Amanda J. Wright

Excited to share that I'll be joining the psychology department at Texas A&M (@TAMU) as an assistant professor starting Fall 2026 🤗

We hope you enjoy reading the study as much as we enjoyed doing it🙂 Here is the publication link: doi.org/10.1037/abn000… (7/7)

Overall, we believe our study offers valuable insight into the conceptual (dis)similarity of personality traits and personality functioning, informs joint theoretical frameworks, and can advance treatment of personality disorders by identifying conditions in which changes in personality pathology may be expected or best captured (6/7)

New paper out at the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science! We examined unconditional & event-related changes in personality functioning (Criterion A of the AMPD) and the Big Five across 4 metrics: rank-order stability, mean-level change, within-person variability, ipsative consistency Our goal was to compare & better understand developmental links between pathological and normal-range personality, how these links varied depending on the occurrence of life events, and whether similarities vs differences emerged across distinct metrics (1/7)

and if you’re an early bird (unlike me, RIP), stop by the Emerging Scholars symposium tomorrow at 9:15 to hear a great lineup of talks :-)

If you’re at ARP and want to hear some great talks on personality interventions, stop by our symposium at 2:45 in the James Room on the 9th floor!!!

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@chadmillero @TAMU thank you Chad!! ☺️

Excited to share that I'll be joining the psychology department at Texas A&M (@TAMU) as an assistant professor starting Fall 2026 🤗

I apologise for the delayed response to your email, I have enormous personal flaws that I refuse to work on

“But that’s neither here nor there” is a terrifying thing to say. Where is it

Meeting the person you suspect is reviewer #2 in a conference

This study is brought to you by me, Michael Krämer, @PeterHaehner, Chris Hopwood, and @WiebkeBleidorn – we hope you enjoy it 🤗 (7/7)

Ultimately, people do believe that personality traits are more stable than other aspects of life. However, these beliefs aren't consistent with empirical evidence where personality, on the whole, has lifespan changes that are almost indistinguishable from other individual differences Given the implications of personality & beliefs about its changes for individual and societal well-being, we argue that greater outreach efforts & improved, more widespread dissemination of research findings about personality's malleability should be shared goals among social scientists, clinicians, and policymakers alike (6/7)

New preprint! Have you ever heard or said that personality doesn't change? Do you still believe that? (you shouldn't) Using data from an online survey (n = 887) and eight longitudinal panel datasets (n = 166,971), we compared perceived vs. actual lifespan changes in personality and 20+ individual differences from core life domains (1/7) osf.io/ytmxp