SESP Fort Worth 2004: Program Overview

 

Thursday, October 14

8:00am – 5:00pm           Groups Preconference

8:00am – 5:00pm           Self Preconference

1:00pm – 8:00pm          SESP Registration

5:30pm – 11:00pm         SESP Executive Committee Meeting and Dinner

7:00pm – 11:00pm         Opening reception

 

Friday, October 15

7:30am – 8:30am           Breakfast

8:00am – 7:00pm           Registration 

8:30am – 10:15am         Symposia 1

1A. Linking Cognition, Emotion, and the Body: New Approaches to Understanding the Regulation of Social Behavior

Chair: Eric J. Vanman

a.       Eddie Harmon-Jones: The action-based model of cognitive dissonance and its links to self-regulation and affective and cognitive neuroscience

b.      Tiffany A. Ito, Joshua Correll, & Geoffrey R. Urland: Regulating racially-biased behavior: Using ERPs to understand the police officer’s dilemma

c.       Eric J. Vanman: The somatic basis of intergroup biases: Introducing a new model of prejudice and discrimination

d.      Gerald Clore & Liz Dunn: New light on mood and stereotyping

1B. Situational Triggers of Social Justice Concerns

Chairs: Linda J. Skitka & Kees van den Bos

a.       David A. Schroeder, Alicia F. Bembenek, Kim Kinsey, Andria Woodell, & Julie Steel: Changing justice concern in social dilemmas

b.      Linda J. Skitka & Elizabeth Mullen: Understanding the moral mandate effect: Motivated reasoning or moral intuitions?

c.       Kees van den Bos: On the foundations of social justice: The influence of active states on fairness reactions

d.      Heather Smith, Tracey Cronin, & Sarah Nevins: Relative deprivation, emotional reactions, and a university-funding crisis

1C. Theories of Small Groups: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

                                    Chairs: Andrea B. Holingshead & Marshall Scott Poole

a.       Andrea B. Hollingshead: A look at groups from the functional perspective

b.      Janice Kelly: Understanding groups from a feminist perspective

c.       Dick Moreland: Time, change, and development: Temporal perspectives on groups

d.      Marshall Scott Poole: Discussant

10:15am – 10:30am       Morning break

10:30pm – 12:15pm       Symposia 2

2A. Inhibition and Social Control

Chair: William von Hippel

a.       Patricia Linville: Inhibition processes in social behavior: Good news and bad news about inhibitory ability

b.      Bill Swann & Pranj Mehta: The blirt and the boomerang: Reactions to set-point violations among verbal inhibitors and disinhibitors

c.       Jennifer S. Beer & Sanjay Srivastava: Implicit theories of shyness and social control

d.      William von Hippel: Aging, inhibition, and socially inappropriate behavior

                                    2B. Culture as a Process: Dialectics of Continuity and Change

                                    Chairs: Michele J. Gelfand & Shinobu Kitayama

a.       Michelle J. Gelfand: The system of cultural tightness-looseness: A multilevel analysis of situational constraint

b.      Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks: Culture, relational schemas, and disadvantage in workplace situations

c.       Ho-ying Fu, Michael W. Morris, Sau-lai Lee, Melody Chao, Chi-yue Chiu, & Ying-yi Hong: Motivated cultural cognition, reloaded: Understanding the Culture X Need for Closure interaction in social judgments in terms of the motive for justifiable answers

d.      Hazel Markus: Discussant

                                    2C. Self-Structure: Sources of Fragility and Resilience

Chair: Carolin Showers

a.       Jennifer Crocker: Fragility and resilience of self-esteem: Contingent self-worth and learning orientation

b.      Allen R. McConnell & Robert Rydell: Self-concept representation and fragility in mental regulation, affect, and the experience of well-being

c.       Carolin J. Showers & Virgil Zeigler-Hill: The hidden vulnerability of a compartmentalized self

d.      Stephen J. Spencer: Nagging doubts and a glimmer of hope: The role of Implicit self-esteem in self-image maintenance processes

e.      Frederick Rhodewalt: Discussant

2D. Close Relationships Symposium in Honor of Executive Committee Chair, Margaret Clark

