ARP Conference Call for Submissions
Jennifer Tackett and Marc Fournier
REMEMBER TO SAVE THE DATE! We are excited to remind everyone that the next ARP conference will be held in St. Louis, Missouri from June 11th to 13th, 2015. The conference will take place in the Chase Park Plaza Hotel, located in the Central West End neighborhood, a vibrant area with lots of shops and restaurants. The Chase is home to two popular local restaurants, as well as a salon spa, a fitness center, an outdoor pool, and a five-screen movie theater (popcorn, anyone?). The Chase is on the city’s MetroLink subway line, and across the street from Forest Park, one of the largest urban parks in the United States (bigger than Central Park!). The park has lots of trails for runners and cyclists (there are bike rentals nearby). Forest Park also has many free attractions, including the St. Louis Art Museum, the St. Louis Zoo, the St. Louis Science Center, and the Missouri History Museum. And of course, St. Louis is home to Washington University, where you can’t go ten yards without bumping into a personality psychologist. In other words, St. Louis has something for everyone!
The Program Committee is hoping to solicit symposia and posters that cover a broad range of substantive topics including, but is not limited to, research on individual differences in personality, broadly conceived, including research on both their structure and their 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, narrative identity, and personality assessment. In short, the ARP conference seeks out a slate of presentations that broadly reflects the diversity of basic questions facing our discipline—and your innovative and diverse contributions to personality research is what makes this happen.
In addition, we are pleased to announce that the program will feature a presidential symposium, the Rising Stars symposium to showcase the field’s stellar young talent, a data blitz session, an invited symposium sponsored by the European Association for Personality Psychology, and award talks from the Tanaka award winners and the Murray award winner, Dean Keith Simonton. More details of the meeting can be found at the following URL:
http://www.personality-arp.org/conference.htm
We look forward to seeing you here in 2015!
The ARP 2015 Program Committee:
-Jennifer Tackett, co-chair
-Marc Fournier, co-chair
-Jon Adler
-Wiebke Bleidorn
-Robin Edelstein
-Fred Oswald
The ARP 2015 local arrangements committee:
-Simine Vazire
-Dan Ozer
-Lynne Cooper
-Josh Jackson
-Randy Larsen
-Tom Oltmanns
-Tammy English
-With special thanks to the Wash U personality/social graduate students!