News
Below is a compilation of the Beck lab in the news (starting with 2023)!
2025
September 2025: Beck Lab welcomes two new members
The Beck Lab welcomes two incoming lab members. Dr. Elizabeth Long will join as a postdoctoral scholar, and Rocci Vizzusi will join as a PhD student. Elizabeth completed her PhD at the University of Toronto, and Rocci completed his Masters at California State University, Chico.
July 2025: Winkie Ma wins SPSP’s 2024 SPSP Student Publication Award
Winkie was awarded SPSP’s 2024 SPSP Student Publication Award for her first, first author paper titled “Stability and Change in Narcissism from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: Findings from a Longitudinal Study of Mexican-Origin Youth,” which was published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin earlier this year. A copy of the paper can be found here. Congratulations to Winkie!
July 2025: The Beck lab visits Munich and Vienna
In early July, much of the Beck lab (Dr. Beck, Adam Nissen, Colin Lee, Winkie Ma, Evan Warfel, and Elizabeth Long) spent several weeks in Europe. Dr. Beck co-organized an EAPP funded focus meeting in Munich on “Taking Person-Specificity Seriously in Personality Research” along with Nick Modersitzki and members of the PECORINO consortium. Then, the Beck lab proceeded to Vienna for the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences Conference, where Dr. Beck gave a keynote and all other members participated in two other highly symposia.
July 2025: Dr. Beck receives the Biennial EAPP Early Achievement Award
Dr. Beck received the European Association of Personality Psychology’s Early Achievement Award for her work on idiographic systems. The committee wrote “Prof. Beck’s theoretical and empirical contributions to understanding personality are innovative and potentially ground-breaking. Her work has established her as a leader in the integration of idiographics and nomothetics in personality science. In particular, her focus on idiographic systems that bridge traditional work on personality traits and the single case has been unique and creative.”
June 2025: Adam Nissen receives top poster award at ARP
At the biennial Association for Research in Personality Conference in Evanston, Illinois, Adam Nissen received the top award for his poster, “Personality Expression and Sexual and Gender Minority Experiences in Everyday Life.”
May 2025: Dr. Beck receives Research Innovation Award
The College of Letters and Sciences has awarded Dr. Beck the inaugural Research Innovation Award from the College of Letters and Sciences. This award recognizes scholarly excellence of early and mid career faculty across the college.
April 2025: Beck Lab in the news
A recent publication, led by Dr. Beck, in Nature Human Behaviour, received significant media attention. This research highlighted that a one-size-fits-all approach to understanding well-being is misguided at best and harmful at worst.
2024
June 2024: National Science Foundation Funding
Dr. Beck, along with Dr. Josh Jackson (WUSTL) received a grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate personalized assessment and prediction over three years.
April 2024: Dr. Beck receives a Hellman’s Fellowship
Dr. Beck received a prestigious Society of Hellman Fellowship award for her ongoing work on social and cognitive health in late life.
2023
December 2023: Science Vs.
Dr. Beck, along with two other personality psychology experts, were featured in a recent episode of the Science Vs. Podcast on Personality! Listen here!
November 2023: Dr. Beck in the news!
New work by Dr. Beck linking personality traits and subjective well-being to long-term risk of dementia diagnoses that was recently published was featured, along with a brief interview, on CBS! Watch here!