P: The Online Newsletter for Personality Science Issue 3, September 2008

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News & Announcements
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Email us at arpnewsletter@gmail.com and we will be happy to put it on our new News & Announcements "Plog".

Conference Announcements
The Occasional Temperament Conference will be held on October 17 and 18 at Dominican University of California. Details can be found at www.dominican.edu/temperamentconference

Book Announcements
Carver and Scheier's textbook "Perspectives on Personality" is now in its sixth edition (2008).
John, O. P., Robins, R. W., & Pervin, L. A. (2008). Handbook of personality: Theory and research (3rd Edition). New York: Guilford.
Robins, R. W., Fraley, R. C., & Krueger, R. F. (Eds.) (2007). Handbook of research methods in personality psychology. New York: Guilford.
Elliot, A. J. (Ed.)(2008). Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation. New York: Taylor & Francis.
Little, B.R., Salmela-Aro, K., & Phillips, S.D. (2006). Personal Project Pursuit: Goals, Action, and Human Flourishing. Psychology Press.
Gosling, S. (2008). Snoop: What your stuff says about you. Basic Books.
Moving On

• Bob Krueger has joined the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, in both the psychology and psychiatry departments, after having spent 10 years on the faculty at the University of Minnesota. He was recruited to Wash U to join both the clinical and personality/social area groups in psychology, and to strengthen the representation of behavior genetics in the psychology department, as well as to enhance collaborative connections between psychology and psychiatry.
• Pranj Mehta (University of Texas Ph.D., working with Bob Josephs) has started a post-doc at Columbia University working with Daniel Ames, Dana Carney, & Malia Mason.
• Dustin Wood (University of Illinois Ph.D., worked with Brent Roberts) is now faculty at Wake Forest University.
• Peter Harms (University of Illinois Ph.D., worked with Brent Roberts) is now a postdoc at Nebraska Business School.
• Jennifer Lodi-Smith (University of Illinois Ph.D., worked with Brent Roberts) is now a postdoc and visiting faculty at the Center for BrainHealth, University of Texas at Dallas.

Miscellaneous Announcements

• Get out the vote! Bob McGrath, Fairleigh Dickinson University, is a candidate for APA president!
• Brent Roberts was appointed as a Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar and received a bridge grant from NIA. He should be advertising for a post-doc position soon so keep your eyes locked on the Plog for more info!
  
  

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