Cool preprint from @ajwright.bsky.social et al. demonstrating that personality change occurs at different time scales! www.researchgate.net/profile/Aman...

New paper out on personality functioning by lab members @ajwright.bsky.social and @peterhaehner.bsky.social ⬇️🤩

I'm reviewing applications for the University of Washington's PhD program this fall. Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply. More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...

I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them. Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316

New paper out at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! We examined unconditional & event-related changes in pathological vs normal-range personality using 4 metrics to compare their developmental links, how these vary with life events, and whether unique effects emerge across metrics

Teilnahme und weitere Informationen unter: formr.psych.uzh.ch/pers-wrapped

Wie verändert sich unsere Persönlichkeit über ein Jahr? Dazu starten wir heute eine neue Studie und suchen nach Teilnehmenden zwischen 18-40 Jahren, die Interesse haben, Einblicke in ihre Persönlichkeit, Wohlbefinden und Verhalten über ein Jahr zu erhalten und bis zu 173 CHF (~185€) zu verdienen.

The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in the sociology of child and adolescent development. I've been told this is open rank.

I will be reviewing applications for the University of Michigan Clinical Psychology doctoral program this fall. If you are interested in applying, here’s some info I prepared for applicants: sites.lsa.umich.edu/aidangcw-lab...

Effects of a theory-based smartphone intervention to decrease neuroticism in the general public: https://osf.io/m8a5r

I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join my lab at Dartmouth. The ideal candidate will have experience in EMA, passive physiological data, and/or digital therapeutics. Interest and/or experience in chronic pain and co-occurring disorders is preferred. apply.interfolio.com/169836

If you’re at ARP and want to hear some great talks on personality interventions, stop by our symposium at 2:45 in the James Room on the 9th floor!!!

Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Going to share this in my lifespan human development course next week!

Excited to share that I'll be joining the psychology department at Texas A&M as an assistant professor starting Fall 2026 🤗

New preprint! Ever heard that personality doesn't change? Do you believe that? (you shouldn't) Using data from an online survey (n = 887) & eight longitudinal datasets (n = 166,971), we compared perceived vs. actual lifespan changes in personality and 20+ individual differences (1/8) osf.io/ytmxp

Together with @wiebkeb.bsky.social I investigated how personality relates to who takes on informal caregiving, and how informal care responsibilities in turn affect personality: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... On the level of nuances (items), we found some evidence for the corresponsive

New Preprint Alert! Why do people differ in their self-esteem development after a negative life event? With M. Altorfer, and @peterhaehner.bsky.social, I addressed this question by studying self-esteem changes over six months after a negative life event. Full preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Meta analysis in press at JPSP: personality traits are related to volunteering and charitable giving. Which have the biggest effects? See below (hint: they start with vowels) @wiebkeb.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

Ever wondered whether our personality influences our first sexual milestone? 🍒 We explored how the Big Five traits affect the timing of first sexual experiences — and how these, in turn, shape personality traits over time. Check out our preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #PersonalityPsych

During the pandemic, I ran a joke terror management theory study and wrote a joke paper about it. Was too nervous to post it previously. But then again, nothing matters, so here it is! bit.ly/ChopikTMT

Come join us in Evanston this summer!!!

The Call for Submissions, Submission Guidelines, and a brief Logistics Update can be found at: www.personality-arp.org/conference/. We look forward to seeing your submissions!

The Association for Research in Personality is soliciting abstracts for the 2025 Biennial Meeting scheduled to take place June 26-28, 2025 in Evanston (suburb of Chicago), IL, USA!

