The purpose of the SPSP Training Committee is to provide emerging, developing and evolving scholars and professionals with training on cutting edge topics and methods to maximize the impact of research in personality and social psychology as a basis for supporting and improving health, education and human welfare by:

• Providing training opportunities on cutting edge theories and research.
  
• Providing instruction about innovative research methods and data analytic tools.
  
• Providing training relevant to a diverse array of career choices and trajectories both within and outside of academia.
  
• Facilitating networking among those who work on related topics from different theoretical and methodological perspectives, and among personality and social psychologists working within and beyond the walls of the academy.