Association for Research in Personality


The Association for Research in Personality is an American learned society dedicated to advancing research into personality. 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 Brent Roberts, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Past presidents of the ARP, in reverse chronological order, are as follows: