René Mõttus
Personality psychology professor.
Edinburgh. Tartu.
Current effort: https://whichjob.me
About psychology:
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/people-unex…
https://personalitypsychologypodcast.com
- Reposted by René MõttusNew episode alert! 🚨 @renemottus.bsky.social spoke with Elliot Berkman, @kaitlynmwerner.bsky.social and @andero.bsky.social about self-regulation and affect regulation, and how each of the guests' research connects to personality psychology. Check it out!
- Reposted by René MõttusTwo-year post-doc position in my department working on a cool project applying cognitive science (transmission chain experiments and natural language processing) to study cultural evolution: tinyurl.com/bdeju6kw
- For those submitting a symposium to the ECP22 (deadline soon!): I added details to the submission instructions. www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission
- For those coming to the ECP22 in Edinburgh, 2026: You can now book more affordable Summer Stay rooms (75 rooms currently available at a cheaper price) For details: www.ecp22edinburgh.org/accommodation
- Reminder: The submission deadline for ECP22 is December 7th. www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission
- 🔔 Those coming to the ECP22 in Edinburgh: Consider booking accommodation early! Edinburgh is a very popular place. Here are accommodation tips for ECP folks: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 📝 Submissions & registrations are also open: ecp22edinburgh.org #ecp22
- Why aren't some of the strongest personality neuroscience papers getting widely cited?
- ECP22 Registration is now open: www.ecp22edinburgh.org/registration
- Reminder: the 22nd European Conference on Personality, ECP22, Edinburgh, July 2026, is accepting submissions until 07/12. Submit a symposium, talk, or poster! We promise you the best research, many smart discussions, social fun, and a fantastic historic city. www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission
- Early career personality researchers coming to the Edinburgh ECP22: If you want to get a link to a slightly more affordable uni accommodation option later this year, leave your email here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- Personality change people: does it make sense to think that to change a broader trait domain (neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness) one could consider starting with those facets/nuances that are furthest from the desired levels? (Most room for change?)
- Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25. Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed. www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission
- Keynote speakers: @tuckerdrob.bsky.social @foswald.bsky.social Ellen Hamaker Hands-on workshops by: @tedmond.bsky.social & @ukuvainik.bsky.social (genomic analyses) @dirkwulff.bsky.social (LLMs in personality research) www.ecp22edinburgh.org/programme
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- I once proposed a simple tool to understand and visualise correlations, TACT. doi.org/10.5964/ps.7... This app makes it even easier to use: apps.psych.ut.ee/TACT/
- Personality folks, is there an argument to be made for latent Big Five traits that exist independently of the particular test we happen to use to assess them? (If yes, I will have a follow-up question)
- Now published in Current Opinion, we show why personality research should embrace multi-rater studies and how this can be achieved in practice, even at scale. Often, this is the most realistic way to avoid (reliably) invalid conclusions. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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- Reposted by René MõttusFolks, it's time to submit your papers to PCI Psychology. Here is our invitation to you, taken from our editorial osf.io/preprints/ps...
- PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub
- What is the best public domain occupational interest test currently available (still relevant for the current job market)?
- New preprint: One of the largest studies (N = 67,000) on how sexual desire varies with age, sexual orientation, education, job, number of children, recent birth, and relationship satisfaction, and how the trends differ by gender. doi.org/10.21203/rs....
- Would you recognise your friend from their personality trait profile? Photos can be instructive: portraits of 5×5px (Big Five), 30×30px (NEO facets), or 100×100px (more facets/nuances). You decide. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- This was a fun conversation with Kensy, the host of the @manymindspod.bsky.social
- New episode!! 📣🎙️ A conversation w/ @renemottus.bsky.social about the science of human personality. The "Big Five" model of human personality has been enormously generative and influential. But what does it miss? What does it mask? Where should the field go next? Listen: disi.org/the-big-five...
- With a PhD in personality research and interested in teaching? Consider applying for a fixed-term teaching job at the University of Edinburgh. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
- This may be one of the largest personality research projects ever.
- Extremely excited to share the first effort of the Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium: A highly-powered, comprehensive GWAS of the Big Five personality traits in 1.14 million participants from 46 cohorts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- German coverage of our work on occupational personality profiles. www.spektrum.de/news/persoen...
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- Reposted by René MõttusSome really interesting contrasts in our new "assumption-free heritability" preprint: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- How do life satisfaction and job satisfaction vary among hundreds of jobs? (Doing a religion job looks good, if you are considering a career change.) New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- A reminder: the European Conference of Personality of 2026, ECP22, will be in Edinburgh in July 2026. ecp22edinburgh.org
- Gender differences in personality traits tend to be larger in countries where the dominant language is gendered according to several metrics. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- A good overview paper of what may well be a big change in many science fields, including psychology -- moving from low-dimensional models to higher-dimensional ones and how this may sometimes mean more parsimony due to simple learning principles and accurate predictions. doi.org/10.31222/osf...
- What is the most creative and inspiring personality research paper from the last few years that I could recommend to students to show how breakthroughs happen?
- We show how personality traits' familial transmission is usually misestimated (due to single-method biases) and often misunderstood (confusing non-additive transmission that only makes identical twins alike with transmission that makes ordinary relatives alike). Now out in JPSP. tinyurl.com/mrejyhb4
- What's the age of your personality? We put out a preprint on personality age, showing it tends to closely match chronological age. Last year, I posted my prediction on X (r ≈ .90), and the results are very close. We explicitly argue against any kind of determinism, though! osf.io/preprints/ps...
- doi.org/10.1038/s413... Now we're talking 👍
- whichjob.me is now also available in French -- our 13th language. There will be some more, to make it available to most people in the world. Thank you, Kokou Atitsogbe and Jérôme Rossier, l’Université de Lausanne!
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- Now in print (open access): In a sample of N > 16,000 assessed with self- and informant-reports, psychopathology has stronger associations with personality domains and nuances than typically seen in self-report-only data. doi.org/10.1037/abn0...
