The Personality Project: Psychological Organizations and Graduate Programs

The Personality Project: Psychological Organizations and Graduate Programs
Overview
Personality Taxonomies
Assessment and Applications
Statistical Program
Research Methods
Psychometrics
Statistics
Personality Theory
Biological approaches
Behavior genetics
Psychoanalytic theory
Evolutionary Psychology
Other
Using R in personality research
Psychometric Theory
Academic Webpages
Scientific Journals
Research labs
Homepages of researchers
Course syllabi
Online Research Projects
Personality Pedagogy Wiki
Non-Academic Webpages
Psychological Organizations
Specialized Societies
General Societies
Related Societies
Personality Research Conferences
Graduate Training Programs in Personality
Special advice for students
Psychology Depts. with Personality Programs
Advice for undergraduates
How to apply to graduate school
Being a scientist
Ethical principles of psychologists
Graduate student association
Personality Snapshots (updated 1/29/13)
National and international societies the sponsor conferences and publish
journals relevant to personality include:
Specialized Societies
The
European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP)
. The EAPP produces one of the top international conferences in personality. The next biennial meeting of the
European Conference on Personality
will be in Lausanne, Switzerland, July 15-19, 2014. The
2012 meeting
was held in Trieste, Italy, July 10-14.
The
International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID)
will hold its 2013 conference in Barcelona, Spain, July 22nd-25nd, 2013. For
registration information
visit the local arrangements web page.
The
program of the 2011 meeting
in London, United Kingdom is available on line.
Videos of the keynote and plenary sessions
of the ISSID 2011 meeting include
Ian Deary
: Intelligence across the lifecourse
Aljoscha Neubauer
: Where in the brain is creativity
Robert Hogan
: Psychology and Economics: The origins of employability
Linda Gottfredson:
The sociology of biological intelligence
The
July, 2009
meeting was held in Evanston, Illinois, USA, in conjunction with the Assocation for Research in Personality.
The
Association of Research in Personality
will hold its
2013 conference
in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 20-22
Programs for prior meetings are available as well.
Riverside
, 2011
The first stand alone conference was in
Evanston
, 2009
Prior meetings were held as preconferences with SPSP
Albuquerque
, New Mexico, 2008.
Society of Personality and Social Psychology
(SPSP) meets annually. The next conference will be in
in Austin, Texas, February 13-15, 2014
Social and Personality Section of the Canadian Psychological Association
Spanish Society for the Research of Individual Differences
General Societies
American Psychological Association (APA)
Association for Psycholigal Science (APS)
British Psychological Society
Canadian Psychological Association
American Statistical Association
Related Societies
Behavior Genetics Association
Classification Society
Human Behavior and Evolution Society
TIP--The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist
newsletter of
The Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Midwestern Psychological Association
Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology
Psychometric Society
Conferences
relevant to personality research include:
European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP)
. Meets every other (even) year.
Association for Research in Personality
meets every other year.
The
World Conference on Personality
had its first meeting in March, 2013 in Stellbosch, South Africa. It will hold a conference every three years. The next conference will be in Brazil, in March, 2016.
The
Society of Personality and Social Psychology
holds its annual meeting in late January or early February.
The American Psychological Association
Annual Convention
meets in August.
The
Association for Psychological Science
meets every May.
The annual meeting of the
Midwestern Psychological Association
is held every May in Chicago, Illinois. (
Program
For a much more extensive list of academic departments of psychology, see the
World wide list of Psychological Sciences
at Stanford University.
Graduate Departments of Psychology with Personality Programs
By no means a complete list, the following universities have graduate training programs in personality research or individual differences. Two comments: some departments offer training in "psychopathology" that is almost identical to those programs that offer training in "personality".
University of British Columbia
(Social/Personality)
University of Buffalo,
Social Psychology
has faculty interested in personality
University of California, Berkeley
(social/personality)
University of California, Los Angeles- psychometrics
University of California, Davis
University of California,Riverside
Center for Evolutionary Psychology
at UCSB lists a variety of Evolutionary Psychology programs around the country.These overlap to some degree with personality programs.
University of Colorado, Boulder,
Institute of Behavioral Genetics
University of Illinois
Social/personality
University of Iowa, Personality and Social Psychology
University of Michigan
(Personality and social contexts)
University of Minnesota
University of Missouri,
Personality and Social
Northwestern University
personality
and health.
University of Oregon
(social/personality)
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Psychology
(clinical/positive psychology and social psychology)
University of North Carolina (
Quantative Psychology
University of Texas (Individual Differences and Evolutionary Psychology)
York University, Toronto, Canada
Personality and Social Psychology
Vanderbilt University (
Quantitative Psychology
Washington University in St. Louis
(social/personality)
University of Wisconsin (Personality/Social)
Yale University
(social/personality)
European universities that have active research programs in individual differences include:
University of Barcelona
Department of Personality
University of Bonn
University of London
Oxford University
University of Warsaw
Graduate Programs in related fields
A much more complete list of graduate departments is available from the
Social Psychology Network
server managed by Scott Plous at Wesleyan University.
The US National Research Council
rankings of graduate deparments of psychology
are provided by
Wesleyan University
which also maintains a list of
Social Psychology in Action
How to apply to graduate schools
Very good advice for undergraduates interested in graduate schools is available from
PSYCH WEB
, a project of Russ Dewey at Georgia Southern University. Marshall Dermer offers
frank advice
to graduate students and their advisors. He also has offered
An insider's guide to choosing a graduate advisor
. Advice geared to applicants to
clinical psychology
graduate programs is also useful.
Most graduate schools in the United States require taking the Graduate Record Examination. Information about the
Advanced GRE in Psychology
is available from Kaplan, one of the groups that provide coaching on the GREs.
Being a scientist
The National Academy of Sciences offers advice on
Being a Scientist:Responsible Conduct in Research
.This includes discussions and examples of such problems of whom should get publication credit, the difficult relation of graduate advisors and students, and general issues in research ethics. The NAS also offers a publication and online information about
careers in science
See also the online publication of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS) devoted to the next generation of scientists. The pages include discussion forums on problems faced by graduate students and post doctoral fellows, as well as information on job availabilities and salaries in multiple disciplines.
The
Ethical Principles
of the American Psychological Association should be consulted to understand how psychologists deal with human subjects, publication credit, other work related aspects of academic and professional psychology. The code "applies only to psychologists' work-related activities, that is, activities that are part of the psychologists' scientific and professional functions or that are psychological in nature. It includes the clinical or counseling practice of psychology, research, teaching, supervision of trainees, devel- opment of assessment instruments, conducting assessments, educational counseling, organizational consulting, social intervention, administration, and other activities as well. These work-related activities can be distinguished from the purely private conduct of a psychologist, which ordinarily is not within the purview of the Ethics Code."
Graduate students
may consult the
Graduate School Survival Guide
written by a computer science student, but useful for all or advice on may be found by searching for "How to Survive in Graduate School" on . Also see the compilation of
Graduate Student Resources on the Web
Then, once you are almost finished with graduate school, you might want to think about how to get an academic job. Guidelines for the job interview (missing) are very useful.
Why people want to teach and study at research universities was discussed in a commencent speech, "
In praise of the research university
" by Harry Mairson at Brandeis.
Faculty at most of the schools listed above may be contacted by searching either the departmental or the university directories.
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