Past conferences
2006 - Athens, Greece
chair: Frosso Motti-Stefanidi
Invited Speakers
- Riemann: Genetic and environmental influences on personality
- Deary: A lifetime of intelligence
- Saucier: Toward a cross-culturally generalizable taxonomy of personality dispositions
- Masten: Personality in resilience research
- Mikulincer: The experimental study of attachment processes in adulthood: A contemporary psychodynamic approach to personality
- Schmitt: On the origins of promiscuity: How gender, personality, and culture relate to the adaptive pursuit of short-term mating strategies
- Carver: Affects associated with behavioral approach: A functional analysis
- Demetriou: Mind, personality, and emotions: Deciphering their relations
2004 – Groningen, The Netherlands
chair: Boele De Raad
Invited Speakers
- Eliasz: Inconsistency in personality: Its origins, structure, and the consequences (Presidential address)
- Borkenau: Consistency of personality
- Buunk: Personality and social comparisons
- Paunonen: Personality and the prediction of behavior
- Clark: Personality and psychopathology: A new model for DSM-V
- Hofstee: Personality: Romantic or rational?
- Church: Culture and trait psychology
- Pulkkinen: Childhood roots of adult personality
2002 – Jena, Germany
chair: Rainer Riemann
Invited speakers
- Hampson: Integrating personality and health psychology using the health behaviour model (Presidential address)
- Angleitner: Personality in adulthood: Findings from the Bielefeld Longitudinal Twin Study
- Widiger: The DSM and ICD personality disorders as maladaptive variants of common personality traits: The future of clinical diagnosis
- De Raad: Language, traits, and situations
- Hogan: Reinventing personality
- Cramer: The development of defence mechanisms, with implications for personality functioning
- Lindenberg: Personality and sociological research: A new agenda
- Caspi: (Measured) genes, (measured) environments, and behavioral development
2000 – Krakow, Poland
chair: Andrzej Eliasz
Invited speakers
- Mervielde: Childhood Personality Structure: Temperament versus the Big Five (Presidential address)
- McCrae: The Physics and Chemistry of Personality
- Hettema: The Bottom-up Approach to Personality: Arousal, Effort and Activation as Major Dimensions
- Strelau: The Place of the Construct of Arousal in Temperament Research
- Asendorpf: Three Major Prototypes of Personality Description
- Brody: Isomorphic Relations Between Intelligence and Personality
- Ackerman: Personality, Trait Complexes and Adult Intelligence
1998 – Guildford, UK
chair: Sarah Hampson
Invited speakers
- Bermudez: Personality and health-protective behaviour (Presidential address)
- Mischel: Toward a unified cumulative science of personality
- Ten Berge: Some recent developments in some classical psychometric problems
- Gray: The neuropsychology of panic and anxiety
- Fernandez-Ballesteros: Emotional expression and breast cancer
- Diener: Temperament, life circumstances, and subjective well-being
- Helson: The individual's adult development
1996 – Gent, Belgium
chair: Ivan Mervielde
Invited speakers
- Nystedt: Who should rule? Does personality matter? (Presidential Address)
- Costa: How personality feels
- Amelang: Personality, stress and illness: Facts and fiction in the prediction of cancer and coronary heart disease
- Sternberg: Styles of thought: An interface between personality and intelligence
- Van Heck: Contextual factors in personality-disease research
- Plomin: Quantitative genetics, molecular genetics and personality
- Spielberger: Measuring state and trait depression
1994 – Madrid, Spain
chair: Jose Bermudez
Invited speakers
- Hofstee: Who knows best about personality? (Presidential Address)
- Avia: Personality and positive emotions
- Íhman: Anxiety and the unconscious: An information processing analysis
- Eysenck, M.W.: Trait anxiety: A modular approach
- Pervin: The three disciplines of personality and the problem of volition
1992 – Groningen, The Netherlands
chair: Wim Hofstee
Invited speakers
- Caprara: Reflections on the recent history and present challenges of personality psychology (Presidential Address)
- Baltes: Toward a psychology of wisdom
- Buss: Strategic individual differences: An evolutionary perspective on personality traits
- Goldberg: The structure of personality traits (or the magical number five, plus or minus zero
- Pawlik: Don't worry. Traits exist: New evidence on interindividual consistency from infield observation datav
- Pedersen: Genetics of personality
- Strelau: Gerhard Heymans - The pioneer of empirical studies on temperament
1990 – Ariccia-Genzano, Italy
chair: Gian-Vittorio Caprara
Invited speakers
- Angleitner: Personality psychology: Trends and developments (Presidential Address)
- Magnusson: Back to the phenomena
- Stelmack: What event-related potentials can tell us about personality
- Jervolino: What a minister of education expects from personality psychology
- De Groot: Intuition as dispositional concept
1988 – Stockholm, Sweden
chair: Lars Nystedt
Invited speakers
- Vorwerg: The integrative function of research in personality psychology for the development of psychology
- Dazzi: Personality research in a historical perspective
1986 – Gdansk, Poland
chair: Janusz Reykowski
Invited speakers
- Tomaszewski: Regulation and steering in human activity
- Kornadt: Why motives can be better understood if seen as parts of the personality
- Rusalov: Biological foundations of individual differences
- Kline: Factor analysis and personality theory
1984 – Bielefeld, Germany
chair: Alois Angleitner
Invited speakers
- Thomae: Response hierarchies to difficult areas of life-stress: A contribution to the person-situation issue
- Eysenck, H.J.: Is there a paradigm on personality?
- Roubertoux: Genetic analysis of individual differences in personality
- Reykowski: On the structure and development of evaluating systems of individuals
1982 – Tilburg, The Netherlands
chair: Guus Van Heck
Invited speakers
- Hettema: Individual adaptation and social behavior: Conceptualization and some empirical results
- Strelau: Temperament and personality: Interdependences and relations
- Magnusson: Persons in situations: Some comments on a current issue