I am a personality psychologist

I am a personality psychologist, I study individual differences in affect, behavior, cognition, and motivation as they are affected by biological causes and environmental events. That is the answer I give when people ask me what I do. I do not say that I am a cognitive-psychologist, a social-psychologist, a neuro-psychologist, a behavior geneticist, a psychometrician or a methodologist, for although I do those various hyphenated parts of psychology, by saying I study personality and individual differences, I have said I do all of those things. And that is true for all of us here today. We study individual differences. Individual differences in how we think, individual differences in how we feel, individual differences in what we want and what we need, individual differences in what we do. We study how people differ and we also study why people differ. We study individual differences. I am indeed honored to be the president of this society and humbled when I think of the former and future presidents of this society.