Conceptualizing and assessing personality: New approaches to fundamental questions

EM 9 | 2018, September 6-8 | Edinburgh, Scotland

As one outcome, the proposed meeting will provide a tentative list of concrete suggestions as to how empirical research could progress to distinguish between the correspondence and
emergence explanations of trait coalescence.
An intended outcome of the proposed meeting will be to provide a tentative list of concrete suggestions as to how empirical research could better delineate more fine-grained representations and move personality representations beyond self-report data. The latter should especially be informative with regard to measurement questions. Another desirable outcome of the meeting would be collaborative projects between the participants.