2013 ARP Conference Submissions Deadline Extended to Feb. 1, 2013

3^rd Annual Convention

June 20-22, 2013

Charlotte, North Carolina

The ARP Program Committee is now soliciting abstracts for presentations at the 3rd Biennial Meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, which is scheduled to take place Thursday, June 20th, to Saturday, June 22nd, 2013, in Charlotte, North Carolina.  The program will include symposia and posters selected in response to this open call.  In addition, we are very pleased to announce that the program will feature two invited talks, from two leading researchers in personality science, who are also two of the Editors of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Laura King (University of Missouri) and Jeffrey Simpson (University of Minnesota).

Immediately preceding the conference, on Thursday, June 20^th, there will be a workshop on Studying Personality via the Autonomic Nervous and Neuroendocrine Systems, led by Iris Mauss and Sally Dickerson. This 6-hour workshop is open to all attendants for the additional cost of $30 for member students, $55 for general members, and $80 for all non-members.

More details of the meeting can be found at the following URL:  http://www.personality-arp.org/conference.htm.

Although there is no official “theme” for this upcoming meeting, the Conference Program Committee is hoping to solicit symposia and posters that cover a broad range of substantive topics within the field. We conceive of personality science in wide-ranging terms, and intend for the conference to cover all of the content areas traditionally and currently studied by psychological scientists who address topics relevant to personality. This includes, but is not limited to, research on individual differences in personality, broadly conceived, including research both on their structure and social-cognitive mediators; genetic, affective, physiological, neuroendocrine, and evolutionary bases of personality processes and social behavior; and a wide range of narrower topics that fall within the domain of personality science, including personality judgments, emotions and emotional processes, motivation, romantic relationships and mating, the self and self-regulation, social cognition, and personality assessment. The overriding goal of the Program Committee is to develop a slate of presentations that broadly reflects the diversity of basic questions facing our discipline.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTERS

Two formats are available for submissions:  Symposia and Posters.  The Program Committee will make a final selection of presentations based on quality, balance of content, and diversity, broadly speaking, in the overall conference program. Submissions not accepted for oral presentation will be considered for presentation as individual posters unless the authors stipulate otherwise. The first author is expected to give the oral presentation or be available at the poster.

Symposia

Symposia are 75 minutes in length and include presentations from a maximum of 4 speakers on a related topic.  Thus, typical symposia will be comprised of 3 or 4 talks; however, symposia with fewer speakers are permitted as well.  In planning a symposium, please allow sufficient time for audience questions and discussion.  Submissions must include (a) names and contact information for the chairperson(s), all presenters, (b) a symposium title and overarching abstract of no more than 200 words, and (c) individual abstracts (200 words max) for each talk to be included in the symposium.  Submitters should complete the Symposia Submission Form that can be downloaded from the ARP website to submit their abstracts.

Poster Presentations

Poster submissions may include presentations of works that are either complete or in progress (e.g., studies for which data collection is well under way, but for which full results are not yet available at the time of submission). Submissions must include (a) names and contact information for all authors, (b) presentation title, and (c) an abstract of no more than 200 words describing the rationale, methods, results, and implications of the work to be presented. Submitters should complete the Poster Submission Form that can be downloaded from the ARP website to submit their abstracts.

Number of Submissions

There is no limit to the number of submissions on which a presenter may be an author. However, anyone submitting an abstract may be first author on only one oral presentation. There is no limit to the number of first-authored poster abstract submissions.

Submission Withdrawals

If it is necessary to withdraw a submission, please notify the Program Chairs as soon as possible.

Abstract Submission Details and Deadline

The deadline for all abstract submissions is February 1st, 2013.  The original deadline of Jan. 21 has been extended to accommodate people traveling to SPSP. Please prepare your submission using the appropriate abstract submission form posted on the ARP website.  Submit all materials via email toARPsubmissions2013@gmail.com.  Please follow the guidelines included in the submission forms.  Abstracts that do not follow these guidelines will be returned to authors.

Sincerely,

The 2013 ARP Program Committee:

Özlem Ayduk, Co-Chair

Jessica Tracy, Co-Chair

Brent Donnellan

R. Chris Fraley

Iris Mauss

Ken Sheldon

Vivian Zayas

Sixteenth International Reversal Theory Conference

The Sixteenth International Reversal Theory Conference will be held at the University of Reims, France, 16-19 July 2013.  Full information will be found on the Reversal Theory Society website at: www.reversaltheory.org This site also gives information about how to submit papers. Submissions of all kinds are welcome: psychometric, experimental, theoretical and applied.  Keynote speakers will include Richard Mallows (President of the British Psychological Society), John Kerr (well-known sports psychologist), and Michael Apter (one of the originators of the theory).

