International Society for the Study of Individual Differences
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The International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) is a scientific society founded in 1983 that fosters research on the measurement, structure, dynamics and biological bases of individual differences in temperament, intelligence
, attitudes, and abilities. The society investigates the major dimensions of individual differences in the context of experimental, physiological, pharmacological, clinical, medical, genetical, statistical, and social psychology.
ISSID holds Personality and Individual Differences
(PAID) as its official scientific journalhttp://issid.org/issid.files/ISSmem/newslet6.html and hosts a conference on individual differences every other year. The current president is William Revelle
, professor of psychology at Northwestern University
.
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, attitudes, and abilities. The society investigates the major dimensions of individual differences in the context of experimental, physiological, pharmacological, clinical, medical, genetical, statistical, and social psychology.
ISSID holds Personality and Individual Differences
Personality and Individual Differences
Personality and Individual Differences is a scientific journal published bi-monthly by Elsevier and founded in 1980. PAID is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences ....
(PAID) as its official scientific journalhttp://issid.org/issid.files/ISSmem/newslet6.html and hosts a conference on individual differences every other year. The current president is William Revelle
William Revelle
William Revelle is a psychology professor at Northwestern University working in personality psychology. Revelle studies the biological basis of personality and motivation, psychometric theory, the structure of daily mood, and models of attention and memory. He is a proponent of and contributor to...
, professor of psychology at Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
.