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Australasian Congress on Personality and Individual Differences

2025 Conference Attendees
2025 Melbourne University

ACPID is excited to announce that the 2025 conference will be a joint event with the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP). This year’s conference will take place from 20–22 November 2025

The 2025 conference will take place from 20–22 November at Rydges Hotel in Melbourne CBD (186 Exhibition Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 – Rydges Melbourne).

Alongside symposia, individual paper sessions, and blitz talks, the conference will feature keynote talks from Professor Nikola Overall (University of Auckland), Professor Chris Sibley (University of Auckland), and Professor Yoshihisa Kashima (University of Melbourne).

In the evenings the conference will feature a drinks reception at Rydges on Thursday 20 November, followed by a Postgraduate Student social event. A Gala dinner will be held on Friday 21 November at the iconic beer hall and cocktail bar, Cookie.

We will also have a day of pre-conferences and workshops held at the University of Melbourne Campus in Parkville on Wednesday 19 November. The following pre-conference events have already been confirmed:

  • From insight to impact: Social identity in the workplace (preconference organised by Andrew Frain, Blake McMillan, and Randal Tame)
  • Environmental Psychology (pre-conference organised by Christophe Klebl and Matt McKay)
  • Navigating peer review and publication as an author and reviewer (workshop organised by Simine Vazire, Yoel Inbar, and Heather Urry
  • Social and Personality Psychology in Aotearoa New Zealand (pre-conference organised by Marc Wilson)
  • A methods workshop on Causal Inference (workshop organised by Joseph Bulbulia)
  • Gender and sexuality (pre-conference organised by Joel Anderson, Michael Thai, Emily Haris, Natalie Amos, Michelle Ryan, and Eden Clarke)

Those intersted in hosting additional pre-conference events can reach out to:

Submissions are now open! Further details regarding registration costs will be announced soon.

We look forward to what promises to be a fantastic SASP-ACPID 2025 Conference!

2023 Conference

ACPID is the premier scientific society in Australasia for personality and individual differences research. Researchers with interests in traits, abilities, and other aspects of human variation will find a receptive multidisciplinary audience to engage with their work.

Our annual conference draws widely from all areas of psychology, including:

  • Personality and individual differences (eg, traits, abilities, personality dynamics)
  • Affective science (eg, emotion regulation, wellbeing, experience sampling)
  • Organisational and applied psychology (eg, performance, leadership, coaching)
  • Clinical psychology and counselling (eg, neurodiversity, personality change)
  • Methods and measurement (eg, metascience, reproducibility, psychometrics)
  • Cognitive and biological approaches (eg, personality neuroscience)

Past Keynotes and Invited Symposia at ACPID include:

  • Prof Brian Connelly (University of Toronto, Can)
  • Prof Amirali Minbashian (University of New South Wales, Aus)
  • Prof Tamlin Conner (University of Otago, NZ)
  • Prof Peggy Kern (University of Melbourne, Aus)
  • Prof Colin MacLeod (University of Western Australia, Aus)
  • Prof Brian Little (University of Pennsylvania, US)
  • Prof Michal Kosinksi (University of Stanford, US)

More Information

Workshops & Events

Each year we offer a range of workshops and events catered to our student members, ECRs, and more established members.

ACPID Membership

Members have access to discounted conference attendance, networking, educational events, job postings, and a variety of other resources.

2025 Conference Info

As information about the 2025 Conference becomes available (including abstract submission, conference registration etc) it will be available through this link.

What people are saying

“I gave my first conference talk at ACPID in 2017 as an undergraduate student. It’s an incredibly supportive and student friendly organisation”

Dr Sarah A. Walker
University of Durham, UK
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