The Association for Research in Personality (abbreviated ARP) is an American

learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an discipline (academia), academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and s ...

dedicated to advancing research into

personality Personality is the characteristic sets of behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns that are formed from biological and environmental factors, and which change over time. While there is no generally agreed-upon definition of personality, mos ...

. Its mission statement does not mention specific disciplines such as social psychology or policy research, instead simply emphasizing the scientific study of personality. It was established in 2001, with David Watson as the founding president. It originally held an annual preconference before the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's annual conference. In 2009, the ARP began holding its own annual conference.

Presidents

The current president of the ARP is Wiebke Bleidorn a professor of psychology at the University of Zurich. Past presidents of the ARP, in reverse chronological order, are as follows: *Richard Lucas (psychologist), Rich Lucas (2020-2021) *Brent Roberts (2018-2019) *Dan McAdams (2016-17) *Dan Ozer (2014-15) *William Fleeson, Will Fleeson (2012-13) *David Funder (2010-11) *William Revelle, Bill Revelle (2008-09) *Julie Norem (2006-07) *Lew Goldberg (2004-05) *Paul Costa Jr (2003) *Walter Mischel (2002) *David Watson (2001)

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* {{Science-org-stub Psychology organizations based in the United States Scientific organizations established in 2001 Psychological societies