Nearly two years ago, the Personality Psychology Podcast debuted on streaming platforms. It features personality researchers from across the world who discuss the science of how people are different from one another, where these differences come from, how they develop, and why they matter.
25 episodes and over 20,000 downloads later the podcast is going strong!
In this section, we will list the podcast’s episodes that could be used for educational purposes. We encourage educators to use these episodes as references when teaching and to recommend them to their students. The section will be updated regularly.
We hope you find any of the episodes from the podcast useful. If you do, we would love to know!
Personality Structure and Change
Episode 3 with Emorie Beck
Key Reference
Beck, E. D., & Jackson, J. J. (2020a). Idiographic traits: A return to Allportian approaches to personality. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(3), 301-308. https://psyarxiv.com/r8xfh.
Subjective Well-Being
Episode 5 with Susanne Bücker, Richard Lucas, and Samantha Heintzelman
Key References
Buecker, S., Denissen, J. J. A., & Luhmann, M. (2020). A propensity-score matched study of changes in loneliness surrounding major life events. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000373
Diener, E., Lucas, R. E., Oishi, S., Hall, N., & Donnellan, M. B. (2018). Advances and open questions in the science of subjective well-being. Collabra: Psychology, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.115
Heintzelman, S. J., Kushlev, K., Lutes, L. D., Wirtz, D., Kanippayoor, J. M., Leitner, D., Oishi, S., & Diener, E. (2020). ENHANCE: Evidence for the efficacy of a comprehensive intervention program to promote subjective well-being. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26(2), 360–383. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000254
Personality Development
Episode 7 with Ted Schwaba, Eva Asselmann, and Chris Soto
Key References
Schwaba, T., Bleidorn, W., Hopwood, C. J., Gebauer, J. E., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2021). The impact of childhood lead exposure on adult personality: Evidence from the United States, Europe, and a large-scale natural experiment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(29). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020104118 Openly accessible pre-print: https://psyarxiv.com/nxdca
Asselmann, E., & Specht, J. (2021). Personality maturation and personality relaxation: Differences of the Big Five personality traits in the years around the beginning and ending of working life. Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12640
Soto, C. J., Napolitano, C. M., & Roberts, B. W. (2021). Taking skills seriously: Toward an integrative model and agenda for social, emotional, and behavioral skills. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30(1), 26-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420978613
Morality and Moral Development
Episode 8 with Jessie Sun
Key References
Sun, J., & Goodwin, G. P. (2020). Do people want to be more moral?. Psychological science, 31(3), 243-257. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619893078
Meindl, P., & Graham, J. (2014). Know thy participant: The trouble with nomothetic assumptions in moral psychology. Advances in experimental moral psychology, 233-252.https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.700.6349&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Narcissism
Episode 9 with Mitja Back, Carolyn Morf, and Joshua Miller
Key References
Back, M. D. (2018). The Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Concept. In A. D. Hermann, A. Brunell, & J. Foster (Eds.), The Handbook of trait narcissism: Key advances, research methods, and controversies (pp. 57-67). New York, NY: Springer.
Morf, C. C., Schürch, E., Küfner, A., Siegrist, P., Vater, A., Back, M., … & Schröder-Abé, M. (2017). Expanding the nomological net of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory: German validation and extension in a clinical inpatient sample. Assessment, 24(4), 419-443. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191115627010
Miller, J. D., Lynam, D. R., Hyatt, C. S., & Campbell, W. K. (2017). Controversies in narcissism. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 13, 291–315. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032816-045244
The Past, Present, and Controversies of Personality Trait Psychology
Episode 10 with Robert “Jeff” McCrae
Key References
McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T. (1987). Validation of the five-factor model of personality across instruments and observers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52(1), 81–90. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.52.1.81
McCrae, R. R. (1994). Openness to Experience: Expanding the boundaries of Factor V. European Journal of Personality, 8, 251-272. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2410080404
McCrae, R. R., Terracciano, A., & 78 Members of the Personality Profiles of Cultures Project. (2005). Universal Features of Personality Traits From the Observer’s Perspective: Data From 50 Cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88(3), 547–561. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.88.3.547
Adolescent Personality
Episode 11 with Jenny Wagner, Eva Bleckmann, Larissa Wieczorek, and Naemi Brandt
Key References
Israel, A., Brandt, N. D., Spengler, M., Göllner, R., Lüdtke, O., Trautwein, U., & Wagner, J. (in press). The Longitudinal Interplay of Personality and School Experiences in Adolescence. European Journal of Personality.
