THIRD ANNUAL SESP PRECONFERENCE ON THE SELF
October 22, 1998
Lexington, Ky
Organizers:Michael Kernis and Mark Leary
PROGRAM
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST: 8:15 - 9:00am
Relational Aspects of the Self: 9.00 - 10.30am
Social cognitive processes in self esteem and social anxiety.
Mark Baldwin - University of Winnipeg
The interplay of knowledge of self and other
William Swann, Jr - University of Texas at Austin
A miscalibrated barometer: Low self-esteem and unwarranted insecurities in close relationships
John Holmes - University of Waterloo
Self-expansion and including other in the self
Art Aron - SUNY at Stony Brook
BREAK: 10:30 - 11:00am
Social Comparison and Self-Judgment: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Who makes downward comparisons when they are unhappy?
Joanne Wood - University of Waterloo
What’s your INCOMe (score)? Individual differences in self-other assessment tendencies
Rich Gibbons - Iowa State University
Motivated responses to challenging social comparison information
William Klein - Colby College
Social comparison processes among happy and unhappy people: Balancing hedonically-conflicting feedback
Sonja Lyubomirsky - University of California, Riverside
LUNCH 12:30 - 2:00pm
Self, Identity and Emotion: 2:00 - 3:30pm
Emotional Intelligence: Characterizing affective self-competencies
Peter Salovey - Yale University
The origins of self -regulations: Temperament, socialization and their vicissitudes
Timothy Stauman - University of Wisconsin
The narcissistic self: self-aggrandizement, affect, and behaviour
Frederick Rhodewalt - University of Utah
Adjusting to traumatic events and HIV: Good blame, bad blame, and (heaven forbid) shame
June Tangney - George Mason University
BREAK: 3:30 - 4:00pm
Keynote Speaker: 4:00 - 5:00pm
Our cultures, our selves
Hazel Markus - Stanford University