EAPP Award

The EAPP Distinguished European Personality Psychologist Award was established in 2006 by the European Association of Personality Psychology. The Award is made to promote personality psychology in Europe and to increase the visibility of outstanding European personality psychologists both to the scientific community as well as to the general public. The Award is given every two years, and was made for the first time at the 14th European Conference on Personality, July 16-20, 2008, Tartu, Estonia.

The EAPP Distinguished European Personality Psychologist Award will be presented during the 15th European Conference on Personality at the award ceremony and the awardee will give a lecture, which is scheduled for Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 14:00.

The winner of the EAPP Distinguished European Personality Psychologist Award in ECP15 is Professor Ian Deary.

Ian Deary is Professor of Differential Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, and Director of the University of Edinburgh Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (funded by four of the UK’s research councils: BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC). He graduated in Psychology and Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and studied there for his PhD. He practised psychiatry in London and Edinburgh before moving to academic psychology. His principal research interest is human mental abilities, especially processing speed, the origins of cognitive differences, the effects of ageing and medical conditions on mental skills, and the impact of cognitive differences on people’s lives, especially their health. His research team is studying cognitive ageing by following up the people who took part in the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947. He has published about 500 peer-reviewed journal articles. His co-authored book Personality Traits (Cambridge University Press, 2010) is now in its third edition. A Lifetime of Intelligence appeared in 2009 (American Psychological Association). He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the British Academy, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

The Winner of the EAPP Distinguished European Personality Psychologist Award in ECP14 in 2008 was Professor David Magnusson, personality psychologist from Stockholm University, Sweden.

2008 David Magnusson is Olof Eneroth Professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University. Originally an elementary school teacher, he then trained as an applied psychologist and later as a research scientist, obtaining his PhD in Psychology at Stockholm University. His early work focused on the interaction between the situation and the individual. In 1964 he established a well-known longitudinal research programme,

Individual Development and Adaptation (IDA), which he led for over 30 years. Besides a large number of empirical contributions to the study of the adaptation process, he has also carried out important work on theoretical issues in the study of individual development. Magnusson is often referred to as the father of the holistic-interactionistic paradigm and the person approach. He is also one of the founders of the new Developmental Science and its most forceful advocate. He has received numerous international awards.