APS

30th APS Annual Convention

Toward an Individualized Psychology: Promises and Challenges in Modeling the Individual

Saturday, May 26, 2018 · San Francisco, CA

Oral · Methodology

Advances in technology provide long-needed data formats for examining idiographic psychological processes. Together, the data and methods enable person-specific dynamic models. The promises of this approach also raise challenging conceptual and methodological questions that need to be addressed. This symposium presents a series of innovative approaches to address these challenges.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Aidan WrightChair
    University of Michigan

Presentations

  1. Idiographic Personality: A Methodological Perspective on Measuring and Modeling Individuals Emorie Beck
  2. Can We Use the Random Effects in Multilevel Models to Characterize Individuals?Siwei Liu
  3. Changing Individuals: Modelling Smooth and Sudden Changes in Temporal Dynamics of (V)AR-ModelsCasper Albers