International Conference "LIFE DESIGN & CAREER COUNSELING: Building Hope and Resilience" in Padova, Italy on 20-23 June 2013

"Call for Papers" Deadline: January 30, 2013

The Members of the Organizing Committee are pleased to announce the International Conference "LIFE DESIGN & CAREER COUNSELING: Building Hope and Resilience" to be held in Padova, Italy on 20-22 June 2013. For more information, please visit the conference site: http://larios.psy.unipd.it/conference2013/pages/zen-index.php.

Conference prizes will be awarded to young researchers who have distinguished themselves for their work on issues of Vocational Designing and Career Counseling. These awards are offered by the European Society for Vocational Designing and Career Counseling and by the Larios Laboratory of the University of Padua. Details on how to apply for participation for the awards are available on the conference website.

Some of the themes of the conference include:

·         Hope and optimism at a time of crisis

·         Hope and optimism in career counseling

·         Hope and optimism and multiculturalism

·         Positive psychology in career counseling and coaching

·         Hope and optimism in education

·         Resilience and time perspective in counseling

·         Increasing hope and optimism in counseling

·         Vocational Guidance, career education, career counseling: researches and instruments

·         Family, hope, optimism and resilience

We looking forward to seeing you in Padova this summer!

With our best wishes,
Laura Nota, Ph.D.
Professor

Salvatore Soresi, Ph.D
Full professor
Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione
Università di Padova
35131 Padova (Italy)

Bernardo J. Carducci, Ph.D.

President, Italian American Psychology Assembly

APA Fellow, Division 52: International Psychology

Professor of Psychology and Director

Shyness Research Institute

Indiana University Southeast

New Albany, IN USA 47150

bcarducc@ius.edu

2013 ARP Conference: Call for Submissions

The ARP Program Committee is now soliciting abstracts for presentations at the 3rd Biennial Meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, which is scheduled to take place Thursday, June 20th, to Saturday, June 22nd, 2013, in Charlotte, North Carolina. The program will include symposia and posters selected in response to this open call. In addition, we are very pleased to announce that the program will feature two invited talks, from two leading researchers in personality science, who are also two of the Editors of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Laura King (University of Missouri) and Jeffrey Simpson (University of Minnesota).

Immediately preceding the conference, on Thursday, June 20th, there will be a workshop on Studying Personality via the Autonomic Nervous and Neuroendocrine Systems, led by Iris Mauss and Sally Dickerson. This 6-hour workshop is open to all attendants for the additional cost of $30 for member students, $55 for general members, and $80 for all non-members.

More details on the meeting can be found at the following URL: 
http://www.personality-arp.org/conference.htm

Although there is no official theme for this upcoming meeting, the Conference Program Committee is hoping to solicit symposia and posters that cover a broad range of substantive topics within the field. We conceive of personality science in wide-ranging terms, and intend for the conference to cover all of the content areas traditionally and currently studied by psychological scientists who address topics relevant to personality. This includes, but is not limited to, research on individual differences in personality, broadly conceived, including research both on their structure and social-cognitive mediators; genetic, affective, physiological, neuroendocrine, and evolutionary bases of personality processes and social behavior; and a wide range of narrower topics that fall within the domain of personality science, including personality judgments, emotions and emotional processes, motivation, romantic relationships and mating, the self and self-regulation, social cognition, and personality assessment. The overriding goal of the Program Committee is to develop a slate of presentations that broadly reflects the diversity of basic questions facing our discipline.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTERS

Two formats are available for submissions: Symposia and Posters. The Program Committee will make a final selection of presentations based on quality, balance of content, and diversity, broadly speaking, in the overall conference program. Submissions not accepted for oral presentation will be considered for presentation as individual posters unless the authors stipulate otherwise. The first author is expected to give the oral presentation or be available at the poster. 

Symposia
Symposia are 75 minutes in length and include presentations from a maximum of 4 speakers on a related topic. Thus, typical symposia will be comprised of 3 or 4 talks; however, symposia with fewer speakers are permitted as well. In planning a symposium, please allow sufficient time for audience questions and discussion. Submissions must include (a) names and contact information for the chairperson(s), all presenters, (b) a symposium title and overarching abstract of no more than 200 words, and (c) individual abstracts (200 words max) for each talk to be included in the symposium.

Poster Presentations
Poster submissions may include presentations of works that are either complete or in progress (e.g., studies for which data collection is well under way, but for which full results are not yet available at the time of submission). Submissions must include (a) names and contact information for all authors, (b) presentation title, and (c) an abstract of no more than 200 words describing the rationale, methods, results, and implications of the work to be presented.

Number of Submissions
There is no limit to the number of submissions on which a presenter may be an author. However, anyone submitting an abstract may be first author on only one oral presentation. There is no limit to the number of first-authored poster abstract submissions.

Submission Withdrawals
If it is necessary to withdraw a submission, please notify the Program Chair as soon as possible.

Abstract Submission Details and Deadline
The deadline for all abstract submissions is January 21, 2013. Please prepare your submission using the appropriate abstract submission form posted on the ARP website. Submit all materials via email to ARPsubmissions2013@gmail.com. Please follow the guidelines included in the submission forms. Abstracts that do not follow these guidelines will be returned to the authors.

2013 ARP conference: June 20-22 in Charlotte, NC

This June, ARP heads to North Carolina to experience a bit of Southern hospitality in the Queen City. This year's program will include symposia, plenary speakers, and poster sessions presenting the best research in personality psychology.

One of the hallmarks of the ARP meetings is the number of opportunities they provide for informal sharing of ideas between sessions, during receptions, and over dinner. Our venue, the Charlotte Marriott City Center (www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/cltcc-charlotte-marriott-city-center/) located in the Central Uptown business district, will provide us with unique opportunities for informal interactions with colleagues from around the world. From the opening reception to the final gala dinner at the Mint Museum, attendees will find plenty of chances to interact and share ideas with other researchers.

Charlotte, the recent host of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, offers a wide variety of fine restaurants, landmarks, and activities for conference attendees and their families to enjoy. The NC Blumenthal Performing Arts Center (www.blumenthalcenter.org/), the Mint Museum (www.mintmuseum.org/visit/mint-museum-uptown), Discovery Place Science Museum (www.discoveryplace.org/), and the Carolina Panthers' Bank America Stadium are all located within a few blocks of the conference hotel. For NASCAR enthusiasts, the NASCAR Hall of Fame (www.nascarhall.com/) and Charlotte Motor Speedway are nearby. For those who prefer rollercoasters to stock cars, Carowinds Theme Park (www.carowinds.com) is a short drive away.

The temperature in June averages a summery 80 degrees. Charlotte's location makes it an ideal jumping off place for an extended break, so bring the family and start your summer vacation here. The stunning Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains, the beautiful Carolina coastline, Charleston, Savannah, and Atlanta are all just a few hours away.

Travel to ARP couldn't be easier this year. Only nine miles from our conference hotel is Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT), a national hub for US Airways which offers more than 600 daily flights and nonstop service to over a hundred cities worldwide. Affordable shuttle service is available from the airport to our hotel in downtown Charlotte. Taxis and rental cars are also widely available.

We plan to post the call for proposals in the next 10 days or so, so be on the lookout. We look forward to seeing y'all in Charlotte!

-The 2013 ARP Biennial Meeting Committee (Mike Furr, William Fleeson, Jana Spain, and Dustin Wood)

Call for Programs: ARP Conference

Building on the success of the first standalone meeting in 2009, the ARP Program Committee is soliciting abstracts for presentations at the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, which is scheduled to take place Thursday, June 16, to Saturday, June 18, 2011, in Riverside, California. The program will include a provocative slate of invited speakers as well as symposium and posters selected in response to this open call. More details of the meeting can be found at the following URL: http://www.personality-arp.org/riverside1.html
The ARP Executive Board recently drafted a white paper—“The Grand Challenges of Personality and Individual Differences for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science”—that was developed and submitted in response to a call from the National Science Foundation. The full text of the white paper can be found on the ARP website. In short, the Board identified the key, broad questions in the psychological study of personality as follows:

1. What are the primary dimensions of personality and ability, and how can they best be measured?
2. What are the origins of these individual differences?
3. What are the psychological processes that underlie individual differences in personality?
4. To what degree and in what ways is personality stable, variable, and changeable across the lifespan?
5. What are the behavioral implications of personality and how do these implications vary with situational circumstances?
6. What are the long‐term implications of personality for important life outcomes and how do these implications vary according to the nature of physical, social and cultural environment?

Although there is no official “theme” for this upcoming meeting, these Grand Challenges are presented here to inspire prospective presenters. The overriding goal of the Program Committee is to develop a slate of presentations that broadly reflects the diversity of basic questions facing our discipline, including (but not limited to) these six.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTERS
Two formats are available for submissions: Symposia and Posters. The Program Committee will make a final selection of presentations based on quality, balance of content, and diversity, broadly speaking, in the overall conference program. Submissions not accepted for oral presentation will be considered for presentation as individual posters unless the authors stipulate otherwise. The first author is expected to give the oral presentation or be available at the poster.
Symposia
Symposia are 90 minutes in length and include presentations from a maximum of 4 speakers, including an optional discussant, on a related topic. Thus, typical symposia will be comprised of 3 talks plus a discussant or 4 talks with no discussant; however, symposia with fewer speakers are permitted as well. In planning a symposium, please allow sufficient time for audience questions and discussion. Submissions must include (a) names and contact information for the chairperson(s), all presenters, and the discussant (if applicable), (b) a symposium title and overarching abstract of no more than 200 words, and (c) individual abstracts (200 words max) for each talk to be included in the symposium. Please address in the overarching abstract how Q&A/discussion will be integrated into the symposium.
Poster PresentationsPoster submissions may include presentations of works that are either complete or in progress (e.g., studies for which data collection is well under way, but for which full results are not yet available at the time of submission). Submissions must include (a) names and contact information for all authors, (b) presentation title, and (c) an abstract of no more than 200 words describing the rationale, methods, results, and implications of the work to be presented.
Graduate student poster presenters may elect to have their abstracts considered for the Rising Stars Symposium, which will provide the opportunity for the top poster authors to present their work orally rather than by poster. To be considered for the Rising Stars Symposium, presenters must describe a completed project and submit an extended abstract of no more than 1,000 words (which can include tables, figures, and references) detailing the rationale, methods, results, and implications of the work. Presenters also must submit a current CV. Rising Stars will be selected by the Program Committee based on the quality of the work described in the abstract and the quality of their academic records. Potential candidates must be enrolled in graduate school at the time of abstract submission.
Number of SubmissionsThere is no limit to the number of submissions on which a presenter may be an author. However, anyone submitting an abstract may be first author on only one oral presentation (discussant roles are exempted from this limit). There is no limit to the number of first-authored poster abstract submissions.
Submission WithdrawalsIf it is necessary to withdraw a submission, please notify the Program Chair as soon as possible.
Abstract Submission Details and DeadlineThe deadline for all abstract submissions is January 21, 2011. Please prepare your submission using the appropriate abstract templates. For the symposium template, click here. For the poster template, click here. Submit all materials via email to arp2011submissions@gmail.com. Please follow the templates: Abstracts that do not follow the template will be returned to authors.

SPSP Conference: January 27-29, San Antonio, TX

The annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology will be Jan 27-29 in San Antonio, TX. Submissions open June 14 and close July 20. Personality has been well-represented at this conference in the past and we hope many ARP members will consider submitting a symposium or poster and keep up our high profile! See http://www.spspmeeting.org/ for more information.

ARP’s next Meeting: June 16-19 2011 in Riverside, California

If you were not at the first stand-alone meeting of ARP, in Evanston, Illinois in July of last year, then ask somebody who was. You will hear great things. Exciting research was presented by the best people in the field in a well-organized series of symposia and posters but the most important action, as always, occurred in the hallways, bars and restaurants as colleagues got together and exchanged ideas informally. Next year we plan to build on that success at our second biannual meeting in Riverside, California, on Thursday, June 16 to Saturday, June 18, 2011. Sessions will run all day on Friday the 17th and Saturday the 18th and will include symposia, plenary speakers, and plenty of room for posters. Mark your calendar now.

Riverside is one of the old cities of Southern California, with historic architecture including the stunning Mission Inn, which is one of our conference hotels. The other hotel is the downtown Marriott, a modern high-rise across the street from the Convention Center, which will be our primary venue. (If you decide to make your reservations early, phone the hotels -- do not make your reservation over the internet -- and be sure to mention ARP for a special rate.)

A survey taken after the Evanston meeting showed that while attendees were thrilled overall, they wished there had been more opportunities for informal social interaction. In response, the Riverside meeting will include an opening poolside reception at the Marriott on Thursday evening, a second reception on Friday evening in the convention center, and coffee breaks and lunches on Friday and Saturday. All this will be included in the registration fee. In addition, an optional gala dinner Saturday night will be held in one of the spectacular historic rooms in the Mission Inn.

Riverside is only 15 miles from Ontario International Airport (not to be confused with the Ontario in Canada), and both hotels will offer free shuttle service to conference attendees. Los Angeles International Airport is about 1 hr, 15 minutes away – fortunately, according to a recent survey, Los Angeles is one of the least expensive places in the world to rent a car, and the hotels are providing free parking.

Come early or stay late, if you can, and bring the family. Riverside is only a half-hour drive from Disneyland, a half-hour from the desert (and Palm Springs), and an hour from the beach. It can be hot in Riverside in June, but the area is also known for its “June Gloom” that can bring a high fog that cools things down and does not lift until noon. Watch your in-box for further information, soon, about hotels, registration, and participating in the program. This is a meeting you don’t want to miss.

Third Biennial Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology

The Third Biennial Symposium on Personality and Social Psychology will be held in Warsaw, Poland, on September 22-25, 2010. The symposium will highlight recent multidisciplinary advances that have influenced psychological science. Additional information can be found at http://www.bspsp.edu.pl/.