Wagner, J., Lüdtke, O., Robitzsch, A., Göllner, R., & Trautwein, U. (2018). Self-esteem development in the school context: The roles of intrapersonal and interpersonal social predictors. Journal of Personality, 86(3), 481–497. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12330
Wieczorek, L. L., Mueller, S., Lüdtke, O., & Wagner, J. (2021). What makes for a pleasant social experience in adolescence? The role of perceived social interaction behavior in associations between personality traits and momentary social satisfaction. European Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070211017745
Personality Science and Helping People to Change
Episode 13 with Patrick Hill
Key Reference
Hill, P. L., Sin, N. L., Turiano, N. A., Burrow, A. L., & Almeida, D. M. (2018). Sense of purpose buffers against daily reactivity. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 52, 724-729. https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kax039
Psychopathology, Authenticity, Sustainability, and Veganism
Episode 14 with Chris Hopwood
Key References
Hopwood, C.J., Bleidorn, W., Schwaba, T., & Chen, S. (2020). Health, environmental, and animal rights motivations for vegetarian eating. PLOS One 15(4): e0230609. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230609
Hopwood, C. J., Schwaba, T., & Bleidorn, W. (2021). Personality changes associated with increasing environmental concerns. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 77, 101684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101684
Hopwood, C. J., Wright, A. G., & Bleidorn, W. (2022). Person–environment transactions differentiate personality and psychopathology. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1(1), 55-63. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-021-00004-0
Intelligence
Episode 15 with Ian Deary
Key References
Deary, I. (2020). Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Deary, I.J., Cox, S.R. & Hill, W.D. (2021). Genetic variation, brain, and intelligence differences. Molecular Psychiatry https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01027-y
Deary, I.J., Hill, W.D. & Gale, C.R. (2021). Intelligence, health and death. Nature Human Behaviour 5, 416–430. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01078-9
Deary, I. J., & Sternberg, R. J. (2021). Ian Deary and Robert Sternberg answer five self-inflicted questions about human intelligence. Intelligence, 86, 101539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2021.101539
Self-Esteem
Episode 16 with Ulrich Orth, Ketaki Diwan, and Lorenzo Filosa
Key References
Orth, U., & Robins, R. W. (2019). Development of self-esteem across the lifespan. In D. P. McAdams, R. L. Shiner, & J. L. Tackett (Eds.), Handbook of personality development (pp. 328-344). Guilford.
Reitz, A. K., Shrout, P. E., Denissen, J. J., Dufner, M., & Bolger, N. (2020). Self‐esteem change during the transition from university to work. Journal of Personality, 88(4), 689-702. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12519
Filosa, L., Alessandri, G., Robins, R. W., Pastorelli, C., (2022). Self-esteem Development during the Transition to Work: A 14-year Longitudinal Study from Adolescence to Young Adulthood. Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12713
Personality and Psychopathology
Episode 18 with Bob Krueger, Odilia Laceulle, and Johannes Zimmerman
Key References
Krueger, R. F., Kotov, R., Watson, D., Forbes, M. K., Eaton, N. R., Ruggero, C. J., Simms, L. J., Widiger, T. A., Achenbach, T. M., Bach, B., Bagby, R. M., Bornovalova, M. A., Carpenter, W. T., Chmielewski, M., Cicero, D. C., Clark, L. A., Conway, C., DeClercq, B., DeYoung, C. G., . . . Zimmermann, J. (2018). Progress in achieving quantitative classification of psychopathology. World Psychiatry, 17, 282–293. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20566
Leising, D., & Zimmermann, J. (2011). An integrative conceptual framework for assessing personality and personality pathology. Review of General Psychology, 15, 317–330. doi: 10.1037/a0025070
van Dijk, I., Krueger, R. F., & Laceulle, O. M. (2021). DSM–5 alternative personality disorder model traits as extreme variants of five-factor model traits in adolescents. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 12, 59–69. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000409
Post-traumatic Growth
Episode 20 with Laura Blackie and Eranda Jayawickreme
Key References
Blackie, L. E., & Jayawickreme, E. (2022). What does a personality science approach to post-traumatic growth reveal?. European Journal of Personality, 08902070221104628. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070221104628
Personality and Health
Episode 21 with Nick Turiano, Damaris Aschwanden, and Yannick Stephan
Turiano, N. A., Chapman, B. P., Gruenewald, T. L., & Mroczek, D. K. (2015). Personality and the leading behavioral contributors of mortality. Health Psychology, 34, 51–60. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000038
Aschwanden, D., Strickhouser, J. E., Luchetti, M., Stephan, Y., Sutin, A. R., & Terracciano, A. (2021). Is personality associated with dementia risk? A meta-analytic investigation. Ageing Research Reviews, 67, 101269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2021.101269
Stephan, Y., Sutin, A. R., Luchetti, M., Canada, B., & Terracciano, A. (2020). Personality and HbA1c: Findings from six samples. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 120, 104782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104782
Personality: Universalism and Cultural Context
Episode 23 with Moin Syed
Key References
Presentation Notes: https://osf.io/jnz9h/
Arshad, M., & Chung, J. M. (2022). Practical recommendations for considering culture, race, and ethnicity in personality psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16(2), e12656. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12656
Syed, M. (2021). Where are race, ethnicity, and culture in personality research?PsyArXiv. https://psyarxiv.com/m57ph/
Thalmayer, A. G., Saucier, G., & Rotzinger, J. S. (2022). Absolutism, relativism, and universalism in personality traits across cultures: The case of the Big Five.Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 53(7–8), 935–956. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221221111813
Behaviour Genetics
Episode 25 with Michel Nivard
Key References
Lo, M. T., Hinds, D. A., Tung, J. Y., Franz, C., Fan, C. C., Wang, Y., … & Chen, C. H. (2017). Genome-wide analyses for personality traits identify six genomic loci and show correlations with psychiatric disorders. Nature Genetics, 49(1), 152-156. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3736
Grotzinger, A. D., Mallard, T. T., Akingbuwa, W. A., Ip, H. F., Adams, M. J., Lewis, C. M., … & Nivard, M. G. (2022). Genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis. Nature Genetics, 54(5), 548-559. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01057-4
Gage SH, Davey Smith G, Ware JJ, Flint J, Munafò MR (2016) G = E: What GWAS Can Tell Us about the Environment. PLoS Genetics 12(2): e1005765. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005765