''Personality and Individual Differences'' is a

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published 16 times per year by

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. It was established in 1980 by

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and is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences. The

editors-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

are Peter K. Jonason, Julie Aitken Schermer, Aljoscha Neubauer, Michelle Yik and Colin Cooper. Previous editors include

Donald H. Saklofske Donald Harold Saklofske is a Canadian psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Western Ontario. He is a former president of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences and the current edi ...

Philip A. Vernon Philip Anthony "Tony" Vernon (born 1950) is a Canadian psychologist. He is a professor and intelligence researcher. Vernon is the former editor-in-chief of the scientific journal ''Personality and Individual Differences'' and formerly sat on the ed ...

Gísli Guðjónsson Gísli Hannes Guðjónsson, CBE (born 26 October 1947) is an Icelandic- British academic, educator, forensic psychologist and former detective. He is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry of King's College London and a Professo ...

and

Sybil B. G. Eysenck Sybille Bianca Giulietta Eysenck ( ; March 1927 – December 2020) was a personality psychologist and the widow of the psychologist Hans Eysenck, with whom she collaborated as psychologists at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, as ...

. The founding editor was Hans Jürgen Eysenck. The journal covers research about the structure of

personality Personality is the characteristic sets of behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns that are formed from biological and environmental factors, and which change over time. While there is no generally agreed-upon definition of personality, mos ...

and other forms of

individual differences Differential psychology studies the ways in which individuals differ in their behavior and the processes that underlie it. This is a discipline that develops classifications (taxonomies) of psychological individual differences. This is distingui ...

, the processes which cause these individual differences to emerge, and their practical applications.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 3.951.

Notable paper

In 1985 the journal published "A revised version of the psychoticism scale", which described a revised version of the

Eysenck Personality Questionnaire In psychology, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) is a questionnaire to assess the personality traits of a person. It was devised by psychologists Hans Jürgen Eysenck and Sybil B. G. Eysenck. Hans Eysenck's theory is based primarily on ...

. This paper has been cited over 1600 times.citations of Eysenck, Eysenck, and Barrett 1985
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Retraction

On 17 June 2020 Elsevier announced it was retracting a 2012 article by J. Philippe Rushton and Donald Templer. The article falsely claimed that there was scientific evidence that skin color was related to aggression and sexuality in humans.

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Abstracting and indexing

Notable paper

Retraction

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