Chair: Margaret Clark

a.       Kipling D. Williams & Julia Fitness: Social and physical pain: Similarities and differences

b.      Jennifer J. Harman, Blair T. Johnson, & Kerry L. Marsh:  Relationship closeness under threat: Gender differences in attitudes towards condoms

c.       John Karremans & Henk Aarts: Automatic forgiveness in close relationships       

d.      Gregory R. Maio, Geoff Thomas, Frank W. Fincham, & Kathy B. Carnelley: Using families to detect relationship influences on forgiveness                 

12:15pm – 1:30pm         Lunch and Business Meeting

1:30pm – 3:15pm          Symposia 3

                                    3A. The 50^th Anniversary of Allport’s The Nature of Prejudice

                                    Chairs: Peter Glick, John F. Dovidio, & Laurie A. Rudman

a.       Peter Glick: Confirming and questioning Allport’s assumptions

b.      Alice H. Eagly: Moving beyond Allport’s definition of prejudice: Prejudice as an attitude in context

c.       Susan T. Fiske: Social cognition and the normality of prejudgment

d.      Bernadette Park & Charles M. Judd: Group differences, stereotype accuracy, and the tolerant personality

e.      Miles Hewstone: Intergroup contact: Allport’s “contact hypothesis” and beyond

f.         Brenda Major: The psychological impact of prejudice

3B. Motivational Framework of Implicit Affect

                                    Chairs: Ayelet Fishbach & Melissa J. Ferguson

a.       Melissa J. Ferguson: Motivation and automatic liking: How current goal-pursuit influences automatic evaluation

b.      Ayelet Fishbach: Self-control in action: The automatic processes of approaching goals and avoiding temptations

c.       Arie W. Kruglanski: Means directed affect in goal systems

d.      Miguel J. Brendl, Arthur B. Markman, & Kyungil Kim: Goal structure and preferences: On devaluation and narrow valuation

                                    3C. Emotion Regulation: Pathways to Health and Dysfunction

                                    Chair: Jeffry Simpson

a.       Peter Salovey & Marc Brackett: Emotional intelligence and emotional regulation

b.      Paula Pietromonaco, Sally Powers, & Lisa Feldman Barrett: Romantic attachment and stress reactivity and regulation

c.       M. Lynne Cooper, Mindy Flanagan, Amelia Talley, & Lada Micheas: Individual differences in regulatory abilities shape patterns of risk-taking from adolescence into young adulthood

d.      Omri Gillath, Silvia Bunge, Phillip Shaver, & Mario Mikulincer: Attachment and the regulation of negative emotions: An fMRI exploration

3D. The Psychology of Magical Beliefs

                                    Chair: Emily Pronin

a.       Jesse M. Bering: Social dynamics in death, as in life

b.      Emily Pronin, David Wegner, & Kim McCarthy: Apparent magical powers: Effects of private thoughts on perceived personal influence

c.       Chris Wetzel: Testing a touch therapist: Are the hands or the mind more clever than we think?

d.      David Schneider: Discussant

3:15pm – 3:30pm          Afternoon Break

3:30pm – 5:30pm          Plenary Session: Foundations of Major Theories in Social Psychology

                                    Chair: William Ickes

a.       Elliot Aronson: Present at the creation (almost!): The origins of dissonance theory

b.      Ladd Wheeler: The intellectual origins and early years of social comparison theory

c.       Bernard Weiner: Some origins of attribution theory

d.      Michael Hogg: The intellectual origins and meta-theoretical context of social identity theory

5:30pm – 7:00pm          Buses to Museum District, Fort Worth

6:00pm - 9:00pm           Dinner at the Amon Carter Art Museum, Museum District in Fort Worth

 

