The Association for Research in Personality (abbreviated ARP) is an American learned society dedicated to advancing research into personality.
Its mission statement does not mention specific disciplines such as social psychology or policy research, instead simply emphasizing the scientific study of personality.
[1] It was established in 2001, with David Watson as the founding president.
[3] The current president of the ARP is Wiebke Bleidorn a professor of psychology at the University of Zurich.
[4] Past presidents of the ARP, in reverse chronological order, are as follows: This article about a scientific organization is a stub.