BSPID aims to foster and develop research on individual differences in personality, temperament, intelligence, attitudes, abilities and motivation. BSPID aims to foster links between researchers in the UK working in the area of individual differences, to develop a fuller understanding the mechanisms (e.g., evolutionary, biological, social) affording individual differences, the major dimensions of individual differences, the relationships between individual differences and their link to real world outcomes (e.g., ageing, health, pro- and anti-social behaviour). This work will be conducted using experimental, cross-sectional, quasi-experimental, longitudinal, physiological, neuroscience (MRI, EEG), pharmacological, clinical, medical, genetic and statistical techniques. BSPID also aims to foster links with social, cognitive, developmental, clinical and biological psychology as well as neuroscience, economics, business studies and the humanities. Further, BSPID aims to promote the importance of individual differences to the wider scientific community, and influence commerce and policy. Members of BSPID will communicate their ideas via peer-reviewed journals, academic books, conferences and seminars.