Saturday, October 16

7:00am – 9:00am           Breakfast

8:00am – noon              Registration

8:30am – 10:15am         Symposia 4

                                    4A. The Role of Stereotype Control in Weapon Identification and Shooting

Decisions

Chair: Bernd Wittenbrink

a.       Jeffrey W. Sherman: Beyond automaticity and control: Implicit measures of prejudice tap multiple cognitive processes

b.      Keith Payne: A role for control in weapon misidentification

c.       Bernd Wittenbrink, Joshua Correll, Bernadette Park, & Charles M. Judd: Stereotype activation and control as determinants of shooter bias

d.      David M. Amodio, Patricia G. Devine, & Eddie Harmon-Jones: The role of conflict-detection in stereotype control: Implications for individual differences in regulatory ability

                                    4B. The Impact of Self-Affirmation on Persuasion: Examining Classic and

Contemporary Mechanisms

                                    Chair: Richard E. Petty

a.       Pablo Briñol, Richard E. Petty, & Ismael Gallardo: The multiple roles of self-affirmation in persuasion

b.      Mark P. Zanna, Joshua Correll, & Stephen J. Spencer: An affirmed self and an open mind: Self-affirmation and sensitivity to argument strength

c.       Geoffrey Cohen, Lillian Hsu, David Sherman, & Tony Bastardi: Shifting attitude functions: When affirmations make a difference

d.      Brett Pelham: Discussant

                                    4C. Developing Directions in Morality and Justice Research

                                                Chair:  Thane Pittman

a.       John Darley: Introduction: The escalation trap

b.      Kenworthey Bilz: Multiple punishments as a response to the multiple harms of crimes

c.       Thane Pittman: The attributional puzzle of moral luck

d.      John Darley: Brain-imaging insights on moral judgments

e.      Mark Alicke: Discussant 

4D. Hearts and Minds: Affect in Social Thinking and Behavior

                                    Chair: Joseph P. Forgas

a.       Joseph P. Forgas: Affective influences on interpersonal behaviors

b.      Justin Storbeck “& Gerald Clore: Controls on cognitive processing: Behavioral and neurological considerations

c.       Piotr Winkielman: Doing without feeling: How unconscious emotion drives evaluations and behavior

d.      Constantine Sedikides: The psychology of nostalgia: A neglected social effect

10:15am – 10:30am       Morning break

10:30am – 12:15am       Symposia 5

                                    5A. Why Neighbors Kill: Explaining the Breakdown of Ethnic Relations

                                    Chair: Victoria Esses

a.       Jim Sidanius: Under color of authority: Terror, intergroup violence, and the law

b.      John F. Dovidio: On the nature of prejudice: The psychology of hate

c.       Victoria Esses & Lynne Jackson: Applying the instrumental model of group conflict to understanding ethnic conflict and violence

d.      Jared Kenworthy, Miles Hewston & Nicole Tausch: Prior intergroup contact and ethnic killing

5B. Neural Bases of Personality and Social Behavior

                                    Chair: Turhan Canli

a.       Arthur Aron, Helen E. Fisher, Debra Mashek, Greg Strong, Haifang Li, & Lucy L. Brown: Correlations of attachment style dimensions with neural activations in romantic love

b.      Turhan Canli: Deconstructing neuroticism: Gene-brain interactions during an emotional attention task

c.       Joan Y. Chiao & Nalini Ambady : Distinct neural systems underlying the perception of social dominance from facial cues

d.      Ahman Hariri: Functional neuroimaging of genetic variation in brain function

5C. Education and Social Psychology

Chair: Harris Cooper

a.       Lee Jussim: It’s not my fault: Educational data demonstrated high accuracy and weak self-fulfilling prophecy when I was still a college dropout

b.      Sandra Graham: Attribution theory in the classroom

c.       David Johnson: Cooperative learning and social psychology:  The interrelationship among theory, research, and practice

                                    5D. Fifty Years of Research on Social Comparison Theory

Chair: Jerry Suls

a.       Mark Alicke “Social comparison: Social, comparative, important?

