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ISSID
Expert meetings
ISSID expert meetings provide a platform for international experts (1) to share their knowledge of the most recent trends in studies on personality and individual differences, but also (2) to discuss intrinsically interesting topics in personality and individual differences science, still having great potential to advance the field yet getting little attention from the scientific community now, and |(3) to debate on emerging issues posing challenges to the field advancement.
Note on the ISSID Expert Meeting 2024
Dynamics of Personality: How Can Modeling Intraindividual Processes
Advance the Understanding of Interindividual Differences in Personality?
The international and interdisciplinary conference on the “Dynamics of Personality”, held at the TU Conference Center in Raitenhaslach from December 13th to 15th, brought together leading researchers in the field. Organized by Prof. Dr. Markus Quirin and Farhood Malekzad (Department of Sport and Health Sciences) from the Technical University of Munich, and funded by the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), Elsevier, and the German Research Foundation (DFG), the event underscored the importance of incorporating the complexity of psychological processes - referred to as the “dynamics of personality”- into research, particularly through computational modeling approaches.
This focus is of critical importance, as it aims to explain the substantial variability in behavior that cannot be accounted for by static measurements of personality traits alone.
A central objective of the event was to assess the current state of computational modeling in personality science, evaluate its potential for advancing the field, and explore its integration with empirical methods such as experience sampling.
Distinguished experts from around the globe participated in the event, including William Revelle (Northwestern University, Evanston, USA), Emorie Beck (University of California, Davis, USA), Eranda Jayawickreme (Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA), Marco Mirolli (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rome, Italy), Marco Perugini and Giulio Costantini (both from the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy). Additionally, Dinesh Paudel (Technical University of Munich, Germany) contributed to the meeting by providing a detailed explanation of the principles of systems dynamics and computational modeling.