Conferences

European Conferences on Personality

The EAPP organizes biennial conferences, called “European Conference on Personality” consisting of symposia addressing various topics of interest to the Association, paper presentations, poster sessions, invited lectures, and other forms of exchange that may be fruitful to the advancement of personality psychology. At each conference, agreements are made about the location and the organizational responsibilities of future conferences.

ECP22 will take place from 21st to 24th July 2026 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Organizer of the 22nd European Conference on Personality

(ex officio)

Dr. René Mõttus
University of Edinburgh (UK)

René Mõttus obtained his PhD from the University of Tartu in 2009. He has been working at the University of Edinburgh since 2010, currently as Reader. René’s interests span a broad range of topics within individual differences psychology and he has authored or co-authored nearly a hundred publications. How can individual differences be measures? How do they emerge and develop as a result of genes’ interplay with environmental circumstances? How do they play out in individuals’ everyday lives and important life outcomes? René has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality and European Journal of Personality and is currently the Editor of the European Journal of Personality. René is a co-host of the Personality Psychology Podcast and explains psychology in the People Unexplained blog of Psychology Today.

EAPP Conferences