2025 EAPP Award Winners

The Executive Committee of the European Association for Personality Psychology (EAPP) is pleased to announce the list of 2025 EAPP award winners:

2025 EAPP Dissertation Award: Antonis Koutsoumpis

The dissertation ‘Multimodal personality assessment from audio, visual, and verbal features’ by Antonis Koutsoumpis provides an excellent theoretical and methodological contribution to the field. Among other contributions, it sheds light on individual differences using various audio, visual, and verbal features, and highlights circumstances under which respective personality assessments are more or less appropriate. The conducted studies show a high level of theorizing, scientific rigor, and potential use for practice, making this a well-rounded dissertation overall.

2025 EAPP Early Achievement Award: Emorie D. Beck

Prof. Beck’s theoretical and empirical contributions to understanding personality are innovative and potentially ground-breaking. Her work has established her as a leader in the integration of idiographics and nomothetics in personality science. In particular, her focus on idiographic systems that bridge traditional work on personality traits and the single case has been unique and creative. She has used cutting-edge computational and statistical methods to advance personality theory by reformulating long-standing questions (e.g. instead of asking if person or situation matters more, asking for whom). Her work gives hope for the development of personalized approaches to designing interventions and therapies. Her other impactful work demonstrated the predictive power of personality characteristics across a range of long-term social, health, work, and civic outcomes, and highlighted the importance of personality traits as modifiable risk factors for long-term outcomes to target in intervention. Her work has also been featured in a number of excellent high-tier publications.

2025 EAPP Mid-Career Award: Christopher Soto

Prof. Soto’s body of work has made a lasting and transformative impact on personality psychology. His contributions to personality assessment, lifespan development, and the study of personality’s influence on life outcomes are highly influential, shaping the trajectory of research in these areas. These contributions appear in some of the best outlets in both general and personality psychology. Particularly impressive are his efforts to build the nomological network of the Big Five personality trait domains and extend it beyond the English language. Prof. Soto’s research clearly underscores the central role that personality plays in shaping individuals’ lives and has helped to solidify the field’s understanding of these relationships.

2025 EAPP Life-Time Achievement Award: Daniel Mroczek

Prof. Daniel Mroczek is a distinguished scholar whose groundbreaking research on lifespan personality development and its connections to health and well-being has profoundly influenced the field of personality psychology. His legacy of innovative methodological advancements continues to inspire and guide future generations of researchers. The EAPP is proud to honor his exceptional achievements with the Life-Time Achievement Award.

2025 EAPP Leadership and Service Award: Reinout de Vries

Reinout de Vries is a highly distinguished scholar who has made numerous and important contributions to the field of personality psychology. He is awarded the EAPP Leadership and Service Award because of his exceptional service, dedication, and impactful leadership to early career researchers (including his own students), the EAPP community, and the larger field of personality psychology. He has been devoted to strengthening personality psychology in many ways, and the award serves to recognize his exceptional accomplishments.

2025 EAPP-EASP Award: Elisabetta Crocetti
Elisabetta Crocetti is an exceptional scholar whose work sits at the dynamic intersection of social,
personality, and developmental psychology. She has developed an innovative theoretical framework,
specifically in the domain of identity formation, that has advanced our understanding of how
individuals shape and are shaped by their social worlds. Her research consistently bridges disciplinary
boundaries, offering integrative insights into the complex interplay between individual characteristics
and contextual factors such as culture, peer relations, and societal expectations. Elisabetta Crocetti’s
work is distinguished by its commitment to inclusivity and relevance, employing diverse samples
across geographic regions, age groups, and cultural backgrounds, and addressing pressing societal
challenges such as youth marginalization and civic engagement. She utilizes a rich methodological
toolkit, including longitudinal and cross-cultural designs. Her contributions have yielded substantial
social impact, guiding interventions and policies aimed at fostering adaptive identity development
and social integration. Elisabetta Crocetti exemplifies the values recognized by the EAPP-EASP award
and meets all selection criteria with distinction.