Social lunch -- Dr. Joanne Chung (University of Toronto Mississauga).

How do the emotions people experience in everyday life reflect and bring about changes in their personality traits and self-views? In this talk, I will share research that uses multiple methods and analytic techniques to examine how people experience social and self-evaluative emotions, and how their self-views change during important transitional periods. I will discuss the Karakter project, a 13-month mixed methods study of emotions and personality change in Syrian origin young adults who have resettled in the Netherlands. I will close by describing a planned longitudinal study that will examine how BIPOC Canadian emerging adults’ experiences with social structures co-occur with personality development and adjustment over the course of university. By focusing on the emotional aspects of personality processes in diverse samples of people, the goal of my approach is to better understand why and how people’s personalities and self-views change over time.