Differential and Personality Psychology in 2025: Status, Developments, and Prospects

  1. John F. Rauthmann
  2. Diana Armbruster
  3. Eva Asselmann
  4. Jana Berkessel
  5. Wiebke Bleidorn
  6. Susanne Buecker
  7. Anne Gärtner
  8. Daniel Leising
  9. Maike Luhmann
  10. Le Vy Phan
  11. Beatrice Rammstedt
  12. Anne K. Reitz
  13. Karl-Heinz Renner
  14. Julia M. Rohrer
  15. Florian Schmitz
  16. Ramona Schoedel
  17. Anna-Lena Schubert
  18. Isabel Thielmann
  19. Cornelia Wrzus
  20. Johannes Zimmermann
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Abstract

This review article seeks to take stock of personality psychology by sketching major accomplishments from recent past regarding (a) topics studied (cognitive abilities, structural models of basic tendencies, dynamics and processes, personality changes, biology, social relationships, culture, health/well-being, pathology/disorders), (b) methodologies (new technologies, large-scale surveys), and (d) meta-scientific aspects (Open Science, syntheses, causality, nomothetics–idiographics). Recent developments in the field and prospects are put into context regarding these accomplishments via reviews of the current literature. Our survey of the field suggests that there is great richness of approaches and methods, but also that more coordination, integration, and conceptual-terminological consistency are needed.

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