Life events and personality change

EM 8 | 2018, December 17-19 | Berlin, Germany


Information

Purpose

  • Bring together scholars with expertise in personality development and processes, assessment, behavioral genetics, and longitudinal methodology to plan more rigorous studies on life events and personality change that can address the limitations of past research. This overarching goal leads to two specific outcomes for the proposed meeting:
    • Plans for existing-data studies that can address the gaps and shortcomings of past research on life events and personality change. Ideally, these plans will take the shape of pre-registered reports that could be disseminated through the European Journal of Personality (e.g., as a special issue).
    •  One or more grant proposals for large-scale many-lab projects on life events and personality change. With this second goal, I hope to bring together expertise and knowledge from multiple labs around the world to raise funds for data collections that would provide more conclusive answers to the question of whether (and if so, which) life events are associated with personality change.

Organizers

  • Wiebke Bleidorn (University of California, Davis)

Products

  • Foundation of Personality Change Consortium, with planned follow-up meetings (e.g., in Dresden, 2019)
  • Invited paper in American Psychologist (under revision)
  • Additional papers under revision and in preparation