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Henry, S., Baker, W., Bratko, D., Jern, P., Kandler, C., Tybur, J. M., de Vries, R. E., Wesseldijk, L. W., Zapko-Willmes, A., Booth, T., Mõttus, R. 2024. Nuanced HEXACO: A Meta-Analysis of HEXACO Cross-Rater Agreement, Heritability, and Rank-Order Stability. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 01461672241253637,

Hofmann, R., Rozgonjuk, D., Soto, C. J., Ostendorf, F., Mõttus, R. 2025. There are a million ways to be a woman and a million ways to be a man: Gender differences across personality nuances and nations. Journal of Research in Personality, 115, 104582,

McCrae, R. R., Mõttus, R. 2019. What Personality Scales Measure: A New Psychometrics and Its Implications for Theory and Assessment. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28, 415–420,

Mõttus, R., Kandler, C., Luciano, M., Esko, T., Vainik, U. 2025. Familial similarity and heritability of personality traits and life satisfaction are higher than shown in typical single-method studies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,

Mõttus, R., Realo, A., Allik, J., Ausmees, L., Henry, S., McCrae, R. R., Vainik, U. 2024. Most people’s life satisfaction matches their personality traits: True correlations in multitrait, multirater, multisample data. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126, 676–693,

Mõttus, R., Rozgonjuk, D. 2021. Development is in the details: Age differences in the Big Five domains, facets, and nuances. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, 1035–1048,

Mõttus, R., Sinick, J., Terracciano, A., Hrebickova, M., Kandler, C., Ando, J., Mortensen, E. L., Colodro-Conde, L., Jang, K. 2019. Personality characteristics below facets: A replication and meta-analysis of cross-rater agreement, rank-order stability, heritability and utility of personality nuances. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 117, e35–e50.

Mõttus, R., Wood, D., Condon, D. M., Back, M. D., Baumert, A., Costantini, G., Epskamp, S., Greiff, S., Johnson, W., Lukaszewski, A., Murray, A., Revelle, W., Wright, A. G. C., Yarkoni, T., Ziegler, M., Zimmermann, J. 2020. Descriptive, Predictive and Explanatory Personality Research: Different Goals, Different Approaches, but a Shared Need to Move beyond the Big Few Traits. European Journal of Personality, 34, 1175–1201,

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Vaht, M., Arumäe, K., Realo, A., Ausmees, L., Allik, J., Henry, S., Metspalu, A., Esko, T., Mõttus, R., Vainik, U. 2024. Cohort profile: Personality Measurements at the Estonian Biobank of the Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu,