Personality Psychology Podcast

In this episode, Rebekka Weidmann talked to Susanne Bücker, Richard Lucas, and Samantha Heintzelman about subjective well-being across the life span, factors that can change the well-being of people including the pandemic, and typical misconceptions that people might hold.

In this episode, Joanna Sosnowska and René Mõttus discuss dynamic models of personality and their usefulness for describing and understanding the psychology of workplace. The discussion is partly based on a recent paper Joanna and her colleagues published in the European Journal of Personality, as well as an upcoming special issue co-edited by Joanna (to be published in July in the European Journal of Personality).

In this episode, we hear a presentation by Emorie Beck on her research on nomothetic and idiographic approaches to personality structure and change, couched in a historical perspective.

Aidan Wright, an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, specializes in personality psychology and psychopathology. He discusses how personality can be assessed through personalized methods, revealing the complexities of individual contexts and cultural factors. The conversation dives into challenges in research methodology, highlighting innovative techniques like Life Experience-wide Association Studies and the role of machine learning. Wright emphasizes integrating ideographic approaches to enhance our understanding of personality and interpersonal relationships.

Welcome to our podcast! For this episode, René Mõttus talked to Julia Rohrer and Jaap Denissen about what personality is, how personality psychology is unique as a field, and what its most significant achievements have been so far—but also about what is still puzzling and what can be improved for the future.