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First published 2025-10

Volitional Change in Pathological Traits: Can People Change Their Maladaptive Traits?

Sierra M. Rufino, Nathan W. Hudson, Julia L. Briskin

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

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First published 2020-1

Volitional Change in Adult Attachment: Can People Who Want to Become Less Anxious and Avoidant Move Closer towards Realizing those Goals?

Nathan W. Hudson, William J. Chopik, Daniel A. Briley [...]

European Journal of Personality

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First published 2026

Volitional Personality Change in Adolescence: Understanding If,How,and Why Adolescents Want to Change Their Personality

Eva Bleckmann, Riana Baas, Larissa L. Wieczorek [...]

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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First published 2016-5

Changing for the Better? Longitudinal Associations Between Volitional Personality Change and Psychological Well-Being

Nathan W. Hudson, R. Chris Fraley

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

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First published 2012-10

Motivational and Volitional Variables Associated With Stages of Change for Exercise in Multiple Sclerosis

Chung-Yi Chiu, Sandra D. Fitzgerald, David M. Strand [...]

Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin

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First published 2020-8

Change Goals Robustly Predict Trait Growth: A Mega-Analysis of a Dozen Intensive Longitudinal Studies Examining Volitional Change

Nathan W. Hudson, R. Chris Fraley, William J. Chopik [...]

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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First published 2026

Becoming More Compassionate (or Conscientious) at the State or Trait Level? Effects of a Short-Term Volitional Intervention Promoting Moral and Non-Moral Personality Change

Rowan Kemmerly, Eranda Jayawickreme

Personality Science

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First published 2021-9

You can’t always get what you want: The role of change goal importance,goal feasibility and momentary experiences for volitional personality development

Anna J Lücke, Martin Quintus, Boris Egloff [...]

European Journal of Personality

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First published 2025

Exploring individual differences in volitional personality state and trait change: The role of motivation and engagement during a 12-week intervention

Gabriel Olaru, Mirjam Stieger, Christoph Flückiger [...]

European Journal of Personality

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First published 2025-02

A smartphone-based intervention to decrease neuroticism: Protocol of the CHILL Study

Peter Haehner, Amanda J. Wright, Rosalie Andrae [...]

Personality Science

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