SECOND ANNUAL SESP PRECONFERENCE ON THE SELF

October 1997

Park Plaza Hotel, Toronto, Canada

Organisers: Constantine Sedikides and Dianne Tice

PROGRAMME

Openning Remarks: 9.00 - 9.15am
Dianne Tice - Case Western Reserve University

Keynote Address: 9.15-10.00am
Being and Doing: Speculation on the Acceptance of Control
Abraham Tessser - University of Georgia

BREAK: 10.00-10.15am

Interpersonal Self: 10.15-11.30am

Spontaneous Expression vs. Suppression of Racial Attitudes in Anticipated Public Contexts
Alan Lambert - Washington University

Self and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Lee Jussim - Rutgers University

The Creation of the Social Environment and Social Self
David Funder - University of California, Irvine

LUNCH: 11.30am - 12.30pm

ISSI Business: 12.30-1.15pm
Mark Leary - Wake Forest University
Michael Kernis - University of Georgia

Executive Function of the Self: 1.15-2.30pm

Group identification, self-categorisation and response to identity threat
Russel Spears - University of Amsterdam
with Bertjan Doosje and Naomi Ellemers

The Exhausted Executor Gives Into Temptation
Todd Heatherton - Dartmouth College

Finding the Self in the Person; Finding the Self in Social Psychology
Ed Deci - University of Rochester

Break: 2.30-2.45pm

Reflexive Consciousness: 2.45-4.00pm

Implicit Esteem: How Collectives Shape Individuals
Mahzarin R. Banaji - Yale University
with Anthony G. Greenwald and Marshal Rosier

Structural Aspects of the Self-Concept
Jennifer Campbell - University of British Columbia

Through a Glass Darkly: People's Memories of their Earlier Selves
Michael Ross and Anne Wilson - University of Waterloo

BREAK: 4.00-4.15pm

Keynote Address: 4.15-5.00pm
The Fabrication of Agency: Why We Think We Cause Our Behaviour
Daniel Wegner - University of Virginia