Personality Psychology Podcast
Episodes
#61 Paper Spotlight with Michael Krämer
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this paper spotlight episode, Rebekka Weidmann speaks with Michael Krämer about his recent publication in the Journal of Personality and Social Ps...
#60 Personality and trauma with Stephen Asatsa
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Stephen Asatsa discusses his work on trauma and personality with Lisanne de Moor. He shares recent insights from his work on mour...
#59 Open Science with Simine Vazire
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lisanne de Moor talks with Simine Vazire about the history, development, and future of Open Science in the field of personalty psycho...
#58 Regulating Behaviour and Affect
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elliot Berkman, Kaitlyn Werner and Andero Uusberg are all experts in the fields of self-regulation and affect regulation. In this episode, they define...
#57 Paper Spotlight: A Mathematical Model of Person Judgment with Daniel Leising
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rebekka Weidmann speaks with Daniel Leising about his recent publication in Personality Science, titled “A Mathematical Model of Pe...
#56 Leaving academia with Kate Rogers, Amy Summerville, and Tal Yarkoni
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode that was recorded with a live audience, Lisanne de Moor speaks with Kate Rogers, Amy Summerville, and Tal Yarkoni about their decision...
#55 Personality in the forensic system and for forensic outcomes with Estelle Moore and Martin Sellbom
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Estelle Moore and Martin Sellbom discuss with Lisanne de Moor the role of personality in forensic research and practice. They describ...
#54 Values with Anat Bardi and Laura Parks-Leduc
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Anat Bardi and Laura Parks-Leduc join Rebekka Weidmann to discuss their research on values. They delve into their unique and shared d...
#53 Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Personality with incoming editor Matthias Ziegler and outgoing editor René Mõttus
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lisanne de Moor talks with Matthias Ziegler and René Mõttus about the change in editorship at the European Journal of Personality a...
#52 Personality and education with Jennifer Meyer and Jennifer Symonds
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During this episode, Lisanne de Moor talked with Jennifer Meyer and Jennifer Symonds about the links between personality and education – and the dif...
#51 AI and digital personality footprints, with Sandra Matz and Michal Kosinski
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
René Mõttus talks to Sandra Matz and Michal Kosinski about the use of our digital footprints and AI in personality research and how this can be put ...
#50 A 4th year review with Lisanne de Moor, René Mõttus, and Rebekka Weidmann
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the three hosts reminisce about the past four years of the podcast—their favorite episodes, honorable mentions, and important lesso...
#49 Personality development in early life with Filip de Fruyt
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lisanne de Moor spoke with Filip De Fruyt about his career-long commitment to studying personality development in early life and the ...
#48 The jingle jangle jungle of psychological measures, with Ruben Arslan and Farid Anvari
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Much of psychological science is about measurement. But are we any good at it? How could we do (even) better? Ruben Arslan and Farid Anvari argue that...
#47 The relaunch of the journal Personality Science with Jaap Denissen
04 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jaap Denissen, the new editor-in-chief of Personality Science, discusses the journal's recent relaunch with Rebekka Weidmann. Jaap sh...
#46 Community-engaged research with LGBTQ+ communities with Nic Weststrate
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rebekka Weidmann spoke with Nic Weststrate about how he incorporates different, but less represented methods in his research with LGB...
#45 Counterdispositional behavior with Evy Kuijpers
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In our daily lives, we may come across many situations in which we act in ways that are different from our typical personality. In this episode, Lisan...
#44 Loneliness with Marlies Maes, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Marcus Mund, and Susanne Bücker
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Loneliness has received a lot of attention—especially since the Covid-19 pandemic. In this episode, Rebekka Weidmann speaks with loneliness experts ...
#43 Paper Spotlight with Theo Klimstra and Kate McLean
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rebekka Weidmann spoke with Theo Klimstra and Kate McLean, the two authors of a recently accepted Target Article in the European Jour...
#42 What makes personality science useful, with Bill Revelle and Bob Hogan
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
René Mõttus talks to Bill Revelle and Bob Hogan who are well respected personality researchers in the field. They argue that the main use of persona...
