The Society for Personality and Social Psychology
The world's largest organization of personality and social psychologists.
Who We Are
The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, comprised of 7,500 members, strives to advance the science, teaching, and application of social and personality psychology.
The core focus of SPSP is to serve its members through educational events, networking opportunities, resources, science funding, publication and promotion of research, and mentoring the next generation of social and personality psychologists.

Character & Context
Character & Context explores the latest findings from research in personality and social psychology. By exploring forces within the person as well as forces within the situation, personality and social psychologists seek to unravel the mysteries of individual and social life.
Latest News
Bullying or Hate Crimes in Our Schools?
When youth are harassed in schools because of their race, gender, or sexual orientation, is it really “just” bullying?
Guilted into Sustainability?
Have you ever been tempted to do something you knew you really shouldn’t? And then decided not to do it in order to avoid the guilt?
Who Has Different-Race Friends?
What patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors encourage the development of cross-race relationships?