (2010). What do conscientious people do? Development and validation of the Behavioral Indicators of Conscientiousness (BIC). Journal of Research in Personality. 44(4). 501–511. 200 indexed citations

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Jackson, Joshua J., Tim Bogg, Kate E. Walton, et al.. (2009). Not all conscientiousness scales change alike: A multimethod, multisample study of age differences in the facets of conscientiousness.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 96(2). 446–459. 116 indexed citations

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Roberts, Brent W., Peter D. Harms, Avshalom Caspi, & Terrie E. Moffitt. (2007). Predicting the counterproductive employee in a child-to-adult prospective study.. Journal of Applied Psychology. 92(5). 1427–1436. 69 indexed citations

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