We invite you to attend the first stand-alone conference for the Association for Research in Personality (ARP), to be held on July 16-18, 2009 in Evanston, IL. Marking ARP’s independence from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), the conference will celebrate the rich and vibrant science of personality psychology. We believe that personality psychology is situated at the center of the behavioral sciences – a core discipline whose scope ranges from neurons to life narratives. With the major advances our field has enjoyed over the past two decades, personality psychology is now able to reach out and make important intellectual connections to cognitive and affective neuroscience, the study of intelligence and human information processing, developmental psychology, life course studies, cultural psychology, biographical studies, clinical psychology, industrial-organizational psychology, the health sciences, the communication sciences, economics, and social psychology. To that end, the conference will take as its theme personality’s rich connections to other fields and disciplines.
As an added treat, the 2009 conference for ARP will be held in conjunction with the biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID). Whereas the ARP meeting will run from Thursday night (July 16) through Saturday (July 19), the ISSID meeting will begin Saturday night (July 19) and run through Wednesday morning (July 22). We hope that you will be able to extend your stay in Evanston for a day or two more, to take in some of the ISSID conference.
Home to Northwestern University, Evanston, IL is a beautiful lakefront community just north of Chicago. Chicago is famed for its architecture, museums, symphony, jazz clubs, restaurants, shopping, and its incomparable lakefront.
Dan McAdams,
Program Chair for the Program Committee
