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How Can You Use Social Media to Your Advantage In Grad School?
Most of us have heard about—or experienced— the negative consequences of using social media (yes, it can be very distracting!). But are there ways in which we can use it to our advantage?
Making the Most of the Summer: 5 Tips for Getting Work Done
Fahima Mohideen of the SPSP Student Committee provides tips for staying productive over the summer.
Emotions as a Ph.D. Student: On Feeling “Meh”
Being able to label our emotions is the first step toward using effective coping strategies to manage them.
Making the Most of the Summer: 6 Tips for Self-Care
As spring turns to summer, the academic year is also coming to a close. For those of us in grad school—or those aspiring to be—summer arrives as a season of possibilities.
Is Procrastination Getting in the Way of You Achieving Your Goals? A Quick Guide To Understanding and Reducing Procrastination
For grad students, procrastination is a common problem that can get in the way of progressing on important tasks.
Recapping the SPSP 2022 Presidential Plenary - Lost Lessons of 1968: Toward A More Diverse Personality Science
The SPSP 2022 Presidential Plenary session featured four speakers who discussed why and how we must diversify personality psychology.
Networking During In-person Academic Conferences—Pandemic Style
Some conferences have resumed their in-person format and as grad students, networking with others in the field has never been more important.
Signing Off—A Spotlight Editor’s Reflections over Two Years of Newsletters
With this month’s issue, we say goodbye to Katie White Austin who served as one of the Spotlight co-editors from 2020–2022. Read her reflections on her time as an SPSP Student Committee member.
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Why is our blog called Character & Context?
Everything that people think, feel, and do is affected by some combination of their personal characteristics and features of the social context they are in at the time. Character & Context explores the latest insights about human behavior from research in personality and social psychology, the scientific field that studies the causes of everyday behaviors.