#41 Creativity with Rodica Damian and Andreea Sutu
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Creative products—paintings, poems, but also innovative ideas like the invention of the wheel—help societies move forward. As such, it is no surpr...
#40 Paper Spotlight with David Hughes and Paul Irwing
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lisanne de Moor spoke with David Hughes and Paul Irwing, two of the authors of a recent publication in the European Journal of Person...
#39 Life events and personality change with Wiebke Bleidorn and Chris Hopwood
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many lay people and scientists think that life events can change personality traits. But proving or disproving this has been surprisingly challenging....
#38 How to do the most good? Effective altruism, animals, and future risks with Lucius Caviola
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lucius Caviola discusses his psychological research on effective altruism and how people can be encouraged to give more effectively. ...
#37 Sense of purpose with Gabrielle Pfund
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever pondered about your purpose? In this episode, we talked with Gabrielle Pfund about sense of purpose. What does it mean to have a sense o...
#36 Personality change interventions with Mathias Allemand, Gabriel Olaru, and Christoph Flückiger
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There is a lot of interest in the idea that people can voluntarily change their personality traits. René Mõttus talks to Mathias Allemand, Gabriel O...
#35 Personality and aging with Flavia Chereches, Denis Gerstorf, Eileen Graham, and Dan Mroczek
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lisanne de Moor talks with four researchers in the field of personality and aging about common trends in personality change into old ...
#34 Goals and motivations with Marie Hennecke and Jana Nikitin
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Marie Hennecke and Jana Nikitin talk about their research on goals and motivations. Specifically, they discuss why goals and motivati...
#33 Paper Spotlight with Emily Willroth
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is a good life? And can people have it? A recent European Journal of Personality paper authored by Emily Willroth and colleagues explored this qu...
#32 Narrative identity with Jonathan Adler, Kate McLean, and Monisha Pasupathi
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lisanne de Moor talks with three experts on what narrative identity is, what important contributions it makes to the field of persona...
#31 Attachment, optimism, and honesty with Bill Chopik
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Personality research occupies itself with not only the Big Five traits but a myriad of other important constructs. Bill Chopik talks in this episode a...
#30 Personality states with Gabriella Harari, Kai Horstmann, and Whitney Ringwald
28 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many researchers like to think of personalities as patterns of dynamic states. Thanks to technological advances, they can now measure the states and b...
#29 Causal inference with Michael Grosz
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Michael Grosz talks about what causal inference is, how difficult it is to test in personality psychology, and why he doesn't give up...
#28 Big Five vs. HEXACO with Colin DeYoung, Isabel Thielmann, Luke Smillie, and Reinout de Vries
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode moderated by Lisanne de Moor, Colin DeYoung, Isabel Thielmann, Luke Smillie, and Reinout de Vries discuss personality traits and trait...
#27 Geography and personality with Fritz Götz, Elisa Militaru, and Markus Jokela
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does geography have to do with personality? In this episode, Rebekka Weidmann speaks with Fritz Götz, Elisa Militaru, and Markus Jokela about st...
#26 Spirituality and religiosity with Julie Exline
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Exline is an expert in studying spirituality and religiosity. For this episode, Julie talked with Rebekka Weidmann how she came to study spiritu...
#25 Behaviour genetics with Michel Nivard
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michel Nivard and René Mõttus discuss classical and modern behaviour genetics, and why much of personality genetics is no longer focused on finding ...
#24 Personality, doomsday prepping, science denial, and being wrong with Adam Fetterman
05 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lisanne de Moor chats with Adam Fetterman about his work on the role of personality and beliefs in shaping people’s behavior in con...
#23 Personality: universalism and cultural context with Moin Syed
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Personality psychology is an exciting field of research. However, as we learn in Moin Syed’s presentation, this excitement has been dampened by a hy...
#22 Interviews at the 20th European Conference on Personality in Madrid
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, we talked to ten researchers at the 20th European Conference on Personality (#ECP20) in Madrid, including Anna Hakobjanyan, Jérome ...
#21 Personality and health with Nick Turiano, Damaris Aschwanden, and Yannick Stephan
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode's guests were Nick Turiano, Damaris Aschwanden, and Yannick Stephan, three experts in personality and health psychology, who talked with ...