Can people intentionally change their personality? Happy to share that our review on volitional personality change research has now been published at Nature Communications. Open-Access-Link: doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Check out Peter’s thread on these two super comprehensive papers looking at main effects & moderators of life events for personality trait change! He did a fantastic job leading these beasts 🤌🏼

+++ New Preprint Alert +++ Together with @ajwright.bsky.social, @mdkraemer.bsky.social, and @wiebkeb.bsky.social, I worked on two coordinated data analyses to examine event-related personality changes. CDA1: osf.io/preprints/ps... CDA2: osf.io/preprints/ps... ⬇️Details below⬇️

How does providing informal care affect people's well-being? @wiebkeb.bsky.social and I used longitudinal data to examine this question across different well-being aspects, 3 countries (🇳🇱, 🇩🇪, 🇦🇺), and several moderators. See below for a thread or @psychscience.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/0956...

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Bayesian:

go.bsky.app/TwHBMQi I started a personality psychology starter pack. If I missed you or put you here by mistake, please reach out.

Individual Differences in Event-Related Personality Changes: A Systematic Review and Coordinated Data Analysis: http://osf.io/epx5m/

New preprint 🤗 Life events are a commonly studied environmental factor believed to influence normal-range personality development (such as the Big Five), but how well does this extend to features of personality pathology? (1/7) t.co/PyPkEUATP3

I *love* the Whova generated graphics so it seemed fitting to use one If you’re at #DGPs2024 and want to hear 5 great talks about integrating idiographics & nomothetics in psychology, please come check out our symposium led by @niclaskuper.bsky.social on Wednesday at 11:30!

Excited to see this out now in JPSP :-) It’s pretty standard to acknowledge individual differences in mean levels of traits (via intercepts) and changes in traits (often via linear slopes), but what about model forms of personality trajectories? doi.org/10.1037/pspp...

If you’ll be at #ECP21 in Berlin and have 90 minutes to spare on Thursday, come check out our symposium on personality interventions with some *really* cool talks!

A Systematic Review of Volitional Personality Change Research: http://osf.io/h5db2/

A Systematic Review and Taxonomy of Neuroticism Interventions for the General Public: http://osf.io/jy3eb/

Very happy to see this out now in JPSP! We used 5 datasets (N = 128K) to do a deep dive into within-person variability for long-term personality development, a metric common in short-term dynamics work but (sadly!) pretty disregarded longitudinally (1/8) psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

Replying all to mass departmental or listserv emails is equivalent to ordering fajitas at a restaurant. I will not be elaborating further

📣May issue is live! Cover: The process and mechanisms of personality change Also in this issue: 👶💭The development of human causal reasoning 💼🏠Optimizing work and off-job motivation 👁️Positive serial dependence in visual perception Read more: go.nature.com/4aqkFUZ #psychology #psychscisky

First #skeet, with high hopes for this new place! 🥳😄 Stay tuned for updates of our research on differential psychology, personality, cognitive ability, and assessment at the University of Zurich (UZH). Also perhaps the occasional job posting 🧑‍🔬

Super happy to see this review paper led by Josh Jackson out now! We really enjoyed writing it and I especially enjoyed the challenge of a word limit. Links to access are in the original post 🙂

The process and mechanisms of personality change A Review by Joshua J. Jackson & Amanda J. Wright Web: go.nature.com/4aksw6T PDF: rdcu.be/dBDAh #psychology #personality #psychscisky

Why do some of us find it easier to change than others? Although personality is relatively stable, it’s far from set in stone, explains @ajwright.bsky.social—people vary in their initial levels of profile stability, and that trait is persistent: buff.ly/3S4yLWp

By far my favorite post-loaded package message in R. I personally think there is always space to acknowledge one’s grievances and as a mere third-party observer, I encourage it

New preprint time! So also sharing this here :-) We can (hopefully) all agree personality development is complex. Should we really expect this complexity in trajectories to be captured by individual differences in just intercepts & slopes? Are we missing important heterogeneity? (1/11)

Finally started using a citation manager. That’s enough personal growth for this year

I have nothing new to contribute here so here is a recycled post from the "other" site Long story short: we know about individual differences like mean levels or changes in traits, but turns out there are also individual differences in the model forms people have for their personality trajectories!