Personality Science: United in Diversity

Abstract

Introducing the new journal Personality Science (PS) Online-only and full open-access, without author or reader fees Aims to provide a top-quality and multidisciplinary outlet for personality science Seeks to foster diversity and inclusion in the community of personality scientists Implements rigorous guidelines to ensure transparency, openness, and reproducibility Features exciting paper formats Journal website: ps.psychopen.eu

Unchartered Territories: Introduction to the Theme Bundle on Intranational Variation in Personality

“…This richness and diversity are also found in the large-scale samples (taken together, the analyses of this Theme Bundle rest on spatially-aggregated psychological data from over 6 million individuals) and the many spatial levels that are being investigated. In keeping with Personality Science 's vision and explicit focus on a broad, inclusive understanding of personality (Rauthmann, 2020), work published in this Theme Bundle looks at constructs as different as honesty-humility (Lanning et al, 2022), narrative identity (Dunlop & Wilkinson Westberg, 2022), the Big Five (Junkins et al, 2021), implicit bias (Talaifar et al, 2022), and well-being (Chan et al, 2022). Moreover, if the current articles can be seen as an adequate representation of their field (and we believe they can), then the study of intranational personality differences also appears to be a field that (1) unites scholars from different psychological (sub-) disciplines and across all career stages and (2) is committed to open science practices (i.e., all four empirical papers provide open materials, two papers were pre-registered, and two papers share all their data).…”

Planning a Career in Psychological Assessment

“…The replication crisis has affected publishing in the field of psychological assessment similarly to other disciplines with regard to efforts to make research more transparent. For example, both EAPA outlets (i.e., EJPA and Psychological Test Adaptation and Development -PTAD) and outlets from our neighbor field of personality psychology (e.g., the European Association for Personality Psychology's European Journal of Personality and Personality Science) have implemented and promoted open science practices to increase the transparency of the published studies (Back, 2019;Greiff & Allen, 2018;Greiff et al, 2020;Rauthmann, 2020;Ziegler, 2020). This initiative requires authors to make their data, codes and syntaxes, and materials openly available in independent repositories (e.g., Open Science Framework).…”