#20 Post-traumatic growth with Laura Blackie and Eranda Jayawickreme
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many people believe that traumatic experiences are often followed by psychological growth. What does not kill us, makes us stronger, right? Laura Bl...
#19 Paper Spotlight with Emily Willroth and Brett Ford
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
René Mõttus talks with Emily Willroth and Brett Ford about their recently published paper in the European Journal of Personality entitled: "Emotiona...
#18 Personality and psychopathology with Bob Krueger, Odilia Laceulle, and Johannes Zimmerman
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lisanne de Moor talked with three experts about a dimensional approach to conceptualizing and measuring psychopathology, and the HiT...
#17 Paper Spotlight with Paul Eastwick
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rebekka Weidmann talks with Paul Eastwick about his recently accepted paper in the European Journal of Personality entitled: "Predicting Romantic Inte...
#16 Self-esteem with Ulrich Orth, Ketaki Diwan, and Lorenzo Filosa
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lisanne de Moor speaks with Ulrich Orth, Ketaki Diwan, and Lorenzo Filosa, three self-esteem researchers, about what self-esteem is, why it has attrac...
#15 Intelligence with Ian Deary
26 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
René Mõttus speaks with Ian Deary, who has published many hundreds of articles on intelligence and personality traits, alongside several books. They...
#14 Psychopathology, authenticity, sustainability, and veganism with Chris Hopwood
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rebekka Weidmann speaks with Chris Hopwood about his research on personality and psychopathology, and also his work on authenticity a...
#13 Personality science and helping people to change, with Patrick Hill
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Hill has studied many topics, including purpose in life, gratitude, health, and personality change. In this episode, Patrick spoke with René ...
#12 Diversity and inclusiveness with Alexandria West, Hrag Vosgerichian, and Khatuna Martskvishvili
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the 2021 EAPP Day, we conducted a live panel discussion with Alexandria West, Hrag Vosgerichian, and Khatuna Martskvishvili and discussed how we ca...
#11 Adolescent personality with Jenny Wagner, Eva Bleckmann, Larissa Wieczorek, and Naemi Brandt
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lisanne de Moor spoke with Jenny Wagner, Eva Bleckmann, Larissa Wieczorek, and Naemi Brandt about their research on adolescent personality. They discu...
#10 The past, present, and controversies of personality trait psychology with Jeff McCrae
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
René Mõttus spoke with one of the most influential personality psychologists in recent decades, Robert "Jeff" McCrae. They discussed the history and...
#9 Narcissism with Mitja Back, Carolyn Morf, and Joshua Miller
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rebekka Weidmann talked with Mitja Back, Carolyn Morf, and Joshua Miller about narcissism—what it is, how it manifests in people’...
#8 Morality and moral development with Jessie Sun
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lisanne de Moor talked with Jessie Sun about morality and moral development, and how to conceptualize and measure it in research. In...
#7 Personality development with Ted Schwaba, Eva Asselmann, and Chris Soto
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rebekka Weidmann talked with Ted Schwaba, Eva Asselmann, and Chris Soto about their research on personality development across the li...
#6 A chat with Joanne Chung
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lisanne de Moor talks with Joanne Chung about how she became interested in personality psychology, her past, present, and future work...
#5 Subjective well-being with Susanne Bücker, Rich Lucas, and Samantha Heintzelman
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rebekka Weidmann talked to Susanne Bücker, Richard Lucas, and Samantha Heintzelman about subjective well-being across the life span,...
#4 Personality in the work context with Joanna Sosnowska
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Joanna Sosnowska and René Mõttus discuss dynamic models of personality and their usefulness for describing and understanding the ps...
#3 Personality structure and change with Emorie Beck
27 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear a presentation by Emorie Beck on her research on nomothetic and idiographic approaches to personality structure and change, c...
#2 Personalized approaches to personality with Aidan Wright
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Lisanne de Moor talked to Aidan Wright about how personality can be measured from a more personalized angle, what such an approach ca...
#1 Introducing personality psychology with Julia Rohrer & Jaap Denissen
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our podcast! For this episode, René Mõttus talked to Julia Rohrer and Jaap Denissen about what personality is, how personality psychology...