Amanda J. Wright

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

I’m accepting applications for PhD students to join my lab in Fall 2027! Our work focuses on psychopathology, personality, classification and assessment, and using AI with intensive longitudinal methods to better understand mental health. See the lab site for more info: ringwaldlab.psych.umn.edu

Had a great day giving a talk for the I-O Brown Bag at Rice University 🙂 (added bonus that I also had some wonderful campus tour guides!)

🏆 Congratulations to this year's recipients of the inaugural European Journal of Personality Best Paper Award! Peter Haehner @peterhaehner.bsky.social and colleagues are recognized for their paper "Life events and personality trait change: A coordinated data analysis." More below.

A new research Article in the journal by Amanda J. Wright and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @ajwright.bsky.social @mdkraemer.bsky.social @peterhaehner.bsky.social @chopwood.bsky.social @wiebkeb.bsky.social

I’m recruiting two new PhD students to start in 2027, working with me on my program of research in quantitative psychopathology. I’ve put some information for interested students on my website: miriamkforbes.academic.ws Please share with anyone you know who might be interested!

📢 We’re hiring! Postdoc in Personality Psychology & Psychological Assessment at the University of Greifswald. ✨ Lots of freedom for your own research ✨ Start Oct 2026 or later ✨ Long-term perspective toward a permanent position Deadline: 15 Aug Please share — and feel free to get in touch!

TIL heat is really killing a lot of people in Europe. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/heat-guns-...

Me: *clicks an OSF link* OSF: gotta be safe, can you login real quick? Me: sure, login completed OSF: cool, I have completely forgotten what link you clicked, here's your Dashboard

New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...

New theory piece on the mechanisms of personality change, led by @wiebkeb.bsky.social! In the extended ABC consolidation model, we extend previous accounts of how change in momentary states accumulates to lead to enduring trait change. (1 / 3)

How can we systematically organize and test the strategies used to reduce neuroticism? >> New research in Personality Science Authors: @ajwright.bsky.social, @peterhaehner.bsky.social, @chopwood.bsky.social, and @wiebkeb.bsky.social Read the full article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am incredibly honored and grateful to be included in this list alongside a group of such talented researchers! Thank you to anyone & everyone that has been part of my academic journey thus far and has helped make any of this possible 🤗

Some HUGE names in this year’s Rising Stars! @cassie-boness.bsky.social! @schwartz-psyres.bsky.social! @dpmoriarity.bsky.social! @emoriebeck.bsky.social! @ajwright.bsky.social! Iony Ezawa! Heather Davis! Aaron Reuben! Even more! Congratulations, everyone 🤩

This is consistent with earlier psychometric work that suggests 5-7 is the best response scale options, but good to see that the finding holds up in contemporary research. Also, good to see that labeling scales whether anchored or not has little impact on findings. academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Has conscientiousness really been in a free fall since 2014? A question that made us blog again: Has conscientiousness really been in a free fall since 2014?* floggingpvalues.blog/2025/10/22/h...

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

New preprint! Many claim that first sex is a huge risk for teens. We tested that claim in a large, nationally representative German sample. Core question: Do first sexual experiences harm adolescents, or do they reflect prior well-being? osf.io/preprints/ps...

A reminder that I’m accepting applications for PhD students!

When we measure personality multiple times in a study, does it matter if we ask people about their personality *in general* or *since the last time point*? Turns out: yes! We found differences in internal consistency, Ms, & SDs but not in the underlying constructs 🧵 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Cool preprint from @ajwright.bsky.social et al. demonstrating that personality change occurs at different time scales! www.researchgate.net/profile/Aman...

New paper out on personality functioning by lab members @ajwright.bsky.social and @peterhaehner.bsky.social ⬇️🤩

I'm reviewing applications for the University of Washington's PhD program this fall. Applicants interested in the Clinical Psychology, Social-Personality (emphasis on personality), or Quantitative programs are welcome to apply. More information here: sites.google.com/uw.edu/radla...

I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them. Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316

Teilnahme und weitere Informationen unter: formr.psych.uzh.ch/pers-wrapped

Wie verändert sich unsere Persönlichkeit über ein Jahr? Dazu starten wir heute eine neue Studie und suchen nach Teilnehmenden zwischen 18-40 Jahren, die Interesse haben, Einblicke in ihre Persönlichkeit, Wohlbefinden und Verhalten über ein Jahr zu erhalten und bis zu 173 CHF (~185€) zu verdienen.

The University of Zurich invites applications for a professorship in the sociology of child and adolescent development. I've been told this is open rank.

I will be reviewing applications for the University of Michigan Clinical Psychology doctoral program this fall. If you are interested in applying, here’s some info I prepared for applicants: sites.lsa.umich.edu/aidangcw-lab...

Effects of a theory-based smartphone intervention to decrease neuroticism in the general public: https://osf.io/m8a5r

I am recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to join my lab at Dartmouth. The ideal candidate will have experience in EMA, passive physiological data, and/or digital therapeutics. Interest and/or experience in chronic pain and co-occurring disorders is preferred. apply.interfolio.com/169836