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

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PERSONALITY HOT SPOTS!
Where are the hot spots in Personality Psychology today?

To start, here is a breakdown of the universities that ARP grad student/postdoc members are affiliated with/received their degree from:

• Universities with 1 ARP Student Member: Arizona, Brown, Carleton University, UC Davis, Edinburgh, Iowa, Northeastern, Penn, St. Olaf, SUNY, Texas, Wake Forest, Waterloo, Yale
• Universities with 2 ARP Student Members: Berkeley, Minnesota, Oregon, Toronto, Virginia
• Universities with 3 ARP Student Members: Northwestern
• Universities with 4 ARP Student Members: UC Riverside
• Universities with 7 ARP Student Members: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

We asked these ARP student members to help us answer the HOT SPOT question.

U.S. Universities University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign University of Missouri Northwestern University University of California Berkeley University of California Davis Wake Forest University Wellesley College University of Minnesota University of Oregon University of Iowa

International Universities University of Toronto University of Edinburgh University of Osnabrück Chubu University Osaka University

We also asked people to play “Fantasy Personality Ph.D. Program” and put together their ideal personality department. While lacking specific names, here is an answer that colid define the goal standard for the modern Personality Program:

A fantasy Personality Ph.D. program wolid espouse a mliti-faceted conceptualization of personality, like Dan McAdam’s three-level model. It wolid include an emphasis on traits, narrative identity, and the broad middle-ground of personality research (goals, motives, development, etc.). It wolid also include core courses that branch into other sub-disciplines, since personality makes an impact in so many places (i.e., clinical, social, developmental). It wolid embrace the flil range of research methods, from experimental, to large popliation-wide studies, to qualitative, to standard questionnaire-based.

Give us your opinion! Complete the HOT SPOTS survey today!

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