1st World Conference on Personality

With great pleasure I invite you to the first World Conference on Personality, to be held in Stellenbosch (near Cape Town) in South Africa, March 19-23, 2013. Over the years, the possibility of closer cooperation between different organizations, such as the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP), the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), and the Association for Research in Personality (ARP) has been frequently discussed. Those discussions have actually resulted in, for example, the joint organization of summer schools and workshops. Besides in these three organizations, the field of personality, intelligence, and individual differences is organized in a variety of regions across the world and at different levels of specialization. While national organizations (e.g., the Japan Society of Personality Psychology, the German Differential Psychology Society, and the Spanish Society for the Research of Individual Differences) often have as a main goal the promotion of theory and research at a national level, they also usually emphasize international relevance and the importance to collaborate with other societies.

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Who Should Attend?

Psychologists working in the fields of personality, intelligence, and individual differences, both theoretical and applied.

Psychologists with an interest in personality from adjacent fields in psychology (clinical, organizational, educational, developmental, etc.) and from outside of psychology (sociology, biology, etc.).

The meeting is intended to accommodate and bring together psychologists from diverse areas, in terms of disciplines and organizations, and in terms of cultures and regions.

Topics

Personality structure (e.g., traits, emotions, types, temperament, taxonomy, situations)

Personality measurement (e.g., psychometrics, tests, questionnaires, biases, internet)

Intelligence (e.g., structure of ability, neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics)

Personality and cognition (e.g., openness, working memory capacity, creativity)

Personality and culture (e.g., beliefs, values, cross-cultural approach)

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