In "The Philosophy and Psychology of Character" (ps.psychopen.eu/index.php/ps/a…), Christian Miller (Christian Miller) outlines how he sees philosophy and psychology contributing to the study of character and highlights where far more collaborative work needs to be done.

🎉 Still in disbelief but my first first-author pub is out now in JPSP!! "Gentrification creates social class disparities in belonging" psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-33… Takeaways...

Check out the Psych Today article about our new paper, written by Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr.!

The academe has for a long time had a severely neglected social class problem. "Children from low-SES homes were already severely underrepresented [in the academe]." "Scientists from high-SES families have 38% higher odds of becoming stars." nber.org/papers/w33063

Accepted in Communications Psychology🚨 Why are we more bored in this digital age, despite endless entertainment? In a Perspective article w/ Michael Inzlicht, we explore how digital media use might have contributed to rising boredom over the past decade. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i… /1

Heyho! Check out our newest paper on actor, partner, and similarity effects in romantic attachment and their association with well-being and health in romantic couples. Bill Chopik JSPR, also @josoperrel.bsky.social Postprint ⬇️

Emailing your co-author about the draft

It's that time of the year again. My collaborators and family are suddenly 1h closer for a week.

Now out in J Applied Psychology, a rigorous #IOPsych paper on occupational differences in #personality traits, based on 70K people, 250+ jobs and comprehensive trait assessments. You can also see which jobs match your traits (link 👇). 🧵 doi.org/10.1037/apl000… Kätlin Anni Uku Vainik

Perplexing Patterns of Personality Co-development: Findings from a 17-year Longitudinal Study of Mexican-origin Families osf.io/5pzhk/

Does SELF-CARE really work? 1K people did a 2-week intervention Ps performed 3 🥰KINDNESS🥰 acts/week either TOWARD SELF or OTHERS 1. People LIKED self-kindness > other-kindness...BUT 2. Self-kindness had ⬆️ DEPRESSION, ANXIETY! 3. Other-kindness? ⬇️ dep, anx, + loneliness!

We are back with a new episode! René Mõttus spoke with Ruben C. Arslan and Farid Anvari about the jingle jangle jungle of measurement and the unchecked proliferation of psychological tests. While there’s a lot of good in our field, there’s also room for improvement. Check it out!

New episode alert 🚨 Lisanne de Moor spoke with Filip De Fruyt about his career-long commitment to studying personality development in early life and the development of maladaptive personality traits in children. Check it out!

🚨Episode 50 is out! Join the hosts Rebekka Weidmann René Mõttus Lisanne de Moor as they reminisce on the past four years of the podcast-favourite episodes, honorable mentions, and lessons learned. They also discuss future plans, and introduce the teams newest addition Celine Strohbehn.

According to a recent paper, the vast majority of academics gain their elite status the old-fashioned way, they were born with rich parents.

A new year, a new episode! 🎉 René Mõttus spoke with Sandra Matz and Michal Kosinski about the use of our digital footprints and AI in personality research and how this can be put to practical use. Sandra Matz has just published a book on the subject called Mindmasters.

Episode 52 is out!! 🥳 Lisanne de Moor talked with Jennifer Meyer and Jennifer Symonds about the links between personality and education – and the different levels at which to address this topic. They also discuss important real-world implications of personality in education.

🚨 A new episode is out! Lisanne de Moor spoke with incoming editor-in-chief of EJP Matthias Ziegler and outgoing editor-in-chief René Mõttus about the change in editorship at the journal and how they reflect on and look ahead at their time in the role of Editor-in-Chief.

New #JPSP paper led by Alex Traut shows attachment anxiety decreases over time in women while avoidance stays stable with no partner co-development. With stellar researchers Fabian Gander, Bill Chopik, Rebekka Weidmann, Alexander Grob doi.org/10.1037/pspp00…

Episode alert 🚨 Anat Bardi and Laura Parks-Leduc discuss their research on values. They delve into definitions and research approaches, changes in values, and associations with personality traits. They also highlights established evidence about values and areas unexplored.