Welcome to P5! We are delighted to accept the role of co-editors and the challenge of filling the large shoes of Brian Little and Jenn Lodi-Smith. We would like to start by thanking Brian and Jenn for their superb work in getting this newsletter started and making it a wonderful resource for the field. They deserve tremendous gratitude for blazing this new trail.

ARP has been busy! We welcome a new president, David Funder, a new journal, Social Psychological and Personality Science, two new JRP Consulting Editors—Mike Furr and Oliver Schultheiss—and news about the next ARP conference. We are excited about all of these developments.

We have tried to continue the traditions started by Brian and Jenn and hope that you will find many of the themes from previous newsletters continued here. Like Brian and Jenn, we are delighted to show off all the bustling personality work going on around the world. We are grateful to the ARP officers for contributing their news and views. We also are big fans of the young researchers’ corner, thanks to Erik Noftle and Jenn Fayard!

Be sure to check out the news about the next stand-alone ARP conference coming up June 17-19, 2011 in Riverside, CA. This is something you won’t want to miss. David Funder’s column about the conference includes many details that will entice and excite.

Speaking of the next ARP conference, the young researchers’ corner contains a link to an important survey about what young personality psychologists would like to see in terms of professional development programming at the conference. If you fit the bill, be sure to check it out and share your opinion.

Brent Roberts’s executive officer report summarizes the ARP member survey, including feedback about the first ARP stand-alone conference, held last July in Evanston, IL. Many thanks to Ruixue Zhayaong for programming the survey and managing the data .

While preparing this newsletter , we have been struck by how much effort people are willing to invest in the field. Think about the amount of work that goes into being a JRP editor, or surveying all of the ARP members, or planning the professional development programming at the ARP conference. People are stepping up and volunteering for these roles because they believe in the organization, and in the future of personality psychology. It has been tremendously heartening to see so many bright (and busy!) people giving so generously to the field.

We are very grateful to all of the contributors who have volunteered their time and expertise to this issue of P. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to Bob Hogan and Hogan Assessment Systems for their continued support of our newsletter and organization.

Cheers,
Simine and Chris