
#31 Attachment, optimism, and honesty with Bill Chopik
Personality research occupies itself with not only the Big Five traits but a myriad of other important constructs. Bill Chopik talks in this episode about his research on attachment, optimism, and hon...
14 Jun 202342min

#30 Personality states with Gabriella Harari, Kai Horstmann, and Whitney Ringwald
Many researchers like to think of personalities as patterns of dynamic states. Thanks to technological advances, they can now measure the states and build statistical models from these measurements. O...
28 Mai 202342min

#29 Causal inference with Michael Grosz
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 on our field.
21 Apr 202339min

#28 Big Five vs. HEXACO with Colin DeYoung, Isabel Thielmann, Luke Smillie, and Reinout de Vries
In this episode moderated by Lisanne de Moor, Colin DeYoung, Isabel Thielmann, Luke Smillie, and Reinout de Vries discuss personality traits and trait models, and debate the evidence for and against t...
16 Mar 20231h 4min

#27 Geography and personality with Fritz Götz, Elisa Militaru, and Markus Jokela
What does geography have to do with personality? In this episode, Rebekka Weidmann speaks with Fritz Götz, Elisa Militaru, and Markus Jokela about studying personality from a geographical psychology a...
15 Jan 202347min

#26 Spirituality and religiosity with Julie Exline
Julie Exline is an expert in studying spirituality and religiosity. For this episode, Julie talked with Rebekka Weidmann how she came to study spirituality and religiosity, the nature of spiritual str...
5 Jan 202339min

#25 Behaviour genetics with Michel Nivard
Michel Nivard and René Mõttus discuss classical and modern behaviour genetics, and why much of personality genetics is no longer focused on finding personality genes (there are none) but using genes t...
29 Nov 202242min

#24 Personality, doomsday prepping, science denial, and being wrong with Adam Fetterman
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 contemporary phenomena such as doomsday prepping, scien...
5 Nov 202239min


















