CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
9th Biennial Meeting
June 26-28, 2025 • Hilton Orrington • Evanston, IL, USA
The ARP Program Committee is soliciting abstracts for the 9th Biennial Meeting of the Association for Research in Personality! The biennial conference is scheduled to take place from Thursday, June 26th to Saturday, June 28th in Evanston (a suburb of Chicago), IL, USA. Details about the meeting can be found at: http://www.personality-arp.org/conference/.
In addition to celebrating 25 years of ARP, the biennial conference will showcase the diverse, innovative, and rigorous research being conducted in personality science. The biennial meeting will feature programming via symposia, single presenter, idea/data blitzes, posters, and hack-a-thon sessions, along with an invited symposium sponsored by the European Association for Personality Psychology (EAPP) and award talks in honor of recent winners of the Emerging Scholar, Tanaka Dissertation, Early Career, and Murray-Helson awards. We aim to create a program that not only provides opportunities to learn about the work being conducted in all corners of the field but also promotes scholarly discourse. NEW offerings for the program this year include events aimed at promoting social connection among new and returning attendees.
The Program Committee is seeking submissions that cover a broad range of substantive topics within the field of personality and individual differences, with the goal of featuring a wide range of theoretical frameworks, research questions, samples, and methods used in personality scholarship. Your submissions to the conference are what make this happen! The deadline for all abstract submissions is January 15, 2025. Abstracts can be submitted via the following Google Form: https://tinyurl.com/arp2025. We anticipate sending notifications of decisions no later than February 15, 2025. Please also reference the detailed Submission Guidelines.
Please do not hesitate to let us know if you have questions or concerns (arp.biennial@gmail.com), and we look forward to seeing you in Evanston!
The ARP 2025 Program Committee
Olivia Atherton (Co-Chair), Bill Chopik (Co-Chair), AJ Wright, Kailey Lawson, Raffles Cowan, Tiko Yoneda, Laura Blackie, and Nic Weststrate (Logistics Committee Chair)
LOGISTICS UPDATE
After the 8th Biennial Meeting of the Association for Research in Personality in 2023, we asked for your feedback, and you delivered… both generously and generatively! You expressed your concerns and provided many exciting ideas for us to consider – thank you! The Logistics Committee is now working closely with the Program Committee and the staff at Hilton Orrington to ensure your conference experience is top notch. There are a few improvements we can provide an update on now. Hilton Orrington has been hard at work with facilities repairs and upgrades. We are thrilled to report that all elevators have been repaired and are fully operational. The guest bedrooms and lobby have been renovated, and the conference space has been refreshed. With the Grand Ballroom construction now complete, we will be able to accommodate all conference events on site at the Hilton Orrington. Concurrent programming will occur on one floor to reduce/eliminate the need to travel between floors, and, regardless, we will schedule adequate time between sessions for breaks, refreshments, travel, and chats. The facilities will allow us to comfortably accommodate 3-4 session tracks on one floor with the opportunity for expansion to a second floor depending on the number of submissions we receive. We are currently exploring the possibility of opt-in boxed lunches and a seated conference dinner to minimize food waste and accommodate your diverse dietary needs. We will continue sifting through your feedback in the months to come. All in all, things are looking up for ARP 2025!
If you have other logistics things you want me and the Logistics Committee to know or be thinking about, send an email to nicwest@uic.edu. We’re happy to hear from you.
Nic Weststrate, Logistics Committee Chair
Information from Prior Conferences
2023 – Evanston, IL (Program)
2021 – virtual conference (Program)
2019 – Grand Rapids, MI (Short Program | Full Program)
2017 – Sacramento, CA (Program)
2015 – St. Louis, MO (Program)
2013 – Charlotte, NC (Program)
2011 – Riverside, CA (Program)
2009 – Evanston, IL (Program)
2008 – Albuquerque, NM (Program)
2007 – Memphis, TN (Program)
2006 – Palm Springs, CA (Program)
2005 – New Orleans, LA (Program)
2004 – Austin, TX (Program)
2003 – Los Angeles, CA (Program)
2002 – Savannah, GA (Program)
2001 – San Antonio, TX (Program)
2000 – Nashville, TN (Program)