Programme and speakers
See here for the preliminary schedule
Keynote speakers
Professor Ellen Hamaker (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
“How to study personality processes“
Professor Elliot Tucker-Drob (University of Texas at Austin, US)
“Paradigm Shift to the Genomics of the Big Five“
Professor Fred Oswald (Rice University, US)
“Bridging Personality to the Worker, the Work and the Workforce”
Invited symposia
The conference will feature a dozen invited symposia on topics ranging from artificial intelligence to personality dynamics.
Submitted contributions
The programme will also contain submitted symposia, sessions for oral presentations, and a poster session.
Submissions are now open!
As we expect many submissions and the conference programme can accommodate only so many presentations, each delegate can submit only one oral talk, either individually or as part of a symposium.
Preconference workshops
The ECP will feature two preconference workshops:
The opportunities of genomics for social sciences:
A hands-on workshop on using publicly available genomic findings (GWAS “sumstats”) to address interesting questions about personality traits, well-being, psychopathology and beyond.
Instructors: Ted Schwaba (Michigan State University) and Uku Vainik (University of Tartu).
Clarifying personality psychology with large language models
This workshop explores how large language models (LLMs) can address long-standing measurement issues in personality psychology. We will learn how semantic embeddings—vector representations of psychometric items and scales—can clarify relationships between psychological constructs. After a brief introduction to LLMs and the Hugging Face platform, participants will engage in hands-on exercises. You will learn to use a fine-tuned model to predict empirical correlations between personality items and to apply a clustering and relabeling approach to create more parsimonious and coherent personality taxonomies.
Instructor: Dirk Wulff (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