b.      William P. Smith: Preference for and use of social category information in response to ability comparison and social identity motives

c.       Yechiel Klar: When stereotypes and categories invade social comparison: Attempting to extend social comparison psycho-logic

d.      Diederik Stapel: Revisiting the similarity hypothesis: Specificity is the key

12:30pm – 1:30pm         Lunch

1:45pm  – 3:15pm         Symposia 6

                                    6A. Social Power

                                    Chairs: Markus Brauer & Richard Y. Bourhis

a.       Adam D. Galinsky, Joseph Magee, Deborah Gruenfeld, Jennifer Whitson, Katie A. Liljenquist, & Brian Cadena: Under the influence? Power and immunity to environmental and social influence

b.      Judith A. Hall & Marianne Schmid Mast: The role of proximal states in predicting nonverbal behavior on the vertical dimension of social relations

c.       Richard Y. Bourhis & Catherine Amiot: Discrimination between dominant and subordinate groups in unstable power structures

d.      John Jost: Power, system justification, and the palliative function of ideology

6B. Contemporary Social Psychological Perspectives on Morality

                                    Chair: Felicia Pratto

a.       Charles Stangor: Prejudice as social values

b.      Felicia Pratto & Demis E. Glasford: Prospect theory, ethnocentrism, and the value of a human life

c.       Margaret S. Clark, Joan Knihnicki, & Sara Algoe: Relationship context is important to understanding moral emotions

d.      Christopher W. Bauman and Linda J. Skitka: Moral conviction: Is it more than attitude strength?

                                    6C. On the Psychology of Culture: Selection Mechanisms in Culture and the

                                     Marketplace of Ideas

                                     Chair: Chip Heath

a.       Chip Heath: Emotion and extremity as selection mechanisms: Urban legends, mad cow disease, social comparisons and drinking tales

b.      Jeffrey Loewenstein: A plot structure to generate interest: Jokes, advertisements, and fairy tales

c.       Rob MacCoun: Media reporting of jury verdicts: The tail (of the distribution) wagging the dog?

d.      Nicholas Epley & Jesse Preston: The explanatory utility of valuable beliefs: Science and religion

                                    6D. Expectations and Outlooks for Future Affect

                                    Chairs: Ian M. Handley & Dolores Albarracín

a.       Gifford Weary & Stephanie J. Tobin: How negative expectancies can lead to positive impressions: Expectancies as comparison standards in the dispositional inference process

b.      James A. Shepperd, Kate Dockery, & Patrick J. Carroll: The effect of expectations on feelings about outcomes

c.       Ian M. Handley, Dolores Albarracín, Rick D. Brown, G. Tarcan Kumkale, Ece Kumkale, & Hong Li: A multi-stage approach to understanding the effects of message-induced affective expectations on affective experience                                    

3:15pm – 3:30pm          Afternoon break

3:30pm – 5:00pm          Dissertation Award and Distinguished Scientist Award Symposium

                                    William Crano: Chair; Glenn Reeder, David Hamilton, Roderick Kramer

5:00pm – 6:00pm          Discussion 1: Meet the Journal Editors

Charles Carver, Harris Cooper, Patricia Devine, Jack Dovidio, Bernadette

Park, Eliot Smith, Chick Judd

                                    Discussion 2: Social Psychology & the Media: How “We” Can Talk to “Them”

                                                Ellen Bruin and Diedereik Stapel

                             Discussion 3: The Current Role of Motivation in Social Psychology

James Y. Shah, Arie Kruglanski, and others

                                    Discussion 4: Federal Funding Opportunities for Social Psychology

                                                Dr. Amber L. Story, NSF

                                                Dr. Richard Nakamura, NIMH

5:00pm – 6:30pm          Cash Bar Reception                                  

5:00pm – 6:30pm          Informal Paper Presentations

6:30pm – 8:00pm          Dinner

8:00pm-??                     Enjoy the Stockyards and Nightlife in Fort Worth